John "JT" Haskell

Laramie County Community College | Cheyenne, WY

• Successfully led National Science Foundation (NSF) grants to fund and advance technology education initiatives.
• Engineered and developed a hands-on, real-world lab environment ("LabTech") used by schools to provide students with practical, applicable skills in cybersecurity and networking.
• Authored a full curriculum for core cybersecurity courses, creating lesson plans and labs that resulted in over 15 published course books.
• Employ a variety of teaching methods for adult learners to fully comprehend subject matter using enterprise gear and active learning in a live and remote classroom environment.

Dish Network | Cheyenne, WY

• Mentored and led a team of on-site and remote engineers in DevOps and operations, fostering professional growth through targeted KPIs, one-on-one coaching, and performance assessments.
• Championed a culture of continuous learning and knowledge transfer, successfully reskilling and up-training team members on modern CI/CD environments and cloud technologies.
• Applied machine learning models to automate monitoring, reducing operational costs and using the initiative as a practical training opportunity for the team.

NWSC/UCAR | Cheyenne, WY

• Maintained 6 supercomputers used for research and weather analysis, including the Yellowstone supercomputer.
• Managed a mixed server architecture from HP, DELL, and IBM in a clean room environment with Oracle robotic tape libraries.
• Managed the Internet 2.0 token ring network called the Bi-State Optical Network.