SUMMARY:

• Confidential has over 20 years of experience as a network engineer, starting out first as a TAC support engineer supporting multivendor environments, then as design and implementation engineer.
• He worked as a Pre - sales WAN engineer and designed and executed on a large-scale frame-relay migration project for a Dallas based telecom company.
• He then worked as a network engineer migrating and consolidating smaller data centers into a large footprint datacenter for Confidential .
• Confidential was leading the effort for a major contract with Confidential to analyze the applications running at various data centers across the US to determine the feasibility of physically moving 3000+ servers and applications to a consolidated data center at Confidential .
• For each server move he led the design planning and configuration for accommodating the server moves to allow lowest amount of downtime possible and to have most efficient use of overhead costs.
• After Confidential, he worked as a Principal Network Engineer in network operations supporting and managing Cisco Nexus, Cisco ASR, ISR, ASA, Cisco WLC, Cisco ACS, F5 Load Balancers, Confidential, Riverbed.
• Confidential consulted with and guided server and dev teams with integrating new systems and applications in the network converting Cisco ACE load balancers to F5 load balancers and constructing new virtual servers within the environment.
• Confidential designed and built out new wired and wireless networks in new buildings acquired by the company including new office building for Corp headquarters.
• Confidential used procedures for remotely installing new networking equipment in small offices with minimal remote expertise to save thousands of dollars in travel and personnel costs per site.
• Confidential has experience with multiple network management and analysis tools over the years, including Cisco Prime Infrastructure, NetScout Infinistream, Solarwinds, Plixer Scrutinizer, OpNet, Cacti, LibreNMS, GrayLog and accomplished many industry certifications, ie. CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CNX, NNCSE, CCIE
• Written. Confidential spearheaded the build out of servers for the use of network monitoring and analysis for Solarwinds, Netscout, Opnet, and Scrutinizer and integrating the monitored devices within these applications and also built out the Cisco Prime Infrastructure for management of the company's Cisco Wireless Controllers and wireless network.

SKILLS:

• Expert knowledge of TCP/IP, IP addressing, sub-netting
• RIP, EIGRP, and BGP, OSPF
• MPLS and VRF’s, Experience installing, troubleshooting and design of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet networks including layer 2 and layer 3 switching, VLAN’s (ISL, 802.1q), and STP, VXLAN
• New deployment experience with IP Telephony, VOIP, QOS and Cisco CME and CUCM
• WAN experience includes MPLS, Frame Relay, PPP, Multilink PPP, HDLC, ISDN dialup, dial backup, and dial on demand. T1/DS1, DS3, CSU/DSU, ADSL (cpe).
• DMVPN, Site-to-Site VPN’s using ASA and Cisco Routers with Cisco CPE

HARDWARE & SOFTWARE PLATFORMS:

Cisco Nexus 7k,5k,2k, Cisco ISR & ASR Series Routers; Cisco Catalyst Series Switches; Cisco ACE Load balancers, ASA firewall; ASDM. Cisco Meraki, Juniper SA6000, Palo Alto Firewall, F5 load balancers, Confidential, WireShark, OpNet, Solarwinds, LibreNMS, Grafana, GrayLog, Rancid (config backup)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Very large-scale data center re-design and transformation of a 2 million web site data center to a more resilient, more scalable and more powerful performance network.
• Over 800 switches with 250,000 servers were migrated to new Confidential data center core using VXLAN with minimal to no downtime perceivable to the end user using meticulous methods in each phase of the implementation.
• In addition, he played a lead role in with a design and roll out of new wired/wireless routed infrastructure, deploying new Confidential, migrating layer3 Meraki switches to layer2 only and adding new Cisco routers, and implementing Ubiquiti wireless and all design and planning work involved, and assisted in new CUCM deployment.

Confidential

Network Engineer, Principal

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, maintenance, monitoring, defining network configuration, device hardening standards.
• Developed Solarwinds monitoring and config backup system with Orion NPM, NCM, and NTA.
• Recommended hardware and IOS for new site turn ups and LAN WAN refreshes using Cisco gear and MPLS and DMVPN.
• Worked with software development team for new Application load balancing using Cisco ACE load balancers then F5 load balancers.
• Administered Cisco ACS 5 and WCS with Cisco WLC’s.
• Rolled out major release upgrades to all ACS, WLC’s and Cisco ASA’s. Maintained 40 site DMVPN.

Confidential

Network Design Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Dedicated network engineer role on Wolters Kluwer account consisting of large data center and multiple smaller data throughout the country and other large campuses connected via large MPLS network.
• Roles included day to day support, network design involving various projects relating to the Confidential which requires very much customer interaction with business unit leaders making recommendations for equipment and connectivity needs.
• Worked with many different departments i.e. server, storage, firewall on a massive data center migration which involved re-IPing servers and making routing changes affecting the MPLS network mostly using BGP and EIGRP, utilizing VRF’s and extensive prefix lists to control routing.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage the company’s network infrastructure including VOIP private network product offering.
• Pre-sales consultation and implementation of customers’ LAN, WAN & voice networks and Internet connections.
• Developed and implemented process for a large-scale conversion of Internet and frame relay and voice networks to new carriers.
• Manage dedicated internet access, frame relay, private line and voice circuit inventory for new & existing customer base.
• Troubleshoot inhouse PC hardware and software and network configuration. Set up VPN access through PIX firewall to Matrix collocation facility to be able to manage the Matrix phone switch and other telecommunication devices.
• Worked also with F5 Load Balancer, and NetScreen Firewall.

Network Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Consultation and implementation of customers’ LAN, WAN & voice networks and Internet connections.
• Troubleshoot PC hardware and software and network configs.
• Helped develop test questions for beta phase of online frame relay certification tests for Confidential .

Confidential

Consultant/Content Developer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant for Cisco networking projects.
• Proctored Cisco Courses.
• Assisted Trainer for Cisco BCMSN, BCRAN, and BSCN courses at on-site training for Compaq employees who were going to be doing phone support of Cisco products.
• This involved fielding technical questions from the students and helping them access vLab system to do the labs that are in the Cisco training curriculum.
• Worked on vLab E-learning systems and development of Confidential and vLab Assessment content.
• This involved using tools provided to write scenario’s that would appear online as Confidential that students would be able to do.
• Created regular expression files that would allow the show output and configuration files from Cisco routers to be “assessed” verifying that a student’s work was done according to the vLab scenario and instructions.
• Worked with a team of other content developer’s to proof the work.
• Tested the Confidential to verify that they would operate properly.

Confidential

Data Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with Technical Sales Specialist and customers on network requirements and design.
• Configured Cisco Routers and Switches for customer installation.
• Coordinated technicians to do install. Troubleshoot integration of equipment into new or existing networks.
• Worked with ISP’s to bring up Frame Relay, ADSL and ISDN connections to the Internet.
• Handled the configuration troubleshooting and installation of two 4-site networks using VOIP for toll bypass.
• Consulted with Customer and Sales Engineer on a 14-site network using ADSL and Frame Relay and FRATM w/ IMA network module at the main site and ISDN backup to each remote location.
• Configured routers and helped installer troubleshoot the installation.