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Greater Denver Area

• Covering the Midwest, Rocky Mountain, and Desert Territories as well as acting as a National resource• Meet with customers in person, on the phone, or WebEx to uncover their pain points, business needs, and goals.• Whiteboard and discuss solution possibilities with customers going over the pros and cons of each design.• Design solution(s) that successfully relieve customer pain and meets their goals, while at the same time giving them flexibility and the capability of future growth• Create and present Bill of Materials and Statements of Work to customers.• Build and strengthen relationships with our local vendor representatives through account mapping sessions / pipeline sharing, lunch and learns, and keeping communication lines open.

Florida, United States

• Produce measurable year over year growth in my territory since taking the role. Ended 2015 at 150% of Gross Profit, 143% of Product Revenue, and 137% of Services.• Act as a resource for the National Field Solution Architect team by attending remote customer meetings, providing Bill of Materials, and Statements of Work on as needed basis. In 2015 I provided over 15.1 Million Dollars in BoMs and 7.2 Million Dollars in SoWs for customers outside of my territory.• In the past 5 years I have remotely covered areas outside of my territory due to the local Solution Architects leaving the role. Keeping their numbers above 100%. These territories include Seattle/Portland, Kansas City/St. Louis, Northern California, and Houston. • Meet with customers to uncover their pain points, business needs, and goals.• Whiteboard out solution possibilities with customers going over the pros and cons of each design.• Design solution(s) that successfully relieve customer pain and meets their goals, while at the same time giving them flexibility and the capability of future growth needs.• Create and present Bill of Materials and Statements of Work to customers.• Educate customers on CDWs Professional Services offerings.• Train customers and CDW Account Executives on new technologies and trends.• Mentor new SAs on CDW processes, Network Design, Service Calculators, SoW creation, BoM creation, and CCW.• Build and strengthen relationships with our local vendor representatives through account mapping sessions / pipeline sharing, lunch and learns, and keeping communication lines open.

• Successfully completed numerous projects for public, private, government, and educational institutions which I lead from the initial meeting with the clients, through the design, proof of concept, installation, implementation, and support phases.• Participated in, and won, several ‘shootouts’ between our Cisco recommended design solutions and competing vendors design solutions. • Create mock network architectures to test abilities and limitations of new and proposed client network equipment. • Give training seminars on newly installed equipment for clients to ensure that they receive the most from their investment.

• Responsible for the architecture, maintenance, support, and future vision of the ACC Capital Holdings network.• Completed the build out of the Englewood Data Center.• Successfully redesigned and implemented a multi-vendor, multi-location, external BGP architecture.• Completed a total redesign of the ACC Capital Holdings network consisting of three major data centers with branch offices located throughout the United States. The network was simplified by removing internal BGP that 8 different OSPF Area 0s and going to a single protocol, single Area 0. • Implemented network wide QoS to support Avaya PBX trunking between data center and branch locations.• Lead a network engineering team consisting of four Senior engineers and two Level 2 engineers. Responsible for project assignment and tracking, project plan and configuration review, progress reports, ensuring policies and procedures were maintained, and change verification.

• Responsible for troubleshooting AVAYA Linux based Servers and Converged Media Gateways including the S8300, S8500, S8700, S8710, G700, and G350.• Isolated and repaired customer issues ranging from network mis-configuration to Media Gateway and Communication Manager code level bugs.• Worked hand-in-hand with customers and engineers during the troubleshooting process.• Responsible for coordinating customer hardware/firmware upgrades and scheduling of Remote Field Engineers.• Implemented official AVAYA training for the Cisco CCNA and CCNP certifications.

• Instructed Cisco R&S CCIE Lab Bootcamp; authored training material, delivered lecture, personal instruction, lab scenarios, and one-on-one troubleshooting that successfully led to CCIE certifications for 121 students.• Authored the following five well received technical books: o NLI’s Cisco CCIE R&S Lab Companion Guide Vol 1o NLI’s Cisco CCIE R&S Lab Companion Guide Vol 2 (Co-Author)o NLI’s Cisco CCIE R&S Lab Companion Guide Vol 3 (Co-Author)o CCIE R&S Practice Lab Workbook Version 12.2o NLI’s R&S Lab Guide Vol 1 • Acted as technical editor for the following books:o NLI’s Security Lab Guide Vol 1o NLI’s Cisco CCIE R&S Written Guide• Actively moderated and participated in widely used CCIE discussion boards with over 10,000 registered users; RouterIE.com, SecurityIE.com, and VoiceIE.com.

• Served as the network manager responsible for configuring, deploying, and troubleshooting all Cisco equipment. • Responsible for Cisco CCIE Lab instruction; delivered instruction, configuration, scenarios, and troubleshooting that successfully led to CCIE certifications for 27 students. • Designed, implemented, monitored, and tuned a complex network infrastructure.• Built, configured, and administered Windows 2000 servers. Monitored security bulletins and applied patches and updates. Provided third level network support for all campuses.• Developed, revised, and updated system and network documentation; also provided proper configurations and tables; created and implemented policies and procedures.