A Senior Network Engineer with more than 25 years of experience performing a broad variety of IT functions. I am a successful leader who has led teams in the development of successful complex systems to meet business requirements. I have experience leading teams in design, development, test, integration, implementation, and documentation tasks. In addition to solid Networking skills, I have extensive Program Management skills.

• Network Training Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration, Advanced Cisco Router Configuration, Catalyst 2900,3650, 5000, 6500, 7000 Series Configuration, ATM Essentials, MPLS, Cisco AS5200 Installation and Configuration, Cisco Trouble shooting, Cisco Network Design Communications Protocols and Software Cisco IOS, Cat OS, Layer 3 protocols: OSPF, RIPv1 v2, IGRP, IGRP/EIGRP, BGP, TCP/IP, Frame Relay, ATM, OSI Model, Voice over IP, Video H.323/H.261 , SNMP, RMON, IBM Token Ring, X-Window, Ethernet, Net BIOS, X.25, LU6.2, TUXEDO, IBM Token Ring, Novell Netware, VPN, QOS, DVB, MPEG IXIA, OpenView, Peregrine Network Discovery, SourceFire IDS, STP, VRRP, HSRP, PPP, NAT, QOS, SNMP, VoIP, ACLs ,BIND DNS Hardware Cisco 25xx, 26xx, 36xx 38xx, 4xxx, 6xxx and 7xxx series Routers, Lucent MAX TNT/6000/4000, Lucent 8000/9000 switches, Lucent 5XX switches, Fore Switches, Paradyne 912x, NetScout Probes, Ascend Pipeline 25/50/75, Baynetwork, Foundry Iron, CSU/DSU, NetApps Cacheflow, NetApps Filer, Packeteer, Catalyst 5000, Cisco Pix Computer Skills Hardware HP-9000, IBM PS/2, IBM PC. HP 9000, SP2, DEC ALPHA, Pyramid, SUN SPARC, SUN all makes , HP Vectra, Compaq Proliant, DELL, Burroughs 1900, AT T 3B, PRIME, IBM PS/2, PC/XT/AT, AT T, Toshiba Languages C, C , JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, PERL, PL-SQL, Pro C, PASCAL, ORACLE WEB, UNIX, HTML, COBOL, SMALLTALK, SNMP, SMUX, HP-OpenView, CA-Unicenter, Presentation Manager, EHLLAPI, PASCAL, FORTRAN Operating Systems and Databases UNIX Solaris, HP-UX , Linux, Windows NT, Windows95/98, Windows 2000 Professional/Server, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, OS/2, DOS, ORACLE, SYBASE, Informix, dBASEIII, MS SQL, MySQL
• Other Cisco's Proxy Server Access Registrar , HP-Openview, Foreview, NETVIEW, PEER OPTIMA, CA-Unicenter, NavisCore, NavisRadius, ACE Server, UNIX System Administration, PVCS, CICS 9000 Programming in C and COBOL on HP-UX, MS-Access, MS-Word, Excel, NetIQ MOM, Security Manager, Application Manager, IND,IXIA, SMS, Active Directory, Source Fire IDS, PND IND , SolarWinds, Orion, NetIQ's AppManager, NetIQ's Security Manager, MOM, NetIQ's Performance Profiler, Netuitive, Compuware ApplicationVantage sniffer NetworkVantage, Mercury Managed Services, Vugen, CheckPoint

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior ITIL Consultant

• Performing Problem Management Implementation for GEICO Corporation. Goal was to improve network uptime and align network infrastructure to meet business needs.
• Successfully improved network uptime by 10 in 3 months. Help assemble permanent team and provided team members with template for problem management.
• Interface with various groups to identify repetitive and or business crippling problems
• Perform Root cause analysis using Tregore Knepper techniques.
• Identified recurring network infrastructure problems. Devised plan and procedures to eliminate identified problems from network, thus saving time for engineers to concentrate on other problems
• Remove Problems from system
• Reviewed network infrastructure and recommended change that resulted in higher network uptimes. One such idea was to create virtual router entries giving users redundant paths to the default route.
• Identify Known errors and Known problems
• Participate in major problem reviews
• Follow up on critical problems until problems are eradicated or a workaround is discovered.
• Create executive level reports for controlling purposes. These reports measure the success rate of the project.

Confidential

Senior Telecom Engineer

• Technical lead of System Monitoring and Management team SMMG
• Acted as project officer for END2END SLA verification system using Mercury Managed Services MMS implemented and trained users and administrators on MMS usage
• Provided last tier support using Compuware ApplicationVantage and NetworkVantaage tools. These tools allowed my group to analyze network traffic conversations
• Uses COTS products such as, NETIQ's Application Manager and Security Manager along with MS Operations Manager 2005 MOM and SourceFire to proactively identify any network intrusions and performance issues
• Uses Peregrine Network Discovery, Orion and Solar Winds tools to visually monitor the health of more than 3,000 network devices and end nodes
• Base-lined over 100 servers using Performance Profiler
• Create in-house scripts to monitor the Cardkey security system which provides campus wide access to buildings and other facilities. Scripts created in UNIX, Linux and Perl
• Use VMWARE to create virtual servers and workstations
• Instrumental in replacing ATM with MPLS protocol.
• Provided MPLS proof of concept lab testing.
• Lead effort to design and build ITB Test/Development Lab. Performed requirements gathering and surveying
• Networking skills required: OSPF, EIGRP and Layer 2 switching.

Confidential

Networks and Video Projects

• Identified and provided guidance to Technical Labs' staff in evaluating newly developed or emerging transmission, broadcasting and networking technologies
• Approved hardware and software purchases for the lab
• Acted as a senior technical advisor to Sales and Marketing, Operations, and other Engineering units, and directly to customers as required
• Lead efforts of a variety of voice, data, and network services
• Used simulator tools such as IXIA and the Cloud to stress test new network services
• Participated and followed the work of relevant telecommunications and networking standardization bodies such as IETF, ITU/T, ETSI, FRF, DVB, etc., with a view towards ens,uring the viability of these communication services over satellites
• Projects included the use of the following: lpv6, IP over DVB, iSCSI, HDTV,VPNs, QOS Bandwidth Management, eGaming, and ASP systems
• Used OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, RIP, MPLS, Frame Relay, ATM and Layer 2 protocols.

Confidential

Principal Engineer/Manager

• Implemented IP, Frame Relay and ATM solutions Using Cisco and Juniper equipment - performing proof of concept testing
• Managed ATM project that multiplexed customer's broadband traffic onto a single transport line from the central office and de-multiplexes traffic onto individual lines at customer's sites. Used Fore CellPath 300, Successfully lead a variety of projects to address business needs. For example, developed network aggregation strategy using CeIIPath to multiplex OC-3, OC-12, DS-3, and V.35 transport mechanisms.
• Developed and tested operational procedures for remotely managing all networking devices.
• Implemented a remote ISDN dial-up access dial-backup solution for remote devices to establish network connectivity in case of a local loop failure
• Lucent 500 ATM switches, Cylink Encryptors, NetScout Probes and Cisco routers in infrastructure

Confidential

Lead Network Engineer

• Provided for the ongoing development and integration activities associated with international customers for support of their IP applications business units. Such activities included formulating methods and policies to support Global Intranet Web Hosting and Unified Messaging VolP .
• Developed engineering plans for field deployment and maintenance of an IP product. Installed and configured hubs, routers, and switches for the LAN, MAN, and WAN. Installed FireWall-1 and FloodGate-1 software for system security and bandwidth management. Created access lists for router control management.
• Installed and evaluated Netscape 4.0 messaging server and LDAP directory server, SUNS SIMS messaging server, and Nexor's internet messaging server.
• Simulated Asymmetric Satellite testing using Racketeer packet shaper. This testing proved that satellite transmission could be useful in relieving backbone congestion from excessive Configured and tested a network of routers and switches level 2 and level 4 switches from Foundary Networks .
• Implemented and tested new IT services in lab environment. Setting up network and testing new state-of-the-art networking equipment using ATM, Frame Relay, and IP Protocols.
• Used various equipment, Cisco, Nortel, Juniper
• Installed security wrappers on SUN machines. Installed VolP and Voice over Frame Relay

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer

AT T Communications

• As leading software engineer, successfully analyzed, planned, desiged and implement the ORDER NEGOTIATER SYSTEM ONS . ONS manages ordering, provisioning and turn up of telecommunication services offered by AT T. ONS provided 24-hour turn up for all private line services. The system was built using C/C , Informix, and Oracle
• Responsible for collecting and applying transaction request from 3270 mainframes, AT T 3B and Pyramid platform utilizing Tuxedo's LU6.2 protocol to collect transaction request from various platforms.