Richard Ellis
Lead Sales Engineer at Lumen Technologies
Greater St. Louis United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Ellis is a veteran lead sales engineer with 35 years in telecom and 24 years focused on network solution selling, currently designing technical solutions for Lumen’s transport, security, cloud, and voice portfolios. He blends deep hands-on experience from central office switching and CPE work to senior presales and post-sale implementations, making him equally comfortable with architecture, project handoff, and operations. Known for turning complex RFP requirements into practical, deployable designs, he has supported Fortune 500 accounts across MPLS, SDWAN, Ethernet, private line, VoIP/SIP, and multi-cloud integrations. Based in Greater St. Louis, he couples formal electrical engineering training with Cisco academy mastery and a pragmatic “just a hacker” mindset that surfaces creative, low-friction solutions.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Missouri University of Science and TechnologyAssociates Degree – Electronic Engineering Technology, Associates Degree – Electronic Engineering Technology at Saint Louis Community CollegeCisco Networking Academy Graduate, 4.0 GPA, Cisco Networking Academy Graduate, 4.0 GPA at St. Charles Community College
Github Skills (25)
linux10
arch10
post-installation10
manjaro10
archlinux10
wifi9
nmcli7
command-line-interface5
purescript5
vpn5
javascript4
bash4
snowpack4
parcel4
esbuild4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rickellis/SST
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 16 pushes in 1 month
rickellis/SVG-Weather-Icons
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:2 commits, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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