Experience

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  Redhorse Corporation

  • Arlington, Virginia, United States

  • Principal Consultant & Enterprise Advisory Practice Lead, Networking & Telecommunications

    • 2017 - Present
    • Arlington, Virginia, United States

    Led network transformation and acquisition consulting programs for 20+ large and 35+ medium complex federal agencies as part of the government-wide transition to the $50B Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions contract including software-defined infrastructure and zero-trust networks.

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  Cisco

  • Director, Consulting Systems Engineering & Solutions Architecture, Public Sector Organization

    • 2007 - 2015

    Led a elite group of senior engineers and architects engaged with select high profile clients on strategic initiatives and advanced development efforts. Also serving as the CTO for the Research and Education segment. Co-founded the first national owned-fiber optical DWDM network interconnecting research universities.

  • Senior Manager, Research & Education Technology Initiatives, Corporate CTO Office

    • 2000 - 2007

    Led company's investment in university research and technology transfer, developed partnerships with universities and university-based advanced national and global network operators on applied research and development. Build the first ever nation-wide layer-2 network leading to the development of carrier Ethernet technologies and standards.

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  National Science Foundation

  • Arlington, VA

  • Program Director, Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate

    • 1998 - 2000
    • Arlington, VA

    Led expansion of computing and networking research infrastructure funding to novel areas in middleware, security and management as part of the federal Next Generation Internet initiative.

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  University of Southern California

  • Arlington, VA

  • Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute

    • 1996 - 1998
    • Arlington, VA

    Led research testbed projects on emerging Internet protocols (IPv6, multicast, QoS, etc.). Architected interconnection of federal research networks in post NSFnet commercialization era.

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  NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

  • Greenbelt, MD

  • Principal Network Engineer and Team Leader, Supercomputing Center

    • 1991 - 1996
    • Greenbelt, MD

    Built the first metro OC48/192 Sonet ring outside of telco internal infrastructure and first OC3 satellite network in collaboration with national security and intelligence agencies. Led the center's networking participation in the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications program. Brought Internet connectivity to all of Maryland public schools for the first time.

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  Bell Communications Research (Bellcore)

  • Redbank, NJ

  • Member of Technical Staff, Network Planning Area

    • 1988 - 1991
    • Redbank, NJ

    Provided data networking consulting to regional Bell operating companies. Authored Technical Papers and Technical References on emerging OSI and Internet standards.