City of Jacksonville — IT-IS Networking

Dates provisional. Recalled rather than sourced — to be confirmed against the record.

Consolidated city-county government — the largest US city by area at 840 square miles — with 8,000 to 9,000 employees, 220-plus locations, 300-plus applications, two data centres, 6,500 endpoints, 6,000 telephones, 1,100-plus network devices and a 10,500-radio public safety fleet, on a $48M to $62M annual technology budget. Organisations of up to 89 staff.

What made it demanding was the structure rather than the size. The Sheriff’s Office, the Supervisor of Elections, the Clerk of Courts, Fire and Rescue, Public Works and the library system each ran their own IT organisation, held their own budget, and answered to an independently elected officer. Nothing published could be mandated.

The Enterprise Security Committee, chaired here, functioned as the enterprise architecture review board, and every standard it issued was adopted voluntarily by people who were free to decline.

Dates provisional. The master CV records April 2004; a contemporaneous resume records April 2005. Needs confirming.

Projects in this period

Public Records Request Methodology2010–presentThe workflow by which a citizen's request becomes produced records under Florida statute.
ITD Continuity of Operations Plan2009–presentA two-hundred-page all-hazards continuity plan whose first instruction is to skip the plan and go straight to the appendices.
CBM Cost Model and Customer Billing System2012–2024A full technology budget allocated across every agency by measured consumption rather than negotiation, owned for eleven budget cycles.
Enterprise Multi-Tenant Firewall Architecture2012–2024Six independently governed agencies on shared infrastructure, none able to reach, disrupt or inherit the regulatory exposure of any other.
Jacksonville Intelligent Transportation System2006–2024Communications and network infrastructure across more than one thousand signalised intersections for a consolidated city-county.
Municipal Fibre Plant2005–2024Citywide outside plant built as interlocking rings, designed down to conduit, manhole, slack and splice.
City Council Chamber AV and IT Architecture2003–2024Audio, video, voting and broadcast systems for a chamber where proceedings are a public record — owned for twenty years.
First Coast Radio System2000–2024Regional shared public safety radio across three system generations — original, retrofit, and full P25 replacement.
Solid Waste Systems Modernisation2019–2022Legacy route, fleet and scalehouse systems replaced and integrated to cloud, sequenced around an operation with no slow season.
Medical Examiner's Office Enterprise Integration2018–2022Nine subsystems federated through one bus across three sites, with the integration layer itself made redundant.
Oracle ERP Migration to AWS2018–2022A $42M migration of the city's financial systems off mainframe, with isolated environments and controlled promotion.
Downtown Campus Distributed Antenna System2008–2022A neutral-host DAS carrying four commercial carriers, public safety radio and Wi-Fi — owned across two full platform generations.
Annex to Main Data Centre Consolidation2018–2020Moving one data centre into another with the estate live throughout, on three design documents at revisions ten, twelve and ten.
Enterprise Fortinet IPS Deployment2016–2020VDOM-separated inline intrusion prevention at the enterprise core, with separate policy per internet path.
Cecil Disaster Recovery Data Centre2015–2020Facility and network design for the recovery site — power, cooling and carrier entry as well as what ran inside.
Telemedicine Programme with Hospital Partners2010–2020Remote clinical encounters with live ultrasound and X-ray, for indigent residents and the incarcerated population.
Citywide Automatic Vehicle Location2008–2020Real-time fleet tracking across patrol, apparatus, public works and enforcement — one platform, five governance structures.
Consolidated CAD/911 Dispatch System2014–2019Two agencies with separate commands onto one dispatch platform, cutting response times from five to ten minutes down to one to two.
Emergency Vehicle Signal Preemption2010–2018ITS integrated with vehicle location so responding apparatus could clear the route ahead of them.
Parking Meter Infrastructure2012–2016Communications and back-end connectivity for street-level metering, with the traffic enforcement division.
Digital Divide Broadband Pilots2006–2016Home internet for the lowest-income neighbourhoods of Jacksonville, sited by demographic need rather than engineering convenience.
OneSpark Festival Wireless2013–2015An outdoor, high-density wireless canopy across the urban core, for an event where the network gets no second chance.
Ed Austin State Attorney's Office2010–2014Network infrastructure, VoIP telephony and building automation for the State Attorney's building.
Florida LambdaRail Regional Consortium2010–2013Five independently governed public bodies onto the state research and education network, over fibre paths that could be proven separate.
Duval County Courthouse Technology Programme2007–2012A $12M IT programme inside a $350M, 800,000 square foot capital facility, cut over live to a fixed date.
Super Bowl XXXIX Stadium Wireless2004–2005Stadium-wide wireless network delivery for the 2005 Super Bowl in Jacksonville.