SENIOR NETWORK ARCHITECT Resume

SUMMARY

Solutions - oriented, dedicated Network Architect with proven success designing, implementing and integrating IT network solutions to meet challenging business needs.
Solid knowledge of LAN/WAN technologies - including design, implementation and support.
Solid knowledge of Firewall / VPN technologies - including design, implementation and support.
Proven expertise in problem resolution with many network issues via packet analysis.
Organized, take-charge professional with exceptional follow-through abilities and detail orientation, able to plan and oversee high-profile projects from conception to successful conclusions.
Outstanding communication skills; interfaces effectively with upper-management, vendors, staff, peers and customers.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco Routers and Switches, Cisco Nexus appliances (7k, 5k and 2k), Nokia appliances, Nortel Concentrators, F5 BigIP appliances, Juniper Firewalls, Checkpoint Firewalls, Cisco Concentrators, Blue Coat appliances, Infoblox appliances

Networking: TCP/IP, Novell, ISO/OSI, IPX/SPX, SNA, Ethernet, Token Ring, VPN, DNS, DHCP, MPLS, Frame-Relay, VOIP, QOS, VOIP

Tools: and Software: Checkpoint MDS and Firewall, Juniper Management, Tivoli NetView, NAI Sniffer, OPNet IT Guru, VitalSuite, Infoblox Grid Master

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

SENIOR NETWORK ARCHITECT

Responsibilities:

Developed new LAN standards for all corporate sites with current customer - moving customer away from flat network to a more tiered design. These new standards were deployed enterprise wide.
Developed new LAN standards for all Substations with current customer - introducing and implementing new infrastructure at Substations enterprise wide. Along with this, developed new IP addressing standard for Substations, which has also been deployed enterprise wide.
Designed new infrastructure for a data center, which replaced a 20 year old legacy network. Along with this work effort, developed a new IP addressing scheme for the entire site and migrated all users/devices to new scheme.
Designed a new active/active ISP solution with dual carriers for one of the two data centers with current customer.
Developed new IP scheme and standards for all sites across the enterprise.
Developed various redundant WAN designs across the organizations.
Developed new design for Wind Farms, which included designing a DMZ infrastructure at each location.
Acted as the technical focal for each account

IT SR. TECHNICAL CONSULTANT ENGINEER

Confidential

Responsibilities:

Delegated as a team lead for all WAN infrastructures and routing for customer’s entire infrastructure.
Delegated as team lead for all WAN infrastructure for all Latin American countries.
Implemented four Latin American countries to the current MPLS Cloud infrastructure.
Implemented VOIP between Latin America and the US sites, which included implementing QOS into WAN infrastructure.
Implemented many VOIP remote offices using Cisco IP telephony devices.
Designed redundant scenarios for different connections - i.e. Holland, Canada and other vendor connections - using BGP.
Implemented new site to site VPNs within both the Checkpoint and Nortel environments.
Designed and implemented a new infrastructure at a brand new Tier 1 customer location, which included both the LAN and WAN infrastructures.
Involved with designing an active-active WAN routing architecture using dual carriers for multiple sites.
Implemented new core LAN infrastructure’s at multiple Tier 1 customer locations, which included building new Cisco 6500 redundant core switches and/or converting from previous hybrid installations to new native IOS versions.
Implemented a number of F5 migrations, including new applications and migrations from Cisco CSS’s.
Involved in implementing new Internet and DMZ connectivity to a data center, allowing for redundant internet connectivity.
Implemented new Infoblox DNS/DHCP appliances and maintained infrastructure.
Implemented multiple site to site VPNs for customer, which included both vendor sites, as well as, customer field offices.
Achieved Cisco CCNA Certification
Implemented new 7k, 5k and 2k infrastructures for customer and continue to manage new configurations. Built new configurations for this data center infrastructure which included building 3 VDCs, redundant 7k/5k configurations - which also included many vPC configurations across the devices.
Implemented new 10G DWDM circuits for customer on Cisco 7604 routers.

Confidential

SENIOR NETWORK ANALYST

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented new firewall / VPN architecture for the enterprise, which included both trusted and untrusted entities.
Delegated as team lead for all WAN infrastructure for all Latin American countries.
Implemented WAN infrastructure for four Latin American countries with point to point Frame-Relay connections.

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