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Brandon Bailey

Phoenix,AZ

Summary

Experienced Optical Transport Engineer with expertise in designing, deploying, and maintaining advanced network systems. Committed to exceeding expectations through dedication, innovation, optimization, service excellence, and process improvement.

Overview

21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Optical Network Engineer III

HonorHealth
Phoenix, AZ
09.2024 - Current
  • Designed, deployed, and maintained the optical network backbone connecting all data centers, POPs, hospitals, and remote clinics with hybrid cloud infrastructure, ensuring 24/7 reliability and 99.999% availability for critical healthcare systems.
  • Delivered connectivity using diverse transport methodologies tailored to specific needs, including DWDM, CWDM, ROADM, OLS, and 400GZR+.
  • Implemented testing standards and requirements prior to circuit acceptance, independently stress-testing circuits and dark fiber with Smart OTDR, OSA, optical test sets, and meters for BERT and RFC2544 compliance.
  • Reimagined and optimized network protection strategies, reducing Capex by 50% without compromising QoS, simplifying complexity, and improving MTTR by 35%.
  • Maintained vendor relationships through quarterly business reviews (QBRs) to ensure service quality alignment with carriers and equipment vendors.
  • Contributed to capital planning, vendor negotiations, and procurement strategies for multimillion-dollar infrastructure improvements.
  • Mentored junior engineers through performance coaching and knowledge-sharing.

Lead Optical Network Engineer

Charles Schwab
Phoenix, AZ
01.2018 - 09.2024
  • Designed, deployed, and maintained optical infrastructure across multiple U.S. zones and regions, utilizing dark fiber, metro rings, OLS, and IOC, delivering thousands of Tbps of protected bandwidth.
  • Managed the full lifecycle of deployment, including dark fiber route selection and vendor procurement.

Metro Network Engineer

Google (Astreya Contract)
Chicago, IL
01.2014 - 01.2015
  • Deployed optical network systems connecting all of Google's POPs and Data Centers in the Chicago region.
  • Oversaw equipment installation, network deployment, vendor management, adds/moves/upgrades, cross-connects, peer circuits, and acceptance testing.
  • Participated in 24/7 call rotation, ensuring support for service outages and network degraded emergencies.
  • Conducted floor-to-ceiling audits of POPs and data centers across multiple U.S. cities, verifying installation and circuit functionality.
  • Upgraded peering circuits to add 100G capacity.
  • Led troubleshooting and root cause analysis of errored circuits and network outages, reducing MTTR by 25%.
  • Performed site surveys to ensure readiness, including space, power, grounding, and HVAC capacity.

Optical Network Engineer

Global Capacity
Chicago, IL
01.2005 - 01.2014
  • Served as an implementation engineer for optical equipment manufacturers and carriers, deploying complex greenfield/brownfield optical transport systems, DWDM, and CWDM networks for 100+ enterprise clients, including municipalities, Fortune 100 companies, brokerage firms, and hospitals.
  • Conducted site surveys to ensure readiness, verifying dark fiber builds, cabling (fiber/copper), grounding, HVAC capacity, and access to minimize change orders.
  • Developed engineering documentation, including MOPs, SOWs, shelf layouts, circuit provision docs, test plans, power budgets, labeling files, and ICRLs (Installer Cabling Run Lists) for efficient network deployments.
  • Provided onsite/remote training for customer NOC teams post-deployment to facilitate smooth network handoff and maintenance.

Education

Advanced Telecommunications Training -

U.S. Army
Fort Campbell, KY
01.1997

Austin Peay State University -

Austin Peay State University
Clarksville, TN

Skills

  • Optical transport and DWDM
  • Network design and implementation
  • Cloud migrations (Azure, AWS)
  • Ethernet and MPLS
  • Routing protocols (BGP, OSPF)
  • Cisco and Ciena platforms
  • Arista 7000 series
  • Network monitoring tools (SolarWinds, Wireshark, Infoblox, Microsoft Office Suite)
  • Testing methodologies (RFC2544, BERT, latency testing)

Certification

  • Agile/Scrum Master, Phoenix, AZ, 01/01/19
  • Cisco ONS/NCS Advanced Services Platform, Richmond, TX, 01/01/18
  • Cisco ONS 15454 Basic (MSTP), Richmond, TX, 01/01/07
  • Ciena 6500/5100/8700 Packet Optical Platform
  • CCNA Completion, 01/01/17
  • Certified AT&T L4 Installer/Engineer

Timeline

Optical Network Engineer III

HonorHealth
09.2024 - Current

Lead Optical Network Engineer

Charles Schwab
01.2018 - 09.2024

Metro Network Engineer

Google (Astreya Contract)
01.2014 - 01.2015

Optical Network Engineer

Global Capacity
01.2005 - 01.2014

Advanced Telecommunications Training -

U.S. Army

Austin Peay State University -

Austin Peay State University

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