Experience

Business Communications, Inc.

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Account Executive

  • Nov 2020 - Present

  Little Rock, AR, United States



Cisco

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Solutions Architect at Cisco

  • Dec 2014 - Nov 2020

  • Architectural guidance for large customers (including GE, Raytheon, ADP). • Developed "hack-a-thon" program for systems automation (short duration focused automation workouts to solve specific problems with automation and orchestration). • design/management/operation of large scale carrier-grade corporate networks. • large scale SDWan deployments (over 2500 sites)

• Network Consulting Engineer

  • Jan 2011 - Dec 2014

  Consulting engineer. Dedicated to General Electric account. Design/implementation and management of a global "next-gen" network infrastructure. Advisory services on best practice design, software conformance, etc. Identification and remediation of network/security risk factors.

• Systems Engineer

  • Mar 2006 - Jan 2011

  Public Sector SE, responsible for Arkansas and Metro Memphis.

• System Engineer

  • 2006 - Jan 2011

  Commercial sector



FIS

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Network Consultant

  • 2002 - 2006

  Basically I was still in the same role as with Alltel, except that Fidelity purchased our division from Alltel. I will list both entries to make it easier for people to find me.

• SR telcom consultant

  • 1997 - 2006



Alltel Wireless

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• network consultant

  • 1997 - 2002

  I moved to Little Rock to work for Alltel, and worked in a few roles in the network group. I made their internal newspaper in 98, as I was their first CCIE.



Entergy

• United States
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• network analyst

  • 1997 - 1999



International Shipholding

• United States
• Maritime Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• UNIX/Network administrator

  • 1994 - 1996

  Greater New Orleans Area -Lead UNIX admin during mainframe conversion, data migration, Unix shell programming, and scripting. -management/design of the global Cisco network and implementation of a VPN to Singapore office before the term was in popular use (using Cisco PIX firewalls with PL boards). -design, test, implement ship-board communication system that utilized Inmarsat and cellular connections for data transmission. NOTE: this was before digital cellular



Davidge Data Systems

• Midwest Regional Manager

  • 1990 - 1994