David Hedley
About
David Hedley is from Palo Alto, California, United States. David works in the following industries: "Computer Hardware", "Marketing & Advertising", "Hospital & Health Care", "Information Technology & Services", and "Commercial Real Estate". David is currently Director Of Information Technology at ThinkResults Marketing, located in Palo Alto, California, United States. David also works as Solutions Architect II at CommonSpirit Health, a job David has held since Sep 2018. In David's previous role as a Network Engineer III at Sutter Health, David worked in Sunnyvale, CA until Sep 2018. Prior to joining Sutter Health, David was a Lead Engineer/Infrastracture Manager at Mills-Peninsula Medical Group and held the position of Lead Engineer/Infrastracture Manager at Burlingame, CA. Prior to that, David was a IT Consultant at AorTx, based in Redwood City, California, United States from Jan 2005 to Jan 2008. David started working as Manager, Network Engineering at InfoPartners in San Carlos, California, United States in Sep 2006. From May 2005 to Aug 2006, David was Systems Administrator at Agami. Prior to that, David was a Network Engineer at MicroMenders, based in Los Altos, CA from Nov 2000 to Mar 2001. David started working as Network Engineer at Chipshot.com in Mar 2000.
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David Hedley's current jobs
Designing the migration from Cisco 6500 based core networks to Nexus 7700 series, at multiple hospitals in California. • Revised multicast standard. • Working with construction teams to insure all closet builds or remediations meet corporate standards.. • Generating closet designs for multiple hospitals across Northern California.
David Hedley's past jobs
Senior Network Engineer on a team of 6 Network Engineers supporting over 80 sites from Monterey to Daly City, including 2 Hospitals. Lead Network Engineer on many projects. Develop internal processes and documentation. • Lead effort to replace Catalyst 6500 Cores with Catalyst 4500X VSS solution. • Created and lead training on Multicast, ISSU, upgrading Catalyst switches and other topics, as needed. • Implementing quality of service and multicast for Cisco VoIP implementation. • Leading the team as Senior Network Engineer on all significant construction projects within the region. • Leading teams of 2 Network Engineers and 2 contractors in replacing over 30 end-of-life Cisco Catalyst 4500s in 8 months. • Enhancing organizational efficiency and increasing cost savings by optimizing inventory, recycling pallets of end of life equipment and repurposing a great deal of useful equipment. • Wrote initial standard for multicast configuration across Sutter enterprise. • Increased operational efficiency by building documentation to bring new equipment builds to under 2 hours per device. • Increased regional software and configuration compliance from low 30% to over 90%. • Subject Matter Expert for Wireless in my region including performing Wireless surveys.
Technical Leader of a group of 7 Network Engineers, Systems Engineers, and Desktop Support supporting an Independent Physician’s Association in San Mateo County. Support a multi-forest Windows AD shop comprising over 36 Dell Servers in the main office and in a Co-location facility. Manage helpdesk functions for 100+ person company with an additional 400+ users in physician practices using an Electronic Medical Records system (NextGen). • Leveraged existing Cisco infrastructure through adding ether channels and vtp for better reliability and consistency. • Developed growth plans for provider WAN and led troubleshooting efforts with network provider. • Enhanced the alerting and troubleshooting capabilities of network monitoring systems including What’s Up Gold, and SolarWinds Network Performance Manager. • Lead project to remediate Cisco Autonomous Wireless deployment.
Built out and supported IT infrastructure for small startup.
Responsible for client satisfaction for South Bay Area clients. Hired, trained and supervised engineers in Palo Alto territory. Managed technicals on client projects. Support clients by directly working onsite and remotely. • Developed proposals and project plans for existing clients and for new clients. • Guided and supported engineering team with network troubleshooting and configuration.
Responsible for network, systems, and desktop support in a mixed Windows XP/2003, RedHat Enterprise Linux environment. Supported Nortel switch fabric with over 1400 ports. Supported InterTel VoIP phone system. • Simplified offshore operations by enabling an IPSEC connection between Sunnyvale & Hyderabad offices. • Supported employee remote access with both Cisco VPN and MS L2TP VPN.
Responsible for upgrading, maintaining, and optimizing the Cisco infrastructure for an eCommerce company. • Built security systems to protect the business from repeat DDOS and other hacking exploits. • Optimized the network through improvements in the Cisco firewalls, better use of existing equipment, and adoption of Cisco best practices.
Responsible for all daily operational issues involving technology for 300+ users in 11+ offices in California, Nevada & Texas. Optimized network bandwidth. Redesigned & reconstructed computer rooms to add AC & take on growing equipment requirements. • Designed & implemented infrastructure to support rapidly growing company including opening of 4 new offices, adding 3 acquired offices & moving 4 offices. • Created new office project package facilitating the rapid opening of new offices (30-60 days, typically).