SUMMARY:

An enthusiastic and mission driven Senior Network Engineer, with over 20 years of industry experience, focused on meeting and exceeding business objectives by incorporating industry best practices to network design, deployment, maintenance, and security of data networks, while ensuring the highest customer satisfaction and loyalty possible. Possess a keen understanding of internal, as well as external customer business needs, focusing on quality results, and complete customer satisfaction.

STRENGTHS:

Extensive hands - on knowledge of data network systems, engineering methods; Skilled in designing, planning and implementing LAN/WAN solutions; Exceptional problem solving, analytical and logical thinking skills; Excellent leadership skills: ability to guide and provide technical direction and supervision on specific projects; First-rate technical and non-technical communication, oral and written; Bilingual fluency in both English and Spanish.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement network changes according to assigned project requirements.
• Test and deploy traffic to Present engineering configurations on Cisco and Juniper equipment to accommodate voice, video, and data traffic at the at hub / data center, as well as medical centers.
• Conduct research, evaluations, as well as test network services and equipment to provide evidence based recommendations to management.
• Build out and maintain the production network by completing network refreshes (from Cisco to Juniper), provide 2nd and 3rd tier support to the Network Operations team.
• Hands-on experience troubleshooting and configuring various network services and protocols: IPSEC VPN’s, EBGP, OSPF, VRF’s, IP SLA’S, DNS, DHCP, QOS, and network redundancy issues.
• Platforms consisted of Meraki wireless AP’s & switches, Juniper EX switches, SRX firewalls, Cisco 3750’s, 2851’s, Palo Alto 5060’s, F5 load-balancers, Solar-winds Orion.

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Participated in the data center network refresh replacing Cisco 2960X’s, 3750’s, 6509’s, with to July 2017 Nexus 9000’s, 7000’s 5600’s, and 2000’s in production network.
• Evaluate existing QoS configurations across all Cisco platforms, Catalyst and Nexus, as well as provide recommendations to improve performance and consistency in the delivery of latency sensitive applications: voice, video, critical applications.
• Troubleshoot escalated network related issues (tier-3) regarding, EIGRP, BGP, Spanning-tree, VPC’s, QoS.
• Hands on experience with Meraki cloud managed AP’s, Cisco platforms mentioned, Riverbed - Steal-head, and Solar-winds.

Confidential, Plantation, Fl

Network Admin / Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, test, implement, and deploy network switches, routers, and firewalls according to organizational.
• Protocols include IP, OSPF, IS-IS, STP, LACP, VRRP, HSRP, IKE, IPSEC, DHCP, DNS.
• Troubleshoot network related issues, layer-1 through layer-4, as well as make network related recommendations to management.
• Responsible for purchasing network equipment, as well as maintain inventory for all sites.
• Network equipment consists mainly of Palo-Alto 5200’s firewalls, Juniper MX480’s routers, SRX 345’s and 5400 series firewall, EX 4200, 4300, and 9208’s switches, as well as QFX’s.

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Senior Project Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and deploy patient engagement systems according to client environment / requirements
• Internet access, and IP phone service. Second tier support for site coordinators for all equipment and services deployed on site; such as, Confidential ’s Ucrypt (QAM -to-IP appliance), and Versative transcoder, Fortinet 80-D firewalls, Telergy set-top-boxes, layer-two switches, Lincor backend servers and application.
• Communicate with customers at different levels, technical / managerial.
• Prepare and maintain documentation for customers, as well as for tier-one Lincor personnel.

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design MPLS data communications networks according to organizational requirements and industry standards.
• Document processes to be used by peer engineers in troubleshooting, and engineering. Provide Fibernet NOC, and Field Operations, tier-2 support on layer-1 through layer-3 equipment: Juniper, Cisco, Alcaltel-Lucent service routers and Checkpoint firewalls.
• Maintain network security on all network systems via RADIUS, firewalls, and IPS for OAMP network, as well as external customer networks.
• Provide management with reports, statistics, recommendations concerning network, network management, and security. Ethernet; IP routing BGP, OSPF.

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Network Engineer Supervisor

Responsibilities:

• Mentor and train a team of four network engineers to be able to effectively / efficiently execute responsibilities, which include troubleshooting, designing telecommunications networks, test and implement telecommunications systems, project management, inventory control / requisitioning, daily customer requests.
• Second-tier on-call support for network engineers - level one through senior level.
• Extensive knowledge of Cisco Systems hardware as well as other technologies: Cisco 7200's, 6500's, 4500's, 3500's, 2900's, 5540-ASA firewalls, Nexus 5000 and 7000 series, MDS 9500 Multilayer Directors; Ciena 4200 WDM optical shelves; Blue-Socket Controllers; Blue-Coat Content Filters; Blue-Cat IPAM system (Proteus). Technical strengths exercised include Data Center, LAN / WAN / SAN; Optical WDM systems; Ethernet; IP routing: BGP, OSPF; Multicasting; NAT; VOIP; Network Security.

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Senior Telecommunications Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design data communications networks according to organizational and industry standards.
• Maintain and secure mission critical network management systems. Provide Fibernet NOC and Field Operations tier-2 support on SONET equipment, upgrade all optical shelves, routers, and switches to the most current release.
• Ethernet; IP routing BGP, ISIS, MPLS, OSPF.

Confidential, Miami, Fl

Network Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and diagnose network related issues
• Monitor network components using Open-View and Preside to May 2002 MDM, Sniffer, and other tools;
• Provision Accelar 1200s, 8600s, Passport 6400s, Nortel routers (ARN, BCN, BLN), Nortel 450-Switches, modems, CSU/DSUs.
• Maintain network documentation for FPL and FPLE.
• Provide management with reports, statistics, recommendations concerning network management and design.
• Document pertinent events in Remedy submit and approve Change Requests.