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Dennis Fazio

*** ******* *** *, ***********, Minnesota 55405

612-***-****

acs4jl@r.postjobfree.com

Summary: I am a strategic leader and tactical manager who has established a wide range of expertise in network and IT infrastructure, educational technology, telecommunications, technology project management, nonprofit corporation establishment and governance, broadband deployment, and high technology product design.

Qualifications: I have experience with and proven accomplishments in the following areas:

• Founding and Executive leadership of a statewide Internet service provider business.

• Direction of a technology services department providing a full range of services to public school districts.

• Implementation of a multi-agency, Enterprise Architecture for the State of Minnesota.

• Financial management of multi-million dollar service organizations.

• Recruitment and management of technology design, service, and support teams,

• Project management of large network infrastructure systems. Career History:

2005-2015 Director, Technical Services

TIES Falcon Heights MN

Responsibilities:

• Led a department of engineers, consultants, and sales professionals to provide infrastructure deployment and support services to public school districts. Accomplishments:

• Expanded Internet services, consulting, managed services, and product sales from

$2 million to $14 million revenue representing 50% of the economic activity of TIES.

• Modernized Internet infrastructure from a small base of frame relay connections up to 75 sites on 1Gb and 10Gb dark fiber links. Pushed an aggregate of 12Gb/s of Internet bandwidth to districts covering 45% of the public school students in Minnesota.

• Boosted network equipment and computer equipment sales from $1 million to

$10 million annual revenue.

• Launched a new business line of managed services for systems and security. Dennis Fazio Page 2

2003-2004 Director, Product Innovation (2003-2004) Director, Advanced Technology Applications (2004)

Onvoy Plymouth MN

Responsibilities:

• a) Led advanced technology and future product research, particularly into wireless metropolitan area networks, wireless local area networks and dual-mode WiFi/Cellular systems.

• b) Managed technology and new product planning and design for Onvoy IP systems and telecommunications products

Accomplishments:

• Piloted a team of senior architects and engineers in the development of advanced converged services infrastructure improving the capacity and reliability of service networks.

• Renovated core network to dual Cisco 7600 router/switches and deployed a new centralized multi-tenant firewall system.

2000-2003 Principal Consultant

HeatSeeker Technology Partners Minnetonka MN

Responsibilities:

• Guided and counseled clients with their strategic network and information technology planning, design and construction.

Accomplishments:

• Authored an inter-agency Enterprise Architecture for the State of Minnesota including inter-agency participation and a permanent governance structure to maintain it. This was on the tail of 10 years of previous stalled attempts.

• Co-managed the strategic planning exercise for a large regional telecommunications company that resulted in the refocusing of their direction into new lines of business in integrated communications and IP telephony.

• Designed and presented an upgrade and modernization plan for a large multi-site network at a national auto glass service company

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1997-2000 Chief Technology Officer

Onvoy Plymouth MN

Responsibilities:

• Led all long-range technology and new product research, planning, and design for Onvoy networks. This included statewide IP and ATM systems for SONET TDM replacement with a

• Member of the corporate executive leadership team. Accomplishments:

• Generated a future strategic technology plan involving the migration to converged IP services.

• Built and expanded a statewide high-performance IP network that replaced frame relay and TDM networks with a multi-service IP-based voice/video/data network system.

1991-1997 Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Minnesota Regional Network Corporation (MRNet) Minneapolis MN Responsibilities:

• Chief Executive Officer

Accomplishments:

• Originated and managed the transition from informal association to nonprofit incorporated status. Assembled a board of directors, set strategic direction, set up an operational office, and made recommendations to the Board for policy decisions.

• Expanded the corporation in size, scope, and reputation over 6 years from a $90,000 single person project to a $5,000,000 45 person corporation that overwhelmingly dominated its regional market as an Internet Service Provider.

• Deployed an extensive statewide high-performance IP network backbone and customer access subsystem from the Twin Cities to Duluth, Rochester, St Cloud, Moorhead and Marshall by leveraging infrastructure and partnerships with major state organizations.

• Initiated community outreach and public policy development efforts for education technology and Internet development in Minnesota

• Drove the effort in 1997 to merge MRNet into MEANS Telcom creating Onvoy. Dennis Fazio Page 4

Skills & knowledge:

Organizational leadership, tactical management, strategic planning, financial management, project management, nonprofit governance and administration, educational technologies, broadband advocacy, network infrastructure, fiber optic technology, routers, switches, content filtering, spam filtering, managed services, service desk administration, virtualization, cloud services, network security, security policies, firewalls, email systems, DNS systems, WiFi design and operation, PC operating systems, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat et. al.

Education: MSEE, Union College, Schenectady NY

BSEE, Union College, Schenectady NY

Other:

Boards: • Chair, Blue Sky Charter School 2003-2011

• Member, Minnesota High Technology Association (MHTA) 1998-2003

• Treasurer, Minnesota Internet Services Trade Association (MISTA) 1996-1998

• Treasurer, Federation of Academic Research Networks (FARNET) 1995-1998

• Secretary, Minneapolis South High School Foundation 2004-2008

• Member, Twin Cities FreeNet Governance Board, 1994-1995 Civic Groups: • Minnesota State Technology Enterprise Board, 2001-2003

• Minneapolis Public Schools District Budget Advisory Committee, 2001-2003

• Minneapolis Public Schools District Parent Advisory Committee, 1999-2000, 2002

• Minnesota State Library Technology Advisory Board, 1994-1995

• University of Minnesota CIO Search Committee, 1995

• Osseo Area Schools CTO Search Committee, 2008

Educational: • Guest lecturer, Carlson School of Management, 1999

• Guest lecturer, Humphrey Institute, 1997, 1999

• Guest lecturer, Minnesota State Bar Association, 1996

• Guest lecturer, Hennepin County Bar Association, 1995

• Invited speaker and lecturer, numerous forums and state-wide groups 1994-2001 Patents: • Logic Gate System Design, US4791578 A

Publications: • Principles for Telecommunications Regulatory Reform, William Mitchell Law Review, Vol 27, No. 4, 2001.

• It's Really Much More Fun Building A Supercomputer Than It Is Simply Inventing One, Digest of Papers, IEEE Spring COMPCON 87, February 1987.

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