WAYNE P. FOSTER
**** *********** *** ******* ** *0012 Wayne P. Foster, GA 30012 770-***-**** acvw8i@r.postjobfree.com
CISCO NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR
Specialist in Planning and Designing Cutting Edge Networks to Effectively Support Organizational Goals & Objectives.
Seasoned professional seeking challenging role within the organization that values initiative, innovation, and leadership
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Enterprise LAN/WAN Design
Strategic Network Planning
Contract Negotiation
Data/Voice Convergence
Technology Risk MGMT
Project Management
Mobility/Wireless
Technical Compliance
Technical Documentation
Network Diagnosis
Disaster Recovery Plan
Pre/Post Sale Support
Troubleshooting
Vendor Assessment
In-House Training
EXECUTIVE PROFILE
PROFESSIONAL ATTRIBUTES:
A business professional with over fifteen years of strong technology and management experience; encompassing organization IT management, project management, business process improvement, business continuity planning, telecommunication, networking, and RF infrastructure, and application development.
Held leadership positions in public and private corporate, with roles in technical and financial areas.
Proven track record in highlighting and resolving issues in a diverse technical environments and coordinating team efforts for various types of network infrastructure projects.
Led and developed effective technical implementation teams; managing escalations, communicating technical solutions to customers, and leveraging internal and external cross-functional relationships.
Excellent interpersonal and communicational skills with the ability to effectively communicate with team members, third-party vendors, as well as key decision makers.
Skill at preparing thorough network documentation to include logical and physical layouts, protocols chart, IP addressing summary, hardware/software inventory lists, and network procedures manual
Exceptional leadership, team-building, and motivational capabilities
Extensive experience working with Vendors, Sales Executives, Sales Engineer, C-level decision-makers both internally and externally
Sensitivity to cultural diversity.
PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISMENTS:
Field Test Network Telecom support engineer with over 15 years of hands-on technical experience in design, planning, integration, configuration, implementation, administration, consulting and troubleshooting of large scale enterprise data and converged voice LAN/WAN infrastructure, Projects included: Data Product Services, TDMA, GSM/GPR, EDGE/UMTS, VOLTE, CSFB and test cases execution include CS/PS/SS/SMS/MMS.
Managed the infrastructure project to implement HESS gas station VSAT project to install, repair, and troubleshoot network devices.
Managed and service over two thousand VSAT sites, broadband and Internet networks that included troubleshooting and twenty-four-hour response time.
Managed critical client and partner relationships which included the hiring of technical, sales and operations teams; negotiation of complex contracts.
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CAREER PATH
FIELD TEST ENGINEER ADVANCED MOBILE INTERGRATION, MD 4/13/2015 - 12 /31/2015
Major Functions and Accomplishments: Field testing of AT&T LTE deployment and services operation in preparation of new products launch; Verification/validation of compliance with government and telecom standards; integration of Nortel, Lucent and Ericsson TDMA switches with Mobile Position Center; acceptance testing of Nortel gateway mobile location center; data systems analysts assigned to a large and complex project requiring a high level of technical expertise and coordination; Provided onsite supported for AT&T Projects included: Data Product Services, TDMA, GSM/GPR, EDGE/UMTS, VOLTE, CSFB.
FILED NETWORK ENGINEER JAMTECH COMMUNICATION, GA 8/1999 – 4/2013
Major Functions and Accomplishments: Managed project work in alignment with the Statement of Work scope and ensure accurate team reporting of billable hours for efficient client invoicing against the project budget on a monthly basis; Data & Voice SME with lead role in network assessment, design, specification and implementation; Developed build and design Cisco Unified Communication for Small and Large companies.
FIELD SERVICE ENGINEER GLOBAL ANTENAN BROOKLYN, NEW YORK 9/1993 – 7/1999
Major Functions and Accomplishments: Assist design, Support & implementation of Data and Voice converged for new domestic and international offices; Developed and implemented the technical architecture and physical design of the network; Analyzed existing voice and data networks to recommend solutions; Implementation of Voice initiatives, including conversation from a PBX based environment to an IP based environment ( Cisco Call manager-Unity-Gateway); Provide installation, maintenance and repairs LAN / WAN equipment and other equipment at various locations within an assigned territory.
FIELD SERVICE TECHNICIAN PRIVATE CABLE NETWORK SYSTEMS BROOKLYN, NY 5/1992 – 9/1993
Major Functions and Accomplishments: Third level 24x7 emergency technical help for Voice PBX and cables & FIBER optics issues for private cable network systems; installation, upgrades and maintenance of software and hardware, including hubs, switches, bridges, routers, dedicated circuits, frame relay, and point-to-point data traffic; LAN/WAN network infrastructure deployment and capacity upgrades; upgrade of Customer Call Centers from AT&T dedicated T1 to MCI pipes with inverse multiplexer; research and recommendations for disaster recovery planning.
NON COMMISIONED OFFICER UNITED STATE MARINE CORPS, NEW YOUR 4/1986 – 9/1998
Major Functions: Managing & support of integration tactical telephone systems; Operated unique items of equipment for pole line construction; Provide electronic switching operation and maintainer facilitates the installation, operation, restoration, and management of circuits and trunks within the Digital Technical Control Center.
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TECHNOLOGY
Ethernet (10/100/1000)
Call Manager, Unity Connection
TDMA/GSM/GPR
Gigabit Fiber/ATM
IPCC Express (CRS), IVR
EDGE/UMTS/WLAN
ISDN BRI/PRI
Frame Relay / MPLS / DWDM
Personal Assistance
Attendant Console
CDMA/System Signal 7
CDMA2000/LTE
DSL/Analog/T1/DS1, T3/DS3
Peerless
WCDMA/HSPA
802.11x wireless
Compression Codec
SGSN gateway
Fiber / DNS / WINS / DHCP
Call Admission Control
OTA/MSC/MGW
Fast Ethernet channel
Congestion Management
HSDPA/RNC/UICC
Familiarity MPLS/BGP
RTP/cRTP/QoS/LLQ/CBWFG
WDCMA RAN
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
DeKalb Technical College Clarkson, GA Majored in Computer Information Systems (AAS 2010 – 2012)
U.S Air-Force Wichita, TX Advanced training in Antenna Systems
United States Marines Jacksonville, NC
Advance training in switch and installation
Certification: CCNA Routing and Switching, CCNA Security Atlanta GA
Other Specialties: CCNA, Cisco Work, Wireshark, Optical Time Reflector, Spectrum Analyzer.
TRAINIG AND PROFESSIONAL AFILIATIONS
Member, Fiber Optic Association of America, 2001 – Present
Affiliate, IEEE Computer Society, 2003 – Present
United Service Source, Certificate of training in Spacenet Maintenance.
Tektronix, Antenna testing and evaluation
EXEPTIONAL REFERENCE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST