PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

With complementary experience for adding value to both large and small projects which impact across departments, the case is presented below for hiring me. These accomplishments would have played central roles from capturing requirements through deployment, while driving milestones to completion and mobilizing the necessary people.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Equipment: Cisco Routing, Switching and Security, Cisco Routers such as 1900, 2900, 3900, Cisco ASR - 1k/9k, Cisco Multilayer Switches 4500, 6500, Cisco Nexus (SD-LAN/SD-WAN) 2k/5k/7k/9k and Juniper M320, MX80, MX480, MX960 and EX4200, EX8200 switches.

Databases: Oracle, DB/2, SQL, NoSQL MySQL, Hadoop Ecosystem Components (Hive, Pig, Impala, Ambari, Oozie, Sqoop, Zookeeper, Mahout), Application Lifecycle, Design of Networked File Systems.

Methodology: DMAIC, SDLC, Confidential Rational Unified (RUP) overlaying Waterfall and Agile

Hypervisors: Confidential Softlayer, VMWare, AWS Lambda, Amazon ECS, Amazon API Gateway

Products: Blade servers, p, x, i, z Series, Phone and security systems, XiV Virtual Storage

Mobile Devices: iOS messaging server, Good, and Confidential Maas 360 Mobile Services

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, NY, NY

Senior Enterprise Architect

Responsibilities:

• Developed and presented infrastructure life cycle, roadmaps and operational feasibility documents.
• Configured and maintained a proactive network monitoring system leveraging existing tools in order to maintain and track the global MPLS metrics.
• Designed and supported secure remote & mobile access solutions incorporating Site - to-Site & Client-to-Site VPN, RADIUS, LDAP, RSA SecureID, Cryptocard, and Digital Certificates.
• Architected & deployed a secure, highly available Cisco wireless infrastructure across multiple sites, worldwide. proposals, RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs by putting together solutions across multi-towers (Cloud, Security, Networking, UCC, Contact Center), supporting literature, diagrams, write-ups, responses, and presentations.
• Re-designed more than 50 remote site ASA firewalls to improve security and performance thus permitting convergence of site data and video conferencing traffic across a global MPLS network.
• Designed network service parameters for SD/WAN, WLAN, SD/LAN, WAN, IP telephony, Security (DDOS, FW, IDS, WAF, DDI, SIEM, Analytics, Micro-segmentation);
• Led the negations for outsourcing applications management, storage, virtualization, and server-less computing structures.
• Designed call center systems which involved ACD, IVR, Call Recording, Chat, Cloud Delivery, toll free, Omni-channel, and performed IT applications management over SOA, and API/SOAP web services
• Possessing a knowledge in leading technology network and security vendor portfolios such as Cisco, Viptela, Versa, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Riverbed, and Juniper I delivered the appropriate evaluation, ROI, savings, proposed operational evolution and associated process
• Participated on implementation teams across multiple time zones to integrate new network designs into production with minimal impact to online operations to configured, optimized, and implemented multiple protocols including OSPF and BGP
• With proven ability configuring, optimizing, managing and implementing data carrying/WAN protocols: MPLS and VPLS my team supported WAN infrastructures and carriers, while managing service providers, and Cisco Unified Call Manager with Cisco Unified Collaboration solutions with VSC, bridging technologies and expressways, ASA and Palo Alto firewalls, connected to ISCSI and Virtual Storage servers.
• Provided global enterprise level Architect and Engineer experience managing, designing, deploying and supporting a world-class, global, 24x7, enterprise infrastructure comprised of VMware, Dell, Force10, HP, EMC, Cisco and Juniper hardware & software. Designed, procured, deployed and supported critical path, global enterprise infrastructure as part of the Engineering Center of Excellence (ECoE), Technical Data Systems organization.
• Managed the installation, configuration and administration of Cisco equipment in IT architecture of organization. Configured IT LAN/WAN elements and held responsibility of maintaining and monitoring performance of network.
• Implemented IP addressing schemes, LAN/WAN protocols, IP Services, to meet network requirements in different environments.
• Expertise in Configuration of Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Cisco routers and multi-layer Switches and supporting STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST along with trouble shooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN Trunks using 802.1Q.
• Proficiently implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, Route Maps and route manipulation using Offset-list.
• Extensively worked on Cisco catalyst 6509 and implemented VSS along with VDC and VPC on Nexus 5505, 7009 switches.
• Provided Tier 3 technical support; assisted users facing network problems. Performed advanced troubleshooting, diagnostics and provided tier/level-1 solutions to network failures.
• Provided senior engineering leadership on all design and standards issues including analysis, development, implementation, as well as training and mentoring of technologies, service convergence strategy and design (IP Telephony, VoIP, Video, Data, Multimedia), external vendor coordination.
• Planed IT systems that will provide system capabilities required for projected workloads and plan layout and installation of new systems or modification of existing systems.

Confidential, NY, NY

Security Integration Manager

Responsibilities:

• Collaborated with Security Services (i.e. Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention) technology teams and served as a subject matter expert to develop, deliver and understand complex technology roadmaps covering infrastructure products and services.
• With an understanding of Knowledge Tools, Orchestration platforms, Container technologies, and stateless / Micro - services, running under VMWare ESX, NSX, and HCX, this architect provided a thorough understanding of lifecycle management as it pertains to infrastructure and applications
• The Security Iint gration Manager also supported vendors and engineering teams for their subject matter, to ensure they are up to date on the environment at all times. Responsibilities included developing and documenting end to end technical solutions requiring new infrastructure and/or significant changes to existing infrastructure.
• Collaborated with Technology Services, and vendor service delivery towers to complete the SCRUM and VMWare, Splunk, technical design solution, obtained resource estimates, pinpointed service delivery milestones, and presented back to PM/requester for approval to proceed forward with implementation and delivery of services.

Confidential

Network Administrator / Solution Lead

Responsibilities:

• In this high profile, client-facing position, I have planned, consulted, negotiated, organized, presented and facilitated interactive Confidential client experiences for qualified sales opportunities.
• The center team delivers hundreds of experiences every year while maintaining extraordinarily high levels of service and quality.
• I have demonstrated relationship skills and diplomatic sensitivity for international and multicultural ways of doing business globally. The briefings expected results are: high customer satisfaction, a business relationship for Confidential, and sales acceleration.
• Qualified visits, schedule, plan, and coordinate logistics and delivery of hundreds of visits per year.
• Managed daily center operations, proactively identify any issues and problems that need immediate focus and resolution. Leverage key resources across Confidential to resolve issues quickly.
• Operated the advanced technology infrastructure to ensure 99% level of availability.