Experienced Network Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry with 26 years of technical troubleshooting experience, 23 years in IT directly.Veteran of the US Navy with 6 years active duty. Honorably discharged. Served during desert Shield, Desert Storm and the Bosnian relief Effort.Very strong background in networking Microsoft operating systems and all related services, HP server and Cisco technologies to create routed/switched LANs and WANS, as well as connecting the WANS.Very strong training experience for a wide variety of IT technologies, with a firm grasp of dataflow from top to bottom and back of both the OSI model and the TCP/IP stack Documentation of Standard operating procedures for a wide range of issues, from disaster recovery, migration, security policies, and configurationHelp formulate and execute long-term strategy and evangelize products, and technologies.Identify customer requirements and provide feedback into appropriate product groups. Strong communication and problem-solving skills, and accustomed to travel.