Brandon Saunders

Brandon@ReidConsultingGroup.com

An engineer and entrepreneur, Brandon Saunders has a reputation as a solid network designer who understands the needs of business and the demands of today’s competitive technology environment.

In 2002, Brandon co-founded BCS Engineering, which provides custom programming for e-commerce and network design for wireless, LAN, WAN, and QoS applications. He developed a design to cover 34 counties in Southeastern Ohio with Metropolitan class fiber-optic and wireless IP connectivity.

Brandon believes in vendor-neutral design, always selecting the best equipment for the project at hand without favoring any single vendor. He has worked with Cisco, Juniper, F5, Bluesocket, Intel, IBM, and HP/Compaq Alpha in various applications.

Previously, Brandon was a senior network engineer at Ohio University, where he created the foundation architecture for the university’s 10G network backbone encompassing 100 buildings and seven regional campuses with a total of 20,000 computers. He developed no-single-point-of-failure network architectures for Ohio University’s data center firewalls and a firewall/Intrusion Detection System (IDS) at the network border, and he managed the deployment of the border firewall/IDS with minimum service disruption. He also was a primary member of the team that implemented 802.11 wireless networking on the Athens campus.

Brandon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering from Ohio University’s Russ College of Engineering and Technology. He led the college’s Electric Bobcat team, overseeing two complete redesigns of the electric racecar, and was selected for the prestigious Robe Leadership Institute, an honors class created to study leadership in engineering and business.