SUMMARY:

Seeking a Network Engineering position that utilizes my technical skills acquired through, industry experience and expertise

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and develop VOIP infrastructure to support 3 call centers and 2 data centers with 1200 agents
• Migrate call centers to new VOIP system and support the operation of the call centers
• Replace production Cisco 4321 routers without impacting business due to Clock Timing Chip recall
• Perform network investigation on escalated issues, research and implement solutions
• New station builds and deployments Confidential many airports across North America
• Escalation point for Severity 1 issues
• Configuration and deployment of network tools including Netflow, Solar Winds and Cisco ISE
• New circuit deployments and station upgrades
• Support the entire network including Data Centers, multi - campus MAN, stations and 3rd party sites

Confidential

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Research, Design and Develop complex new emerging technologies to support the business needs of Confidential & Confidential Mobile customers
• Consult, advise and participate on cross functional project teams regarding network architecture and technical implementation
• Document all architecture in the form of Design Guides, Migration Guides, Engineering Design Plans and Network Design Requirements using Excel, Visio, Word, PowerPoint, etc.
• Redesign of all Legacy Data Centers GN, Global and ISP traffic to migrate off of EOL/EOS network platforms
• Successfully executed POC in Labs NTC1/2 and write a detailed Migration Guide to National Engineering for production traffic migration in VTC, STC, ALLEN and BOTH NTC’s
• Support the Next Generation Location Enabler (NGLE) for IP design expansion and feature builds
• Performance, security and mutation testing of all supported HP TippingPoint platforms (S2500N, S2600NX, S7100NX) using Spirent Avalanche and Mu
• Security validation of code versions and vulnerability

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support all internal properties and customers to migrate to the Azure Cloud per company-wide initiative (Cisco ASR1K)
• Migrate services from IPSec to QinQ
• Support IPv6 rollout in APAC (Cisco ASR9K, Cisco 6500, Cisco 7200)
• Support HSRP Remediation Project (Cisco ASR9K, Cisco 6500), to audit and fix all broken HSRP configurations across the Redmond campus and international network
• IP management for all MSIT/Azure connectivity

Confidential

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop complex national network architectures to support the Small Cell business requirements
• Design and deploy the models of those architectures in First Field Application (FFA) sites and support national production rollout
• Design and configuration of routers (Cisco 7609, Cisco Nexus 7010), firewalls (Cisco FWSM), switches (Cisco 6509, Cisco 4948, Nexus 7010), Security Gateways (Cisco SAMI) and load balancers (F5 6900, F5 Viprion, Cisco ACE 20, Cisco ACE 4710)
• Technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Confidential & Confidential Small Cells projects
• Consult, advise and participate on cross functional project teams regarding network architecture and technical implementation
• Architect, design and deploy network availability, stability, performance and monitoring systems supporting over 1M users across 8 Regional Data Centers and 1 National Technology Center (NTC)
• Assist in researching, designing, engineering, sizing and implementation of a secure network infrastructure in support of corporate objectives
• Provide innovative yet realistic ideas on improving network capabilities to the architectural process

Confidential

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Promoted to Network Architecture Team
• Develop complex national network architecture to support the Alltel/Verizon acquisition
• Design and deployment support of this architecture in 11 Regional Data Centers (RDC’s) and 1 National Technology Center with the migration of 2.5M users
• Consult, advise and participate on cross functional project teams regarding network architecture and technical implementation
• Assist in researching, designing, engineering, sizing and implementing a secure network infrastructure in support of corporate objectives
• Design and configuration of CE and site routers (Cisco 7609, Cisco 3845) and Firewalls (SRX 3400)

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer Lead

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead of the Philips Remote Services Network and Lead Member of Staff of a 5 person networking team
• Responsible for all network and data center architecture, design, implementation, migration and support of 2 global data centers
• Worked directly with vendors to define design requirements, develop proof of concept solutions, lab testing in support of production field deployments
• Supported equipment included all routers/switches (Cisco 6509, Cisco 7206, Cisco 3845, Cisco 1800), Firewalls (Cisco FWSM, Cisco ASA), storage networking (Cisco MDS 9100, Cisco HP Blade Chassis modules), load balancing (F5), supporting hospital VPN termination of 4000+ S2S/DMVPN tunnels, hosting 35,000+ hosts
• Responsible for deployment and management of all network services including Network General, TACACS, NetFlow, PRTG, CiscoWorks and Cisco Security Manager

Confidential

Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Member of the MSN GNSIM team responsible for operational status of all Microsoft properties including Microsoft.com, MSN.com, Hotmail, Messenger, Passport, etc. (200+ total).
• Responsible for mitigation of operational incidents for 26 Global Data Centers including BAU issues, BGP peering, hardware failures, traffic management, circuit management and end user impact
• Conducted network investigations to troubleshoot connectivity issues for new service deployments or operational issues
• Hosted all High-Priority Network Incident conference bridges in the war room
• Wrote Technical Support Guides (TSG) for incident management procedures for operational staff
• Provided daily reports to GNS management including current issues, mitigated issues and overall network health
• Responsible for tier 1 staff of 20 support analysts