VP/ Director IT and Engineering Resume

Desired Industry: Information Technology	SpiderID: 15300
Desired Job Location: Rochester, New York	Date Posted: 9/4/2007
Type of Position: Full-Time Permanent	Availability Date: with 2 weeks notice
Desired Wage: 140000
	U.S. Work Authorization: Yes
Job Level: Executive (President, VP, CEO)	Willing to Travel: Yes, Less Than 25%
Highest Degree Attained: Masters	Willing to Relocate: Yes

Objective:
Accomplished business development technical director with notable success leading a broad range of corporate technology initiatives while participating in business planning, financial CAPEX analysis, and implementation of product deployment in direct support of business objectives.

• Hands-on experience leading all stages of product development efforts, including requirements definition, design, architecture, legacy systems integration, testing, and ongoing support.
• Demonstrated capacity to develop ground up financial and market analysis models for a broad range of product offering in both the residential and commercial technology sectors.
• Outstanding leadership abilities; able to coordinate and direct all phases of project-based efforts while managing, motivating, and leading project teams.
• Extensive background in development and presentation of technical training courses, for all audiences with varied technology skill sets.

Experience:

Nukote International – Rochester, NY

Director of Information Technology 12/2007 – Present
Department head of technology services for an office products manufacturing company. Responsible for network and systems services spanning six locations domestically as well as presence abroad in the United Kingdom, China, and Mexico. Reportable groups include network administration, systems engineering, and applications development. Responsible for capital and operating budget development including special project estimations. (Approximately $2M operating and $3.5M capital)
Key Technologies / Services:
• Microsoft Windows 2003 Active Directory Foundation
• Microsoft Exchange 2007
• Microsoft SharePoint DMS and Intranet services
• JD Edwards ERP (Planned to replaced by mid 2009 with MS Dynamics AX ($1.5M est. project)
• Sonicwall edge security including IDS, CFS, network antivirus
• Perl, PHP, .NET applications development
• MySQL, DB2, and Microsoft SQL Server data management
• Data center design (environmental, security, DIA & Intranet design, server virtualization, data warehouse)
• VMware ESX based production server environment

Current Communications – Rochester, NY

Director of Engineering & Network Architecture 7/2007 – Present
Direct all planning functions concerning regional core network architecture, last mile broadband over power line drafting and design, and review / approval of engineering metrics for integration into business development activity. Regional core network consists of a self healing MPLS enable backbone via a DWDM enhanced optical network with distribution to sub-head-ends at the edge network for last mile BPL traffic backhaul and metro Ethernet commercial services.
Key Technologies Deployed:
• MEF (Metro Ethernet Forum) Standards based commercial services
• Broadband over Power line (BPL) residential data and voice
• BPL enabled smart grid electrical distribution monitoring
• Advanced electric meter reading

Director Network Planning & Architecture 12/2005 – 7/2007
Facilitate planning functions surrounding deployment of broadband over power-line, BPL, communications technology within the infrastructure of a power authority’s electrical plant. Perform a high level assessment of the electrical plant’s distribution topology to develop network requirements for delivery broadband Internet access products including VOIP, capabilities to monitor and report electrical plant health statistics for “Smart Grid” services, and topology requirements to leverage the BPL fiber backbone network to delivery of traditional telecommunications circuits into the commercial market where applicable.
Key Contributions:
• Creation of an extensible financial modeling program to capture and evaluate network deployment financial drivers resulting in a reporting system capable of deriving CAPEX impacts over time. Reduced the time to develop a financial model to deploy a network of 2 million homes passed from a 3 month cycle to under 2 weeks.
• Project management of engineering resources to develop standards and methodologies for core transport interconnect to common carriers as well as “last mile” design of BPL power grid signal insertion techniques.

BPL Network Design Manager 9/2004 to 12/2005
Managed the engineering network design department’s activities surrounding the Broadband Over Power line infrastructure and transport network on a national scale. Developed manpower allocation schedules (10 network design engineers, 2 supervisory staff, and 2 quality control analysts) to meet customer expectations for timely deployment cycles. Coordinated with fiber transport engineering and construction crews to ensure proper installation of BPL equipment and optimum signal propagation into the designed network footprint.
Key Contributions:
• Developed network health reporting mechanisms to accurately review quality of engineered designs and evaluate / modify network design techniques where appropriate.
• Lead technical resource for development of the BPL underground distribution equipment, requirements definition for signal modulation schemes determining available broadband bandwidth.
• Designed the hybrid fiber / coax combining plant architecture for aggregation of field optical nodes to associated termination equipment within point of presence facilities.

Time Warner Cable – Rochester, NY

Broadband Engineering Manager 4/2000 – 9/2004
Managed the engineering department (2 supervisors, 8 engineers) responsible for Road Runner residential and commercial product offerings. Developed annual financial forecasts in the order of $10 million for network scalability expansion requirements based on expected customer growth for existing and future product offerings. Reviewed and approved engineering preferred vendor arrangements including project authorization for spending allocations. Other duties included research and development of new commercial services offerings upon request from the commercial sales division. New product development projects would undergo a formal customer needs assessment program to develop requirements definitions and allocation of internal work resources to assess project scope, timelines, and priority deliverables.
Key Contributions:
• Products developed for commercial introduction in the Rochester, NY market: (25% average MRC increase realized through introduction of the following product as ancillary services to the base broadband offering.)
o Managed Data Security Services (Firewall, IDS, Content Filtering with CIPA Compliance)
o Offsite Data Back-up and Recovery
o Managed Web and Email Hosting (Including corporate enterprise virus & spam filtering)
o Direct Connect – Dedicated fiber backhaul services. (Internet service delivery and MAN private interconnects) Approximately $500k in revenue realized in the first year of deployment.
o Advanced hotel and hospitality technology integration

Commercial Services Manager 4/2000 – 1/2002
Managed all activities to meet and exceed all Road Runner commercial service targets. Defined and implemented the Road Runner commercial sales strategies. Perform competitive market analysis. Researched and developed commercial products and services to address market trends. Managed team 7 direct-sales associates and 4 sales engineers responsible for sales acquisitions in assigned territories and vertical markets.
Key Contributions:
• Automation of commercial services workflow systems. Capabilities included:
• Site Survey – Database (web front-end) for pre sales engineering notes (construction costs, solutions & services engineering)
• Product NPV calculator – Automated contract generation system to develop NPV calculations for services sold. (Contracts would be auto populated based on a suitable positive NPV and queued for digital signature management approval.) Contract generation and approval timeframe reduced by 50% resulting in a sales volume increase of 30% in the first quarter of implementation.
• Installation Scheduler – Management system to coordinate contractor assigned workload and track work crew availability for quick installation timeframe quotes to respective customers. Typical commercial installation timeframe was reduced from a three week delay to 1.5 weeks on average.

Education:
Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY
M. S. Information Technology (G. P. A: 4.00) - August 1997
B. S. Information Technology (G. P. A: 3.83) - May 1996

Baker College, Flint, MI
Currently Earning – MBA (MIS Concentration)

Independent Certifications
Currently Preparing for PMP (Project Management Professional) Exam

Affiliations:
Commercial Services Engineer 8/1999 - 4/2000
Developed and executed a sales strategy for Road Runner high speed Internet access for commercial deployment. Contacted potential subscribers and provide sales and technical information to integrate Road Runner services into existing or future customer technological facilities. Provided migration assistance for Internet services such as security concerns, domain name registration, DNS entries, and efficient IP utilization techniques.
Key Contributions:
• Developed cable modem configuration methodology for customer static IP assignments utilizing the Cisco 925UBR .
• Co-developed with Time Warner Legal the customer acceptable use policy and launched the commercial service security and network abuse department. Abuse department responded to federal subpoena inquires, RIAA customer notifications, and enforced anti-spam and virus propagation policies.

Systems Specialist 7/1998 - 8/1999
Worked as a liaison for the local Time Warner division to Road Runner corporate to provide onsite support during network upgrades and outages. Responsibilities include monitoring and troubleshooting potential and existing Road Runner network problems including the regional server farm, division billing interface, cable HFC plant, and the Road Runner local area office network.
Key Contributions:
• Established the local server farm to support the launch of the division Road Runner and local news station websites. Server facility supported front end http traffic servers accessing a high availability MS SQL database cluster environment.

Rochester Institute of Technology, Dept. of Information Technology - Rochester, NY

Adjunct Professor 9/1996 – 6/1998
Faculty member of the Information Technology department. Created and taught coursework at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Coursework concentrations included:
• Advanced Network Design
• Applied Relational Theory & Database Development
• Multimedia Programming
• Expert Systems

Lab Manager 6/1996 to 6/1997
Manage human resources for the Computer Science and Information Technology graduate and undergraduate laboratories consisting of 6 senior lab supervisory staff and 30+ lab assistances. Maintained lab computer resources and coordinated 24 hour 7 day a week staffing rotation to monitor lab resources and provide student assistance utilizing computer equipment and associated software applications.

Rochester Institute of Technology Research Corporation – Rochester, NY

Research Assistant 3/1994 – 6/1996
Technical research under United States government contract. Unites State security clearance held – Secret Level

Systems Specialist 7/1998 - 8/1999
Worked as a liaison for the local Time Warner division to Road Runner corporate to provide onsite support during network upgrades and outages. Responsibilities include monitoring and troubleshooting potential and existing Road Runner network problems including the regional server farm, division billing interface, cable HFC plant, and the Road Runner local area office network.
Key Contributions:
• Established the local server farm to support the launch of the division Road Runner and local news station websites. Server facility supported front end http traffic servers accessing a high availability MS SQL database cluster environment.

Rochester Institute of Technology, Dept. of Information Technology - Rochester, NY

Adjunct Professor 9/1996 – 6/1998
Faculty member of the Information Technology department. Created and taught coursework at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Coursework concentrations included:
• Advanced Network Design
• Applied Relational Theory & Database Development
• Multimedia Programming
• Expert Systems

Lab Manager 6/1996 to 6/1997
Manage human resources for the Computer Science and Information Technology graduate and undergraduate laboratories consisting of 6 senior lab supervisory staff and 30+ lab assistances. Maintained lab computer resources and coordinated 24 hour 7 day a week staffing rotation to monitor lab resources and provide student assistance utilizing computer equipment and associated software applications.

Rochester Institute of Technology Research Corporation – Rochester, NY

Research Assistant 3/1994 – 6/1996
Technical research under United States government contract. Unites State security clearance held – Secret Level

Skills:
Business Development

• Financial Analysis & Scenario Modeling
• Marketing Analysis
• Project Management & Planning
Information Technology

• Internet Applications Development
• Applied Database Design
• Systems Integration
• LAN Wired / Wireless Design & Management
• Communications Services (Email, Intranet development, groupware)
Telecommunications

• WAN & MAN Network Design
• Network Capacity Planning
• Security Policies & Procedures
• Disaster Recovery Analysis

Additional Information:
Publications

Cable Technology Influences Growth, Makes Businesses Smarter – The Daily Record, June 03

Windows 95 Technical Review – Technology Update August 1995 (U.S. Government internal publication)

Reference:
Available on Request

Candidate Contact Information:

Name: Bryan Adelman
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City: Rochester	Fax: -
State: New York
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