Engineer Project Manager

Professional Resume of

Robert J. Calabrese

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Possess the correct blend of formal education and experience. Ability to first listen and

then ask probing questions encourages collaboration and allows a genuine

understanding of both business and technical problems. Problem solving ability allows

the breakdown of the most complicated project into obtainable tasks. Creates realistic

plans and make adjustments to those plans, to create an atmosphere of confidence that

makes everyone do their best.

Approach –

People: a great corporate culture with high skill levels through mentoring

Processes: best practices documented in living procedures

Technologies: best of breed

Skills and Accomplishments:

Successfully brought ECEI from a Cisco Premier to a Gold Par tner and pass two Annual Cisco Gold

Partner Audits.

Provided the technical background, leadership and corporate culture to grow CalTech from a one

person startup company to a 16 person 2,000,000-dollar company in 4 years.

Supervised network operations personnel at Bear Sterns during major outages, minimizing those

outages to maintain a 99.9 percent up-time.

Organized thousands of MS Word, Excel, and Visio files into a Real Knowledge Management System

at Transnet Corporation that streamlined the process of turning Bill of Materials in Customer Quotes;

which improved performance, added to their professional image, saved time, disk space and money.

Improved Ethicon’s (a Johnson & Johnson company) “Engineering Change Notice” system by

designing and developing a custom application used to manage changes to all FDA controlled

manufacturing processes, which allowed Ethicon to go from two marginal internal inspections to

passing FDA inspections for the next several years.

21 years as Lead Engineer and Project Manager designing, preparing detailed project plans,

implementing, documenting, and supporting large high performance multi-vendor, secure, fault

tolerant enterprise computer network systems.

Education and Certifications:

Master of Science, Management of Technology, New Jersey Institute of Technology (Newark, NJ)

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology Management, CTU (Denver, CO)

2 Associate of Applied Science Degrees, Avionics Systems Technology and Instructional

Technology, Community College of the Air Force

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), CCNA, Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP),

CCDA, Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP), CCNA-Security, Passed CCIE written exam

Cisco Specializations: CBNADS, CRSSS, CCADS, CUDS, CAS, CFSS, CISS, CIS, CSSDS, CVSS,

W AASSE

VMware Sales Professional (VSP), VMware Technical Sales Professional (VTSP)

F5 Certified Technical Sales Professional

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE), Certified Novell Engineer (CNE)

CompTIA: Certified Technical Trainer Plus (CTT+), Network+, A+

Other Industry Certifications

Professional Experience:

Eastern Computer Exchange Inc. (New York, NY office) April 2011-Present

Network Practice Manager

A leading National network consulting firm specializing in Data Center and LAN technologies

Managed network engineers to include scheduling, evaluating, counseling

Provided technical m anagement for large multi-engineer and multi-technology

projects

Successfully brought ECEI from a Cisco Premier to a Gold Partner and pass

two Annual Cisco Gold Partner Audits.

W orks directly with account managers and clients to develop the client’s

business and technical requirements and design solutions for those

requirements

Design and present account manager and client training on various network

technology topics

Transnet Corporation (Somerville, NJ) April 2007-April 2011

Senior Design Engineer

A leading regional network consulting firm specializing in LAN technologies

Senior Designer Engineer work s directly with account managers and clients to

develop the client’s business and technical requirements and design solutions

for those requirements

Through meetings with “C” level executives and the client’s technical staff;

explain the benefits and possible down sides of the different solutions

Helps clients to choose the best solution to solve their business needs and then

provide drawings, a list of parts and the required professional services to turn

the solution into a project

Provided Project Management on complex multi-engineer multi-vendor projects

Bear Stearns & Co. Inc. (Whippany, NJ) July 2006-April 2007

Vice-President ITG

A leading global investment banking, securities trading and brokerage firm

Consolidated Network Operations Center Shift Lead

Managed daily network operations of over 5,300 network devices

Managed shift personnel to include scheduling, evaluate and counsel

employees and writing performance reports

Managed special projects

DharmaSoft (Denver, CO) Oct 2004-July 2006

Owner

A regional network consulting firm specializing in security

Produced multi-layer MS Visio data-flow drawings for use in upgrade decisions

and troubleshooting

Setup of proactive network monitoring, create network baseline/trend

documentation for use in proactively determining network upgrades before they

are bottlenecks

Apr 2000–Sep 2004

Forsythe Solutions, Inc. (Denver, CO office)

Senior Network Engineer

A national network solutions firm with over 600 employees in 36 offices with a nnual revenues over 500

million

Provided pre-sales and post-sales engineering solutions to enterprise class clients

Sep 2000–Jun 2003

Colorado Technical University (Denver, CO)

Adjunct Professor

Taught information technology, Cisco, Microsoft, computer science and special topic classes

Jan 1988–Sep 1998

CalTech Software Systems, Inc. (San Angelo, TX)

VP/General Manager and Founder

A 2,000,000-dollar computer software and network consulting firm with 16 employees

Provided the technical background, leadership and corporate culture to grow

from a startup company to 2,000,000-dollar company

W rote and implemented all CalTech business plans, designed all sales and

marketing material

Negotiated computer and network sales, service contracts and wrote bid

proposals

Awarded Standard Times “Best Computer Store” Award in 1995

Managed daily business operations and managed all projects

Created and presented technical and non-technical multi-media presentations

to diverse audiences

Evaluated and counseled employees and wrote performance reports

Military Service:

New Jersey Air National Guard (Egg Harbor, NJ) December 2006-Present

Electronic Warfare Technician

Technical Sergeant (E-6) with an Active Secret Clearance

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177 Fighter Squadron / AN/ALQ-131 ECM Pod Back Shop

U.S. AIR FORCE Sep 1979-Jun 1992

Technical Sergeant (E-6) with a Top Secret SCI security clearance currently inactive

Electronic Warfare Technician

Completed various management courses, to include the Non-Commissioned

Officer (NCO) Leadership Academy

Supervised up to 50 courseware developers

Command and Control Specialist

Non-Commissioned Officer In Charge (NCOIC) Goodfellow AFB Command Post

Supervised 6 Command Post Specialists

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