SUMMARY:

More than 24 years experience in the information technology field with the last 18 years dedicated to network engineering. Extensive experience with LAN and WAN design, implementation, administration and troubleshooting. Currently hold CISSP, CCNP, CCDP, and ITIL v.3 Foundations certifications.

PERTINENT WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide network engineering support to the Kaiser Permanente WAN team
• Currently working on project to replace all 1st generation ASR 9K’s with 2nd generation devices
• Executing project to convert WAN from primary/standby routing to a load sharing model utilizing BGP

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provide full life cycle management of Confidential LAN and WAN environments consisting of a variety of Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches, routers, WLAN Controllers; Riverbed WAN Optimizers; and HP ProCurve Switches
• Designed/implemented site moves, new business integration and site tech refresh and expansion projects.
• Design/implementation team member that separated Confidential into two separate companies when Confidential split
• Designed, implemented and maintained production and R&D datacenters in both company owned spaces as well as four leased spaces in commercial data centers
• Performed security audit of network and designed plan to increase internal network security
• Acted as Tier 3 point of escalation for all aspects of network operations

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing contracted network engineering, design and implementation support to the Defense Information Systems Agency deploying Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches and Juniper firewalls and routers
• Converting firewall configuration from legacy devices to Juniper devices including rule set, policies and VPN configurations
• Conducting site surveys to establish requirements for new network design in DISA datacenters
• Acting as team lead for two technical refresh projects
• Developing working template for tech refresh design for administrative sites

Network Administrator (Engineer)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Senior member of IT Operations Team providing network engineering, design and implementation support to the current network as well as providing design input on next generation network
• Managed and deployed a variety of Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switches, Cisco Routers and Cisco ASA 5520 Firewalls
• Investigated security incidents and developed response to incidents
• Wrote IP Operations Playbook to consolidate the existing procedures into single document

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided network engineering, design and implementation support to the URENCO Uranium Enrichment Facility located in Eunice, NM. consisting of Cisco switches, routers and ASA firewalls
• Designed IP Multicast network for training and group virtual meetings
• Migrated network from a series of temporary trailers (Approximately 100) to permanent buildings
• Performed security audit to ensure compliance with standards set by company policy, NRC policy and NSA guidance.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Optimized network to improve resiliency and developed disaster recovery contingency plans
• Developed two - year technology refresh plan to ensure all hardware was current
• Planned and managed the migration of pre-existing OC-3 Circuits to the newly established TSANet MPLS backbone without the loss of mission critical resources

Sr. Systems Engineer/Network Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided contracted network engineering and architecture support to large international pharmaceutical company with locations on five continents - Tier 3 point of escalation for all network related emergent issues.
• Developed network integration plans for newly acquired businesses
• Developed configuration and design standards for network equipment - deployed new sites in accordance with these standards and began the process of redesigning existing sites to meet these standards

Sr. Network/Integration Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided network engineering engineering support to the Joint Blue Forces Situational Awareness program
• Lead engineering on projects to move web services to a newly created DMZ and to design and implement the automated failover to a newly designated backup site
• Provided backup support for the operational network during both planned and unplanned outages
• Wrote test plans for projects to ensure that the finished product performed as required

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided contracted network engineering support to Confidential ’s two data center located in Colorado Springs and Georgia - network consisted of various Cisco routers, switches and firewalls
• Implemented change requests in response to both Confidential and internal customer requests
• Sr. Engineer responsible for the daily operations of network as well as most escalations and troubleshooting
• Provided network engineering support to disaster recovery site project

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provided oversight and coordination for Confidential sites during transition of more than 100 sites and 7500 users from legacy environment to Confidential
• Ensured that all technical and non-technical requirements are met prior to rollout
• Acted as mediator and point of escalation for unresolved issues
• Provided coordination between Legacy Network Shutdown initiative and Confidential Transition

Senior IT Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Developed policies and procedures for all aspects of Confidential operations
• Provided strategic direction and oversight for the management of various Cisco routers and witches
• Reviewed change requests and notified Confidential (PMO) of any adverse impact on enterprise
• Worked with Confidential Global Information Assurance Centers in developing response to emerging security threats.
• Technical reviewer for Service Level Agreement negotiations (concluded September 2004).