Greg Hankins

Current

Technical Marketing Engineer at Force10 Networks

Past

Director, Corporate Systems Engineering at Riverstone Networks
Senior Network Engineer at MindSpring Enterprises
System Support Specialist II at College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

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Education

Georgia Institute of Technology
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Industry

Computer Networking

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Greg Hankins’s Summary

Excellent understanding of Layer 2, TCP/IP (OSPF, IS-IS, BGP), and MPLS (RSVP, LDP, VPLS) technologies.

Extensive experience with networking hardware and transmission equipment: Cisco, Extreme, Force10, Foundry, Juniper.

Extensive experience with Unix platforms: BSD, Linux, Solaris. Solid knowledge of C and shell programming.

Greg Hankins’s Specialties:

I have been designing and deploying Service Provider and Enterprise networks for the past 15 years. An avid Linux user since early 1994, I am best known for my contributions to the Linux Documentation Project in many different roles.

Greg Hankins’s Experience

Technical Marketing Engineer

Force10 Networks

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Networking industry)

September 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)

My title has "Marketing" in it, but don't let that fool you...
Director, Corporate Systems Engineering

Riverstone Networks

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; RSTN; Computer Networking industry)

October 1999 — September 2004 (5 years)

Tested, designed and deployed service provider networks world-wide. Drove revenue through pre-sales and post-sales technical expertise in key customer accounts. Assisted local account teams to close business as a subject matter expert. Defined features and functionality and worked with Product Marketing, Engineering and QA to drive feature completion. Provided mentorship to personnel within Riverstone's technical organizations world-wide, wrote and delivered training material on new features and products, wrote white papers and advanced technical documentation for internal and customer use. Managed strategic projects, and its associated personnel and resources. Developed internal Riverstone certification program. Attended industry networking interoperability events and conferences.
Senior Network Engineer

MindSpring Enterprises

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MSPG; Computer Networking industry)

March 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 7 months)

Designed, implemented and maintained national multi-vendor IP network. Provided second level support and training to Network Operations Center. Managed vendor relations, coordinated bug reports and feature requests. Developed network-wide configuration standards, approved software versions and directed network-wide software upgrades on routing and switching equipment. Performed interoperability testing, evaluated and integrated new switching and routing platforms. Managed participation in vendor hardware and software beta test programs. Maintained network-wide transit and private peering BGP configurations and routing policies. Designed specifications for network management tools and acted as liaison with in-house developers. Managed and directed intra- and inter-departmental network upgrade and deployment projects.
System Support Specialist II

College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology

(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Networking industry)

June 1996 — February 1998 (1 year 9 months)

Provided computer and network support to faculty and research scientists. Responsible for day-to-day network operations in the College's inter-building and multi-protocol network. Upgraded and expanded UTP and fiber network infrastructure. Maintained and installed Ethernet, FDDI, ATM equipment and telecommuting facilities. Installed Unix OS patches and upgrades, performed hardware upgrades and maintenance. Assisted with computer and network security, maintained network services (DNS, FTP, WWW). Supervised undergraduate assistants and managed special projects.

Greg Hankins’s Education

Georgia Institute of Technology

MS, Computer Science, August 1996 — August 1999
Georgia Institute of Technology

BS, Computer Science, July 1990 — June 1996