Windstream

Staff Manager, Network Spares & Kinetic Transport Equipment Lifecycle Management

People leader and key strategist for Kinetic Transport Equipment Lifecycle Management (ELM) and Network Spares. Though the use data driven tools, guide engineers and analysts to identify and remove End of Life equipment as well as idle equipment to be re-purposed for network sparing/deployment or consigned. Responsible for maintaining a multi-million dollar budget, while in turn developing cost avoidance programs and low or no cost ELM initiatives.

Staff Manager, Kinetic Transport Planning and Engineering

"Bridging the collaboration gap between different engineering organizations in an effort to move
forward with Business Intelligence that is non-duplicative, in-sync and adaptive." 

Master of Science - Information Systems Technology coursework
Data analytics and data management
Principles of network security, asset security, physical security and identity management
National and international security policy and risk assessment

Transport Engineering Excellence Award - 3Q17, Annual 2017, 1Q18, 1Q20

*Self-taught Tableau data miner and dashboard publisher
*Introduced visualization component of Tableau to the Planning organization
*Graduate coursework level experience with NMAP, ClamWin, AVG Business, Windows Firewall,
Python, Metasploit, GnuPG, WHOIS, Nslook, Tracert, Sam Spade, Zenmap, Nessus, NVWA,
TCPdump, Wireshark, Aircrack-ng, R Studio
*Currently working toward Splunk Core Certified Power User certification
*Leading collaborator with Network Business Intelligence to create data analytic tools for the
Transport Planning organization
*Leading the planning, proposal and implementation of strategic effort to evaluate antiquated network equipment using data analytics and data mining. Research and evaluate multiple data variables including customer usage, outage hours, revenue, equipment stability, equipment age and cost of removal
*Provide technical advice to peers and peer groups
*Perform oversight for contract proposals and procurement requests
*Provide strategic recommendations to senior management for approval, include providing business case with cost benefit
*Leading collaborator in the plan and design of new software systems to support the antiquated
equipment removal project. Serve as technical advisor to junior engineers whom are writing code for new software systems
*Leading collaborator between peer groups such as Network Engineering, Network Business
Intelligence, Network Operations Center, Network Development and Network Optimization.

Senior Transport Engineer

PAETEC

After making a personal decision to step out of management and into an individual role, I became responsible for capacity management of 70+ metro and long-haul transport systems as well as augmentation of transport capacity in the greater Washington DC area. 

Capacity management and augmentation of 70+ metro and long-haul network infrastructure systems Engineered Ethernet, SONet and CWDM/DWDM system infrastructure design

Negotiated contracts, equipment pricing, delivery timeframes with equipment vendor and fiber providers

Performed equipment procurement, including project management overseeing testing and network integration

Created deployment packages, system database documentation and coordination of system deployment to completion

Scheduled and managed internal resources such as Outside Plant, Installation and Field Operations 

Mentored teammates and advise management of best practices as it relates to capacity management and Transport system design within the legacy Intellifiber 15,000+ fiber footprint

Director level team management and member of Executive leadership team (11+ engineers)

Responsible for executive decisions related to the network architecture and deployment of network and customer dedicated systems and circuits. Oversaw the implementing and maintaining network infrastructure encompassing Intellifiber’s 15,000+ fiber route miles

Collected, organized, analyzed and presented detailed network data in preparation for sale of PAETEC to Windstream. Ensured the Network Engineering organization remained fiscally responsible during the sale process 

Maintained multi-million dollar CAPEX budget related to growth and maintenance of capacity within the network

Oversaw pre-sale opportunities and post-sale implementation, ensuring designs are accurate and services are delivered to customers on time and within established budgets

Supported Sales team and met with customers, educating on the capabilities of the network and optimal solutions

Oversaw integration and optimization efforts, including Type 2 vendor negotiations, LEC contracts , and COGS reduction initiatives

Director, Network Engineering

Intellifiber Networks

Cavalier Catalyst Team Founding Member - 2008 & Intellifiber Networks Low Latency Award – 2010

Director level team management and member of Executive leadership team (11+ engineers)

Responsible for executive decisions related to the network architecture and deployment of network and customer dedicated systems and circuits. Oversaw the implementing and maintaining network infrastructure encompassing Intellifiber’s 15,000+ fiber route miles

Collected, organized, analyzed and presented detailed network data in preparation for sale of Intellifiber to PAETEC. Ensured the Network Engineering organization remained fiscally responsible during the sale process 

Maintained multi-million dollar CAPEX budget related to growth and maintenance of capacity within the network

Created, distributed and evaluated a backbone equipment RFP in order to establish the next- generation of equipment for Intellifber’s network

Oversaw pre-sale opportunities and post-sale implementation, ensuring designs are accurate and services are delivered to customers on time and within established budgets

Supported Sales team and met with customers, educating on the capabilities of the network and optimal solutions

Oversaw integration and optimization efforts, including Type 2 vendor negotiations, LEC contracts , and COGS reduction initiatives

Cavalier Telephone

Led Transport Engineering department, which included engineering, circuit design and operations. Managed capacity across the network in both metro and long-haul footprint, augmenting as necessary.  My team supported over 160 LEC LSOs, multiple switch facilities, and customer premises.  Ensured all related documentation (SONET, WDM, leased fiber network, CFA, switch and DACS capacity) was collected and recorded in appropriate databases.  Ensured all Transport related network outages were resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible, including 24/7 availability as needed. Played significant role in the integration of over five companies and their assets, evaluating each and ensuring the network elements were sufficiently and successfully integrated.

Manager Engineering and Operations

I was hired to create a documentation process and database for all of Cavalier circuit designs from the DS1 to OC48 level. I created the database as well as designed and capacity managed the network in the Baltimore, Northern Virginia, DC, Richmond and Norfolk markets, from DS1s up to OC12s. My role grew into capacity managing, engineering, designing, documenting and facilitating the deployment of SONET and WDM systems. Deployments supported long-haul, metro and private customer fiber builds. One of my key accomplishments during this period was grooming and reconfiguring the Cavalier fiber backbone to avoid Verizon dark fiber due to the TRO ruling.

Transport Engineer

MCIWorldcom

Led team responsible for implementation of UUNET dedicated circuits. Order entered, provisioned, designed and project managed optical circuit installs in metro and long-haul Worldcom systems. Mentored team through challenging provisioning, design and engineering issues.  Established and maintained procedural documentation to improve processes and training for the team.

UUNET Project Managment Team member and Team Lead

Responsibilities included order entry, provisioning, ASR management and project management of metro and long-haul circuit installs.  Coordinated with LECs, CLECs and internal MCI field Ops requesting order status and acute/timely delivery of services.  Developed procedural documents to improve team processes and performance.

DS3 provisioner

Consistent key contributor and goal achieving engineer and people leader. Solves difficult problems under time sensitive constraints by gathering the proper resources and building cohesiveness for collaborative success. Experience leading engineering/technical teams in both small and large corporate business environments throughout a 27 year career. In depth knowledge of multiple disciplines including people leading, data analytics, backbone infrastructure engineering, strategic planning, fiber route planning, contract negotiations, program management, project management, sales engineering and inventory control.

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