David Smith
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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RockstarDavid Smith is a results-oriented IT leader with over 20 years of experience designing and managing global networking and mobility infrastructures, primarily at Nortel. He has led deployment of enterprise VoIP with QoS, engineered secure desktop clients for dial/Wi‑Fi/VPN access, and managed large-scale outsourcing and divestiture projects across multiple business units. Skilled in unified communications, routing (OSPF/BGP/MPLS), wireless security (802.1x/802.11i), VPNs, and endpoint security, he blends hands-on technical depth with people-first management that builds trust and drives team autonomy. David’s experience spans data center support to global mobility services, giving him a rare perspective on both operational delivery and strategic infrastructure transitions. He is practiced at developing business cases, policies, and capacity planning to align technology with organizational change. Based in Brampton, Ontario, he combines vendor-agnostic engineering (Nortel/Avaya, Juniper, Cisco, SonicWall) with proven program leadership during complex divestitures.
10 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (87)
connectivity10
embedded10
wireless10
nest10
connections10
google10
ipv610
thread10
data-model9
lte9
openthread9
networking9
opc9
compatibility9
iot9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
csa-iot/data-model
Feb 2019 - Nov 2022
Data Model Working Group open source repository
Contributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 306 commits in 3 years 9 months
working-groupdata-modeldata-science
mmb-davidsmith/openthread
Dec 2022 - Jul 2023
OpenThread released by Google is an open-source implementation of the Thread networking protocol
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
networkingreleasedthreadopenthreadnetwork
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