10+ years as the founder of Hired Gun Consulting: www.hiredgunconsulting.com

10+ years providing exceptional Services Management and Vendor Relations

10+ years providing highly resourceful hands-on project management and BPR

10+ years providing innovative/creative IT/IS business solutions for any size organization, with Microsoft, Cisco, and Unix products/systems

10+ years providing competitive and cost effective hands-on IT/IS Project/Business Management/Analysis

10+ years experience providing superior LAN/WAN solutions from 5 users to 1500 users

10+ year experience gathering customer/business requirements and translating them into effective project plans and successfully completed projects

10+ years providing marketing an sales functions for clients

10+ years developing, deploying, and prototyping hardware/software solutions for engineering, manufacturing, and most industry/business environments

10+ years providing IT/IS training of individuals, organizational staff, and college-level students

As a high achiever, provided business and personal project management and technology support for the COO of Thomson Corporation and the Chairman of the Board of Cengage Learning (formerly Thomson Learning) and Knovel

As an extremely quick thinker, provided organizational re-tooling (BPR) for organizations with budgets ranging from 100k to 100 Million

As highly resourceful and hands-on, developed sustained competitive advantage for clients as a project manager/team lead and as a “rent a CIO/CTO”

As a great motivator and highly versatile, provided strategic leadership and knowledge management for client organizations

As an excellent long-range planner, provided cost effective IT/IS, eCommerce (B2C, B2B), software development, and other technology solutions

Having exceptional people skills, provided senior level IT/IS support/troubleshooting, LAN/WAN/WLAN installations, and network security for data centers, campus-like organizations, and regional/national corporations for 5 users to 500 users

As a risk taker, entrepreneurial team player, provided clients with BPR to migrate from print to digital mediums and to eCommerce

As a skilled negotiator, provided vendor relationship management: RFP/SLA, contract negotiations, performance and deliverable monitoring/QA, and conflict resolution from construction trades to technology vendors

As a highly organized and self-motivated, provided project management for network designs, cost analysis, and implementation plans for a 300 user LAN with a 2 million dollar budget

As a tactician/strategic thinker, designed and implemented a Network Operations center to monitor internal and external systems onsite, and remotely (VPN, IDS, etc.)

Strong at consumer/corporate selling, provided trade show sales, customer demonstrations/interfacing and technical support for Mitchell products

Having excellent skills with technical matters, provided senior level IT/IS support/troubleshooting, LAN/WAN/WLAN installations, and network security for onsite and offsite business units

As a strong verbal/written communicator, provided BPR to migrate from CD based products to eCommerce (B2C, B2B) digital mediums and complete documentation of the IT/IS infrastructure

As a natural leader and excellent trainer, provided training and knowledge transfer for IT/IS business unit staff and mentored two network engineers and the network manager

Having exceptional people skills, provided vendor relationship management: RFP/SLA, contract negotiations, performance and deliverable monitoring/QA, and conflict resolution for new building construction and other projects related to the IT/IS business unit

As an effective troubleshooter with excellent technical abilities, designed, installed, and maintained network monitoring/troubleshooting systems utilizing ATM, Fiber, and twisted pair technologies for the Denver NOC and San Diego test lab

As a highly versatile perfectionist, provided senior level operational testing of network, security, and remote monitoring of  IT/IS systems (servers, workstations, and other technologies) as the network test lab manager

As a highly innovative, organized and resourceful, provided senior level network strategic planning/leadership, created network documentation, and provided training for network engineers

As very dependable, loyal, and persuasive, provided vendor relations and procurement of network equipment and systems for the 1 Billion dollar Bronco Project

As a skilled negotiator, negotiated contract with vendors for staff, project management of vendor deliverables (QA, conflict resolution, etc.), and project scheduling for both the Bronco and SDCERA projects.

Hired to drive “out of the box” thinking, provided evaluation and BPR re-design/re-tooling of exiting network infrastructure to migrate 25 servers from Microsoft 3.51 to 4.0 server (email, file, and web) for the 1500 user network

Based on strong analytical skills, designed and deployed new desktop operating systems and other software with MS SMS

Based on skills with government systems/procedures, reviewed and deployed new Network Security Technologies for the transmission of Top Secret and Secret data over Fiber and twisted pair technologies for onsite and off-site DOE facilities

With strong personal presence, provided HR recruitment, consulting services and vendor management

With superior group communications skills, provided training for IT/IS and DOE staff for software and hardware platforms

Resource Manager responsible for hardware/software evaluation, procurement, deployment for IT/IS technologies and utilization methodologies

Network security manager, desktop support manager/trainer (50 staff members), intranet web developer, and trainer for Sandia Labs staff (1400 users)

Provided vendor relationship management: RFP/SLA, contract negotiations, performance and deliverable monitoring/QA, and conflict resolution for new building construction and other projects between Kemtah and Sandia Labs

With excellent technical abilities, built and maintained 25 Microsoft servers (email, web, file, and SMS), 1400 user desktops, and wired the building with Fiber and Ethernet

With superior verbal and written communications skills, provided engineering support and documentation for the development of wheelchair access to city busses

As a perfectionist and highly versatile, provided technical writing and illustration of parts, user, and operations manuals for busses

With excellent long-range planning skills, provided manufacturing support on the line to evaluate new systems related to wheelchair systems installations

With a strong personal presence, provided technical support and user training for the VAX system

As an extremely quick thinker who is decisive, provided BPR to migrate from print based deliverables to digital mediums

As a high achiever, provided documentation and programming of Air Data Computers for the B-1 Bomber

With highly creative/innovative abilities, provided field testing/documentation of air data computers

With excellent troubleshooting and technical skills, provided IT/IS support for IT/IS systems, monitoring technologies, and data analysis

Created/Managed a Profitable e-Commerce/Consulting Business, which provided clients with services that range from sales/marketing, strategic/business planning, financial analysis of business environments, and IT/IS architecture design, implementation, and maintenance for the past 10+ years.

Developed and deployed a Retooling Methodology to enable clients to create core competencies which led to them developing sustained competitive advantage in their market after 10+ years of hands-on project management and technology development/deployment for software development, intranet/internet solutions, and customized technology development/deployment

Coordinated vendor selection, provided contract negotiations, and vendor interface on behalf of client as and IT/IS General Contractor/Facilitator to Re-Tool Organizations for the New Economy for the past 10+ years and provided cost/benefit, critical path and other project management analyzes/methodologies

10+ years of IT/IS business experience combined with the utilization of the knowledge and data from an MBA in Global Management, Masters of Science in Information Systems Management, Microsoft MCSE, Microsoft MCT, Cisco Classes, Unix Administration Classes, Protocol Analysis Classes and Computer Security/Forensics Classes to create the knowledge to solve complex organizational issues

10+ years experience providing cost effective hands-on project management and leadership for IT/IS projects/services, as well as cross-industry experience for planning, designing, and implementing projects individually, as a team member, or team leader for intranet/internet, NOC’s and data centers

10+ years providing complete senior level network security services, LAN/WAN solutions, e-Business/e-Commerce (B2B, B2G, B2C) and computer security/forensics services

10+ years installing firewalls, network monitoring, vulnerability assessment technologies, servers, desktops, peripherals, and IDS technologies for clients to achieve their technology goals on-time/budget

10+ years providing network design, installation, and troubleshooting for remote connectivity, utilizing RAS, Web, and  VPN technologies with the goal of creating a virtual organization

10+ year experience developing and providing training/education in IT/IS subjects related to hardware systems, software applications, and analysis/troubleshooting to business professionals in classroom, brown bag, e-learning, and one to one environments 

Pix Firewalls, 525, 520, 501, 515

Cisco 2500, 2600, 3640, 4000, 7204, 3102, AGS+ series routers

Cisco Local Director Load Balancers, CSS-1150

Cisco Catalyst 6509,6506,3548,5000, 5505, 5509, 2820, 2924, 2916 and 1900c

Cisco 1404 CDDI Concentrator, 500-CS Terminal Server

CWSI Network Management, Net Sonar, Net Ranger Software, Policy Manager, TACACS

VPN concentrator 3000 series and client software, site-to-site connectivity

Cisco 340 wireless access points and network cards

Server and Workstation security audits, installed patches, SSH, C3, C2 technologies

Firewall implementations and other related firewall and DMZ duties

Utilize Webtrends for Firewalls and VPN’s and Webtrends Security Analyzer

Internet Security Systems ISS Safe Suite, Risk Assessment security scanners

IDS Sensors from Cisco, Snort

Intel/Shiva/Cisco VPN Gateways, PGP and other forms of encryption (WEP, ect.)

Worked with Secure ID and SecurID Servers

Biometric FingerPrint security devices, card readers, ect

Computer Forensics: hard drive analysis, firewall and desktop forensics, risk assessments

FDDI, Ethernet, WAN, GIG, and portable Protocol Analyzers (Sniffers)

NetXray, WildPackets Wireless sniffer

Fluke Lanmeter, Fluke One Touch,

Trend Aurora ISDN, T-1, PRI Analysis and Testing Equipment

Shiva VPN Gateways

Synoptics 3000 series concentrators

Various CSU/DSU models

Magnalink Bridges

T-1, T-3, ISDN, Cable Modem, DSL setup and configuration

Proxim Range Lan 2 wireless networking, Cisco & Linksys Wireless Access Points, Bridges, and PC card and PCI Wireless Ethernet Cards

OSI’s NetExpert

MicroMuse NetCool

CA Unicenter TNG

HP OpenView

What’s Up Gold

PC Based Systems: HP, Dell, Compaq  (servers, desktops, and laptops)

Macintosh Hardware and Software, Laptops, Desktops

Sun/Sparc Workstations/Unix (IPX, Ultra 10-60, Enterprise 3000-5000, Sparc5 & 10)

NOS’s: Novell/Microsoft Networks, Solaris 2X, 7 8 and 9, Apple OS

VAX, Silicon Graphics, Mentor graphics workstations, POS systems

Mail Systems: ccMail, Ms Mail/Exchange, Eudora, Outlook, various SMPT relays

Norton Utilities, Virus Scanners, Databases, Word Processors, Spreadsheets,  Presentation Software since their creation in the 1980’s

MS: Office 95-2003, NT Wks/ NT Srv (3.1-2003, XP), 95-98, SQL, SMS, IIS, BackOffice Enterprise, Small Business software,

Novell: 3.12-4.11 Intranetware

Mac: OS 6-8.1, most MAC hardware and software, apple networking

Tools: TCPIP Tools, Norton Utilities, LAN Watch, ftp, telnet, ect.

Web: Sambar server, Cold Fusion, Hot Metal Pro, HTML, Front Page, Hot Dog Pro

Databases: Oracle, Filemaker Pro, Fox Pro, MS Access, Remedy ARS, SQL

Graphics: Photshop, Illustrator, Hyjack, ect.

Mail: Exchange Server 3.1-2003, CC Mail Servers, Eudora, pop/smtp Servers, Most Mail Clients