LAYNE HOWELL
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Systems Integrator/Engineer Telecommunications Focus
Senior Systems Integrator/Engineer with a proven record of successfully implementing, integrating, deploying and supporting multiple major applications for Verizon. Both hands on contributor and team leader successfully leveraged solid relationships with other teams throughout the company to get the job done.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
VERIZON WIRELESS, Folsom, CA
Senior Systems Engineer/Manager
Led in design, integration, deployment and support of the following major applications for the Verizon Wireless Enterprise: Sev One, HP Universal Discover and Asset Management Suite, CA (Concord) eHealth (worlds largest deployment), Agilent AccessCDMA, WANDL, OPNET, HP Asset Manager, HP Universal Discovery plus several VZW developed tools.
Created architect processes to solve scope/scale challenges in a world-class network environment. This required a strong working relationship with VZW Network Engineers, Firewall teams and Network Operations folks (all of which use the applications we support).
Ownership of Vendor relationships to drive VZW requirements, resolve complex applications problems (trouble tickets) and provide Strategic Device Support (Certification).
Set up support and escalation processes for internal Verizon Wireless Customers.
Set up and managed application training process for 3000 internal users (primarily VZW data engineers).
Participated in numerous VZW training programs inherent to managing a team for a large corporation (Antitrust, Integrity, Corporate Values, etc).
Managed 10M annual budget.
Negotiated 8 Enterprise ELA contracts valued at 1-10M Annually.
ADDITIONAL VERIZON EXPERIENCE
Senior Systems/Software Engineer;/SA/DBA
Provided IT and Application services for team of 200 local engineers and support staff in Sacramento, CA
Built and supported LAN/WAN starting with 20 hosts, growing to over 200 hosts (6 diverse locations).
Wrote numerous applications to support end user requests and system administration efforts using UNIX utilities, SQL, Perl, and some compiled C.
Installed and Administered 30 UNIX servers featuring 10 RDBMS supporting 8 core Applications and numerous additional support scripts, cron jobs and end user tools.
Integrated and Administered 80 PC clients with Win 95 OS, providing access to NT servers and UNIX platforms.
Provisioned (Cellular) Telephone Switch Data Acquisition Systems and deployed field RF measurement tools to optimize Cell Site location techniques.
Designed, Installed and coordinated Computer Room Installation including UPS, Equipment Racking, and Multi-Platform keyboard/monitor control systems.
EDUCATION
Butte College, City, ST
Industrial Electronics Technology
OTHER TRAINING/EDUCATION
Red Hat 7.x System Admin I and II, Learnix: Perl Programming, HTML Web Implementation (1999), Cisco: ICRC, ACRC Advanced Cisco Router Configuration (1993,1998), ACC: Advanced Router Configuration (1996), Sun Microsystems: SA-340 Sun Net Manager(1995) SA-380 Solaris Network Admin(1987) SA-286 Solaris 2.x System Admin II(1998), Informix Software inc. Misc DBA courses, Opnet (now Riverbed) NPM and APM, eHealth SNMP Performance Mgt Admin, eHealth Live Health Configuration,HP Universal Discovery, HP Asset Manager