Summary
Senior Unified Communications Engineer with 20+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying, and supporting enterprise voice and collaboration infrastructure across Cisco CUCM, Webex Calling, Microsoft Teams Voice, and multi-vendor PBX environments in cloud, hybrid, and on-premises deployments. Deep expertise in SIP trunking, dial plan architecture, E911 compliance, contact center platforms, and voice gateway configuration. Proven track record managing 24x7 mission-critical voice environments, leading platform migrations, and coordinating with internal stakeholders, vendors, and service providers. CCNP Collaboration and MS-721 certified.
Technologies
Cisco CUCM 4.x–14.x
Unity Connection
UCCX
Expressway
Cisco CUBE
Webex Calling
Webex Control Hub
MS Teams Voice
Direct Routing
SIP Trunking
PSTN / T1 / TDM
E911 / CER
Avaya VoIP
Nortel CS1000
ServiceNow
Wireshark / RTMT
Solarwinds Orion
Active Directory
Azure AD / Entra ID
BGP / OSPF / VLANs
Experience
University of Guelph (via TEKsystems) — Guelph, ON
- Supported Computing and Communications Services team administering enterprise voice infrastructure including CUCM, Unity Connection, and UCCX across campus.
- Opened and resolved two Priority 1 Cisco TAC cases, restoring service to critical systems with zero extended outage.
- Troubleshot complex issues spanning DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, switch configuration, and device provisioning.
Chartwell Retirement Residences — Mississauga, ON
- Administered enterprise UC infrastructure across 180+ retirement communities including Cisco Webex Control Hub, CUCM, and Webex Calling hybrid environment.
- Managed FoIP infrastructure across 55 sites including xMedius fax server, T.38/G.711 configurations, 140 DIDs, and 130 MFP integrations in regulated healthcare environment.
- Worked incidents and service requests in ServiceNow, submitted change requests and presented them to the Change Advisory Board (CAB), approved team changes, and documented resolutions in runbooks.
- Managed carrier relationships, DID inventory, number porting, and SIP trunk provisioning across multi-site enterprise environment.
- Provided Tier 3 support for production telephony issues; mentored junior engineers.
Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (ICBC) — Vancouver, BC
- Supported large-scale enterprise telecommunications and contact center environments.
- Integrated Microsoft Teams Voice with existing telephony systems.
- Performed platform patching, lifecycle management, and maintained architecture documentation.
Morgan Stanley — New York, NY
- Designed and validated enterprise voice solutions for financial services environment.
- Delivered CUCM upgrade documentation, QA validation, and post-implementation support.
IBM Canada (Enterprise Clients)
- Designed and deployed Cisco Emergency Responder (CER) for E911 compliance.
- Migrated 1,200+ users and 300 contact center agents to CUCM 12.5.
- Designed SIP trunking and CUBE routing for enterprise deployments.
Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL) — Chicago, IL
- Led a year-long migration of more than 100 T1 voice trunks across 90 offices from Verizon to AT&T SIP, submitting and presenting individual change requests for each site, coordinating cutover windows with both carriers, and executing a comprehensive post-cutover test plan at each location.
- Created a standard change procedure covering implementation, testing, backout, and stakeholder communication; used it for six months as the team standard.
- Identified a gap in cross-functional change communication and worked with the CAB manager to formalize a process improvement: all future CRs affecting other departments required those teams on communications and, where testing was needed, as named participants with assigned tasks.
- Implemented Cisco Emergency Responder with carrier integration.
- Consolidated multiple voice clusters into single resilient platform.
Toronto Stock Exchange (TMX Group) — Toronto, ON
- Technical Lead on PBX to Cisco voice migration for 6 North American sites.
- Deployed CUCM, Unity Connection, UCCX, and SRST voice gateways for 1,300 users.
- Implemented CDR billing solution; managed voice infrastructure and DR plan.
Travelex | RBC Royal Bank | Charles Schwab | Cognizant | Walgreens | First Data Canada
Details available upon request.
Education
MBA — Management Information Systems
Wayne State University
BBA — Marketing & Management
Indiana University
Certifications
Cisco
CCNP Collaboration
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Core
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Call Control On-Premises
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Hybrid and Cloud
Cisco Certified Specialist — Collaboration Applications Implementation
Cisco Certified Specialist — Enterprise Core
CCNA
Microsoft 365
Collaboration Communications Systems Engineer Associate (MS-721)
Other
TOGAF 9 Certified, The Open Group, October 2017
ITIL 4 Foundation for Service Management, Alison (CPD Certified), October 2026
Cyber Security Certificate, University of Toronto