SUMMARY:

• Confidential brings prior hands - on experience delivering enterprise routing and switching solutions for large studio production environments.
• Having led both Cisco and Juniper infrastructure projects, Confidential is proficient in his ability to establish, communicate, and implement compelling technical roadmaps with business units, technical peers, and vendors.
• Design Dark Fiber Systems
• Install CWDM Passive MuX/DeMUX
• Configure SNMP, VLANs and VLAN tagging on MRV OptiSwitches (900 Series)
• Perform link quality test using Iperf
• Perform throughput testing using RFC 2544
• Troubleshoot faults in fiber cable
• Use NIPAP IPAM to manage IP Address space
• Maintain documentation of VLANS that are used throughout an organization
• Create VRFs
• Configure MP-BGP
• Enable MPLS in backbone infrastructure
• Configure route redistribution into MPLS backbone infrastructure
• Configure Stateful Switchover between Cisco Supervisor Engines
• Design and Configure Internet Edge topologies
• Perform cost/benefit analysis of routing and switching infrastructure
• Build and scale network architectures for 1 to 25 users/devices users/devices devices and beyond
• Safely oversubscribe uplinks between access, distribution, and core layers on routing/switching infrastructure
• Configure Switching and Routing Infrastructure to achieve 200 millisecond convergence time
• Design and Implement Collapsed Core topology
• Design and Implement Distribution Layer Switching Infrastructure
• Design and Implement Access Layer Switching infrastructure
• Limit the propagation of loops at the access layer
• Configure Spanning Tree Protocol on user facing edge of the access layer
• Configure Ubiquiti Unifi Wireless Access Point Controller to adopt Access points
• Place Wireless Access Points throughout a site based on antenna radiation patterns, throughput, and range
• Configure and troubleshoot APC Smart-UPS devices
• Configure RANCID server to retrieve and archive configurations of network nodes
• Configure OpenNMS server to monitor and collect information about critical services on remote nodes
• Configure PRTG to monitor the system health and bandwidth of network nodes
• Use punch down tool to patch copper cable to a patch panel

WORK HISTORY:

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Network Engineer

Environment: Arista CloudVision, Palo Alto, HP RGS (Remote Graphics Software)

Responsibilities:

• Configure HP RGS clients and servers to receive DNS and DHCP from Palo Alto FWs. Configure EVPN over an L2 Leafe and Spine topology.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Network Engineer

Environment: Palo Alto, Cisco Nexus,Cisco ISE, Juniper, Arista, Brocade, VxLAN, EVPN, BGP, Python, Ubuntu, Virtual Port Channels, Port Channels, ESXi, SolarWinds, Signiant, Aspera, AWS Direct Connect, Security Groups, and NACL

Responsibilities:

• Plan and execute the integration of the 21st Confidential Studios network with the Confidential Studio Production network.
• Migrate the core and distribution network infrastructure from Brocade to Arista.
• Troubleshoot connectivity and latency issue experienced by media packaging servers (Signiant and Aspera).
• Configure AWS Direct Connect, Security Groups, and NACLs.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Network Security Engineer

Environment: Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, RedSeal, FireMon, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ISE, Python, Ubuntu, SolarWinds

Responsibilities:

• Audit all perimeter control devices and align the same with Confidential .
• InfoSec Standards.
• Use Firemon and RedSeal to contruct a detailed topology of the entire WarnerMedia network infrastructure.
• Document network flows

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Network Engineer

Environment: Juniper (MX Series and EX Series) and Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series, Protocols (HSRP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, SNMP), Noction

Responsibilities:

• Document the current layer 3 topology at each Data Center location and take inventory of spare optics and Cisco Catalyst Modules.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Network Operations Center Engineer

Environment: Cisco (Catalyst 6506/6509, Nexus 7009/7018, ISR 2811, ASA 5505), Juniper (SRX5500, SSG 5), Cisco ASA 5508, Netscount, Palo Alto (PA-850/PA-3050), F5 (BIG IP LTM), OpenStack, Python, AWS, VMWare (vSphere, Workstation), Ansible, Protocols (HSRP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VSS, SNMP), Cisco UnifiedCommunications Manager 12.0, APC Smart UPS, Operating Systems, (Windows Server 2008/2012)Linux (Ubuntu), Network Monitoring Platform (ScienceLogic)

Responsibilities:

• Configured and provisioned network infrastructure at access, distribution, and core layers.
• Monitored the overall health of all network nodes and customer links (excluding links to access ports) via Nagios and Science Logic monitoring platforms.
• Configure and maintain Linux and Windows instances.
• Triage response to link failures, high cpu usage, high memory utilization and link saturation.
• Troubleshot and configured BGP, HSRP, OSPF, EIGRP, VSS, and IPSec VPN.
• Managed change management for all EMEA clients.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Senior Network Engineer

Environment: Brocade MLXe-32, Brocade TurboIron, Juniper SRX 110/220/300/550 , Juniper SSG 5, Juniper MAG2600, Citrix, Palo Alto (PA-850), MRV OptiSwitch 904/ G, HP Procurve 2650-PWR PoE, Dell PowerConnect 2848, NIPAP IPAM, MPLS, VRFs, MP-BGP, OSPF, BGP, OpenGear IM4248 console, Ubiquiti Unifi Controller, Ubiquiti Unifi WAP, OpenNMS, RANCID, APC Smart UPS

Responsibilities:

• Build and decommission fiber optic circuits between Confidential ’s POPs, data centers, and customer sites.
• Run script to create VRFs.
• Enabled MPLS on backbone infrastructure and configured MP-BGP between PE routers.
• Ensured network connectivity and the overall health of Confidential ’s network nodes.
• Added and removed policies on Juniper SRX/SSG firewalls to meet customer specifications.

Confidential, West Valley, UT

Secure Mobile Messaging Analyst

Environment: Cisco Catalyst 2960/3850-X/6500, Cisco Nexus 9K/7K, Netscout, HP Procurve Switch, Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 , Citrix, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2015, Microsoft Office 365, Lotus Domino 8.5, SQL 2008, SQL Express, F5 BIG IP LTM

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot connectivity issues between the GOOD Mobile Messaging Servers and the NOC.
• Ensure optimal flow of customer Email/Messages from Microsoft Exchange / Lotus Domino through Confidential ’s NOC to mobile clients.
• Perform Pre/Post Sales installs of Confidential ’s Messaging solution for current and potential customers.

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Network Engineer

Environment: AT&T Modem, WAPs, HP Procurve Switch

Responsibilities:

• Ensure wireless connectivity within several hundred branch locations for Confidential.