Jason Lavoie

• Build automation and tooling for edge compute networking

• Led a team in engineering and operations of network, telecom, cloud, and datacenter infrastructure.

• Managed and expanded ATM network, colocation datacenter, and DSL services for a large regional ISP.

• Designed and implemented a scalable and robust ASP infrastructure for a national commercial webhosting product.

• Designed and supported infrastructure for 20k-user ISP and cable modem networks for multiple regional MSOs.

• Design, implement, and support flexible and reliable networking between on-prem, AWS, and Azure.
• Used supporting technologies such as Internet2 CloudConnect, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, ExpressRoute, Virtual WAN

• Managed multiple $10M+ projects from inception to completion, including design, vendor/product selection, internal justification and budgeting, migration and deployment logistics, training, and operational support.

• Performed extensive “real world” evaluation and comparison of next-generation wireless from multiple vendors.
• Deployed campus wireless network in numerous RF-challenging environments.

• Technical lead for project to make live trading information available to exchange members. Innovated elegant solutions for site-redundancy, database synchronization, transparent failover, and interfaces to proprietary exchange protocols.

• Built infrastructure to collect and analyze metrics for ISP and customer network elements, featuring Netflow visualization, per-AS tracking for justification of potential peering/transit arrangements, and real-time tracking of DoS attacks and security incidents.

• Founded an internship program at Bowdoin College to mentor individuals beginning a networking career.
• Taught group classes for IT staff to obtain CCNA certification.
• Former Adjunct Professor at Kennebec Valley Technical College for “Intro to Unix” class.

Senior Project: "Hardware data encryption system, Full DES implementation on a 68HC11-based platform."