SUMMARY:

I am a skilled senior level engineer and operations manager with years of strong, technical knowledge with experience working in global carrier grade data centers. A go - to, self-motivated individual with extensive WAN and LAN design and implementation experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Key Focuses: Routing, Switching, Firewall, Optical, Wireless
• Cisco routers: 800, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2500, 2600, 2800, 2900, 3900, 7500, 7600
• Cisco Switches: 300, 2900, 3500, 3600, 6500, Nexus 5000, Nexus 6000, Nexus 3172, Nexus 5696, Nexus 7000
• Cisco ASA: ASA5000, ASA5500, ASA5500-X
• Juniper Routers: MX5, MX10, MX204, MX104, MX480, MX960, MX204, MX10002
• Juniper Switches: EX2200, EX3200, EX4300, EX4500, EX4600, QFX5100, QFX5200, QFX10000
• Juniper Firewalls: SRX100, SRX210, SRX240
• Foundry/Brocade/Extreme/Broadcom: XMR MLXe
• ADVA/MRV Optical: NetDriver, OptiDriver
• Coriant: Grove30
• Ubiquiti Networks: UniFi, USG, EdgeRouter, Cloud Key, airFiber
• Arbor Networks: Arbor TMS
• Kentik
• Key Focuses: Switching and routing platforms. Operations tooling and monitor with internal and internet touching services
• Cisco CatOS
• Cisco IOS
• Cisco Nexus OS
• Cisco ASA OS
• Cisco ASDM
• Juniper JunOS
• Brocade
• Kentik
• Ubuntu
• FreeBSD
• VMWare
• Windows
• Observium
• Apache qmail
• BIND
• SNMP
• SYSLOG
• TACACS+
• Microsoft Visio
• Microsoft Office
• Google Sheets
• Google Docs
• Google Apps
• ProtoCOLS and Technologies
• Key Focuses: Switching and routing both WAN and LAN focus. Leverage daily all protocols needed to support large networks in their entirety from OSI layer 1 through 7 iBGP
• BGP
• ISIS
• OSPF
• EIGRP
• IGP
• MPLS VLL
• MPLS VPLS
• MPLS
• CDWM
• DWDM
• LR
• SR
• Optical Engineering
• DHCP
• ACL
• Firewall Policies
• 802.1q
• VTP
• LACP
• VCP
• Virtual Chassis
• HTTP
• SMTP
• DNS
• SNMP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Manager of Network and Infrastructure Operations

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and maintain large global IP network utilizing multiple vendors.
• Assist in development of hardware architecture, standards, and best practices for Packet’s global IP network.
• Design and configure backbone routing leveraging ISIS, eBGP, iBGP, MPLS, and VXLAN
• Peering contact for IXP exchanges. Responsible for configuration to establish network presence across global markets
• Optical engineering and configuration of DWDM network leveraging various vendors including Coriant
• Design, deploy, and maintain transit provider interfaces and routing policies on internet facing edge. This included all community tagging policies and traffic pattern flows.
• Level 3 Escalation point for all network related issues. Handled all high level transit provider troubleshooting, Switching and Routing Vendors, and high value customers.
• Work with development team to develop tooling for internal operations related to network. Help institute tooling to streamline efficiencies within support team.
• Responsible for network turn up of new data center locations. Establish baseline configurations for all devices from core to top of rack.
• Evaluate hardware and software platforms to be included in operations toolset.
• Maintain server based tools to monitor and maintain network

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer/Sr. Architect

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the design and deployment of national VXLAN network rollout
• Head architect responsible for large scale consolidation of multiple ASN networks after corporate acquirements of companies.
• Design, deployment, and maintenance of national backbone network. Responsible for all core routing decisions
• Responsible for network circuit vendor decisions which included internal backbone links, Dark Fiber spans, transit links, and peering exchanges
• Designed all routing policies and filters used in network entirety
• Responsible for all network hardware decisions and deployment in all data centers.
• This included vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and MRV.
• Primary lead of team of six Sr. Network Engineers.
• Had final authorization in routing modifications on network core.
• Responsible for development of future network product offerings

Confidential, Cedar Knolls, NJ

Sr. Network Engineer/Peering Coordinator/Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the design, deployment, and maintenance of large backbone network
• Assist in the design, deployment, and maintenance of optical network
• Key member in deployment of large scale national IP network.
• Key member in deployment of national cloud hosting network
• Design and implementation of MPLS network
• Responsible for optical DWDM network leveraging MRV
• Deployment of large DDoS protection network
• Oversee junior level engineers and NOC technicians.
• Integral member of design and deployment team for large scale cloud offering
• A lead member of design and deployment of Cisco Nexus rollout to be used with cloud offering
• Configuration of routing protocols on backbone network (eBGP/iBGP/ISIS)
• Responsible for the configuration and setup with new transit providers
• Responsible for the configuration and setup with new peering exchanges
• Responsible for determining routing paths via transit and peers based on cost and technical reasons
• Key member in design and deployment of Layer2 switching network
• Evaluation of core network hardware vendors
• Assigned to work with high priority customer for design and deployments.
• Responsible for documentation to be dispersed to NOC and Jr. Engineers for day to day break/fix operations

Sr. Sales Engineer/Product Development

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and deployment of customer networks leveraging multiple vendors for firewalls, routers, and switches.
• Evaluating available technology options and selecting those that best suit requirements of the customer
• Strong knowledge of technology product lines and implementation utilizing a large range of vendors
• Pricing, procurement and configuration of data networking equipment
• Produce Visio network diagrams to meet customer requirements
• Work with customers to design networks that worked within their budget
• Responsible for development of hosting service such as Web, Mail, and Hosted Exchange
• Responsible for calculating operating costs and package prices for cloud hosting platform.
• Strong interpersonal skills needed to constructively work with vendors, peers, managers and customers

Sr. Systems Engineer/Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Microsoft Exchange Administrator
• Sr. Windows AD Administrator
• Sr. Windows Administrator
• Sr. Security Administrator
• Sr. Backup Administrator
• Unix Administrator
• VMWare Administrator
• Deployment of large scale enterprise data center networks
• Responsible for the implementation of customer’s internal network layout
• Supporting Junior Engineers and Network Operations Center with network outages and customer performance issues and escalate troubles to vendors if needed
• Configuration and deployment of Cisco, Juniper, Watchguard, Astaro(SOPHOS), Routers, Switches and Firewalls
• Act as a stand-in for a groups manager when that manager is not available / Out of the office

NOC Technician

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning and troubleshooting of WAN/LAN circuits such as ATM DS3, OC3, OC12, Frame Relay T1, point to point T1, Dedicated Ethernet or Fiber
• Deployment of configuration and deployment of residential “POP” equipment
• Monitoring of major networks
• Assisting customers with deployment of Data Center network.
• Act as a stand-in for a groups manager when that manager is not available / Out of the office

Technical Assistant Representative

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Monitor networks on a daily basis
• Performed Onsite consulting for customers and over the phone Customer Support
• Created and wrote company used DSL handbook and T1 handbook