Independent

Lake Forest, CA

• Deliver technical training and consulting on a contract basis.
• Consistently receive the "best evaluations" from students, averaging 8.87 (on a 9 point scale) on overall instructor performance with Metrics That Matter.
• Have developed the reputation for tackling the toughest (most demanding) customers, and excelling at all of my assignments.
• Selected by Microsoft to deliver their "How Secure is your Network Infrastructure?" series to Microsoft Partners.
• Selected by Microsoft for BizTalk 2006 and Commerce Server 2007 Airlift events.
• Most courses are Microsoft MOC-based, but have included custom curriculum development, as well as vendor-specific training (Cisco, New Horizons, PPI, IMG, etc).
• Specializing in Microsoft .Net Framework (C#, VB.Net, XML, ASP.Net, ADO.Net, BizTalk and SharePoint).
• Highly regarded SQL consultant and trainer with over 18 years experience with enterprise database systems.
• Several large scale migrations and implementations of Exchange, MOM, SMS, and SharePoint.

Vertex Systems

Los Angeles, CA

• Hired to service existing network infrastructure contracts.
• Responsible for day-to-day operations of servers and workstations running Windows 2000, Windows NT, Linux, and Solaris. This included 6 Oracle Servers, 2 SQL Servers, 2 Exchange Servers, 4 Domain Controllers, 6 Application Servers, and 3 File/Print Servers.
• Directly responsible for Auditing and Implementing Security Policy and maintaining Security Standards.
• Completed implementation of Outlook Web Access on Exchange 5.5 Servers for Screen Actors Guild. Including complete documentation of project, and creation of User’s Manuals for both Executives, and Network Techs.
• Planned and Implemented Active Directory and migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 for Castle & Cooke. Project involved 43 locations, 265 Servers and 4,500 users. Brought entire project in 5 months ahead of schedule, and saved customer over $125,000.
• Implemented Active Directory and managed migration from Windows NT to Windows 2000 and Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000 for Fullerton College. Project involved 65 servers, and 16,500 users.
• Planned and documented AD migration for AECOM. Project involved 34 countries, 540 servers, and over 17,000 users. Reduced entire consulting engagement from 2 months down to less than one week.
• Additional projects worked on included Warner Music Group, Funrise Products, Delta Dental, Watson Pharmaceuticals, Sasco, and Oaktree Capital Management.

Computer Concepts

San Clemente, CA

• Developed curriculum and implemented training programs for Comptia A+, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP, and Network Security programs – Over 7 months of intensive hands-on training labs for the students.
• Developed outside consulting business generating $30,000/month in revenue, responsible for attending directly to client accounts.
• Responsible for day-to-day operations and directly managing 6 other instructors

The NETWORK Network

Laguna Hills, CA

• Co-founded The NETWORK Network, Inc. to consult and lecture internationally, in January 1990.
• 12 month project implementing Windows 2000 and Active Directory in Sky City Casino – upgrading 142 Servers from NT and Novell to Windows 2000, along with over 2,500 workstations.  Managed a team of 36 people, with direct reports to the CFO and Board of Directors.  Brought project in 6 months ahead of schedule, and 36% under budget.
• Involved in consulting with (and setting up) some of the largest regional Internet Access Providers, including OzEmail in Australia, VisionNet and IDOLA in Indonesia, Pacific Internet and Cyberway in Singapore, and ICONZ and Planet Free NZ in New Zealand.  Designed and implemented regional TCP/IP networks, including DHCP and DNS Servers Routers, Gateways, Mail Servers, News Servers, Web Servers, and dial-up POPs.
• Worked extensively in Asia, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, developing, authoring, and presenting seminars on Desktop Support, Application Development, Operating Systems Support (primarily versions of Microsoft Windows), Application Support (mostly BackOffice and Microsoft Office), Computer Networking (including the Internet), and E-Commerce support and design.  Typical seminars ran two or three 8-hour days.  Lectured 4-5 days a week, and averaged 4 International tours each year between 1995 and 1998, spending 40 weeks out of the country each year.
• Authored and presented seminars on GUI design, programming, networking, operating systems support, operating system optimization, and Internet topics that were presented to US-based Telcos, including Bell South, US West, Ameritech, Nynex, Pacific Bell, and SNET, as well as public forums internationally.
• Co-authored, produced and directed a long-running (4 years) monthly television series for AT&T Network Systems on telecommunications topics and competitive evaluations, consisting of two 6-hour days of broadcast each month.  Day one was primarily focused on technical aspects of new technologies, while the second day focused on marketing aspects for Account Executives.  Responsibilities included topic selection, research, authoring presentation materials and scripts, producing student/attendee manuals, producing audio-visuals, graphics and animations for each broadcast, producing and directing each broadcast, and presenting segments on each broadcast.  Was also responsible for coordinating the VSAT network with 2,600 downlink locations, and 37 satellite transponders.

Client: Viking Components Inc. - California

• Development of integrated client/server application to integrate accounting, manufacturing, and R&D for one of the largest manufacturers of computer memory in the USA. Also created a customized Windows 95 program (the first of its kind) called Viking DiskMan. This program analyzes a user’s computer and the applications they commonly use and then recommends an appropriate amount of memory. It also selects the Viking memory components that best suit a particular computer brand and model from a database of over 23,000 parts, and allows the user to order them online via the Internet.

Client: ALC Training Pty Ltd - Australia, New Zealand

• Over 160 public seminars including, “Jolt Your Web Site with Java”, “Creating Your Own Internet and Intranet Web Site”, Supporting and Troubleshooting Windows”, and “How to Design and Build Effective GUI Applications”, and “The Internet: Making it work for You” throughout Australia and New Zealand

Client: Professional Development Associates Pty Ltd - Europe, Asia

• Public and private Seminars in England, Ireland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand.

Client: P.T. Gokharu Microsystems - Indonesia

• Automated upgrade of 117 servers and 4,000 workstations to Windows 2000, including Active Directory with 5 domains.  Migrated SQL 6 to SQL 2000 and Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2000.  Designed Internet strategy to benefit distributed sales team, and designed Internet/Intranet Computing Architecture to facilitate global communications amongst offices in the USA, Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, and Indonesia.

Network Decisions

Laguna Hills, CA

• Co-founded Network Decisions, Inc. to teach telephone companies how to sell and market network services to large companies. Clients included, AT&T, Northern Telecom, BellSouth, Pacific Bell, NYNEX, US West, Ameritech, etc. Developed training courses, researched new technologies, led instructor-training modules, and train-the-trainer sessions, designed and created computer-based presentation and training systems (this was pre-PowerPoint), as well as CBT systems.
• Pioneered the use of computer-based presentations in live, instructor-led training sessions, and developed computer animations to illustrate key points (way ahead of the rest of the industry).

US Olympic Organizing Committee

Los Angeles, CA

• Contracted by US Olympic Organizing Committee to design, program, and then run the timing, scoring, and judging systems for the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles (swimming, diving and synchronized swimming).
• Worked directly with IBM and Swiss Timing to create a new (first of its kind) serial interface between a desktop computer and a timing system.
• Interfaced IBM PC directly to the electronic scoreboard – first time this was ever done in the Olympics – to display instantaneous results.
• Provided results directly to media outlets, as well as coaches, athletes, and spectators.
• Reported directly to Peter Ueberroth (head of the Olympic Organizing Committee).
• Was the youngest head of a department, by over 25 years, at the 1984 Olympic Games.
• Directly managed a team of 65 paid employees, and 140 volunteers