This certification verifies that Douglas has the master-level skills needed to design multi-sites properly, complex Aruba mobile (wireless), and switch (wired) solutions incorporating ClearPass, mobile engagement, and network management. As an Aruba Certified Design Expert, Ulrich has gained extensive engineering knowledge on real-world deployment scenarios and can act as the go-to resource for enterprise mobility projects. Ulrich also has high-level expertise in the following areas:
1. Gather information and plan at a high-level
2. Create detailed designs that include RF Planning, Redundant High-Density Campus Architecture, location services, Outdoor Stadium Very High Density and Remote Access Branch office designs
3. Use Aruba best practices for designing wireless networks in challenging RF environments for redundancy and high availability
4. Acquire the skills needed to assess and analyze a company’s business requirements and design a solution meeting those requirements
5. Focus on solutions for campus LAN and WLAN, including outdoor and high-density scenarios
I’m very excited that Douglas has achieved the ACDX certification. The ACDX is a very complicated, top-tier industry certification. Douglas has worked diligently to learn the Aruba product stack and has positioned himself as an expert in designing network solutions that meet our client’s needs. He continues to excel professionally, as an engineer and a leader, and shares Edafio’s vision for providing excellent service to our clients and our internal teams. It’s a pleasure to get to work with him every day.
Brent Saunders, Network Engineering Team Lead
This certification that Doug has accomplished proves his desire to always improve and enrich his knowledge. His work ethic and professionalism consistently exhibit Edafio’s core values at a high level and on a daily basis. The entire leadership team is proud of Doug and what he continues to accomplish. He is a valued leader within our company.
Mike Trickett, Vice President of Delivery
Douglas brings to his role as a Consulting Network Engineer at Edafio Technology Partners, a decade of experience in the networking and security realm. He leverages his accumulated experience in the design, deployment, and maintenance of complex customer environments, including data centers, sizeable multi-branch enterprise environments, and internet service provider networks for Edafio client networks. Douglas’ experience allows him to assist clients in getting reliable firewall security, wireless, and wired networking that is adequately scoped for each client’s specific needs, from sales to implementation and troubleshooting. In the enterprise realm, Douglas has experienced building personal data centers, refreshing entire networking infrastructures, reconfiguring wireless networks to increase performance, and deploying new networking infrastructures such as SD-WAN and dynamic routing. Douglas has shown a deep commitment to learning and mentorship. When not expanding his knowledge with hands-on experience, Douglas also dedicates time to learning through industry white papers and pursuing industry certifications in a wide variety of networking realms. Some of these include security (CISSP), wireless (ACMP), design (ACDX, CCS-ED), and routing/switching (CCS-EAII, CCS-EC). Douglas then takes this knowledge and shares it through mentoring younger engineers, thoroughly documenting environments he interacts with, and assisting in making quality standards for Edafio. Outside of work, you can find Douglas spending time with his partner and their daughter, taking a class of some kind, or reading up on some new interesting topic.
About Aruba Networks, Inc.
Aruba Networks is a leading provider of next-generation network access solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company’s Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) architecture unifies wired and wireless network infrastructures into one seamless access solution for corporate headquarters, mobile business professionals, remote workers, and guests. This unified approach to access networks dramatically improves productivity and lowers capital and operational costs.
Listed on the NASDAQ and Russell 2000® Index, Aruba is based in Sunnyvale, California, and has operations throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, and the Asia Pacific regions. To learn more, visit Aruba at http://www.arubanetworks.com, for real-time news updates follow Aruba on Twitter and Facebook.
