John Rushing Resume1
John Rushing Resume1
John Rushing Resume1
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
I am a Public Safety Technology Professional with a strong drive for helping others and increasing the safety of
the public overall. I enjoy applying my expertise and experience to new challenges and am always seeking
professional growth opportunities. I love solving technology puzzles, sharing my enthusiasm with others, and
collaborating to innovate. My background includes Public Safety Hardware and Software Deployment, Public
Safety IT Service Management, Sworn Law Enforcement, and Healthcare.
SKILLS
EXPERIENCE
• Deploy evaluations and provide demonstrations of in-car and body-worn video hardware and software
solutions to public safety agencies in support of sellers
• Provided highly focused PremierOne Support attention on-site and remotely for customers experiencing
multiple, complex challenges with their PremierOne environments
• Led a team (7) of Solution Architects with a variety of expertise to deploy hardware and software to support
Motorola Solutions' Public Safety Command Center Software Suite
• Developed, maintained, and delivered highly technical, multi-day training to end customer IT resources.
• Installed and configured complex and highly redundant systems that include Fortigate firewalls, Extreme
switches, clustered VMWare hosts, and BigIP F5 network traffic managers
• Trained customers and peers on technical topics such as System Administration and client software
function and installation/configuration
• Delivered on-site support of new system deployments and major upgrades primarily focused on system
software configuration
• Trained customer administrators to configure and maintain highly complex Public Safety software systems
• Provided direct application support for PremierOne CAD and Mobile, Premier CAD and related applications,
and CommandCentral applications
• Maintained a caseload of service incidents; prioritizing activities and communicating with stakeholders,
managing incidents throughout the service delivery lifecycle
• Monitored systems using System Center, responding to alerts appropriately, maintaining and improving
System Center configuration.
• Oversaw day-to-day technology support of a 911 Center, 4 Law Enforcement agencies, 4 Fire/EMS agencies,
and Emergency Management; coordinated and supervised the work of Pitkin County's help desk vendor for
Public Safety customers.
Law Enforcement (8 Years), TSA Screener (2 Years P/T), And Registered Nurse (8 Years)
1991 - 2013
EDUCATION
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CERTIFICATIONS