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Kelly Olsen 

Work Experience

Acceleration Systems, Cleveland, Ohio                                                                                                      2015-Present

Senior Network Architect. Ensure product operation for customer field testing prior to wide scale product deployment. Design and implement reporting, diagnostic, management, and alerting systems. Sales and customer engineering support. Product bench testing. Technical writing for product manuals and user guides. Create real and simulated network environments to support both product development and customer testing efforts.

Satventures Management, Akron Ohio                                                                                                                          2009-2015

Senior Network Engineer. Provided primary engineering support for the ISP portion of a satellite teleport in Akron, Ohio, including network expansion and maintenance and tier 3 customer support and support for co-located services within the network operations center. Also provided support for new networking and satellite services product development. Responsibilities within the satellite teleport included iDirect Evolution and iNFINITI hub maintenance and Redhat Linux Enterprise Server support, transponder utilization planning, frequency planning, and link budget analysis. Oversaw all iDirect hub hardware and software installations and upgrades and the planning for and installation of ViaSat PCMA satellite bandwidth optimization hardware.

Certifications maintained while working for the company included Certified iDirect Hub Installer, Advanced iOM for iDX 2.X and 3.X, and iDS software and hardware product lines.

Amos Data Systems, Akron Ohio                                                                                                                        1998-2009

Cisco, Microsoft, and Unix Field Support Engineer. Worked with another cross-platform certified engineer to form an advanced services branch for a large network services consulting firm. Specialized in working with clients who had complex needs for integrated services, including internal network design and support and cross platform wide area networking services. WAN skills included the implementation of dedicated circuits, dial-up, ISDN, ATM, DSL, frame relay, T1, and DS3, Ethernet, and token ring networks. Extensive experience in the use of TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and NetBIOS protocols.

Certifications maintained while working for the company included Cisco Certified Network Professional, Cisco Qualified Security Professional, Cisco Certified Sales Associate, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, Novel Certified Network Administrator, SCO Unix Certified Systems Engineer, CompTIA A+. Network+ and Security+

University of Akron Dept. of Continuing Education & Workforce Development. Akron, Ohio  1997-2007

                Faculty. Instructed in CompTIA A+, Network+, and Security+ courses

Kent State University, Tuscarawas Branch, Dover Ohio                                                                           1996-1997

Adjunct Professor. Instructed in basic electronics and network engineering in the Computer Engineering Department.

Allied Machine and Engineering Corp., Dover Ohio                                                                                  1992-1998

Electronics and Computer Technician (1992-1995). Maintained and repaired computer numerical control (CNC) and analog machines in a large machine shop. Maintained company computers and networks with multiple operating systems including SGI Irix, SunOS, HPUX, IBM AS/400, Novel Servers, and Microsoft DOS and Windows workstations.

Electrical and Network Engineer (1995-1998). Worked with a team of engineers to analyze and optimize the efficiency of the company's manufacturing process, including analyzing raw material stock inventory and availability, production methods, man-hour assignments, and energy utilization. Team reduced manufacturing costs by over 20% and reduced delivery time to customers by almost 40%. Also took on additional responsibilities for the companies computer networks, including designing and implementing a new wide area fiber network that spanned the city of Dover, Ohio to connect two manufacturing centers.

United States Navy / Navy Reserve                                                                                                                  1985-1994

Electronics Technician, Communications. Maintained and repaired ship and shore radio communications and test equipment at the component level. Primary specialization in the AN/WSC-3 LOS/SATCOM shipboard line-of-sight and satellite transceiver. Secondary responsibilities included Master-at-Arms, USNR Akron, Oh.

Education

University of Akron, Associate of Science, General Science – 1992

University of Akron, Bachelor of Science, Electrical Engineering - 1995

Focused coursework on communications signal generation and analysis,
radio communications techniques, and statistics.