SUMMARY

I am a dynamic network engineer with over 20 years of hands on experience with Cisc networking equipment and have held numerous clearances. My experience encompasses the configuration, implementation, maintenance and monitoring of large, medium and small multi-site, multi-protocol and multi-vendor networks. Throughout my career, I've demonstrated initiative, proficiency and a Can D attitude, and am looking for an opportunity in which I can utilize my current skill sets and expertise while acquiring new expertise in a technologically challenging environment.

Hardware:

• Cisc 2600, 3600, 3800, ISR, GSR, ASR series routers
• Cisc 2900, 3500, 3650, 3750-X, 4500, 5500, 6500 and 7600 multilayer switches
• Cisc 500 series PIX firewalls, 55xx ASA's and 3000 series VPN concentrators
• Cisc 400 series Local Director, CSS 11000 series and ACE 4710 load balancers
• Cisc Wireless LAN Controller 44xx series
• Cisc Nexus 5596 2248 switches
• Brocade MLX-16E
• F5 Big IP Load Balancers SSL VPN servers
• Juniper SRX firewalls EX4200 switches

Operating Systems Software Packages:

• Vast experience with Cisc IOS 9, 10, 11 and 12, some experience with 15.0
• Experience using Microsoft Office Visi 2000 thru 2010
• Years of experience using Microsoft workstation OS's from 2000 t Windows 7
• Lots of experience using Microsoft servers OS's from 2000 t 2008, with some 2012
• Installed, configured and maintained NMS applications IP Monitor, Observer and What's Up Gold
• Some experience using and administering CiscoWorks, MRTG, Cricket, HP Openview and Aprisma Spectrum
• Some experience using and administering Unix Linux servers

LAN Protocols:

10Gig/Gig/Fast/Ethernet, TCP/IP, L2 L3 switching, IPSEC, GRE, VPN, WiFi, VSS, HA, FHRP

WAN Protocols:

MPLS, ATM, ISDN, site t site remote access IPSec, Frame Relay, PPP, OC3, OC12, DS3 DS3c, T1 T1c,

Routing Protocols:

RIP1-2, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, MP-BGP4, PBR and static

WORK HISTORY

Confidential

Accomplishment s :

• Limited Opportunities t Excel:
• Discovered a major Windows permission issue causing a File Lock issue and affecting the user backups.
• Assisted in implementing newly acquired Cisc UCS blade servers.
• All upgrades I performed were successful with minimal down time or vendor support required.
• Initiating the build out our Guest network and later the incorporation of our wireless network.

Daily Activities:

• Network consisted of a FortiNet Juniper firewalls, HP Juniper core switches, HP access switches,
• IBM Cisc UCS blade servers, FortiNet e-mail management appliances.
• Remediated security holes revealed by 3rd party security audits, in servers, network equipment and network appliances.
• Troubleshot or re-configured any of the network equipment if there was service degradation detected or t add an enhancement as requested by management.
• Configured FortiNet Analyzer for reports requested by management including security, VPN usage and users.
• Created and updated network Visi maps and Excel spreadsheets pertaining t IP addressing and equipment info.
• Provided network support for IBM blade chassis that was housing a VMware / MS 2003 server environment.
• Upgraded and configured FortiMail e-mail appliance which encrypts outbound e-mails, quarantines inbound e-mail and supports other features.
• Some ForeScout NAC appliance configuration t ensure non-AFBA devices were automatically put on the Guest VLAN and received Gust network DHCP settings for internet access.
• Upgraded modules, configured, and maintained SolarWinds Orion t monitor the network, servers, WAN circuits and provide reports and e-mail alerts.
• Interacted with 3rd party vendors for internet and private WAN circuits for service outages, degradation and change requests
• Interacted with 3rd party vendors the company used for out-sourced resources and leased hardware for hardware problems, RMA's or field service.
• Use of SDE ticketing system t open/resolve/close tickets for the Network department.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Prepared networking requirements for installing a few Cisc UCS servers and a blade system.
• Used VMware t assist System Administrator in monitoring and maintaining virtual servers on IBM blade chassis.
• Resolved numerous network related issues t poorly designed or misconfigured features.
• Implemented DOS policy alerts s the firewall would report on security attacks whereas they weren't before.
• Improved network resiliency by correctly configuring HA failover on data center HP core switches.
• Assisted Systems Engineer completing a Windows AD migration from 2003 t 2008.
• Configured SolarWinds Orion t monitor alert SSL certificate expiration dates.

Skills Acquired:

• Entry t advanced skills in configuring and troubleshooting FortiNet firewalls and appliances.
• Mid-level t advanced SolarWinds Orion design configuration.
• Mid-level Juniper firewall configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level Operations support for VMware.
• Entry level Cisc UCS installation and configuration.

Confidential

Accomplishment s :

• Nearly all projects were implemented without fail and with n or minimal down time.
• Provided Remote Access VPN solution that saved 10,000's of dollars for this company.
• Incorporated site t site VPN and Avaya IP phone IPsec VPN solution w/ additional costs or licensing saving additional costs and additional equipment.

Daily Activities:

This contract focused on Beyond Daily Activities.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Configured, maintained upgraded of SonicWall TZ210 firewall.
• Supported configuration and implementation of Avaya IP VPN phones for remote call center support.
• Troubleshot and resolved reports of network latency, loss of internet access, VPN phone problems, site t site VPN tunnels remote access VPN.
• Designed, tested troubleshot HA failover, which unearthed a DNS problem with secondary ISP which I resolved with provider.
• Evaluated Cisc Configuration Professional for customer use.
• Prepared network monitoring servers for syslog, SNMP, RDP and console services.
• Prepared proposal for a forklift network upgrade t 1GB t the desktop.
• Maintained support contracts with Cisco, SonicWall, Comcast, Dell, Symantec Atlantech.
• Prepared an annual support contract t cover network maintenance items, additions t the network, pc server and additional services.

Skills Acquired:

• Entry t mid-level SonicWall configuration and troubleshooting
• Reinforced and enhanced Cisc HA configuration and troubleshooting skills.
• Reinforced Cisc remote site t site VPN tunnel configuration and troubleshooting skills.
• Entry t mid-level Avaya IP phone IPsec VPN tunneling configuration.

Confidential

Accomplishment s :

• Meeting short Project timelines the companies and departments created t allow dependent phases t be initiated.
• N or minimal down time for development while there was N down time for production.

Daily Activities:

This contract focused on Beyond Daily Activities.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Installed Cisc 3750-X model switch stacks with X-PS t support GSK network migration and tested interconnectivity, routing and 10gig fiber links.
• Assisted HGS Sr. Network Engineer in preparing migration of HGS users and all HGS network resources from their Juniper based network t a Cisc based GSK network due t company merger.
• Assisted the Sr. Network Engineer configuring the Juniper network EX4200's in production t allow the migration from the HGS IP address space t the GSK IP address space in preparation for moving the physical connectivity after a 1 week burn in period.
• Prepared a lab t represent a small scale model of their Juniper network in order t test the addition of layer 3 interfaces, the addition of OSPF routing statements and other commands t support upcoming migration of the Call Manager UCS t their new Cisc network.
• Critical in troubleshooting the Phase I IP addressing migration for the Unity Call Manager servers by providing solutions t allow for connectivity of Unity CM servers on old new IP address space.
• Assisted Sr. Infrastructure Engineer t shoot fiber runs across the campus t interconnect the remote buildings t the core data centers for the new GSK Cisc switch stacks.
• Assisted Sr. Infrastructure Engineer in installing new Cisc WAP's throughout campus, along with testing them with a Public Private SSID and created a checklist t record accessible network resources.
• Assisted Sr. Infrastructure Engineer in locating and moving critical copper connections t allow for critical resources t be migrated t new network before phones, users and printers were t be migrated.
• Assisted in migrating laboratory appliance and workstation connections from HGS t GSK network t allow a team of GSK network engineers t patch, update and upgrade them before being migrated t the GSK network.
• Decommissioned HGS network which consists of Juniper EX4200 switches, Juniper SRX routers/firewalls and Cisc 4500's which was the final phase of the migration t the GSK network.
• Collected, inventoried, documented user pc's, mobile phones, IP phones, printers, and other pc accessories for asset recovery in remaining days of the contract period.

Skills Acquired:

• Entry t advanced level Juniper EX4200 switch configuration.
• Entry t mid-level Cisc 3750-X switch configuration.
• Entry level Cisc Unity and Call Manager configuration.

Confidential

Major Accomplishment:

• Rarely allowed t assist The Hands On team in troubleshooting, I was an integral part of resolving a
• 3 month problem of replication taking place t disaster recover data center over an OC-192. I was asked t make notes on my assessment of any problems I found on the network and provide them t management. I did s and a few days later, I was invited t participate in a multi-department / multi-vendor conference call after weeks of other engineers attempting t resolve the problem, the call started around 11am and shared my observations which lead t the resolution numerous OSPF routing protocol problems between multiple vendors gear when we were done at 7pm, it was resolved. That was a great day.

Daily Activities:

• Network backbone consisted of nearly 50 Cisc 6509E's for access, distribution and core infrastructure, with Cisc FWSM's, ACE modules and F5 load balancers.
• Systems Engineer team member for a large and remote data center offering standard server/client services and cloud computing solutions such as IAAS services.
• Coordinated with multiple teams concerning where t locate new clients and ensure they had all the power, rack space and access t network resources as we progressed through the various steps of turning services on paper t actual network access on the data center floor.
• Participated in on-site meetings and conference calls with clients and other internal teams/departments t help develop plan t implement customers project.
• Assigned projects by management and team leads which consisted of creating EWO's Engineering Work Order t turn new clients, turn up additional services or t reallocate resources within the data center for the client, updating documentation consisting of Visi maps and Excel spreadsheets.
• Assisted in preparing migration from Cisc FWSM's t Cisc ASA's Pal Alt firewalls for 10gig capacity, free up module slots and t move firewalling outside of chassis.
• Assisted in preparing configurations pertaining t the load balancing requirements for clients using integrated ACE modules and F5 LTM's.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Created Nexus switch baseline which was approved by local remote management.
• Worked with Hands On Crew in remote data center t build out Nexus lab using newly created configuration baseline.
• Critical in integrating Nexus 5596 w/2248 FEX bundles and some Brocade MLX16E's int the network at the access layer t extend 10gig network resources throughout data center.

Skills Acquired:

• Entry t mid-level Cisc Nexus configuration, design and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level Brocade MLX16e configuration and operation.
• Advanced Visi feature usage.
• Advanced Excel feature usage.
• Entry level FWSM configuration.
• Entry t mid-level ACE configuration.

Confidential

Accomplishment s :

Limited Opportunities t Excel:

• Initiated and created small scale lab of legacy t new environment for testing servers, applications and appliances before they were moved from legacy gear t new gear found numerous issues with some medical devices going from 100mb t 1gig.
• Initiated and completed building out a satellite office space and parts depot in secondary campus data center.

Daily Activities:

• Contracted for Tech Refresh Project where current Nortel equipment will be replaced with Cisc equipment.
• New network consists of Cisc 3750-X access switch stacks connected t a pair of Cisc 6509-E switches configured t support VSS.
• Maintained, upgraded, operated and monitored the NNMC National Navy Medical Center network along with a number of peripheral networks for any outages, degraded service s or escalations from the Help Desk.
• Migrated current Nortel access switches the new Cisc VSS switch core network when possible.
• Provided assistance in designing and implementing new data closets in the newly erected buildings that included power, patch panels, cabling, turning up newly configured switch stacks, UPS installation and configuration.
• Worked with MHS DISA t work with telc circuit providers when there are any problems with our internet circuits or point t point circuits supporting peripheral networks circuits vary in size from T-1 t OC-12.
• Supported the engineers of other vendors contracted t install new network equipment on the NNMC network then incorporating their support int our support services such as wireless, vide surveillance and others.
• Tier III level support t the Help Desk representatives, management and other engineers from various departments.
• Monitored and maintained NMS application EM7 t provide monitoring of network devices via SNMP v3.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Lead engineer in creating a lab environment representing on a small scale the access, distribution and core legacy network and a small scale representation of the network we were migrating t for testing of new applications, services on both networks vs using the production network.
• Lead engineer in turning up new Cisc 6509-E's in the primary data center and configuring them and the core Cisc equipment for migrating servers and their associated services from former data center.
• Designed and implemented alternative network connectivity for some medial departments and/or facilitate the moving of complete departments since some buildings were being demolished then new ones erected.

Skills Acquired:

• Entry t mid-level Cisc VSS design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level Cisc 3750-X switch stack design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level Nortel 8600 configuration and troubleshooting.

Confidential

Accomplishment s :

• Completing the removal and return of the Cisc 6509's and the substantial amount of money it saved FBR.
• Completing projects InfoZen requested since our initial budget became exhausted.

Daily Activities:

• This contract focused mostly on Beyond Daily Activities.
• Assisting with daily network activities like monitoring, addressing any outages or complaints of service degradation and interacting with various department heads.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Lead engineer role in removing leased Cisc 6509's from the network, replacing with purchased Cisc 6513's.
• Lead engineer migrating Cisc equipment, network and data circuits t a newly built data closet.
• Designed, configured and tested a temporary wireless solution using Cisc LWAP's versus using a WiSM blade in the newly installed 6513's t provide wireless access until a complete enterprise wide design can be created, scheduled t be once security reviewed the design.
• Designed, configured and tested a multi-group Cisc WebVPN solution on a Cisc ASA in preparation t replace current Cisc 3000 VPN concentrator with the requirement that users were locked int their groups IP address space.
• Relocated Cisc 6509's t headquarters then prepared shipped them back t leasing company before the leases end for a tremendous savings t the company.

Skills Acquired:

• Mid-level t advanced ASA WebVPN design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level standalone Cisc WAP design, configuration and troubleshooting.

Confidential

Accomplishment s :

• The completion knowledge gained on the AnyConnect SLL VPN project.
• Designing and implementing IPsec tunneling solution for remote Orion monitoring.
• Successfully incorporating additional client equipment int a small data center.

Daily Activities:

• Multiple networks on-site which included their clients and their corporate mostly Cisc network equipment routers, switches, VPN servers, ASA's and Cisc load balancers.
• Sr. Network Engineer on a team of network engineers responsible for designing, configuring and implementing network internet connectivity after moving a newly acquired client's network from their provider's location.
• Interacted with ISP during new site turns up t acquire new IP address space, design NAT/PAT solutions, DNS pushes and for routing of new IP address space.
• Created Word documents and Visi maps documenting the new clients and the corporate network.
• Implemented changes t the network that our clients requested.
• Maintained Visi network maps up t date as the clients' or corporate network changes.
• Troubleshot routing, VPN, VLAN'g and load balancing / CSS ACE URL redirection problems.
• Created Cisc TAC tickets for problems where serious difficulties resolving were encountered.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Designed and turned up a Network Monitoring network in preparation of implementing SolarWinds Orion.
• Implemented SolarWinds Orion before the contracts end then turning over t System Administrator t customize configuration.
• Installed, registered, upgraded, configured ASA integrated AIP-SSM 10 modules and configured associated IME management software suite.
• Implement Cisc AnyConnect client VPN WebVPN for internal users and external clients.
• Assist in migrating load-balanced traffic off the CSS 11000 platform and on t the ACE 4710 with some assistance from Cisc TAC.
• Redesign configure their customers' network t eliminate single points of failure.
• Design and implement a small branch office int their local network using T-1's VPN encryption.

Skills Acquired:

• Mid t advanced level Cisc ASA design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level Cisc ACE configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level Cisc Anyconnect design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry level SolarWinds Orion configuration.

Confidential

Major Accomplishment:

• Client Requested I Be Lead Engineer To: Design, Test And Implement BGP Based Internet Circuit
• Aut Failover Between Primary Secondary Headquarter Sites Which They Had Wanted For Over 3 Years, Which Was Successful.
• Upgrading 10 Cisc 6509's CATos based Switches T IOS With Minimal Downtime And N Disasters.

Daily Activities:

• Network consists of: Cisc 650x-E's, 720x's, 450x's, 350x's 3845's, 3560's, 290x's,'s routers switches, Cisc 506, 515, 525, 535 PIX firewalls 5520 ASA's with single multi-context, Cisc WLC 4420's, HP 4000M's, F5 Load Balancers, F5 SSL VPN Concentrators and Nortel VPN servers.
• Maintained, operated, upgraded and monitored the NARA National Archive Records Administration network which consists of Presidential Libraries, Federal Record Centers, 3 HQ sites, 1 COOP site approx 30 field sites and a number of internal peripheral networks for any outages, degraded service s or escalations from the Help Desk.
• Implemented network changes based on the TRB, CMB RFC processes along with documenting the changes.
• Implemented changes t the network that our customer has contracted other vendors t design.
• Once network changes have been implemented t the customers satisfaction any additional network equipment that is added t the monitoring, configuration backup utilities along with updating network maps and IP addressing DB's or spreadsheets i.e new Libraries, WiFi Networks, InfoBlox DNS Appliances
• Interacted with telecom providers Sprint, Verizon, AT T, SBC, Time Warner t maintain our frame-relay intranet, internet circuits and point t point non-frame relay circuits.
• Use CiscoWorks Cirrus Configuration Management t back up the configurations of all the Cisc equipment on the network, make bulk configuration changes, provide hardware and software reports.
• Provided weekly reports on network uptime, outages and on the fly inventory of Cisc hardware or Cisc software.
• Kept Visi network maps up t date as the network was changed.
• Worked with Security team t resolve problems with Web Sense filtering, blacklist DB's and rule sets.
• Resolved any Remedy tickets concerning user, site or other reported types of service problems.
• Presentations for meetings and conference calls t consider impact on the network for projects, RFC's or other requests.

Beyond Daily Activities:

• Client Requested I Be Lead Engineer To: Upgrade 15 Cisc PIX Firewalls from 6.0 t 8.0 OS
• Client Requested I Be Lead Engineer To: Upgrade 10 CatOS based 6509's t native IOS
• Client Requested I Be Lead Engineer To: Implement IPv6 Testing Scenario
• Supported Client Provided CCIE T Implement QOS T Support VoIP Network
• Supported Client Provided CCIE T Implement EIGRP T Replace OSPF

Skills Acquired:

• Advanced Cisc PIX/ASA design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Advanced BGP design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Advanced EIGRP design, configuration and troubleshooting.
• Advanced 6500 upgrading and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level F5 load balancer configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level F5 SSL VPN configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry level Nortel VPN server configuration and troubleshooting.
• Mid-level Cisc GSR configuration and troubleshooting.
• Entry t mid-level IPv6 configuration, troubleshooting and understanding.

Confidential

Major Accomplishment:

Limited Opportunities t Excel:

N/A

Daily Activities:

• Worked 4 10 hour shifts weekly for Fannie Mae's Infrastructure NOC in Reston, VA.
• Monitored geographically disparate data center networks with IP monitors, syslog generated e-mails along with a number of other tools.
• Generated and worked Remedy tickets as a result of any degraded, or down conditions reported by our monitoring tools or the Help Desk.
• Interfaced with Sprint, XO, RCN, Verizon and MCI t maintain FM's core 1GB fiber WAN backbone during circuit outages, problems within the vendor network.
• Maintained a variety of Cisc routers and switches RMA failed hardware, upgrade IOS's, kept the configurations up t date and backed up.
• Learned the Juniper router nomenclature, configurations, commands t use in troubleshooting and the general architecture of Juniper routers.
• Assisted in maintaining, configuring and troubleshooting Cisc Call Manager and Cisc IP telephones.
• Maintained network maps t include up t date, correct and readily accessible t management or other NOC Engineers.
• Documented Step by Step instructions on some of the duties of a NOC Engineer that hadn't been documented or whose documentation covered another hardware platform.

Beyond Daily Activities:

N/A

Skills Acquired:

• Entry level Juniper router configuration.
• Entry level with dark fiber and 1gig MAN circuits.