James McLaurin Member Technical Staff
Jim is a Network Engineer, Telecom Administrator, and Field Technician with 17+ years of experience, who provides customers with Network and Telecom support and troubleshooting expertise.
Keith Gardiner Senior Engineer
Keith is a senior network and security engineer with extensive routing and switching expertise that covers all major protocols.
Marilyn Outerbridge Senior Engineer
Marilyn is an experienced network engineer with significant network optimization and troubleshooting expertise.
Adaptable, functional and reliable – your network must meet today’s requirements and be ready for tomorrow’s demands, without unnecessary complexity or confusion.
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Andre Wright Architect
A Senior Unified Communications engineer with 15 years of extensive hands-on experience in network engineering, unified communications, administration, troubleshooting, and repair.
David Hailey Architect, Regional Manager
David Hailey is a Senior Engineer II and the Regional Manager for Washington, DC and Virginia at NetCraftsmen.
Paul Smith Senior Engineer
Paul has specialized in Cisco networking solutions since 1996 and has been focused on Cisco voice products since 2007.
Integrating voice, data, video across diverse platforms and locations to give your organization breakout communicative and collaborative power.
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Abdul Hassan Senior Engineer
An experienced senior network engineer, Abdul is well versed in network security as well as routing & switching technologies.
Shaffeel Ahmed Architect, Regional Manager
An accomplished Network Architect, Shaffeel has his CCIE in Routing and Switching and has over 18 years experience in designing network infrastructure and security solutions and in project management.
Samuel Bickham Senior Engineer
Samuel Bickham has a diverse experience set, which includes graphic design, web and application development, routing and switching, network security and network design.
Minimizing targeted threats on an increasingly critical front, using strategies that prevent attacks and solutions that protect against compromise.
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Peter Welcher Architect, Operations Technical Advisor
A principal consultant with broad knowledge and experience in high-end routing and network design, as well as data centers.
William Bell Architect, Infrastructure Practice Lead
William’s background spans an array of technical disciplines including application development, network infrastructure, protocol analysis, virtualization, and Unified Communications.
Carole Warner Reece Architect
A senior network consultant with more than fifteen years of industry experience, Carole is one of our most highly experienced network professionals.
Software-driven innovation customized to achieve new levels of operational efficiency and productivity.
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Steve Meyer Senior Engineer
Steve has worked on implementations ranging from research institution networks to ISP backbones.
Peter Welcher Architect, Operations Technical Advisor
A principal consultant with broad knowledge and experience in high-end routing and network design, as well as data centers.
Shaffeel Ahmed Architect, Regional Manager
An accomplished Network Architect, Shaffeel has his CCIE in Routing and Switching and has over 18 years experience in designing network infrastructure and security solutions and in project management.
The stronghold of your organization’s information, built to realize ideal performance without sacrificing affordability.
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From design to development to deployment, every NetCraftsmen® solution is implemented with un-matched technological expertise, and applied with a master tradesman’s experience. It’s the same focus and determination seen in any skill at the highest level. This combination of intelligence and artistry is at the heart of every NetCraftsmen solution.
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Cloud readiness is a meticulous process of incrementally adjusting network, security, and data center processes and designs. This foundation makes it possible to then prepare an organization’s network for use of private, public, and hybrid cloud while conducting initial projects exploring cloud technologies.
The modern threat landscape demands constant vigilance and intelligent response. Every sector of our economy is targeted, and Netcraftsmen understands what’s at stake: high-value research, intellectual property, even people’s lives.
Speed, performance and expense are the ever-present variables in optimal data center implementation. Netcraftsmen has the ability to consolidate and manage change, facilitate communication across boundaries, and help your organization gain immediate and long-term efficiencies that impact the bottom line.
Technology can get tough to manage. Undue complexity means time-consuming oversight, which drags down operational efficiency.
Connect, communicate, and collaborate, regardless of platform. That’s the dynamic driving productivity and accelerating business success both within and beyond your organization’s boundaries.
An ultra-powerful way to align technological investments with business objectives, virtualized systems respond rapidly to evolving business needs. Netcraftsmen architects cloud-ready systems that can be provisioned within minutes rather than weeks, keeping your organization’s technology in step with, and even ahead of, its needs.
Nick has over 20 years of experience in Security Operations and Security Sales. He is an avid student of cybersecurity and regularly engages with the Infosec community at events like BSides, RVASec, Derbycon and more. The son of an FBI forensics director, Nick holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice and is one of Cisco’s Fire Jumper Elite members. When he’s not working, he writes cyberpunk and punches aliens on his Playstation.
Virgilio “Bong” has sixteen years of professional experience in IT industry from academe, technical and customer support, pre-sales, post sales, project management, training and enablement. He has worked in Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC) as a member of the WAN and LAN Switching team. Bong now works for Tech Data as the Field Solutions Architect with a focus on Cisco Security and holds a few Cisco certifications including Fire Jumper Elite.
John is our CTO and the practice lead for a talented team of consultants focused on designing and delivering scalable and secure infrastructure solutions to customers across multiple industry verticals and technologies. Previously he has held several positions including Executive Director/Chief Architect for Global Network Services at JPMorgan Chase. In that capacity, he led a team managing network architecture and services. Prior to his role at JPMorgan Chase, John was a Distinguished Engineer at Cisco working across a number of verticals including Higher Education, Finance, Retail, Government, and Health Care.
He is an expert in working with groups to identify business needs, and align technology strategies to enable business strategies, building in agility and scalability to allow for future changes. John is experienced in the architecture and design of highly available, secure, network infrastructure and data centers, and has worked on projects worldwide. He has worked in both the business and regulatory environments for the design and deployment of complex IT infrastructures.
