SUMMARY

10 years of enterprise level experience working with complex, high performance network with multiple sites/data center and trading facilities.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Protocols: VXLAN, OTV, FabricPath, VPC, MLAG, Fiber Channel, FCOE, FCIP, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, HSRP, VARP, VRRP, BFD, Multicast, MPLS, Spanning Tree, IPSEC/VPN, and DMVPN

Cisco Switches/Routers: Nexus 2200, Nexus 5000, Nexus 5500, Nexus 6000,

Nexus 7000, Catalyst 6500, 3750, 3560, Catalyst 4500, and ASR100x

Cisco SAN Switches: MDS 9710 Director, and MDS 9250i

Cisco Firewalls: ASA 5505

Juniper Router: J2300 and MX960

Juniper Switches: EX2200, EX3200 and EX4200

Arista Switches: 7500, 7150, and 7280E

Juniper Firewalls: SRX100, SRX200, SRX3600

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform analysis and diagnosis of highly complex networking problems.
• Build simulated networks to resolve problems and compatibility issues, and perform an analysis of network designs
• Provide improvement opportunities and recommendations in products and IOS
• Keep up - to-date with the latest technology products, to provide high-quality support in current and future services.
• Assisted in tech-refresh of NYC DoITT PSAC1 Datacenter, which included critical applications for the FDNY, and NYPD which support NYC 911 Systems
• Provided recommendations, config review for the FDNY network

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Cisco Nexus switches 5000, 5500, 6000, 7000, 9000 series switches engineering/deployment to support the large TPA/General Purpose Pods.
• Deployment of Cisco 6500 switches Pod deployments and design.
• Deployment of VPC on the Nexus 6000, and Nexus 9000 to provide resiliency to Citi servers,
• B2B Pod designs and deployments for connections to Citi partners.
• Deployment of Arista switches for IP Fabric for Server Farm infrastructure specifically 7508s, 7150s and 7208Es switches.
• Worked on design and deployment of the network for the new Citi Datacenter in Mexico which involved the deployment of Cisco Nexus Switches, Juniper MX960, Cisco IOS Routers/Switches
• As a SME hold conference calls on weekly basis to review and fix errors in design’s submitted by various engineers.
• Currently working tech-refresh project to redesign and re-deploy the TPA (Third Party Access) environment in which all EOL equipment was replaced.
• Network design and implementation validation for higher quality of service delivery.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain company’s network infrastructure, including maintaining change flow, designing and coding of routers and switches, and configuration of routing protocols for EIGRP, RIP and OSPF.
• Install and manage Cisco hardware, including 3800, 3700, 3600, and 2600 series routers, and 6500, 4500, 3750 layer2/3 switches.
• Create and implement new router and switch processes covering QoS, multicasting, NTP, VLAN configurations, HSRP, network routing/switching, and network management software.
• Oversee the analysis and resolution of second-level technical network issues.
• Help assess feasibility of new products.
• Configure Cisco IOS software and maintain T3 and T1 data circuits.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led various client projects, including replacing 100+ end-of-life market data routers/switches and spearheading a major upgrade of market data from 6500 Sup-2 to Sup-32 and Sup-720 modules.
• Reached project goals with minimal downtime and service interruptions.
• Designed WAN worldwide internal network serving more than 10,000 nodes for Warner Brothers and Warner Music Group divisions.
• Saved costs by consolidating T1 circuits into a single Metro-E for Montreal Stock Exchange.
• Designed, promoted, and implemented standards, procedures, policies to ensure availability, capacity, and performance of Exchange networks in conformance with SLAs.
• Created and deployed fault-tolerant, optimally-routed networks for new and existing market data vendors, trading applications, and high-profile clients for various internal groups.
• Provided Tier 3 support to the NOC to diagnose and resolve complex routing issues.
• Worked with LAN/WAN technologies; implemented market data turn-ups for various hedge funds, clients and data vendors, such as SFTI, ICE, CME, CBOE, NASDAQ, Bloomberg, and Citadel.
• Deployed GWM Offices for U.S. traders and upgrades for ISG users.
• Upgraded IOS Cisco routers/switches, migrated direct client data centers, and upgraded core links from 1 Gig uplinks to 10 Gig uplinks for Confidential Headquarters and various sites.
• Completed project to verify that EDMZ network infrastructure for client was redundant and resilient; achieved client goal to reach 99.99% uptime on application infrastructure.
• Installed and configured six SUSE Linux Servers integrated into Cisco network, SAMBA, and FTP and VPN servers under Windows.
• Performed test throughput between MS Windows and Linux Servers on a Cisco network; identified issues between MS Windows 7 and Linux Servers.

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Played integral role on project to migrate networks for three hospitals and their clinics.
• Worked on Cisco 2950,3550, 3750, 4500, 6500 switches; Cisco 2600, 3845, 7200 routers; ACL, IOS upgrades; Blue Coat configuration.
• Led WAN implementation using T1 service for connectivity between remote clinics and fiber for connectivity between remote clinics.
• Supported and troubleshot Layer-2 LAN technologies, IP technologies, network connectivity, IP addressing, routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, and RIP), VPNs, load balancing, T1 circuits, and QoS.
• Handled Dark Fiber using Extreme Network Switches for WAN for Wyckoff Hospital, Mary Immaculate, and St. John Hospital.
• Built infrastructure with switches for St. John Hospital and Mary Immaculate failover connectivity.
• Designed switching, performed network monitoring, handled site-to-site VPN configurations and installed network infrastructure.
• Migrated 3COM switches to Cisco 3750 POE switches for Aruba Wireless implementation.
• Configured Cisco VPN Concentrator, TCP/IP, DHCP, static IP addressing network, Cisco ASA 5500, PIX 509E/515E, PIX firewalls, CiscoWorks for network monitoring, HSRP, RADIUS authentication, and Aruba Wireless Network.
• Managed project to install, configure and administer a Cisco network, including designing and overseeing the infrastructure for dual connectivity.
• Designed and proposed layer two switching within network with PIX firewall and Cisco routers.
• Handled network connectivity troubleshooting, VPN connectivity, Cisco 1900/2950/3500 racked switches, Red Hat servers, remote print servers, and MS Windows 2003 Server configurations.
• Conducted WAN implementations, QoS configurations, wireless network configurations, network system inventory documentation, IOS upgrades, and protocol routing.
• Configured TCP/IP, DHCP and static IP address networking.
• Implemented security policies for Cisco PIX 515, 509E and 515E.