SUMMARY

• IT professional with numerous years of experience in administration, architecture, engineering, implementation, development, project management, analysis, testing, team management, escalation support, documentation.
• Multiple vendors (ie Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, AWS, VMware) configuration and troubleshooting for various network technologies for medium to global enterprise environments.
• Performing management responsibilities, including developing logical and efficient project plans, establishing priorities, monitoring and managing task completion, anticipating and avoiding problems, and working collaboratively and cooperatively with team members and user groups to ensure project accountability.
• Providing leadership in evaluating complex technology strategies, job - task analyses, develop deliverables and artifacts and developing strategic approaches that maximize institutional resources while bringing the best results.
• Developing and maintaining best practices and standards in the process, design, architecture, and operations of all aspects of services-oriented, SDN Data Center, SDN LAN, cloud information technology delivery. Cloud Services, VBlock, Nexus, VMware, AWS, VCE and other data center technologies and working with regional and international telecom companies.
• Lead teams to complete successful corporate multi-migrations internationally.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Network Hardware: Cisco Routers (3900, 2900, 1900, 800), Cisco Catalyst Switch (6500, 5500, 4900, 4500, 3000, 3100), Cisco ASA 5500 Series, Cisco WLC, Cisco Metapod, Cisco Nexus 9000 &7000, Cisco Nexus 5000, Cisco Nexus 3000, Cisco Nexus FEX 2000. VMware EXsi 5.1 - 5, 6.0 - .5 NSX; vCenter, VMs. Juniper (E, M, MX, T) Series, F5 LB, 3000, 3080 VPN concentrator, Speed Stream DSL routers, UCS 2104XP, UCS 6200 FI, UCS 5100 Series Blade server(B200), PAR6300 series, PIX (501, 506E, 515, 525, 535). Juniper SRX series SRX100, SRX 210, SRX550, SRX 650, Nortel BayStack Router 8000, SR8002 - 12. Nortel BayStack Switches 425, 5510, 5520, 5500, Nortel BayStack assorted.

Routing/Switching: WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, Spanning Tree, VMware NSX (Single; Distributed Switch), BPDU, VRF and VDCs, CDP, Frame-relay, PPP, ACL, NAT, PAT, Access Control List, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VTP, SNMP, SMTP, ARP, Static Routing, Stub Routing, VLAN Trunking, Multi-Area OSPF, VLAN, VTP, HSRP, SVI, CEF, Etherchannel, Portfast.

Data Center/Monitoring Tools: VMware VSphere 5.5, VCenter Server Appliance 5.5, VMware ESXi Hypervisor 5.5, Cisco Nexus 1000v with VSM and VEMs, UCS 2104XP, UCS 6200 FI, UCS 5100 Series Blade server(B200), AWS, CloudTrail, PAR6300 series, PNSC, Cisco Cloud Services router (CSR 1000v), Port Groups, Port-Profiles, Routing Profiles, & Service Profiles, Finisar, Nagios, Wireshark, Remedy, Openview, Cacti, Cisco’s Metapod(OpenStack), Confidential Solarwinds, Cisco Ace, Cisco Works, LogicMonitor, Cisco Security Manager Suite, Servers (DNS, DHCP, NTP, TFTP, Exchange, Blade, Web), Syslog, SFTP, Sonicwall, WatchGuard.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working with various teams to improve client experience. Setting standards and adding comforted documentation to both the NOC Teams and directly shared with the client.
• Improving relations with client’s by being direct action team, contacting regarding current issue within the client’s network. Creating, documenting, Trouble Shooting list(s), Next Action Steps and proposed Resolutions.
• Sending document in .pdf form regarding client’s issue (example Wireless settings in heavy trafficked store).
• Push Standards as previous teams were too busy and need to get things up and running (legacy) which we understand but now we need to go back and clean up.
• Using Meraki systems - MX64/65, MS220/225 and various AP devices.
• Created documents and process to upgrade firmware for each client within the tower we were responsible for.
• Implemented that change to other towers and their clients, after we did our testing and made the needed changes.

Senior Cloud/Solutions Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working in both Cloud and Enterprise systems to provide Governmental Agencies to use resources across various platforms and departments.Managed VMware devices migrating from 5.1 to 6.0.
• Stood up an environment to host a new Data Center for Development and Testing and two Production flex-pods using Cisco Nexus 9K devices for project Census 2020.
• UCS B200 M3 and M4 platforms for hosting VMware and NetApp application.
• Architected the new design to oversee implementation of VMware Servers and infrastructure for Production Environment, including the Production flex-pod(s) and DevTest environment.
• Worked to pass theFed-Rampaudit; successfully provide artifacts as needed by the auditors. External fire walls replaced (Cisco ASA 5540 with Cisco ASA 5585), due to overwhelmed IPS causing packet drops once Census came on-line, which made us to lose our SLA agreements for our clients.
• Configured AWS cloud services to host GDIT Cloud 2. Setting up and rectifying issues as called on from various scans while remaining operational. Network Refresh with Cisco and looking forward to enabling production in the new data center. Working to support and maintain GDITs Cloud environment.

Senior Network Engineer / Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I utilized leading-edge technology to develop and deliver next generation technologies, Cloud Computing and Content Service Delivery for US Federal clients.
• Allowing P2P networking to review information created by Watson for various entities and agencies within the Federal Government.
• This list expands, but among some of the agencies, we serve are the FDC, FCC, DOJ, VCF, Go Army Education and others.
• I was in charge of changes to any of our systems for IHCCs, Watson and of course internal operations. My position involved defining milestones, creating schedules and estimates of the network vendors.
• Supporting clients and our core services including Cloud services; as well as assisting team members with additional system.
• Performed significant network troubleshooting experience with real-time packet capture troubleshooting tools using Cisco NAMs and Wireshark.
• Assisting my team with regarding network issues, and load balancer support.
• Responsibilities also include creating and maintaining documentation, following Service Now ticketing system processes and procedures, mentoring junior staff, training engineers and continuing optimization of the network.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Added and created VLANs on Nexus 7Ks and moved them to the 5K using port-channels and trunks, needed to get devices connected and operational.
• Network systems subject matter expertise in areas of Nexus and Cloud (IaaS, PaaS and Saas design and implementation issues).
• Lead various teams for maintenance and troubleshooting of the most complex network systems software, hardware and core infrastructure.
• Changes were designed to coordinate with the client's schedule and work without network interruptions.
• Set various process in place to validate and confirm connectivity through various forms (ie leased-line, ISP, VPN ect..).
• Worked to achieve VMware certification to help understand the nature and environment needs to the application process, which proved beneficial to all parties.
• Reviewed various SOP and updated with the latest "Best Practices" for this environment, the Health Care industry.
• Mentored and train engineers; certification paths as well as opportunities within this environment.
• Educate team members as to changes that need to be submitted to the Change Approval Board (CAB). Review logs and documents to resolve a backup issue from a few of the branches and their devices which were added into the "Networker Project".
• Then collapsed the old infrastructure once we've proven we had made the appropriate changes.
• Worked with various teams such as VCE to complete connectivity to Confidential ’s network.