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Jeffrey J. Sicuranza is the founder of Applied Methodologies. His professional background is outlined below.

Professional technology consultant with over twenty five years of industry experience.

·         Provide Networking Technology and Management Consulting services plus offer strategic and tactical direction to IT executives and directors for a diverse set of Fortune 50-1000 clients with regard to achieving economic and productivity improvement to the enterprise through the use of technology and sound methodologies.

·         Applied experience in the technical disciplines of enterprise data network infrastructure architecture, upgrade, implementation and problem solving with a special emphasis on network design and troubleshooting, protocol analysis, application performance impact and modeling plus data center energy consumption analysis and remediation.

·         Knowledge of current business trends with relation to gaining a competitive advantage utilizing technology to provide business solutions to clients with an emphasis on quality, efficiency, flexibility, scalability and savings. Experienced working as a team member or leader with all levels of management, technical staff and clients.

·        Functional experience includes in-depth enterprise level architecture, planning, engineering, implementation, upgrading, training and troubleshooting of enterprise LAN/MAN/WAN and wireless based networks.

·         Provide network architecture and design recommendations plus strategic or tactical planning of complex LAN, MAN and WAN infrastructures to a diverse clientele. Experienced working with applications, servers and workstation systems with emphasis on performance, scalability and flexibility over networks.

·         Experienced in analyzing the impact on enterprise networks from integrating custom internally built distributed Client/Server, ERP/CRM, Internet, Intranet, Web 2.0, SaaS, Security, Voice, E-commerce, Collaborative, Video/general media technologies, and Social Networking type applications. Provide strategic and tactical direction to CEOs, CIOs, IT executives and directors with regards to applying technology to business requirements. Work closely with application developers, business analysts, operations and end user customers to ensure sound design and implementation of new or expanding systems.

·         Extensive project management experience that entails an in-depth understanding of qualifying business and project requirements to ensure technical solutions meet business goals within the range of technical feasibility and cost. Over two hundred projects as a hands-on functional project manager and technical engineer completed. Provide clients with a unique skill base to utilize by possessing the ability to communicate from a management to an engineering level plus manage projects, document, train staff and implement technical solutions concurrently.

·         Experience in managing project related issues for instance budgets, staffing, Statements of Work, legal documents, and mentoring of team members. Proficient in building and managing teams of engineers to complete various integration projects. Applies best practices such as ITIL and PMBOK.

·         Possesses outstanding written and verbal communications skills, plus authored numerous documents pertaining to design requirements, analysis results, problem post mortems, and operational or business process based policies and procedures.

·         Provide technology consulting services to over four hundred different small, medium sized and Fortune 50-1000 commercial and non-profit organizations during my career as an independent consultant or through Systems Integration firms, plus experienced in managing a Systems Integration business and private consulting practice.

Technology Acumen Summary

Technical experience and knowledge acquired over career encompasses many products, technologies and protocols across the OSI layers, some but not all are listed here: 

Frame-Relay, DPT/SRP, SONET, C/DWDM, DS/OC technologies, RS232, HDLC, SDLC, PPP, LAPD, LAPF and Q921/931, ISDN BRI/PRI, SS7 signaling protocols, AMI, B8ZS, CAS, Manchester, 8B/10B, 4D-PAM5 , DSSS, OFDM, QPSK ANSI/TIA/EIA T568A/B

Ethernet (all variants) plus many other IEEE 802 MACs, VLANs, Spanning Tree protocols(RST/MST and legacy), VTP, DTP, UDLD, ISL, 802.1q, MLS, VPNs, 802.1X, 802.1xxx, Wireless WiFi 802.11a/b/g/n, Wireline/Wireless Broadband, 2.4 and 5ghz RF, antenna design and spectrum analysis.

Entire TCP/IP suite, IPv6, Multicast, PIM(all modes), IPSec, MPLS, Cisco’s CEF, Routing protocols(EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, ODR, BGP, MBGP) NSF, BPF, Cisco related utility protocols(CDP, IP SLA, et al.). NHRP, FHRPs(GLBP, HSRP, VRRP). Radius/Tacacs+, Data Encryption, SNMP, NAT, Cisco PIX and ASA.

VoIP, VoWiFi, QoS, H323, SIP, various SIP Soft phones, SIP servers, codec(ITU G.711-29), FXO/FXS, Ground, Loop and E&M signaling.

SMTP, HTTP, NTP, DNS, FTP, RTP, RTSP, LDAP, RDP, NFS, SMB, Telnet/SSH, TFTP, DHCP, DNP v.3, SQLNet TNS, TDS, RPC and many other application layer protocols.

Operating systems – Linux: Red Hat, Knoppix, Ubuntu, BackTrack. Windows: 7, Vista, XP, Server 2003 and 2008. Cisco: IOS from version 9.x to 15.x Other: DOS

Various hardware and software platforms from major manufactures such as IBM, HP, CISCO, ORACLE, and Microsoft.

Network management solutions and tools such as CiscoWorks, Cisco ACS, HP OpenView, Solarwinds, PacketTrap, Netflow and assorted shareware and open source tools utilized when applicable and depending on client’s necessity.

Network and application performance modeling, protocol and traffic analysis using protocol analyzers from Agilent, Network General to Wireshark. Tools utilized: LAN/WAN and wireless protocol analyzers, spectrum analyzer, multimeters, thermal and cable meters, oscilloscope, telco. related tools.

Understanding of all network physical transport constructs in the electrical, optical and radio domains.

Understands the ramifications and impact of social networking platforms (Facebook, Twitter et al.) to the enterprise.

Comprehension of the role and uses of data center energy efficiency standards and metrics such as PUE and DCiE.

Possess a basic awareness of Virtualization and Cloud Computing with respect to its architectural components and their relative impact to enterprise network infrastructure, business applications and security. Vast, detailed and applied experience with many legacy and current networking, server, workstation, applications, and protocols. Possess applied understanding of basic electrical and thermal engineering concepts plus basic electrical circuit analysis and design.

Comprehensive network architecture, system, business process or Finite State Machine(FSM) documentation experience. I am experienced in depicting highly technical details in diverse abstracts to audiences ranging from CEOs to engineers utilizing tools such as Visio, Netviz and many IT productivity applications, utilities or suites such as MS Project and Office. Authored numerous white papers, technology analysis reports and troubleshooting post mortems for a vast clientele.

 

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