SUMMARY:

Over 18 years of experience designing, configuring and maintaining complex LAN/WAN environments. Extensive experience with Data Center design, migration and expansion.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Nexus 7K/5K/2K and Catalyst 6500/4500/3750 switches, Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco WLC - 5500 WLAN Controllers, ASR1000/ISR4000/7200 routers, Citrix NetScaler Load Balancers, Riverbed Steelhead 5000/7000 series WAN Optimizers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Coppell, TX

AVP, Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Currently in the process of deploying a Viptela SD-WAN solution to 10 remote offices and two data centers.
• MS Azure experience deploying and configuring VNETS, VNET peering, NSG’s, UDR, Azure Load Balancer and Azure Application Gateway.
• Provisioning, design and implementation of MS Azure Express Route circuits with multi-region connectivity. Connectivity to Azure Public and Private Peering services.
• Experienced with packet capture trace analysis for identifying the cause of network or application issues.
• Deployment of Riverbed Steelheed Wan Optimizers to provide a better user experience for a web based application with high end-to-end latency and large data transfers.
• Migrated the primary and backup data centers to colocation facilities located in Carrollton, TX and Chandler, AZ. Provided network design utilizing Cisco’s Nexus line of products, Cisco Unified Computing and SAN connectivity. Migration of production applications and services, while reducing business impact.
• Design and implementation of the Web/Application load balancing environment for external and internal facing services utilizing Citrix NetScaler load balancers.
• Oversaw the infrastructure design and deployment for the relocation of the company’s headquarters.
• Provided guidance to junior engineers during the design and deployment phases.
• Implemented diverse MPLS connectivity for remote office locations providing multi-path connectivity to data center applications.
• Required redistribution of routes between BGP and Confidential, and route filtering with Prefix-lists to prevent route feedback.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Consultant Professional Services

Responsibilities:

• Provided consulting services to Confidential for their WAN MPLS design and Wan Optimization technology. Delivered formal presentation to the CIO and Director of Information Technology with design and optimization recommendations.
• Was lead network consultant for the relocation of a remote office to a multi-tenant office building, and the reassignment and consolidation of tenants between building floors. Performed the initial site survey, Build of Materials and a detailed multi-floor network design. Performed physical rewiring, equipment installation and configuration, and acceptance testing.

Confidential, Coppell, TX

Sr. WAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Involved with data center vendor selection, space and power requirements, network design, and equipment selection and configuration.
• Implemented wireless access for our corporate office utilizing Cisco 5508 series Wireless LAN Controllers and 3502i Access Points.
• Implemented two Data Centers in the Confidential region. Provided Data Center design and configuration of network equipment.
• Redesigned the Global MPLS backbone to support VoIP and interactive video between regional data centers located throughout the world.
• Design and implementation support of Cisco WAAS for the Latin America and Confidential regions.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed Performance Routing (PfR) in support of Confidential ’s To Go online ordering.
• Implemented RSA Secured two-factor authentication for VPN access.
• Maintained Netscreen (SSG-350,SSG-550M) firewalls for the Confidential network environment.
• Migrated the switched infrastructure from PVST+ to Rapid-PVST+.
• Implemented Cisco Access Control Server SE appliances for Tacacs+/Radius services.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Manager-Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead engineer for two data centers providing VoIP calling services to inmates in over 750 Correctional facilities.
• Provided cost savings by integrated VoIP technology with TDM based call­ing platforms.
• Managed the network and telecom infrastructure portion of a data center relocation project involving over 200 data/voice circuits and 40 network devices.
• Configuration of Session Border Controllers for access to VoIP carrier services.

Confidential, Allen, TX

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented high-availability dual Confidential connectivity in a configuration.
• Configuration of Netscreen firewalls for site-to-site VPN tunnels.
• Implemented out-of-band management network.
• Instituted security best practices across all infrastructure devices.

Confidential, Plano, TX

Sr. Infrastructure Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Immediate escalation point for critical network outages.
• Provided 3rd level support to Network Operations Center personnel.

Confidential, DALLAS, TX

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of two data centers providing VoIP and Web services for over 750 Correctional Facilities.
• Implemented Cisco VPN 3030 Concentrators for VoIP calls over Confidential VPNs.
• Configuration of Quality of Service (QoS) features for delay-sensitive traffic.
• Migrated 1,200 WAN sites from Confidential to Confidential routing protocol.
• Merged the Corporate and Data Center networks of an acquisition utilizing routing protocol redistribution, Policy Based Routing (PBR), Site-to-Site VPNs and Network Address Translation (NAT).