PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

I am currently seeking full - time or contract work in the San Francisco Bay area. I am a networking professional with more than15 years experience with Cisco routers, switches and firewalls. I have 5 years consulting experience where I led projects to move data centers, created disaster recovery sites, designed, implemented and documented networks. I have more than 5 years of management experience where I have managed as many as 10 employees. I have voice over IP experience where I have designed, implemented, documented and gave sessions. I have worked with Cisco and F5 load balancers designing and implementing them. I have extensive experience with VPNs designing, implementing and supporting them.

TECHNICAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Equipment: Cisco Routers Nexus, 7000, 5000, 2000 and 1000 series, 4500, 3600, 2600, 2500 etc.

Cisco Switches: 6500 series, 5000, 3500, 3000, 2000, 1900. Cisco Communication Servers, 5800 series, 5300, 7200, 3640, etc.

Networking Software: Network Management Cisco Works 2000, Netsys Baseliner, Cisco Network Registrar (DHCP/DNS), Network General Sniffer Cisco NAM and Wireshark, Visio 2000, AVVID, IP Telephony, HP Openview, NetCool, SMARTS and MS Project.

Network Protocols: TCP/IP, Netbios, IPX, Netbeui, Appletalk

Network Routing Protocols: EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF, RIP, RIPv2, IBGP, EBGP

Network Physical/Data: Ethernet, Token Ring, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, Frame Relay, Leased Lines, T1, T3, Packet over Sonet, ATM, DSL, Token Ring Switching and Ethernet Switching.

Network operating systems: Windows Solaris, BSD Unix, Linux, HP UX, and AIX

Security products Cisco Firewalls: Cisco PIX, Checkpoint, Netscreen ASA & Juniper

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I designed, implemented and supported the cloud computing network environment for over 30 clients.
• Worked on Cisco Nexus devices, 4710 load balancers, and Cisco firewalls.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I designed and configured switches, routers, wireless devices and firewalls.
• I worked with tools like Ciscoworks and Solar Winds to support switches, routers and firewalls.
• I also downloaded and configured workstation images for all corporate network workstations.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I worked on deploying and supporting their network.
• I worked on Blue Coat devices, ASA firewalls, Cisco routers and switches.
• I deployed VPNs to remote areas of the network.
• I worked on a project to document and standardize the network.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the successful launch of Business VOIP.
• Installed, documented and supported ACME SIP Firewalls in the lab and production.
• I worked with network operations to configure the devices for network management.
• Created, documented operating procedures and led sessions for the network operations center.
• Worked on, supported and upgraded MPLS devices for the corporate network.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Batavia, IL

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Cisco IOS, EIGRP and OSPF. I worked on all 7 layers of the OSI model and QOS. Implemented and supported Cisco Call Manager.
• Project managed several projects and managed 10 employees.
• Was the chairman of the Network Advisory Committee setting standards for and advising on network designs for all departments at Confidential .
• I worked on Cisco VOIP: designing, configuring and implementing network components.

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed, implemented and managed e-commerce sites for more than 30 clients.
• Typical client site used three-tiered firewall architecture with high availability.
• All sites used BGP to connect to the Internet.
• Worked on F5 load balancers at the GAP; designing, implementing and supporting.
• Led a team of three engineers on a network redesign and implementation project.
• Team lead designing and implementing WAN/LAN routing protocols.
• Acted as a team lead; designing and implementing an e-commerce portal.
• Project managed a high availability dual data center project.
• Program managed the fail-over portion of a dual data center design and implementation.
• Program managed the redesign of a LAN/WAN environment using a modular network and best practices approach.
• Designed and implemented best practices for network management.
• I worked on F5 load balancers at Confidential for their e-commerce online banking.
• Work included design, implementation, support and documentation.

Network Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of full-time engineers, independent consultants and Microsoft consultants.
• Responsible for managing 15 people to design, test and implement several corporate wide projects
• Remote Access, ISDN connectivity, NT Domain infrastructure and corporate e-mail (Exchange).
• I led the project to design and document the infrastructure, security policies and standards.
• I conducted proof of concept testing and pilot implementation of DEC storage arrays for Microsoft mail.
• I managed a group that designed, tested and documented Microsoft Clustering.

Network Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for all network infrastructure equipment at Confidential.
• I managed a staff of 4 full-time employees plus contractors.
• Responsible for all Internet equipment including PIX Firewalls, T1 connections, UNIX DNS, SMTP gateway and internal web server.
• I managed a similar rollout for Confidential é Beverage Plants and distribution centers.
• Provided support and maintenance for Internet connectivity.