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James McMann's Bio:
James McMann's Experience:
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Support Manager - North America at Sohonet
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CEO at Bear Creek Productions
May 2000 - January 2008Worked as a consultant and as a Producer/Director for clients. We are transitioning toward the Mainstream Film and Television industry. Identified business drivers, analyzed potential client base, and developed marketing and business development strategies for clients. Reviewed current infrastructures and made recommendations based upon business drivers and current best practices. Co-produced certain intellectual media properties as assets for mass production.
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Senior Project Manager at Johns Manville
November 2000 - August 2002As a certified Enterprise Architect, Developed and redesigned processes, procedures, polices, and network infrastructure based on the internal corporate business drivers. Developed and redesigned the enterprise disaster recovery procedure. Revised and developed new preventative maintenance policies and procedures. Monitored, tested, and maintained the network security and VPN solutions including Cisco Secure PIX, Cisco Secure Intrusion Detection, HP Openview, and NAI Sniffer. Managed various technology projects involving Cisco Routers, Catalyst layer 3 switches, HP switches, Cat5, 10/100/1000BaseT, WiFi, Gigabit Fiber, Fiber Channel, T1, DS3, Frame Relay, ATM, OSPF, NAT, Ldap, VPN, VLANs, Redundant Sites, Load balancing, bandwidth provisioning, and QoS. Also produced and provided Voice Over talent for internal industrial projects.
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Enterprise Architect / Infrastructure Project Manager at Slingshot Networks/ Qwest Digital Media
June 2000 - November 2000Contracted for two projects. Coordinated and managed the implementation of the Data, Voice (telephony), Video, SDTV, and HDTV infrastructure for the new Corporate Headquarters in Denver, and secondly for a new sales office in Los Angeles. Also produced media projects for industrial and promotional purposes in Slingshot?s studios in Nashville, TN, Denver, CO, and in Los Angeles, CA.
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Senior Advanced Networking Instructor at Westwood College of Technology
March 1999 - June 2000Gifted as a communicator and as a facilitator. Trained students in the technical skills of designing and troubleshooting network solutions. Expanded course curriculum to include Cisco routers and switches and Network Design. Topics included Network Security, TCP/IP routing, addressing, and subnetting, VPN, VoIP, IPv6, PIX Firewalls, IPSec, 3DES, and NAT. Helped students in finding positions locally.
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Sr. Consultant at Grant Thornton
January 1998 - March 1999Certified as a Project Manager and an Enterprise Architect by the Meta-Group. Developed teams each comprising of clients and consultants so to tackle certain projects with the Enterprise Architecture Practice. We would use the MetaGroup?s and Gartner?s best practices and environmental trends along with the client?s needs and goals to discover a common vision of requirements. There are four key components: the enterprise business architecture, the enterprise information architecture, the enterprise technical architecture, and the enterprise solution architecture. We would document the current environment while the common requirements vision was being defined. Discrepancies should instigate change projects, information projects, application projects, and/or technology projects. The common requirements vision and the gap analysis became our business case for each of the new projects. This ongoing process would be then used by the client for future strategic planning.
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Senior Network Design Engineer at Williams Communications
August 1996 - January 1998Lead network architect responsible for the development of solutions that satisfied the client's business drivers. Tested and verified solutions for compliance to business drivers. Managed the implementation projects for each data communications solution. Provided highest level of a three tiered technical support for thousands of sites. Instructed clients on various networking hardware, software, and procedural issues. Coordinated installs with bandwidth carriers, manufacturers, applications, and clients for any implementation and service issues. Also taught and counseled people in need and/or crisis.
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Project Manager/ Network Field Engineer at National Business Group
January 1994 - August 1996Regionally responsible for multiple network implementation projects. Designing customized network infrastructures based on customer's expressed business drivers and needs. Reviewed and revised internal network security procedures. Design WAN, Internet, and LAN to LAN solutions. Integrated and implemented DSL Internet access including to service providers. Coordinated installs with bandwidth carriers, manufacturers, applications, and clients. Instructed clients on networking hardware, software, and maintenance issues. Evaluated various WAN/LAN communication equipment and software. Built and lead teams for each project.
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Producer/Senior Executive at 3Stream
January 20083Stream is a production company located in Hollywood, California. We continue to study the industries best practices with the latest technologies with over 20 years of business process management experience. This has allowed us to develop a proprietary production process to increase creativity, story impact, and solid project management.
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Actor at Screen Actors Guild
2000Voice and On Screen Performer
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Sr. Consultant at Robert Half International
2000Business Driver Identification, Business Process Management, Change Control Management, Change Control Process And Procedure Creation, Confidential Technical/Production Consultation, Content Creation, Development And Production, Designed Data Infrastructures (Active Directory/LDAP & Security), Designed Enterprise Disaster Recovery Process And Procedures, Designed Video Conferencing, Digital Video (Streaming and Broadcast) Infrastructures, Designed Voice (Telephony/VoIP) Infrastructures, Developed Preventative Maintenance, Enterprise Architecture, Hardware Upgrade Research And Recommendation, Infrastructure Analysis And Documentation, Infrastructure Design, Configuration, And Implementation, Network Documentation and Diagraming, Network Monitoring System Evaluation, Network Operation Center Design, Network Performance Analysis, Network Security Management, Project Management, Service Contracts Review And Update, Software Upgrade Research And Recommendation, Standardization, Strategic Sourcing Of Technology Services, Troubleshooting, Vender Management, Team Building And Leadership
James McMann's Education:
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Wingate College
1984 – 1987BS -
Rift Valley Academy
1979 – 1983
James McMann's Interests & Activities:
Technology, International Travel, Movies,