SUMMARY:

Results - driven, self-motivated, and highly competent IT professional with more than nine years of combined experience in developing and executing IT systems and solutions within various business sectors, non-profit, financial, and real estate industries to meet and exceed business goals. Demonstrate adeptness in performing maintenance and troubleshooting of all IT-related issues; relied upon for timely and quality resolution of technical problems. Exude effective leadership, with strong motivational, advisory, technical, and communication skills; able to mentor and provide direction to team members to achieve quality results.

TECHNICAL ACUMEN:

BGP OSPF EIGRP MPLS VPLS RSTP HSRP VTP IP SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT QOS VLAN IP Policy Routing Confidential CCNA Confidential CCNP IKE V1 IKEV2 IPSEC Confidential Routers: 2620, 2621 XM, 2811, 2821, 2911, 3845, 3945, ASR 1001, 1006, 9900 Confidential Catalyst Switches: 2960, 3750,3850, 4503, 4507, 4510R-E, 6506, 6509 Confidential Nexus Switches:9K,7K, 5K, 2K Confidential ACI: 9336PX, 9396PX, 9396TX, 9372TX, 9504, UCS 220 M4 Confidential IOS XE, IOS XR, NXOS Riverbed steelhead 5050 CHECK POINT FIREWALL Solar Winds Orion Citrix Presentation Server 4.0/Xenapp 5.0 Avaya Modular Messaging BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 Kazeon eDiscovery MS Windows SERVER 2000, 2003, 2008 VMware ESX 3.0 Microsoft Exchange 2003 MS Office Suite Citrix Edgesite Symantec Antivirus RSA Security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Created ACI Multi-Pod design to support active-active server clusters, virtual machine mobility and Confidential extension between multiple Data Centers.
• Initialized an ACI POD version 3.2 consisting of 9336PX (baby spines), 9396PX and TX Leaf switches, and two 93180YC-EX for the Inter-Pod Network.
• Setup Out of Band Management, Fabric Policies, Fabric Access Policies for a multi-tenant environment.
• Performed a network centric migration, mapping application profiles, Confidential 's and bridge domains to the existing vlans in the classical ethernet environment.
• Integrated virtual machine environment consisting of VMware ESX 6.5, UCS B Series Blade Chassis with Fabric interconnects.
• Created multiple L3 Outs connecting to WAN, LAN, DMZ and External networks.
• Layer 4 to Layer 7 service insertion of an ASA 5585 and F5 Big IP appliance.
• Deploy and Manage SD-WAN network (Versa Appliance) for WAN connectivity.

Network Architect

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation, assessment and support of complex networks.
• Design deploy and support Data Center Networks utilizing industry best practices and Confidential Application Centric Infrastructure and Nexus 9k platforms.
• Contribute to the development and performance of a migration plan from traditional data center network designs to Confidential ACI.
• Migrated Data Center infrastructure from the Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K VPC design to Confidential ACI Fabric 3.0 consisting of 9372TX Leaf nodes, 9504 Spine and UCS 220 M4 APIC.
• Designed ACI POD in a 3-tiered model, Web, App and DB Confidential ’s, Contracts, L3Out to existing OSPF domain.
• Assisted in the migration of part of their network infrastructure to AWS cloud which consisted of EC2 instances, EBS and Glacier within a private VPC domain that was accessed via an AWS direct connect circuit.
• Developed a Multicast WAN Design to support the customers need for multicast video streams over their MPLS backbone network.
• Assists customer with deployment and strategy of most complex services and related Network Management Systems.
• Serve as the SME within Services and Technical aspects of Routing & Switching and Service Provider networks (SP Architectures, IP/MPLS, IP NGN, Cloud etc.).
• Works closely with the Project Manager to coordinate the staging and deployment of equipment, ensures project checkpoints are met, and performs validation testing.
• Builds simulated networks in test labs to resolve most complex problems and compatibility issues. Finalize Design Validation Test Phase (DVTP) in a Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL).
• Generates network configurations from Low Level Design for most complex networks.
• Develop network design & network architecture best practices for Advanced Services.

Senior Network Architect

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes customer needs and generates technical requirements.
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of the TIC Network.
• Acts as Tier 3 Network Engineer for complex design, implementation and troubleshooting on IOS-XR routers.
• Identifies technical problems and debugs hardware and software related to Confidential carrier-class routing platforms.
• Assisted in the re-design of the Remote Access Network solution which consisted of 5505, 5510 ASA devices for VPN termination and MPLS VPN’s for segmentation of user traffic.
• Designed and Implemented Various Routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP/MPLS L3 VPN’s across networks in multiple locations
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Confidential ASR1K/9K/ 7606/4451/3945/3845/2900/2800 series routers.
• Provides Network Problem Resolution, Root-Cause Analysis, Software Referral assistance.
• Evaluates, designs, documents, installs, implements, tests, and performs problem isolation and resolution; and monitors, tunes, sets standards and maintains a range of Confidential Network components and systems.
• Provides client consulting and on the interface and use of the network facilities.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis requires evaluation of identifiable factors; and provides guidance & leadership to less experienced engineers.
• Uses monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software and hardware equipment to troubleshoot and isolate problems; gauge network performance; and trace data and protocol activity.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the SME within Services and Technical aspects of Service Provider networks
• Designed and Installed enterprise WAN/DMVPN network, which is Redundant with automatic fail over capabilities to support growing data network and future voice networks.
• Redesigned and Implemented an MPLS/L3VPN central services topology to support our multi-tenant Unified Communications infrastructure.
• Designed and Implemented Various Routing and Security protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP/MPLS L3 VPN’s, IKEV1 & IKEV2 VPN’s, Remote Access VPN across networks in multiple locations
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Confidential ASR1K/9K/ 7606/4451/3945/3845/2900/2800 series routers
• Configured/Troubleshoot IPSEC Site- to-Site VPN tunnels with customers and third party vendors on Confidential 7604 Platform
• Managed INFOBLOX DDI (DHCP, DNS, IPAM) for multi-tenant customer environments.
• Troubleshoot network issues through all layers of the OSI model, across multiple technologies.
• Perform network infrastructure upgrades and routine hardware configuration.
• Work with client organization(s) to understand business requirements and design/deliver networking solutions that satisfy the business needs
• During implementation, work closely with the Project Manager to coordinate the staging and deployment of equipment, ensure project checkpoints are met, and perform validation testing.
• Create Method of Procedures (MOP) and configuration templates for integration of new services or equipment for Service Provider customers.
• Interface with various levels of employees, mentor less senior engineering staff and provide reports to support management.
• Provide network support in a large, service provider (over 1000 nodes) Confidential environment
• Provide support, troubleshoot and resolve network and security related issues, often under time constraints.

Network Engineer

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the migration of the banks existing ATT MPLS network to redundant MPLS connections through ISP's, Level 3 and Century Link.
• Responsible for the delivery of a Global Security Initiative introducing Network Intrusion Prevention ( Confidential ) to the Lloyds Firewall. Lead SME delivering both physical and logical changes. Replaced both physical Checkpoint Management servers (IP560) with current series (IP12400) across both/multiple data centers. Worked with an external vendor to migrate configuration from old to new, and coordinated end-to-end testing of all core applications (Bloomberg, VPN access etc) to ensure right first time.
• Designed and implemented a multi-area OSPF network that allowed summarization of contiguous networks to reduce the routing table size and increase OSPF performance.
• Manage all CE to PE MP-BGP connections between multiple ISP’s. Use various attributes to influence path selection for the IBGP and EBGP routing updates.
• Implemented a QOS framework using schedulers LLQ, WRR and CBWFQ to prioritize low latency applications such as voice, video and Bloomberg traffic.
• Established new Chicago branch office (Network Upgrade/Deployment project):
• Provision of network equipment (Two Confidential 2620 routers, Riverbed Steelhead 5050M, Two Confidential Catalyst 3560 & 2950 switches) for dual MPLS connections.
• Coordinate with Chicago building management to extend 4 T1 circuits from the basement DMARC to our 35th floor Comms room.
• Coordinate Test and Turn up for WAN circuits with Dual ISP's Qwest and Level 3
• Allocate voice and data subnets for remote office
• Advertise local subnets using BGP between dual ISP connections
• Verify network connectivity (IP Telephony, citrix, fileshare, etc) back to all other remote locations, specifically to our datacenters.
• Coordinated the transfer of all our network infrastructure from one data center to another including provisioning of network equipment, setting up of Confidential 6506 catalyst core switches, allocation of IP subnets for DMZ and internal LAN networks, IGP (OSPF) configuration for point to point Metro Ethernet circuits and back up MPLS network as well as HSRP for redundancy between 6500 series core switches. Managed the configuration of NetApp storage unit FA3170, Confidential 9500 fabric switches, and HP Dl360 and Dl380 servers. Utilize Riverbed Steelhead compression devices to optimize bandwidth consumption.
• Quickly resolved all incidents, meeting all SLA requirements; identified problem areas and performed root cause analysis in close collaboration with service management.
• Ensured efficient utilization of system resources and proper scaling for future growth by effectively performing capacity planning functions as well as accurately meeting vendor specifications and technical reviews.

Network Administrator

Confidential, Somerset, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Administered Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.2 as well as restructured Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Active Directory Architecture to in corporate GPO’s.
• Efficiently performed all hardware, software, and all other purchase agreements upgrades.
• Ensured the proper management and maintenance of Sonic Wall firewalls as well as conduct of all system wide backups using Veritas Backup Exec 10D and Citrix Presentation Server Support.