SUMMARY

Increasingly responsible engineering and management positions in Enterprise and Service - provider data and voice systems architecture, design, analysis, implementation, support, and operations engineering. Information Systems project management Confidential enterprise levels. Network Management/Operational Systems Support design and implementation. Strategic and tactical network system planning and deployment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cisco and Huawei routers & switches & firewalls
• Telecom equipment
• Datacom Test Equipment
• BGP
• OSPF
• EIGRP
• Gig Ethernet
• Frame Relay
• DNS
• DHCP
• VPN/Remote Access
• Troubleshooting
• Microsoft OS (Desktop and server)
• Dell
• HP & IBM servers laptops & workstations Updated

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Routing and switching configuration, Foundry/Brocade, Huawei, and Cisco devices
• Implementation and design, new Confidential and upgrading of obsolete equipment
• Selection of and negotiation with Internet Service Providers and other vendors
• Tier 3 technical support
• Implementation, design, and customer integration using BGP, MPLS, MP-BGP and OSPF
• Preparation, design and build of new data center (POP) and provider-edge locations
• Monitoring and analysis of existing data traffic
• Evaluation of tools and network management platforms

Partner/Owner

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Independent IT consulting for small-medium (SMB) business clients
• Support Services - Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 SBS2003, SBS2008, Vista/XP/Win7, Cisco/Linksys, HP, Dell, IBM/Lenovo and other vendor support services, including design, repair, installation, configuration, and user training
• Sales and marketing of company services to prospective and existing customers
• Purchasing and acquisition of hardware and software for client projects. Job estimating, proposal generation, presentations, project management, and contract negotiations
• System architecture, design, consulting, evaluation, and recommendations for small business-oriented computer software and hardware solutions
• Management and supervision of field technicians
• Company fiscal and operational management responsibilities

Project Manager

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Program and project management for security (firewall) implementations, County of San Diego
• Responsible for receiving requests, assigning staff resources, clarifying requirements, and monitoring change windows including backout plans, ensuring network resources are available for implementation
• Reporting change status on two daily and two weekly meetings
• Escalate, evaluate, and implement emergency firewall change requests on a 24x7 basis

Network Operations Engineer

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• 24x7 Managed Web Hosting service
• Responsible to maintain, troubleshoot, and resolve routing, switching, and host connectivity issues
• Monitor and support maintenance outages to ensure non-stop network access
• Review and resolve trouble ticket issues
• Isolate network and telecom problems and route the issues to the correct departments for resolution
• Assess and solve problems with OSPF and BGP routing and multilayer switches

Sr. Consultant

Confidential, San Diego, CA

Responsibilities:

• Provide Application Service Provider (ASP) Architecture, Design, Engineering and operations support for OSS/BSS application outsourcing service.
• Direct system and network engineers in the support of the enterprise.
• Consult with customers to review their ASP system requirements.
• Lead client development of telecom operational support systems.
• Architect, design infrastructure, review overall solution and integrate network around customer reqts.
• Designed MPLS solutions for carrier and enterprise networks based on Cisco and Nortel equipment.
• Commercial Health Care Sector - Sr. Network Consulting (Enterprise-level Information Systems and IT)
• Consulting, project management and technical direction for Fortune 500 companies that were redesigning data and voice infrastructures.
• Router and switched internetwork architecture, design, configuration, performance evaluation and tuning.
• Multi-vendor and multi-service network integration, application bandwidth evaluation, technical evaluation of new products.
• Led and mentored network engineers and technicians to install, implement, and troubleshoot.
• System and network management system implementation, customization, and production usage.
• Large-scale project management of clinical and enterprise healthcare backoffice systems.
• Architect and design WAN, MAN, and LAN network infrastructures.
• Assisted customers with OSPF, BGP, RIP, and EIGRP routing issues, Quality of Service (QoS) configurations, and VOIP routing issues.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, implementation, installation, 3rd party service coordination, deployment, maintenance, upgrades, and technical support for
• WAN and LAN services in ICON (Asia, Australia, South/Latin America, Canada) sales offices, including overall network design, managed WAN and router services, international WAN circuits, voice/data integration, private and public VPN and dial-in access servers, campus LAN design, and VoIP trials.

Network Systems Engineer

Confidential, San Ramon, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement WAN and LAN technology, using Bay Networks, 3Com, and Confidential products.
• Provided IBM AS/400 internetworking solutions for host-centric and NetWare-centric environments.
• Counseled prospective and existing customers in LAN and WAN solution options, including internetworking and LAN switching and routing products and network designs.

Associate Engineer

Confidential, Concord, CA

Responsibilities:

• Network engineering for Confidential for LAN and WAN implementations. Installed numerous Cisco routers for specific business applications.
• Engineered and designed SNA/LAN internetwork solutions.

Systems Engineer

Confidential, Sherman Oaks, CA

Responsibilities:

• Pre-sales design and presentations of network projects for major customers.
• Primary designs for wide area data networks and local area networks.
• Responsibilities included proposal generation and presentation, dedicated and dial restored WAN design, internetwork design using Proteon routers, LAN design, and project management and implementation.

Tech Staff

Confidential, El Segundo, CA

Responsibilities:

• Coordinated automatic test equipment design and development for over 50 electronics modules.
• Supervised a staff of 5 engineers.
• Succeeded in changing a manual test procedure to an automatic one.
• Wrote test programs and designed test adapters.