Mike MacDonald

Current

• Chief Solutions Officer / Director of Product Marketing and Technology at 3D Networks
• Chief Solutions Officer at Events throughout Asia

Past

• Lead Technologist and Visionary, CTO at Nortel
• Chief IP Advisor and Global BRAS and Advanced Services Advisor at Nortel
• Senior Manager and IP Network Advisor, VPN and IP Services at Nortel

• Chief Data Center Architect and Content Delivery Consultant at Nortel
• Technical Manager, LAN/WAN Planning and Design, Senior Advisor at Nortel
• Senior Technical Prime at Nortel
• Advanced Network Engineer and Lab Manager at Nortel
• Audio Spatialization Engineer at Digital Image FX
• Quality Control and Test Engineer at Celestica

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Education

• Dalhousie University
• Acadia University
• Middleton Regional High School

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Recommended

24 people have recommended Mike

Connections

191 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Mike MacDonald’s Summary

"A credible and charismatic leader...with a finger on the telecommunication industry's pulse!”

"A true technology black belt able to distill complex solutions into real business value."

> Credible
Chief Solutions Officer for one of the largest Solutions Integrators in Asia; currently located in the most challenging and dynamic region.

> Knowledgeable
Top advisor for current and emerging technologies evangelizing web services, SOA, content management systems, social networking, unified communications, data and voice infrastructure, security, and business optimization.

> Visible
Recognized innovative and engaging presenter at events and technical forums and frequent author for publications throughout the region.

> Innovative
Chief architect/consultant for major accounts driving solutions into technical and executive organizations with just the right flair.

> Experienced
A trusted technology leader with proven hands-on and industry experience gained throughout a highly productive 14 year career with 8 years managing and leading engineering teams.

Mike MacDonald’s Specialties:

-> Credible and current technology marketing experience
-> Innovative leader leveraging keen market insight
-> Engaging and charismatic presenter
-> Demonstrated ability to create/lead challenging teams
-> Highly recommended professional consultant
-> Intimate knowledge of vertical solutions
-> Expert at distilling technology into business values for CxOs
-> Champion for emerging technologies including SOA, UC, and WS
-> Over 4 years of regional business experience in Asia

Mike MacDonald’s Experience

• Chief Solutions Officer / Director of Product Marketing and Technology

  3D Networks

  (Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

  > Strategic Technology and Product Marketing Leader reporting directly to CEO
  > Development of business in new segments leveraging new and existing product solution sets
  > Intimate understanding of targeted verticals (i.e. manufacturing, hospitality, healthcare, finance, etc) including workflow management, mobility, unified communications, IPTV, security and information systems
  > Responsible for evaluating and sourcing vendor technologies and maintaining partner ecosystem
  > Development of overall solution strategy and vision leveraging industry insight
  > Technical prime for key customers deploying innovative products or solutions (UC, SOA, WAN Optimization, Security, IPTV)
  > Own all internal technical marketing including solution training and sales force transformation
  > Responsible for new product introductions
  > Top technical advisor to CEO and parent company
  > Lead all aspects of marketing and technology across verticals
  > Develop new and exciting solutions involving unified applications

• Chief Solutions Officer

  Events throughout Asia

  (Telecommunications industry)

  January 2000 — Present (9 years 11 months)

  > Thailand Food & Hotel 08 – Presenter (Next Gen Guest Experience)
  > HIMSS 08 – Presenter (New Technologies in Healthcare)
  > Hotel Solutions Forum 07 - Key Note Presenter (Next Gen Guest Experience)
  > Managed Services Forum 07 - Key Note Presenter (Evolving the Enterprise with Web Services)
  > IBM Lotus 8 Launch 07 - Presenter (UC & Collaboration)
  > QuestNet 07 - Presenter (Agile Data Center & Unified Communications)
  > Unified Communications 07 - Presenter (Enabling Enterprise Collaboration)
  > Nortel Technical Sales Conference 07 - Presenter (WAN Optimization & Web Services)
  > Competitive Manufacturing 07 - Presenter (UC, WiFi & RFID)
  > Brocade Conference 2006 - Presenter (WAN Optimization)
  > NetDay 06 - Presenter (Application Performance & Security)
  > Office Anywhere 06 - Panel Member (Wireless Technology)
  > Bangkok ICT Expo 06 - Presenter (Evolution of Security)
  > Security Roadshow 06 - Presenter (Security with Live Hacking)
  - more on request -

• Lead Technologist and Visionary, CTO

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  March 2006 — April 2008 (2 years 2 months)

  > Director level Strategic Technology Leader
  > Chief evangelist for emerging technologies
  > Launched new product families in Asia creating collateral and training SEs, partners and customers including:
  ...> WAN Optimization and Acceleration (WAFS, Compression, Caching)
  ...> Security and VPN (Firewall (SAF), Deep-Packet Inspection (DPI), Intrusion Detection/Prevention System (IDS/IPS), Network Access Control (NAC), SSL Acceleration and Secure Remote Access (IPSec))
  ...> Secure Routing (VPN WAN routers optimized for security and load-balancing)
  > Chief architect and consultant on major accounts including SMC, Petronas, BBL, BRI, Johnson Controls, HP, Coke, Flextronics
  > Expert on web services (SOA), traffic management, data center, security, switching and routing, unified communications, network resiliency, best practices
  > Contributor and author of whitepapers and solution guides
  > Top technical advisor to North American team

• Chief IP Advisor and Global BRAS and Advanced Services Advisor

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  > In region IP expert and primary pre and post sales support for all wireline products including Nortel’s BRAS (SER), L3 VPN PE (MPE), L2 VPN PE (OESS) and WiMax
  > Chief engineer for new MPLS/PE product
  > Solution architect for various customers throughout Asia looking to migrate to MPLS including design of L3 VPNs, L2 PWEs and VPLS
  > Technical prime for next-gen broadband, BRAS and PE engagements including Telstra RFx, Optus, CTC, CNC in addition to BellSouth, Telus, Wind, Telecom Italia and Arcor
  > Visionary for Nortel broadband and BRAS with positioning of critical components as they pertain to TR-058, TR-059 and WT-099
  > Regional trainer for sales and technical audiences on MPLS, IP, services, broadband , routing and VPN technologies
  > Flagged with highest possible talent indicator in Nortel and recognized as being within the top 2%
  > Top advisor to wireline CTO

• Senior Manager and IP Network Advisor, VPN and IP Services

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  September 2001 — September 2004 (3 years 1 month)

  > Created and managed BRAS and Advanced Services network engineering team including over 10 subject matter experts supporting both pre and post sales organizations
  > Considered Nortel’s chief subject matter expert for carrier security, BRAS evolution and advanced services
  > Developed Nortel strategy for next generation BB architectures and services infrastructures
  > Interacted with executives of leading customers and provided technical and strategic directions
  > Frequently delivered technical sessions at various conferences including SuperComm, NPW and Nortel Inform
  > Responsible for global SE and CSE engineering training
  > Drove re-organization of group to accommodate business needs for faster product characterization
  > Responsible for certification of customer network design
  > Provided technical and business assessment of startup and competitive technology to Chief Technology Leader
  > Frequent travel for major customer meetings to discuss network and product engineering

• Chief Data Center Architect and Content Delivery Consultant

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  January 2001 — September 2001 (9 months)

  > Designed and customized Nortel’s Data Center offering including integration and design of caching, streaming, firewall, VPN, SSL acceleration, etc.
  > Solutions prime for major customer accounts
  > Technical training of sales, marketing and solutions engineers
  > Content delivery network architectures focusing on Alteon and Shasta product families
  > Design and integration of optical components in data center including optical Ethernet and DWDM
  > Technical advisor for data center designs
  > IP expert and L2/L3 expert for organization

• Technical Manager, LAN/WAN Planning and Design, Senior Advisor

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  February 2000 — January 2001 (1 year )

  > Technical and functional manager of data center LAN/WAN senior engineering team
  > IP expert and L2/L3 expert for organization
  > Led LAN/WAN design for Nortel HSP, AIP and ASP solutions
  > Developed Nortel’s Internet Data Center Architecture and coordinated proof-of-concept and validation testing
  > Designed firewall load-balancing and redundancy solutions
  > Chaired design forums
  > Co-primed development of Optical Data Center vision and design
  > Designed collocation service offerings for HSP models
  > Designed shared and dedicated service offerings for ASPs
  > Led several RFP technical response teams for various large customers
  > Network design and analysis including complete POP and Core infrastructure
  > Developed business models for leading customers
  > Led customization of data center designs as per customer requests
  > Technical engagement prime for key customers
  > Provided complete data center infrastructure technical support to Nortel

• Senior Technical Prime

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  August 1999 — February 2000 (7 months)

  > Technical lead for one of Nortel’s most elaborate solutions labs including validation of Nortel’s Internet Data Center solution
  > Led LAN/WAN deployment of Einsteinet IDC in Hamburg, Germany
  > Key liason between solution and R&D teams
  > Overall technical support for advanced network designs

• Advanced Network Engineer and Lab Manager

  Nortel

  (Public Company; NT; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 3 months)

  > Managed prototyping lab for advanced multimedia and networking applications with an annual budget exceeding $1M USD per year
  > Extensive design and hands-on experience with a variety of products and vendors including routers, switches, testsets from leading companies including Cisci, Extreme, 3Com, Fore, etc
  > Researched and published extensive 50+ page report on network reliability methods investigating Cisco, 3Com, Cabletron, Bay Networks, Plaintree, Extreme, Asante, HP, Intel
  > Developed knowledge of IP, ATM, Frame Relay, Gigabit Ethernet, IP QoS, RIP OSPF, BGP, IP Multicast, ISDN, SONET, etc.

• Audio Spatialization Engineer

  Digital Image FX

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 1995 — April 1998 (2 years 6 months)

  > Researched and designed applications for 3D environments specifically around audio spatialization
  > Evaluated existing and emerging sound card technologies
  > Developed Windows applications to fully implement all current features of DirectSound 5.0
  > Delivered quarterly project research reports documenting all findings and code
  > Presented findings and performed demonstration before IEEE board for excellence in research

• Quality Control and Test Engineer

  Celestica

  (Public Company; CLS; Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing industry)

  May 1994 — August 1995 (1 year 4 months)

  > GUI interface programming for LAN applications
  > Component quality engineering customer interface
  > Primary engineering support and developer for new test application (hardware and software)
  > Developed a data collection system for component performance tracking
  > Debugged test hardware and products
  > Used high speed analog and digital scopes and logic analyzers
  > Developed several applications using C for OS/2 for automation

Mike MacDonald’s Education

• Dalhousie University

  Bachelor of Engineering , Electrical Engineering and Computers , 1994 — 1998

• Acadia University

  Certificate of Applied Science , School of Applied Science , 1992 — 1994

• Middleton Regional High School

Additional Information

Mike MacDonald’s Interests:

> Web technologies and economics including demographic analysis of technology use and adoption (i.e. gen X/Y) > Musician with formal training in piano, percussion and brass I also play guitar and bass > Evangelist for emerging technologies

Mike MacDonald’s Groups:

> Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA
> Nortel Networks Certified Design Specialist NNCDS
> Nortel Networks Certified Support Specialist NNCSS
> Nortel Networks Certified Account Specialist NNCAS
> Global Knowledge Data Communications Specialist
> ARG TCP/IP Specialist Certification

•    Nortel Connection
•    E-Recruitment Group (Post Jobs) (Post Resumes) Concept by Group of Sr. Recruiters

Mike MacDonald’s Contact Settings

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