SUMMARY:

• Currently specializing in Cisco/Nexus Data Center network designs.
• Independent problem solving and a good team player with strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Experience supporting 24x7 production computing environments. Experience providing on - call and weekend support.
• Experience in installing, configuring, supporting and troubleshooting a wide variety of Cisco and other networking equipment.
• Experience in administering VPNs and Firewalls. Also Security Hardening of Cisco and Windows environments.
• Experience in administering virtualization environments such as VMware VSphere ESX (P2V migrations), Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp farms.
• Experience in installing, configuring and maintaining Active Directory on Windows Server, Terminal Services and Exchange Server (e.g., configuration, administration, documentation, etc.)
• Experience in System Administration, System Builds, Server builds, Installs, Upgrades, Patches, Migration, Troubleshooting, Security, Backup, Disaster Recovery, Performance Monitoring and Fine-tuning.
• Expert in wintel shell scripting, Perl, Javascript, AJAX and Dynamic HTML.
• Developed my own Monitoring (Inventory/Network detect) software that borrows features from many different monitoring applications and brings them into single platform.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco : 3750, 4948, 2800/3800, 2900, 6500, 4510R+E, 4900M, PIX/ASA, WLC/WCS, WAAS. Nexus MDS9500/9100, n7k, n5k & n2k.

Microsoft: Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange 2003, DFS, SMS, MOM, MS SQL, Windows XP, NT 3.5/4 Server, Windows 98/95/3.11, DOS, Office 95/97/XP, IIS 4/5/6.

Linux/Unix: RedHat 4/5/el5, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD and Slackware.

Virtualization: VMware ESX / VSphere Server, P2I/I2P/I2I migrations, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix XenServer.

Terminal: RDP / Terminal Server, Citrix ICA / XenApp, secure and non-secure Telnet, VNC, PC-Anywhere.

Confidential: Enterprise, SharePoint, Backup Exec.

Install & Automation: Windows PE (XP, Vista, 7/8), PXE, gPXE, WDS, RIS, WSUS, Unattended, Ghost, Kickstart.

Electronics: Fixing broken Laser and Multifunction printers, change bad capacitors of dead Workstations.

Storage: EMC Clariion, NetApp, Dell PowerVault, Quantum tape backup, SAN, NAS, iSCSI, FC-AL, FCoE, RAID.

Fiber: Fiber Channel, SFP/SFP+, GBIC, MIA, HSSDC/HSSDC2 & Dark Fiber.

Networking: LAN WAN, VPN (Cisco, Microsoft, Watchguard, Smoothwall, Linux), MPLS, NAT/PAT, VLAN, VLSM, Frame relay, Gigabit Ethernet, SSL/SSH, LDAP, Apletalk, Satellite, Broadband, Cable Modems/Bridges and Database, NEMO, DOCSIS, ISDN, xDSL, Firewall, Sniffers (TCPDUMP, Wireshark (Ethereal)), Radius/TACACS+, ISP Access Methods, Web and Mail hosting, MPLS, print servers.

Protocol: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, RIP, PPP, DHCP, Confidential, EIRGP, HTML, HTTP, FTP/SFTP, NFS, POP3, SMTP, SNMP/RMON, DNS (Bind), WINS, PPTP/L2TP, IPsec/GRE, GetVPN, AES/3DES, RDP, VNC, CBQ, WCCP.

Programming: Unix/Linux Shell - Bash/Tcsh, PowerShell, Dos Shell, Perl, CGI, HTML, HTA, CSS, PHP, ASP, C/C++, Gawk, MS-SQL/MySQL, PL/SQL, JavaScript, Ajax, VBScript, WMI, Oracle, SQL Server, Assembler, Pascal.

Voice: Toshiba Strata, Asterisk, Cisco, VoIP, SIP, H.323, MGCP, MEGACO, SCCP, Dial pans.

Novell: Zen Works, NDS, Netware 5.1/4.11/3.11/2.05 A, NDS, RIP/SAP and NLSP routing, Print Server.

Blackberry: Blackberry Enterprise Server.

Electrical Engineering : Atmel PIC/ARM programming, LCDs, Flash, DACs, MP3 chips, sensors, 1-Wire devices, I2C, SPI, CAN.

Bioinformatics : Bioperl, Maintain own DBase of Genbank, Refseq, EMBL, DDBJ - convertible from and to Genbank/EMBL file format, Prefetched, Instant access to any element in a Locus.

Web: Apache 2, IIS 5/6, Debilsoft Cerebro.

Monitor: SolarWinds NPM/NCM/Netflow, Nagios, OpenNMS, RANCID, tcpDB, MRTG, Cacti, Big Brother, KS-Host Monitor, Debilsoft Cerebro (Socket / SNMP / WMI / BMC / IPMI / ADSI / Syslog).

Dell: PowerEdge 2950, 2800, 1950, 1800, PowerVault 220S / MD1000, Optilex 775/GX620/SX280.

Lexmark: T620, T644, T632, S 1855.

Motorola: UNIX System V Server.

Compaq: Proliant and Prosignia Server.

HP: Netserver LRr 8500 family (8-Way Xeons), LaserJet 5000ND & Jet Direct (Networked Printers)

IBM: IBM Netfinity and InteliStation Z-Pro Server.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Cloud Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design Cloud network infrastructure, accounting for future expansion.
• Design and roll out private cloud environment for new customers.
• Design and implement client network migrations.
• Take on new customer requirements and implement with the proper strategy and within schedule.

Environment: Cisco Nexus 9k/7k/6k/5k/2k, MDS 9500, ASA 5585-X(multi-context HA), FirePower/FireSight, ISR and ASR routers, ACS 5.7(TACACS). F5 4000. Brocade Ethernet and FC Switches. Cisco UCS compute. Hitachi/Brocade Compute. HP c7000 compute. Solaris T5-2 and T4-1 compute. Hitachi HUS and G1000/G800 Storage. EMC Storage VMAX, Avamar, Data Domain, VG8, Recover Point. SAP HANA, HP UX. Vblock System 720 and 320 Compute. Anyconnect, VPN Client and S2S VPN. Multi-Homed ISP, Confidential, MPLS, QinQ, AWS, DataGuard. Digital Realty Data Center.

Confidential

EIS Network SME

Responsibilities:

• Manage the following equipment: HP 12504(Core) and 9500(ToR) ComWare, HP iMC and Statseeker NMS, NetFlow, HP TippingPoint, F5 VIPRION, HP c7000 (Blade System). Cisco ACS 5.6(TACACS/RADIUS), ASR/ISR routers, Infoblox IPAM/DNS/DHCP, GPS Time Server, OpenGear console. Maintain and Monitor 10Gbit metro links b/w divisions and Sentinel Data Centers. Open and drive TAC cases with Cisco/HP/F5/Infoblox/PaloAlto/Riverbed vendors.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Act as a backup Network Engineer.
• Install/Create NMS tools for auditing purpouses, decrease troublshooting response time and increase Security.

Environment: Prod/DR DCs, Cisco vg / 7206 vxr / 4510R+E / 4900M 45 / 3825, ASA 85, WLC 5508, Nexus n7k / n5k / n2k / FIC, MDS 9509/9150i, Netapp FAS6080 / FAS3070 / FAS6240 / FAS3220 / EF540, Violin 6000, F5 BIG-IP, HP BladeSystem c7000, Orcle Exadata, Sun Infiniband / T5-2 / M500, Spectra T120, APC UPS / Racks / NetBotz, Avocent DRS8050 / ACS6048, WTI RSM-8R8, Digi USBAnywhnere/14, Ciena 4200, BT P51/P41.

Confidential

Security Upgrade Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade bank infrastructure IOS
• Clean up inonsistencies
• Migrate entire bank security infrastucture(all Branches, ATMs and DCs) to GetVPN.

Confidential, Oldsmar, FL

NOC - Tier II

Responsibilities:

• NOC Tier II - Network operations for major companies in North/South America, Europe, Asia & Africa.
• Responsible for applying scheduled updates, equipment change/upgrade and implementing new features for our clients.
• Made several design recommendations.
• Clients’ equipment, features and services that we manage include:

Environment: Cisco 00 / 00 / 50 / VG224 / PIX / ASA / WLC / Top talker / NBAR / IP SLA/ Confidential / GRE / MPLS / TAC / RMA; Adtran Netvanta; WAAS/ACNS; Riverbed Steelhead/CMC; Bluecoat; BIG-IP F5(limited); Infoblox; SharePoint; M5 ticketing system; Solarwinds Orion/NCM NMS; CastleRock NMS; Work closely with Internet providers: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Century Link, L3, France Telecom, British Telecom, IPLogic, ShoreTel, IBM and eLoyalty, Wireshark;

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Sr. System administrator

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain Watchguard VPN between dealership sites.
• Install, support and maintain Cisco routers & switches. Monitor and troubleshoot cable and wifi infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and support networked print infrastructure.
• Manage Active Directory (Sever 2008 & 2003) and the corporate Microsoft Exchange mail server.
• Maintain and backup corporate VMware server datacenter.
• Oversee the corporate network health with Confidential Enterprise Antivirus.
• Add and manage Blackberry Enterprise Server for corporate users need.
• Maintain corporate asset database including Servers, Workstations, Laptops, & Printers.
• Complete system monitoring with personally developed software, tailor-made for the current infrastructure.

Confidential, Saint Petersburg, FL

IT & VPN Support

Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain Fiber optic Site-to-Site interconnection.
• Mange User-to-Site VPN infrastructure.
• Install, support and maintain cisco routers & switches.
• Managing the corporate Active Directory (Server 2003), DHCP, DNS, FTP site and Microsoft Exchange mail server.
• Troubleshoot and maintain critical Citrix & RDP connections to proprietary Medical software and their servers.
• Ensure systems and data streams are HIPPA compliant.
• Maintain and backup corporate VMware servers and Citrix farms.
• Oversee the corporate network health with Confidential Enterprise Antivirus.
• Support and troubleshoot corporate Network printers/fax and cable infrastructure.
• Research and order necessary IT equipment for day-to-day basis or when planning to open a new clinic.
• Syslog, BigBrother and other means of system monitoring.

Confidential, Saint Petersburg, FL

VPN & IT Support

Responsibilities:

• Establish VPN connectivity with new clients, research destination network topology and Medical software.
• Devise a plan and then document it’s procedures and brief departments according to those plans how and what they can and can’t do to Audit the new client.
• Throughout the 40+ clients I encountered extensive Hardware and Software variation of Microsoft VPNs, Cisco VPNs (Router2Router, Mobile2Router, including PIX and ASA), Watchguard & Sonic Wall VPNs. Windows, Unix/Linux, Citrix farms, Remote Desktop and old school UNIX terminal environments and even some modem interconnectivity. And countless ways to connect remote (custom) software’s with our corporate printer network.
• Maintain complex port-forwarding to ensure maximum access to clients’ infrastructure.
• Ensure systems and data streams are HIPPA compliant.
• Establish and support conference calls and sit as a technical adviser with future clients during the conference calls.
• Secondary responsibility:
• Mange PIX sub-offices VPN connections.
• Maintain corporate routers & switches network and help out with Helpdesk when not in project mode.
• Manage Active Directory(Server 2003) and company’s Print, Mail & FTP servers
• Maintain company’s Web site and production intranet.
• Oversee the corporate network health with Confidential Enterprise Antivirus.
• Phone support for Mobile Agents.
• Prepare Laptops, Scanners, VPN setting and needed software for Mobile Agents.
• Syslog, BigBrother and other means of system monitoring.
• Toshiba Strata CIX/CTX 100 PBX.
• Research and order needed IT equipment.

Confidential, Saint Petersburg, FL

Responsibilities:

• Using Laser film printers (Image Setters) - Film printing, stripping, color registration, punch registration and expose plates from films.

Confidential, Saint Petersburg, FL

WAN Support

Responsibilities:

• Inter ISP routing and peering ( Confidential ).
• Lucent ISDN multiplexers (incoming calls) - Authentication scripts, Radius DB and Accounting.
• Business leased lines, Web hosting and dedicated servers.
• Traffic flow control (shape-shifting).
• Interconnection with Cable Internet/TV department.
• Syslog, BigBrother and other means of system monitoring.