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                                                                   EXHIBIT 10(d)

                                 Robert Barcum
                             Employment Agreement

THIS EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made this1st day of June, 2001
between Netplex Systems, Inc. a corporation ("Employer"), and Robert Barcum
("Employee").

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and obligations
hereinafter set forth, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby
acknowledged,  the parties agree as follows:


1)  Employment and Duties. Employee shall serve as Employer's President of the
    Netplex Systems business. Employee shall perform all of the duties
    associated with his position and such other duties as may be assigned by his
    supervisors. He shall be responsible for the overall direction and
    profitability of the Netplex Systems business subject to the supervision of
    the Chief Executive Officer and Board or Directors of Netplex Group, Inc.,
    or such other supervisor as Employer may from time-to-time designate.
    Employer may, from time to time, extend or curtail Employee's duties in its
    discretion. If Employee is elected or appointed as a director or an officer
    of Employer, Employee shall serve in such capacity or capacities without
    further compensation. Nothing herein shall be construed, however, to require
    Employee's election or appointment as a director or an officer. Furthermore,
    in the event Employee's employment terminates for any reason, he shall and
    hereby does resign all officer or director positions he may hold effective
    as of the date of such termination.

2)  Compensation.  During the term of this Agreement, Employer shall pay
    Employee a salary and bonus as follows:

    a)  Salary.  Employee's annual salary rate shall be $150,000

    b)  Bonus.  Employee shall be a participant in the Employer's bonus plan
        for the President of Netplex Systems business as established and
        maintained by Employer subject to all terms and conditions of that bonus
        program, as it may be modified or terminated in Employer's sole
        discretion.

    c)  Other Benefits.  Employee shall be eligible to participate in all
        employee benefit plans and programs offered from time to time to all
        full-time employees of Employer, in accordance with and to the extent
        permitted by the terms of those plans and programs, as the same may be
        modified or terminated in Employer's discretion from time-to-time.

    d)  Sale of Netplex Systems.  Employee's base salary shall be $250,000 upon
        the event of a sale of Netplex Systems Inc. to a non-financial acquirer
        (i.e. a sale or merger with a similar company).

3)  Extent of Services.  Employee shall devote his full working time and his
    entire attention and energy and best efforts to the business and affairs of
    Employer and shall not be engaged in any other business activity, whether or
    not such business activity is pursued for gain, profit or other pecuniary
    advantage, unless Employer consents to Employee's involvement in such
    business activity in writing. This restriction shall not be construed as
    preventing Employee from owning up to 5% of the stock in any publicly traded
    corporation that does not compete with Employer or any of its parents,
    subsidiaries or affiliated entities (collectively "affiliates".)

4)  Term.  This Agreement shall remain in effect from its effective date until
    it is terminated.  Either party may terminate this Agreement as follows:

    a)  Employee Resignation.  Employee may resign from employment at any time
        by giving thirty days advance written notice to Employer.
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    b)  Termination without cause.  Employer may, without cause, terminate this
        Agreement at any time by giving 30 days' advance written notice to
        Employee or continuation of salary in lieu of such notice. In that
        event, Employee, if requested by Employer, shall continue to render his
        services, and shall be paid his regular compensation up to the date of
        termination. In addition, Employee shall be paid on the date of
        termination benefit equal to one year's salary at the highest salary
        rate in effect during the term of this Agreement , payable in
        installments in accordance with Employer's payroll practices (less all
        amounts required to be withheld and deducted).

    c)  Termination for cause.  Employer may terminate this Agreement at any
        time with or without notice for cause. Upon such termination for cause
        no additional compensation under any provision of this Agreement shall
        be due. For the purposes of this Agreement, the term "cause" shall mean:

        i)    Employee's conviction (including a plea of nolo contendre) for any
              felony or any crime of moral turpitude.

        ii)   Employee's violation of Employer's drug and alcohol policy as
              determined by Employer.

        iii)  Employee's violation of Employer's policy against sexual
              harassment or discrimination as determined by Employer.

        iv)   Employer's determination that Employee has falsified any
              documents or information or that Employee has misappropriated
              any property or funds of Employer.

        v)    Employee's material breach of any term of this Agreement.

        vi)   Any other act or omission by Employee which constitutes a breach
              of his duty of loyalty or which materially damages or interferes
              with Employer's operations.

    d)  Termination Upon a Change in Control.  If there is a "change in
        control" of Employer and Employee is terminated other than for cause
        within 12 months after such change in control, Employee will receive a
        lump sum cash payment equal to the sum of all salary and bonus at target
        level that would have been paid for the then remaining duration of this
        Agreement, but in no case less than one year of salary and bonus at
        target performance. Employee may elect to continue to be covered under
        all of Employer's health and major medical plans then in effect for a
        period of 18 months pursuant to the federal COBRA law. Employer shall
        pay Employer's costs to continue such coverage until the earlier of 18
        months or the date Employee becomes eligible for coverage under another
        employer's health plan.

        For purposes of this Agreement, the term "change in control" is defined
        to include (a) a tender offer or exchange offer made and consummated for
        ownership of Employer stock representing 50% or more of the combined
        voting power of Employer's outstanding securities; (b) the sale or
        transfer of substantially all of Employer's assets to another
        corporation which is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Employer; (c)
        any transaction relating to Employer which must be described in
        accordance with item 5(f) of Schedule 14A of Regulation 14A of the
        Securities and Exchange Commission; (d) any merger or consolidation of
        Employer with another corporation, where less than 50% of the
        outstanding voting shares of the surviving or resulting corporation are
        owned in the aggregate by Employer's former stockholders; (e) any tender
        offer, exchange offer, merger, sale of assets and/or contested election
        which results in a total change in the composition of Employer's board
        of directors; or (f) the sale or transfer of Employer's assets to
        another corporation which is not a wholly-owned subsidiary of Employer.

        The amounts paid to Executive pursuant to this subparagraph will be
        deemed severance pay in consideration of Employee's past services to the
        Employer and his continued services from the date of this Agreement.
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        Employee will have no duty to mitigate his damages by seeking other
        employment, nor will Employee's severance pay hereunder be reduced or
        offset by any future earnings.

    e)  Illness or Disability.  To the extent permitted by applicable law, if
        Employee is absent from his employment by reason of illness or other
        incapacity for more than 12 consecutive weeks, Employer may, after such
        12 consecutive weeks but only if Employee then is unable to return to
        active employment with Employer because he is unable to perform all of
        the essential functions of his job with or without reasonable
        accommodation, terminate Employee's employment by furnishing him with
        written notice of termination. Employer shall pay Employee compensation
        during any period of illness or incapacity in accordance with and to the
        extent required by Employer's sick pay policy then in effect.

    f)  Death.  Employee's employment shall terminate by reason of his death.

    g)  Consequences of Termination.  Except as expressly provided otherwise
        herein, in the event of any termination under this paragraph, Employer
        shall pay Employee or in the event of his death, Employee's estate, for
        all accrued but unpaid salary and vacation, as of the termination date,
        and will not be required to pay Employee any severance benefits.
        Furthermore, except as required by law or plan documents, Employee's
        entitlement to, accrual of and participation in all Employer benefit
        plans and programs shall cease as of the terminated date. The provisions
        of Section 5, 6, 7 and 8 shall survive the termination of this
        Agreement.

5)  Restrictive Covenants.  During the term of this Agreement and for a period
    of one (1) year thereafter, Employee shall not, either as an individual on
    his own account or for any other person or entity as a partner, joint
    venturer, consultant, employee, agent, officer, director or shareholder,
    directly or indirectly:

    a)  Enter into or engage in any business competitive with that of Employer
        within fifty (50) miles of any city of the United States in which
        Employer is then doing business, providing Employee has had access to
        any of Employer's trade secrets or Confidential Information (as defined
        in section 7 below)

    b)  Solicit or attempt to solicit any of Employer's then current or former
        customers with the intent or purpose to perform services for such
        customers which are the same or similar to those provided to such
        customers by Employer or to sell to such customers goods which are the
        same or similar to those provided to the customers by Employer; or

    c)  Solicit or attempt to solicit any person who then is or was in the
        preceding six (6) months an employee or consultant of Employer to leave
        the services of Employer, or hire or contract with any such person.

    Employee acknowledges and agrees that the restrictions in this paragraph 6
    are fair and reasonable to protect the legitimate business interests of
    Employer. In the event Employee breaches any provision of this paragraph 6,
    Employee agrees that Employer will suffer irreparable injury and damages
    will be difficult to ascertain. Thus, Employer shall be entitled to
    injunctive relief in addition to all other relief that a court may award.

    7)  Confidential Information.  Employee acknowledges and agrees that all
        Confidential Information acquired by Employee in the course of his
        employment under this Agreement is valuable proprietary information of
        Employer. Employee agrees that Employee will not, during Employee's
        period of employment with Employer and thereafter, except as required by
        law or as duly authorized in the performance of Employee's duties for
        the benefit of Employer, directly or indirectly use, disclose, provide,
        or otherwise make available, in whole or in part, any Confidential
        Information.

        Employee further agrees to take all appropriate action requested by
        Employer, whether by instruction, agreement, or otherwise, to ensure the
        protection, confidentiality and security of the Confidential Information
        and to satisfy Employee's obligations under this Agreement.
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    All documents, materials, hardware, software, systems and other tangible
    things which contain any Confidential Information in any medium shall be the
    sole and exclusive property of Employer and/or where applicable, its
    customers, clients, brokers, and/or strategic partners. Employee agrees that
    upon termination of employment, Employee will return all property of
    Employer and all copies, excerpts or summaries thereof in his possession,
    custody or control.

    For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Confidential Information" shall
    include all information not readily available in the public domain (but
    including information in the public domain due to a violation of an
    obligation not to disclose it) and shall include all of the following,
    whether in oral, written, electronic, graphical or visual form which is
    either provided or delivered directly or indirectly to Employee, visually
    perceived by Employee, and/or learned by Employee during the course of
    Employee's employment by Employer.

    a)  Employer's and its customers', brokers', clients' and strategic
        partners' operations, methods of doing business, research and
        development, know-how, staff lists, prospective staff lists, customer,
        client and broker lists, prospective customer, client and broker lists,
        manufacturing methods and procedures, private processes, computer
        programs, algorithms, finances, services and methods and procedures
        whereby such services are provided, formulae, compositions, machines,
        equipment, apparatus, operations, potential acquisitions, prospective
        and executed agreements, and

    b)  Employer's and its customers' brokers', clients' and strategic partners'
        source and object code, computer programs and associated documentation,
        manuals, presentation material, marketing strategies, usage
        methodologies, and other printed graphical or visual perceptible
        materials describing the use or design of software and/or strategic
        plans; and

    c)  All documentation, manuals, presentation material, usage methodologies,
        and all other oral, written, electronic, printed, graphical or visually
        perceptible information or materials pertaining to or describing the use
        and/or design of Employer's internet web sites, as well as the source
        and object code comprising same; and

   d)  All information or data, whether in oral, written, graphical or visual
       form, and whether stored on media or electronically transmitted which
       relates to past, present, or future products, techniques, designs or
       other technical data, trade secrets, information designated by patent
       and/or copyright or trademark or servicemark, customer lists or other
       compilations for marketing or development, or regarding administrative
       management, financial, marketing or manufacturing activities of Employer,
       its customers, brokers, clients and strategic partners.

8)  Inventions.  Employee shall, without royalty or additional consideration,
    disclose promptly in writing and assign immediately, and hereby assigns to
    Employer, all of Employee's right, title and interest in and to, any
    inventions, improvements, original works of authorship, formulas, processes,
    programs, techniques, know-how, data, developments or discoveries, whether
    or not patentable or copyrightable, (hereinafter referred to collectively as
    "Work Product") which Employee may make or conceive, or first reduce to
    practice or learn either solely or jointly with others, during the term of
    the Agreement through Employee's performance of services for Employer.
    Employee shall, upon request from Employer, execute, acknowledge and deliver
    to Employer all necessary documents, and shall take such other action as may
    be necessary to assist Employer in obtaining by statute or treaty in any and
    all countries, Letters Patent, copyrights, trademarks or other statutory or
    common law protections for Work Product covered by this Paragraph 8, vesting
    title and right in such patents, copyrights, trademarks and other
    protections in Employer and its designees in any and all countries. Employee
    shall further assist Employer in every proper way to enforce such patents,
    copyrights, trademarks and other protections as Employer may desire and
    hereby gives Employer the power of attorney to execute all documents and
    take all such actions Employer deems necessary to effectuate this Paragraph
    8. Employee's obligation to deliver documents and assist Employer under this
    Paragraph 8 apply both during and subsequent to the term of this Agreement.
    Employee represents and warrants that all Work Product created, developed or
    reduced to practice or otherwise produced pursuant to this Agreement shall
    be accurate and shall be fully usable for the purpose for which it is
    designed. Employee warrants that any use by Employer of such Work Product
    shall not infringe the rights of any third parties. Employee further grants
    to Employer without further royalty or consideration, a license to, in
    Employer's sole discretion and in any medium use and publish any Work
    Product.
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9)   Expenses.  Employee is authorized to incur only such authorized expenses
     for promoting Employer's business as Employer may, from time to time, deem
     reasonable and necessary. Employer will reimburse Employee for all such
     expenses upon Employee's presentation of receipts and an itemized
     accounting therefor in accordance with Employer's policy, as it may be
     amended from time to time in Employer's discretion.

10)  Notice. All notices required to be given hereunder shall be in writing and
     shall be deemed to have been duly given on the date received, if delivered
     personally or by overnight mail, or on the third day after mailing, if sent
     by registered or certified mail, return receipt requested, postage prepaid,
     and addressed to the party at the address set forth below or to such other
     address as either party hereto may subsequently designate in writing to the
     other party a similar manner.

11)  Arbitration.  All disputes, controversies, or differences arising in
     connection with the validity, execution, performance, breach, or
     termination of this Agreement (except those arising under paragraphs 6, 7
     or 8) shall be finally settled in an arbitration proceeding under the
     Commercial Rules of the American Arbitration Association then in effect by
     three arbitrators with expertise in employment and labor law in the
     computer consulting/information technology industry.  Selection of the
     arbitrators shall be as follows:  each party shall appoint one arbitrator
     within twenty (20) days after the parties have agreed to go to arbitration,
     and those two arbitrators shall appoint a third arbitrator who shall act as
     chairman, within a twenty (20) day period thereafter.  If the parties fail
     to appoint the chairman within said period, the parties will apply to the
     American Arbitration Association for appointment of the third arbitrator.
     The parties agree to be bound by the findings of the arbitration.
     Notwithstanding the foregoing, the courts shall have jurisdiction over
     injunctive or provisional relief pending arbitration.  The non-prevailing
     party to the arbitration shall pay all the prevailing party's expenses of
     the arbitration, including reasonable attorneys' fees and other costs and
     expenses incurred in connection with the prosecution or defense of such
     arbitration.

12)  Construction of Agreement.  This Agreement shall be interpreted, construed
     and governed by and under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, without
     reference to the principles of conflicts of law therein and Employee
     unconditionally submits to the jurisdiction of the courts located in the
     State of Virginia in all matters relating to or arising from this
     Agreement.

     a)  If any provision or clause of this Agreement or the application
         thereof to either party is held to be invalid by a court or arbitrator
         of competent jurisdiction, then such provisions shall be severed
         herefrom, and such invalidity shall not affect any other provision of
         this Agreement, the balance of which shall remain in and have its
         intended full force and effect.

     b)  In the event that the provisions of paragraphs 6 or 7 of this Agreement
         shall ever be deemed to exceed the time or geographical limits
         permitted by applicable law, then such provisions shall be reformed to
         the maximum time and geographical limits permitted by applicable law.

     c)  References herein to "Paragraphs" or "Subparagraphs" means the various
         paragraphs and subparagraphs of this Agreement. The headings and titles
         of the paragraphs of this Agreement are not a part of this Agreement,
         but are for convenience only and are not intended to define, limit or
         construe the contents of the various paragraphs. The term "including"
         means including, without limitation, unless the context clearly
         indicates otherwise.
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     d)  This Agreement contains the entire agreement between the parties hereto
         and supersedes all other agreements, discussions or understandings with
         respect to the subject matter hereof, and there are no understandings,
         representations or warranties of any kind between the parties except as
         expressly set forth herein.

     e)  This Agreement may not be modified except by a writing duly signed by
         both parties hereto.

     f)  Neither this Agreement nor any right or obligation of Employee
         hereunder may be assigned by Employee without the prior written consent
         of Employer. Subject thereto, this Agreement and the covenants and
         conditions herein contained shall inure to the benefit of, and shall be
         binding upon, the parties hereto and their respective successors and
         permitted assigns.

     g)  This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, each of
         which shall be deemed an original and all of which shall constitute one
         and the same instrument.

     h)  The wavier of either party of a breach or default by the other party of
         any provision of this Agreement shall not operate or be construed as a
         waiver of any other, continuing or subsequent breach or default by such
         party.


IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Agreement has been duly executed by the parties as of
the date first set forth above.


NETPLEX SYSTEMS, INC.                        ROBERT BARCUM



By:______________________________            By:_______________________________




Date:____________________________            Date:_____________________________