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Certifications
Tony Budge of commIT Consulting passed the Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) exam in October of 1997 with a passing mark of 100% for the two-day lab exam component.
Cisco's CCIE certification is globally recognised as the epitome of internetworking accreditation due to its high difficulty level (which assumes/requires a large component of practical experience).
With less than 260 CCIE's in Australia and less than 7800 CCIE's worldwide (current as at June 2002), you can be assured of the technical knowledge and ability of CCIE certified networking professionals.
For more information on Cisco's CCIE program visit; http://www.cisco.com/go/ccie.
As well as being CCIE certified, Tony Budge is currently undergoing the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification program with an expected certification completion date of Q1 2003.
Additionally, during the last 14 years working in the communications and internetworking industry, Tony Budge of commIT Consulting;
- was awarded the Highest Theory Award for the whole of 1988 Telstra, Victorian apprentice intake (approximately 200 apprentice's in 1988 intake)
- was selected in Telstra's inaugural intake for its CEO Leadership Program, a program sponsored and promoted by Telstra's former CEO Frank Blount, aimed at recognising and developing leadership and management potential in staff.
- has successfully completed a telecommunications technician apprenticeship and received a Technician's trade certificate
- has held and operated under an Austel cabling license whilst performing installation and maintenance activities of communications services whilst employed at Telstra
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Industry Experience
With a career spanning over 14 years in communications and internetworking, Tony Budge of commIT Consulting has worked for some of the most influential companies in the internetworking market space and on many large projects. The following list identifies some of the major companies and projects Tony Budge has assisted;
- Open Telecommunications, Australia - design engineer for carrier grade/sized Voice over IP (VoIP) network designs utilising a softswitch call control architecture
- COMindico, Australia - member of design team responsible for the design of the national COMindico network
- HFCL, India - lead designer of a fully converged voice, data and television of cable network solution
- Department of Education, Western Australia - Senior network architect assisting with the major rollout and upgrade of the 'Education to the Community' (E2C) project
- Telstra, Australia - 3rd level support and design assistance with the Big Pond Direct and Big Pond Home networks
- Qantas, Australia - Technical team lead for rollout and commissioning of national network
- Telstra, Australia - Data and Voice services installation and maintenance technician
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Clients & Customers
Having worked on the biggest networks in Australia and overseas, in either a 3rd level support, design or technical implementation lead role, Tony Budge of commIT Consulting has the experience necessary to ensure the success of your next project.
Previous customers and clients include (where not restricted under non-disclosure or confidentiality agreements);
- Telstra's Big Pond Direct network (the Australian core Internet backbone)
- www.telstra.com.au/internetdirect/
- part of the implementation team involved in the migration of the Internet backbone from the then University operated, Australian Vice Chancellors Committee (AVCC) to Telstra.
- Telstra's Big Pond Home network (Australia's largest ISP)
- www.bigpond.com/
- performed a review of routing design and IP addressing schema, and provided recommendations to redesign the Big Pond Home network to achieve greater levels of availability, scalability and performance
- Qantas Airways Ltd
- www.qantas.com.au
- technical implementation team leader for an implementation team of 8 staff, involved in the rollout and subsequent management of Qantas' national network
- COMindico Australia Pty Ltd
- www.comindico.com.au
- founding member of team responsible for the design and implementation of the COMindico network encompassing 66 sites Australia wide, designed to provide wholesale Internet and VoIP telephony services to the Australia market
- Himachal Futuristic Communications Limited (HFCL), India
- www.hfcl.com
- lead design engineer for a full service enabled hybrid fibre co-axial (HFC) broadband network providing VoIP, Internet, broadcast television and interactive/pay per view television services to the Indian market
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Technology Specialisations
With a career spanning 14 years in the data/voice communications and internetworking arena, Tony Budge of commIT Consulting has attained skills and experience in a broad range of technologies and systems. The following list identifies some of commIT Consulting's core competencies;
- IP routing, services and addressing design - such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP and IP Multicasting and Network Address Translation (NAT)
- Legacy protocol design and support - such as IPX, IBM SNA, Appletalk, Banyan Vines and DecNet
- Virtual Private Networking (VPN's) - including Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), IPSec/3DES tunnelling and Layer2 VPN
- Network Security - including Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, Access Control Lists, Security Policy Definition
- Carrier and transmission technologies - such as ATM, Frame Relay, ISDN, UTP/Cat5 LAN, Fibre Optic LAN/MAN, xDSL and HFC (Cable)
- Product knowledge - Cisco product specialist, additional experience working with Nortel/Bay routers and switches, 3COM switches, Lucent/Ascend routers and NAS's, IBM routers and Retix bridge/routers
- Operational Support Systems (OSS) implementation and setup - Hewlett Packard's Openview with Network Node Manager, and Cisco Systems, CiscoWorks 2000
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Industry Training
Cisco based product or solution training,
- Configuring Cisco Voice products
- Cisco, Configuring and Maintaining ATM networks
- Cisco LAN Switch Configuration
- Managing Cisco Network Security
- Introduction to Cisco Cable Routers
- Cisco Digital Subscriber Line Technologies
- Managing SNA in Multi-Protocol environments
- Cisco Internetworking Design
- Cisco Internetworking Troubleshooting
- Advanced Cisco Router Configuration
- Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration
Cisco based hands-on training and technical seminars,
- 2 months hands on training with the Cisco Systems, NSA Team, San Jose USA
- 3 weeks hands on training with the Cisco Systems, Asia Pacific TAC, Sydney Australia
- Cisco Networkers Conference, Asia-Pacific Region 1998
- Cisco Networkers Conference, Asia-Pacific Region 1999
- Cisco Networkers Conference, Asia-Pacific Region 2000
Additional non-Cisco industry training,
- Configuring and Maintaining Nortel / Bay Networks Routers
- Configuring and Maintaining Lucent / Ascend Max 4000 Routers
- Configuring and Maintaining IBM 2210/16 Multi-Protocol Routers
- Configuring and Maintaining Retix Routers
- ATM PNNI Routing
- Support of Telstra's Accelerate ATM network
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