Allyn’s over 25 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. Before 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 most significant career projects was as a project lead on a digital menu board rollout for a leading QSR chain. The deployment consisted of installing a single system in 13,000 locations across the U.S. in under 6 months while coordinating multiple install companies, logistics teams, site contacts, and system provisioning. Other projects have included zero-downtime campus network conversions, wireless network deployments, data center 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.
