SUMMARY:

Professional with extensive (30 years) experience in engineering, administration and support of a diverse range of information technologies within multiple industry settings. Strong leader in the implementation, analysis, optimization, streamlining and documentation of LAN/WAN network systems and monitoring systems. Outstanding track record for consistently delivering effective solutions. Excellent, congenial communication skills, contributing to the ability to lead and motivate project teams to ensure exceptional success. Recognized as the leader on numerous contracts/projects. Distinguished through multiple nominations including:

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cisco: IOS & NX - OS, VoIP, EIGRP, BGP (edge), ASA, etc.

Solarwinds: (Orion) NPM SAM NCM UDT NTA WPM IPAM VNQM - LEM (SIEM)

Other: Wireshark, Firewalls, Point to Point Tunnels, QOS, Riverbed Steelhead, Anyconnect, A10 & ACE Load balancers, etc.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Md

Enterprise Management Systems Architect / NOC Engineer III

• Over a decade as Project Management and Tier III Advanced Technical Network Support
• Firewall (Cisco ASAs) Administrator and routing/switching Engineer
• Built (and maintained primary responsibility for) Solarwinds Orion from the ground up; consisted of a primary poller, 5 additional pollers, an additional web server, SQL 2012, FTP server, multiple WPM transaction servers, NPM, SAM, IPAM, NCM, UDT, VNQM, and Engineers tool kit
• Converted 7 different systems into one cohesive platform; saving hundreds of man hours
• Converted Tivoli to SAM (saving Perdue over $.5M), Locate to UDT, Stealthwatch to NTA, CiscoWorks to NCM, Panorama to SAM, replaced spreadsheets
• Implemented Solarwinds LEM (SIEM); Over 45M
• Designed and implemented NATs, DMZ’s, site to site VPN connections, upgrades to IOS, ACL, adds, moves, changes and much more
• Lead trouble-shooting (escalation) Engineer
• Designed/troubleshooting in multiple manufacturing environments, helped design and maintain QOS, Riverbed Steelheads, and prepared detailed reports for upper management and Corporate Officers for Plants, FeedMills, Live Production and Grain sites.
• Core switch upgrade project - travelled site to site to replace cat 4500 switches with Nexus 5548 switches with minimum downtime
• Lead the network side of the Perdue Disaster Recovery plan and testing at IBM facility
• Assisted in VMware build for the network management platform, including Supermico (ESX) with 12 hosts
• Built Orion dashboards to provide detail views and summary of a Data Center move to Herndon, Va., application views, maps, and executive views
• Worked with a team of engineers to ensure configurations of Nexus switches and Cisco routers throughout moves as well as on various Solarwinds tools
• Liaison to the Design team and mentored nine (9) NOC engineers
• Maintained external website access through Rackspace; worked with marketing and external groups to provide maximum website uptime and maintain vendor requirements
• Primary back-up engineer for the WAN replacement project, moving to AT&T Anira and MPLS solution using BGP
• Mentored junior engineers, implemented a training program for the NOC team
• Monitored over 9000 applications via, PERL, WMI, Powershell, SNMP and SSH
• Built Netflow configurations receiving a total of 12,000 flows/sec
• Documentation via SOP’s, Visios and Solarwinds Orion Maps
• Project Management for NOC small projects
• Implemented IXIA (ANUE) Network Packet Broker
• Implemented and managed Opnet (Riverbed) AppResponse and Transaction Analyser
• Created many CER’s for capital expentitures for the NOC, Tools and Automations and other teams

Confidential, Va

Senior Network Engineer

Provided expertise on a three (3) month contract to provide support for a national network supporting over 200 chapters and blood bank sites. Technologies supported were standard routing and switching, MPLS, Cisco VoIP, L2L and remote VPN support and setup, among others. All engineers followed SOP’s for every procedure or problem according to FDA regulations. Devices supported were Cisco 6500’s, full range of Cisco routers and switches, Cisco VPN concentrators and Cisco Pix’s.

Confidential, Crystal City, Va

Lead Network Engineer 2007

Three (3) month contract supporting the Central Office and all outlying network connections internationally. Devices supported focused on Cisco 6509’s, PIX, full range of layer 2 and 3 switches, and a full range of Cisco routers from 1700’s to 7500’s that all support over 10,000 nodes. Other projects included design of remote sites and connectivity associated, as well as reporting network status and personnel status to upper management.

Department of energy / energy information administration - RSIS CONTRACT Pentagon, Va

Premier federal systems integrator providing advanced technical and business solutions in information technology, systems engineering, telecommunications, scientific support, and management consulting.

Lead Network Engineer

Implemented, and maintained a secure, complex, predominantly Cisco network which included; PIX 525 and ASA firewalls, redundant 6513’s with 720 supervisors, 7507, 4500’s, 2600’s, IDS, Finisar THG “sniffers”, F5 3DNS, F5 BigIP (9.1), WhatsUp Pro, Cisco wireless Access Points, CiscoWorks, Cisco ACS, Cisco MDS 9216i and 9506 SAN switches, Infoblox DNSone DHCP/DNS devices, Solarwinds and many more. Projects included design and install of F5 equipment; design, install and maintain Cisco Security Agents on all servers (completed in two weeks); install of RSA SecureID; design and implementation of new VLAN/IP schemea; conversion to DHCP plan; IPv6 transition planning and testing; design of fiber channel; iSCSI SAN, video and voice over IP design; etc. Network lead in off-site disaster recovery.

Confidential Pentagon, Va

Senior Principle Engineer

Principal Engineer, supporting all WHS backbone services, including; maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting and designing products and technologies. I was also responsible for ensuring that the backbone network met all DoD security requirements via researching security vulnerabilities, determining and implementing compliance resolutions, and maintaining the Information Assurance and Vulnerability Alert compliance for the WHS managed assets. The environment included Linux and Windows servers, Windows DNS and Citrix servers; Windows 2000 Terminal Services, Remote Access Service (RAS), Windows NT/2000 servers (Internet Authentication Service’s RADIUS, WINS, DNS, 3Com Syslog, etc.) and Red Hat Linux servers (Squid web cache, SquidGuard web filtering, Network Time Protocol, Sendmail) as well as other limited access Windows and Linux servers (i.e. Firewall, Web, and SQL services required for CENS); Cisco, Extreme Networks and Alcatel Omni switches; Alcatel VOIP; VPN appliances (7530); Cisco, F5 BigIP and Fireguard load balancing routers; Sun Solaris based Network Associates Gauntlet, Netfilter and Netscreen firewalls; Cisco IDS; Cisco AS5300; Juniper IDP; Netscreen and Cisco VPN. Communications were accomplished using T-1, ISDN PRI’s, Ethernet, and Verizon’s TLS network services. Supported organizations within WHS include Federal Voting Assistance Program, commissions on Afghanistan and Iraq, sexual abuse, Pentagon Force Protection Agency, Human Resources Directorate, etc.

Lead Network Engineer

Architected, administered, analyzed and maintained LAN/WAN’s directly supporting over 10,000 users within various organizations. Lead engineer supervising 4 other engineers on a technical basis. Projects included: Threat Risk analysis and vulnerability assessments. NOC creation and staffing. Seamless cutovers. Installation of new backbones, new IP addressing schema. Frequent Zero Down-time upgrades. Added failover paths. Designed plant upgrades (cable & fiber). Performed the VLAN/IP design and implementation affecting over 4000 users with virtually no downtime. Forklift upgrade of over 350 buildings/450 closets. Moved from a Cisco centric network with a gigabit backbone to an Enterasys based network with a Nortel OC-192 SONET backbone, provided by Combat Information Transport (CITS).

Confidential

Systems Engineer II

Pre-sales Engineering for comprehensive technology solutions across the full network life cycle. Analyzed unique business goals, IS resources, budget, time frames and technology needs to optimize networks. Helped clients achieve strategic objectives and grow into future requirements. Delivered end-to-end data, e-business integration solutions, open-standard broadband and next generation services to customers. Proof-of-Concept Testing and Vulnerability Assessment. Delivery included: Bill of Material preparation, installation, Logistics coordination, Product Inventory and Procurement, Proposal development, Project Management and Staging. Management included: Enterprise Network Management-LAN/WAN, Enterprise Network Support and On-Site Engineering and design.

Confidential

Solutions Architect (Consultant)

Managed hospital LAN/WAN with over 2800 users. Lead on capacity planning, overhaul of configurations on routers/ switches, reconfiguration of server farms connectivity, implementation of dual SONET rings. Trained employees on protocols, efficient routing/switching, and concepts of best practices. Integrated multiple depts. into the network. Acquired 99.9% uptime, compared to 66% uptime 2 years previous. New Frame Relay/DSL layout. Setup PIX, firewall IOS and security strategies (Netranger, IDS).

Confidential

Managed city employees in Communications Dept., including tutelage on protocol management. Administered network with ATM backbone providing connectivity to over 5,600 users. Liaison with communication companies to acquire access for outlying areas via T1 & T3 connections. Primary technical contact for all network data communications. Setup and initial build of HP Openview.