Allyn’s 20 years of experience span network engineering, content acceleration and delivery, digital signage systems, and professional services delivery, and include leading multiple high-profile projects for Fortune 500 clients. Allyn has worked on a variety of engagements from presales engineering to post-sales maintenance and everything in between. Prior to joining Nexum, Allyn provided engineering and technical services for the entire Asia-Pacific and Middle East region for a digital signage company. He also previously worked for a large public university and a biomedical testing company. Allyn has been responsible for almost the entire ecosystem of IT projects including customer-driven system design, global deployments, managed service customer network operations, and end systems support and troubleshooting.
One of Allyn’s largest career projects was project lead on a digital menu board rollout for a leading QSR chain. The deployment consisted of installing a single system in 13,000 different locations across the U.S. in under 6 months, and involved coordinating multiple install companies, logistics teams, site contacts, and system provisioning. Other projects have included zero downtime campus network conversions, wireless network deployments, datacenter migrations, and new location network turn-ups. Allyn enjoys learning how to fit new systems into the IT landscape. He has worked with Juniper, Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Bay/Nortel, Red Hat, VMware, Packeteer, Barracuda Networks, and Blackboard CampusWide, among others.
Allyn holds a Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in Computer Science and Psychology from Eastern Michigan University. He enjoys spending time with his family and many other things.
