SUMMARY:

• Senior Systems Engineer with experience working with over 20 Fortune 500 companies among other enterprise customers.
• Skilled in a full range of troubleshooting, management, design, and repair of networking and data center systems.
• Additional skills include training, budgeting, time and project management, mentoring and team development.
• I also possess significant experience with mission critical networks of numerous Health Care and Financial institutions.
• Significant experience deploying QoS across networks in Voice and Video networks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Technical Skills Equipment Configuration: Cisco Nexus 1000, 2000, 3000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 9000 Series; Cisco Nexus FEX; Cisco ACI/APIC; Cisco Catalyst 6800/6500, 4500 - X, 3850/3750-X, 2900 Series Routers/Switches; Cisco ASR 1000, FWSM, ASA/ASA-X 5500/5585; Cisco CSS/GSS/ACE Appliance and Line Cards and f5 LTM/GTM; Cisco WAAS and Riverbed StealHead WAN Acceleration; Cisco Confidential ; IPS/IDSM; Cisco ASR 1000 & ISR 4400/4300, 3900, 2900, 1900 Series Routers; Cisco UCS; Cisco MDS Storage Switches

Layer 3/Routing Protocols: IS-IS; BGP; RIP; EIGRP; OSPF; QoS; MPLS; DMVPN; Multicast

Layer 2/Switching Protocols: STP; FabricPath; TRILL; Confidential ; QoS; Multicast

Wireless: WPA/WPA2/PEAP/802.1X; WCS/NCS; Surveys; Spectrum Analysis; Vocera; LWAPP/CAPWAP

Other Technologies: VMware; Scripting/Development; VPC; NPV; NPIV; FC; FCOE; FCoIP; SDN; ACI; NSX; Windows Server 2000, 2003, and 2008; Linux; FreeBSD; AIX

Monitoring/Network Analysis: Concord Monitoring; Confidential ; SNMP; Solar Winds; NetSaint; Ethereal/WireShark; Cisco OnePK

Soft Skills: Build of Material (BoM) Development; Statement of Work (SoW) Development; Design and Deployment Plan; Project Documentation and As-Builts; Visio; Microsoft Project; Office Template Creation using Styles; Trainer/Training

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, configuration and implementation of complex Enterprise, Financial and Health Care networks
• Perform Security, Routing & Switching, Storage, Server Design, Installation, Documentation and Troubleshooting
• Provide successful Proof of Concepts, Installation and Documentation for various technologies including Cisco WAAS & Cisco ACI to enhance client WAN performance
• Cultivate and foster relationships with customers in Enterprise, Education, Financial, Hospital, Hotel, Retail, Technical and other fields
• Significant Enterprise Environment Experience working with Core, Distribution and Data Center Interconnection.
• Familiar with Enterprise Network Integration with Data Center technologies such as VMware, Storage, UCS, Windows Servers, and Applications
• Provide shadowing opportunities for other engineers on important technologies
• Training and coaching of other engineers in customer relations and expectations
• Develop and deliver training presentations regarding new technologies for customers and coworkers
• Build and maintain relationships with Cisco SE’s across the Enterprise space
• Support and deployment of Cisco ACE and f5 LTM load balancing equipment scaling across multiple datacenter
• Designed and configured the first customer deployment of Confidential across Netech
• Extremely familiar with High-end Routers, Nexus and Enterprise Catalyst product lines
• Develop and modify Visio and Office templates
• Enterprise QoS expertise across multiple platforms including Confidential switches, Confidential, UCS and Routers
• Maintain familiarity with new features & products, caveats and interaction issues

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform Routing & Switching Design, Installation, Documentation and Troubleshooting in complex networks with High Availability requirements
• Provide Security Design, Installation, Documentation and Troubleshooting of PIX/ASA, IPS, MARS and other technologies in LAN, WAN and VPN scenarios
• Provide Wireless Networking Design, Installation, Documentation and Troubleshooting with Cisco IOS Autonomous and LWAPP/CAPWAP APs
• Examine Wireless Networks and Survey using AirMagnet and Cisco/Cognio tools to Improve Network Coverage
• Provide Proof of Concepts, Installation and Documentation for Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product to enhance TCP based WAN performance
• Implementation of Vocera wireless phone devices
• Work with customers and familiar with customer needs in Education, Banking, Hospital, Hotel, Retail, Technical and other fields
• Significant Enterprise Experience particularly in Project Based scenarios
• GSS and ACE implementation and support
• Regional Lead responsible for one quarter of the US for a large federal government project

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Install, Maintain and Upgrade Customer and Backbone Fiber and Electrical based Networks
• Instrumental in implementing Change Control Procedures across a 2 State Region
• Provide leadership to the Regional Operation Center
• Tier-3 Support
• Training/Mentoring of Customer Care Staff, peers and management in current procedures and technologies
• Involved in Budgeting Process
• Creation of scripts to streamline processes
• Daily use and configuration of Routing Protocols, Network Monitoring Tools, IP Management, Switches & Routers (Including GSR-12000 and OSR-7600 Series)
• Upkeep of Monitoring (such as syslogs, Confidential, Concord and SolarWinds) and Visio Diagrams
• Use, installation and management of Confidential technologies (Includes OC-3 to OC-192, STS, Fast & Confidential Ethernet circuits, DS-1 & DS-3)
• Part of a 24x7 on-call rotation for a 2 state area consisting of over 250,000 customers
• Integral part in transparently converting @Home network to Charter Pipeline network in a 1 month window (Our pilot transition was a complete success)
• Development of a web based dispatching center using PHP and MySQL
• DNS support of customer and company domains
• Experience with firewall and IDS technologies
• Extensive troubleshooting of Cisco IOS based equipment in real-life situations