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Legacy Transport

ATM, Frame Relay, Token Ring and multilink serial — the transport generation the career started on, retained here because the record should show what the work actually was.

Also known as ATM, Frame Relay, Token Ring

Left to right is time. Each row is one of the 9 disciplines this one worked alongside, ordered so kindred disciplines sit next to each other rather than alphabetically — a landscape only means anything if neighboring rows belong together. Height is the work running in that domain in that year, weighted by what failure would have cost — life-safety ×3, a statutory obligation ×2.2, the estate itself ×1.5, an evaluation ×1. Every project declares which of those it was, so each ridge traces to an entry you can open and disagree with. Only the work that used this technology is counted, so what shows here is the company it kept rather than the record around it. Height and color are on the record-wide scale rather than this page’s own, so a modest estate draws a modest landscape and any two of these pages can be read against each other.

Troubleshooting and configuring ATM, Frame Relay, Token Ring and Fast Ethernet at Coleman Technologies from 1999, and bonded multilink serial on the GE intercontinental telemetry network.

These are obsolete and the entry is not a claim to current skill. It is here because a career record that quietly drops the technologies it began on misrepresents the shape of the journey — and because the habits formed on constrained, expensive, unreliable links are exactly the ones that made later designs assume a circuit would fail rather than hope it would not.

Applied in

  • Jacksonville Public Library Network2005–2023Eighteen years and two full redesigns of a central library and its branches, from the Main Library's opening to the carrier handoff.
  • GE International Power Generation Monitoring Network2002–2004Real-time plant telemetry from generating facilities in China and Australia back to a monitoring center in Florida.
  • JEA Power Quality Metering Network2001–2004Voltage sags, swells and harmonics measured at ten substations — one template design, an addressing plan built for it, and fiber off the ground grid, before the data was aggregated into the PIE SCADA platform.
  • JEA Utility SCADA and Redundant Control Sites2000–2004SCADA across 24 treatment plant sites on a SONET and ATM core — water and wastewater engineered as separate systems, with the control network separated from the corporate one two decades before the industry had a name for it.
  • Water Treatment Facilities WAN/LAN1999–2002WAN and LAN design for water treatment facilities, with PIX firewall and web monitoring.
  • National Insurance Carrier Enterprise WAN1999–2001Five sites joined over an AT&T frame relay cloud at committed rates from 32K to 320K — an era when the design had to decide what mattered, because not everything could.
  • StorComm Teleradiology Platform1997–1999Diagnostic imaging delivered to radiologists at home over ISDN and dial-up — telemedicine fifteen years before the market used the word.

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