Objective

Obtain a position as a Network Engineer, where my years of experience with multi-platform Network Administration, Windows and Linux Servers, the VMWare virtualization platform, Citrix, and compliance, along with a diverse skill set, creativity, and technical aptitude will be utilized to the fullest potential.

Summary of Qualifications

I am an accomplished IT Professional with over ten years demonstrated success in the healthcare and retail industries. I am Cisco CCNA Security, Juniper JNCIS-SEC, and VMWare VCP4-DV certified and have over fifteen years of experience designing, installing and administering Cisco router, switches, and firewalls in Wide Area and Local Area Network topologies. I am experienced with businesses up to 1300 sites, and I am a technology savvy self-starter, adept at creative problem solving using a broad range of technologies. I posses' excellent ethical communication and collaboration skills to lead and work in concert with diverse groups effectively, and I'm very flexible with scheduling.

Work Experience

Confidential

Senior Network Administrator

• Responsible for all aspects network security engineering and architecture for the Alaska Communications corporate infrastructure as well as data hosting and colocation customers.
• Responsible for top tier network troubleshooting, network security, network design, implementation, and documentation
• Responsible for log monitoring and automation.
• Backup engineer for VMWare deployments and troubleshooting.
• Responsible for all aspects of business partner site to site and remote access VPNs.
• Responsible for deployment and configuration of Intrusion Prevention Systems.
• Subject matter expert in the area of networking for internal IT projects.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Responsible for network engineering and design for small to medium size business customers as well as high end residential customers.
• Responsible for top tier network troubleshooting, network security, network design, implementation, and documentation.
• Responsible for ongoing auditing and assessment of compliance with PCI, SOX, and HIPAA requirements.
• Responsible for log monitoring and automation.
• Primary engineer for VMWare deployments and top tier troubleshooting.
• Responsible for all aspects of customer site to site VPNs.
• Responsible for IPS troubleshooting, configuration, and traffic analysis.
• Responsible for deployment and configuration of Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers.
• Assisting in deployment and configuration of Cisco ISR voice solutions.

Confidential

Systems Engineer

• Responsible for all network engineering and design of a 1300 node Wide Area and Core Network including three data centers and two corporate locations.
• Responsible for top tier network troubleshooting, network security, network design, implementation, and documentation.
• Responsible for ongoing auditing and assessment of compliance with PCI and SOX technical requirements.
• Responsible for log monitoring and automation.
• Responsible for deployment of Citrix XenApp proof of concept deployment.
• Secondary engineer for VMWare environment with 85 of the server infrastructure virtualized including high I/O MS SQL Databases.
• Responsible for implementation and administration of Cisco Nexus switching infrastructure utilizing Nexus 5ks with Nexus 2k FEXes.
• Responsible for all aspects of partner site to site VPNs.
• Responsible for IPS troubleshooting, configuration, and traffic analysis.

Confidential

Information Technology Manager

• Responsible for all aspects of a 32 node Wide Area and Core Network with 40 virtualized Windows 2003/2008 and Linux Server Systems, 150 Workstations, and 32 Phone Systems to support 300 end users at 32 remote locations.
• Supervise and train two Network and Computer Systems Administrators and one Helpdesk Technician.
• Responsible for ongoing auditing and assessment of compliance with HIPAA technical requirements.
• Administer WAN and LAN environments with Cisco ASA 5505 and 5510 firewalls, Cisco 2900 series routers, and Cisco 3500 and 4500 series Catalyst switches.
• Administer a VMWare ESX 3.5 environment attached to EMC SAN iSCSI targets and Windows 2003 NFS targets.
• Implemented, and administer a network logging, monitoring, and alerting solution.
• Participate on inter-departmental Risk Management Team and created IT incident response procedures.
• Participated on a national team to create IT Security Standards for all Planned Parenthood affiliates.
• Planned and migrated MPLS network to an IPSEC VPN over DSL network.
• Technical lead on Electronic Medical Records system selection team.
• Responsible for managing team budget

Network and Computer Systems Administrator

• Responsible for all aspects of Wide Area and Core Network, Server Systems, Computer Systems, and Phone Systems to support 300 end users at 34 remote locations.
• Responsible for implementation and auditing of HIPAA technical requirements.
• Planned and migrated a Frame Relay network to a MPLS network using Cisco routers.
• Administered MPLS/Frame Relay WAN and Ethernet LAN using Cisco routers and switches.
• Planned and migrated a Citrix farm from a physical server environment with local storage to a virtualized VMWare ESX 3.5 environment attached to an EMC SAN
• Administered Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server/Windows 2003 domain environment.