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stan ward [email protected] stanly e. ward 1378 meadow moor drive, beavercreek, oh 45434 (937-344-8342 cell objective: seeking an o

Stan Ward [email protected]
Stanly E. Ward
1378 Meadow Moor Drive, Beavercreek, OH 45434
(937-344-8342 cell
Objective: Seeking an opportunity to apply my consulting and network
design expertise to large enterprise environments as a Network
Architect or vendor Pre-sales Engineer.
Experience: Twenty-five (25) years in telecom and data communications,
plus independent consulting projects and ownership of several small
businesses.
Career Highlights:
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Led one of Network General’s most successful sales rep firms as
combined Sales Manager and Sales Engineer, selling the Sniffer
line of network analysis tools
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Consulted with Fluke Corporation on the specifications, pricing,
and sales channel for the launch of their highly successful
LANMeter line of handheld network analyzers; personally sold first
production unit ever shipped
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Managed a carrier sales engineering team that supported the
professional services sales staff with customer solutions
consulting, proposal development, and sales presentations
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Re-established operational stability and standard operating
procedures for the third largest school system in Ohio after a
period of major staffing, leadership and technology changes
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Designed and developed the prototype of the world's first ship to
shore telephone service using a VoIP network and MMDS (Maritime
Mobile Data Service) radios
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Designed and developed an International least-cost call routing
and pricing model and auto-provisioning tools for Nortel DMS
switches for use by a major switched and VoIP carrier
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Performed traffic and BGP route reconfiguration modeling for one
of the nation's largest wholesale dialup providers
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Performed a network architecture study for the State of Maine,
evaluating current carriers, equipment, overall design, and
operating procedures, and recommending a new design and topology
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Led a 40 person engineering team for the State of Illinois
migration of over 1500 sites from frame relay to a state owned
MPLS network
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Designed and developed a secure network and operations environment
for managing Patient Records data across multiple organizations
under HPPA guidelines
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Developed a Managed VPN product offering for a large Telecom
service provider, including contracts, specifications,
provisioning processes, router configs, deployment and
configuration SOPs
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Consulted with Nortel Networks on the development of their Optical
Certification program
Education: B.S., Computer Science, Southern Illinois University –
Edwardsville, IL
Past certifications and achievements:
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PMI Certified Project Management Professional
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Cisco Certified Network Associate
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Cisco Certified Design Associate
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Graduate of the Dale Carnegie Sales Advantage course
Senior Network Engineer, Pomeroy IT Solutions – Cintas account team
(December 2010 to present)
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Lead engineer responsible for implementing new systems, such as F5
Load Balancers, Cisco ASA firewalls, site, client and B2B VPNs, a
nationwide Cisco LWAPP deployment, and architectural modifications
to complete the network core migration from Cisco 6500 to Nexus
family switches.
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Consulted with application deployment teams on selecting load
balancing and session “stickiness” algorithms, HTTP session header
and cookie modification
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Assisted application and server storage teams in application and
performance analysis when placing the WAN or a stateful device
such as a firewall, load balancer, or proxy between web and
application or database servers
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Resolved application problems using WireShark, OpNet, and other
network analysis tools requiring an understanding of TCP protocols
and state analysis (e.g. three-way handshake, four way close)
Network Architect/Lead Engineer, Cincinnati Public Schools,
Cincinnati, OH – April 2010 to December 2010 (contract position)
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Responsible for overall network design, operations, and tier 3
support for the third largest school district in Ohio, supporting
36,000 students and over 22,000 workstations at 66 schools in a
switched environment of four major vendors – Cisco, FortiNet,
Foundry, and Extreme
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Significantly improved overall network reliability and performance
by redesigning the spanning tree and routing architecture, with no
new capital expenditure
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Managed FortiNet firewall, VPN, intrusion prevention and web
content filter while improving teacher and staff access to web
content not available to students
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Designed new data center architecture to support VMWare
virtualization of 150+ Windows, Linux and Netware servers, with
disaster recovery at the State of Ohio’s Dublin data center
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Redesigned DNS and DHCP systems for improved reliability and
reduced hardware costs
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Designed and built a Cisco 802.11b/g/n wireless network with 60
access points to support roaming of 1300 student iPad workstations
throughout the Woodward Career High School campus
Technical Project Manager, Omnicare, Dublin, OH – April 2009 to July
2009 (contract position)
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Developed network discovery tools to inventory routers, switches,
servers, and specialized automation equipment at long term care
(non-retail) pharmacies located across the US as part of short
term project to upgrade the network to support document imaging
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Prepared detailed engineering packages, configs, change orders,
and task plans for network migration
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Developed procedures to work with third party staging and
installation vendor
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Managed test and acceptance of remote network cutovers using
vendor and internal support resources
Sr. Network Architect, Lexis/Nexis (Reed Elsevier/CS Technologies),
Dayton, OH – August 2008 to December 2008 (contract position)
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Developed a methodology and modeled the data flows of several
hundred applications in order to establish routing, firewall and
content switching requirements and rule sets, including
preparation of the routing plan and all server routing tables to
allow applications to control data flow at a server NIC level
while maintaining conformance with corporate security policies
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Consulted with the network architecture team on LAN and security
design for a new data center being built to support several
thousand servers
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Managed the virtual and external IP space for publicly visible and
content switched applications; prepared a project configuration
management database and network drawings for handoff to a
outsourced managed data center provider
Network Project Manager, HP Managed Services/TEKsystems, Dayton, OH –
May 2006 to May 2008
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Lead P&G WAN Resilience migration, providing fully redundant and
diverse facilities at 30 critical plant locations
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Lead P&G MPLS migration; moving approximately 100 sites in 35
countries from legacy network to Verizon MPLS network
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Lead Gillette WAN Migration – 65 sites in 19 countries; Canadian
office and field sales force integration; Dominican Republic
office integration; global firewall and External Business Partner
migration
Senior Network Architect/ SE Manager, WilTel Communications, St.
Louis, MO, 1995 to 2006
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Managed, designed, and/or built dozens of voice and data networks
for ISPs, ASPs, and large enterprise businesses as PM, lead
engineer, or both
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Developed detailed engineering packages, staging and installation
procedures, and quality assurance plans for both wired and 802.11
wireless networks
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Prepared a feasibility study for Illinois rural broadband using
802.11 wireless devices and customer external antennae to
connected to the State MPLS backbone
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Participated in development of the internal engineering and
operations standards, procedures, and tools used by WilTel
Professional Services and their customers
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Wrote, responded to, or evaluated responses for hundreds of
technical RFIs, RFPs and RFQs.
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Designed an 802.11 network, built a prototype, and performed
certification testing for a wireless ISP offering Internet
services to hotel and mobile users.
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Developed, managed, and/or evaluated security systems for ASPs, a
health care medical records provider, and the US Department of
Justice.
VP Sales & Engineering, DataPort Network Technologies, St. Louis, MO
1993 to 1995
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Ran the sales force and essentially all operations for a small
data communications manufacturer's rep and distributor, with a
team of eight sales people and five staff in ten Midwestern states
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Responsible for individual and company quotas, inventory
management, product management and overall P&L for the company
when the network division was spun off from DataPort Technologies
Manager Sales Engineering, DataPort Technologies, St. Louis, MO 1984
to 1993
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Headed a group of SEs who performed pre-sales technical support,
consultation, technical demonstrations, and evaluation testing for
communications equipment customers of a Midwest regional
manufacturer's representative and distributor
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Responsible for post-sales installation work and customer depot
maintenance sparing with the assistance of the company's field
service group
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Product Manager for test equipment sales (NG Sniffer, Fluke
LANMeter, AR data scopes, etc.) responsible for finding new
products and managing the relationship with equipment
manufacturers for contracts, quotas, sales training, etc.