Griffon Walker

Past

• Managing Director of IT at Socialtext
• Program Manager at Cisco
• System Adminstrator at Walker Design Associates

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Education

• University of Nevada-Reno

Recommended

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Connections

83 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Blog

Griffon Walker’s Summary

I live in the Santa Cruz CA USA area.

Cliff note's resume:
Socialtext,
1.5 years as the Managing Director of IT for Socialtext web 2.0 startup (the oldest wiki company). I do a bit of everything here but mainly run our internal NT Sysadmin and IT support department. I deal with budgetary planing and execution for the company on capital expenses. I also manage our IT equipment and service vendors.

Cisco Systems,
I worked for cisco for over 8 years. I was promoted repeatedly from Technical Lab Administrator, to Project Manger then I exited as a high grade Program Manager after four or so years of Program Management experience. Program managers at Cisco run Project teams and coordinate multiple cross function teams and deliverables. My main focus areas where on IT, Lab, training environment infrastructure development. I ran a cost effective delivery team and sat on many advisory and business councils.

Prior to Cisco I did a range of things related to Syadmin and Physical security for the private sector.

My education Background is in Computer Science and Criminology.

Griffon Walker’s Specialties:

IT Project management, GEM, Office (Power point, Excel, outlook, access, word) 97-207, Test methodology, multiple bug and case management systems, SABA.

Griffon Walker’s Experience

• Managing Director of IT

  Socialtext

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  January 2007 — June 2008 (1 year 6 months)

  - I was Responsible for developing and managing operation budgets, forecasting growth for IT staff, equipment purchases, vendors, and contract services.
  - Deployed back end services and mail solutions for a variety of operating systems and client applications.
  - Managed system administrator program, help desk and networking teams.
  - Managed Data Center collocation and ISP vendor.
  - Structured program for deployment and relocation of customer facing assets.
  - Created company wide security, access and usage policies.
  - Scaled WAN access and designed LAN topology to meet rapid expansion and growth requirement.
  - Created hundreds of detailed Wiki knowledge base pages for support staff and customer access.
  - Develop relationships with IT business partners, data providers, contractors and retail agents to facilitate cost effective acquisition of goods and services to support growth.
  - Manage direct reports and contractor/vendor support.

• Program Manager

  Cisco

  (Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  August 1998 — December 2006 (8 years 5 months)

  - Strategically planned and managed global IT programs for information systems management; examples include the deployment of a global remote system imaging, and management tool set.
  - I was responsible for the global IT backbone strategy of all Cisco engineering training equipment deployment, supporting over three thousand customers.
  - Program management oversight on cost, performance and metrics against large volumes of network equipment, server hardware and software installations into a cross platform environment.
  - Top level program manager with oversight for client/needs assessment, creating the tactical project plan, assembling global project teams from cross functional departments, and creating result metrics. As demonstrated by the development and release of a robust training resource allocation, scheduling and prep tool that dramatically increases resource usage and reduced class deployment costs.
  - Managed the daily operations for the cisco engineering training rooms, lab network, and server farm infrastructure; supporting an array of internationally based ILT, VC and WBT programs.
  - Hired, trained, and provided ongoing mentoring and career development for the engineering infrastructure team; with accountability for growing their skills to fulfill organizational needs.
  - Drove engineering needs on cross functional projects such as the Learning Management System.
  - Managed special rush projects supporting new cisco product deployment. This involved creating a special schedule and manufacturing run of equipment.
  - Developed base line system for Video on demand for the Engineering Education group.
  - Analyzed the quality of a consumer and professional grade encoders and software codec to find best possible solutions for LAN and WAN training delivery.
  - Worked with many commercial video and open source capture and distribution systems.
  - Prototyped technology for the nerd lunch program.

• System Adminstrator

  Walker Design Associates

  (Architecture & Planning industry)

  November 1996 — August 1998 (1 year 10 months)

  - Selected to design and configure a robust Windows network supporting all design firm needs
  - Actively identified process gaps and took immediate corrective actions to improve processes
  - Designed and developed several complex database packages designed for the commercial architecture and interior design business

Griffon Walker’s Education

• University of Nevada-Reno

  1990 — 1995

Additional Information

Griffon Walker’s Websites:

• My Blog

Griffon Walker’s Interests:

Scuba diving, Martial Arts, Gaming, skiing and other things that are to expensive to do as much as I would like.

Griffon Walker’s Groups:

AKKA, Bujinkan, Padi

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Griffon Walker’s Honors:

Many performance awards from Cisco

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