Aaron Hudson
Field Solutions Engineer at SHI International Corp.
Field Solutions Engineer at SHI International Corp.
SKILLSET:  Network Monitoring, OpenFlow, ONOS, OpenDaylight, OpenStack, DevOps, Vagrant, Customer Interaction, Product Deployment, Requirements Elicitation, System Design, System and Unit Testing, Optical Transport, Linux

I am a Senior Systems Engineer and Solutions Architect driven to innovation and optimization.  I am currently tasked with supporting activities centered on creating applications for optimizing optical networks for customers ranging from Tier-1 Service Providers, to Enterprise and Colocation Datacenters. My duties have included responding to RFI/RFPs for optical transport networks, designing optical infrastructure for Colocation Datacenters, as well as assisting Sales and Marketing teams in creating application notes and whitepapers, and presenting the resulting material to customers.

My current duties also involve hands on support of customer deployments, including performing site surveys, installing fiber infrastructure and switches, integration with customer software, be it custom scripts, NMS plugins, or OpenFlow controllers.  I have extensive experience planning, integrating, and deploying communication and signal processing systems in dynamic and high value environments for the Department of Defense.  This experience includes leading Quick Reaction teams providing immediate technical solutions to requirements driven by world events.

I have a background in Software Engineering, with experience coding in Object Oriented, Procedural, and Scripting languages, including C/C++, Java/Java Script, Perl, Python, as well as Bash.  My software Engineering experience also includes authoring and performing  software test plans from Black, Grey, and White Box perspectives.
SHI International Corp.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/shi-international-corp-
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Field Solutions Engineer
Dell
https://www.linkedin.com/company/delltechnologies
Responsible for helping Commercial, SLED, and Enterprise customers deliver Compute, Networking, and Infrastructure solutions utilizing Dell's vast array of technologies

Key applications and environments:
- Hybrid Cloud - Helping customers navigate the value of on-prem vs cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- HPC and AI/ML - They are not just for Research Institutes anymore! Helping customers see where AI/ML brings value to the business in the areas such as fraud detection, customer experience, IT security.
- SD-WAN - Helping customers reduce cost and complexity through deployment of SD-WAN, NFV and Edge computing solutions
- HCI - Transforming Data Centers from traditional siloed environments to private, as a Service, cloud environments, freeing internal technical resources to focus on IT initiatives rather than keeping the lights on
- Traditional infrastructure - Advising on the values of traditional 3-Tier architectures and where they make sense for a given customer and workload
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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Solutions Consultant - Enterprise Data Center Compute & Solutions
Calient Technologies Inc.
https://www.linkedin.com/company/calient-technologies-inc-
I am responsible for developing custom solutions where Optical Circuit Switching functionality is integrated into new and existing networks to create value for customers through increased efficiency and utilization, as well as creating unique solutions previously unavailable without an agile, reconfigurable optical infrastructure.

I frequently lead interactions with partners to integrate the CALIENT OCS into software control plans and management systems using our OpenFlow, REST and TL1 interfaces.  Our interoperability includes software such as Spirent Velocity, Narra nFAST, QualiSystems TestShell and CloudShell, as well as the OpenFlow controllers Floodlight, OpenDaylight, ON Labs ONOS, and NEC.

Applications I have developed and supported include Network Monitoring, Lawful Intercept, Heterogeneous Computing, Hybrid Packet/Optical Data Center, Data Center Edge, Metro Edge, Cloud Radio Area Networks (C-RAN), Lab Automation.
Kansas City, Missouri Area
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Senior Systems Engineer
United States Department of Defense
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♦ Led engineering initiatives for communication systems at multiple sites, ensuring that customer requirements were met and implementation schedules were adhered to.
♦ Responsible for converting strategic initiatives into tactical solutions through the use of disciplined system-level design, integration, and evaluation.  Systems deployed included active and passive DWDM, OTN, SONET, SONET/SDH, ATM, IP, GSM, CDMA, as well as various higher layer protocols and applications.
♦ Designed and supervised the build out of multiple Forward Deployed Data Centers, to include inside/outside plant fiber, power, space and cooling. 
♦ Proactively sought solutions to anticipate facility constraints and requirement growths.
♦ Created and maintained documentation required for the deployment, certification, operation, and life cycle support of deployed systems.
♦ Successfully led dynamic, interdisciplinary teams to integrate unique components into communication systems in order to aid the war fighter in the Global War on Terrorism.
♦ Collaborated with various government departments and agencies in facilitating self-led system deployments to hostile areas in support of the Global War on Terrorism.
♦ Integrated and baselined hardware and software components across Windows and Red Hat Linux operating systems for multiple sites.
♦ Interacted with multiple vendors to establish product requirements to meet mission needs.
♦ Filed and tracked annual procurements of several million dollars worth of resources.
♦ Responsible for establishing requirements and managing technical task orders on a cost plus fixed-fee contract.
Fort Meade, MD
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Systems Engineer
United States Department of Defense
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♦ Led a team of testers in authoring a test plan, to include system and unit level test cases, for a government multi-year software project.
♦ Participated in the testing of a software application, completing multiple cycles of the test plan, resulting in numerous change requests.
♦ Performed stringent component, system, and acceptance testing on multiple communication systems.
♦ Performed code reviews on various open source programs to determine acceptability of use for government applications.
Fort Meade, MD
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Software Test Engineer
United States Department of Defense
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♦ Member of Red Team Tools Division, authoring utilities, and scrubbing Zero Day exploits for use in penetration testing of DoD networks.
♦ System Engineer with Quick Reaction Team, providing unique communications solutions to field teams with two to three week lead times.
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Cooperative Education Student
BS
Software Engineering
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Mississippi State University
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AA
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Holmes Community College
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Theta Tau Professional Engineering Fraternity
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DevOps Institute
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DevOps Foundations
Fortinet
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Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 3: Certified Associate
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Boonville, MO
Darrell Harris
Lieutenant at Boonville Fire Department
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Santa Barbara County, CA
Vijayan T.
Architect | Manager | Hands-on | Cross functional leadership | Full Stack |  Embedded
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Blackwater, MO
Logan Comegys
Clinical Supervisor
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Greater St. John's Metropolitan Area
Mykell Murphy
Branch Manager at Kenworth Newfoundland & Labrador
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Meridian, MS
Hermalinda Shirley
Senior Account Executive at SHI International Corp. Government Solutions for the State of Mississippi
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Greater Columbia, Missouri Area
Gary Baker
Principal at Moniteau Co R-1
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Topeka, KS
Jim Watson
Account Manager at ISG Technology Inc
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St George, UT
Allison McClure
Lead Sales Assist. at Wilson Electronics. LLC
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New York City Metropolitan Area
Jessica Vos
Senior Inside Account Executive at SHI
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Midland County, TX
Kyle Murphy
Parts Manager at Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC Kenworth)
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Greater Houston
JR Luck
Branch Manager at Accu-Tech Corporation
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Des Moines Metropolitan Area
Corey Murphy
Vice President & General Manager at Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC Kenworth)
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Somerset, NJ
Ryan Baicher
Account Executive Covering South Jersey Local Government at SHI International Corp.
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Columbia, MO
Dennis Palmer
President at Coastal Electric, Inc.
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Madison, WI
Nick DeGrammont
Technology Sales Leader | Relationship and Strategy Advocate |
State, Local, Higher Education sales at Tanium
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Kansas City Metropolitan Area
Anthony Cross
IT Operations Manager at Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC Kenworth)
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Kansas City, MO
Jared White
Executive Vice President at Murphy-Hoffman Company (MHC Kenworth)
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Fairfax, VA
Ed Lee
Principal/Director at Booz Allen Hamilton
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St George, UT
Melissa May
Regional inside Sales Manager at Wilson Electronics/weBoost
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        Aaron is an hard working and creative solution consulting professional with a talent for helping customers innovate with next gen. tech and applications. Aaron and I worked together for about four years at CALIENT Technologies where I was VP of Marketing and he had responsibility for a broad range of customer-facing technical roles from pre-sales solution consulting through post-sales support across hardware and software. As a small and rapidly growing company all of us had to be versatile and take care of whatever needed attention on any given day. Aaron excelled in this position, applying both big-picture and detailed analytical thinking as needed to develop solutions, move deals forward, or solve problems on the back end. 
Aaron is a great asset to any customer-facing technical team. He also has a great sense of humor - something our internal team and customers always enjoyed. I recommend him highly. Rohit Kunjappa
      
          



            
              
        
              
  

    
        Aaron was a Sr. Systems Engineer during my tenure at Calient. Aaron is both very personable and technical – theoretical and hands-on. He has a very good understanding of business needs and comes up with creative solutions to meet internal and customer requirements. 
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