SUMMARY:

Network and System Engineer with 18 years in diverse experience in technical and tactical solutions as well as strong expertise in IT Network infrastructure, Data Center, strategy Design, implementations & support of LAN, WAN, SAN, DR, VPN, Citrix & Windows (2k, 2k3& 2k8). Including telecommunications architectures and support of (Voice and Data).

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols: TCP/IP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IGRP, HSRP, VRRP, VLAN, MPLS, QoS and NAT.

Services: CDP, DNS, WINS, DHCP, NTP, SNMP and SMTP.

Load Balancing: Confidential Load Director, Content Switch CSS, ACE, F5 and Radware.

Remote Access: Confidential VPN, Confidential AS5200, Checkpoint VPN, Nortel VPN, Citrix and RAS.

Security/Firewall: ASA5500 series, PaloAlto,Juniper - SSG

Defense System: WebSense, Norton Anti-Virus and NetShield.

Monitoring: Confidential Works, SevOne, Network node manager, Netview, Sniffer Pro and Confidential

Topologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gig Ethernet, Fast Ether channel, and FDDI.

Communication: MPLS, ATM, HSSI, Frame relay, T1 and fractional T1, BRI, PRI, DS3, ATM, and Shortel.

WAN: Confidential Routers 2500/ 2600, 3600/ 3700, 4000, 7000 families and Nortel routers.

LAN: Confidential Switches/Nexus 9500,93000, 7000, 6500, 5500, 3500 and 1900/2900 families, Nortel, Intel and 3Com.

Software: MS-Visio, Project, MS-Office, VB, and SMS.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Lead/Network Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Managed and Reported on service level agreements (SLAs)
• Supported Tier 3 level for issues and problems management
• Involved in Capacity Management including planning, Budgeting and Execution
• Monitored systems for proper performance (KPIs)
• Provided direct support for all related budget management for annual maintenance and refresh upgrades for the specific technologies.
• Installed and Managed firewalls and legacy load balancers (F5 and ACE) for the Company.
• Confidential Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k / ASA 5585 firewall virtualization/network replacement at all US Data Centers.
• Installed and migrated the various cloud/customer physical network pods into this new virtualized Confidential Infrastructure.
• Confidential ACS 5 appliance rollout across the Data Centers. Installed and Integrated new ACS appliances with existing legacy RSA infrastructure and migrated network devices to it for authentication.
• WAN optimization utilizing Riverbed Steelhead, Confidential WAAS and Silverpeak appliances. Configured and installed devices into sites and production data centers.
• Managed Blue Coat system that was used as the Proxy for the company.
• Designed and configured complex switching environments.
• Designed and configured PaloAlto for the company lab
• Designed and configured complex wireless networking that supports open or secured access and the ability to support voice and video applications
• Data Center decommission/migration in the US. Worked actively from a network perspective on this all inclusive, company wide initiative. Migrated subnets, equipment and firewall rules/policies from the colo being decomm’d to other.
• Implemented VPN SSL remote access across North America users for the entire company.
• Highly motivated team player with excellent Interpersonal and Customer Relational Skills.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Lead/Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed entire Local Area Network and Wide Area Networks for Project Management Institute
• Managed and supported Productions network Systems at RackSpace.
• Managed and maintained the Data Center
• Implemented and Migrated T1’s Circuits to new redundant DS3 Circuits. Achieved higher Bandwidth with higher availability.
• Designed redundant model for Local Area Network that included Firewall, Routers Switches and with DS3 Circuits.
• Migrated Internet Public IP Addresses from Level3 to AT&T Internet Public IP Address.
• Implemented VPN access to all employees using the Firewall ASA for Remote Client. Also implemented LAN to LAN VPN for Siemens access.
• Designed and Supported the Wireless Network for Project Management Institute.
• Responsibilities included Load Balances ACE, CSS and F5 for Project Management Institute.
• Supported Voice over IP Network for Project Management Institute
• Migrated Wide Area Network for remote side T1 to different carrier.
• Responsibilities included Network Security for Internal and External Networks.
• Built and Administrated Microsoft Operating System including Exchange, Virtual Servers and Active Directory.
• Managed/Supported over 480 windows server 2003 and 2008
• Managed and Supported Citrix for all remote sides access for all Project Management Institute Service Centers
• Re allocate Project Management Institute Network to the new Building that included all Network related Voice, Data and The Data Center.
• Supported VMWare Servers for Productions Network
• Implemented new Email Spam System
• Managed and Administrated all Routers, Core Switches and Firewalls.
• Managed and administrated SQL 2005 and 2008 database applications that included installations.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Lead/Sr.Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented project for conversion of entire Banks and Confidential Networks to MPLS Network. This included installation and configuration. Eigrp and BGP Routing protocol used.
• Opened several New Bank Branches that included Implementations with Installation and Configuration of all Network devices
• Implemented Network Monitoring tools for all servers and Network Devices
• Designed Local Area Network for the corporate office with VLAN Network environments (Layer3) and Gig link for all Internal Network. Also designed included full redundancy network.
• Designed Co-Location Network and hosted Bank Network Servers there.
• Led Project for Migrating from multiple firewalls vendors to PaloAlto platform Firewalls that supported 35K users
• Implemented new software for syslog for the firewalls
• Configured and troubleshooted IPSec tunnel issues.
• Designed an isolated Network for purpose of Auditing.
• Supported and troubleshooted IP Telephony that is running all over the Banks and at the Corporate office.
• Implemented Email Encryption software.
• Led Disaster Recovery project with hand on.
• Led project for Citrix upgrade from MPS3 to MPS4
• Upgraded and supported Surfcontrol as an internet filtering tools.
• Worked as a last level of network support III
• Generated Network Reports in regular basics.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Network NOC Lead

Responsibilities:

• Monitored and maintained networks that consist of upto 1,100 + Routers, Switches, Load Balancer and Firewalls.
• Unicenter SNM software tools utilized to monitor all networks including Circuits, Powers and Devices.
• Solarwinds Utilized to monitor all Network Circuits in Utilizations details such as Avg Resp Time, Packet Loss, CPU Load, and Memory Used for each interface of each device. Additionally generate a report history of all devices and also have capability of generating a custom report for any given time/Date and on a daily basis.
• Implementation, Configuring and troubleshooting IPSec tunnel issues.
• Implementation, Configuration and troubleshooting of DS3, T1, ATM and Frame-Relay Networks.
• Converting Networks from Frame-Relay to MPLS.
• Assisting Firewall group and Windows OS Server group in services.
• Deployed distributed sniffer; this included configurations and installations.
• Sniffer expert used heavily to trace network problems/issues of Network Layers.
• Network Analyzer used to isolate networking problems through TCP packet in betwwen two network nodes 3-way handshake.
• Configuration and modifying of Routers and Switches as required.
• IOS upgrades. Such as Routers, Switches and Confidential Content Switches.
• Configured and Deployed Confidential VPN Concentrators.
• Troubleshooting DLSW and IBM mainframe IP connectivity issues to various clients.
• Troubleshooting Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM and DS3 WAN circuit issues.
• Utilized Confidential works for Administrations; Diagnostics, configurations Management, compare configurations, ACL Management changes, Hourly Reports, Availability, Inventory, History, Syslog Analysis, and Custom Reports.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Citrix Administration including: Installation of Citrix MetaFrame XP & MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 and Citrix ICA clients, identify the features and functions of the Citrix Management Console & Access Suite Console, configure a server farm and individual server settings, & servers, installed and published applications in the MetaFrame multi-user environment, DSN file configuration, Web Interface administration, shadowed users, configured Resource Manager, etc.
• Network administration (Windows 2000 & 2003 Server). (250 plus servers, 26,000 users)
• Planning, implementing and troubleshooting package software applications, NT registry settings, group policy objects, and application installation / testing procedures.
• Package and repackage MSI based applications using native Microsoft tools and InstallShield AdminStudio 5.5.
• Application packaging and deployment using Prism Deploy
• Certify applications to match Citrix standards.
• Interface with end-users and application testers to troubleshoot and debug application configuration and deployment issues.
• Coordinate testing responsibilities to ensure that all releases are tested properly before being released for user acceptance testing.
• Maintaining VB scripts or batch files to automate tasks such as migrating user data, migrating applications, transferring files, and starting and stopping services.
• Citrix MetaFrame XP FR3 and MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 Enterprise Edition administration and implementation together with Active Directory.
• Citrix load balancing used for applications across multiple servers.
• Performed unattended Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server 3.0 installations

Confidential, Skillman, NJ

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design included Configuration, implementations and deployments that accomplished the following:
• Full Redundancy of Layer 2 Switching (Multi-Layer Switching)
• Full Redundancy of Layer 3 with Dual Confidential ’s Operational Model
• Load Sharing of Layer 3 with Dual Confidential ’s Operational Model
• Replaced all switches to the newest models with Gig bit capability uplink to Core Switches
• Confidential devices that were used for this project are Confidential 6509, Confidential 3548 and 3550.
• Full mesh fiber links with Dual supervisor Chassis and combine fibers to form big pipe of Gigs links.
• Designed VLAN Networks. This new design have improved and achieved outstanding Network Performance
• Protocols/Configurations used with the new design HSRP, CEF, EIGRP, QoS, TACACS and content filtering.
• Updated all switches and routers IOS to newest version that support SSH.
• Documented the LAN networks with advanced Network Diagram done with MS Visio.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Infrastructure Manager

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented major migrations from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2003 AD Structure.
• Utilized Confidential as a network managements tools and also in migrations from NT to 2003.
• Administrated daily operations, tuning and automation process.
• Designed and implemented thin client environments (Citrix XPe).
• Utilized .Net Framework to deploy applications across multiple systems.
• Utilized Share Point for internal company usage (Web sites).
• Insured regulatory and IS Audit requirements.
• Designed, installed, and supported complex, redundant WANs with technologies such as: ATM, Frame Relay, and Private Line on a large enterprise network connecting hundred of locations.
• Utilized various network tools including, HP Openview, QIP, and network Sniffer software.
• Designed, Configured and troubleshoot Confidential IP switching/routing.
• Managed vendor relationships via Service Level Agreements.
• Implemented remote dialer solutions using Confidential Access Switch.
• Installed and Configured Confidential Load Director for traffic load balancing.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Network and System/ Manager

Responsibilities:

• Managed Local / Wide area networks and servers, System Security, backup, and Disaster Recovery.
• Designed and implemented secure Co-Location networks LAN/WAN and Security. The implementations included installations and configurations of Confidential routers, switches and Pix Firewalls.
• Established day-day network operating procedures, enforced network security standards and ensured a strong and effective network anti-virus defense.
• Evaluated performance of network system and applied changes that increased operational effectiveness.
• Developed tight security standards for all LAN/WAN connections.
• Provided on going presentations on newly technologies, newly Software and systems upgrades.
• Supported all company applications such as Hyperion, Great Plains, Dynamics, Integra-T and other apps.
• Designed and implemented Citrix XPe. Installed and administrated applications in Citrix environments.
• Installed and configured Windows 2000 advanced servers. Included Clustering, IIS and SQL Server 2k
• Documented the networks (LAN/WAN/Servers). Included advanced Network Diagram done with MS Visio.
• Administrated Veritas Backup systems.
• Configured (Radware) WSD for Load balancing in between multiple IP traffic included WEB servers.
• Designed a disaster recovery and contingency planning side geographical co-location using different ISP.