Dustin Reese

Experience

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  Antioch-Lithonia Missionary Baptist Church

  Sept 2007 - May 2012

  Youth Pianist

  • Performed as pianist for the Children’s Church services.• Required to have extensive training in music theory.• Demonstrated exceptional ability to learn songs new music.• Collaborated with the other church musicians during youth choir performances.

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  DeKalb County School System

  Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

  Administrative Assistant

  •Performed any task assigned by the school’s Principal.•Attained and demonstrated extensive knowledge of the school’s organizational hierarchy.•Collaborated with the school registrar to facilitate the registration of students.•Aided the school secretary in maintaining a low call volume in the main office.•Organized the disbursement of final report cards and CRCT scores.

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  Cox Communications

  Jan 2012 - Aug 2013

  Video Engineer (Co-op Student)

  • Developed, executed, and maintained detailed network designs for new video products.• Created test plans, and validated the functionality and performance of new and existing video products.• Established network performance benchmarks and goals.• Provided detailed engineering support and consultation to other departments.• Interacted with our strategic vendors, to oversee and influence the hardware roadmap for our video customer premise equipment.• Collaborated with vendors and worked with cross-functional teams to create designs and procedures that ensured proper equipment installation and operation.• Proactively identified, and recommended ways to improve processes and procedures.• Helped ensure that new products were operationally ready, deployable and supportable at the time of release, and ready for integration into the existing environment. Show less

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  AT&T

  Mar 2015 - Jul 2021

  • Provided $1.5 million in annual man-hour savings through tool development and automation.• Manages the development of the Operations and Tooling group’s automation suite. Works with leadership and stakeholders to develop new tools and features that add value to the company.• Manages the development of a new single “front door” application that replaces four existing tools.• Improves the organization’s strategically important software and web applications.• Identifies opportunities for automation across the Network Operations organization.• Writes software that automates ticketing processes to yield man-hour and cost savings.• Collaborates with stakeholders to develop tools that monitor network equipment functionality.• Supports existing network monitoring & analysis tools and applications. Show less • Led and managed the development of a cross-organizational Engineering Budget Tool - used by teams of engineers, project managers, and organizational leaders. The budget tool tracked all ongoing and planned projects as well as the funding associated with them.• Created and maintained a comprehensive Plan of Demand for the company’s network infrastructure. The Plan of Demand represented all engineering and implementation work needed to meet forecasted customer demand and business objectives.• Individually managed the development of an automated scorecard to monitor progress of strategically important planned initiatives within the Core Services Engineering organization.• Compiled analyses of network capacity needs and related costs for wireless and wireline infrastructure.• Recommended strategic network architecture planning decisions based on forecasted demand.• Collaborated with Project Management teams to ensure that work plans, schedules, and status reports were created for all projects that required their support.• Worked with finance teams to ensure that all projects and program initiatives were sufficiently funded. Show less

  • Sr. Specialist Applications Developer

    Apr 2017 - Jul 2021

  • Network Planning Engineer

    Mar 2015 - Apr 2017
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  Hewlett Packard Enterprise

  Aug 2021 - Oct 2022

  Solutions Architect

  • Architected custom cloud computing and storage solutions through HPE’s GreenLake everything-as-a-service consumption-based offering.• Built multiple deals concurrently and nurtured active deals by building, creating, and presenting GreenLake financial models for account teams, customers, and partners.• Determined the deal parameters required to simultaneously meet the customer’s and HPE’s technical and financial requirements. • Facilitated deep-dive discussions to articulate value proposition, define key differentiators, and implement required changes to architected GreenLake models to meet the customer needs.• Collaborated with account teams and other internal organizations to develop and communicate key value propositions, product sets, and technologies.• Analyzed P&L to ensure that each GreenLake deal met empowerment guidelines set by HPE leadership.• Worked with HPE’s internal engagement team to define the Statement of Work and present the solution to the end customer. • Provided technical support to our internal stakeholders. Show less

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  Comcast Business

  Feb 2023 - now

  Solutions Architect