SUMMARY:

An accomplished, hands - on, goal-oriented Senior Network Solutions Architect with extensive multi-vendor, multi-industry experience encompassing sectors such as finance, healthcare, technology, non-profit, legal and retail. Obtained CCNP(x2), CCNA(x3) and MCP certifications and holds a Bachelor of Science in Information Systems. Consistently demonstrates strong leadership abilities, with proven expertise with engineering projects; planning, designing, implementing and supporting complex high-profile infrastructural brown and greenfield projects resulting in scalability, tight security, cost-savings and resiliency. Exceptional at separating keynote technical marketecture with realworld brass-tack solutions.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE:

• AWS (Amazon Web Services)
• Network Architecture/Engineering
• Data Center/WAN Design
• MPLS, BGP, EIGRP & OSPF
• Cisco ACI/SDN
• WAN Circuit Solutions
• Infrastructure Security
• Network Optimization
• NAC (ForeScout & Cisco ISE)
• Documentation/topologies
• Load Balancing
• VPNs & wireless

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Staging datacenters for Cisco ACI SDN implementation
• Migrating AWS VPCs & VPNs to newly implemented Direct Connect hub-spoke solution
• Optimizing/completing hosted MPLS & DMVPN deployment
• Changing ISPs and upgrading all WAN links to 1Gig
• Managing office relocations and build-outs
• Completing Cisco FirePower IPS deployment
• Supporting Server, App, InfoSec, DevOps, Software Engineering, etc teams with project rollouts
• Preparing infrastructure for upcoming IT audit
• Reviewing maintenance support contracts
• Staging network environment to be automation-ready
• Managed/supported BGP and EIGRP network
• Supporting 4451Xs, 4500X(VSS), ASRs, 3945s, 2960Xs(stacked), Nexus Switches, ASAs, IPS, ISE, etc
• Architected and implemented Cisco ACI in datacenters
• Architected and implemented private+public cloud (hybrid-datacenter) solution with AWS
• Designed and implemented datacenter segmentation
• Designed and implemented datacenter interconnect via Cisco OTV
• Created global segmentation, IP allocation & VLAN design
• Designed and performed various office relocations
• Designed and implemented enterprise Cisco wireless solution
• Designed & configured Solarwinds, Scrutinizer Flow Collector & ThousandEyes
• Swapped out all Netgear switches with enterprise grade Cisco switches, ASAs and routers
• Supported Cisco ISE (802.1x/NAC) on access switches and AnyConnect VPN
• Implemented A10 Application Delivery Controllers (ADC)
• Implemented and supported hosted L3 MPLS solution
• Ensured smooth network datacenter failovers
• Ensured and configured automatic WAN redundancy at all sites
• Created and maintained network diagrams via Visio
• Designed and implemented Cisco Firepower IPS
• Designed and implemented multi-homed eBGP designs

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform Cisco Voice Unified Communication Confidential and translation patterns
• Conduct EOL hardware refresh assessments with recommendations based on complex business needs
• Coordinate with vendors and providers for multiple WAN circuit installations
• Assist with the selection of new data center and WAN design
• Troubleshoot Turret, Speakerbus and other financial service business centric trading systems
• Analyze network behavior with LogRhythm and Gigamon
• Supported EIGRP/BGP MPLS and various VPN connection technologies.
• Migrated datacenter cores from 10 to 40Gig via Nexus 6001s and leveraged vPC+, FEXes, LACP, EIGRP, etc
• Replaced and upgraded end-of-life layer 2 and 3 switches with Cisco 3850 stacks
• Merged and migrated old 6.3(4) PIX 515e configuration to ASA5550 8.4(7)
• Deployed 802.1x via Cisco switches and ForeScout CounterACT appliances
• Deployed and supported MPLS, Riverbed Steelheads and Cisco WiFi

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated and collapsed several branch offices into global network
• Performed Cisco ASA55XX IPSEC and Remote VPN troubleshooting and configurations
• Migrated Layer 2 IDFs to Layer 3 via EIGRP
• Deployed and performed troubleshooting on MPLS BGP WAN
• Utilized InfoBlox for IPAM/DNS/DHCP and QRadar for network behavior security awareness
• Supported and configured Cisco 5508 and WISM wireless controllers
• Managed service providers’ WAN traffic via Palo Alto PA-5020s"
• Designed and configured Cisco ISE for EAP-TLS 802.1X, BYOD and sponsored guest services
• Configured and supported DMVPN phase 2 connectivity
• Planned and configured load balancing/sharing in 3,000 end-user office via migrating from HSRP to GLBP
• Upgraded 300+ network devices and configured them with security, routing and layer 2best practices
• Created and maintained multiple Visio and SolarWinds Orion network topologies

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Project managed and functioned as lead engineer for multiple DWDM 1Gig and MPLS circuits
• Provided framework for collapsing old data-centers to new data-centers
• Deployed Steelhead WAN accelerators, BlueCoat proxy appliances and configured BigIP F5 LTMs
• Configured four data-centers using Cisco ASRs, 3750s, Nexus 7Ks, 5Ks, 2Ks and HP B22 FEXs
• Provided technical direction & BOM approval for replacing 107 Enterasys switches with 50 Cisco switches
• Configured OTV, vPC, LACP, HSRP, OSPF, FEX, QoS, NETFLOW, TACACS+ on Nexus (NX-OS) infrastructure
• Identified methods to be leveraged resulting in both increased network performance and cost-savings

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Network Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Investigated and deployed backup Layer 3 EVPL WAN path diversity solution
• Managed SolarWinds Orion, BlueCat Adonis/Proteus, BlueSocket and TACACs+
• Facilitated network standardization with emphasis on cost-savings and created best-practices framework for change management and LAN/WAN automation
• Created networking security policy documentation
• Worked within the ITIL framework and PPIDOO life cycle network design and implementation
• Identified engineering inefficiencies, necessary improvements, network capacity planning and the created 5-year WAN/LAN plan
• Implemented failover via BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, RSTP, LACP, IPSLA/EEM on various Cisco routing and switching platforms
• Migrated from Cisco wireless platform to Aruba networks wireless infrastructure

Confidential, Milford, CT

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Oversaw network infrastructure implementation and support
• Supported QoS for voice, H3232 video and data traffic optimizing
• WAN traffic engineering via MPLS, BGP, EIGRP, route-maps and static configs
• Facilitated failover via HSRP, VRRP static and dynamic routing
• Implemented Cisco WCS, wireless controllers and access points
• Configured IPSEC, GRE, SSL, remote VPN Client and AnyConnect
• Implemented various configurations on a variety of Cisco platforms, including Nexus 7010/5k/2k (NX-OS),6513s, 3750s, 3560s, 3800s, 2800 and ASA550x
• Deployed SaaS solutions via IPSEC and dedicated WAN infrastructures
• Installed multiple network management appliances/servers including WhatsUp, Scrutinizer, SolarWinds, RANCID, Riverbed Cascade, Cisco IPS, ACS and TippingPoint
• Deployed and supported BlueCoat Proxies, WAN accelerators via WCCP and Netscaler NSMPX-7500 & F5s