SUMMARY

• I am a Sales Engineer with extensive experience in infrastructure sales, design, and implementation.
• I have proven skills in maintaining customer and vendor relationships while achieving and exceeding quota.
• I have excelled in customer facing roles throughout my career and am very comfortable interfacing between IT and business.
• I have an excellent background in WAN/LAN design, WLAN, IOS, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, EIGRP, Disaster Recovery site design, Wireless, Cisco MARS, Cisco ACS, Cisco WLC and WCS, Cisco IPS, VMWare, datacenter switching
• Exchange server upgrades and implementation, multi - site Windows server technologies, enterprise antivirus and backup services, and multiple third party server applications. I also have extensive experience in advanced firewall design and implementation using Cisco ASA
• Juniper, Fortinet and Sonicwall firewalls. I am experienced in high availability solutions using redundant firewalls, servers, and network appliances.
• I am very proficient in DNS/DHCP design and troubleshooting, IPAM, web server administration, RBAC security design and PCI compliance.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Systems Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lead the region in sales for four years.
• Trained channel partners and customers on new technology.
• Designed and deployed a 14,000 AP wireless network for the University of Minnesota.
• Lead the region in new logo accounts for four years.
• Coached and mentored new team members.
• Met with key IT leaders across the State and introduced them to Aruba products and solutions.
• Lead technical presentations with prospects, customers, and partners.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential - Fridley, MN

Responsibilities:

• Specialized in design, pre-sales, post-sales and large projects.
• Project lead on the largest active projects for the company.
• Research new products and technologies for our partners and clients.
• Mentored junior staff on technical concepts and career goals.
• Managed complex client projects to completion.
• Consulted with management on the future technical direction of the company.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential - Minnetonka, MN

Responsibilities:

• Senior Network Engineer acting as technical lead for the Confidential network
• Responsible for all voice and data networking including Datacenter, VPN, LAN, and WAN.
• Created a design for the transition to a fully redundant multi-Datacenter network.
• Mentored the team in data and voice networking.
• Eliminated $100,000/yr. in wasted circuit costs though a WAN circuit review.
• Merged three different WAN clouds that were left over from previous acquisitions.
• Evaluated new technologies and advised the CIO on emerging network trends including SDN.

WAN Engineer

Confidential - Minneapolis, MN

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineer focused on high visibility HQ locations and Distribution Centers.
• WAN representative on the Enterprise QOS team directing the overall QOS strategy.
• Designed the WAN for the new Canadian headquarters including head-end and remote design.
• Lead Engineer on a Riverbed deployment to 30 sourcing locations throughout the world.
• Redesigned and standardized the Riverbed platform encompassing over 100 appliances.
• Lead Engineer for WAN optimization proof of concept for retail locations.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential - Plymouth, MN

Responsibilities:

• Lead network engineer for a regional health-care company.
• Managed vendors and internal resources to complete network initiatives and projects.
• Served on the change advisory board to ensure operational stability and change coordination.
• Responsible for all datacenter and WAN design projects.
• Lead design engineer for a load balanced active/active datacenter project

Sr. Technical Analyst

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Implemented ACS 5.1 for TACACS+, RADIUS, and EAP-TLS authentication across the organization.
• Configured and installed a new intranet VPN router failover pair using AIM-VPN modules for stateful failover.
• Evaluated vendor WAN solutions to replace the Carlson Hotels MPLS network.
• Migrated Carlson Wagonlit Travel’s EMEA and APAC VPN head-end to a new datacenter and reconfigured the remote routers to connect to the new solution.
• Designed an OSPF area for VPN connected offices that connected them to the Plymouth and Dallas datacenters.
• Responsible for BGP WAN routing and route redistribution for a 2000+ site network.
• Designed and implemented the corporate and guest wireless network using EAP-TLS, ACS 5.1 and Active Directory for authentication on Cisco 4404 Wireless LAN Controllers.
• Redesigned Carlson Hotels datacenter routing and firewall ACLs for PCI compliance.
• Profiled the network using Perl and syslog records to build a firewall rule-set for PCI related traffic.
• Migrated Carlson Restaurants remote datacenter connectivity to an IPSEC VPN solution from an MPLS network.
• Designed and implemented plan to segment business unit WAN traffic using VRFs and transparent firewalls.
• Designed SSL VPN solution using certificates and ldap group authentication on the Cisco ASA platform.
• Participated in on-call rotation that was responsible for all network related incidents.
• Identified, replaced, or removed unused devices in datacenter.
• Developed a SOP detailing firewall rule removal guidelines to avoid incidents.
• Developed firewall rules and routing for a QA application for the Northwest Airlines extranet connection.
• Configured a new extranet business unit vlan spanning the MAN.