SUMMARY:

• A Self - managed highly motivated and disciplined Cisco CCNA with strong skills in infrastructure design, business development, and managment.
• I am in the process of Renewing my certifications and obtaining additional industry certifications.
• The majority of my experience has been supporting clients in industries including, but not limited to: education, corporate, public and private sectors, medical, financial, manufacturing, computer, technology sale.
• My experience utilized planning, design, implementation, support/troubleshooting and management skills to achieve IT excellence and success.
• My Critical thinking and analytical skills are essential and work great with my hands on management and leadership skills.
• I am a strong and effective leader and believe in listening.
• I believe I would be a strong and productive member of your team for the following reasons.In my experience in Network Design and implementation, I was responsible for installing and maintaining computer communication requirements for WAN/LAN networks for organizations from small to large enterprise.
• Through proper design of hardware and network topologies I ensured that the networks would run smoothly.
• Finishing with plan and implement upgrades within the network infrastructure to provide for maximum performance, availability and security.
• Regarding my experience with Cloud Solutions I have been responsible for the design, implemention and deployment of high availability solutions with Private/Public/Hybrid cloud environments.
• I have planned and conducted technical tasks associated with the implementation and maintenance of cloud applications and infrastructure.
• I have collaborated with technical leadership and business owners/decision makers to develop cloud solutions to meet operational goals - for high availability, performance, stability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Optimizing the environment to maximize auto-recovery and geographically distributed redundancy.
• Improve system monitoring and alerting to improve incident time to resolution.
• Improve system logging in order to fine tune infrastructure to gain insight into issues and performance.
• Work with development teams to improve performance through upgrades and design improvements.
• Decrease hosting costs by using proactive and responsive auto-scaling solutions and changes to technology solutions.
• Participate in 24/7 on-call production support rotation.
• As a Network Engineer/Security Specialist I have been responsible for the implementation, maintenance, administration, and integration of the WAN/LAN and server architecture. As well as network security hardware, software, enforcing network security policy, and complying with regulatory requirements. Other responsibilities have included:
• Performing analysis of security designs/implementations - including hardware, software, and policies.
• Analyzing, troubleshooting and correcting network problems remotely and on-site.
• Administration of perimeter security systems such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems.
• Performing network security audits and penetration tests for WAN/LAN infrastructure - as well as working with other security firms to ensure the highest levels of network security throughout the entire enterprise.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Network Routing Equipment: Sonicwall, PIX Firewalls, Cisco ASA Firewalls, WatchGuard, VoIP Servers & Equip (Cisco, Mitel, etc.), CISCO routers, switches, CAT 5, 6 crimping, installation, testing, Telco cabling, Access control, CCTV and Alarm Systems, Electrical Systems Repair, soldering, Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet)

Network Software/Protocols: Active Directory, Network Analysis / Documentation

LAN/WAN Technologies: Routed Protocol (TCP/IP) (ipv4/ipv6), Implementation of DHCP, DNS, FTP, VoIP, Implementation of Wi-Fi technologies (802.11a/b/g/n/ac), WEP, WPA (TKIP, AES), RADIUS, VoIP, VLAN, VPN, QoS

Operating Systems: MS Server 2010, 2008, 2003, 2000, MS Small Business Server 2008, 2003, 2000, MS Windows 10, 8, Vista, XP, 2000, 98,APPLE MAC OS, Linux - Ubuntu,CentOS, RedHat, Backtrack

Server Applications: MS Exchange Server 2007, 2003, RedHat, Mac Servers, MS SharePoint,VMware, Vsphere, Citrix, Oracle, Microsoft Hypervisor, Private Cloud infrastructure - openstack, eucalyptus, Vmware vCloud, Trend Micro, Group Policy Management Console, SQL Server 2005, 2000, Veritas/Symantec Backup Exec, WSUS

Applications/Programming: MS Office 2007 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio, Publisher, Project), MS Office Live,MS Office 2003, 2002, 2000, 97, Microsoft Dynamics CRM v. 4, Microsoft Communication Server, AutoCAD/Solidworks, Adobe Photoshop, Expandable ERP,Encompass, Track IT, HTML, PHP, JAVA, CSS, VB

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Systems Engineer/Consultant

Responsibilities:

• I am responsible for designing and maintaining the technology infrastructure to each of my clients. Since the company encourages growth and change that benefits our clients - I also provided feedback and insight to their teams of technicians, administrators, engineers, and managers for continuous improvement of processes and procedures.
• Among this feedback, I was able to pioneer a new approach to managing and understanding the technology lifecycle of any client network of all scales from small/medium deployments to larger enterprise networks spanning multiple states and countries.
• Recently I began working as Senior Infrastructure Engineer and Network Architech for a leading GSA/DOD contractor handling virtualization migration, Data Center design and deployment as well as the intial support following the deployment.
• On a day to day basis, my regular duties included
• Monitor systems and applicationcss through management portal.
• Verify and test automated backups and failovers.
• Manage end user accounts, permissions, access rights, and storage allocations
• React to system outages and escalated helpdesk requests.
• Analyze business requirements and perform recommendations to most efficiently fill those needs.
• Research new technologies and discover their impact on clients’ business.
• Design Network arcitechture and Systems integration across WAN/LAN.
• Create deployment plans and training materials.
• Perform network security audits including WhiteHat (CEH) Network Penetration Testing.

Confidential

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provided technology consulting services for midsize to enterprise level companies throughout the Confidential . n existing infrastructure and upgrade projects and new construction.
• Advisment on technical needs, troubleshooting, and forecasting.

Confidential

IT Director/Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• Managed Services and consulting firm.
• I designed, installed, repaired, and maintained primary infrastructure and server installations from 10 users to 500+ users across multiple platforms and sites within both the private sector and public sector.
• Managed Aprox 90 Technicians and engineers.