Professional experience includes play-by-play Men’s NCAA Division 1 Basketball, South East Conference. Album oriented, Adult Contemporary, Urban Contemporary FM radio formats. TV & radio voice over’s including; personal injury attorney, Ford Motor Company new product delivery, Sam Ash Music Stores, Kia Motors of Augusta, GA. Reading for the blind, independent documentary film narration and voice over work.
Temple University, B.A. Radio/TV/Film
Studio;
HP g7 Laptop
Roland D2 Groove Box
Behringer Eurorack mixer
Yamaha PSR E233 Keyboard
Line6 POD Guitar Direct Box
Married 34 years to my wife and girlfriend Gretchen Marie, two adult kids & three grandies. Avid Be-Bop era jazz vinyl collector, self-taught musician [guitar and bass], Harley Davidson motorcycle rider. Love all types of music; jazz, soul, blues, rock, metal.
Former U.S. Army Officer, Local School Board Trustee, Church audio/visual team member, Young Men’s Ministry Advisor and role model.
LAN/WAN Data and Voice Experience
Currently enrolled in Cisco CCNA certification track for network administration and network security.
Designed frame relay networks, internet access and VPN networks for both domestic and international private line configuration for the oil and gas vertical marketplace. I also have experience in LAN/WAN pre-sales engineering of Layer 3 and below networking equipment. Including IBM/ROLM, Nortel, NEC, industry standard C.O. (central office) and IXC (interexchange carrier) premise hardware for internet, frame relay TDM/SIP (time division multiplexed and session initiated protocol) voice networks, data center applications, dedicated digital networks, Cisco operations of data networks, implementation of a small switched network, implementation of an IP addressing scheme and IP services to meet network requirements for a small branch office, implementing a small routed network, explain and select the appropriate administrative tasks required for a WLAN, identify security threats to a network and describe general methods to mitigate those threats and implement and verify WAN links.
I have designed, implemented and installed the only NEC America certified PBX training lab outside of the National NEC America Training Center in Dallas, TX. I also wrote the courseware and taught the two week field technician training class that certified technicians with a NEC America, Inc. CPE (customer premise equipment) Training I.D. Number.
My extensive technical background and corporate training experience in LAN/WAN, telephony, installation, service and maintenance, combined with sales experience in the data and voice communications industry have all given me a unique perspective and professional advantage in the marketplace. My experience and skills set me apart from others giving me a multidimensional perspective in achieving results.
As a Wireless Data Consultant, a quota-bearing position in the Houston, Texas market. My position required that I drive Government & Public Sector Enterprise and General Business pre-sales activity, sales and point-of-sales activities for the Sprint/Nextel portfolio of wireless data solutions. Reduce customer churn as a data applications consultant. Understand customer needs and develop appropriate standard or custom data solutions. Make technical presentations to executive level customer contacts to penetrate the account with data applications.
PROFILE: Bring extensive executive leadership in all key metrics and analytics to lead a successful business;
1. Net cash flow
2. Turnover growth
3 Sales margins
4. SG&A Sales, General and Administrative
5. Operating margins with an expertise in Sales and Operations Management.
This requires a very broad skill set along with strong communication, collaboration and presentation skills that will promote corporate growth, increase profits, retained earnings and stockholder equity.