SUMMARY:

• My extensive network engineering skills have contributed to winning efforts on global scale projects for numerous household name companies.
• Employing a holistic view to solve extremely complex problems in both DEVOPS and Scaled Agile environments
• Improving the quality of eCommerce customer experience through applied network engineering
• Fixing sub - optimal WAN and hybrid multi-cloud networks
• Designing and deploying hyper-converged remote site templates
• Led network transport mergers and divestitures, including provider data centers

NETWORK ENGINEERING SKILLS:

• Wide Area Networking (iWAN, SDWAN, DMVPN) Virtual Private Networking
• IP Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP, MBGP, PfRv3, PIM Sparse Mode)
• WAN / LAN Designs, Data Centers Interconnect OTV, Hybrid Multiple-Cloud
• Riverbed 5050 Steelhead WAN Acceleration
• Cisco Nexus (NX-OS) 7K, 5K, 2K, HP A-Series and Extreme Networks
• Firewall Engineer, Cisco ASA, Next-Gen Firepower Threat Defense
• Cisco ISR 2900, 3945, 4000 Series and ASR 1000 Series Routers
• Cisco Integrated Services Routers with VMWare ESX-i Virtualization
• Voice over IP (VoIP), SIP, QoS, Hosted VoIP, Call Center as a Service
• Wireless LAN, Cisco WLCs 2504, 4400, 5508 and General Dynamics Fortress

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer/Senior WAN/LAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Spear-head solving several complex strategically critical network transport problems for 14 leading brands across five segments of North America's only vertically-integrated travel, hospitality, and leisure management group a $ 3.5 multi-billion dollar per year multi-national travel/hospitality company.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer/Senior WAN/LAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• A 70% reduction in SEV1 incidents has been achieved, with a program of orchestrated LAN / WAN network evaluations including hardware, software, configurations, and security hardening in both domestic and international branches, including 5 Call Centers. Combining this with a multi-phase, multi-vendor LAN / WAN overhaul, redesigning WAN routers, core switches, Cisco SIP & MGCP voice gateways and firewalls.
• Migrations of manually defined IPSEC VPN WAN to Cisco iWAN (SDWAN) DMVPN Overlay with Cisco PfRv3 intelligent performance routing (BGP and OSPF model), and implementing dynamic QoS for 5 Call Centers processing more than 2 million customer transactions per year.
• Life-cycled End of Support Cisco ASA 5510 and ASA 5520 firewalls and Cisco AnyConnect remote SSL VPN versions to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense and Virtual ASA Next-Gen firewalls, achieving PCI Compliance.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer/Network WAN/LAN Architect

Responsibilities:

• Configured and troubleshot Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) data center interconnects between 3 data centers Cisco Nexus 7K HA pairs with Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) between VDCs on Cisco Nexus 7K pairs.
• Established and troubleshot Riverbed 5050 Steelhead WAN accelerators on satellite, microwave, General Dynamics Military Grade wireless LANs and well site Telemetry Control Vehicles at hydraulic fracturing sites
• Solved long-standing voice and application performance problems, established simplified BGP to OSPF redistribution, integrated Cisco NBAR2 based 8-Class Quality of Service (QoS) structure, mapped to 4 COS Class of Service on new Riverbed Steelhead accelerated AT&T MPLS WAN.
• Improved mean times to repair on Severity-1 and Severity-2 incidents by 50 % deploying Network Instruments application performance monitoring (APM) and retrospective network analysis (RNA) system in support of $20M SAP ERP initiative.
• Installed and configured SolarWinds Orion Network Monitoring, with Ixia deduplication packet capture switches feeding Network Instrument deep packet analysis and data recorders.
• Upgraded 20 plus remote offices with Cisco 4500 VSS cores and Cisco 2960 layer 2 stacks and implementing Cisco 2504 and 5508 controllers based wireless LANS.

Confidential

Senior Data Center Transformation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Headed complex and high-profile modifications in $60MM+ strategic architectural upgrade of service provider eCommerce PODs housing Fortune 2000 customers.
• HP Dual Data Center 2.x design transformed Cisco Nexus 7K, Cisco 6500 switch, and Cisco ISR and ASR router configurations into HP A-Series configurations and delivered as completed data center POD migrations, life-cycle upgrades and transformation events.

Confidential

VoIP Architect/Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Contract network architect established 3 design options for comprehensive VoIP (UC) infrastructure upgrade.
• The unified architecture included a redundant MPLS WAN with DMVPN overlay, enhanced end-to-end QoS call center agent transactions and integrated IP based manufacturing instrumentation for high speed printing presses and CNC lathes.

Confidential

Consulting Network Engineer and Business Partner

Responsibilities:

• Our guiding philosophy goes beyond “Service Level Agreements”
• We consistently demonstrated strategic contributions to our client’s success, removing business cons complex problems, designing and synthesizing innovative solutions to critical technology challenges and transforming existing networks into intelligent communications infrastructures.
• Built, supported and troubleshot SIP components test lab. Authored as-built diagrams and documentation for global airports voice update for Confidential Airline’s Senior Voice Architect.
• Integrated the offices of Eastern European acquisition onto Dresser global IP network.

Confidential, Houston & Dallas, Texas

Responsibilities:

• Spear-headed engineering teams of 5 to 15 performing multi-vendor petrochemical plant network “turn-arounds”, configured and installed several hundred Cisco 4500, 6500, 3750 and 2900 Cisco switches 2800 and 7200 Cisco routers.
• Principal data center engineer in LyondellBasell’s Dallas, Texas from . Facilitated consolidation of three North Confidential data centers down into the Dallas DC, Updated Cisco 6509 and 6513 switches to multiple VDC Cisco Nexus 7K, 2K and 5K.
• Standardized migration of 600 VPN tunnel on legacy Nortel VPN platform to Cisco VPN platform, troubleshooting clients on wide variety of Cisco, Nortel Contivity, NetScreen and Juniper Firewalls.
• Headed Network engineering on multi-vendor project team to re-locate headquarters’ 25 user floors, 2 data centers, global voice, Internet services and two high-volume oil and natural gas futures trading floors.