SUMMARY

• Results - driven, self-motivated, and highly competent IT professional with more than nine years of combined experience in developing and executing IT systems and solutions within various business sectors, non-profit, financial, and real estate industries to meet and exceed business goals.
• Demonstrate adeptness in performing maintenance and troubleshooting of all IT-related issues; relied upon for timely and quality resolution of technical problems.
• Exude effective leadership, with strong motivational, advisory, technical, and communication skills; able to mentor and provide direction to team members to achieve quality results.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Training: CCIE Route & Switch Book Camp - Micronics Training, Narbik Kocharians

Technical Acumen: BGPw OSPFw EIGRP w MPLS wVPLS wRSTP w HSRP w VTP w IP SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT w QOS w VLANw IP Policy Routingw Confidential CCNA w Confidential CCNP w Confidential Routers: 2620, 2621 XM, 2811, 2821, 2911, 3845, 3945, 4451 7606, ASR 1001, 1006, 9900w Confidential Catalyst Switches: 2960, 3750,3850, 4503, 4507, 4510R-E, 6506, 6509w Confidential Nexus Switches:9K,7K, 5K, 2Kw Confidential ACI: 9372TX, 9504, UCS 220 M4 wCisco IOS XE, IOS XR, NXOSw Riverbed steelhead 5050 w CHECK POINT FIREWALLw Solar Winds Orion w Citrix Presentation Server 4.0/Xenapp 5.0 w Avaya Modular Messaging w BlackBerry Enterprise Server 5.0 w Kazeon eDiscovery w MS Windows SERVER 2000, 2003, 2008 w VMware ESX 3.0 w Microsoft Exchange 2003 w MS Office Suite w Citrix Edgesite w Symantec Antivirus w RSA Security

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Network Consulting Engineer

Confidential, Woodlawn, MD

Responsibilities:

• Expert level noledge in (1) MPLS-VPN, BGP, OSPFv2, Multicast and QoS (2) Confidential Catalyst Features including QoS (3) IOS, IOS-XE and IOS-XR
• Design, implementation, assessment and support of complex networks.
• Migrated Data Center infrastructure from the Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K VPC design to Confidential ACI Fabric 3.0 consisting of 9372TX Leaf nodes, 9504 Spine and UCS 220 M4 APIC.
• Developed a Multicast WAN Design to support the customers need for multicast video streams over their MPLS backbone network.
• Assists customer with deployment and strategy of most complex services and related Network Management Systems.
• Serve as the SME within Services and Technical aspects of Routing & Switching and Service Provider networks (SP Architectures, IP/MPLS, IP NGN, Cloud etc.).
• Works closely with the Project Manager to coordinate the staging and deployment of equipment, ensures project checkpoints are met, and performs validation testing.
• Builds simulated networks in test labs to resolve most complex problems and compatibility issues. Finalize Design Validation Test Phase (DVTP) in a Virtual Internet Routing Lab (VIRL).
• Generates network configurations from Low Level Design for most complex networks.
• Develop network design & network architecture best practices for Advanced Services.

Senior Network Architect

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• Analyzes customer needs and generates technical requirements.
• Design, implementation, and maintenance of the TIC Network.
• Acts as Tier 3 Network Engineer for complex design, implementation and troubleshooting on IOS-XR routers.
• Identifies technical problems and debugs hardware and software related to Confidential carrier-class routing platforms.
• Assisted in the re-design of the Remote Access Network solution which consisted of 5505, 5510 ASA devices for VPN termination and MPLS VPN’s for segmentation of user traffic.
• Designed and Implemented Various Routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP/MPLS L3 VPN’s across networks in multiple locations
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Confidential ASR1K/9K/7606/4451/3945/3845/2900/2800 series routers.
• Provides Network Problem Resolution, Root-Cause Analysis, Software Referral assistance.
• Evaluates, designs, documents, installs, implements, tests, and performs problem isolation and resolution; and monitors, tunes, sets standards and maintains a range of Confidential Network components and systems.
• Provides client consulting and training on the interface and use of the network facilities.
• Works on problems of diverse scope where analysis requires evaluation of identifiable factors; and provides guidance & leadership to less experienced engineers.
• Uses monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software and hardware equipment to troubleshoot and isolate problems; gauge network performance; and trace data and protocol activity.

Senior Network Engineer, Product Development

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the SME within Services and Technical aspects of Service Provider networks (SP Architectures, IP/MPLS, DMVPN, BGP, Cloud etc.)
• Designed and Installed enterprise WAN/DMVPN network, which is Redundant with automatic fail over capabilities to support growing data network and future voice networks.
• Redesigned and Implemented an MPLS/L3VPN central services topology to support our multi-tenant Unified Communications infrastructure.
• Designed and Implemented Various Routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP/MPLS L3 VPN’s across networks in multiple locations
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Confidential ASR1K/9K/7606/4451/3945/3845/2900/2800 series routers
• Configured/Troubleshoot IPSEC Site- to-Site VPN tunnels with customers and third party vendors on Confidential 7604 Platform
• Troubleshoot network issues through all layers of the OSI model, across multiple technologies.
• Perform network infrastructure upgrades and routine hardware configuration.
• Work with client organization(s) to understand business requirements and design/deliver networking solutions that satisfy the business needs
• During implementation, work closely with the Project Manager to coordinate the staging and deployment of equipment, ensure project checkpoints are met, and perform validation testing.
• Create Method of Procedures (MOP) and configuration templates for integration of new services or equipment for Service Provider customers.
• Interface with various levels of employees, mentor less senior engineering staff and provide reports to support management.
• Provide network support in a large, service provider (over 1000 nodes) Confidential environment
• Provide support, troubleshoot and resolve network and security related issues, often under time constraints.

Network Engineer, Infrastructure Delivery

Confidential, New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Spearheaded the migration of the banks existing ATT MPLS network to redundant MPLS connections through ISP's, Level 3 and Century Link.
• Responsible for the delivery of a Global Security Initiative introducing Network Intrusion Prevention (NIPS) to the Lloyds Firewall. Lead SME delivering both physical and logical changes. Replaced both physical Checkpoint Management servers (IP560) with current series (IP12400) across both/multiple data centers. Worked with an external vendor to migrate configuration from old to new, and coordinated end-to-end testing of all core applications (Bloomberg, VPN access etc) to ensure right first time.
• Designed and implemented a multi-area OSPF network that allowed summarization of contiguous networks to reduce the routing table size and increase OSPF performance.
• Manage all CE to PE MP-BGP connections between multiple ISP’s. Use various attributes to influence path selection for the IBGP and EBGP routing updates.
• Implemented a QOS framework using schedulers LLQ, WRR and CBWFQ to prioritize low latency applications such as voice, video and Bloomberg traffic.
• Established new Chicago branch office (Network Upgrade/Deployment project):
• Provision of network equipment (Two Confidential 2620 routers, Riverbed Steelhead 5050M, Two Confidential Catalyst 3560 & 2950 switches) for dual MPLS connections.
• Coordinate with Chicago building management to extend 4 T1 circuits from the basement DMARC to our 35th floor Comms room.
• Coordinate Test and Turn up for WAN circuits with Dual ISP's Qwest and Level 3
• Allocate voice and data subnets for remote office
• Advertise local subnets using BGP between dual ISP connections
• Verify network connectivity (IP Telephony, citrix, fileshare, etc) back to all other remote locations, specifically to our datacenters.
• Coordinated the transfer of all our network infrastructure from one data center to another including provisioning of network equipment, setting up of Confidential 6506 catalyst core switches, allocation of IP subnets for DMZ and internal LAN networks, IGP (OSPF) configuration for point to point Metro Ethernet circuits and back up MPLS network as well as HSRP for redundancy between 6500 series core switches. Managed the configuration of NetApp storage unit FA3170, Confidential 9500 fabric switches, and HP Dl360 and Dl380 servers. Utilize Riverbed Steelhead compression devices to optimize bandwidth consumption.
• Quickly resolved all incidents, meeting all SLA requirements; identified problem areas and performed root cause analysis in close collaboration with service management.
• Ensured efficient utilization of system resources and proper scaling for future growth by effectively performing capacity planning functions as well as accurately meeting vendor specifications and technical reviews.
• Singlehandedly managed all IT-related operations, including planning to meet organization-wide technology needs, overseeing 150-network workstation nodes and 10-network servers as well as providing technical support for 3 remote offices and 20+ remote client VPN LAN to LAN connections. Handled vendor relations on systems and telecommunications for installation and support.
• Administered Microsoft Exchange 2003 and Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition 10.2 as well as restructured Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Active Directory Architecture to incorporate GPO’s.
• Efficiently performed all hardware, software, and all other purchase agreements upgrades.
• Ensured the proper management and maintenance of Sonic Wall firewalls as well as conduct of all system wide backups using Veritas Backup Exec 10D and Citrix Presentation Server Support.

IT Systems Technician

Confidential New York, NY

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot, isolate or identify IT Service issues caused by network infrastructurefailures or improper network systems configurations.
• Work as Level 3 Support Staff to resolve service interruptions.
• Define hardware and software standards for client side systems, including desktopcomputers, laptops, operating systems, productivity\office tools and peripherals.
• Assist with the administration of UNFCU’s Microsoft Active Directory and Citrix
• Provide point of contact with Consultants for resolution of majorissues to network architecture including all Confidential internetworking devices.
• Create and deploy network shares, network applications, distribution groups, andgroup policy objects for network.
• Deploy standardized computing equipment utilizing tools for computer imaging