RON ROYSTON
ron@rack.pub 
+1(504) 722-8412
https://rack.pub

SUMMARY 
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE# 6824), over 16 years of hands on experience all things Cisco. Currently enthusiastic about Web technologies, Cloud and Distributed computing.

EXPERIENCE
2015-Present	 	Freelance Consulting Engineer (https://rack.pub)

- Contractor (via NTG Technologies Lutz, FL) for CSRA, a US DOD information technology provider.
- Contractor (via Transformyx Baton Rouge, LA) for the State of Louisiana, Data Processing Center
- Contractor (via 21st Century Technologies) for the State of Louisiana, Secretary of State Office
- Contractor (via Quest Technologies Sacramento, CA) 
    for Amedisys, 
    - Data Center Migration for Major healthcare provider with more than 2,233 hospitals and 61,900 physicians across the country.
    for Blue Diamond Growers,
    - Troubleshoot and fix major persistent network outages in under 3 hours at the world's largest tree nut processing and marketing company.
    for various public, NGO, and private organizations
    - Develop several Google Firebase projects and Web properties.

2013-2015		Onepath Systems (Cisco Gold Reseller) Senior Solutions Architect

- Identify and translate the clients business objectives into a technical solution including bill of materials and corresponding scope of work.
- Create and deliver effective technical presentations for customers and prospects. 
- Assist with the development of formal sales plans and proposals for assigned opportunities. 

2004-2012		Datavox (Cisco Gold Reseller)	Consulting Engineer	

- Wired and wireless LAN, MAN, WAN QoS enabled & high availability network design and implementation.
- Remote Access VPN design and implementation using client-based and client-less VPN with Cisco IOS, Altiga, PIX/ASA, MS Windows, UNIX/LINUX
- Implemented fully redundant 24x7 remote call center agent systems for Griffin Marine Travel, Myron Steves, Inc, Benchmark Performance Group, and others.
- Mentor delivery engineering team

2003-2004		Avnet (Cisco Gold Reseller) Senior Network Engineer

- Sole implementation engineer for 1,200 phone IP Telephony Integration for Washington Regional Medical System that included 25 VG-248's (1,200 analog FXS ports).  Designed and installed CallManagers, Enterprise dial plan and call-flow, Unity Unified Messaging, Personal Assistant, ICD, IVR and complete Gigabit LAN/MAN solution.
- Pre and Post-sales work for all Cisco advanced technology offerings, specializing in IP telephony/VoIP.

2002-2003		Internetwork Experts (Cisco Gold Reseller) Senior Network Engineer				

- Implement several IP Telephony and VoIP network systems for Enterprise customers including Stewart& Stevenson, The Wood Group, Marathon Oil, and many others.

2001-2002		Kent Datacom (Cisco Gold Reseller) Enterprise Engineer

- Implement several Cisco networking equipment jobs including CallManager/Unity UM  v3.1
- Implement over 250 Cisco Catalyst 6509 switches for Enron Corporate HQ

1999-2001		Global Data Systems (Cisco Gold Reseller) Systems Engineer	

- Field Engineer installing under direction of senior engineers
- Helpdesk Support - Night Shift hours


EDUCATION, TRAINING, & SKILLS

Tulane University
B.A. in Philosophy					
1993-1997
			
Cisco Certifications

1/5/2012
Borderless Networks Route and Switch Field Engineer Representative
1/5/2012
Cisco Borderless Networks R&S Support Specialist
2/2/2011
CCIE Emeritus
3/24/2008
Cisco Lifecycle Services Advanced Routing and Switching
3/28/2008
Cisco Routing and Switching Solutions Specialist
3/28/2008
Wide Area Application Services for System Engineers
12/17/2002
Cisco Unity Certification
4/1/2002
Cisco IP Communications Support Specialist
12/28/2001
Telephony Fundamentals Certification
12/5/2001
Cisco IP Telephony Certification
10/2/2000
CCNP Security(Retired)
9/11/2000
CCNP VOICE Access
9/11/2000
Cisco Voice Over Frame Relay
7/13/2000
CCDP
7/13/2000
CCDA
6/24/2000
CCNP Routing and Switching
2/15/2000
CCNA Routing and Switching

CLOUD NETWORKING
OpenFlow (SDN)
OpenShift (PAAS)
Cisco Nexus 9000 (ACI)
Data Center Bridging
Compute Virtualization
Network Virtualization (NFV) 

UNIFIED COMMUNICATIONS& COLLABORATION
Call Center Scripting
Network Assessments / QoS
Unified Messaging
Soft Clients / Chat
Border Controllers / GWs
PSTN (SIP / PRI / Analog)
Dial Plans
VoIP Trunking
Videoconferencing 

LOCAL AND WIDE AREA NETWORKING
Ethernet (IEEE 802.3)
Wireless/WiFi (IEEE 802.11)
VLAN (IEEE 802.1Q)
Network Security / VPNs / Firewalls, NGFW's / IPS
Link Aggregation (LAG/MLAG)
Spanning Treee Protocol (STP)
VLAN Trunk (or Trunking) Protocol (VTP)
Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS) 
Wide Area Networking 
MPLS / Frame / MetroE
3/4G Cellular / Satellite
Clear/Channelized/Subrate Serial Circuits (T1/T3)
Muxing / Drop& Insert
IP Routing
 
WEB DEVELOPMENT 
HTML5
CSS3
JavaScript (ECMA-262/5/6)
PHP / LAMP
UI Design (Material Design, Bootstrap, Skeleton)
MySQL / JSON / RDBMS / Firebase
XHR / AJAX / Promises
Geo / Leaflet.js