William A Ross

SENIOR ENTERPRISE PROJECT MANAGER

Youngsville, NC 714-***-**** ad1rq6@r.postjobfree.com LinkedIn DUKE ENERGY UNISYS CISCO SYSTEMS BLUESTAR INGRAM MICRO MICROSOFT A top-performing technical IT Project Manager, UC Irvine California PM certified with experience focused on end-to-end delivery of infrastructure projects. Execution of projects on-schedule, on budget and to mutual-agreed scope. Clear communication and thorough team coordination/skills. Incorporates project management best practices based on PMBOK guidance. Diplomatic and tactful, building effective relationships with persons at all levels, overcoming conflicts with inclusion and positivity. COMPETENCIES CAREER NARRATIVE

Business, technical, and

professional service

development, service delivery

and project/program

management.

Personable technical liaison

between team members and

customers with excellent

presentation & demo delivery

skills

PM deployment of SD WAN,

VPN, Remote Access, ISE and

NAC solutions from multiple

vendors

Structured cabling and fiber

optic infrastructure / data

center deployment

Experienced overseeing

enterprise network design,

implementation,

Communications,

DUKE ENERGY, Raleigh, North Carolina

Senior Enterprise Project Manager 2023

Established and maintained communications among all project and program stakeholders for enterprise-wide deployment of Cisco ISE Network Access Control (NAC)

Structures, leads, and/or assist in leading all project- related meetings and reports required to ensure open communication between all team members, key

stakeholders, and management. Monthly project reviews, kick-off meetings, weekly reports, monthly reports and to properly report project status.

Drives the process of project planning including scope definition, estimating, schedule formation and monitoring, cost control measures, procurement/contracting

strategies, equipment selection, vendor selection, start- up and commissioning plans, and integration processes.

Ensures project on time and under budget, structured to scope and sprint achieved on time with milestones met. UNISYS CORPORATION / AUTO CLUB, Costa Mesa, California Enterprise Project Manager 2020 to 2022

Project management of ongoing security patching of Auto Club’s enterprise network routers, switches, firewalls/VPN devices, l Load sharing, SDWAN migration and other network systems. Jira tracking and oversight. Jira systems.

Provided leadership for engineering team members and customer projects.

Led weekly status meetings between Auto Club IT

management and Unisys.

Primary Network security vulnerability committee member weekly meetings and ongoing

Coordinated performance planning sessions with PMO IT Architect and Technical Lead on a regular basis to manage work plans.

CERTIFICATIONS

Project Management

UC Irvine Extension, PMI Project

Management Certification,

2009. 175 Credit Hours. GPA 3.93

Network Security

EC Council, Certified Ethical

Hacker (CEH),

#ECC70892363887, 2014

VMware

VMware Sales Professional

(VSP) 2016, 2017

Extreme Networks

Multiple Certifications: Extreme

Networks Design Specialist,

Access Wireless, Extreme

Networks Design Specialist-

Management Center, Extreme

Networks Sales Specialist- Data

Center v.2, Wireless v3,

Software, Switching, Cloud v3,

Demo Lab Operations v5 (all

2018)

Cradlepoint

Cradlepoint- Cradlepoint

Certified Sales Associate 2.0,

Cradlepoint Certified Network

Associate 2.0 7/2018

Network Storage/Cloud

NetApp, Accredited Technical

Sales Professional (NATSP)

7/2017

PROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPEMENT

Cisco

Cisco, Interconnecting Cisco

Networks 1 & 2 (ICND), CCNA

2009 & 2014. CCNA/IINS

recertification (3/2019)

Cisco, IUWNE, Implementing

Cisco Unified Wireless

Networking Essentials,

Ascolta, 2012

Cisco, CVOICE, VOIP and

Unified Communication

Systems, Ascolta, UC

Communications 2011

Cisco, Building Scalable Cisco

Internetworks (BSCI-CCNP Rqt.)

New Horizons, CCNP 2009

CISCO SYSTEMS, INC. Irvine, California

Business Development Manager 2019 to 2020

Positioned Cisco’s CX Services portfolio to support large corporate projects with enterprise service solutions to provide detailed level of effort, service delivery, scoping and pricing proposals.

Commercial Advanced Services: Enterprise route/switch, SDWAN and Access (Viptela), WLAN (Meraki), ISE &

Enterprise Management

Worked with Enterprise and Commercial Networking services line management and Customer Experience

Product Management teams in support services lifecycle requirements ensuring consistent and accurate scoping and pricing of client engagements.

BLUESTAR, INC. Irvine, California

Network Presales Engineer 2018

Focused on presales engineering support of advanced firewalls and network security, data center / campus fabric switching, branch SD-WAN, cloud managed mobile networks, IoT hardware and software.

Provided direct SE support and consultation of major technical product lines to account executives and their customers.

Provided business, pro service development and service delivery in support of products sold via Disti to

Reseller/VAR’s.

Led wireless network assessment/design services. Predictive analysis. Spectrum analysis. Customer reports. Ekahau proficient

VAR/Reseller support of network solutions from Cisco Meraki, Extreme Networks, WatchGuard, Cradlepoint Hikvision products/technologies.

CREATIVE ITC, INC. London EC1V 2NZ, UK 2016 to 2018 Solutions Architect / Director- Professional Services US Regional Director of Professional Services proposal scoping project management, BOM’s and proposals

Provided subcontracts to client direction, service delivery and project management. Cisco CCW BOM’s and

configuration.

Integrated SDWAN, ISE, Cloud services. NetApp, VMware, MS Azure and Amazon AWS.

WAN/SD-WAN and Application Performance

Optimization product and service support (Riverbed & Ipanema / Info Vista)

Cisco, Implementing Secure

Converged Wide Area

Networks (ISCWAN) New

Horizons, CCNP 2009

Network Security

Cisco FirePower ASA Sales and

POV Deployment Training, 2015

SANS Institute, Auditing

Networks, Perimeters and

Systems & Security Essentials,

Perimeters and Systems, 2003

CheckPoint, VPN-1 & CSE

Advanced FireWall-1

Management, 2001

WatchGuard, Firebox Essentials,

2018

Advanced Datacenter

Technologies

NetApp NATSP 2017, VMware

VSP 2017, Riverbed RCSA 2017

Cradlepoint

Netcloud Perimeter, Netcloud

Platform, Branch Router &

Access, IoT Routers, Mobile

Routers, Branch Routers &

Access, Netcloud Tools, Groups

and Devices

Network Protocol Analysis,

Application Performance

Monitoring, Troubleshooting &

Optimization

CA/NetQoS, Unified

Communications Manager, 2013

NetQOS, SuperAgent,

Application Performance

Monitor, Reporter

Analyzer/NetFlow Application,

NetVoyant, 2011

Sniffer Technologies, WAN

Analysis and Troubleshooting,

2002

Sniffer Technologies, TCP/IP

and Ethernet Network Analysis

and Troubleshooting, 2002

INGRAM MICRO, INC., Santa Ana, California

Technical Services Architect 2014 to 2016

Developed and deployed service practices/delivery including IT security vulnerability and penetration testing, voice/video readiness, network infrastructure and

application health assessment services.

Served as SME of Enterprise Cisco ASA/Firepower and ISE services development in direct conjunction with Cisco. Additional CCNA studies.

ROCKWELL COLLINS, INC., Tustin, California and Cedar Rapids, IA Senior Systems Monitor Administrator 2012 to 2014

MICROSOFT CORPORATION, Redmond, WA

Network Project Manager 2012 to 2012

NETWORK PERFORMANCE SYSTEMS, INC., Tustin, California Company Owner/CEO, Senior Managing Consultant/Senior Network Sales Engineer & Project Manager 2005 to 2012 FLUKE NETWORKS (NetScout), Everett, Washington, Network Systems/Sales Engineer 2004 to 2005.

LOS ANGELES COUNTY INTERNAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT,

Los Angeles, California, Senior Telecommunications Systems Engineer/Project Manager 2001 to 2004.

UNITED STATES NAVY CAREER

Electronics Technician ET “A” School- Honor Graduate – Great Lakes Naval Training Center, North Chicago, IL 1984.

Equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering Technology without GE. 3+ years of advanced digital and analog electronic training (RF, propagation, radar systems, crypto technologies, micro miniature repair)

USS PRAIRIE AD-15, Long Beach Naval Station, California, PUGET SOUND COMMUNICATIONS DETACHMENT,

Whidbey Island, Washington, and NAVAL RESERVE

CENTER, Long Beach Naval Station, California, Electronics Technician Second Class, 1983-1989.

Network Management and

Reporting

NetScout Performance

Manager Suite, 2005

Concord Communications,

eHealth Operations and Report

Interpretation, 2002

UNIX/Linux/Solaris Systems

Operating Systems

Administration

Sun System Administration 4.1.X,

Sun Microsystems, 1994,

RedHat, CentOS, Kali Linux

Windows Server 2012

William A

Ross

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