Professional Experience

 

Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Member of the Southern California enterprise consulting team, supporting government and financial sector customers.  Primary responsibility is to lead Network Optimization Service (NOS) consulting engagements aimed at improving the reliability and security of enterprise-class networks.  This includes Cisco IOS software strategy recommendations, Cisco Best Practice analysis and remediation planning, technology and device refreshment planning, planned network change support, and critical outage support.  (March, 2007 – present)

Systems Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

Member of the Northern California Verticals regional team, supporting the Kaiser account in the Healthcare vertical organization.  Focus areas include security and datacenter technologies.  Principal author of the Enterprise Security Architecture for one of the nation’s largest Health Maintenance Organizations, a roadmap for enterprise-wide security architectural evolution for an infrastructure with over 14,000 Cisco devices, 900 sites (including 40 hospitals and 400 medical office buildings), 180,000 campus users and 55,000 remote access users.  (August, 2005 – March, 2007)

Network Architect / System Engineer / Technical Group Leader, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Deep Space Mission Systems, Network Infrastructure Services

Member of the senior Information Systems and Computer Science staff (grade Senior A, X603A).  Responsibilities include designing the architectural evolution in the medium and long term for the DSMS ground network (as the DSMS Network Architect), providing leadership and direction for all partner and remote extensions of the DSMS ground network (as the Ground Network Implementations Lead), and providing system engineering (functional requirements, high-level design, performance analysis and reliability engineering) for the AMMOS and DSN ground networks, ground network services (such as NTP and DNS), and ground network monitoring subsystems (as Ground Communications Network System Engineer). (March, 2002 – August, 2005)

Principal Consultant, Netigy Corp. / ThruPoint, Inc.

Subject Matter Expert for the Infrastructure Performance Practice in the Southern California District.  Responsibilities included practice development, presales efforts, service delivery, and consultant training and mentoring. Participated in Network Baselining and PeopleSoft Application Profiling efforts for a major higher educational system, and led the ATM backbone Capacity Planning effort for the same client.  Participated in capacity planning efforts for a major nationwide insurance carrier, an industrial products manufacturer, and a global construction corporation. (September, 2000 – September, 2001)

Sr. Consultant, Enterprise Networking Systems, Inc.

Led a Network Application Performance (NAP) engagement at Kaiser Permanente to study the effect of Lotus Notes server consolidation on WAN circuits within and between metro areas across the nation.  Completed a discovery of Undocumented Hubs in Kaiser’s Southern California area using Unix shell scripts, Perl scripts, and SNMP.  Responsibilities also included supporting the global Multi-Services (MS) and NAP practice development teams, and presales efforts at the district level for the MS, NAP and Security practices. (September, 1999 – September, 2000)

Network Consultant, Enterprise Networking Systems, Inc.

Participated in various consulting engagements performing audits, health checks, baselines and assessments focusing on the network as well as enterprise applications such as PeopleSoft. Supported sales staff by attending pre-sales meetings and developing scopes of work. (November, 1998 – September 1999)

Sr. Network Engineer, Cogent Software, Inc. (now PCNalert.com)

Responsible for all networking needs of a regional ISP.  Responsibilities included corporate network design, management and technical support, client network design, installation, management and support.  Served as single point of contact for sales, installation and support for the following services: point to point, frame relay, dial-up and dedicated ISDN Internet access, store and forward email, server collocation, and electronic commerce.  Shared system administration duties for HTTP, HTTPS, DNS, email, dialup services, commerce servers and firewall.  Authored, supported and used an in-house network management system, as well as an availability monitoring system. (November, 1995 – November, 1998)

Task Leader, JPL

Led the development effort for the ATMnet project, culminating in a live demonstration of ATM technology utilizing WAN circuits from the Canberra DSCC in Australia and NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) to JPL carrying voice, video and high and low priority data, controlled from a centralized network management station. (April, 1994 – October, 1995) 

Network Engineer, JPL

Worked on numerous networking research tasks related to upgrading the Deep Space Network (DSN) system using industry standard protocols such as TCP/IP. Research efforts included: testing the effect of combining multiple paths using IGRP routing, testing electronic mail and voice communications over a narrow-band satellite network, bandwidth on demand networking using ISDN dial-up circuits for handling traffic bursts and emergency backup (presented at SPACEOPS '94), and firewall design for the connection of the DSN to the science community. (May, 1992 – March, 1994)

Member of the Technical Staff, JPL

Responsible for maintaining and extending the Concurrent Extensible Distributed Database for the Alpha (formerly Hypercube) project. Worked as part of a programming team, developing a distributed discrete event simulation environment using C++ under UNIX. (June, 1991 – May, 1992)

Senior Software Engineer, Sparta, Inc.

Designed data analysis and archiving software for a distributed real-time data reduction system on an offshore natural gas platform. (October, 1990 – June, 1991)

Senior Systems Engineer, ST Systems Company (now a subsidiary of Raytheon Systems Company)

Worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center as a member of the Engineering Test Bed team, developing a force-reflecting master/slave manipulation system for Flight Telerobotic Servicer research. Developed a MACSYMA to Ada translation system and used it in the generation of robot kinematics and Jacobian software. (October, 1989 – August, 1990)

Engineer, Fairchild Space Company (FSC, now a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corporation)

Worked in the Robotics and Servicing Systems department. Wrote networking software in C language to pass messages from a VMS-based robot planning system to a UNIX-based graphical simulation system using DECnet and TCP/IP protocols. Contributed to and edited the department's NASA studies. Developed and began implementation of the FSC Robotics Laboratory Facility plan. Assisted in IR&D projects and assisted in planning the department's research agenda. (August, 1988 – October, 1989)

 

Engineer, FSC

Worked in the Attitude Control Systems department, designing flight software and performing analyses for the Explorer Platform, Ocean Topography Experiment, FTS and Instrumented Target Spacecraft programs. (June, 1986 – July, 1988)

Associate Engineer, FSC

Worked in the Integration and Test Department, designing procedures for testing timing system flight hardware for the Gamma Ray Observatory Communications and Data Handling Module. (June, 1985 – June, 1986)

 


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