Manager, Cisco, Cloud, Pre Sales, Architecture

ARNOLD (ARNIE) RICE

*****.****@*****.*** - McKinney, TX 75071

(C) 214-***-****

https://www.linkedin.com/in/arnie-rice-3986403/

SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT EXECUTIVE AND CERTIFICATES

Business-driven, emerging technology solutions architect who drives transformational initiatives through hard work and attention to detail, achieving results. Motivated solutions architect professional swith an exceptional record of closing ratio while designing and managing POCs, presenting at conferences, and leading teams and projects. Technology focus includes engineering simple and complex network designs aligned with a robust security element. CERTIFICATIONS – CCVP, CCSP, CCSA, CCNA, CCDA

Cisco Certified Voice Professional

Cisco Certified Security Professional

CheckPoint Certified Security Administrator

Certified Cisco Express Voice over IP Engineer

Certified Cisco Network Associate

Certified Cisco Design Associate

Talent Management: Passionate about aligning corporate vision, determination, and team talent with a focus on network and security to serve customer needs professionally. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SOPHOS – Senior Cyber Security Architect (TOLA) Jan 2015 - Present Executed successful sales strategy partnered with dedicated Outside Account Executive and support of Inside Account Manager. Current active customer base ranged from 2500 - 40,000 seats.

Built/Maintained/Led a working demo environment that would prove & highlight product solutions in real-world situations

Executed cradle-to-grave POC which included weekly touchpoint calls to ensure that the POC was on track to ensure a technical win for the solution being tested; managed 5-10 POCs at once

Traveled 60% usually Tuesday - Thursday, which was mainly used for customer engagement, meetings, and customer health checks

Surpassed quota 80% of my tenure (which includes 1 year that I did not have an Account Executive)

Oversaw several user groups

VERIZON — Cisco Principle Architect May 2009 - Dec 2014 Oversaw NOC/SOC team of 40, ensuring all 3 divisions of Tier 1 bank meets all compliancy standards, including but not limited to internal and federal standards; mostly done by problem resolution and audits: internal, external, and federal.

Designed and architected corporate projects including Capital One Plano Campus, HMA & CHS network merger with datacenter design, “hospital in a box” model

Engineered the Cisco Call Manager Enterprise solution including more than 900 locations for a Tier 1 bank

The project includes but it is not limited to: 3 cluster distributed call flow Cisco Call Manager System version 4.1 & version 6.0, with the utilization of CVP for call flow including Cisco routers deployed as H.323, MGCP gateways for call flow control, this project also includes the configuration of PoE switches such as 3960 6509E’s & 6504E’s w/ QoS, both 3825 & 3845’s are utilized as WAN connectivity utilizing MPLS & iBGP, configuring all sites in Call Manager phones import using BAT utility totaling over 15000 phones; 3 CCM Clusters 2 – 4.1 & 1 - 6.0 w/ InterCluster Trunking

Verified call flow through a variety of Firewalls including PIX’s and ASA’s utilizing Ver. 7.x and 8.x along with Flex controllers, with 1100 and 3600 series WAP’s utilizing Cisco Prime 2.0 7-11 — Senior Cisco Design/Support Engineer Mar 2008 - May 2009 Designed, managed, and supported 7-11 internal network infrastructure.

6509’s, 6513’s, in a full redundancy mesh model using transit VLAN’s, Ether-Channel, HSRP, VSRP, 7000 Series Routers utilizing OSPF, Netscalers, QoS, NSM Juniper Appliances, utilizing Juniper clusters for firewalls, 802.1x implementation on both CatOS and IOS using Juniper Odyssey, running VoIP on Cisco Call Manager 5.1

Managed over 60 corporate locations and top tier support for over 6000 store locations nationwide

Worked extensively with Meru wireless 5000 series controllers and AP’s VERIZON — Technical Project Manager Aug 2007 - Mar 2008 Responsible for Compliance Configurations for a vast variety of equipment, compliance standards such as PCI, Privilege User Management, Privilege Access Management, patching and version management for branch locations and corporate equipment.

MEDHOST, Inc. — Senior Network Engineer Apr 2006 - Aug 2007 Responsible for LAN/WAN connectivity from our location to over 100+ hospitals to support our application.

Designed routing using OSPF, EIGRP, TCP/IP, VPN Tunnels, & Client VPN connectivity

Consulted on design and support services to many hospitals that do not have the in-house skill

Used Cisco PIX, Cisco Catalyst 4506, 6509, Cisco 3640's Load Balance w/ Failover, Nortel switches, Multicast DVMRP, IGMP, CGMP, PIM/SIM support on enterprise networks, Symantec Security Appliance 5400, Dell Servers, Exchange 2003, Enterprise Server 2003, Active Directory, Large VM Ware environment, EMC 10TB SAN w/ Dual HBA's to each server all fiber channel with Backup Exec 8.6 w/ Exchange & SQL plug-in, SQL 2000, Windows Server 2000 & 2003 SURGE NETWORKS — Senior Network Engineer Jun 2013 – Apr 2006 Main point of contact for customers from Desktop support to network design and integration with new and upcoming applications and Operating Systems regarding their environment.

Managed the following range of hardware and software products: Wireless both A & G, Cisco 1200 Series WAP’s, Orinoco WAP’s, etc. Cisco Switches, Routers, PIX Firewalls, Nortel 8600, 5510, 2750, 1750 VLAN's, Multicast support on enterprise networks, SonicWALL Firewalls, Firebox Firewalls, and Checkpoint Firewalls, Dell server, Compaq Servers, many backup, and antivirus programs, as well as Exchange 2003, Windows 20003 Server w/ Clustering, failover support as well as many other different technologies DAISYTEK INTERNATIONAL — Datacenter Operations Manager Jul 2001 - May 2003 Budged, designed, re-designed, and implemented various topologies in a worldwide network infrastructure.

Audited network environments of companies that are owned and recently purchased

Designed a network according to the network model at the corporate location: enterprise-wide implementation of Back-Up Exec 8.6, Windows 2000 Server, Active-Directory, Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2000, SMS 2.0, MOM, Disk Management software, Insight Manager, Light experience with Cisco Works, Cisco Aironet 340, 350 & 1200 AP’s and Wireless Bridges, Cisco Routers, and Cisco Switches, Cisco PIX firewalls

Supported WAN Infrastructure with over 4000 nodes; currently serve as last line support for all Windows 2000 Server, Exchange, Backup issues

Managed all newly re-designed LAN’s and Engineers, managing 5 Locations and approx. 6 Engineers

Managed, coordinated and designed a budgeted project that was managed remotely, from budget plans, contract negotiations to supporting the IT Infrastructure for Data Warehouses in both NY and CA locations, using continued communications with telecom personnel, wiring contractors, furniture contractors, as well as others JET CONSULTING — Network Design & Implementation Specialist Aug 2000 - Jun 2001 Heavily involved in design decisions in the corporate WAN that affected thousands of users.

Re-designed & re-engineered a Local Area Network entirely including traffic analysis, program workflow, Layer 2 & layer 3 switching, VLAN’s, VLSM, sub netting networks, Printer installations

Project experience involves the Cisco 2500 – 7500 Series Routers, TCP/IP, RIP, OSPF, Cisco 5000

– 6000 Series Catalyst Switches, Cisco PIX, Cisco RAS 5300, Check Point Firewalls, Windows NT 4.0 & 2000, SQL 6.5 & 7.0

Design and Implementation of a complete SMS 2.0 roll-out, Veritas Backup Exec 8.3, Norton Anti-Virus Corporate w/ Exchange Client, Exchange 5.5, Cat 5 Wiring

Managed many companies doing contract work for the project within the timelines and budgets given

TUCKER ELECTRONICS — MIS Director / Senior Network Engineer Jul 1999 - Aug 2000 Directed team of engineers from hiring, training, processes, firing, bonuses and raises upon annual reviews.

Directed team of 7 – 9 engineers including the web, network, and telecom departments

Overcame budget issues, contract negotiations between vendors (SWBell, MCI, Page Digital, Etc.), report reviewing w/ CFO, SVP & COO

Oversaw new projects and created project plan, budget and timeline entirely

Managed all aspects of the network such as: DS3, T1’s, CSU/DSU’s, 4500 & 2500 Series Cisco Routers, 1900 – 6006 Cisco Switches, 3Com Switches, 3Com Hubs, Linksys Switches, Linksys Hubs, AIX 4.3.2, Windows NT 4.0 Server, IIS 4.0, Site Server 3.0, SQL 6.5, Exchange Server 5.5, Faxination & all wiring issues

Responsible for Tele-communication which intern includes our Mytel SX2000 telephone switch creating extensions, ACD groups, and Voice Mail boxes running phone cable & Deleting users and extensions

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