SUMMARY

• IT professional with broad experience in the design, engineering, operation and management of complex network and security environments including the management of people, strategy, projects and budgets across several industries including Insurance, Finance, Manufacturing, Internet/IP Transit, Wireless, Co - location and Professional Services
• Expert level experience in the architecture, engineering, operation and management of complex HA network and security infrastructures in the US and across the globe.
• Extensive experience in the integration and consolidation of complex networks due to mergers and acquisitions and the various challenges these pose.
• Ability to translate business needs into technology requirements including technology platforms, system design and implementation and operational training.
• Management of small teams of highly skilled professionals to department of over 130 people including team leads, individual contributors, contractors, vendors and service providers with annual budgets over 20.0M USD and the ability to interface at all levels.
• Supported career development of several high performing associates to assist them in the pursuit of high value industry certifications including CCIE, MCSE and others.
• Experience in risk and life cycle management of vulnerability and threat remediation in both network infrastructure and computing systems.
• Consulted for Daimler-Chrysler on the architecture and integration of their merged global networks saving them millions of dollars in capital and operating expenses.
• Experienced in design of cable management, cooling and power distribution systems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Routers, switches and appliances from numerous vendors including Cisco 65xx,75xx,36xx,55xx, 12K and 9K ASR/GSR, Catalyst, Nexus, PIX, ASA, Juniper MX and J-Series routers, EX switches, SSG/SRX firewalls, Virtual Chassis, Clustering and various products from A10, BlueCoat, Brocade, Checkpoint, Extreme, Foundry, F5, Palo Alto, RiverBed, Sourcefire and others.
• IPv4/IPv6, BGP,OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, STP/RSTP, IOS, IOS-XR, CatOS, JunOS, ScreenOS, IPSec, VOIP, H323, GigE, 10GigE, Metro-E, Dark Fiber, DWDM, OC3, OC12, LTE, CMDA, ATM, Frame Relay, T1.5, T3, Bind9, Apache, Unix/Linux, OpenNMS, RANCID,MRTG, NMAP, Nagios, TCPDump, Sniffer, Word Excel, Outlook, Visio, MS Project and many others.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Manager - Information Security Operations

Responsibilities:

• Oversee day to day operations of Confidential Corporate and Hotel Group Information Security Operations.
• Responsible for the design, engineering, implementation and operation of all network transit and IP services for Fibermedia corporate and customer requirements across many diverse platforms including Cisco 6509s, 2651XMs, 7206VXRs, ASA5520s, 2900s, 3650s,3750s, Juniper J6350, MX320, MX960, ex2200, ex4200, ex4500, ex8208, ex8216, SRX140, SRX210, SSG550m, SSG320m, SSG5, SA2500s, Palo Alto Networks Security Appliances, and others. Responsible for provision and management of DNS, RWHOIS and other services on required as a service provider on FreeBSD and Linux systems including DNS(BIND9), ARIN’s RWHOIS framework, OpenNMS, Nagios, RANCID and several others.

Confidential

Lead Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead Consulting Engineer responsible for the design, engineering and implementation of LAN and WAN services in complex infrastructure projects for large global customers.
• Projects encompassed products and services from Cisco, Juniper and other vendors and service providers including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, Cisco IOS, JunOS, IDS/IPS, Nexus, GigE/10GigE, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, QoS and other technologies and services.

Confidential

Network Planning and Design

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Network Engineer in Confidential ’ Network Planning and Transport Design Engineering group responsible for the design and engineering of various projects for Confidential ’ mobile data network.
• Worked on global LTE and CDMA roaming initiative and was the lead engineer responsible for the designing the architecture and connectivity for the Confidential Rural LTE partnerships. Projects involved the design and engineering of services on various platforms which include Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, Juniper, F5, A10, GigE, 10GigE, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF and various other technologies on Confidential ’ LTE and CDMA/EVDO networks.

Confidential

Network Engineering Lead

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineering Lead for Dun & Bradstreet global network infrastructure.
• Responsible for the design, engineering and implementation of various network projects in a complex global network consisting of Cisco, Nortel, and various other network vendor components.
• Environment included Voice over IP, BGP, MPLS, Frame Relay, QoS, VPNs, BigIP, Contivity, Checkpoint Firewalls, PRTG, eHealth, and Smarts.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Three month contract for Confidential at CSC to support the Dun & Bradstreet global network.
• Responsible for the design, engineering, implementation and management of various projects in a complex global network consisting of Cisco, Nortel, F5 and various other vendor technologies.
• Primarily focused on MPLS, BGP, Voice over IP, QoS, Contivity VPNs, F5 BigIP, Checkpoint Firewalls, Frame Relay, PRTG, eHealth, and Smarts.

Confidential

VP - Global Security Architecture & Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for vulnerability, threat analysis, and remediation tracking globally. Assessed and monitored new threats to the global infrastructure and worked with various groups to plan and implement solutions to address identified threats. Maintained active inventory of technology across the globe and managed collaboration with operational groups to track remediation. Worked on the development and implementation of systems to automate the process of vulnerability identification as well as remediation tracking and reporting.
• Technical Product Manager responsible for technology standards for all extranet services including customer and internet facing services.
• Led significant global network undertakings including re-engineering the corporate Internet infrastructure, the redesign of all internal and external BGP standards, implementing new firewall and load balancing standards and technologies, implementing layer3 switching within the internet DMZs and the design and implementation of globally shared hosting facilities.
• Coordinated engineering efforts related to large acquisitions and consolidation efforts. Developed and piloted VoIP implementations for overseas call center outsourcing. Managed vendors, evaluated and recommended new equipment including hardware, software and features for various network technologies.