Robert Alan White Senior Network Engineer

Leadership ~ Competence ~ Results

Accomplished leader with over 20 years of extensive network engineering experience in government and military settings. Polished professional, skilled in developing a wide spectrum of communications services, and maintaining network compliance. Effective communicator with the ability to motivate and mentor teams to success. Areas of Expertise include:

Network Design

Network Engineering

Network Compliance

Systems Engineering Solutions

Communications

Top Secret Clearance (Inactive)

Professional Experience

Lockheed Martin IS&GS Scott Air Force Base, IL 2013 – 2015

Network Engineer

Responsible for providing exemplary communications support for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) on the Global Services Management Operations Contract.

Key Accomplishments:

Developed and implemented a wide spectrum of communications services within all Geographical areas under the United States Military and Government Area of Operations.

Maintained network compliance through engineering and implementing industry standard requirements.

Solid understanding of network technologies, both transport and IP.

Configured a variety of Circuit configurations via the Government and Commercially leased Broadband cloud.

Connections such as SONET, SDH, Packet over SONET, Gigabit Ethernet, Redundant trunks, Virtual Concatenated circuits, working and protect paths. Terminating these services on Cisco Multi-Service Provisioning Platform 15454 and Sycamore Optical Digital Cross Connect SN9 and SN16K Broadband Switches on Multi-Rate Optical, Multi-Rate Ethernet, GigE Line Interface Modules, DS1/E1 modules. Node stitched circuits via like nodes to better allocate bandwidth.

Translated and processed requirements into action plans, developing systems engineering solutions to satisfy local and wide area network operational requirements, system-control, and user requirements.

Ensured operational efficiency through design and implementation of non-standard configurations to fixed, remote, and occasionally austere environments.

Collaborated with the DISA Commercial Services team and commercial vendors to deliver, test, and turn up leases and dependent circuits into the DISN Points of Presence and Enterprise cloud.

Improved information accuracy, documenting path and circuit elements in management databases of record.

Solid experience with alarm surveillance, fault management/isolation/correction, root cause analysis, trend analysis, performance management.

Strove to meet pre-determined Service Level Agreements (SLA’s) and Acceptable Levels of Performance (ALP’s)

Assist and train Global Network Support Center in troubleshooting complex configurations.

CGI Federal Stuttgart, Germany 2003 – 2013

Network Design Engineer

Responsible for working as part of the DISA DISN Global Solutions (DGS) program tasked with implementing network communications throughout the European, Southwest Asia and African theaters supporting United States Combatant Commands and major Government Agencies.

Key Accomplishments:

Installed and provisioned core nodes and gateway trunks within Europe, Southwest Asia and North America utilizing a myriad of latest technology platforms.

Managed projects through to completion, working with multiple critical non-standard customer requirements.

Improved operational efficiency through assisting and instructing customer and site personnel with Operational and Performance troubleshooting, as well as addressing and resolving technical and procedural issues raised by government and DISN contractors.

Participated in the activation and phase-in of core systems into the network and deactivation of legacy equipment suites. Migrating services off of Asynchronous Transfer Mode Switches onto CISCO and Sycamore

Multi-Service switches.

Ensured the proper materials were on hand in order to complete installations, collaborating with Government counterparts, both in CONUS and OCONUS.

United States Army Naples, Italy 2000 - 2003

Communications Team Leader

Assigned to Communications Team providing voice, data, network infrastructure, and tactical satellite services to support NATO mission and exercise requirements.

Key Accomplishments:

Deployed, implemented, and supported computer workstations, routers, hubs, and peripherals in sometimes austere conditions.

Developed and installed cabling to include fiber optic and Category Five unshielded twisted pair.

Served as Operations Supervisor responsible for the planning and drafting of tasking and operations orders, and Supervisor for the User Interface Enclosure (UIE) communications assemblage.

Honorably retired after 20 years.

Certifications and Affiliations

ITIL Foundation Certification

Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA)

Life member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars

Technology Experience

SYCAMORE SN9000/SN16000 Course

CN 4200 OAM&P W/On-Center NCS

Advanced Juniper Networks Routing

Configuring Juniper Network Routers M/T Series

Network Configuration and Change Management (NCCM)

CISCO 15454 Test and turn up; 40 Hours; Cisco Systems

CISCO Transport Controller and Prime Optical Network Managers

Fiber Optic Basics Course, Military School

Safenet Sonet Encryptor Course

PROMINA Operations Course; Military School

ATM Node Site Coordinator Course; Military School

LAN Operations and Administration; Military School

Introduction to TCP/IP; 32 Hours; Learning Tree International

Introduction to Cisco Routers; 40 Hours, American Research Group

Sycamore Silvx Manager

Routing, Network appliances, CSU, DSU, etc.

Microsoft Office

Sun Systems

KVM Switches

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