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Linux Networx, Bluffdale, Utah: January 2006 - Present (http://www.linuxnetworx.com) Position: Information Services Manager Utah Education Network, Salt Lake City, Utah: February 2001 - January 2006 (http://www.uen.org) Positions: Network Operations Manager, Network Engineering Manager (Oct 2004 - Jan 2006) Senior Network Engineer, Network Engineering Team Lead (Feb 2001 - Oct 2004) Utah Education Network was the first state research/education network. We engineer and operate a large, complex multi-service IP network that services over 500,000 users at 1,000 higher education institutions, K-12 schools, libraries, and state and local government entities throughout urban and rural parts of Utah and southern Idaho. Network Operations Manager / Network Engineering Manager I manage 15 network and applications engineers, including three team leads (Network Engineering, Implementation, and Network Operations). My department is responsible for all aspects of network architecture, planning, design, implementation, operations and customer support. I manage a department budget of $500,000/year and have co-management responsibilities for a $20 million telecommunications budget and a $1 million project budget. Senior Network Engineer I developed strategic engineering plans to bring the entire network to best-practices and open standards. Specific engineering challenges include a multi-year plan to migrate from an IP+ATM network to IP over DWDM and GigE; the introduction of traffic engineering and quality of service to accomodate the migration of hundreds of voice- and video-conferencing sites and streaming-media sites onto the data network; migrating from a single-failure- point network to two tiers of redundancy within a multi-tiered network; building a nation-wide Internet backbone with multiple Internet providers and presence at major Internet peering exchange points. I am also deeply involved in strategic initiatives to improve Utah's network infrastructure and network engineering opportunities. This includes promoting the development of community networks, a national Internet exchange point in Utah, and a stronger focus on network research in Utah's higher-education institutions. I serve as a proponent of many of these initiatives, and as an advisor to many others. Center 7, Lindon, Utah: October 1999 - February 2001 (http://www.center7.com) Position: Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Principal Center 7 is a Management Services Provider (MSP), providing as a service the tools that enterprises and service providers use to manage complex mission-critical infrastructures, based on Computer Associates Unicenter platform. We also operated complex ecommerce infrastructure and enterprise applications such as Oracle iStore and Oracle Applications, Vignette, iPlanet, IBM WebSphere, and Linux-based services from Caldera and Lineo. I started as employee number three and was intimately involved in the development of our technology and our business model, as well as the supporting organization. I helped build successful technology and business relationships with Sun Microsystems, Foundry Networks, Computer Associates, iPlanet (Sun - Netscape Alliance), Oracle and others. I participant in organizations like the ASP Industry Consortium, Computer Associates' Linux Advocacy Council, Foundry Networks' User Group, USENIX, Society of Information Management, and North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). Center 7 obtained early funding from Ray Noorda (Novell founder) through his VC Canopy Group and Computer Associates. We employed 150 people, including 70 technologists, with annual technology expenditures of over $20 million. inQuo / Verado, Salt Lake City, Utah: June 1995 - September 1999 Position: Co-founder, Principal Technologist inQuo was one of the early Internet service providers, started in 1994. We provided some of the first business-quality Internet services, wholesale Internet services, and on-line commerce in the Rocky Mountain region. I directed network engineering and operations as principal technologist. I was involved in company strategy as we experienced signficant growth, participated in multiple M&A opportunities, and sold the company to Verado Holdings in June 1999. I served as the company president and CTO from 1997 - 1999. At inQuo I oversaw the development and introduction of many first-to- market technologies and services, including the Utah Regional Exchange Point (largest community-owned Internet traffic exchange), the region's first business-class Internet network, and the region's first integrated voice/video/data network.
I was also primarily responsible for several acquisitions of other Internet businesses and integrating the new companies into inQuo, as well as the sales of several inQuo business units and ultimately the sale of the company to FirstWorld Communications (later renamed to Verado), which IPO'd in early 2000.
EURO RSCG DSW Partners, Salt Lake City, Utah: Feb 1994 - Oct 1996 (http://www.dsw.com) Position: Senior Information Technologist Teltrust Salt Lake City, Utah: June 1993 - Feb 1994 (http://www.teltrust.com) Position: Systems Programmer |
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Major accomplishments - Developed a thriving department of 15 highly-skilled network and applications engineers - Complete rearchitecture of state-wide network to migrate from ATM to IP over DWDM and GigaBit Ethernet, bring network to best- practice n-tier hierarchy using standardized protocols - Designed two-tier redundant architecture and traffic engineering to facilitate migration of OC-48 analog video/voice network to IP network - Built national network for peering at three major Internet exchage points, and negotiated peering with over 50 national and international carriers - Designed, implemented and operated largest research/education GigE WAN in U.S., with 16 carrier-class PoPs, MPLS-ring-based GigE backbone, over 200 GigE edge links (plus over 1000 T1 and DS-3 edge links), 1.8 Gb/s of geographically-diverse Internet connectivity. - Designed seven-site distributed service-provider network, including redundant applications, network and systems implementations - Developed ASP services based on CA Unicenter, Oracle ERP, SunOne products - Deployed first multi-homed commercial network in Utah designed and deployed a Fujitsu showpiece multi-site integrated voice/video/data network - Built world-wide collaborative work-flow network - Migrated corporate network to IP - Designed and deployed region's first redundant service-provider network - Deployed region's first ATM/SONET OC-3c Internet connection, first national (NAP) peering, and region's first ATM-native service-provider network System administration Programming |
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