Associate Director

Gregory S. Urbanowicz

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Objective: A Computer Network Management position utilizing my Bachelor of Management Information Technology degree combined with hands-on experience from supply to purchasing from site surveys to installation. Aggressive management style and over twenty-five years successful engineering management in varied environments.

Skills and Accomplishments

· Experienced manager of departments up to 23 employees with no nonsense, high expectation style that plays no games with company's time or money.

· Successful creation and management of project budgets up to $97million.

· Managed call center construction that opened two weeks ahead of schedule. Maintained 99.99% network accessibility, including applications. Fiscal budget of $6million.

· Lead engineer/project manager for Kaiser-Permanente Northern California project. Managed 19 technicians who installed over 70 Nortel Passports throughout Northern California in 105 days with completion at 13% under budget.

· Redesigned existing ARCO Houston token-ring network and formalized recommendations for replacement with Ethernet both 10 and 10/100 and ATM backbone—4,000 nodes on 5 various sites.

· Experienced in pre and post sales, design, customer support, installation, project management, program management and network management.

Professional Experience

Commercial Design/Sales Manager

HiTech Solutions Huntsville, AL

Consultant for voice, video and data-com solutions regarding design, implementation and certification of networks including fiber, Cat5 or 6, and CCTV.

· Security consultant for video camera surveillance systems, badge swipe systems, security locking systems, personal security and cable plant layout, fiber and Cat 6.

· Liaison for small to large companies regarding security upgrades, upgrades to existing cable plant, and cost benefit analyst for existing equipment replacement.

· January 2007-Current

Manager, IT

DirecTV, Inc. Huntsville, AL

Managed call center construction regarding cabling, incoming circuits, equipment acquisition, installation, testing and network certification. Along with Facilities Department, opened call center two weeks ahead of schedule.

· Data/voice communications network manager in charge of call center housing over 1200 connected users. Ensured stored information is SOX compliant.

· Hired and managed eight staff members, prepared and managed IT schedule and operating/capital budget of over $11million, with continuing yearly budget up to $3 million.

· Maintained above average network accessibility of 99.99%, including applications.

· Managed VoIP Cisco/Avaya 8700 (10 or 100mb) network to desktop, including NICE Perform, CMS, ACD and IEX applications relating to call tracking and recording.

· Led partnership program with all departments to strategically position IT among user environment. Adds, moves, and changes to existing network.

· August 2004-January 2007

Network Consultant

Chriscom Services Dallas, TX

Network design and installation incorporating Cisco routers and switches.

· Network diagnostics and recommendations using various tools. Voice and data integration, software recommendation and installation.

· November 2001-August 2004

Network Engineer IV/Lead Engineer/Project Manager

Williams Communications Houston,TX

Network design and installation incorporating Nortel, Cisco, Cabletron, 3Com equipment with customers' legacy equipment.

· Lead engineer/project manager for Kaiser-Permanente Northern California project, responsible for project build-up, cost estimates, and proposal. Instructed and led teams in proper installation of Passports, from cable design through certification. Managed 19 technicians who installed over 70 Nortel Passports throughout Northern California in 105 days with completion at 13% under budget. Installation included connectivity with existing PBX's, along with legacy data network equipment connecting over 28,000 nodes.

· Integration of voice, video and data into existing networks—Ethernet 10 & 10/100, G-bit Ethernet.

· March 1998-October 2001

Senior Network Engineer

Newbridge/Ungermann-Bass Houston, TX

Technical support for IP, Token-Ring, ATM backbone, and Ethernet Networks. Managed network consisting of five separate Houston metro area plants and offices and 23 ARCO employees, IBM AS/400 connectivity to LAN/WAN, client-server application connectivity.

· Redesigned, through cost-benefit analysis, existing ARCO Houston token-ring network and formalized recommendations for replacement with Ethernet both 10 and 10/100 and ATM backbone—4,000 nodes on 5 various sites.

· Network tools evaluation, deployment, design, network diagnostics and correction. Network and application metric analysis using RMON and RMON2.

· April 1996-March 1998

Network Implementation Engineer

Terra Industries, Inc. Sioux City, Iowa

Managed team of seventeen programmers and engineers responsible for satellite data communications network consisting of 170 multi-national office drops and over 3600 mainframe and/or client/server connected nodes. Established and maintained vendor relationships.

· Eliminated time critical satellite connections and replaced with Frame Relay or high speed landlines up to OC3 speeds.

· Project manager/engineer responsibility, cost-benefit analysis, recommendation, implementation and configuration of new Cisco routers, hubs and various other WAN/LAN network equipment to support new client/server applications.

· Oracle DBA, responsibilities included data integrity, file/system backup and UNIX scripting.

· Network Area Storage planning and documentation.

· System liaison with other departments regarding new technology, current network capabilities and compatibility with new technology.

· January 1995-April 1996

Senior Systems Analyst, USBI, Huntsville, AL March 1991-December 1995

Network Specialist, First Financial Management, Atlanta, GA July 1989-March 1991

Systems Analyst, Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco May 1982-July 1989

Network Administrator, Computer Science Corporation, Huntsville, AL October 1977-May 1982

Education

Athens State University, Athens, AL 1993

Bachelor of Science Management of Information Technology

Security

United States Citizen

Security clearance eligible

References: Available Upon Request

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