SKILLS SUMMARY:

Networking: 15 years of progressive LAN/WAN design and implementation with an emphasis router and switch configuration/ optimization, OSI Layer 2 (STP.x VTP, ISL, Etherchannel, VLAN, etc.), Layer 3 switching /routing (OSPF, EIGRP, eBGP, CMPLS, IPv4/6), DNS/DHCP WAN/ISP, network virtualization (N1kv, VRF), higher layer protocols SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, Customer support of 10,000+ users

Network/Infrastructure: Security technologies (Firewall, access control, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, administrative access control

Delivery: Strong customer support/adherence to SLA’s, including Network Management Systems, Service Delivery, Service Fulfillment (including the network inventory, activation and provisioning), Service Assurance, Strong Customer Care, Compliance

Layer 2: 802.1D, 802.1Q, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi - Layer Switching, L2/L3 VPN, VRRP, HSRP, VRF, Multicast, Etherchannel

Network Management/ Analysis: Wireshark, NMAP, Capsa, TCPDUMP, Hex Dump, Gigamon, Packet Creation /, PRTG/MRTG, Cricket, Nagios, Splunk, Cisco Infrastructure, SolarWinds (NPM), in-house Expect scripts, Linux kernel 2.6x to 3.16.x, Netbrain, Cacti, Puppet

WAN: Leased lines 56/64k - 600Mbps, (PPP / HDLC, SMDS), Channelized lines (E1 / T1 / E3 / T3)/ Multti-gig, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN (BRI/PRI), VSAT (Ku/ C support band deployment, VPN, C/MPLS

Ticketing/ CRM Systems: Remedy, Clarify, Impact, Solice, Servicedesk, Servicebook

Security Standards: NIST standards, NERC, SIEM, SCADA, FISMA, ISF, FERC, CIP, Defining and conducting Asset, Vulnerability, and Risk Assessments, CERT/ MITRE CVE analysis and remediation

Technical Support/ NOC: Expert level, creation of NOC policy and procedure, NOC management, NOC design, Change Control (peer review, implementation, and escalation), strong/ successful carrier and Telco troubleshooting methodologies), MOPs

Broad technical knowledge of data center, components, and processes: applications, Storage, Network, Server, and projects surrounding their planning, design, implementation, operation, optimization and delivery, MOP’s creation and execution, remediation planning, network device testing and performance tuning

Linux/ Cloud: Strong hands-on skills as demonstrated from Confidential High Performance Computing Program (entirely Linux 2.6 x kernels based; Microsoft’s bare-bones Linux to MS comparisons and F5 support working entirely with RHEL and the F5 Micro-Kernel.

CAREER SUMMARY:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer / Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Modify, add and change network hardware to include devices Cisco 37xx, 6509, Nexus 7K switches & Cisco routers 72xx and 76xx, 9001, 9006
• TCP/IP, Routing protocols, L2 protocols, load balancing concepts
• Network Design and deployment
• Enterprise level IP/DHCP address management
• Design and present Bill of Material’s/ Statements of Work
• Remote/ on-site troubleshooting L2/L3 protocols
• Responsibility for working on multiple concurrent tasks with conflicting priorities

Confidential, Bellevue, WA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contribute to and review network upgrades
• Support circuit design upgrades and outages
• Major carrier interaction (deployment and circuit troubleshooting)
• Hands on support of Brocade L2/L3 network
• Support of wireless network WAP/WLC (Aruba/Cisco)
• Participation in onsite MOP (maintenance windows)

Confidential, Hoffman Estates, IL

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on knowledge in building, configuring & installing Cisco Catalyst/ NXOS, 7010,5000,2000
• Hands-on knowledge in building, configuring & installing Cisco routers - 2900, 3900, 7000 (7200 or 7500), ASR Hands-on experience in configuring and troubleshooting Cisco ASA
• Hands-on knowledge of implementation and support OSPF, EIGRP and eBGP, DMVPN, MPLS, IPsec over GRE
• Working knowledge of QoS / Policing/ Traffic Engineering
• Knowledge in network monitoring tools - Wireshark network analysis, Gigamon inline, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Solarwinds, PRTG, Splunk, Nagios
• Maintenance window planning, peer review, creation and implementation of MOP’s

Confidential

Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Technical Lead for administration of ~100 Net screen firewalls using NSM or CL, ASA, and Checkpoint
• Assessment and remediation of upgrades, installation and configuration of from legacy architectures to: 7004, 7010, 3100, 2000 (Fabric Extenders) and 1000v for proof of concept
• Implementation and knowledge transfer of OTV and Fabric Path via detailed Visio diagrams, video presentations and narratives.
• Team lead for DoD compliance / remediation (FCAPS/ FISMA)
• Provided and entire network analysis, diagrams and recommendations to meet compliance
• Negotiated with cross-functional groups to build consensus related to projects
• Design and build-out of 40 site optical network, point to multi-point optical network using Ciena and cisco 15454 for DWDM

Confidential, Seattle, WA

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Strong TCP/IP skills
• Strong Linux skills
• Protocol Level network troubleshooting (Wireshark, TCP dump, Splunk, MRTG/ PRTG)
• Redhat Linux and subsystems/ Network routing (ZEBOSS)
• Support Cisco installation for customers who did not understand how to properly integrate a multi-vendor solution (Brocade, Blue Coat, Extreme, IDS/ IPS, Spam filters).
• SSL experience: plan/ price and reliability, order, keys, implementation; troubleshooting using some of the following ssldump, sslkey, openssl, key tool, key conversion.

Confidential, Champaign, IL

Principal Engineer LINUX High Performance Computing/ Cloud Computing

Responsibilities:

• Sr. level Linux System Administrator for production/ test networks
• Build, Monitor and maintain all HPC clusters
• PI support, Infiniband Support, Performance tuning

Confidential, Maui, Hi

Dell Temporary Resident Linux HPC Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration of: 5,120 processor Dell Power-edge 1,955 DRAC’s HPCC/ for DOD 1520 quad-core processors:
• Use of Dell Remote Access Control (DRAC)for the 5,120 CPU cores
• Manage Security Patches for the HPC cluster
• Ensure SLA's were met (MTBF), 99.999% uptime
• Management of 86 IB (Infiniband x4) (Topspin / Cisco) switches, Configuration and patch management of 30 Cisco IB Infiniband core switches
• List of measurable objectives according to PRTG/ Best Current Practices
• Project Lead supporting 4 junior developers design and implementation of SNMP/ OID’s and NMS
• Examples: Common Sensors, bandwidth monitoring sensors, Web Servers (HTTP/s) Sensors between layer 4-7, SNMP sensors, virtual server sensors

Microsoft, Redmond, WA

Responsibilities:

• High Performance Computing (HPC and Cloud Services) / Service Oriented Architecture
• Perform comparative analysis for performance and feature sets of Linux based FOSS and Proprietary HPC Packages
• Bare metal evaluate the core components of Windows 2003 CCS and Windows Server 2008 Computer Cluster
• Compare / contrast Windows Compute Cluster Server with FOSS and proprietary HPC packages
• Deliver multiple “white-papers” with results of HPC comparisons

Confidential, WA

Team Lead, Project Manager, Senior High Performance Computing Engineer/ Linux administrator/ Remote Access Lead

Responsibilities:

• Check Point/ Nokia IPSO-IP5xx installation, configuration, administration
• Build of HPC/ Cloud Clusters /physical assembly to include:
• Racking and stacking of servers, racking and configuration of IB + 1GbE switches, Network cabling of IB/GbE/ Quadrics networks, Panasas storage, providing a secure customer experience.
• Install, optimize and support Linux based HPC cluster via (ROCKS, OSCAR, Manual install w/ scripting and validation of HPC performance (smoke tests) via (Streams, TRIAD, LINPAC, in-house scripts) along with MPI validation.
• Securing, monitoring, tuning and deployment of high value assets in HPC sector