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Philip Flinn

DFW Area Cell: 214-***-****

Email: ac1uyt@r.postjobfree.com

BACKGROUND

I have over 10 years in IT management & engineering of Voice & Data architecture and operations. Direct Hands-On Experience in Voice, Video, and Data Networking, Data Center Power, Cooling, Remote site management and Control Systems using Standard Industry protocols. I have an Electrical License and practice my craft regularly. I have experience working with and working for large IT Integration outsourcing companies. EXPERIENCE & ACHIEVEMENTS

Senior Telecom, Video & Network Architect, the Judge Group/Saber July 2015 – July 2017

Responsible for Telecom & Video Architectures supporting over 10,000 Employees in over 70 countries.

Cisco Call manager 7.x, 10.5, 11.0, MCU MSE 8710, Telepresence, DX, SX and MX Video units, Spark.

Global events productions with Streaming Media, WebEx, Webcast Pro, Jabber Roll out.

Cisco WebEx CMR (Cisco Collaboration Meeting Room)

Cisco Meraki enterprise Security appliance, Switches and Access Point.

SIP, +E.164, & International dial planning for B2B Video Conferencing, Cisco UCS Virtual server deployments

Heavy (Ubiquiti) WIFI access points, multipoint applications and well as licensed long haul microwave links.

Maintained Cisco routers 3945s, 2911, etc., and Cisco ASR routers

Cisco (MRA) Mobile Remote Access, deploying Android, IOS and Windows based clients.

Experience with Cisco Nexus and IOS based enterprise class routers, switches

Experience with 802.1q, STP, RSTP, MSTP, VLAN, MPLS

Experience with Cisco UCS

Experience IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS

Senior Telecom Architect, the Judge Group/PLH Group Sept 2014 – July 2015

Responsible for Telecom Architectures, supporting the construction of Power & Gas Line infrastructure for multinational corporations.

Router and switch upgrades

Security access policies.

Voice (VOIP & TDM), Video (Room & Desktop based systems), WebEx Telepresence, Collaboration, QOS, Wireless, and SIP trunk design and implantation.

Deploy Cisco UCS Server Virtual Infrastructure, OVA, OVF, VMware, Call Manager 10.5, Unity Voice Mail 10.5, TMS Scheduling 14.5, MCU, Jabber 10.5, VCS Expressway Core and Edge 8.2, WebEx architectures and integration, Cisco Cube, Cisco Route – Switch Technologies.

Implementing full +E.164 addressing & overlay dial plans. SIP Dial plans for B2B Video Conferencing

Cisco (MRA) Mobile Remote Access, deploying Android, IOS and Windows based clients. Manager of Telecom & Data Center hosting Concentra, Addison, TX Feb 2013 – Sept 2014

Responsible for finding the simplest most cost effective Telecom & Data Center Architectures for over 400 Urgent Care and Primary Care locations using technologies form Avaya, and Cisco, UCS, UCM, UCCX communications platforms.

Providing support for integrating business applications and acquisitions into a stable, leverageable, repeatable environment.

Provide consistent operations, and maintenance programs to ensure business uptime.

SIP trunk design and implantation. Cloud hosting architectures and integration.

Pre-implementation Design, Hardware and Software selection, cost benefit analysis, budgeting.

Consistent and predictable call flow design for Call Centers.

Develop RFP’s and manage vendor partner relationships.

Providing strong flexible leadership and mentoring for associates, Resource planning, employee actions Consensus builder.

Develop Data Center Migration strategies for our primary Data Center while maintaining end user connectivity through the process.

Manager of Network Operations & Data Center hosting GMAC Mortgage, Lewisville, TX 2007 to Sept 2012

Responsible for Data Center Facilities design and operations and Data & Voice operations consisting of Critical power, generators, HVAC, space provisioning, many branch offices and several Tier III data centers. Data center upgrades, equipment purchases, UPS, PDU’s, switch gear, ATS’s project management, and budgeting. We received an Uptime Institute award for 10 years of continuous data center uptime. Proven IT project management skills, Data Center physical & virtual Moves of servers, storage. HVAC and Electrical designs. Strong problem solver with an all-encompassing approach.

Remote System Monitoring using Site Scan, interfacing with SNMP, BackNet, Modbus and SCADA.

I managed a large team of employees and I was responsible for salary actions, performance appraisals, career coaching, mentoring and employee development.

I possess strong leadership skills with a can do, take ownership attitude.

Data Center auditing, implementing best practices, integrating new technology road maps, assisting with business impact analysis, establishing evergreen programs.

I was responsible for upgrading and architecting a 10 million dollar build-out of critical data center and network infrastructure, including power, HVAC, generators, and networking equipment. Responsibilities include, managing physical security, Network Operations and Surveillance of more than 2,500 networking and server devices, disaster recovery planning and testing, conduct SOX audits. Manager of Network Engineering & Data Center hosting GMAC Residential Mortgage, Lewisville, TX 2005 to 2007

During this time I was responsible for approving engineering designs, acquiring budget, scheduling resources and projects and ensuring proper turn over to operations.

I was responsible for all aspects Data Center Operations, power, emergency power, cooling, cabling, cabinet provisioning, and maintenance contacts.

Responsible for remote MDF / IDF design, power, and AC. I was also responsible for remote maintenance and service contacts.

I was responsible for Enterprise Network Management architecture and design, and Enterprise software backup and recovery operations.

Architect Data Network Infrastructure GMAC Residential Mortgage, Lewisville, TX February 2001 to 2005

Senior Architect responsible for designing a world class network for the number 5 Online Mortgage Originator and funding over 114.5 Billion in residential loans in 2003.

Responsible for designing and building a new Primary Data Center in Lewisville, Texas from the ground up. This included the purchasing of several millions in base building equipment including HVAC, PDUs, UPSs, generators, automatic transfer switches, substations, raised flooring, cabling, and fire protection equipment and produced savings of 1.6 million over the retail price and coming under budget for the project. Managed and supervised all aspects of construction and completed the build out of 20,000 Sq. Ft. facility in 12 weeks including the commissioning of all power, HVAC, fire systems equipment, and receiving a certificate of occupancy.

Responsible for the completion of the network redesign and reduce telecom cost for our Datacenters, Call centers, Real Estate offices, 400 + branch sites and Ditech subsidiaries. Including a complete local and wide area networking change out requiring renegotiation of all contracts regarding service and price with vendors including Level 3, SBC, Cisco, 3COM, MCI, AT&T, Qwest, Looking Glass, Dynegy, Time Warner, and McLeod. After negotiations we were able to reduce monthly expenses substantially and still provided a highly available Optical network that replace all of our WAN and LAN switching equipment. Our Core network design included a highly redundant cutting edge Cisco Optical network consisting of the ONS 15454 utilizing Dark Fiber to connect our Data Centers to Level 3 Colocation facilities and Wave Length services from Level 3 to connect colocations together. This allowed a reduction of the monthly reoccurring cost with vendors by connecting with them at colocations facilities. Provided extensive engineering analysis to be able to provide a fault tolerant network to transport, Data, Voice (IP and TDM), Video streams up to 3 MBPS, SANs, Internet BGP peering and connections to many of our 3rd party partners.

Deployed HP Open View, Cisco Works, Cisco transport Manager, Cisco VOIP Call Manager, Unified messaging (Unity), 802.11 wireless networks and gateway Faxing solutions that produces 20,000 faxes a day. Provided training and developed procedures for Network Operations on Datacenter operations, VOIP, Power, and network troubleshooting.

Currently working with our system engineers to provide Storage Area Networking connectivity between our datacenters using FCIP to connect EMC disk arrays across our Cisco MDS 9500’s SAN switches and Optical Network. Developing a large Video over IP, multicast, Quality of service roll out. EDCUATION AND SPECIALIZED TRAINING

DeVry Institute of Technology,

Licensed Journeyman Electrician

Former Board member of the 7X24 Lone Store Chapter.

Cisco - CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CCNP, Sales Expert Voice Access Solution for Systems Engineering

Check Point - Certified Security Administrator, Certified Security Engineer

FORE Systems - LAN Certified Engineer, Edge Products IO&M Certification

Also completed a Sun Solaris Systems Administration I course.

Attended Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration, Advanced Cisco Router Configuration

Installation and Maintenance of Cisco Routers, Cisco SNA Configuration for Multiprotocol Administrators, Catalyst 5000 Series Configuration, Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting Cisco Voice over Frame Relay, ATM and IP, Managing Cisco Network Security, Cisco ATM solutions, Cisco ONS 15454 Optical equipment.

Bay Networks Accelerated Router Configuration, LAN Protocol Implementation

Armature Extra Radio operator, KG5HTH

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