Spohn Consulting

Job Title: VoIP Network Consultant

Job Location: Austin

Job Summary:

Spohn Consulting provides a range of services for customers in the LAN/WAN environments. Our main product offerings are comprehensive network analysis focusing on maximizing packet throughput, network utilization, and Convergence.

The position of VoIP Network Consultant encompasses:

• Consulting for outside customers
• Network Analysis
• VoIP Telephony Readiness Analysis
• Telecom Strategy Development
• Report and documentation generation
• Independent work
• Advising customers

Major Responsibilities:

• Network Assessments - assess and advise clients on how to optimize their network; e.g., LAN/WAN;
• identify and remove bottlenecks; improve bandwidth utilization; implement more efficient management and maintenance.
• Telecom Strategy Development - determines appropriate voice and data architecture strategy considering current and anticipated needs as well as evolving technology such as VoIP, IPT, and MPLS. Attention to people-process-tools of physical and logical network along with operational elements.
• IP Telephony Readiness Assessment - ensures cost-effective migration to a converged network solution while minimizing operational risk. Considers current investment, readiness to support VoIP traffic and performance; configuration; interoperability; etc
• Configure and install networking devices including servers, switches, routers, Firewalls, IDS.
• Perform other duties as required by company operations.

Regular Duties:

Primarily responsible for performing security services work for outside customers from the line of Spohn Network Consulting offerings.

• Engage customers
• Run tools
• Conduct interviews
• Gather data
• Analyze results
• Document results
• Present results
• Support further product development
• Support collateral development
• Support sales calls

Projects:

Periodically perform various projects such as

• Statement of work development
• Product development
• Automation of process used in completing security services

Job Requirements

• Bachelors Degree Preferred No specific degree Associates degree with commensurate
• experience would be considered
• Must have a CCNA certification.
• Able to formulate, understand and communicate abstract concepts
• Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Working knowledge of SNMP
• Working knowledge of Voice Over IP
• Working knowledge of TCP, UDP, DNS, ICMP
• Working Knowledge of Solar Winds Network Analysis Tools (Preferred)
• Experience with Vivinet VoIP assessor
• Ability to develop processes to conduct and document assessments
• Must work daily from the Austin office
• Must be willing to travel (we have designed our product to require between 1/10th and 1/3rd Onsite work. The remainder of the work will be performed form our offices. This should translate to 10-30% travel. However, the candidate must be prepared to travel more if necessary.)

Desired Majors: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Desired Certifications: CCNA, CCNP,CCVP

Contact:

Charles Black
Office: +1-512-685-1810
Email: cblack@Spohncentral.com