214-912-6882 Brent Earley earley3@att.net

 

Career Summary: diverse data communications IT  & Telecom experience:

 

·               Cloud / Virtualization Sales Engineering, high level design, architecture etc.

·               Carrier, CLEC, ILEC, MSOs  IP data / voice  VOIP / SIP IMS, IP converged packet high level network architecture / solutions development for broadband wireless & optical networks, product mgmt. product line / portfolio management, sales engineering, IT Enterprise Networks IP Data / VOIP, Data center

 

Education: BA / BGS, Skills: IP end to end high level design, Sales Engineering, Cloud, Data Center , vmware esxi, NSX, Citrix Xen, LTE / EPC, IMS. Softlayer and Terremark Cloud education training.

 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise – Network and Mobility (Cloud First) Dallas Tx. Jan 2016 to Present

Sr. Solutions Architect – Cloud First. HP Enterprise Group sells a converged infrastructure portfolio of standards-based, integrated products & services developed. Pre-sales solutions architecture in the pursuit, closure and successful delivery of HPE and intergration of 3rd party solutions and services. Cloud First focuses on Private / Public Cloud Networks, SDN, NFV, vmware NSX , Openstack (Helion), Distributed Cloud Network (Nuage Networks) virtual and container, Network Security (Fortinet), IOT, Mobility (Aruba) etc.

 

Integration Partners – Service Provider Group Dallas Tx. August 2015 to December 2015

Sr. Solutions Architect - Service Provider Group: Sales engineering technical solution development, sales presentations, RFI / RFP etc. for IPC SP customers. Service offerings: Cloud / Virtualization Services (Nutanix) Managed Networks, Network Design / Engineering, Systems Integration, and Professional Services for Voice / Data, UC, Data Center, Managed Hosting, Security, Wireless and Mobility. HW / SW Product lines: Nutanix (Open Stack) Nimble Storage, Juniper Elite Partner, Microsoft Gold Partner, Dell, Avaya (Voice and Data), Palo Alto, Arista, Aruba, Cienna, Alcatel Lucent, A10, Fortinet, vmware, etc.

 

SoftLayer (IBM) – Cloud Services Dallas Tx. May 2014 to August 2015

Sr. Sales Engineer - Cloud Services Group Provide SoftLayer / IBM Cloud Services clients and sellers with technical solutioning on SoftLayer Private, Public and hybrid Cloud offerings: Cloud Compute Instance, Bare Metal, Managed hosting, High Performance Cloud Storage (NetApp), Object Storage Open stack / Swift, Cloudera / Hadoop, Strategic Outsourcing Services, Security etc. NFV firewall, load balancers. Pre-sales discussions with clients Provide customer presentations / demos, configuring and pricing solutions, Request for Proposal (RFP)/Request For Information (RFI) responses, Initial Onboarding etc. Client applications include: Service Provider Resellers, Large Enterprise Customers Cloud migration, Strategic outsourcing, e-Commerce, Big Data Analytics, High Performance Computing etc.

 

Verizon Terremark (Verizon Enterprise Solutions) Dallas Tx. July 2012 to May 2014

Sr. Sales Engineer ITS Cloud - Sales engineering / solutions development for Verizon Terremark ITS cloud group. Service offerings in colocation, managed hosting (HP), enterprise cloud, private cloud, Cloud Storage, Dedicated SAN (NetApp and EMC), security, professional services, managed network services, content delivery (Akamai) managed network services, and professional services. Account activities include (multi-group / offerings) solutions development, quotes, so / sow, RFP / RFI response, custom engineering process, customer presentations and demos.

 

Ericsson ITTE Dallas Tx. May 2011 to July 2012

Network - Cloud / Virtualization Engineer – ITTE design & deployment Datacenter / private cloud with vmware ESXi cluster, Citrix XenApp, MS 2008 R2, SUSE Linux, Solaris, RHEL, Juniper Firewalls, etc. Sprint Vision project 4G LTE IOT Lab: SAE evolved packet core: CPG, MME, RBS, IPworks, SE 1200 edge routers, OSS RC etc. with HP Blade center, EMC Clarion, Dell, HW. AT&T USP IMS project. Sales lab demos & presentations. Mobile cloud program etc.

 

Government and Educational Broadband Services Inc. Dallas Tx. April 08 to May 2011 – Principal Member / Chief Architect in a CLEC startup effort targeting rural communities, city gov. and school dist for broadband services under ARRA Stimulus funds NTIA / RUS BTOP. GEBS provided grant application services, engineering for community WiMAX / FTTH. Also developed services business strategy / business case to investors.

 

Sasken Networks  / Communications Inc. Dallas Tx. / India - Nov. 2006 to April 2008

Program Mgr. / Network Architect – NGN Broadband Core. CTO as prime for NGN CORE technologies (VoIP / IMS, (Nortel NGN IMS Platform)) WiMAX, etc. Provided Pre and Post Sales customer engagement, executive presentations, SME to multiple sales groups. CTO Prime for IBM partnership blade center NGN OEM telecom virtualization, applications development.

 

Consulting MCI etc. Oct-2005-Nov. 2006- VoIP (SIP) / IMS (IP Multimedia Sub Systems) for Broadband wireline. High Level Network Design, RFI, Vendor Selection & (Hands - On) Lab Interop trials. Cisco, Siemens, Sylantro, Leapstone, Iperia, Brooktrout, Ubiquity, Intec, Acme Packet SBC, IBM Blade Center, Sun Platforms, Juniper Netscreen & Juniper M-160 routers.

 

Throughput Communications – Dallas Tx. Jan 2002 – Oct 2005

Principal Member – Broadband Network Product Architecture / Advisory Board member Principle responsibilities to define product requirements (PRDs, MRDs, SRDs) & product direction strategy CWDM / GMPLS optical transport architecture FTTH, FTTB. Pre-sale Customer engagement exec  pres

 

Malibu Networks – San Jose Ca. April  2001 – January  2002

CTO office – Wireless Network Architecture / Product Line Management. Worked for the CTO Driving / Defining product requirements (PRDs, MRDs, SRDs) for pre-standard  802.16 WiMAX. Pre-Sale customer engagement executive presentations dotted line reported to VP of sales.

 

Nortel Networks –  Dallas Texas   November 1997 – April  2001

Sr. Leader Sales Engineering / Network Architect - Broadband Access Carrier Packet Solutions. Working leader of a tiger team 4-6 SE / Network Architects responsible for pre / post sale eng / customer engagement high level network architecture / solutions development, executive presentations with sales groups etc.  defining / providing end to end IP packet Data & Voice, VOIP, Broadband Access (WiMAX, Optical, DOCSIS Packet Cable) Network Architecture, evolution & transitional strategy for ISP, ILEC, CLEC, MSO access customers such as: Sprint, MCI, AT&T, SBC, Teligent, Nextlink, etc. Access Networks CPS (Carrier Packet Solutions) Included cross portfolio total systems integration end to end for broadband access portfolio (CPE, HE, Base Station, Transport, etc.) products including: 802.16 Wimax , 802.11a, xDSL, (Arris) Packet Cable DOCSIS, Optical Ethernet / Optical FTTH / FTTB Solutions with switching / routing and optical transport, integrated solutions with Nortels  Succession VOIP solutions (SIP, H.248, H.323 etc.), Media Gateways / CPE etc, Shasta SSG service selection gateway subscriber firewall & policy based management systems with Cisco / Juniper interoperable network designs. Network Architecture applications included: E-Commerce, CDP / ASP, Internet Access, Voice / VOIP ,  VPN / Network Outsourcing etc. Product evolution / strategy activities focused product evolution, network NG product requirements PRD, SRD etc. & advanced technology programs.

Sr. Leader Optical Access Networks focused on Nortel’s access integration with Metro Optical networks i.e.: Optical Switching, Optical Packet Transport Ring, Juniper M-160 / 640 OTN offering, Optical Ethernet, Fiber to the Home, Fiber to the Business. Group focus is on new product initiatives / portfolio management, architecture / strategy, in access & optical enabling Nortel’s Metro Access Strategy.  Activities included M&A, OEM relationships Juniper etc., New Product Initiatives, Network Evolution Architecture etc. Also served as Optical Access Networks prime in the Nortel cross line of business CORE MPLS strategy / architecture team initiative.

 

Bell Northern Research  (Bell Labs Canada) – Dallas Texas    

November 1990 –  1997

BNR IT Network Engineering – CORWAN (Corporate Wide Area Network)

 

“BNR / Northern Telecom (CORWAN) is one of the world’s largest production Private Enterprise Networks with converged IP networks for Voice, Data & Video. Operating 600 sites in 80 countries. The BNR / NT network is comprised of multivendor router / switching equipment from Nortel Networks, Cisco Systems (1000 + routers / switches) , Bay Networks, FORE systems, Ascend, HP, 3Com etc”.

 

Manager BNR IT Network engineering with 15 direct reports and 10 contractors 10-M budget. BNR Network Engineering provided 7/24 lab and direct engineering support for SW region of BNR CORWAN, 8 campus buildings with Nortel OC-48 SONET metro ring around the city of Richardson, 300 + Cisco Routers (production / lab) 7000, 4000, & 3000 series, 6000 end nodes switched Ethernet (Cisco & 3com), Dual homed DS3 - Internet / Extranet POP (Cisco), Cisco & Ascend Remote communications gateways (200+ telecommuters), Nortel M-1 PBX, Meridian TE and IP phones, and 3 C.O Research Labs with 60 Nortel DMS 500, 250, 100s and Regional Data Center, Customer product trials / introduction for MCI, Sprint, Bell South, Ameritech, SWB, etc. The BNR Richardson lab is the global development center for wireless with extensive in-campus production deployment of: 802.11b, 802.16, PCS, GSM, WAP, and other wireless products / technologies for 6000 campus users in 8 campus buildings. Regional Data Center included 400 HP / SUN Unix file servers, NT servers, Novell servers,  HA NFS NAS cluster servers Auspex (Network Appliance) etc. Workstation computing environment desktops 6000 nodes (users): HP Unix / SUN workstations FC SAN,  Xterms, MACs, MS Windows PCs, Silicon Graphics etc. Software applications: engineering developer / design tools UNIX based, CAD, test tools, finance / accounting, MS office, Video conferencing, VoIP etc.

 

Prior to becoming manager served as Sr. Network Architect & Planner of the BNR advanced broadband lab. Pioneered U.S / Canadian cross border carrier network trials of Sprint & MCIs ATM / SONET backbone. Network design prime, Lab prime for live trials and test R&D applications of IP converged  network IP Voice, Data, & Video applications over ATM and POS. Hands on lab equipment configuration and interoperability testing of: multivendor routers / switches & transport configuration, performance conformance interoperability testing, test plan development, and execution. Customer and Executive management team demonstrations and presentations. Worked with R&D development teams on IP data network architecture for numerous DMS / Cisco feature (CTI) package subsystems including voice softswitch, distributed computing switch off load call processing, calling card, services delivery. Also served as Sr. Planner & Architect for BNR Campus Metro Network and CORWAN

 

Initially served as Member of Scientific Staff /  Network Architect of the Bell Northern Research Labs internal R&D / Network for the Richardson Lab (Southwest Region) and CORWAN POP (Corporate Wide Area Network) Network Engineering prime for campus metro backbone (routers & switches) and captive offices (switch lab network). Daily OPS & 7/24 support.

 

 

Industry Forum & Standards Consortium Activities:

 

Brent has an active participation role in shaping industry standards since 1992, having served two terms as Chairman of the ATM Forums (Enterprise Network) ENR  World Wide Customer Committee. Comprised of 200 members including Fortune 500 Companies (Enterprise) , Carriers & Service providers, Government Agencies, Department of Defense Agencies etc. Brent has also participated in the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) Diff-serv, MPLS, IP over Optical, IP over Packet Rings, MGCP Megaco, and SIP working groups.

 

 

COOPER'S & LYBRAND

March 1990 to November 1990

Sr.  Consultant

Long term client engagements network architecture / engineering consulting, Fortune 500 clients

Large scale corporate LAN/WAN strategic planning and Project Management experience. Extensive Large scale IP data network design & planning experience in high performance UNIX based Client Server NFS environments. Diverse experience with multivendor (Cisco, Well Fleet, Synoptics, IBM etc.) network equipment routers, bridges, intelligent hubs using: 10BASE-T Ethernet FDDI. Pioneered the introduction of FDDI and switched Ethernet technology in a large Enterprise network environment. Extensive & diverse Data Communications experience. Project management also included resource allocation & planning, Capitol Funding Allocations, and requests for proposal.

 

CLR FAST-TAX COMPUTER LANGUAGE RESEARCH, INC. – Carrollton Texas

August 1988 to March 1990

Network Engineering

 

Network Engineer / Consultant

CLR is a Applications service provider, IBM and Novell value added reseller. Served as network consultant/designer for Big Six Accounting Firm and other Fortune 500 corporate accounting / business systems clients. Provided technical pre / post sales support, project management, network engineering / consulting services on a national basis.  Client services include: LAN / WAN hardware and software needs assessment, Accounting / Business software needs assessment, strategic planning, network design and systems integration, project management and implementation. Extensive Knowledge and experience in Client Server &  IP data networks architecture using Unix & Novell OS , to IBM mainframe Hosts. Diverse experience with Ethernet, Token Ring LAN topologies with multivendor (Synoptics / IBM hubs switches & (Cisco) routers.

 

BLOCKBUSTER ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION – Dallas Texas

Block Buster Video Corporate Operations

February 1988 - August 1988

Management Information Systems

 

Local Area Network Manager

Network Manager for Blockbuster Corporate Network regional HQ. Responsible for network

design evolution, operations, training and support. Multi-platform client / server computing environment consisting of  IBM AS-400 Host, DEC Vax clusters with Novell Servers to PC workstation hosts in a large Ethernet based campus LAN topology. SMC, Cisco terminal servers & routers

 

KPMG PEAT MARWICK

March 1985 - January 1988

Management Consulting Division

 

Consultant

Diverse MCD client projects: MIS consulting, Pension Fund administration, Real Estate Analysis consulting, Also responsible for management, operations of the MCD data network.  Multi-platform client / server computing environment consisting of  IBM Main Frame hosts, IBM system 36 mini, with Novell servers to PC workstations in an Ethernet based campus LAN topology and  Cisco TS WAN async communications.

 

EDUCATION

University of Texas at Dallas

Bachelor of Arts Management & Computer Science completed 1986

 

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