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SUMMARY

20 years of experience defining, delivering and supporting enterprise network architecture within complex government, oil and gas, healthcare, and commercial environments.
Background leading the design, configuration, and management of cutting - edge operational security controls to identify and prevent threats and minimize network vulnerabilities.
Expert level technical capabilities to create effective and efficient technical solutions including Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs) and wireless networks, virtual infrastructures and information security solutions, large enterprise IP networks, real-time traffic, voice/video, virtual infrastructures and information security solutions.
Strategic business contributor with a history of optimizing network infrastructure management approaches through an understanding of evolving business needs and technology capabilities.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

IT Computer Systems and Support
Local and Wide Area Networks
Incident Documentation
Computer and Network Forensics
Network Security
Project Management & Coordination
Network Management & Monitoring
Strategic Planning & Analysis
Cybersecurity Architecture
Client-Focused Solutions
Disaster Recovery Planning
Infrastructure Design

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing: Cisco IOS platforms | Juniper SRX/Junos - RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, also Multicast, QoS, MPLS

Switching: Cisco Catalyst | HP ProCurve switches | Juniper EX and QFX switches - Redundancy, VLANs, Trunks, Ether-channels, VTP, STP, HSRP/VRRP

Firewalls and Security: Cisco PIX and ASA, Juniper SSG and SRX, FortiGate UTM, Palo Alto NGFW | IPS/IDS - Cisco 4200 and SSM, Juniper SRX | Cisco Clientless, AnyConnect, FortiClient - IPSs, remote and site-to-site VPN, AAA, NAC, Cisco ISE, Data-leak protection, e-mail encryption, anti-spam, application security and vulnerability scanning

Data center: VMware ESX Server infrastructure (ESX, vCenter, SRM) | Cisco Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k and 1k | Citrix Netscaler load balancing

Operating Systems and Infrastructure: Windows Servers, Active Directory | Linux (Redhat, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc.) - DHCP, DNS, e-mail systems including MS Exchange Server and open-source systems

Network Management: Solarwinds, WhatsUP Gold, NetQoS, NetBrain and other open-source tools - SNMP, ICMP, NetFlow, IPSLA

Programming: C, Java, Python, VBscript, JSF PrimeFaces | SQL

Cloud: AWS Amazon, Azure, DigitalOcean

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - St. Paul, MN

IT Consultant | Solutions Architect

Responsibilities:

Migrate the legacy WAN network of the small clinics from old Cisco and Juniper network gear to Meraki SD-WAN.
Participate in the large hospitals WAN transformation project to migrate the legacy network to MPLS network and install Cisco WAAS.
Legacy network consists of Cisco routers 2600, 2800, 2900, 3800… and Cisco switches 2900, 3750, 3850… and Juniper SRX.

Confidential - Bethesda, MD

IT Consultant | Network Security Consultant

Responsibilities:

Resolving IP address and ASN conflicts.
Interim WAN design to provide reachability and prevent conflicts and routing loops.
Provide network to new office locations or refresh equipment to existing locations.
Deploy network gear for the network integration and for expanding the data center: ASR Routers, Nexus 9k and Cisco Catalyst switches
Deploy temporary firewalls for the network integration
Review existing firewall design and propose new firewall architecture with two tiers and multiple DMZs

Confidential - Gaithersburg, MD

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

Installed and maintained Palo Alto NGFW in three sites, model 5020 and 3020, High Availability HA, and different DMZs; configured policy rules, NAT rules, security policies: such as: DoS Protection, AV, File blocking, URL filtering…
Participated in the upgrade and implementation of the wireless network in the Gaithersburg, Maryland campus.
Data center support including VMware ESX Server infrastructure (ESX, vCenter, SRM), Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k and 1k: designing and implementing solutions and solving problems
Led the Internet firewalls project

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