SENIOR LAN/WAN NETWORK ENGINEER / ARCHITECT

Senior IT Engineer/Designer with 20 - plus years of experience, offering a wealth of network, systems, leadership, planning, architecture, and process improvement expertise. Strategist with repeated successes developing & implementing long-term roadmaps for critical architecture, infrastructure, configuration, and application processes. Business-savvy IT leader talented at reconciling strategic objectives with operational realities. Technical Project Manager accomplished at implementing enterprise-level initiatives to on-time, under-budget completion. Respected and respectful technical authority with a well-earned reputation for managing issues and leveraging resources. Tested & vetted interpersonal relationship professional, effective at serving as an advocate for organizational change.

PROFICIENCIES

• Routing & Switching (Internet Expert- Network Professional)
• Data Center (Professional)
• VoIP / QoS Voice (Professional)
• LAN/WAN Design / Implementation / Migration / Operations (Professional)
• Wireless Engineering /Design /Installation /Admin /Operations /Field (Professional)
• BigIP (F5) ADCs
• Security / Firewall / IDS (Professional)
• Infrastructure / Parts / Inventory (Professional)
• Project Management / PMBOK / Tech / Lead (Professional)
• Route and Switch Solutions/Design Professional
• Route and Switch Discovery/Field Professional

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY:

Confidential, NYC / NJ City

Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect

Duties: Third & fourth tier network & security escalations & resolutions; change management, migrations, and upgrades. Project network consultancy for different line of business for new technical network requirements. Act as an escalation point for network design/engineering/issues.

Engineering Services: Implementation of new network requirements/changes; Research/development/testing of new network features; Operational support for all network related issues; Review/improvement of the current network procedures and processes. On-Call/Out of hours support for all network related issues; Modalities: Multicast PIM Sparse and dense mode; EIGRP / OSPF / RIP / STATIC / BGP; Cisco NX-OS, IOS, JUNOS, Arista EOS; Firewalls: Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Juniper SSG/NSM and Cisco ASA. Exchange and market data connectivity (e.g. Bloomberg, Reuters, CME, ICE, Liffe, Eurex, ICAP, LME, LCH, etc. via BT Radianz, IPC, TNS); Fabric-Path, Spanning Tree Protocol and Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol; IP network packet troubleshooting and analysis using Mazu, Riverbed, and Wireshark technologies; WAN/Campus LAN network implementation and support; Palo Alto Firewall implementation and support; Internet architecture design and implementation; Network issue troubleshooting. Project management skills from inception to delivery. VPN : Cisco ASA & 3900, Juniper SSG. Hands-on experience with Cisco NX-OS technologies; Load balancers: - Netscaler and F5 LTM; Wireless : Aruba. Additional duties: Engineering, Maintenance, and Operations for Core Network Intranet/Internet Services, Layer 2/3 design; IP allocation and DHCP; Orion Network Manager; Device Expert; Checkpoint, Juniper, ASA firewalls; VPNs; IPSec; Collapsed core architectures; server administration; network redundancy and resiliency; blueprints and logistics; installation planning; configs, cutovers, and turnups; BOM; blueprint materials & logistics; patch panels and crossovers; server NICs; server management; Tier 3&4 troubleshooting; Wireshark network analyzers

Protocols: BGP, EIGRP, RDP

Vendors: Cisco Nexus 7K / %K / 2K / 3K / ISR / UCS; Amazon networks; Aruba Wireless Networks; Arista Networks

Confidential, NYC / Virginia Beach VA

Chief Technical Officer / Network Architect / Senior Network Engineer

Duties: Engineering, Maintenance, and Operations for Core Network Intranet/Internet Services for the Confidential ’s Project network and infrastructure.

Engineering Services: Engineering, Maintenance, and Operations for Core Network Intranet/Internet Services, Layer 2/3 design; IP allocation and DHCP; ASA firewalls; VPNs; IPSec; Collapsed core architectures; server administration; network redundancy and resiliency; blueprints and logistics; installation planning; configs, cutovers, and turnups; BOM; blueprint materials & logistics; patch panels and crossovers; server NICs; server management; Tier 3&4 troubleshooting; Wireshark network analyzers

Senior Network Engineer / Architect / Focal/High Touch Engineer

Engineering Services:

• Act as the primary technical support person for case management of critical cases at the Network level
• Provide problem resolution of critical cases at the Network level, focusing primarily on Severity 1 and Severity 2 cases and other severity level cases that Cisco deems critical
• Provide ongoing technical representation in regularly scheduled conference calls
• Provide technical input to quarterly/joint business reviews
• Quarterly Trend Analysis: Provide quarterly report to Customer on Activities and Deliverables provided, as well as observed technical symptom trends, remediation, and other related topics
• Root Cause Analysis: Perform root cause analysis on technical issues on the Network Infrastructure
• Software Version Referrals

Customer Enhancement Requisites:

• Collaborate closely with Technical Services, Business Units, Operation Managers, Domain leads, Project Managers, Service, Sales, and Account teams.
• Provide proactive feedback on product quality improvement initiatives
• Interlock and primary liaison between ALL Proactive and Reactive services.
• Design and technical documentation. Assist and do lab recreates
• Innovate in tools, scripts, ideas to bring added value by reducing overhead.

Technology: Cisco NEXUS 7K / 5K / 2K, CUCM; VxLAN and overlay technologies; (F5) Big IP load balancers, Cisco CATALYST Routers and Switches, ASA firewall . Software: Cisco IOS/NxOS, F5 TMOS; Financial Banking Systems, Private/Trading Floor; Datacenter technologies & architectures, DCN Layer 2 and Layer 3 design ; Data Center Interconnects (DCIs); DCN access, aggregation, and core design ; Application Performance Monitoring (APM) /Riverbed, end user experience / runtime application architecture / business transaction / deep dive component monitoring / analytics reporting; Network monitoring; Spanning tree design and scalability ; Selection of spanning tree protocol Trading and digital signage I/O; OTV, Fabric Path, vPC, VXLAN, ONS products; SAN Consolidation. Protocols: BGP. EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, RDP; Multicast glossary: Basic multicast; PIM; Bi-dir PIM (sparse/dense); Cisco Group Management Protocol; Designated Routers; Enhanced Multicast; IGMP v1/2/3; MP-BGP/MSDP; RPs; Source/Shared trees. UCS - Cisco NEXUS 7010, 3064 and 3048 switches in a rapidly evolving environment that includes network traffic up to 100Gbps. Utilize vPC, HSRP, Port-Channels and OSPF to ensure fully redundant, high capacity traffic between multiple SAN, NAS and UCS environments located in several different datacenters. Design of collapsed core architecture specialized for video encoding and streaming of content using Cisco UCS and Isilon 10g NAS systems.

Confidential, Hauppauge, NY

Senior Network Engineer / Architect / Sr. Security Engineer / Analyst, Global Operations

Objectives and Responsibilities: Network & Security discovery/review/research/engineering/scaling for global hedge fund / portfolio management, after reorganization. Responsibilities included:

R&S: datacenter infrastructure & cabling; Server farm s; router/switch chassis & technical components; cabling, and density considerations .

Security: Tier 1/2/3/4 break-fix, problem isolation/determination/resolution; Data center: domestic / global security considerations; Virus protection and denial-of-service (DoS) attack prevention & intervention; VPN s, IP Security (IPsec), and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) implementations; data integrity; data leakage protection. Modalities: Cisco Catalyst 6509 switches; ASA 5510 / PIX 515e firewalls, Cisco 3900 ISR Routers, Cisco 3750 Switches, WhatsUp network/server management, Dell VMware vSphere, Windows 2008 servers, MPLS/VZB managed circuits, Brightstack fiber phone systems, HDLC/HGCS copper circuits.

Protocols: BGP. EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, RDP (WINS server access)