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Senior Vice President, Corporate Network Services

TCW offers institutional and individual investors a wide array of U.S. Equity, U.S. Fixed Income, Alternative and International strategies.

Highly talented and accomplished Information Technology Network Management professional with more than 25 years of experience. Highly analytical and solution driven offering extensive years of network engineering and project lead experience across network architectures, technologies, and network management systems. Proven track record demonstrating effectiveness in diagnosing and troubleshooting high-level technical problems and critical network issues involving Juniper, Nortel, Avaya and Cisco technologies. Hands-on background in leading all stages of system development efforts, from requirements definition, testing to implementation and support. Possess exceptional talent in providing creative and effective network system services. Good communication skills from interfacing with management, other infrastructure teams and end users.-Manage all network design, implementation, and support for all TCW locations.-Managed and performed maintenance of routers, switches and firewalls in adherence to rules though a strong change management process. -Analyze network flow statistics on a daily basis and submit essential reports to management to understand existing network traffic flows.-Project management, monitoring and reporting on the status of all network projects. -Provide 24 x 7 on-call or service support.-Coordinate with User Support and System Administrators to provide Level III support for technical solutions.-Responsible for providing network engineering input on major projects, upgrades, and installations. -Implemented a multisite VPN environment that connected over 15 offices globally. -Worked with newly acquired companies to integrate LANs across IPSec site-to-site VPN for file sharing and VOIP communications.-Management of Network Engineers in the Data communication and Telephony team.-Implemented new Juniper backbone at our new Data Center.