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Darren Cuffie

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703-***-****

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tucker GA 30084

Summary

Mr. Cuffie has over 29 years of networking and systems experience, including analysis, design, project management and implementation of LAN/MAN/WAN/Voice and Data infrastructure components. He has extensive technical knowledge focusing on Internet/Intranet related systems, data center architecture with disaster recovery features, client/server networks, Help Desk management and the evaluation of telecommunication services. Mr. Cuffie has extensive technical project management experience relating to designing, securing, staffing and implementing challenging telecommunications and IT focused projects. Mr. Cuffie has been managing and developing engineers over his career and has focused on developmental skills to improve his staff’s future options.

Professional Experience

FOCUS Brands

Atlanta GA

Director of Infrastructure

02/2014 – 10/2019

Directed team of network, systems, Retail PCI and Help Desk members to manage corporate assets across FOCUS Brands facilities. My responsibilities included directing team tasks/projects, managing staff goals and training, managing budget submittals, coding invoices for payment via ERP system and reporting status of projects to upper level management.

Managed the growth of network services for corporate locations. Led negotiations for primary and disaster recovery data center implementations, access control systems (Avigilon NVR and Access Control module) telecommunication service contracts, MS Enterprise Agreements and cloud based service implementations such as Mimecast, Microsoft Office 365, Azure and Cisco Webex.

Managed growth of corporate security services including improved firewalls (Cisco ASA and Palo Alto), next generation antivirus endpoint solution (Cylance w Optics), SIEM tool (LogRhythm), Mimecast URL & Attachment Protect, Secure Send, multifactor authentication (DUO Access) and security awareness programs via KnowBe4. Accelerated development of Help Desk personnel and systems relating to improving corporate desktop/laptop services (Dell, MAC, ServiceNow, Office365)

Managed corporate telco at brand restaurant locations. Dealt with multiple vendors based on contractual obligations to streamline and improve bandwidth and services while keeping costs to a certain level.

Managed strategic vendor relations accounting for the strategic and tactical management of systems hardware, corporate networks, electronic data storage, backup and recovery systems, database and application server administration services.

Raytheon NetOps and Information Solutions

Arlington VA

Principal Network Engineer

09/2008 – 02/2014

Clearance: TS SCI

Served as the CENTRIXS Task Lead for Raytheon providing engineering and technical project management for all CENTRIXS services. Manages a team of network, security and system engineers implementing customer requirements for CENTRIXS services including Active Directory, Exchange, WSUS, HBSS, NTP, FCP and VoIP. WAN, LAN and storage infrastructure managed to include Cisco, Juniper, Dell, CommVault, NetApp and ViaSat products.

Served as the Lead engineer for the NORTHCOM Bilat. Services include the design and installation of network and enterprise services at selected locations. Provided onsite installation of local components to tie into the larger Bilat network. Provided onsite training for end users for enterprise Bilat services. Provided IAVA & STIG compliant systems to customers.

Served as the MNIS technical representative for planning conferences. Served as the lead technical representative for the AMN OPT conferences held in Germany and Belgium for DISA MNIS. Served as the technical representative for MNIS relating to attendance at CENTCOM NETOPS conferences held in Doha Qatar.

Served as the CENTRIXS Global Routing IPT Chair. Provided lead engineer duties relating to the interconnection of COCOM and DECC services. Provide standards promotion and documentation for all Tier 1 interconnects between the COCOMs and the DISA DECCs.

SRA International, Inc

Fairfax VA

Senior Network Engineer

06/2006 – 08/2008

Clearance: Secret

Sr. Network Engineer, HAI (Raytheon). Served as the Lead Engineer for the configuration and deployment of network equipment to support the Homeland Security/Homeland Defense (HS/HD) network as part of the Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration (CWID08 & CWID07) focusing on next generation applications and tools to support the DoD and Coalition partners such as Australia, New Zealand, Canada, UK and NATO. Technologies configured included Multicast, VPNs for internal and external participant trial use. Network was 100% reliable for the first time in the history of CWID. Served as the Lead Engineer for the NATO AITB Initiative based up the CFBLNet’s BlackBone network as part of NATO and US next generation missile defense systems.

Northrop Grumman IT

Greenbelt MD

Senior Technical Project Manager

05/2003 – 06/2006

Clearance: Secret

Successfully managed the deployment of 200 VoIP phones for Langley Air Force Base in Hampton VA. This project was the first for NGIT successfully implementing MLPP between Cisco’s CallManager cluster (1 Publisher and 3 Subscribers, plus 2 3825 voice gateways) and the Nortel SL100 base PBX. The deployment included IP/VC MCU for IP videoconferencing utilizing Cisco’s VT Advantage cameras and Berbee InformaCast for in-phone paging.

Successfully managed the installation of VoIP infrastructure at McKee Nelson LLP in Washington DC. VoIP cluster for Washington and New York offices. Responsibilities included Cisco data and VoIP network infrastructure installation for supporting more than 200 IP phones.

Successfully managed the implementation of VoIP infrastructure for the Smithsonian Institution. This implementation spans multiple states and will total nearly 9000 Cisco Systems IP phones. Responsibilities include managing data and voice engineering teams, providing task schedules and LOE estimates using MS Project, ensuring engineering technical documents meet client requirements, managing resource and infrastructure costs, gathering client requirements, and briefing clients on VoIP technologies during deployment phases.

Successfully managed the implementation of VoIP infrastructure for the Virginia Department of Health’s newly renovated building in Richmond VA. The building consisted on a new data center and 13 floors of user spaces. All total more than 750 Cisco VoIP phones and analog devices installed. Cisco 6509 core switches and Cisco 4507 closet switches installed.

ThruPoint INC.

Arlington VA

Internetwork Project Director

12/1999 – 05/2003

Managed IPT ROI project analyzing telecommunication costs for Virginia Commonwealth University detailing their Centrex environment in comparison to IP Telephony.

Managed a team of international engineers for project design and installation of services for Radianz, a multi-national customer in London, England. Responsible for project coordination and planning of PoP infrastructure upgrades for customer access and developing Business Continuity for client’s Network Management Systems (BC for NMS).

Managed the rollout of Voice services for telecommunication service provider BBO. Responsible for tracking and managing all aspects of voice over packet services, and tracking the implementation and deployment of hardware to provide voice capabilities for customer services.

Served as the Network Operations Manager for network design and implementation team for application service provider (ASP) with locations in Herndon VA and Dallas TX.

Mitretek Systems (NOBLIS)

Mclean VA

Senior Principal Network Engineer

02/1996 – 12/1999

Directed network design and migration engineering team to migrate a shared 10BaseT network to a Gigabit Ethernet backbone for the City of Charlotte’s IT Department supporting 3000 users in 9 states.

Led project using Mitretek Sponsored Research (MSR) funding in the Advanced Telecommunications Laboratory (ATL). Project covered Voice over IP technologies utilizing IP Telephony client software, IP Telephony gateways and a PC-based PBX resulting in additional client funding and acceptance of a technical paper at the INET’99 conference.

Directed the design team for Mitretek’s headquarters’ LAN infrastructure and Frame Relay WAN including 900 user headquarter facility and 9 separate remote locations: analysis also included study of Fujitsu 9600 PBX for main location and key stations or Centrex solution for selected remote locations.

Drafted the technical SOW and participated as a member of the Source Selection Evaluation Board Technical Evaluation team to GSA’s Wiring and Cabling Services (WACS) procurement relating to inside and outside wiring and cabling resulting in successful award to 3 vendors for a potential contract vehicle estimated at 1 Billion dollars.

PRC Public Sector Inc.

Mclean VA

Systems Engineer

12/1989-02/1996

Designed and implemented Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD) Systems for state and local governments covering states east of the Mississippi River.

Provided operational support at the Public Safety Communication Center (PSCC) for the Fairfax County Virginia Police and Fire Departments including RF troubleshooting and Wireless analysis for mobile data terminals (MDTs), WAN access to more than 43 remote locations, and LAN configuration at the PSCC.

Professional Qualifications

Education

BS Electrical Engineering, Georgia Southern University

Certifications

PMP, ITIL-F, JNCIS-M, CCNA, Security+, Raytheon Six Sigma Specialist

Publications

Darren Cuffie, MNIS Technical Bulletin, TB2009-002 - BGP Standard Template Technical Bulletin, 2009

Co-Authored, IEEE Computer Society’s IT Professional, High-Speed Access, March/April 1999

Co-Authored, INET 99 Conference, An Approach to IP Telephony Performance Measurement and Modeling in Government Environments

Darren Cuffie, The Telecommunications Review, Cable Modem Technology: An Emerging Giant For Local Loop Access, 1998

Awards

Raytheon Technical Honors, December 2010

US Senate Sergeant At Arms, Certificate of Recognition, Jan 2001 from Mitretek Systems

Director’s Distinguished Accomplishment Award, May 1998, Mitretek Systems

Network Infrastructure

Cisco ASA5525/5515, Nexus 3048 ASR1001/1002/7300/7200/6500/4500 Routers, Cisco 3850/3750X/3500/2900 Switches, Meraki MX64 Firewalls

Cisco CallManager/Unity, APs

Aruba Network switches and Wifi

CloudGenix SDWAN appliances

Crestron AirMedia 201 & 101 models

Juniper M7i, Juniper EX3200, Juniper SSG and Netscreen 208 Firewalls, ViaSat KG 250X/250/IPS 250 INE,

General Dynamics KG175 E100, KG175B

Avigilon ACM & NVR, Mimecast, Cylance, LogRythm

ICON 800 IP Cameras, Axis IP Cameras

Technical Proficiencies

Network Architecture and Design, IaaS, Routing, Switching, Juniper Firewalls, Crypto, VoIP, SAN storage, DR services via Zerto, Collaboration Services, Access Control Systems

Technical Project M

anagement, MS Office, MS Project, Visio

Cisco Webex, Microsoft Teams

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