Campus, wide-area and data centre design; routing protocol selection and behaviour; switching architecture; and the operational practice of running production networks other people’s work depends on.
The estate at the City of Jacksonville ran to 220-plus locations, two data centres, 6,500 endpoints, 6,000 telephones and 1,100-plus network devices across agencies that each governed their own IT. Before that, five years at a regional integrator covering enterprise, government, healthcare, industrial, utility, cable and hospitality clients — where the work ran from climbing the tower and terminating the feed line through to systems architecture.
CCIE #10042, earned in August 2002 and maintained for twenty years.
Subtopics
- Content DistributionEdge caching to defeat latency on long, constrained links — moving the data closer to whoever is asking for it rather than buying more bandwidth.
- Data Centre ArchitectureData centre network design, consolidation and live migration — including moving one data centre into another with the estate running throughout.
- Legacy TransportATM, Frame Relay, Token Ring and multilink serial — the transport generation the career started on, retained here because the record should show what the work actually was.
- Load Balancing & Application DeliveryF5 LTM and GTM, content switching and SSL acceleration, from early e-commerce builds onward.
- Network SegmentationSeparating traffic that must not mix — done for regulatory reasons years before the industry settled on micro-segmentation and zero trust as words for it.
- Research & Education NetworksFlorida LambdaRail connectivity for a five-agency regional consortium — a governance problem wearing a network's clothes.
- Routing ProtocolsBGP, OSPF, EIGRP and HSRP in production — including metric and delay-based path control across links of deliberately unequal capacity.
- VoIP & Enterprise TelephonyVoice as a designed service — including survivable local call processing so a building keeps dial tone when the path to the central platform fails.
- WAN ArchitectureWide-area transport, carrier strategy and circuit design — from bonded serial links to intercontinental telemetry and diverse carrier entry.
Applied in
- Enterprise Architecture Practice BuildA fourteen-person architecture practice built and led, delivering against one design language rather than individual preference.
- Hospital Network and Clinical WirelessFacility-wide clinical wireless under HIPAA across hospital systems in New York, Florida and North Carolina.
- E-Commerce Site ArchitecturePIX firewalls, content switches and SSL accelerators for early commercial web estates.
- Florida Rock Facilities Technology AssessmentEstate-wide survey establishing what could be connected, what it would cost, and what had to be built first.
Through subtopics
19 further projects reference a subtopic of this entry rather than the entry itself.
- Enterprise Multi-Tenant Firewall ArchitectureSix independently governed agencies on shared infrastructure, none able to reach, disrupt or inherit the regulatory exposure of any other.
- City Council Chamber AV and IT ArchitectureAudio, video, voting and broadcast systems for a chamber where proceedings are a public record — owned for twenty years.
- Jacksonville Intelligent Transportation SystemCommunications and network infrastructure across more than one thousand signalised intersections for a consolidated city-county.
- West Virginia Water Treatment UAV SurveyAerial survey, analysis and communications design for water treatment infrastructure.
- Oracle ERP Migration to AWSA $42M migration of the city's financial systems off mainframe, with isolated environments and controlled promotion.
- Annex to Main Data Centre ConsolidationMoving one data centre into another with the estate live throughout, on three design documents at revisions ten, twelve and ten.
- Telemedicine Programme with Hospital PartnersRemote clinical encounters with live ultrasound and X-ray, for indigent residents and the incarcerated population.
- Consolidated CAD/911 Dispatch SystemTwo agencies with separate commands onto one dispatch platform, cutting response times from five to ten minutes down to one to two.
- Parking Meter InfrastructureCommunications and back-end connectivity for street-level metering, with the traffic enforcement division.
- Ed Austin State Attorney's OfficeNetwork infrastructure, VoIP telephony and building automation for the State Attorney's building.
- Florida LambdaRail Regional ConsortiumFive independently governed public bodies onto the state research and education network, over fibre paths that could be proven separate.
- Duval County Courthouse Technology ProgrammeA $12M IT programme inside a $350M, 800,000 square foot capital facility, cut over live to a fixed date.
- JSOC Content Distribution CapabilityCisco Content Engines placing data locally at each site to cut lag between the United States and locations outside it.
- GE International Power Generation Monitoring NetworkReal-time plant telemetry from generating facilities in China and Australia back to a monitoring centre in Florida.
- Georgia-Pacific IT/OT ConvergenceProcess control and SCADA alongside HVAC, access control and video on the enterprise network — before the industry had words for it.
- SOCOM Transportable Wireless KitA two-site voice, video and data package over a point-to-point link where no fixed infrastructure existed.
- Duval County Substation NetworkEvery electrical substation in the county connected for centralised management and monitoring.
- JEA Utility SCADA and Redundant Control SitesEstate-wide SCADA across every water treatment and wastewater facility, with two control sites so neither was single.
- Water Treatment Facilities WAN/LANWAN and LAN design for water treatment facilities, with PIX firewall and web monitoring.
Career
- Director of Services, Enterprise Networking · NRI North America (formerly Core BTS)
- Principal Architect, Hybrid Infrastructure · NRI North America
- Founder and Principal · MYT, Michael Young Technologies
- Senior Network Engineer / Senior Network Architect · Coleman Technologies (subsequently acquired; now Presidio)
Attested by
- CCNACisco Certified Network Associate — the first step onto the track that led to the CCIE two years later.
- CCNPCisco Certified Network Professional, on the way to the lab.
- CCIE #10042Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, earned 4 August 2002, maintained for twenty years and carried to Lifetime Emeritus in August 2022.
- Cisco Expert-Track Written ExaminationsFour expert-track written examinations passed across eight years. These carried CCIE recertification through successive cycles — the exam record behind twenty years of maintaining #10042.
- Cisco Specialist ExaminationsFive specialist and technical examinations passed in 2003, mapping directly onto the cable plant, quality of service and voice work of that period.
- CCDE WrittenScheduled for October 2026 as the qualifying exam to return CCIE #10042 to active status.