SUMMARY

• 16 years of experience as an IT Professional and 10+ years as a Certified Network Professional in the Government, Energy, Law Enforcement, Banking, Transportation, and Medical Industries..

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cisco Switches (Nexus 7k/5k series \Catalyst 6509/6506/6000/4500/3560/3550/3548/2950/2960 )
• Cisco Routers (ASR 1001/ 2911/7206 VXR/ 3845/3700/3640/2811/2611 XM/2610XM)
• Cisco PIX Firewalls (525/515)
• Cisco ASA Firewalls (5520x/5510/5510x/5505)
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Sidewinder G2 Firewall / IPS
• Cisco Firewall Switch Module
• Cisco Meraki Firewalls, Wireless Solutions
• Cisco IPS Appliance (4255/4215)
• Cisco IPS AIP - SSM-20
• Cisco FirePower appliance
• Cisco SourceFire
• Cisco Mars Appliance
• Cisco Iron Port Appliance
• SafeWord 2008 Two Factor Authentication
• Keyscan Readers & Keypads
• VPN Solutions (IPSec & GRE/Aventail/Cisco VPN Concentrators)
• Network Discovery tools (NMAP, Nessus)
• QualysGuard Vulnerability Management Appliance
• Sophos Enterprise Console
• Secunia Corporate Software Inspector (CSI)
• Microsoft WSUS
• Management Tools (NetFlow Server/Kiwi CatTools & Syslog/SolarWinds/Netcool/DameWare)
• Circuit Testing (Centest Netanalyst/ Titan & Alcatel DACS)
• Microsoft Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed programming and monitoring of LAN/WAN /Security Equipment: Cisco IOS on various Cisco Routers, Nexus and Legacy Switches and ASA Firewalls.
• Responsible for project management tasks to ensure network health, design and implementation of new devices to increase reliability and availability of the network.
• Responsible in maintaining business documentation files and all assigned Support Center cases and project documentation
• Evaluated competitive bids by data equipment vendors to ensure maximum benefit to the company.
• Analyzed problems within LAN/WAN configuration using Netflow Splunk, and various tools, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems
• Managed the completion of all service requests and escalations for adds/changes/moves of network equipment.
• Responsible for ensuring the periodic completion of configuration backups.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant to remote business of many sizes on Network and Network Security design implementation based on industry best practices
• Completed programming and monitoring of LAN/WAN /Security Equipment: Cisco IOS on various Cisco Routers, Nexus and Legacy Switches Palo Alto and ASA Firewalls.
• Responsible for project management tasks to ensure network health, design and implementation of new devices to increase reliability and availability of the network.
• Responsible in maintaining business documentation files and all assigned Support Center cases and project documentation
• Evaluated competitive bids by data equipment vendors to ensure maximum benefit to the company.
• Analyzed problems within LAN/WAN configuration using protocol analyzers and various tools, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems.
• Responsible for project management tasks to increase/ensure reliability and availability of the network.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant to remote business of many sizes on Network and Network Security design implementation based on industry best practices
• Responsible for design, implementation, configuration, testing of multivendor platforms of Network and Network security products, wireless and VPN technologies
• Provided support and to generate billable revenue through customer consulting, product implementation and maintenance activities
• Completed programming and monitoring of LAN/WAN /Security Equipment: Cisco IOS on various Cisco Routers, Nexus and Legacy Switches Palo Alto and ASA Firewalls.
• Responsible for project management tasks to ensure network health, design and implementation of new devices to increase reliability and availability of the network.
• Responsible in maintaining maintenance customer documentation files and all assigned Support Center cases and project documentation
• Analyzed problems within LAN/WAN configuration using protocol analyzers and various tools, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant to Companies of many sizes on Network and Network Security design implementation based on industry best practices.
• Completed programming and monitoring of LAN/WAN /Security Equipment: Cisco IOS on various Cisco Routers, Switches, and ASA and PIX Firewalls.
• Responsible for project management tasks to ensure network health, design and implementation of new devices to increase reliability and availability of the network.
• Responsible in maintaining maintenance customer documentation files and all assigned Support Center cases and project documentation
• Provided support and to generate billable revenue through customer consulting, product implementation and maintenance activities
• Analyzed problems within LAN/WAN configuration using protocol analyzers and various tools, ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems.

Confidential

Information Security Risk Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Specialize in network security and will be responsible for working with various Information Technology teams to ensure that the security of the infrastructure including the networks, servers, workstations and telecommunications systems meets adequate security and compliance requirements as set by the department, firm and industry Analyzed problems within LAN/WAN configuration using protocol analyzers and various tools ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and information systems.
• Reviews of infrastructure security components and provide recommendations for the enterprise as well as assist in the development of appropriate risk mitigation strategies..
• Functions as an internal consultant and resource to others in the department as it relates to security of network infrastructures. monitor the internal control systems to ensure that appropriate access levels are maintained and serve as a primary escalation point for all security related audit and incident response events as well as information security concerns
• Perform risk assessments on all Firewall change requests. FCR’s are scrutinized for potential risk factors and are also measured against current security policies.
• Complete security risk assessments via Network/Consulting requests of network and technology designs that are to be implemented into production
• Perform Exceptions risk analysis. Exception request are made to get the business to sign off on changes on network that violates current security policy or presents a high risk to confidentiality Integrity availability of network data and resources