Rodney Cheung

Current

Director - Advanced Solutions at Acrodex
Professional Services Manager at Acrodex

Past

Partner, Consulting Services at excendis Inc.
Director, Infrastructure Planning and Operations at marchFIRST
Director / Associate Partner, Network Technology at US Web / CKS / Mitchell Madison Group

Senior Network Engineer at Internetworking Systems Group (ISG)
Senior Technical Analyst, Network Delivery at Scotiabank
Senior Network Engineer, Network Architecture and Technology at Unitel Communications
Network Engineer (Co-op) at Bell Canada

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Education

Shulist Group - Advanced Leadership Development
Cisco Systems CCIE
Cisco Systems CCDP

Professional Engineers Ontario, P. Eng
University of Waterloo

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

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Rodney Cheung’s Summary

Rodney Cheung is currently the Professional Services Manager at acrodex. He has been leading teams and consulting with over 17 years of experience primarily working with large and complex environments in both the service provider and large enterprise space. He specializes in Technical Architecture and Deployment, Service Development and Strategy using technical leading edge & cost-effective solutions to optimize business objectives through multiservice (data / voice / video) infrastructure, Microsoft SharePoint portals and workflows, Virtualization (VMware & Hyper-V), PerformancePoint Business Intelligence services, and Storage solutions.

Rodney has proven to be a leader at accomplishing client and company strategies with his current team of consultants in delivering customer project objectives. Rodney leads his team to complete these objectives while simultaneously fulfilling the personal needs of the employee as well as the needs of the consulting organization. Prior to acrodex, Rodney has managed a team of 35 consultants in marchFIRST, a professional services organization reaching over $7 million annual revenue for his group and demonstrated an ability to deliver on commitments to both company and clients.

His proven ability to combine his in-depth technical expertise in combination with his personal and communication skills and understanding of business requirements is one of his primary critical success factors with both strategic and tactical initiatives.

Rodney holds a Bachelors of Applied Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo. He is a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) and Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) and licenced Professional Engineer (P.Eng)

Rodney Cheung’s Specialties:

Provide leading-edge consulting services to service providers and enterprise clients in the area of technical strategy, infrastructure architecture, design, and implementation.

Provide management and leadership to the Professional Services organization within acrodex. Within projects, my leadership was also extended to client team management and members. Led team of consultants in defining project approach and methodology through to execution and implementation.

Rodney Cheung’s Experience

Director - Advanced Solutions

Acrodex

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2009 — Present (2 months)
Professional Services Manager

Acrodex

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Rodney is the Professional Services Manager at Acrodex leading a multiservice team in delivering strategic and tactical initiatives to meet business objectives.

Through his multiservice team delivering high value solutions in Business Intellingence, Web Application Development, Virtualization, Data/Voice/Video Networking, Server/Desktop deployment, and Storage Solutions, we deliver technologically advanced and cost effective solutions customized for each client's needs.

Our team colaboratively partners with leading vendors in the field including Microsoft, F5, Cisco, HP, IBM / Lenovo, VMware, Symantec, McAfee
Partner, Consulting Services

excendis Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2001 — November 2008 (7 years 6 months)

Provide management and leadership to Network Delivery consulting group within excendis. Within projects, my leadership was also extended to client team management and members. Led team of consultants in defining project approach and methodology.

Provide leading-edge consulting services in the area of technical strategy, infrastructure architecture, design, and implementation.

Provided development of solutions to meet client business needs through project scope and cost definition in sales support role through to closure of the sales cycle.

Performed customer relationship management, project QA and ensured that projects were performed on time and on budget

Provided escalation point for problem resolution and working with client teams to mitigate and resolve issues.

Provided career growth objectives (technical and consulting soft-skill growth) to excendis employees.
Director, Infrastructure Planning and Operations

marchFIRST

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; MRCH; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 3 months)

Led group of 35+ Network Infrastructure Engineers ($7 million revenue per year) concentrating on providing solutions to the telecommunications and financial sectors. Projects were worldwide including Canada, USA, Brazil, Europe and Asia.

Continued development and execution of internal Cisco CCIE development program 20+ CCIE's developed.

Network strategy, architecture, and deployment subject matter expert.

Provided leadership and consulting services for highly complex projects.

Partial Projects Overview:

Developed product strategy for an International Equipment Vendor’s Voice over IP division.

Created next generation strategy for future direction of provincial Government Network (1200 Nodes). Project included a comparison of insourced and homegrown vs. outsourced solutions.

Optimized Internet Service Backbone Architecture using BGP4 for Canada wide National Carrier. Performance and service deployment issues were resolved along with improved operations.
Director / Associate Partner, Network Technology

US Web / CKS / Mitchell Madison Group

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 1999 — March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

US Web/CKS became marchFIRST through the merger with the Mitchell Madison Group (MMG) in 2000.

My activities at this time included the management of a group of 7-10 consultants as an Associate Partner role before taking on the Director position managing the 35+ network infrastructure consultants as well as performing managing consultant lead roles for highly complex projects.

During this period, I was leading the internal US Web - Cisco CCIE program where we were developing certified CCIE resources. At this period, we had the most Cisco CCIE's in Canada with the exception of Cisco Canada and Bell Canada.
Senior Network Engineer

Internetworking Systems Group (ISG)

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 5 months)

Internetworking Systems Group (ISG) was a privately held consulting firm which was sold to US Web in 1998.

My activities for this position included senior level consulting duties for networking based projects. As I was able to continually demonstrate excellence in project delivery, I was promoted to an Associate Partner position which was my first formal leadership role where I led a group of 7-10 consultants.
Senior Technical Analyst, Network Delivery

Scotiabank

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

July 1995 — August 1996 (1 year 2 months)

Network Delivery is responsible for providing the Data Communications infrastructure for new banking initiatives and applications

Branch Platform

Consulted and participated in the design and development for the implementation of a branch WAN for the entire domestic branch network (1200+ sites)

Responsibilities included the architecture, testing and equipment selection

Led team whose responsibilities include addressing change management issues for the 1200+ hubs and routers of the Branch Platform Network
Senior Network Engineer, Network Architecture and Technology

Unitel Communications

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

June 1992 — July 1995 (3 years 2 months)

Network Architecture and Technology (NAT) is responsible for the technical development of Unitel’s new public service offerings

Product Marketing along with NAT, defines new services and NAT is responsible for the architecture, technology, design, implementation and support for these new an existing services

Acted as technical prime and led team for the deployment of next generation Wide Area Network services including strategy, architecture, design and implementation of service elements.

Coordinated and determined capital requirements for projects within the Data Services and Technology Group.
Network Engineer (Co-op)

Bell Canada

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

1989 — 1992 (3 years)

Performed network engineering activities over four 4-month co-op work terms (16-months total) during my engineering degree at the University of Waterloo.

Highlights included the deployment of Token Ring networks and designing of a network monitoring system utilized for capacity management for network bridges.

Rodney Cheung’s Education

Shulist Group - Advanced Leadership Development

Leadership and Management 2006 — 2008
Cisco Systems CCIE

CCIE #4325 , Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert , 1998 — 1999
Cisco Systems CCDP

CCDP , Cisco Systems Design Professional , 1988 — 1998
Professional Engineers Ontario, P. Eng

P.Eng , Licenced Professional Engineer , 1996 — 1996
University of Waterloo

BASc. , Systems Design Engineering w/ Management Sciences (M.Sci) Option , 1987 — 1992