William J. Martin ***** Rambling Road, Homer Glen, IL 60495

312-***-**** / ac2ew6@r.postjobfree.com

KEY EXPERIENCE SUMMARY

• Aruba Networks, an HPE company; Sunnyvale, California – Present Employer. Senior Systems Engineer: Networking – WLAN/LAN, Security, Location Based Services, Cloud, Converged Systems, Data Center, Storage Solutions

• BFDY Services LLC; Homer Glen, IL – Employed 2 years. Principal: Networking Consulting Services - Data Center to the Edge

• Cisco Systems; San Jose, California – Employed 19 years. Systems Engineer Manager / Senior Systems Engineer / Public Sector Operations: Data Networking – LAN/WLAN, IP Telephony UC, Telepresence Products

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange; Chicago, IL – Employed 2 years. Technical Specialist: Optical Transport, LAN/WIFI Management RESPONSIBILITIES & CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

During the course of my career, I have become and accomplished systems engineer with exemplary networking, systems engineering, business development, and client relationship management experience across a broad set of verticals including commercial, global, telecommunications, healthcare, higher education, financial and government entities. I am a success-driven, seasoned IT professional with high-touch channel and end user experience. I possess a strong ability to work independently and lead cross functional projects from cradle to grave. My experience in assessing situations and problem solving allows me to build trust, awareness as well as create and execute on business plans.

• Aruba Networks (Senior Systems Engineer): Primary reason my Territory Manager and I exceeded quota finishing at 140% for 2016, TM was new to the Networking space and coached him up in order for him to get us into accounts and for me to qualify, design and have customer commit to choosing Aruba / HPE Solution

• BYFD Services LLC (Principal): Approved AT&T Professional Services Provider; Projects included Chicago Transit Authority, Ventas (REIT) DC, and contracted with Arista Networks for various customer solutions

• Cisco Systems (Systems Engineer Manager): Lead / Coached / Directed SE team to assist Sales team to exceed Annual Quota supporting Enterprise, Financial and Service Provider verticals

• Cisco (Senior Systems Engineer): Focused, WIFI VoIP, Campus Redesigns leading to upgrades resulting in $12M in top line revenue – lead the effort to resolve a VOIP / WIFI problem involving Cisco VOIP & WIFI over Distributed Antenna System (DAS)

• Cisco (Public Sector): Responsible for Univ Chicago & UC Medical Center, Northwestern, City Colleges for Data Center & WIFI

• Chicago Mercantile Exchange (Technical Specialist): Designed Campus LAN decision for CME Trading Floor, lead RFP for SAN Switching, Project managed implementation and managed troubleshooting Level 3 support EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

DePaul University – Master of Business Administration Western Illinois University – Bachelor of Business Finance Aruba Mobility Bootcamp – WIFI, RF, Firewall, Security training HPE Data Center & Campus Switching training – Comware 7.x, Provision OS and Aruba OS Arista Networks Bootcamp – Arista EOS with MLAG + SDN Teleste Video Systems training (video surveillance system used for public transit systems) Lucent Technology training – Optical Transport (OC-12, OC-48 & OC-192) DCNI-2 Certified, UCS and VMware trained

Data Center Specialist – Nexus OS, Nexus Products and Network Solutions Design WLAN / UC design, deployment and troubleshooting expert Cisco Proof-of-Concept Labs (BGP scalability, MPLS, WAN, SS7 signaling, Internet Edge and Campus experienced) Large (International, Nationwide and Enterprise) scale network operations and management ) Qualcomm – CDMA Technical Training