SUMMARY:

• Senior IT professional with over 15 years of experience in technical senior engineering, senior administration, design/analysis, project/change management, policies and procedures management and enterprise analysis/management of various network technologies for professional to global enterprise environments that includes routing, routing protocols, switching, security, firewalls, voice, wireless, data center technologies and enterprise monitoring/management tools.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in technical operations management in a 24/7 mission critical high availability environment handling major technical responsibilities includes proactive network monitoring/analysis, major network deployments, as needed and scheduled change requests based on policies and procedures and escalated ticket resolution based on mandated SLA’s.
• Experienced in personnel management, maintain policies and procedures and network documentation including schematics, compliance and passing audits, vendor relations, contracts/licensing, corporate reporting, budgeting, and inventory management.
• Technical project management experience includes development and implementation of complex, mission critical, high impact technologies to meet operational needs and business goals, within compliance, schedule, and budgetary requirements.
• Major projects/activities accomplished including development/implementation of LAN/WAN design for site implementations of a multi - state distribution center and local QoS configurations for optimizing voice/video/data.
• Special accomplishments includes improving operational uptime and performance while reducing network operations mission critical tickets and reducing network operations costs through more efficient use of technology and personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS DETAIL:

Routing/Switching Technologies: Cisco Routers ASRs/ISRs, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Juniper, Citrix, H3C and HP Routers & Switches, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, Cisco IOS, STP, BPDU, CDP, ACL, NAT, PAT, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VTP, SNMP, SMTP, ARP, TCP, UDP, Static Routing, VLAN Trunking, VXLANs, Multicast routing, HSRP, SVI, CEF, Etherchannel, Portfast, VSS, VPCs.

Security/Firewalls Technologies: Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls, Cisco Security Manager Suite, Cisco FWSM, Cisco IPS/IDS, Cisco ISE, Cisco ASA 1000V cloud firewall, Checkpoint Firewall, Juniper SRX series, Palo Alto, AAA - TACACS+/RADIUS, SSH, VPN, IPSec, SSL/IPSec, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Internet Key Exchange Policy, Port Security, MAC Address Filtering.

Wireless/Voice Technologies: Cisco WLC, IEEE 802.1x & 802.11, WLAN, WAP, AP, SSID, LWAPP, Aironet - Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), VoIP/SIP, CUCM, UCCM, UCCX, MGCP, RSTP, SCCP, STP, Quality of Service (QoS), PoE, MMDS, LMDS, DSSS.

Monitoring/Data Center Technologies/APPS: Wireshark, Cacti, Nagios, Solarwinds, Cisco Security Manager Suite, Server, Sniffer, Ethereal, Orion, Remedy - VMWare, F5 Big-IP LB (GTM/LTM), Citrix Netscaler, Cisco AnyConnect VPN mtg, Cisco Prime, Meraki Cloud-Based - Splunk, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, HTTP(S), SMTP, PTP, SFTP, RDP.

Servers/Systems Technologies: Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2012, Exchange, SQL, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Hyper V, Microsoft IIS, Active Directory, Group Policy, Dell, Compaq (HP), Network Printers, Windows Radius, Share Point.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DETAIL:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for end to end management of all network/server technologies at corporate HQ, 2 Data centers, 15 locations, 1 financial service partner along with all the WAN circuits/VPN between all the locations.
• Manages a team of IT professionals responsible for design, implementation, upgrades, deployment, installation, maintenance, client/technical support, testing and troubleshooting various LAN/WAN enterprise technologies.
• Technologies responsible for includes all core/distribution and access switches, core/branch routers, core/branch firewalls, voice, DNS/DHCP, virtualization, all server hardware and network operating systems.
• Additional responsibilities included project/vendor management, supervising, assigning work to teams and planning all future changes and updates, handling compliance, maintaining network documentation and schematics.

Confidential

IT Consultant Senior Network Engineer /Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of network engineers responsible for enterprise upgrades to include routers, switches, firewalls and VPN’s in a mission critical 24 by 7 deployment and upgrades for major corporations for SunGard.
• Responsibilities include technical discovery, client staging, technical migration based on SLA and compliance and post migration, deployment, implementation and validation analysis.
• Specific technologies handled by the team include but not limited to Cisco and Juniper routers and Firewalls, Cisco ASAv Firewalls, Cisco ACS, load balancers, MPLS, BGP, DNS and VMWARE Data center.
• Additional consulting work included design/analysis, implementation/deployment, senior administration, Tier 2/3 escalation support for technologies at branch, corporate and data center levels.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supervisor for a team of professionals responsible for design, implementation, upgrades, deployment, installation, maintenance, management, client/technical support, support, testing and troubleshooting for various LAN/WAN enterprise technologies both as the edge, distribution and core.
• Technologies on the network included but not limited to core, distribution and access switches, routers, firewalls, VPN, authentication, voice, servers, virtualization, enterprise applications and related data center technologies
• Specific responsibilities included project implementation, senior administration, lead for enterprise deployments/implementations, Tier 2/3 escalation support, proactive monitoring/analysis, senior to adds, moves and changes and handling change requests following corporate policies and procedures providing reports to management.
• Additional responsibilities including meeting SOX and ITAR compliance requirements, IT Security policies, training, administration, documentation, maintenance of policies and procedures and network schematics.