SUMMARY

• Over thirteen years of Network Infrastructure experience and two years intensive training.
• I am technically skilled, articulate and succinct, and pride myself on my professionalism and punctuality.
• I work very well with others, in mostly large enterprise environments.
• I always focus on how my role in an organization either adds value or has utilitarian purpose in the company’s overall strategy.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Network Engineering: Network Design; Network Support; Network Analysis (Wireshark, Cascade, Wild Packets & NTOP), Infrastructure Support; Cloud; Web Application Development. Strategic Technical Planning.

HARDWARE: Experienced in all major hardware vendors; Riverbed Steelhead WAN Optimizers, Arista Networks, Cisco Routers and Switches (Including the Nexus 1000v and ASA series Firewall), Radware Linkproof Load Balancers, and Dell PowerEdge R6 - 710 Servers. I can also design, build and configure production Networks and Cloud Platforms for SMBs.

SOFTWARE SYSTEMS: Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Small Business Server 2003, HL7 Protocol, server consolidation through virtualization, Asterisk PBX. WindowsXP, Windows 7, Mac OSX RedHat Linux, Cisco Systems IOS.

INFRASTRUCTURE SERVICES: Open LDAP, VoIP, Active Directory Services, Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPO), Group Policy Management Console (GPMC), ADSI (Active Directory Service Interfaces), Routing (BGP,EIGRP & OSPF) and Remote Access Services (RRAS), IPsec, Virtual Private Networks (VPN, GET VPN, DMVPN), HL7 Messaging Protocol and Remote Access Policies (RAP), Admission Control (QoS), Internet Authentication Services (IAS, RADIUS), SNMP (Network Management) & Services, HL7 Protocol for Healthcare.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network/Engineer Architect Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Assess current infrastructure and write an Iplan for a Catalyst to Nexus switch migration.
• Delivered a 7 page document in where we would reduce the fabric from 53 to about 28 switches and move the core form Cat 4507s to the Nexus 9k.
• Confidential Inc. Senior Network Engineer 3/2016 - 7/2017
• Report directly to the Director of Global Networking on the current state of the network
• Recommend and deliver projects that stabilize, optimize and add value to Confidential s business model.
• Network design; rethinking and formulating a plan for Network failover and redundancy between the 2 datacenters. Scenario: We had BGP running in one datacenter with one ASN, now PP wanted to implement BGP for the main datacenters in North America.
• Troubleshoot 3rd level escalation tickets mostly systemic.
• Datacenter Network infrastructure Migration (Catalyst to Nexus). Drawing Up the High level and low level designs, cable matrices.
• Upgrading the DCI Circuits; we were paying almost $10,000 for 2 100 meg Circuits. After some remedial design analysis, I saw that these circuits were not redundant. In fact they were on the same local loop running to the same distribution panel and if on one went down the other would go with it. We were unable to load balance over these links due to the polarization of the layer 2 handoff.
• Solution: I went to light tower to light 10g of Dark Fiber between our DCs at half the cost and up our 2 internet circuits from 50 Mbps to 1Gbps using different providers not sharing the same local loop.
• Moved off the Legacy Catalyst switching infrastructure to the New Nexus 5548UP Fabric. I am currently still on this project.
• Migrate off the Radius solution we were using to a more robust AAA technology. We chose Cisco ISE Identity Services Engine; this would allow us to implement authorization privileges for the NOC to do minor troubleshooting before escalating ticket to the network team.
• Deployed ova VM in to offices deployed script to our network gear. This project is ongoing with the promises of us POCing and deploying NAC (and I thought it was a Unicorn).
• Train junior network engineers in network engineering /administration, the rudiments of network architecture and how to conduct one s self like a professional i.e. team dynamics, documentation and customer service.

Confidential

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Complete a OSPF project on their global network.
• Re - architected the Frame Network in order to solve several design entanglements left by previous engineers.
• Utilize their 100 meg link on that frame network for a second DCI between their two Datacenters without disturbing the OSPF Frame Circle.
• Koala Compute Inc. / Merge IT Consultant Network Analyst 6/2015 - Present
• On-site at McGraw Hill Financial and (one other client which I am currently under an NDA) as a Network Analyst and Technical Project Lead.
• Responsible for producing project plan; project meeting call notes; High Level Designs; Low Level Designs; rack elevations; Electronic Bill of Materials Electrical (E-BOM); power consumption; cable matrices; implementation plans and all configuration documentation.

Confidential

Network Architect & Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter Expert and Project Design Engineer on one of the world s largest networks.
• Analysis, planning, design and implementation of Cisco Based Networks in the BOA s DMZ network
• Responsible for the delivery of the engineering package e.g. equipment procurement; producing the engineering scripts ; peer reviewing scripts; tracking the B2B reservation spreadsheets; engineering oversight and coordination between the firewall, proxy, load balance and application teams
• Write, request and review test plans usually submitted by the application team; produce high level (HLD) and low - level (LLD) design for the project.
• Deliver decommission projects which included port turn down, scheduling device removal (Removing Cabling, selected erasure of devices, scheduling device remove from racks, etc.)
• Certification of new devices. Research and recommend technical design review and test engineering script templates produced by the Senior Architects Group.
• The protocols we used in engineering solutions were BGP, OSPF, EIGRP along with IPSEC Based VPNs

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure support and design of VoIP Systems solutions based on the Asterisk PBX and the OpenSips SBCs
• Datacenter architecture and security modeling
• Support systems engineers and DevOps. Design and Implementation of company's HQ network
• Diagram and assess network infrastructure; purchasing equipment and reporting directly to The VP of Engineering.
• Developed a virtual model of our NOC with select group of Systems Engineers for testing and POC using GNS3, KVM and Virtual Box Vagrant. Working with Linux, oVirt, OpenStack, Zenoss monitoring Systems Cisco routers(ASR1001) switches Catalyst 4000s and 2960s Juniper EX 4300 series switches, Vyatta Firewalls.
• Develop long term ITIL v3 implementation strategy. Developing Traffic Monitoring and analysis strategy working on the Cisco ASR1001 ISRs.
• Plan and design the company s new headquarters infrastructure (voice and data).
• Design and implementation support for the SIP Proxy Project leveraging Open Source Technology and F5 LTMs Load Balancers.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Network Engineer (Level 3)

Responsibilities:

• Maintain an enterprise network with 5 regional offices.
• Oversee, monitor, and support the network and Virtual Infrastructure.
• Responsible the following devices: Cisco 3825s Routers, Cisco 2900 Series Switches, ASA 5520 Firewalls, 3800 Series Routers, 4948 Switches, 3560 Switches, 6509 Switches, 4500 Series Switches, Riverbed Steelhead Wan Optimizers, Riverbed Cascade Profiler100 Express, Radware Link - Proof Load Balancers.
• Maintaining at least four 9 s network availability, documentation, and change management requests, reporting on the network state, DR testing, diagraming, and monitoring.
• Set up device analytics (i.e. IPSLA, Netflow, and NBAR) on the router and firewalls and other appliances using products like Orion by Solarwinds and Cascade Profiler with the behavioral analytics module.
• Work closely with vendor and partner engineers on projects and support tickets; implemented a TACACS+ server and building and troubleshooting site to site IPSec Tunnels with ASA Firewall both in CLI and ADSM.
• Working extensively with protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, NAT HSRP.

Confidential, NJ

Lead IT and Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities:

• Reframe the company s technology paradigm by designing and implementing a 90% virtualized network leveraging, VMware Vsphere5 infrastructure and Microsoft s Small Business Server 2008.
• Designed virtualization and Cloud Solutions for SMBs.
• Designed a service management platform for small businesses based on Cloud Computing, Virtualization and Business Process Management.
• Designed and implemented virtualized small business networks with one Cisco Router (Series 871) and one or two Cisco Switches.
• Built EHR solutions for Healthcare Providers using software such as Interface - ware by Iguana to enable HL7 communications between disparate systems, (e.g. Communication between systems such as Confidential and Confidential ).
• Worked with a client for designing VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) for a 500 user network.
• Learned SAN networking with Confidential and I built the internal Labtech, Renweb, Power Schools, Practice Fusion, and Level Platforms.

Confidential, Atlantic City, NJ

Network Administrator/ Support

Responsibilities:

• Administration and desk side support for the 200 user network, troubleshoot the Windows 2000 Active Directory, migrate client PCs from a branch office to the main facility, build the office network.
• Installed the HP Pro - curve switches, build the wall plates, made, tested and terminate cables.
• Set up employee PCs on the network, diagramed the network topology, maintained and supported the guests wireless network.
• Managed the Cisco 2811 Routers on a multi homed MPLS Provider Network Running BGP; only static routes were used.
• Detect a hacking attempt from China in the Active Directory and took the appropriate measures to remediate the problem.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Senior Partner and Technical Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed network systems and network support for SMBs (Small to Medium Business') focusing on one to three Physician Medical Practices as a Health Informatics Sales Engineer
• Consult for piloting and deploying the Confidential MyWay database application on a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network; OS support Windows 2003/8 Server.
• Proof of Concept demonstrations POCs; pre - sales and post-sales support providing consultation on the networking infrastructure.
• Research and design the interface solutions for transferring data using the HL7 messaging protocol between disparate proprietary EHRs.
• Trained to use and support the Confidential MyWay application.
• Prepared proposals and technical documents for client review.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Senior Network Engineer Linux/Unix Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Chief Network Engineer in the company s co - location (Server Hosting Business).
• Upgrade and administer the COLO s network and maintain a highly available network standard. I achieved this primarily with Cisco 3640 Routers running BGP on the ISP side and HSRP vis- -vis, the switches.
• Employed Cisco 3550 2924 Switches and Juniper Confidential Firewall Appliances (204, 25 and 5xp).
• Responsible for the entire Unix client machines in the COLO from routine maintenance to full administration, depending on the nature of the contract.
• Employed Ntop, NMap and Servers Alive. We used MRTG and we also used Simple DNS as our DNS server solution.