Network Design Architect Resume
Richardson, TX
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Networking/NOS: Nexus 9300 and 9500 ACI architecture, APIC, Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k switches, Cisco 29x0, 3850s, 4849 and 6500 routers and switches; FWSM, VSS, 5585 ASAs, Cisco IOS commands; JUNOS; Meraki;
Content switching/Load balancing: GSLB, Citrix netscalers, F5, Brocade, Foundry, Cisco GSS, ACE, and CSS, Viptela Sdwan
Cloud: Largely Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM Softlayer, Rightscale
Automation: Python, Paramiko, Ansible Tower, Shell scripting, Powershell
Protocols: VXLAN, OTV, Fabric path, Qfabric, WAN protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PPP, etc.); Layer 2 protocols (STP, 801.q/ISL trunks, ether channel, span ports, port security), TCP/IP stack
Connectivity: MPLS, VPLS, DIA, DMVPN, NVPN DS3 T1 Metro Ethernet, various VPN technologies; 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet concepts and architecture, 100 Gigabit fiber optic concepts like DWDM, OTN
Security/Recovery: Cisco 6509 FWSM; 5500 ASAs; Veritas Netbackup; Backup Exec; Checkpoint Firewalls; Checkpoint; Ccure; Doubletake; SnortMonitoring: Thousand Eyes, Infoblox; SNMP, HP Openview; Bluecoat, Websense; OpenNMS, Kiwi and Syslog NG syslogs, Splunk, Cacti
OS: VMware, Windows servers; IOS; JUNOS; Red Hat Linux; various unix systems (Open BSD, Sun, etc)
Storage: Brocade, Fibre channel, FCoE, iSCSI, Decru, Nutanix, SAS, & SATA array systems, RAID fall - over systems; HP MSAs; SFP+, LUN carving
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Confidential, Richardson Tx
Network Design Architect
Responsibilities:
- Travel to domestic and international customer sites to evaluate, present, and cater solutions to their specific needs
- Leading network architecture and migration of ACE, GSS, and other load balancers to Citrix Netscalers
- Integrating Nexus 9k route/switch integration with ADC front ends
- Create custom python solutions to automate migration and network deployments
- Develop devops procedures and tier 3 support for Network Operations group escalations
Confidential, Tx
Network Architect/AVP
Responsibilities:
- Leading network architecture and integration to hybrid cloud
- Work with AWS and Azure to create environments to migrate compute to cloud
- Configuring Rightscale for cloud governance of cloud environments
- Writing cloud governance guidelines and planning scaling strategy
- Integrating self service IaaS and SaaS options for Devops to deploy releases
- Setting up Netscalers MPX, Juniper MX/SRX, ASAs, 9k NS - OX, etc on prim devices
Confidential, Irving Tx
Network Architect
Responsibilities:
- Leading network architecture and process design
- Design next gen data centers with nexus 9500/9300 ACI, openstack, Python, DCI, EPGs/bridge domains, OTV, and VXLAN.
- Working with Web Engineers to troubleshoot Varnish, Endeca, Tomcat and Nginx issues.
- Troubleshooting network issues with products like Dynatrace, Gomez, Splunk, Extrahop, Solarwinds
- Working with Netscalers, Juniper SRX, Cisco nexus 7k and 5k.
- Performance tuning networks for burst traffic, low latency, and security