SUMMARY:

• Seeking employment as a Voice over IP (VoIP) Engineer, My 30 years of experience in Information Technology/Network VoIP Engineering will help you install/maintain a robust VoIP installation. Proven skills in Design, Testing, Network Management, and Provisioning. Experience in the maintenance, troubleshooting, and upgrading of Network and Computer Systems. Special expertise in designing and implementing VOIP services into exciting customer networks.
• Lead Engineer for all customer network designs and installations of the hosted VoIP services offered by Confidential . Designed, provisioned and tested both analog and digital circuits for large universities and thousands of small and medium businesses on a Broadsoft Clearspan Platform.
• Led testing for all business Ethernet/DSL customer premise equipment (CPE), which involved testing network management, provisioning, hardware testing, creating test cases, user guides, creating and testing automation scripts and verification of standards.
• VoIP tester for the Adtran TA900 series routers and all DSL customer premise equipment.
• Engineered and tested the MCI Business DSL network for 2 ½ years, which included planning, vender management and budgeting of money used to support a 1 billion dollar nationwide network until its decommission.
• Tested all multi - service optical access and aggregation platforms for the Confidential ’s Converged Packet Access (CPA) network which includes the Adtran Opti-6100, Overture 5100, 400 and 4800 and the Anda 4000’s
• Tested devices from Layer 1 through Layer 3 using ISO 9000 and IEEE standards.
• Received over 10 awards for superior technical skills and service.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Installation/Design Engineer

• Team Lead for Installation and Design of all hosted VoIP services for Confidential . Provisioned, designed and tested both analog and digital circuits for large universities and hundreds of small and medium businesses.
• Tested and implemented new Aastra and Polycom phone configurations for deployment on over 200,000 sip phones/2400 sites to support Internet 2, AT&T and US Postal Service voice networks.
• Provisioned and installed 125 network analog gateways and 8 Session Boarder Controllers (SBC) at Iowa State to support a 6-week install of 10,000 users.
• Extremely efficient at provisioning Broadsoft Application /Network Servers and Acme Packet Core SBC’s.
• Lead tester of network management software to support all Edgewater and Audiocodes used by Confidential . Over 7000 devices are currently installed and maintained.
• Designed and implemented VOIP networks for 15 Universities and 130 schools. All provisioning of network gateways done by my 7-member team.

Confidential

Manager/Senior Network Engineer/System Administrator/Test Engineer

• Led testing for all business Ethernet over Sonet/DSL customer premise equipment (CPE), which involved testing network management, provisioning, hardware testing, creating test cases, user guides, creating and testing automation scripts and verification of standards.
• Tested all multi-service optical access and aggregation platforms for the Confidential ’s Converged Packet Access (CPA) which includes the Adtran Opti-6100, Overture 5100, 400 and 4800 and the Anda 4000’s
• VoIP tester for the Adtran TA900 series routers and all DSL customer premise equipment.
• Created Requirements documents and Test plans using ISO 9000 and IEEE standards.
• Tier 3 support for all business DSL, Ethernet and VoIP Customer Premise Equipment.
• Engineered and tested the global MCI Business DSL Network, which included 135 core ATM switches, 65 Cisco 6400 routers, 3500 DSLAMS, and over 100 network management servers worth more than $1 Billion until its decommission.
• Co-designed, managed, and implemented in 90 days, a fully automated $3 million network provisioning system, including an Informix database, 20 Sun servers, the workload capability of 85 manual provisioners, and a database capacity of 2 million customers. The current success rate for the all-automated provisioning system is 99% compared to the 71% for manual provisioning.
• Administered UNIX for all 40 Sun workstations maintained by network engineering.
• Integrated all Rhythms NetConnection NMS Systems into the MCI network after MCI purchased the DSL Network.
• Redesigned and managed and the relocation of all the Network Management, which was done in two phases and caused no downtime.
• Led the development and maintenance of Syndesis Net Provision Activator (NPA), Cisco Wan Manager, HP OpenView, WAN Design Tools (WANDAL) and Cisco Network Management Tools (NMT).
• Designed and wrote shell scripts to move 35,000 connections before NPA was implemented as a production machine, which saved thousands of dollars while eliminating downtime during the DS3 implementations.
• Led the implementation of a third Cisco BPX ATM switch in Chicago. Built 30,000 connections in 12 hours, using NPA and the Rhythms lab BPX switches, which involved uploading new configurations to the production switches with less than 3 hours of downtime (A first for Cisco and Rhythms).
• Designed and implemented multiple Network Management System configurations to support both Statistics and Provisioning, enabling the backup of all routers/switches in the network in 7 hours vs. 26 hours.

Confidential

Network Engineer/System Administration:

• Administered over 200 Sun and Silicon Graphics computers to include set-up and modification of both hardware and software (DNS and NIS servers).
• Senior Network Engineer in charge of design and modifications of 200 + node network consisting of Cisco 7500 routers, ODS switches and ChipCom hubs.
• Re-designed and maintained and a 200+ node network consisting of TCP/IP, FDDI and ATM.
• Baseline network using HP OpenView Net Metrics to determine trends in network utilization and errors.
• Coordinated the installation of ATM hardware and installed required software on the SGI computers.
• Designed sub-net for new system installation to include designing access-list for the Cisco 7500 routers.
• Lead System Administrator for all Sun Workstations to include: 2 DNS servers and HP OpenView server.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Telecommunications Equipment: Cisco 1800, 2500, 6400 and 7500 series routers, Cisco BPX/MGX ATM/Frame Relay switches, Cisco catalyst Ethernet switches, Juniper ERX routers, Anda 4000, 2100 and 2200 Layer 2/Sonet switches, Adtran Opti-6100 Sonet switches, TA 900 VIOP routers and TA3000/5000 switches, Overture 2200, 5100, 400 and 4800 switches, Redback routers Rad Ethernet Demarcations, and Copper Mountain, Paradyne, Samsung and Cisco DSL DSLAMs, Tellabs 8860, AudioCodes MP1XX, M9000, M4000, M500, M800, Sonus 5XXX and 7XXX Session Boarder Controllers.

Network Interfaces Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10g, OC3, OC12, OC48, DS3, T1 and ATM.

Operating Systems Windows, Solaris 8, 9, and 10, Sun OS, VMS, IRIX, Linux

System Admin DNS, NIS+, Solaris Jump Server, VERITAS NetBackup and Volume Manager, Informix Database Setup, SNMP v1 v2 and v3 and TL1.

Scripting C Shell Scripting and Korn Shell Scripting.

Telecommunications Software Broadsoft Clearspan Product, Cisco Info Center (CIC), Cisco Wan Manager (CWM), Cisco Network Management Tools (NMT), HP OpenView, Syndesis Net Provision Activator (NPA), WAN Design Tools (WANDAL) and NetMetrics.

Computer Hardware Sun Enterprise 450, 420 and 3500 servers Ultra 60, 10, 5, 2 and 1; DEC VAX, Micro VAX 2, Alpha workstations, Silicon Graphics Challenge series supercomputer, Indy, O2, and Indigo and

Test Equipment Protocol analyzers; DVM, OTDR, oscilloscope, spectrum analyzers, network sniffers (Wireshark) and throughput and latency testers (IXIA and Spirent).