SUMMARY:

Network Infrastructure Manager / Sr. Network Engineer with extensive experience in network, cable and telephony infrastructure environments, data operations and systems support centers. Product knowledge spans LAN/WAN, OCAP & TRUE TWO WAY CABLE, Telecommunications, Network Engineering, PPP, OSPF, BGP, ATM, MPLS, QOS, EIGRP, Frame Relay, connectivity, computer services and hardware.

RELATED AREAS OF EXPERTISE ARE:

• Training and Development
• Project Management
• Extensive knowledge in the computer field with troubleshooting and repair of networks
• Product Engineering, Design and Implementations
• Quality Control
• Productivity Improvement

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware Supported: Infrastructure Hardware includes, Avaya, Brocade, Cisco, Hewlett Packard, Juniper, D - Link, (Switches, Routers, Hubs, gateways, Bridges, repeaters, and catalyst)and the following Models Nexus 7000s, 5000s, 2000s, Cisco 6500s including 6509 and 6513’s, Cisco ASR 1001 to 1006 & 7200 BSR’s, Brocade MLX & ICX Layer 2 and 3, Confidential and Clone brands of desktops, mini towers, DELL/HP BLADES, laptops, DNS, DHCP, NAT, WINS, TFTP, domain, member, file and print, RAS, and exchange servers,, Nortel Wintel-based Hardware Platforms, Other Network Telephony and Telco circuitry both voice and data includes LAN, WAN, MAN, VLAN, WLAN, WMAN, WIFI, Gateways, Point to point, Aruba/Cisco Wireless, Ethernet, Broadband, RS232, dial up, peer to peer, and hybrid networks. Serial, Synchronous and asynchronous devices and systems ATM, PSTN, ISDN, CDMA, TDMA, GSM, Video Streaming, Frame Relay, TI, T3, DS1, CSU, DSU, DTE/DCE, NIC, NIU, Fiber Channel, FDDI, Sonnet (RF components like Spectrum Analyzers like SUN, JDSU, Marconi, Allied Telesyn, Wiltron sweep testers, adapter cards and boxes for voice and data interfaces, channeling multi-plexing and inverse multi-plexing. Have design and hands on experience with all types of cabling and Backbones (CAT5,6 and 7, 100 & 1000 base T Fast Ethernet and GIGE, Fiber, Com-scope,) peripheral interfaces network testing and monitoring equipment as well as mainframe 3270/5250 connectivity and emulation, Monroe and Trialithic EAS Generators. Proficient in working with Checkpoint, Pix, ASA appliances and Radius and LDAP security devices and firewalls.

Software Supported: Experience with most diagnostics proprietary and non-proprietary utilities and applications. Operating systems such as DOS, Windows, Novel, UNIX, Linux (AIX) VMware and Hyper V Virtual machines and applications. Exchange, Lotus Notes and mail distribution software, Outlook, Network and SNMP trap monitoring software like Net cool, Cisco works, Solar Wins. All routable and non routable protocols such as TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, NWLINK, NETBUE, SNMP,BGP,STP,MPLS, OSPF, PPP, RIP, ARP, HTTP, FTP, ICMP, IPSEC, VOIP, TCP, UDP, SSL, SIP, MGCP, TFTP, RTP, and others. Diagnostic, virus checking and bench mark utilities includes Symantec, Check-it, Norton’s anti-virus, ASA, ACS Cisco UCS and VM platforms. Radius, Mc-Cafee, F-prot, Ghost and Imaging software, Microsoft Office, and Back-Office products, Outlook, Lotus notes, Corel, other types of office suites and applications like SharePoint. Experience with remote messenger service software (SMS, PC- Anywhere, Net meeting, Visual Basic, Citrix Meta-frame, VERITAS Net backup, MS Project, VISIO, Direct Connect, WebEx, Meeting Place Connect Wise and Mobius). Network and remote administration software like Altiras, Tivoli, Dame ware, Carbon copy. Network monitoring software like Sev one, Spectrum, Solarwinds, Cisco Works, HP Openview, Remedy, Ticketing and service manage software like HP Service Manager, Service Now. Familiar with such packet gropers’ and analyzers like Ethereal, Wire shark & Win PCAP.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, West Point, PA

Network Technology Consultant and Planner

Responsibilities:

• Secondary project responsibilities were Network Technology Consultant in a Cisco shop working directly with Network Teams to integrate new mergers and acquisitions into a globally standard network platform.
• Both projects responsibilities consisted of creating and reading Visio Network topology drawings along with Network Design and concepts, creating Bill of materials (BOM) for ordering, creating and tracking RFC’s via Remedy and Project Management knowledge and skills, being pro-efficient with Microsoft’s office suites and applications along with Cisco Switches, Routers, Security Appliances, VOIP, WAAS, and ISP providers.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

Brocade OSE Onsite Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as Brocade supporting Engineer for BNA (Brocade Network Advisor, VDX6740 core switches, MLX router’s, IDX6100 access switches along with other management software like Solarwinds, Cisco core, aggregation, access switches and security appliances.

Confidential, Shreveport, LA

Responsibilities:

• Assigned to NETOPS team of Willis Knighton as BRC (Brocade resonant consultant) to assist with network deployments (refreshes, change management configurations, MOPS, network architecture interfacing and troubleshooting issues of the following Brocade hardware: CER-2024f,ICX7750-48F,VDX674,ICX6610’s in stacked and standalone configurations along with BNA Application/Appliance for monitoring.
• These Brocade Infrastructure appliances interfaced with many types of industry LAN/WAN/WLAN appliances like ARUBA wireless controllers, Ciena Sonnet Ring, Proxy servers, Cisco ASA appliances and Polo Alto Firewalls along with other proprietary peripherals.

Confidential, Raleigh Durham, NC

Responsibilities:

• The following Brocade equipment was implemented and deployed: The Core configuration utilized VDX8770’s Fabric Switches, and MLXe’s Core Router/Switches. The Aggregation layer consisted of VDX6740 fabric Switches and ICX6610 Management Switches. Other Brocade Technologies utilized is the Vyatta Vrouter, along with the Brocade BNA and interfaced with Polo Alto Firewalls and F5 5250v Load Balancer’s as well as Riverbed CX-7070H’s.
• Some of LAN/WAN protocols were VRRP-E, VLAN, OSPF, MPLS and EBGP / IBGP along with redistribution.
• All Brocade Edge Fabric interfaced with other Vendor infrastructure hardware like Cisco Nexus switches, and other vendor servers and DMZ’s.
• Interfacing with key stakeholders vendors and technical personnel through all aspects and phases of project as Network Engineer Consultant in the field and remotely. Project responsibilities includes: assisting with the configuring, troubleshooting, staging, code upgrades, licensing and deployment of Brocade’s ICX-6610, 6450 and 6430 stacked core and standalone edge switch topologies for nationwide refresh project.
• Trained and made recommendations to Traveler’s Net-ops team for best practices and utilization of Brocade switches and infrastructure components for deployment strategy.

Confidential

Cisco LAN/WAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• The primary focus was the delivery and implementation of Confidential, data, OSP and facilities solutions to customers globally.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of the following Cisco LAN/WAN/WLAN products: 2921 Routers, 2960/2950 Switches, ASA5512 Firewall, 2602i Lightweight APs (access points), 7500 Wireless LAN Controller and the MSE Wireless Control System (Cisco Prime).

Confidential, Horsham, PA

Network and Infrastructure LAN/WAN Engineer and Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Analyzed LAN/WAN/WLAN traffic and made recommendations for realignment and restructuring.
• Consulted with Network Management and Net-ops team in the NOC and International DATA Centers to optimize all global enterprise network components including; Cisco, Juniper, Avaya and F5 routers, Aruba wireless Controllers 5500 series lightweight AP’s (access points), switches, firewalls and load balancers.
• Worked with products like Solarwinds, Reporting tools and Visio Diagrams to adhere to PCI compliance and be cost efficient in the international market place.

Confidential, Wilmington, Delaware

Network Security Design & Implementation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with Global Net-Ops team along with Telecom and ISP Providers.
• Specific infrastructure appliances were Cisco ASA 5540-5580 enterprise environment firewalls to configure DMZ zones along with creating objects and IPSEC secure tunnels.

Confidential, Camden, NJ

Network SR. Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities are the Cisco switch and device design, implementation, migration and refresh from Cisco EOL 3550 in the IDF’s to HP Procurve 3800E’s and Cisco 3750’s infrastructure.
• Core’s being utilized in the MDF ;s were Cisco 6500 series LAN Switching with VLAN/WLAN,STP,IOS, HTTP, HTTPS, Lightweight APs (access points), Cisco Wireless LAN Controller SMTP, SNMP, SSL and tagging technologies.
• Secondary responsibilities were the support of the network LAN/WAN infrastructure and proprietary hospital systems and interfaces for systems like DaVincci Robot, RFID’s and others.

Confidential, Bluebell, PA

IT Manager and Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilize ITIL best practices to manage IT department and trained internal personnel to assume the management role when completed.
• This assignment was a dual position with Network Engineer to technically support responsibilities; design, and implementation of new policies in two offices .
• Other responsibilities included RFP and vendor relations, evaluating and supporting a Cisco network consisting of 2800 & 2900 series routers, redundant stacked 3750 series switches, ASA 5520 appliances with DMZ, Natting, Routing and switching protocols BGP, VLAN/WAN/WLAN, STP, VOIP, SIP, PRI’s, H323 and the Microsoft Active Directory 2010 consisted of Exchange, SQL Citrix client and servers, Hyper V Virtual machines double take and Symantec Backup, DNS and DHCP Services.
• Responsibilities included resolving trouble tickets and new implementations and upgrading of network circuits design and solutions for both data/telecom related issues.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility was to configure deploy and support Cisco 2951 router’s to a lab environment and then move to a production / retail environment with split tunnelwashing capabilities.
• Routing protocols - BGP, OSPF, NAT, LAN/WAN/WLAN and ACL utilization
• Secondary responsibilities was to support the Cisco Data and voice infrastructure, migrate from Cisco Wireless Controllers and Light weight AP’s (access points) to Aruba wireless Controllers and AP’s along with airwave tool to check signal propagation and heat map foot print.

Confidential, Malvern, PA

Network Data Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibilities are the Cisco switch and device migration to Brocade MLX infrastructure components; secondary is Network LAN/WAN, Infrastructure, Aruba and Cisco Wireless Controllers and Light weight AP’s, Nexus, IPT Telephony, Network administration and systems support. Analyze and bench mark the existing utilization of network traffic data/Telco; and work with the Telecom and Data teams to consolidate and migrate existing Cisco 6513 & 6509 switches, VLANS and devices to the Brocade MLX implemented design.
• Secondary responsibilities included builds & troubleshooting of Server hardware infrastructure rack mount and blade servers Aruba and Cisco Wireless network along with Cisco Enterprise and Nexus Hardware.