Sr. Architect Resume
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
- As a Network and Security professional, I bring to the industry over ten years of professional networking and security enterprise experience.
- I am a self - directed, confident professional wif highly effective troubleshooting, customer relations and leadership skills.
- Previous roles include technical leadership, systems design, network engineering, cutting edge technology assessment, and security design and implementation.
- Through the years I has continued to hone both my technical and leadership skills based on my different client technology experiences.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Platforms: Windows NT 3/4/2000/2003, Linux Red Hat, SuSE, Slackware, UNIX Solaris, Sonic Wall SONICOS 2.x-3.x,, Watchguard OS 4-5, F5 BIG I/P 4.x, 9.x, 10.x,, Checkpoint SecurePlatform, VMware ESX 3-4, JUNOS 5-9.1.x, Cisco IOS 10.x-12.4, Palo Alto PANos 4.x-7.x, Nokia IPS, IBM AS400, Nokia Appliances, Blue Cat Adonis and Proteus, McAfee UTM Firewall, Sourcefire IPS/IDS 4.8-4.10Networking Cisco Switches 1800 series to the 6500 series, Cisco Routers 800-7600, Cisco Pix and ASA Firewalls, Cisco VPN concentrators, Cisco ACE Load Balancer, F5 LTM, GTM, ASM, APM, (BIGIP) 1500, 6400-6800 load balancers, Tipping Point IPS/IDS, Checkpoint Firewall/VPN-1, Palo Alto Panorama/PA-Series firewalls, Foundry/Brocade Switches, Juniper Netscreen SSL, Juniper M-Series and TX-Series routers, Watchguard II,III,x500-2000, HP Procurve Switch and Router product line
Tools: IIS 4.0-7.0, Apache, Active Directory, MS SQL 6.5-2005, MS Exchange 5.5-2008, Oracle 8i-9i, MySQL 3-5.x, Red Hat MRG, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, Docker (Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Linux), Puppet, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Python2.x-3.x, VB.net, JSON, AWS CloudFoundation, Cisco Application Control System 3-5
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Sr. Architect
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Co-architected multi-cloud provider projects dat directed communication to cloud providers and cross storage communication
- Created policy and procedure around the consumption of content and services
- Designed and programmed wif the public and private cloud department to automate core functionality to simplify usage and create functional audit trails for all transactions, including Cloud-to-Cloud, Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and VMware Cloud Foundation
- Managed multiple core-services projects (Skype, Exchange, o365, Kultura, Tanium) where I designed, created ESD documentation, and helped lead deployment
- Design projects to migrate business away from a managed service model to a inhouse service model
- Worked wif an international team of 15 engineers and architects
- Create application and network project road map for the company for the next 5 years
- Deployed F5 APM to divisions wif one policy wif few virtual servers to 50 policies managing multiple access policies such as SAP, webmail, custom applications and AD
- Created numerous custom iRules to help multiple business fix or assist in their business development cycles.
- Worked wif team to design and implement migration from 12 data centers to 2 international data centers.
Confidential
TEMPPrincipal Architect
Responsibilities:
- Design projects to migrate business away from internet service providers to a domestic data center
- Manage a team of 15 engineers and architects
- Create strategic plans for the company for the next 3 years
- Manage and improve a network dat included 5,000 DSL users for the company's telco users and over 500 clients in the multi-national data center
- Lead effort to add an education policy to the company’s handbook
- Lead effort to certify the company in both SSAE 16 (type I and II) and PCI
- Lead engineer/architect in deploying and managing F5 LTM/GTM and ASM products over the multi-national data centers
Senior Technologist
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Lead implementer of Milestones Systems certificate software suite Venafi Director
- Deployed Venafi PKI suite to a number of large environments ranging from 25 certificate and key management to over 10000 certificates and keys
- Deployed F5 ASM to companies wif one website wif few pages to 1000 websites wif multiple hop and entry points
- Deployed F5 LTM and GTM to companies wif one virtual server to a 1000 virtual servers
- Engineered and deployed Juniper SRX and Netscreen products for a number of enterprises around the continental United States.
- Lead architect for designing, reviewing, and deploying new data centers in the OUS-Asia, OUS-Middle East, and OUS-Pacific for network and security ranging from a small co-managed data center wif 50 hard nodes and over 500 virtual nodes to a regional data center dat houses over 2000+ hard nodes and 10,000 virtual nodes
- Architect and lead engineer of the Sourcefire intrusion detection/system deployment strategy dat covered 500+ national/international sites and multiple entry points in corporate HQ
TEMPPrincipal Engineer/Architect/Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Lead engineer and architect for Lifetouch PCI deployment role out
- Designed new data center dat will migrate existing vendor managed environment to local owned environment
- Lead engineer for over 30 F-5 Big IPs load balancers for centralized services
- Lead engineer on all PCI required documentation and implementation
- Architect for the domestic DNS hosting design and deployment of multi-location DNS architecture
TEMPPrincipal Network Engineer/Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Developed five network infrastructures, which span North America and Europe, to support the company’s innovative medical devices
- Maintained the current network infrastructure and designed production network improvements
- Helped design security requirements and deployments for the European and Asian networks
- Deployed security devices (Cisco and Tipping Point) in Europe and Asia for managing our network and system infrastructure
- Cisco Router 7609, 7613. Cisco Switch 6506, 6509, 6513. Cisco ACE 4710 and Service Module, F5 Load Balancers 1000, 2400, 5100 LTM & GTM, ASM, Tipping Point SMS and IPS, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, QOS
Senior Network Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Engineered and deployed SONET/DWDM and CMTS systems all over the Midwest and East Coast
- Developed a system dat tracks and monitors vehicles and equipment via GPS custom software. Worked wif Telecom’s around the United States to implement the new technology as well as working on the SLO’s and the SLA’s
- Deployed fully engineered ISP core and edge networks using multi-vendor hardware such as Cisco and Juniper routers/switches
- Cisco Router 7609, 7613. Cisco Switch 6506, 6509, 6513. Cisco Router 7204/7206VXR. Cisco ONS 15600/15454, F5 3700S, LTM-6800, Juniper M7i, M40-60, M320, T1600, MX960, Foundry BigIron, OSPF, ISIS, BGP, EIGRP, MPLS, QOS
Network/Software/Security
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Developed and maintained of all Sequestered Solutions' data and voice networks. In coordination wif the Systems Operations Manager, developed the growth of Sequestered Solutions networks
- Co-wrote the company’s security architecture and implementation plans dat met and/or exceeded government/client agencies inner-domain communication requirements
- Co-managed the Network Research and Development Group, wif a focus on development of IP storage, multi-vendor domain/network configuration, and storage virtualization using either the common software packages (VMware, SWsoft Virtuosso) or open sourced software (OpenVZ)
- Cisco series routers 7600. Cisco series switches Catalyst 6500. Foundry series switches include FastIron, SuperX, ServerIron Load Balancer. Juniper series Router M7i, F5 LTM-6400 Load Balancers, EIGRP, MPLS, QOS
Senior Network/Security Engineer
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Provided project development, procurement, implementation and management while interacting wif clients, contacts and vendors for network installations, upgrades, and various support
- Lead engineer for all network and system security implementations
- Cisco series routers include 2500, 2600, 3600, and 7600. Cisco series switches include Catalyst 1900, 2900, 4500, and 6500. Foundry series switches include FastIron, EdgeIron, BigIron, ServerIron Load Balancer, and SuperX, F5 LTM-6400, Juniper series routers M7i, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, QOS
Senior Research Consultant
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Research fellow dat deployed complex parallel code to run geothermic and weather computation models dat ran through multiple Cray SR1 running IRIX and/or Red Hat Linux
- Designed the Center’s network upgrade for replacing the Cisco 7200 routers to Juniper M40 and M60 series routers
- Lead engineer for all Linux (SuSE and Red Hat distributions) and Unix (Solaris, HP-UX) developments and deployments. Lead all kernel modifications in the Linux servers
