SUMMARY:

• Strong background in technical resource management.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with aggressive timelines.
• Strong Mentor. Effective trainer.
• Consistently balances business needs and resource availability across multiple tiers.
• Strong process oriented approach when dealing with operational issues that arise in a high speed environment.
• Demonstrated ability to meet deadlines while effectively managing field resources, vendors and other groups within the organization.
• Strategic planning when dealing with technology augments or new implementations.
• Technical writing ability to document and demonstrate business needs in regards to day to day operations and future growth.

LEADERSHIP EXPERTISE:

• SME for Network Technology
• Datacenter Integration
• KPI reporting and optimization
• IT Strategy and Roadmaps
• Staff Leadership
• Vendor Management
• Corporate Management
• Financial Industry background
• Highly adaptable Technical Leadership
• Effective Communicator

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

• Strategic and Operational Technology Planning
• Network Surveillance
• Network Architecture and Integration
• JUNOS Expert
• Juniper Networks Product Specialist (Juniper M, MX, J, EX, SRX series)
• Routing: BGP, OSPF, MPLS (RSVP TE)
• Switching: DOT1Q, DOT1P, QinQ, VPLS, L2VPN
• Network Training (Mentoring)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Engineer

Confidential, Irving, TX

Responsibilities:

• Contract to Hire
• Maintain business critical applications
• Maintain Firewall infrastructure
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation testing of the Juniper Networks products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• Equipment test plans and results
• Feature and functionality test plans
• Network diagrams
• Operations and support procedures
• Technical input to major service outage root cause analysis and corrective action reports
• Maintained firewall infrastructure. JUNOS - SRX
• Maintained routing and switching infrastructure JUNOS MX/EX

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Short Term Contract
• Technical lead of a small team of specialists
• Maintain business critical applications
• Maintain Firewall infrastructure
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation testing of the Juniper Networks products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• Equipment test plans and results
• Feature and functionality test plans
• Network diagrams
• Operations and support procedures
• Technical input to major service outage root cause analysis and corrective action reports
• Maintained firewall infrastructure. JUNOS-SRX
• Maintained routing and switching infrastructure JUNOS MX/EX

Senior Network Deployment Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Short Term Contract
• Technical lead of a small team of specialists
• Juniper Fusion Deployment
• Overnight Changes
• MOP creation and peer review

Lead Network Specialist

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Short Term Contract
• Technical lead of a small team of specialists
• Design and project lead for network enhancements
• Ensure and perform network maintenance activities
• Control of supplier related to work area
• Network diagrams

Principal Network Consultant

Confidential, FL

Responsibilities:

• Short Term Contract
• Collapse 3 production firewalls into single JUNOS configuration
• CISCO ASA to Juniper SRX
• Juniper Netscreen to Juniper SRX
• Screen OS dissection
• ASA dissection
• SRX Cluster configuration
• Equipment test plans and results
• Feature and functionality test plans
• Network diagrams
• Tier 3 JUNOS support
• Collapse existing VPN’s from firewall to Netscaler

Lead Network Engineer

Confidential, Miami, FL

Responsibilities:

• Maintain business critical applications
• Maintain Firewall infrastructure
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation testing of the Juniper Networks products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• Equipment test plans and results
• Feature and functionality test plans
• Network diagrams
• Operations and support procedures
• Technical input to major service outage root cause analysis and corrective action reports
• Work with Load Balancer Team to assist in Network Integration duties
• Maintained firewall infrastructure. SRX, ASA, Netscreen.

Resident Consultant

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• SCADA BGP Network Segregation
• SCADA Network design documentation
• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures
• Assessing the health of a network
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation testing of the Juniper Networks products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• Staff Training on Network Technologies
• Advice, and demonstration if necessary, of new software and hardware features
• Written summary reports on equipment and network problems
• Equipment test plans and results
• Feature and functionality test plans
• Network diagrams
• Operations and support procedures
• Technical input to major service outage root cause analysis and corrective action reports

Resident Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Development and maintenance of fault diagnosis procedures to support effective fault resolution
• Development and maintenance of network operational support procedures related to the Juniper Networks products
• Assessing the health of a network
• Network related testing to ensure that the Juniper Networks products operate correctly
• Implementation, integration & migration planning
• Validation testing of the Juniper Networks products
• Troubleshooting of network issues
• On-going, informal, knowledge transfer
• Acting as a technical liaison with IBM / Juniper Networks Customer Service and Engineering groups.
• Advice, and demonstration if necessary, of new software and hardware features
• Ad-hoc (as requested) written summary reports on equipment and network problems
• Equipment test plans and results
• Feature and functionality test plans
• Network diagrams
• Operations and support procedures
• Technical input to major service outage root cause analysis and corrective action reports

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for all LAN connectivity and WAN management for a National IP network.
• Responsible for all device configurations (CISCO, JUNIPER), deployment and operational troubleshooting.
• Works with several groups that rely on LAN connectivity for application access, VOIP connectivity and general internet usage
• Provides Tier 4 support on all operational issues that may occur in a high speed environment
• Responsible for Network Architecture and Installation
• Protocols used: OSPF, BGP, 802.1Q, VRRP
• Responsible for project completion and documentation as handed down from upper MGT
• Responsible for updating firewall configuration on SRX series Juniper firewalls
• Responsible for Network Capacity Planning
• Responsible for training of junior network technicians
• Responsible for corporate communications regarding network maintenance activities and redesign