SUMMARY

• A highly dedicated and disciplined professional seeking a position to utilize my education, experience, and troubleshooting skills of computers, and networks to ensure the availability and smooth running of network systems.
• Outstanding grasp of information technology concepts and processes.
• A highly motivated, self - starter that is committed to achieving results which includes a strong sense of ownership and follow-through to resolution.
• Experience working across various organizations and with individual personalities while exhibiting a professional demeanor.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing Protocols: TCP\IP, DNS, DHCP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and SNMP.

Switching: VLAN, VTP, STP, MPLS, Etherchannel, and Port Security.

Security: WEP, WPA, 802.1x, RADIUS, VPN, IPsec, IPS/IDS, and Access Control Lists (ACLs).

Equipment: Routers, Cisco Firewall (5510/5515/5520/5550), Cisco Switches (190/2960X/3750/3850/4500/6500 series), Aruba Switches (2530/2920/2930F/3810/5400), HP Firewall (ProLiant DL120/DL320/DL360/DL380), HP switches, Checkpoint (1100/2200/4600/4800, and Fortinet Firewalls (FortiGate 200D).

Wireless: 802.11a/b/g/n, 802.11ac, Cisco Wireless Controllers (WLC2106/4400/5508), Cisco AP’s, Aruba Mobility Controllers (7030/7205/7210), Aruba APs(205/225/228/274/275), HP Controllers (MSM720/MSM760/ MSM765/MSM720/MSM760), HP AP’s, Spectrum Analyzer, Ekahau Site Survey and AirMagnet Survey Pro.

Operating Systems: Windows 9x, XP, Vista, 7, 8, 2000/2008 server, Linux, and Cisco IOS.

Application & Software: Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook/Word/Excel/PowerPoint), MS Visio, Adobe, McAfee, Trend, Bitdefender, Symantec, Infoblox, Netscout, Wireshark, and SolarWinds.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Ashburn, VA

Network Engineer/Site Lead

Responsibilities:

• Identified and reviewed requirements supporting design and implementation of wired/WLANs.
• Engaged in meetings about procedures, upcoming work, and designs.
• Communicated with Project Managers and clients about requirements, designs, and SOW.
• Created and delivered documents of the design with device locations for LAN/WLAN.
• Updated Aruba controllers from OS 6,4 to 6.5, as well as, tested, and troubleshooted upgrade.
• Installed Aruba APs (205/275) in offices, bays, and outside buildings for RF signal coverage.
• Installed Blue Coat Web Proxy SG-400 at sites for web security.
• Performed test and evaluations of LAN and WLANs to confirm performance and security in accordance with established thresholds.
• Tested and troubleshoot Aruba controller failover.

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created Requirement Summaries, Design Proposals, Engineering Work Orders, which included scope of work, configurations, Bill of Materials, and drawings for work at varies sites globally.
• Reviewed designs created by other engineers prior to submitting and implementation.
• Engaged in meetings with other engineers about procedures, upcoming work, and designs.
• Communicated with Project Managers and clients about requirements, designs, SOW, pricing, and deliverables.
• Prepared Bill of Materials (BOM) for designs and implementations for shipping to facilities.
• Installed, configured, tested, and troubleshooted network equipment, hardware, and OS.
• Performed wireless surveys of sites based on floor plans, in order, to design WLAN infrastructure for sites.
• Conducted Passive wireless site surveys to identify any existing coverage issues, and/or interference/noise causing problem to the wireless signal.
• Configured new SSID’s on Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) with VLAN’s, Security and other needed requirements.
• Troubleshooting packet issues or drops with packet capturing software such as Wireshark and NetScout.
• Configured IP Helper statements for DHCP address on Wireless LAN Controllers and switches.
• Configured new static VLAN and L3 interfaces on core switches to migrate a site to a single global WAN solution and make IP address changes to WLC.
• Configured switch VLAN’s with IP address and verified connectivity with Ping command to the router or other network equipment.

Confidential, Schaumburg, IL

Wireless Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked with several engineers and, in which, we conducted Physical RF site survey to provide a wireless solution that would deliver the required Wireless coverage, data rates, network capacity, and roaming capability for the staff.
• Used Ekahau and AirMagnet Survey Pro software to perform Active and Passive surveys of existing environment for upgrade or new deployment for colleges, warehouse and airports environments.
• Created designs based current or future requirements, such as, data, voice & high density, and redundancy in respective manufacturer AP, external and internal antenna specifications.
• Monitored and documented the signal strength measurements along with channel information.
• Provided an RF map of the existing 802.11 environment.
• Provided detailed information that addressed the site’s radio frequency (RF) coverage.
• Recorded and analyze RF interference using Spectrum Analyzers (Wi Spy and Spectrum XT) for designing, troubleshooting, and documentations.
• Assisted in creating documentation of all information received from the survey of campus buildings and remote building sites.

Confidential

Telecommunications Technician Lead

Responsibilities:

• Performed physical topology designs and structured cabling for Local Area Network (LAN) and Wireless LAN (WLAN) upgrades for medical treatment facilities (MTFs) world-wide.
• Conducted and documented detailed LAN and Wireless LAN (WLAN) site surveys, which included, gathering information from user work areas, backbone area, horizontal cabling, telecommunications closets\Intermediate Distribution Frames (IDFs), and Main Distribution Frame (MDF) to perform a LAN and WLAN modernization upgrade.
• Supervised the installation of wireless local area network (WLAN’s) by installing over a 1000 Aruba and Cisco Access Points (APs) to extend network at various locations worldwide.
• Created work plans and timelines which identifies the sequence of activities needed to successfully complete the project.
• Inspected the quality of the work completed by the team on a regular basis to ensure that it meets the project standards.
• Inspected and ensured that all the work was preformed according to the project specifications.
• Operated PCs or similar devices to complete assigned administrative tasks, such as, preparing daily reports with worked completed, issues, and shipment shortages.
• Created training and documentations using Microsoft Office tools such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Power Point for junior members.

Confidential, San Antonio, TX

Infrastructure Installation Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Surveyed, designed, implemented, and oversaw the installations of LANs (Local Area Networks) and WLANs wireless local area networks.
• Conducted In-Briefs meetings with managers and supervisors to discuss the projects scope of work (SOW), as well as, held daily meeting with the crew members.
• Implemented various termination methods (Fusion Splicer, Hot Melt, UniCam, anaerobic and epoxy) with different connectors (ST, SC, and LC) for Multimode and Single mode fiber to create network backbone from MDF to IDF’s, as well as, IDFs to IDFs.
• Documented the network by labeling, routing equipment and cables, as well as, recording diagrams and specifications.
• Knowledge in various internetworking protocols and their implementations including 802.11 (wireless).
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues and outages in a wired (802.3) and wireless (802.11) TCP\IP network.
• Worked with and assisted other IT members in resolving issues pertaining to the Network, printing, telephony, cabling, and other IT related equipment.