Aaron Magruder

Current

• Unified Communications Consultant at NonStop Networks, LLC

Past

• Network Architect at American Multi-Cinema, Inc
• Lead Network Administrator at NovaStar Financial
• Specialist, Network Engineering and Administration at Allied Insurance

• Network Engineer 4 at Wells Fargo Financial
• Network Administrator at Prairie iNet
• consultant at Software Solutions

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Education

• Indian Hills Community College

Recommended

9 people have recommended Aaron

Connections

463 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

• Small Business Technology Blog
• SmallBusiness Technology Forum

Aaron Magruder’s Summary

Aaron Magruder is the owner of NonStop Networks, LLC, a Cisco Select Partner, and primary network, security and unified communications architect. Since 1999, he has pursued continue growth in the areas of information technology including network, security, wireless and voice by obtaining the Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) in May 2000, the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) in June 2001 and the most respected network certification in the world, Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert #21942 (CCIE) in September 2008.

Experienced in multi-tiered voice and data environments responsible for research, testing, design, documentation, configuring, installing, securing and troubleshooting.

My goal is to help small business gain the competitive edge using technology.

Software: NetFlow, Microsoft Windows 95-Vista, Cisco ACS: Radius and TACACS+, CiscoWorks 2000 and LMS, HP OpenView, OpNet ITGuru and ACE, Visio, Microsoft Office Suite, Remedy, Magic, Peregrine Service Center, Citrix, Edge and Sterling EDI software, Unix, FreeBSD, Novell Netware 3.11 – 5, Lotus Notes, Network Sniffers, Solar Winds Orion and Cirrus, MRTG, VMWare, DNS, DHCP, WINS, Voyence

Hardware: Cisco Router (675-7500), Catalyst Switches (1900-6500), Cisco ASA (5505-5520), Cisco PIX (501-525), Cisco CSS 11503, Cisco XML Gateway, Cisco CE 565, Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator, Blue Coat SG Proxy, Symantec Enterprise Raptor Firewall, F5 Big-IP 520-3400 and 3DNS, F5 Firepass, Expand Network Accelerators (1810-6810), Peribit Accelerators, Cisco Aironet 350 and 1200 AP's, Cisco IGX, Terminal servers,, Motorola 6560 and 6520 routers

Network: MPLS, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP-4, IS-IS, Cisco ACL, IDS, Policy Based Routing, Route Maps, Spanning Tree (802.1d, 802.1s and 802.1w), Trunking (802.1q and ISL), VLANs, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, CEF, GRE Tunneling, Redundant Link Management, WCCP, PPP, SNMP, SMTP, FTP, Wireless 802.11a,b,g,n, SNA, DLSW, Frame-Relay, ATM, DSL, 802.1x, WPA/WPA2

Aaron Magruder’s Specialties:

Kansas City Cisco Network Consulting
Kansas City Cisco Wireless Consulting
Kansas City Cisco Security Consulting
Kansas City Cisco Unified Communications for Small and Medium Businesses
(Voice, Data, Security, Wireless),

Routing, Switching, WAN, LAN, Internet Connectivity, Load Balancing, Remote Access (VPN), Network Security, Wireless, AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting), Extranet, Disaster Recovery Planning, Network MGMT, PCI/SOX Compliance

Aaron Magruder’s Experience

• Unified Communications Consultant

  NonStop Networks, LLC

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

  NonStop Networks, LLC is focused on helping Small and Medium Business owners who are frustrated that their communications systems are letting them down, concerned with security due to government regulations such as PCI/HIPAA/SOX and need to communicate in real-time with employees and their customers.
  
  We focus on small physician offices in the healthcare industry, small to midsize legal offices, automotive shops using Mitchell 1 software and independent insurance agents using Vertafore AMS360 software.
  
  Retail, Manufacturing and General Offices are additional verticals that Cisco and IPCelerate provide a tremendous amount of value to.

• Network Architect

  American Multi-Cinema, Inc

  (Education Management industry)

  August 2007 — July 2009 (2 years )

  Complete Network Redesign of Data Center and Home Office in less than 3 months
  Implement Secure Internet and Extranet Environments
  Carrier Contract Negotiations
  Plan and Execute Data Center Migration
  Provided Cost Savings of $10 Mil in Telecommunication Contract Negotiation and Major Project Network Redesign
  Design and Implemented the First 8 SOX/PCI compliant theatre
  Passed both SOX/PCI audits from a network and security perspective

• Lead Network Administrator

  NovaStar Financial

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NFI; Financial Services industry)

  April 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 5 months)

  • Lead network engineering team in improvement of a 180 nodes infrastructure, including Voice over IP optimization, VPN authentication and policy management, redundant wan carrier design, static to dynamic routing migration, equipment standardization and Process Development.
  • Managed vendor relationships, Product Evaluation, Contract Negotiations and Renewals
  • Redesigned firewall layout and implemented stricter ingress and egress filtering
  • Disaster Recovery Planning for Voice and Data Networks
  • Implement network monitoring, Netflow, configuration management and network documentation
  • Provide cost savings proposals to the CIO including $30k/yr in maintenance, $100k/year on Wide Area Network carrier and a $900k three year carrier contract renewal
  • Provide strategic direction for Voice Services

• Specialist, Network Engineering and Administration

  Allied Insurance

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

  May 2004 — April 2005 (1 year )

  • Design, document, review, install and support an entire network for 5000+ users consisting of intranet, extranet, inbound and outbound internet, DMZ and E-commerce environments.
  • Implemented BGP for fault-tolerant internet connections
  • Resolve complex issue involving E-commerce, DNS, global / local load balancing, inbound and outbound Internet.

• Network Engineer 4

  Wells Fargo Financial

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Financial Services industry)

  April 2002 — May 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  o Design networks to fulfill different business units requirements, capacity planning, extranet connectivity planning, high level support, work with team to provide a reliable core infrastructure for all business units
  o Product Evaluation
  o Capacity Planning, Cisco ACS Administration and management of Sonet Rings

• Network Administrator

  Prairie iNet

  (Public Company; Internet industry)

  March 2001 — October 2001 (8 months)

  • Design, configuration, security and support of routers, switches, servers and other infrastructure equipment spanning 5 states
  • Established technical documentation including organizing IP address layout / assignment, documentation and diagrams of network
  • Suggest IOS changes; PPP T-1 connectivity support; Troubleshoot Unix based servers
  • Activated new internet service and supported existing service; Telco Liaison
  • Research and Development on new products

• consultant

  Software Solutions

  (Computer Networking industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year )

Aaron Magruder’s Education

• Indian Hills Community College

  AA , Computer Systems and Networking , 1997 — 1999

Additional Information

Aaron Magruder’s Websites:

• Small Business Technology Blog
• SmallBusiness Technology Forum

Aaron Magruder’s Interests:

My family, Kansas City, Small Businesses, technology, Cisco, fishing, hunting, networking, voice

Aaron Magruder’s Groups:

Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce

•    CISCO
•    The Original Cisco CCIE Group
•    Kansas City IT Professionals
•    AMC Theatres Alumni
•    Kansas City Online Community
•    Tweeple
•    Kansas City Live Networking
•    Internetwork Experts (CCIE, JNCIE, etc)
•    IT for SMB
•    Kansas City Speed Networkers
•    Cisco Certified Engineers & Architects Network
•    Kansas City Entrepreneur Network
•    Fans of Digsby
•    Kansas City Cisco User Group
•    DubMeNow
•    Kansas City Networking, Security, and VoIP Professionals
•    SMB IT Forum
•    Kansas City Metro Networking Job Club
•    Sharepoint - Kansas City Users Group
•    Kansas City Networking Society
•    Kansas City Young Professional Networking Society
•    Lee's Summit Chamber of Commerce
•    Lee's Summit Business & Community
•    VAR Marketing
•    Kansas City IT Network Engineers
•    EXTENSION INC. ("EI")
•    Allscripts MyWay
•    Lee's Summit Chamber Technology Support Forum
•    Kansas City Small Business Technology Support
•    Healthcare Technology
•    Real Estate Technology
•    Legal Technology
•    Retail Technology
•    Education Technology
•    Finance and Insurance Technology
•    Lee's Summit MO Locals Linking
•    Cisco Contractors & Cisco Project Seekers
•    The Feet-Up Network
•    Workforce Service Group

Aaron Magruder’s Honors:

Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) #21942

Cisco Sales Expert

Cisco IP Communications Express Sales Specialist

DPO EXTENSION® Sales Expert

Aaron Magruder’s Contact Settings

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