Senior Network Architect

Terry Skemer

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

*******@***.***

https://ca.linkedin.com/in/terryskemer

Senior network architect specializing in:

* LAN/WAN/WiFi network architecture, design and engineering

* Public/private/hybrid cloud networking

* Telephony and voice/video conferencing systems

* Infrastructure strategy, planning and design

*** Government of Canada Secret Clearance

Skills:

People management, technology management, IT strategy, network architectures, network design, system architectures, network protocols, datacenter, enterprise infrastructure, routers, switches, firewalls, network topology, load balancers, server infrastructure, high availability design, VoIP, telecommunications, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, WiFi, RF, training, course development.

Expert-level protocol knowledge in IPv4, IPv6, TCP, UDP, OSPF, RTP, DHCP, DNS, ATM, MPLS, ISDN, Ethernet, Frame Relay, X.25

Experience:

2016-present Senior Network Architect, Skemer and Associates Inc.

Independent consultant providing deep engineering expertise coupled with practical, relevant advice to government, utility, and private-industry clients.

Client, contract and project information provided upon request (with the exception of information covered by NDA or specified by security clearance guidelines).

2013- 2016 Infrastructure Manager, Amazon Lab126, Sunnyvale/Cupertino CA

Responsible for corporate and development networks, systems and data center infrastructure at all Lab126 (Amazon's consumer device R & D subsidiary) facilities in the US and all other global locations.

2009-2013Senior Architect, Corporate Networks and Systems, Amazon, Seattle WA

Primary enterprise architect in Amazon's large global corporate organization; responsible for defining architectural frameworks, creating standard network designs and evangelizing the strategic direction of corporate networks and systems including wired/wireless networking, voice/video conferencing, and VoIP telephony. My strategies allowed Amazon to scale at an incredible rate while keeping the size of engineering and support teams to an absolute minimum.

2005-2008 Manager, Website Network Engineering, Amazon.com, Seattle WA

Responsible for worldwide network engineering of backbone, corporate sites, customer service sites, fulfillment centers, and data centers, as well as network/load balancer design for all of Amazon’s websites. Member of the pioneering team that created Amazon Web Services (AWS) Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).

The amazon.com website had suffered from many long network outages every Q4 up to and including 2004. My engineering team redesigned the website network, backbone and load balancer architecture in 2005 and after the redesign, amazon.com's peak Q4 traffic periods of 2005 through 2007 were free of major network outages.

2004-2005 Vice-president of Network Engineering, AccessLine, Bellevue WA

Managed the engineering and operations teams of a national VoIP telecommunications and conferencing services provider.

2001-2004Vice-president of Engineering, NorVergence, Jersey City NJ

Managed all engineering groups at a national next-generation (VoATM and VoIP) long distance and Internet provider.

1998-2001Co-Founder / Product Architect, Sedona Networks, Ottawa Canada

Co-founder of Sedona Networks- a manufacturing start-up that raised over $30M US in VC financing, and co-designer of their Integrated Access Device (IAD) and VoIP gateway products. I invented and patented Sedona’s innovative Domain Switching ‘IP virtual wire’ technology (referenced as ‘prior art’ in Juniper’s MPLS patent) and with my co-founders, created Dynamic Packet Conditioning; a process to dynamically change the packet size (IP MTU) of non-real-time traffic based on bandwidth and quality-of-service requirements of real-time traffic.

1993-1998Senior Network Architect, Nortel Networks - Nortel Labs, Ottawa Canada

Senior member of technical staff advising the Nortel Passport ATM and Virtual Router development and support teams.

1985-1993 Consultant, Protocols, Standards and Communications (PSC), Ottawa,

Canada

As a self-employed contractor, I filled the following roles for PSC clients:

1991-1993 Independent Verifier, Transport Canada, Ottawa Canada

As a member of the Independent Validation and Verification (IVV) team, my primary role was to verify the proposed network architecture, design and deployment plans of the Canadian Automated Air Traffic Control System (CAATS) for Transport Canada. I also served as the Chair of the CAATS Telecom Working Group.

1990-1991 Senior Advisor, Canadian Payments Association, Ottawa Canada

Contributed to the design of the Automated Clearing and Settlement System (ACSS), United States Bulk Dollar Exchange (USBE), and Financial Institution File (FIF) systems for the CPA, an organization responsible for inter-bank clearing of financial items.

1988-1990 Senior Network Architect, TeleSat Canada, Ottawa Canada

TeleSat was entering the data services market and hired me to train their sales, engineering and support organizations and help define TeleSat’s new C-band and Ku-band (aka VSAT) satellite data services.

1986-1987 Technical Support Manager, Nortel Networks, Dallas TX

Managed a technical team that delivered on multiple design and deployment projects for Nortel customers including General Motors-EDS, Comsat and BellSouth. Also served as the Bell-Northern Research subject matter expert on ISDN X & Q protocols and packet switching technologies.

1985-1986 Network Architect, Department of National Defence, Ottawa Canada

Contributed to the architecture, design and deployment planning of multiple large DND/NATO systems.

1981-1985Network Manager, Government of Canada, Hull Quebec Canada

Network Manager in the Department of Supply and Services (DSS) with responsibility for the design and operation of many large Government of Canada and National Defence networks.

1978-1981 Switching Systems Technician, Bell Canada, Ottawa Canada

Technician maintaining a wide variety of Bell Canada voice and data switching systems; highlight was leading multiple engineering projects to scale the Datapac national X.25 packet switching network.

Education Electronics, DeVry Institute of Technology, Toronto Canada (1977)

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