Scott K.

Smith
Email: sksmith8@yahoo.com ssmith8@ford.com

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Highly experienced network engineering professional with a strong work ethic. Significant team leadership, project management, strategic planning, financial planning, business analysis, process improvement, and communications experience with a focus on service delivery in a culturally diverse, global environment. Experienced in Sarbanes Oxley IT requirements. Excellent written and verbal communications skills. Highly adaptable leadership, technical, problem solving, and troubleshooting skills. Highly experienced in developing technical, strategic, and financial reports and documentation. Strong working knowledge using the entire Microsoft Office suite of applications.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
LEADERSHIP AND TEAMWORK
Global Network Team Lead for Project DELTA, the Volvo separation o Led a diverse global team of 30 engineers from Ford, Volvo, Fujitsu, Affiniti, and Cygate. The engineers were located in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Sweden, Germany, and Denmark. o Developed and designed infrastructure inventory and blueprints to generate appropriate network engineering activities to accomplish the separation of connectivity between Ford and Volvo, as well as long-term business connectivity requirements. o Developed and tracked all Knowledge Transfer requirements from Ford to Volvo. o Contributed to project resource allocation with AR1 and AR2 forecasts. o Developed Risk Acceptance Letter to address security concerns for both Ford and Volvo. o Organized and led a total of four Global Network Team Workshops in Gothenburg, Sweden (2009, 2010, 2011), and in Rockleigh, New Jersey in 2010. o Led highly technical weekly Global Network Infrastructure team meetings addressing Resource Allocation, Knowledge Transfer, Issue/Risk/Action Item tracking and solution development. o Reported to executive management during weekly project line-up meetings and Ford-VCC steering committee meetings. o Migrated 58 Global sites (National Sales Centers, Plants), 1170 Dealer connections, and 258 Supplier networks. o Received two DELTA IT Program Awards for successful completion of all transition actions. Network Workstream Lead for Global Voice Infrastructure Audit o Coordinated Audit, Analysis, Cisco Internal Recommendation, Ford SME Review, Final Recommendation, and Remediation for gateway resources in the U.S., U.K., and Singapore. o Reported to management at all project review meetings and workstream cross-functional meetings. Serve as a Certified Ford Motor Company Peer Review Process Participant o This is a formal, panel-based process in which salaried employee grievances are reviewed by peers, management, and the Human Resources department to ensure that the disciplinary actions taken against the employee are fair and consistent with similar cases and corporate policy. Coordinated the TCS CoE for One Year o Developed a Survey process to allow managers to review and vote on Project Charters, etc., as well as maintain historic records for same.

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FINANCIAL
Current position as a Transport Planning Business Analyst o Manage a $20M global WAN transport budget to within +/-5%. o Generate growth and efficiencies analyses. o Develop 5-year business plans. o Coordinate with Line-of-Business Manager and TELAdjust auditors to ensure accurate invoicing from telecommunications providers including AT&T, Level 3, Century Link, Telmex, SingTel, NTT, and Verizon. Led the Sarbanes-Oxley efforts in support of required Infrastructure Control Reviews for all Telecommunications Services test labs o Implemented all aspect of Sarbanes-Oxley requirements: Separation of Duties, SCRP, ICR, SCT, SeOS, ESM, security log reviews, audits, hot fix/patch maintenance, CIRT ethical hacks, intrusions detection and prevention, and evidence tracking.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Network Engineering Team Lead for the testing and certification of long-distance Multimode fiber optic cable o Worked with Cisco product engineers to test and certify long distance capabilities of multimode fiber far (standard is 500 meters, certification exceeded 2000 meters). o Saved a combined $15M in planned fiber infrastructure upgrades over three years at Ford Motor Companys manufacturing facilities through this effort. Network Engineer and Project Manager for the design and implementation of LAN and WAN infrastructures o Led implementations in 30+ Ford Motor Company Product Development, Engineering, and Business locations, varying in size from 100 employees to more than 10,000. Network Engineering Team Lead for the development of global network solutions guidance for the corporate global Data Center of the Future Project. o Responsible for evaluating various risk factors, high availability and redundancy requirements for disaster recovery and business continuance, carrier circuit availability, and latency o Developed and recommended solutions phased for 3-5 year and 10-12 year timeframes. Network Subject Matter Expert for Cisco Audio Conferencing and Web Conferencing. o Performed testing, certification, and implementation of in-sourced audio conferencing infrastructure, including gateways, audio servers, and multiple software modules. o Effort resulted in $13M annual save.

PROJECT DEVELOPMENT / RESEARCH

Served as Global Network Team Lead for the Global Manufacturing In-Plant Communications Project. o Identified and resolved communications problems and developed near- and long-term solutions. o Contributed to the development of Project Charter. o Performed testing, certification, and release of Cisco Wireless Handsets for global use. o Consolidated all IT financial requirements. Worked on the original Data Center of the Future project (predecessor of DCC) which envisioned regional EDCs. Network Planner for many projects across PD, Business, and Manufacturing. Lab Network Engineer o Provided technical knowledge, planning, research and support for the Ford Motor Company global enterprise networks. o Tested and certified new technologies in internal test labs that simulate production environments for functionality and performance characteristics. o Created all documentation, including the creation of test plans, test results, implementation and configuration guides.

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WORK HISTORY
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI Network Engineer Business Analyst 1987-Present

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & TECHNICAL TRAINING

Leadership o Organizational Change Management o Negotiating Skills o Consulting Skills Ford Law o Code of Conduct, Preventing Workplace Harassment, Unauthorized Commitments, Data Safeguarding, Mutual Respect, Standards of Corporate Conduct o Six Sigma Green Belt Training o Corporate Accountability and Record-Keeping Practices, Ethical Decision Making, Careful Communication, Sarbanes-Oxley o Peer Review Process, Men and Women as Colleagues in the Workplace Project Management o Risk Management, Consulting Skills, Managing IT Projects, Microsoft Project Network Technologies o Cisco technologies including VoIP, Wireless solutions, and Content Switching o Technology Lifecycle o IT Security o Infrastructure Cabling Standards Services Delivery o ITIL / ITSM / Classic Solution Delivery Methodology o Application Control Review Process o Infrastructure Control Review Process

SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
Accelerated Action Day St. Vincent de Paul Penrickton Center for Blind Children Construction Operation Good Cheer Capuchin Kitchen and Gleaners Arts & Scraps Parade Company MS Walk Henry Ford Estate Halloween Committee Engaged as a member of St. Isaac Jogues Church in activities including Lector Coordinator, member of the Worship Commission, and the MCREST community homeless shelter program Komen Race for the Cure Volunteer Served as a host for the Ford-Volvo AmericanSwedish Exchange Student Program Director / Reader for Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic, Rochester, MI. Served in many leadership capacities in the Boy Scouts of America including Assistant Scoutmaster, Den Leader, Cubmaster, Committee Chairperson, Activities Chair, and Fundraising Chair

EDUCATION
Masters of Arts in Business: Organizational Leadership: Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI Bachelor of Business Administration: Siena Heights University, Adrian, MI