SUMMARY:

• Talented and experienced Network Engineer with over 7 years of IT experience including 6 years of Cisco LAN/WAN design and support.
• Industry recognized certifications including Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), CompTIA Network+, and Cisco Meraki Network Associate (CMNA)
• Outstanding troubleshooting and problem solving skills.
• Proven track record of providing proactive and reactive IT solutions to both executive and peer level colleagues.
• Adept at relaying information to both high level engineers and non­technical audiences.
• Strong leader with experience in training and mentoring junior engineers.
• Excellent time and project management skills in network implementation and reconfiguration projects.
• Strong experience with both remote and hands - on LAN/WAN support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• F5 BigIP
• IPsec
• GRE
• IPv6
• HSRP
• VRRP
• RSTP
• VTP
• BGP
• MPLS
• IS - IS
• VPC
• VPN
• EIGRP
• RIP
• OSPF
• QoS
• VoIP
• DNS
• Windows
• 98, ME, 2000, XPVista, 7, 10, Server
• 2003,2012
• Active Directory
• Remedy
• Service Now

EXPERIENCE:

Network Engineer

Confidential, Orlando, FL

Responsibilities:

• In my current role I am a contractor working on the Confidential account for Confidential .
• In this role I am on a team of engineers responsible for Network Security and Firewall administration.
• I work on an International Enterprise network where I manage Cisco ASA 5580s, Juniper SRX 5800s, Checkpoint R70 and R77, and Palo Alto 5060s and 3060s.
• This role requires me to have an in-depth knowledge of enterprise and data center routing and switching so on a daily basis I am verifying BGP, MPLS, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, and RIPng routing paths and VPC, Bundle-Ethernet, and Port-Channel L2 Technologies.
• I work with Cisco Nexus 5k/7k/9k, Cisco ASR 9006, Cisco 4506 Chassis, F5 Viprion, LTM, and GTM.
• I directly assist Tier 1 engineers with troubleshooting of network related issues and support tickets.
• We utilize Service Now for Incident Management, Problem Management and Change Management.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Responsibilities:

• I worked as a Network Engineer for Confidential Solutions. I was responsible for supporting the South Carolina
• State wide Data and Radio Network Infrastructure for Public Safety Customers.
• In this role, I was directly responsible for programming, deployment, and management of Cisco, HP, and Confidential switches and routers, Cisco, Juniper and Fortinet Firewalls, and Confidential radio system equipment.
• I worked on a team with Radio Engineers as the Network resource to field network related questions and I am responsible for R&D for new Confidential Public Safety data services and applications.
• In this role, I was part of an on-call rotation and on a team responsible for Disaster Recovery operations.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Responsibilities:

• As a contractor for ETeam, I worked as a Network Engineer for Confidential .
• In that role, I was on a team responsible for supporting a large enterprise environment consisting of 6 state of the art data centers, 1 large campus environment and over 20 remote locations across the country.
• Cisco ASR 1002/1006, Catalyst 6500 series, Catalyst 3500 series, Catalyst 3700 series, Nexus 5K/7K, Cisco ASA 5510/5520/5585 , along with Juniper, Palo Alto, and Checkpoint firewall solutions and F5 Big IP load­balancer administration.

Lead Field Services Technician

Confidential, Raleigh, NC

Responsibilities:

• As Lead Field Services Technician I was responsible for managing and maintain South Carolina hospitality networks as Columbia, SC remote technician, I performed complete installation of Guest Wireless Internet Systems, performed Site and Wireless surveys for potential and upcoming client networks.
• Program Cisco 2900 series and 3700 series switches, Cisco 2900 series routers, Nomadix Gateway servers, and Cisco, Motorola, and Ruckus access points and Wireless Access Point controllers for installations.

Network Administrator

Confidential, Lugoff, SC

Responsibilities:

• As Network Administrator, I installed the Voice and Data wiring in the office building, Installed and Maintained network devices such as Windows 7 Workstations, Cisco 2600 series routers, Cisco 2900 series switches, HP MFP Devices, perform weekly system backups of Windows Server 2003 data, built company website, and assisted in dispatching Freight drivers all over the nation for different distribution companies.

Technical Engineer

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Responsibilities:

• As Technical Engineer with Confidential, I administered Avaya IP Phone systems and Avaya IP Phones, Installed and maintained the Data Center for Application and Data hosting, I was on a small team responsible for Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper­V administration for Exchange and 2x application hosting.
• I was responsible for troubleshooting connectivity to Application Server from Thin Clients and Network printers at remote locations.

PC Technician

Confidential, Greenville, SC

Responsibilities:

• As PC Technician, I performed installations and removals of networking equipment for the Confidential .
• Installed Windows 7 workstations and removed older Windows XP workstations.
• Re­imaged Windows XP workstations and package them for shipment and wholesale in company warehouse.

Help Desk Technician

Confidential, Columbia, SC

Responsibilities:

• Service Windows XP workstations and assist users with upgraded equipment and troubleshooting of network printers and software.
• Supported and maintain Data Center for Confidential .