Functional Summary

• 12 years of experience in Information Technology with 7 years specializing in Network Engineering and Systems Administration.
• Strong ability to design, implement and administer highly complex end to end network and data systems solutions based on customer requirements and budgetary constraints.
• Experienced in translating business strategies into technology solutions by effectively advocating the proposed architecture both written and verbally.
• Broad skill set including expertise in LAN and enterprise network architectures, WAN engineering and service provisioning, security and information assurance, systems virtualization and resource consolidation, database management and integration, storage networking, disaster recovery planning and systems documentation.
• Effective in working within a dynamic team environment to coordinate project efforts, meet deadlines, participate in complex problem solving and engage in positive customer interaction.

Employment History

Title: Network Consulting Engineer

Confidential

Network Consulting Engineer within Cisco Global Government Solutions and Advanced Services delivering the technologies, solutions and services needed to expertly manage customer networks. Visible contributor in a fast-paced, high-impact environment delivering on our companies commitments.

Title: Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

• Position involves supporting large scale network implementation, integration projects, testing, documentation, monitoring, analysis and ongoing support initiatives in the service provider arena for federal government agencies.
• Involves designing and implementing the following service provider core technologies.
• Border Gateway Protocol iBGP, eBGP, MP-BGP , Open Shortest Path First OSPF , Multi Protocol Label Switching MPLS , Label Distribution Protocol LDP , Resource Reservation Protocol RSVP , MPLS Traffic Engineering, MPLS TE Tunnels, MPLS VPNs Option A, B,C , Quality of Service QoS , advanced route advertisement and redistribution, route filtering, failover/redundancy, link aggregation, WAN circuit utilization/capacity planning Serial, POS, SONET, DS3, OC12, OC48, OC192 , TACLANE KG175A 175D encryptions devices. Carrier grade Cisco and Juniper routers over geographically dispersed ISP core/backbone, provider edge and customer edge locations.

Title: Server Systems Administrator

Confidential

• Primary role included Installing, monitoring, troubleshooting and optimizing system performance and reliability on enterprise server systems including Microsoft Active Directory Services, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL database administration, SQL database mirroring, Hyper-V virtualization and failover clustering, Internet Information Services, Web Server Network Load Balancing, and Microsoft SharePoint Services Server Farm configuration and site administration.
• Position required data protection planning as well as disaster recovery planning and documentation. Tasked in creating advanced automated data backup sets and system recovery plans to maintain high data availability and maintain information integrity.
• Remained Involved in capacity planning and data storage technologies including RAID, Direct Access Storage, Network Access Storage, iSCSI and virtual hard disk to meet the storage needs of the existing and proposed systems.

Title: Network Systems Engineer

Confidential

• Experienced in configuration, management and securing the entire Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching fabric including access port configuration, trunk port configuration, port security, VLAN Trunking, VLAN design, virtual layer 3 interface configuration, Spanning Tree Protocol design, QoS, Network Time Protocol, and DHCP Snooping.
• Able to select, configure and troubleshoot integrated service routers, IP routing protocols, and implementing router security on Cisco and non-Cisco devices Static Routing, RIP, RIPv2, EIGRP . Effective at implementing valid IP addressing and subnetting schemes to meet network infrastructure design requirements.
• Skilled in utilizing network monitoring and analysis tools Cisco Works, SolarWinds Orion, Cisco Network Assistant, WireShark to proactively examine network traffic and infrastructure device operation to ensure maximum availability.
• Experienced at selecting, installing, and verifying operation of Ethernet physical access media Cat5, Cat5e, multi mode fiber, single mode fiber, media converters, GBIC and SFP modules .
• Skilled in supporting and managing VoIP services and endpoint devices in a Cisco Unified Communications environment including Cisco Unified Communications Manager, Cisco Unity Voicemail, Cisco Unified Presence, PoE and inline power, voice VLAN configuration on infrastructure devices, TFTP firmware download, Survivable Remote Site Telephony and voice gateway routers.
• Experienced in implementing network security and access control technologies including Standard ACLs, Extended ACLs, SSH, IP ports and protocol filtering, Transparent Firewall, Cisco IOS Firewall, Cisco Security Device Manager, ASA firewall, PIX firewall.
• Experienced in managing various Anti-X technologies including antivirus, antispyware, antispam, antimalware, web filter, email filtering, Intrusion Prevention and Intrusion Detection systems.
• Familiar with common WAN technologies such as VPN, PPP, HDLC, T1, Static Network Address Translation, Dynamic Network Address Translation, Port Address Translation, DMZ security and access control.
• Experienced at wireless LAN implementation, support, and security WEP, WPA, WPA2, AES, Pre Shared Key security, Cisco WLAN Controllers, Cisco Autonomous Access Points, Cisco Lightweight Access Points .

Title: Simulation and Ground Based Flight Training Systems Technician

Confidential

Title: IT Help Desk Support Technician

Confidential