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