SUMMARY

• Computer networking associate demonstrating progressive technical experience.
• Skilled project manager and head engineer managing multiple assignments concurrently.
• Serve as a technical resource to clients and colleagues, remaining up to date regarding industry dynamics.
• Work efficiently in fast - paced, real-time environments, utilizing expertise in large scale network deployments.
• Seeking a career opportunity that will capitalize on and expand upon my analytical, problem resolution and communication abilities within a computer-networking related role.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide recommendations for network technology needs and future directions of all network communications.
• Very strong documentation skills and strong assertiveness for other team members to do the same.
• Strong understanding of TCPIP, subnetting, VLSM, Superneting, Route Summarization.
• Able to work independently with little direction and can take the initiative on company needs and unstated projects.
• Responsible for all communications within the company and security using VPNs, FW, and IPS.
• All interconnections were protected using firewalls and IPSs.
• All firewalls were ASAs running both IPSec VPNs for branch connectivity and SSL VPNs for remote access users.
• IPSs included legacy Cisco 4200 and the newer Firepower solution that also ran on the Cisco ASA.
• Branch VPNs include IPSec configurations.
• Setup and maintain all equipment for the network using Cisco hardware ranging from older 2800s to 6500s using VSS for redundancy.
• All interconnections were protected using firewalls and IPSs.
• Configuring and maintaining rapid spanning tree for fast layer 2 convergences. Setting up portfast for fast server/client startup. Also verifying rapid convergence on all network links for undisrupted voice services.
• Setting up QoS, so voice traffic would have priority over all other network traffic for clear voice services.
• Setting up BGP for multiple and backup Internet connections., this includes configuring route maps, local preferences, MED values, AS Path, and local weights.
• Setup and maintain wireless network using Ruckus wireless solution.

Network Engineer/Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Design and support a voice core network consisting of an entire enterprise of voice services and VoIP servers such as SBCs, digital voicemail servers, 911 and emergency services, automated attendants, and Internet services.
• Exposure to BGP, including MBGP for VRFs and route distinguishers, communities, route reflectors, aggregators, various BGP attributes. Setting up and maintain OSPF routing tables and neighbor relationships.
• Setup and maintain LSPs and VPNs over a large scale RSVP network to segregate customer, management, voice, internal data, and internet traffic.
• Responsible for end to end QoS solutions for voice and data traffic. Including prioritization for voice and mission critical network control traffic, congestion avoidance using RED, queuing and traffic shaping, and rate limiting for bandwidth management.
• Required to setup and install Cisco ASA firewalls for secure internet access. Including backup and redundant internet connections and rerouting internet traffic to remote locations in case of primary internet failure.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting, entire large enterprise network, including, researching new technology, answering, any and all of management’s wishes to grow and expand the network to the company’s desires and needs.
• Design and support 2 redundant data centers, each consisting of about 100 racks and providing full fault tolerance of all equipment. One data center consisting of Cisco Nexus equipment and the other using Cisco 6500 series switches running VSS.
• Responsible for a wide range of cisco products. Switches ranging from 2960 and 3750 switches to 6500 series and setting up switch stacking and power stacking on 3750 switch and VSS on 6500 for redundancy and load balancing. Routers from the 2900 to the 7600 series in HSRP configuration for redundancy. Cisco ASA firewalls in stateful failover for inspection and VPN redundancy.
• Experience with Nexus 7000 routers, 5000 switch, and 2000 fabric extenders. Including FC, VPC, Fabric extenders, HSRP, spanningtree, VLANs, routing protocols.
• Design and deploy QoS for a converged network running voice, video, and data. Setting up classification and marking, and various types of queuing.
• Managing the routing protocols which were EIRGP and BGP with static routing. Configuring redistribution between each. EIGRP configuration includes setting up AS, route filtering, redistribution, and metric calculation for FS failover routing. Configuring and managing BGP policies, including weights, local preference, AS path, and MEDs to connect to an MPLS network.

Confidentia

Senior Network Engineer/Manager/Director

Responsibilities:

• Experienced in setting up and troubleshooting with a wide range of Cisco product ranging from 1700 series router to 7600 and 6500 switches in large scale, extremely high availability ISP network. PIX and ASA firewalls and other Cisco products.
• Experience with Designing data centers and address such issues as power consumption and power loss, environmental conditions and heat consumption, natural disaster risks, rack space layout and accessibility for emergency needs.
• Broad experience in troubleshooting network issues using protocol analyzers, SNMP statistics, router and switch debugging tools, and other utilities to isolate and identify network outages and performance issues.
• Extensive experience with IP subneting, CIDR, IP address assignment. Setting up OSPF in large scale network including route summarization, setting up ABR and OSPF internal routers for fast convergence to avoid downtime do to network failures. Experience with setting up BGP in an ISP environment, with multiple gateway to other ISPs and upstream providers.
• Setup large scale multicast network for IP-TV that utilize hundreds of full screen channels including HD video and audio to a subscriber bass in multiple states along the east coast from Florida to New York.
• Provide documentation to director of networking to explain current installation and functionality of new installations and maintain clear network diagrams. Be prepared to explain current network setup to upper management and justify network budgets and equipment costs to guarantee a return on investment.
• Setup and configure Call Manager Express for such functions as call transfer, call forwarding, call parking, 3 way calling, Intercom, paging, hunt groups. Experience with FXS, FXO, T1 and setting up SIP trunks to multiple Venders equipment.
• Implement VLANs to deliver voice, video, and data over the same physical cable. Setup and configure spanning tree to avoid switching loops and rapid convergence due to link failure. Setup VLAN trunking between access, distribution, and core switches. Provide solutions for multilayer switching to scale network resources to meet bandwidth needs.
• Setting up wireless solutions using Cisco APs and Ruckus products in large scale deployments environments using a full mesh topology, so roaming users have wireless connectivity in all possible locations within a site.
• Install and maintain DS3 and ATM lines used for VoIP and Internet data. Setup microwave links to carry user data over wireless connections to central hub.
• Analyze traffic patterns and setup QoS using class maps and policy maps that utilize traffic shaping, policing, DSCPs and rate limiting on Cisco equipment. Setup QoS on other vender’s equipment using their QoS features.
• Setup and support fiber optic connections raging from 1 to 10 gigabits connections that are used to carry full screen high definition video and audio for an IP-TV solution. Both MM for short distance fiber runs and SM for long range distances. Familiar with fiber cabling including UPC, APC, SC, LC, and bulk heads. Experience with OTDR for fiber optic troubleshooting.
• Setup load balancing on fiber optics using Etherchennal/Portchennal. Perform load balance on T1 lines through the use of PPPMultilink and equal cost load balancing using static routes.
• Setup Adit 600 to connection to Navigator phone switches. Experience with Adit 3104 and Polycom IP phones for analog and digital VoIP solutions.
• Perform installations of Set Top Boxes that are used to deliver IP-TV over a Cat 5 cable and second level support to technicians for all IP-TV issues.
• Perform installations of CMTS to terminate customer cable modems for internet and VoIP data. Troubleshoot DSLAMS for DSL installations when troubles arise.