Evens Balthazar, CCNP

DevOps Engineer

Houston, Texas, United States23 yrs 7 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led multi-million dollar healthcare network projects.
  • Expert in VoIP and Unified Communications solutions.
  • Proven track record in managing complex network infrastructures.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Senior Network Architect specializing in VoIP and Unified Communications within the Healthcare and Telecommunications sectors.

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Skills

Core Skills

Network ArchitectureVoipNetwork DesignSales EngineeringSolution ArchitectureNetwork OperationsManaged Services

Other Skills

Cisco UCVoice Network EngineeringProject ManagementDisaster RecoveryQoS MonitoringProject CoordinationSolarWindsCisco NectarMicrosoft LyncSIP TrunkingGlobal Carrier ManagementUnified CommunicationsCollaborationTechnical QualificationNetwork Monitoring

About

Experienced Multifaceted Senior Network Architect and Pre-Sales engineer with great leadership skills paired with strategic/technical planning and a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Strong sales professional skilled and technically proficient in SD-WAN technologies, AWS cloud services, Domain Name System (DNS), Routing and switching, Data Center, Cloud infrastructure technologies, Virtualization, VoIP and collaboration architectures, Enterprise security, Wireless technologies, Project Coordination, Ethernet, and Linux ...etc...having held senior engineering roles in spearheading managed services and projects for a plethora of high profile clients in an ISP environment.

Experience

23 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
9 yrs 2 mos
Current Experience

Memorial hermann health system

Senior Network Engineer-Voice

Apr 2017Present · 9 yrs 2 mos · Greater Houston

  • Principal Cisco UC voice network Engineer/ Architect involved with planning, designing, provisioning,
  • maintaining and supporting a multi-Clustered UC infrastructure, centralized with Cisco SME, in a very
  • sensitive, complex and heavily regulated healthcare environment (HIPPA). Streamlining and guiding
  • processes to effectively and smoothly migrate 90% of the infrastructure from Legacy PBXes, Nortel and
  • SIEMENS phone system, to a more uniform and stable cisco environment within reasonable timeline,
  • tackling daily challenges, and working in synergy with project team spinning up new locations while
  • ensuring standardization of turn-up processes without creating delays or impediments to the critical
  • needs and demands of the round the clock hospital environment. Also spearheading a multi-million
  • dollar project to enable quality control over the real-time monitoring of the health of the infrastructure
  • and ensuring QoS is aggressively maintained across the board, using tools such as SolarWinds VNQM
  • and Cisco Nectar versus Netscout NGenius PULSE software suitability with our complex and highly
  • sensitive Voice network environment to well informed technical advices to upper executive management.
  • Lastly, serving as the highest technical point of contact on voice infrastructure related issues and
  • challenges, providing support and providing on demand Disaster recovery plans on critically affected
  • facilities, and robust monitoring of SIP trunk utilization and forecasting.
Cisco UCVoice Network EngineeringProject ManagementDisaster RecoveryQoS MonitoringNetwork Architecture+1

Hewlett packard enterprise

Global Lync/Skype UC Senior Voice Design Engineer / Design Architect

Oct 2016Apr 2017 · 6 mos · Greater Houston

  • My role as a Global UC Senor voice Engineer involved being the key technical contact on multiple simultaneously running transformation projects to a Microsoft Lync/Skype for business solution for HPE in the Americas- and EMEA-regions. Working on transformations from legacy voice back office/legacy systems to the Microsoft Lync platforms. Designing site upgrades and providing strategic direction on voice trunking, dial-plans, and solution engineering around the globe at HP facilities during the corporate separation with HP Inc. and now the new DXC – Technology Company created by merging part of HPE and CSC Company together, while meeting aggressive deadlines projected by upper management. Overseeing VOIP deployments, design, global carrier SIP trunking and integration onto next generation platforms in Datacenters and migrating tens of thousands of users unto Microsoft Lync platform using SIP trunks, while providing high-level software support to IT. Serving also as a senior strategic technical escalation point for Voice operations team implementing Skype for Business (SFB) design deployments across the globe, depending on concurrent projects assigned, on escalated voice issues. Lastly, working with the Project Managers and project team members to create a voice and data multi-page solution while maintaining highly satisfactory client business services, from project inception to production across the entire spectrum.
Microsoft LyncSIP TrunkingGlobal Carrier ManagementProject ManagementVoIPNetwork Design

Meriplex communications

4 roles

Network Architect / Pre-Sales Engineer

Jan 2016Oct 2016 · 9 mos

  • Serving as primary technical resource for the field organization and working closely with Account Managers to secure initial business as well as grow new business opportunities within existing and new client accounts in Unified Communications, VoIP, Collaboration, security, Wireless,Carrier Services, Cloud and data center related needs. Adding value throughout the sales process in the areas of:
  • Requirements analysis and technical qualification of sales opportunities
  • Solution architecture development
  • In depth Cisco products and technologies demonstrations and management of prospect evaluations
  • Opportunity transition to the Professional Services organization
  • Maintaining technical advisor relationship with clients by providing thought leadership, support, information, and guidance. Managing and prioritizing sales opportunities along with proposal process to create SOWs and respond to RFI/RFPs. Lastly, providing high-level account management to ensure successful and profitable delivery of solutions.
Unified CommunicationsVoIPCollaborationTechnical QualificationSales EngineeringSolution Architecture

Global MSOC Technical Supervisor/Manager/Mentor - Success Icon

Feb 2015Jan 2016 · 11 mos

  • Managing, leading and mentoring a team of a minimum of ten (10) NOC engineers who were actively monitoring and managing IP networks, using SNMPc CastleRock, NMIS, MRTG, Solarwinds, Cacti bandwidth Tool, via the network operation center (GNOC / MSOC) to proactively, and not reactively, detect and report network incidents, failures for MPLS, MetroEth, EVPL, L3 IPVPN, DS3, T1 circuit related outages throughout the entire globe ( The AMERICAS + EMEA+APAC Regions) on a 24/7/365 basis. additionally, fostering unparalleled carrier relationship with partners all around the globe to extend our managed services reach and network services capabilities. Design and Ensure proper steps and standard operating procedures are followed for network related issues to be addressed not only more efficiently but resolved swiftly, while we maintain our SLA with our globally Managed services customers. Dynamically assessing and evaluating network tools and procedures (SOP) to improve, hardened and ensure core network availability for critical network services and voice over IP features. Reshaping the global technical team and improving morale exponentially by promoting cohesion and team bonding for greater technical advancement and measurable milestones.
Network MonitoringIncident ManagementTeam LeadershipNetwork OperationsManaged Services

Managed Services Manager / Tier 2 Engineering

Promoted

May 2014Feb 2015 · 9 mos

  • Managing Tier 2 Network activation and technical engineering team while supervising and efficiently addressing escalated network issues, ensuring appropriate advanced level of support is provided to Managed Services clients, within their respective SLA's, while dynamically adjusting our troubleshooting tools and procedures to consistently and effectively mitigate and identify swift resolutions to critical network issues.
Network ActivationTechnical SupportTroubleshootingManaged Services

Tier 2 Lead Activations Engineer / Network Analyst

Jan 2013May 2014 · 1 yr 4 mos

Meriplex communications ltd

2 roles

Engineer

Nov 2011Jan 2012 · 2 mos

NOC Engineer

Nov 2009Dec 2012 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • Network Management and Control, Network Monitoring and Optimization, Using Castlr Rock SNMPc network monitoring for clients on a worldwide level.
  • Managing the Network outage, Escalate and tracking progress of network incidents/outages within the NOC environment until issue is resolved for many of our large scale customer's networks Ensuring various SLA's are consistently met on a 24x7x365 basis.
  • Work and establish excellent relationship with various IP circuits and VSAT carriers Nationwide and internationally.
  • Troubleshooting skills that range from diagnosing hardware/software issues to large scale failures within a complex infrastructure for our Managed Services Clients.
  • Managing DNS, Managing networking infrastructure and Solarwinds / Netflow networking monitoring systems.
Network ManagementTroubleshootingDNS ManagementNetwork Operations

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Credit Report Specialist

Feb 2006Jun 2008 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Terrabank na

Loan Processor

Jan 2004Jan 2006 · 2 yrs

Telcommunications d'haiti sa

Chief Programmer Analyst of the IT dept. www.natcom.com.ht

Oct 2002Feb 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos · Pont-Morrin, haiti

Sogebank na

Credit Admin Specialist

Apr 2001Oct 2002 · 1 yr 6 mos

Education

University of Houston

BS — Civil Engineering

Jan 2009Jan 2011

Florida International University

BS — Civil Engineering

Jan 2008Jan 2009

Miami Dade College

Associate of Arts - AA — Civil Engineering

Jan 2005Jan 2007

Canado Technical University (CFPH)

BS — Computer Programming & System Analysis

Jan 2000Jan 2004

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