
Owner, TR Network Consulting, LLC
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area

Owner, TR Network Consulting, LLC
Tampa/St. Petersburg, Florida Area
Business owner, technology consultant, and managed service provider.
Goals
Provide high valued information technology solutions, services, and consulting for government and small businesses.
Certifications include: MCSE, CNA, SCE, and Small Business Specialist. HP OpenView Network Administrator, Managed Service Provider, Network Analysis.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2002 — Present (7 years 5 months)
Provide strategic direction for company, including marketing, business proposals, and contract negotiations.
Provide technology consulting services to existing clients.
(Partnership; Accounting industry)
August 2000 — May 2003 (2 years 10 months)
System expert in the installation, configuration, and operation of Sniffer Distributed, Sniffer Portable, Fluke LANMeters, One Touch, and NetTools for US IT nationwide.
Developed enterprise strategy for network analysis and initiated deployment to field offices throughout the US.
Created and led national team of field personnel on the installation, operation, maintenance, and training on the use of all diagnostic tools, resulting in a substantial savings to the firm in training costs.
Managed and negotiated pricing for netnew diagnostic tools and annual maintenance agreements. Prepared and submitted associated business cases for justification.
Drafted firm standard baselining procedures to document current state of utilization, protocol distribution, packet size, and top talkers on LANs.
Created and submitted annual budget proposals to upper management for diagnostic tools.
Researched, developed, tested, and stared deployment of distributed architecture for HP OpenView NNM (ver 6.31).
Created and maintained SOPs for HP OpenView NNM and Diagnostic Tools.
Performed administrator duties on Symon Communications product used for text messaging. Designed to notify individuals of critical outages.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — August 2000 (3 months)
Part of initial team for a startup dot com company.
Responsible for planning network configuration, researching software licensing, negotiating costs with resellers, and making recommendations to supervisor for implementation
Prepared cost analysis for personnel, hardware, and software for budget forecasting for next 18 months.
Researched, documented, and prepared for implementation of Exchange Server, Proxy Server, SMS Server, and SQL Server for new call center LAN/WAN in Tampa, FL.
(Public Company; WST; Pharmaceuticals industry)
June 1999 — April 2000 (11 months)
Responsible for network infrastructure, desktops, copiers, security system, PBX System telephone system, and local servers (NT, SQL & Novell).
Identified and justified need for larger server room. Researched and submitted complete server room migration project plans to local and corporate management.
Identified root cause of frequent power outages and corrected with load balancing of UPS units and establishing UPS circuits on emergency generator.
Deployed 25 PCs at St. Petersburg location and 7 PCs at Clearwater location with minimal supervision and minimal downtime to users
Researched, implemented, and trained personnel with barcode scanning and WinFax fax server solution for Purchasing department
Responsible for pricing and submitting requests to plant manager and corporate MIS manager for all MIS/computer related expenditures.
(Public Company; RHI; Staffing and Recruiting industry)
April 1999 — June 1999 (3 months)
Contracted to provide IT services for West Pharmaceutical Services. Responsible for network and desktop administration. Migrated older desktops to newer platform. Responsible for maintaining DOS desktops interfacing with the production floor presses.
(Public Safety industry)
October 1992 — April 1999 (6 years 7 months)
Performed life saving techniques to ensure best physical outcome of patients.
Implemented and coordinated Incident Command Operations, when needed, of multi-patient scenes.
Managed multi-patient scenes by directing resources and making life saving decisions in a high stress environment.
(Public Safety industry)
June 1991 — July 1992 (1 year 2 months)
Responsible for scheduling, managing, and supervising up to 6 BLS units per shift. Reviewed medical reports to ensure documentation was complete.
Responsible for intercepting with Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance units throughout the county and the local city of Bridgeport, CT. Provide emergency Advanced Life Support (ALS) procedures to save lives.
(Public Safety industry)
December 1990 — June 1991 (7 months)
Responsible for providing emergent and non emergent care to the city of Bridgeport and surrounding areas.
(Military industry)
January 1988 — November 1990 (2 years 11 months)
Provided proactive and corrective maintenance on fire control systems on board nuclear powered submarine.
Collateral duties included systems management administration of supply computers on board submarine.
Provided administrative duties for department Senior Chief and directly to the Executive Officer of the boat.
(Military industry)
January 1985 — January 1988 (3 years 1 month)
Collateral duties included Repair Parts Petty Officer, which was responsible for the inventory, ordering, and
Paramedic 1989 — 1991
1980 — 1983
Family, church, scouting, music, outdoor activities, technology, digital photography, entrepreneur
InfraGard,SMB Nation, SMBTN, Boy Scouts of America, Promise Keepers
Most Improved Brass Player, 1983
Submarine Dolphins, 1987