Sean Figgins

PO Box 5186

Greenwood Village, CO  80155

(918)629-3219

sfiggins@mail.celicas.org

 

Technical Skills:

 

 

Experience:

 

Manager (5/2004 – Present)

Multi-Use Lab

Adelphia Communications Corporation

Centennial, CO 80111

• Responsible for the design, construction and operation of 50,000 sq. ft. facility that included warehouse, office and "clean room" space for production and multi-use test lab.

• Designed, built and operated/managed multi-use lab, testing integrated transport, national and regional IP networks, CMTS, DOCSIS plant, Nortel voice and Motorola and SA Head Ends.

• Responsible for Juniper and Cisco network design and testing, including new code regression, to certify for deployment on production network.

• Responsible for “trusted” LAN network to facilitate restricted access to customer-facing networks, including switches, routers, firewalls, DHCP, DNS, TFTP, and file servers.

• Act as the company’s foremost expert in network routing protocols, including OSPF, ISIS and BGP for use in customer-facing networks.

• Utilize extensive technical background with servers and data network equipment to provide value where needed.

 

Manager (6/2003 - 5/2004)

Data Integration Lab

Adelphia Communications Corporation

Coudersport, PA 16915

• Responsible for the proof-of-concept, evaluation and certification testing for all company-wide data initiatives.

• Duties included initial department proposal, lab design and setup and operation.

• Lab included elements such as Juniper and Cisco Routers, Cisco and Extreme switches, various CMTS vendors, Voice over IP equipment, servers and OSS/Data applications.

 

Manager (9/2002 – 6/2003)

Backbone Operation

Adelphia Communications Corporation

Coudersport, PA  16915

• Managed team of engineers responsible for 3rd tier technical support of a nation-wide OC-48 IP network based on Juniper router technology, including M160, M40 and M20 hardware. 

• Responsible for policy creation covering turn-up and maintenance of customers and peers as well as operational support of the network.

• Facilitated interdepartmental design team. 

• Responsible for support of the implementation team for the deployment of additional cities to the network.

• Responsible for the collection of traffic statistics for use in traffic engineering and capacity utilization.

 

Network Engineer (11/2001 – 8/2002)

Backbone Design

Adelphia Business Solutions

Coudersport, PA  16915

• Senior member of network Design team responsible for the design, implementation and turnup of a nation-wide OC-48 IP network based on Juniper router technology, including M160, M40 and M20 hardware. 

• Responsible for the technical design for the support of new products such as co-location Ethernet and Ethernet transport. 

• Facilitated department relocation to new facility, including the installation on all network, server and telephone services, including DHCP, file service, email and web presence. 

• Provided knowledge and implementation resource to network operations for EIGRP to OSPF area migration and facilitation of the move from hub and spoke network topology to local connection to the new Juniper OC-48 backbone.

 

Senior Architect (11/2000 – 07/2001)

Network Architecture Development

Williams Communications

Tulsa, OK  74172

• Senior member of network architecture team responsible for the analysis of new technology and its role in a carrier class network. 

• Projects required in-depth review of network technologies and network hardware, specification of technical network element requirements, evaluation of multiple vendor solutions, selection and design of the best solution. 

• Other projects included working with company cross-functional teams including members from marketing, sales, operation, engineering and implementation. 

• Personal responsibilities included authoring of technical requirement, technical overview and hardware evaluation documents, evaluation testing and leadership and technical instruction of Network Architecture team members. 

• Projects included MPLS, VPN, BRAS, Internet Data Center, Voice over IP and Next Generation Router network.

 

Senior Technical Supervisor (02/2000 – 11/2000)

IP Network Services

Williams Communications

Tulsa, OK  74172

• Responsible for coordinating a team of technical analysts responsible for the design, installation, configuration, management and customer turnup of the version 3 nationwide Internet network over a mixture of ATM and DWDM Sonet utilizing Cisco GSR high-speed backbone routers and Cisco GSR and 7500 access routers.  Link types included OC3 and OC12 across Lucent ATM switches, and OC48 across Sycamore and Nortel DWDM transport. 

• Team was also responsible for the installation, configuration and management of in-band management networks for ATM, private line over ATM, transport, voice and IP network elements. 

• Personal responsibilities included working with other departments to coordinate design, development and operation of Internet services offered by Williams Communications, as well as resource management related to deployment, and operation of the Internet and in-band management network.

 

Senior Technical Analyst (10/1997 – 02/2000)

Network Services

Williams Communications

Tulsa, OK  74172

• Responsible for the design and implementation of a nation-wide dual hub and spoke IP over frame relay to carry out of band management and environmental alarms between unmanned point-of-presence locations and a central network operation center.  Network provided for physical alarm reporting, connectivity to network element Ethernet management and serial console ports.  Network utilized dynamic on-demand dial backup solution in the event of full frame-relay failure.

• Responsible for the design, implementation and support of EMS/NMS systems and network, including a dual-redundant design that utilized multiple Cisco Catalyst switches and 7507 routers running HSRP and OSPF.  This network was the core management network, included termination of all remote element management networks, including the inband ATM, Nortel DMS 250 voice, Sentient and Optical transport management networks.  The network also had extensions to the two network operations center for survivability  in the event of failure of the internal IT network. 

• Responsible for the design, installation, configuration and management of the version 1 nation-wide IP over ATM Internet network utilizing Cisco 7500 routers and Ascend GX550 ATM switches supporting dedicated high-speed Transit as well as Remote Access and Broadband Remote Access. 

• Responsible for design, installation, configuration, field verification testing and management of the version 2 nation-wide IP over ATM Internet network utilizing Cisco GSR high-speed backbone routers and 7500 series access routers and Ascend GX550 ATM switches. 

• Responsible for Design, implementation and management of Internet services network including DNS, SMTP, NNTP, HTTP and FTP servers utilizing Sun Ultra hardware and Cisco Catalyst switches and 7500 series routers.  Network design included security implementation to protect the network elements from possible attack threats from the Internet.

 

Network and Systems Coordinator

Acting Manager of Integration and Support (03/1997 – 10/1997)

Petris Technology

Houston, TX  77092

• Responsible for the design and implementation of corporate wide file server, E-mail office internet access, corporate firewall and electronic Commerce, as well as maintenance of the existing SQL based production system. 

• Designed and delivered solutions for corporate LAN and WAN networks, utilizing UNIX and Windows NT servers and firewall security. 

• Responsible for the management of the Integration and Support Department (the department responsible for internal and client network support), including employee hours, employee job assignment, and department funds allocation.

 

UNIX System Administrator/Escalation Manager (08/1996 – 03/1997)

Charter Communications

Houston, TX 77058

• Responsible for implementation and daily operation of UNIX host machines, installation and maintenance of dedicated corporate network accounts.

• Designed and delivered solutions for secure customer WAN connections.

• Level two network failure diagnosis and repair.

• Provided continual Escalation support on an after-hours basis. 

• Responsible for the assignment and scheduling of tasks for the Escalation Department, including employee hours and on site customer installation.

 

UNIX System Administrator/Webmaster (08/1991 – 08/1996)

Iowa Student Computer Association

University of Iowa

Iowa City, IA 52240

• Coordinated and supervised student project efforts.

• Responsible for machine and network installation, maintenance, and account administration.

• Responsible for coordination of web server administration and development.

 

Network Administrator (06/1992 – 06/1993)

Projects Unlimited, Inc.

Tipton, Iowa 52240

• Responsible for installation and maintenance of the LAN and telephone network.

 

Non-work activities:

 

• Maintained organization Internet presence 1996 – present (www.celicas.org)

• Organized and provided web hosting for multiple web sites.

• Hosted, setup and maintained a variety of web-based applications including message forums, mailing lists, SQL databases and file management.

 

Education:

 

University of Iowa

College of Engineering (Electrical Engineering Discipline)

Iowa City, IA 52240

 

References Furnished Upon Request