SUMMARY

• Highly analytical and solutions - driven information technology professional, offering extensive years of network engineering and project lead experience across network architectures, technologies, and network management systems.
• Demonstrate effectiveness in diagnosing and troubleshooting technical problems and critical network issues involving Confidential networking and Confidential LAN/WAN.
• Hands-on background in leading all stages of Network development efforts, from requirement definition to testing and support.
• Possess exceptional talent in providing creative and effective network systems services.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Protocols/Standards: TCP/IP, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, IPsec, VPN, ATM, MPLS, VOIP, Frame Relay, Ethernet, VLAN, NAT, Spanning Tree, ISL, CDP, HDLC, PPP, T1/E1, DS3, V.35, RS232

Hardware: Confidential 1700, 2500, 2600, 3600, 3900, 7200, 7500 Series Routers, Confidential 1900, 2900, 3500,3850,4500, 4500-x,6500 (Native & Hybrid) Catalyst Series Switches, Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000, 2000, Confidential ASA firewalls, Palo Alto FW, F5-LB Wireless Controllers, NetScout RMON probes (T1, HSSI), Network Associates Sniffer (stand-alone and distributed)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

President

Responsibilities:

• Managed Rental properties.
• Oversaw the design and construction of duplex and single-family homes
• Managed sub-contractors and contractors

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Configuration, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of routers and switches.
• Maintained Stable daily operation of company network.
• Maintained network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor across various platforms.
• Provided network diagnosis and advanced Network troubleshooting.
• Configured client’s Confidential 6500, 3850 and 2960, 9300,5000 switches and routers .
• Worked with ISPs to maintain customer’s network connectivity.
• Installed F5 load balancer and Configured customers load balance applications.

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Network Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Installed F5 load balancer and Configured customers load balance applications.
• Migrated Customers VPN connection from Confidential Concentrators to ASA Firewall.
• Migrated Remote VPN any connect users.
• Configuration, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of routers and switches.
• Maintained Stable daily operation of company network.
• Provided network diagnosis and advanced Network troubleshooting for various network platforms.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Network Operation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured client’s Confidential 4500x, 3850 and 2960 switches and routers.
• Configured Nexus 5648 and 2K using enhanced VPC.
• Redesigned, planned and implemented physical Segmentation of company network
• Configuration, installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of routers and switches.
• Maintained Stable daily operation of company network.
• Provided network diagnosis and advanced troubleshooting for various network platforms.

Confidential, Norcross, GA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, configured and implemented a branch office Network for 500 plus users.
• Redesigned WAN Network using 3900 series routers.
• Migrated branch 6500 switches from CatOS to IOS.
• Provided network diagnosis and advanced troubleshooting to corporate users.
• Configured and implemented QOS on Confidential switches and routers for IP Phones.
• Migrated Enterprise LAN switches from 6500, 3650, 3750 to Nexus 5k and 2k.
• Performed the tasks of designing, implementing, supporting, and managing networking infrastructure.
• Played a lead role in designing solutions for data networking environment to meet business requirements in various network platforms.
• Coordinated the implementation of networking projects by working with vendors & business partners to ensure that installations meet service level objectives.
• Configured F5 load balancer for quick and easy access to network applications.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform the tasks of designing, implementing, supporting, and managing networking infrastructure across networking platforms.
• Play a lead role in designing solutions for data networking environment to meet business requirements.
• Coordinate the implementation of networking projects by working with vendors & business partners to ensure that installations meet service level objectives.
• Handle the tasks of making changes to networking and security infrastructure.
• Perform analysis and troubleshooting of network related problems & issues at all layers of the networking stack.
• Play a lead role in the migration of venders’ network and application connectivity from old legacy environment to new global environment.
• Configured ASA firewall rules.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured F5 load balancer for quick and easy access to network applications.
• Rebuilt a data center that consisted of the configuration and installation of two new redundancy core Cat 6500 switches with connections to twelve Cat 6500 series access switches and two 7200 routers.
• Planned and implemented a Branch network that consisted of the installation and configuration of 6500 switches and 2800 Confidential routers for over 2000 users.
• Scheduled Network Engineer on-call: duties included monitoring IP network, responding to outages, opening trouble tickets, and interfaced with telecommunications providers to diagnose network and circuits issues.
• Escalated network equipment problems to manufactures, and worked with them to resolve network