SUMMARY:

• Dedicated IT professional specializing in developing innovative solutions for complex business challenges
• Ability to lead a team and manage multiple parallel projects while balancing costs, technologies, security and schedules to fulfill business and customer requirements. Energetic, organized and detail - oriented and able to work independently with minimal supervision
• Well versed in the architecture, design, integration, configuration and maintenance of data centers and large scale distributed enterprise LAN/WAN networks
• In depth knowledge of infrastructure including information security, firewall administration, routing and switching protocols, protocol analysis, monitoring, troubleshooting and documentation
• Strong knowledge and experience with network topologies and Cisco hardware for LAN and WAN especially for business and enterprise data centers, wireless controllers and firewalls
• Experience with dynamic routing such as RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP, switching protocols such as spanning-tree, port-security, Etherchannel, VTP/VLAN/Private VLANs, trunking and pruning, dynamic arp inspection, other protocols such as HSRP/VRRP/GLBP, IPSEC, GRE/L2TP tunnels, DNS, DHCP, ACL’s, QoS, Multicast (PIM/IGMP), and network transports such as Ethernet, Frame Relay, MPLS Layer 3 VPN, BGP VPNV4, BGP Route Reflector/Confederation, VRF (Instigation with VPNV4 and MPLS Layer 3 VPN), wireless, IKEV1 and IKEV2 VPN Technologies including RA VPN, AnyConnect, LAN to LAN Tunnels etc..
• Experience in Data Center technologies with Cisco Nexus including FEX, vPC, Various Dell Chassis Systems.
• WAN experience with wide variety of commercial circuits, working with telecom providers for provisioning and troubleshooting
• Detailed knowledge of TCP/IP and UDP protocols. Diagnostic and protocol analysis expertise examining physical through application layers using tools such as Wireshark
• Strong emphasis on proper detailed written network documentation and monitoring using tools such as Solarwinds, PRTG and What’s-Up-Gold.
• Firewall experience including Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Juniper ISG/SSGs, Fortigate, WatchGuard, SonicWall
• Experience in Load Balancers including F5 LTM, Barracuda, FortiADC, and Cisco ACE.
• Operating System experience with Windows desktop and server systems, VMWare ESXI/VSphere, Mac OS, Linux
• Highly talented in transitioning knowledge to new vendors without any support.
• Some experience in Python, PHP, MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

• Providing network engineering leadership, technology focus and engineering processes to address complex challenges for a diverse and highly regulated network environment comprise of 1200 + sites.
• Recent Projects include:
• Network refresh projects to upgrade network design to meet our organizational defined guidelines.
• Published standards document for internal network documentation requirements and applied those standards in a draft design document package for one of our clients
• Documentation standards are to be applied to the remainder of clients to decrease troubleshooting time and the associated labor costs
• Other Duties Include:
• Tier 3 escalation for my company’s network teams.
• Provide Interoperability between various major vendor routing, switching and security devices.
• Mentor to Junior Engineers.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

• Providing leadership, technology focus and engineering processes to address complex challenges for a diverse and highly regulated network environment.
• Recent Projects include:
• Designed public infrastructure to peer with datacenter provider in order to provide a highly redundant and reliable hosting environment for our clients
• New implementation provides for QoS policies specific to individual client needs to improve overall network performance, increase client reliability and reduce network complexity and the associated labor costs
• Designed multiple-context active/active firewall configuration to match functional requirements necessary providing firewall as a service for multiple clients using a common infrastructure
• Published standards document for internal network documentation requirements and applied those standards in a draft design document package for one of our clients
• Documentation standards are to be applied to the remainder of clients to decrease troubleshooting time and the associated labor costs
• Other Duties Include:
• Tier 3 escalation for my company’s datacenters network teams.
• Provide Interoperability between various major vendor routing, switching and security devices.
• Mentor to Junior Engineers.

Network Operations Engineer

Confidential

• Remote Administration of Mid to Large Scale Networks
• Responding to any Network Alarms to troubleshoot them
• Remote Network Configuration Management
• Quarterly Network Audits for Remote Networks
• Collaborating with Vendors
• Monitoring Traffic
• Identifying bottle necks in the networks
• Routine checkups on each management system to ensure their functionality
• Creating tickets on Various Cases
• Notifying Clients with Any Change on Their Networks
• Bulk Network Devices Configuration Roll Out
• Monitoring Routing BGP Tables along MPLS Networks

Network/System Engineer

Confidential

• Managing K12 Schools Network and System Infrastructure
• Providing Technical Support for both System and Networks
• Providing Support for Centralized Storage Backup System