Randy James

Current

Division Director Network & Security Architecture at Northrop Grumman

Past

Director Network & Security Operations at Verisign
Sr. Service & Support Exec at Cisco Systems
Director, IP Design & Planning America's at MCI

Director - Service Delivery at UUNET
Director Design Implementation and Planning at UUNET Technologies

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Education

George Washington University
Broad Run High School

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Information Technology and Services

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Randy James’s Summary

Experience:
I have been Successful Network & Security Operations, Design, Sales Engineering, and Business functions in the Telecommunications, Internet, and Data Industry
Current Employer: Northrop Grumman
Past Employers: Verisign, Cisco Systems, UUNET/MCI/WCOM, Verizon.
Managed extensive Capital budgets, as well as being responsible for P&L.
Management and Leadership of Planning, and Implementation of the US Internet for a major ISP.

Education:
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Masters of Science in Telecommunications and Computers, 3.5 GPA

Randy James’s Specialties:

Cost Controls
Business Case Analysis & Justification
Vendor Negotiations
Team Leadership
Operations
Sales
Product Development
Planning

Randy James’s Experience

Division Director Network & Security Architecture

Northrop Grumman

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NOC; Defense & Space industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

Leading Network Architecture within Northrop Grumman Commercial, State and Local Government Division. Responsible for establishing Networking Discrete Services and Capabilities. The Network Practice defines, creates, and maintains standards, guidelines, tools and templates for designing and operating Networks. Serving as the subject matter experts for both new proposal development and existing programs.
Director Network & Security Operations

Verisign

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; VRSN; Telecommunications industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years)

Leading the Global Deployment, Operation, and Maintenance of VRSN's Network & Security Infrastructure. Ensuring ongoing improvement of the availability, reliability of all network components. Ensuring Security Mitigation elements are in place and operational to support the Global Corporate and Production Environments. Driving OLA, and SLA assurances.
Sr. Service & Support Exec

Cisco Systems

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

2004 — 2006 (2 years)
Director, IP Design & Planning America's

MCI

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

1998 — 2005 (7 years)

Director Internet Planning & Design (North America)
A Principal decision-maker in the Planning, and Implementation of the Internet network within Worldcom for the previous six years , responsible for North American Internet Service
With a strength in Creation and Implementation of Deployment Plans, for the support of revenue growth while controlling Capital expenditures
Successful at accomplishing a network evolution from anOC12 ATM based Internet network to an OC192 MPLS network
Led teams to develop Product Cost Models, and thereby enabling Worldcom to cut price floors by 50%
Responsible for Managing a Capacity Planning & Network Planning team within UUNET that consists of 200 Engineers, and Planners. These teams are responsible for monitoring the utilization of links, modeling of network, performance reporting and triggering growth plans that sustain revenue growth
Managed a Salary & Administrative budget in excess of $10M.
Managed a Capital Budget in excess of $300M.
Director - Service Delivery

UUNET

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

1998 — 2004 (6 years)
Director Design Implementation and Planning

UUNET Technologies

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

1998 — 2004 (6 years)