Lewis Thomas

Experience

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  Lucent Technologies

  Jun 1985 - May 1997

  Technical Manager

   Technical Manager, Program Management. Responsibilities included customer interface and relationship management, program profit and loss control, investment and inventory administration, proposal development, and program planning and scheduling. Developed new business opportunities with existing customers.AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies Manufacturing – Greensboro, N.C. 1993 – 1993 Manufacturing Customer Service Manager. Coordinated the manufacturing and engineering support required for the production, test and delivery of hardware for large commercial and military programs. Developed and maintained lines of communication with customers, provided leadership and guidance to subordinates relative to problems and issues. Served as the leader of a Product Realization Team for a major segment of a large military hardware system. Assumed responsibility for and led successful turnaround of struggling programs.AT&T Federal Systems Advanced Technologies Specialty Engineering – Greensboro, N.C. 1985 – 1992 Resource Planning and Depot Operations Manager. Led proposal and response development efforts, allocated organizational engineering resources for proposal activities, and establish and met proposal and departmental budgets. Built and directed a customer service team serving as the point of contact for multiple depot projects. Member of Technical Staff, 1992. Led a group that managed several military repair, spares and warranty contracts. Developed and maintained lines of communication with customer and internal organizations, developed and achieved task specific budgets and schedules, and created quoting guidelines for new depot/repair opportunities. Key member of a team that planned and oversaw the implementation of a dedicated repair facility. Show less

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  SIGCOM

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2008

  Director - Offer Development
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  MicroTech

  Sept 2000 - Mar 2012

  VP UCC Proposals

  Directs, manages, and coordinates all phases of development for the Proposal Development team that annually prepares and submits over 1000 proposals worth in excess of $100M. Responsibilities also include bid/no bid determination, requirements analysis, resource allocation and management, solution development/review, pricing development/review and proposal production.Former Job Titles: Director of Offer Development, Manager of Offer Development.

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  Onepath Systems (formerly Confiance IP Solutions)

  Apr 2012 - Feb 2014

  Engineering Services Manager

  Responsible for day to day management and scheduling of Solutions Architects delivering a full range of Cisco and EMC solutions. Track and manage utilization of team members and project performance versus labor budget. Work with project management and sales to assign and schedule technical resources for project delivery and presales support. • Lead Corporate Cisco Gold, Master UC and Cloud and Managed Services Provider recertification process in 2013 (0 action items). Process required review, update and documentation of processes, coordination of vendor (Cisco) consultants and internal technical resources for Certification Audit. Show less

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  Sirius Computer Solutions

  Mar 2014 - Feb 2019

  Project Manager

  Responsible for managing multiple projects (20+) across multiple accounts. Managed annual project services revenue in excess of $2M. Responsibilities included primary customer interface and relationship management, project planning and scheduling, status reporting to customers and management. Project types included Network, Virtualization and Data Center (Storage, Compute and Backup). Consistent Regional Top Ten Customer Satisfaction and Individual Revenue performer.• Technology Refresh Program Oct 2015 – Feb 2019Managed 3+ Year Program for a large multisite Healthcare client. Annual services revenue exceeded $500K. Services included a resident Network Engineer for an on-going network refresh initiative, wireless deployment and upgrades, new site deployments, data center upgrades and refresh, virtualization upgrades and security services (Citrix Netscaler, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA).• Data Center Migration Nov 2017 – Feb 2019 Data Center relocation, refresh and migration project for Cloud Infrastructure Division for of local Government software solution provider. Project included development of a migration plan, design and implementation of a network solution for the data center and the de-installation, relocation and re-installation of hardware. Project also included integration of relocated hardware with new SAN, Compute, Storage and Backup solutions. Show less

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  National General Insurance

  Apr 2019 - now

  Infrastructure Project Manager