SUMMARY:

Highly motivated and passionate about Information Technology. Takes accountability and responsibility for all assigned tasks. Extremely proficient with implementing network and systems infrastructure and logical troubleshoot. Strong knowledge of multi - vendor routers, firewalls, switches, load balancing, and wireless equipment. Security conscious, result driven, and continuous desire to grow with new technologies.

COMPETENCIES:

• Advanced Routing and Switching with most up to date Technologies.
• Advanced Load Balancer implementations (application rewrites, source NAT) - HAProxy, NGINX, F5, Netscaler.
• Advanced VMWare knowledge with experience deploying VMs in ESXI 5.5, 6.0, and 6.5U1.
• Microsoft Active Directory / IIS / NTFS Permissions / Service Accounts
• Linux - RHEL 6/7 and Centos 6/7
• Advanced Wireless knowledge to include: Ruckus Wireless APs and Zonedirectors / Cisco APs and Cisco Flex Controllers / Cisco Meraki Line.
• Microsoft Azure Networking
• Consulted SMB on Dell Sonicwall and Fortinet Firewalls

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Switching / Routing expertise. Migrated legacy core multi-vendor infrastructure in Data Center with latest Cisco Nexus equipment with high availability requirements. Deployed High End Cisco 9k switches with best practices. Leveraged technologies requiring VXLAN, Virtual Routing and Forwarding, Devices Contexts, and Virtual Port Channels. Optimized BGP and OSPF routing to ensure no suboptimal paths existed. Tested failover in depth.
• Extremely competent with Cisco Sourcefire/AMP product lines. In depth use of IBM QRadar.
• Experience with Nessus Tenable scanning and remediation. Continuously researching best practices for the hardening of Network Infrastructure and Endpoints.
• Complete understanding of traffic flow and dependencies.
• Extremely comfortable with VMWare 5.0 - 6.7. Deployed many Virtual Machines along with Cisco 1000v VDS.
• Assisted in troubleshooting VM Host issues including performance and compatibility.
• Citrix Netscaler experience with complex URL re-writing and responses.
• Upgrading 100+ VIPs to have strongest TLS 1.2 Ciphers. Citrix Netscaler upgrades in High Availability pairs with no downtime.
• Maintain and update configuration on over 100 Cisco Physical and Virtual Firewalls (ASAv) to include upgrading Access Control Policies, vulnerabilities, and performance issues.
• Led project to deploy ASA 5500 X Series firewalls to seven remote sites.
• Integrated Sites with Remote Office Access Control Policy in Defense Center utilizing Sourcefire best practices in Defense Center.
• Ensured policies included URL Filtering / DNS Protection.
• Implemented Azure connectivity to on-premises datacenter utilizing Express Route.
• Deployed Network Security Groups and Virtual Networks in Azure utilizing best practices.
• Continuously reviewing enhancements to improve Cloud Datacenter capabilities. Increased security at edges with latest security virtual appliances.
• Architecture of network and appliances for IAAS of over 400+ Virtual Machines with different security requirements.
• Azure Architecture and design for PAAS of HDInsights and BLOB storage connectivity. Network Automation leveraging Ansible.

Confidential

Enterprise Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with design, implementation, and migration projects that require high availability through the use of redundant systems.
• Ensure implemented solutions are and thoroughly tested for failure.
• Led project which built (2) Cisco 7500 series Flex Controllers to control hundreds of access points in over 100 branch sites in the acquisition of Omnicare.
• Extensive Routing and Switching experience with Cisco NX-OS (Nexus 7k/5k/2k) in Data Center.
• Extensive experience with Cisco Catalyst lines in multiple distribution centers and remote offices.
• Load Balancer configuration with F5 Global Traffic Manager(GTM) and Local Traffic Manager(LTM).
• Migrated Virtual IPs from Older technologies (Cisco CSM / Cisco ACE) to F5 Infrastructure.
• Extensive routing experience with OSPF and EIGRP designs. Extensive iBGP experience and eBGP experience with Private Internal and Public External Autonomous Systems.
• Engineering communication with device contexts and independent forwarding tables for isolation.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP issues through analysis with packet captures. Quickly address any Enterprise DNS/DHCP issues.
• Utilize Solar winds to create graphs and identify issues preemptively. Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers 20 / 7500 Flex Controllers.
• Responsible for Security Remediation and Vulnerabilities.
• Patching and upgrading Network Infrastructure as necessary.

Confidential

Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot various different network typologies (DMVPN / MPLS) for various customers as a managed solutions engineer.
• Cisco Routers ( 00 / 00 ASR Series) and Cisco Switches (3750-X/G / 3850, 4500/6500, Nexus 5k / 2k FEX).
• Troubleshoot Cisco Next Generation Firewalls with SourceFire. ASA 5506-X / ASA 5512-X.
• Troubleshoot network issues utilizing monitoring tools (Zenoss Monitoring), packet captures, and debugging information.
• Provide Functional Change Requests for changes to production environments.
• Troubleshoot Cisco Unified Communications to include CUCM, Call Manager Express and associated Voice Gateways.

Confidential

Network Operations Engineer - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• In-depth knowledge of Cisco Routers (2800, 2900, 3900, 7200 Series) and Brocade CER / MLX Routers. Knowledge of best design practices for Cisco Switches and Brocade FWS and ICX switches.
• Build IPSec Site-to-Site tunnels to private connectivity and management to various devices utilizing Cisco's ASA 5505, 5510, 5540 models.
• Make configuration changes in a Production Internet Service Provider network requiring an in-depth knowledge of Trunking,Vlans/SVIs, Ipv4/IPv6, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, GRE, and IPSec. In-Depth knowledge of TCP/IP and OSI layers 1-7.
• Manage and provide execution on projects bridging customer locations using a variety of Wireless equipment ranging from 2GHz to 80GHz. Configure and Install wireless access points for Wifi infrastructure and ensure optimal connectivity with QOS.