Skills:

• Riverbed Cascade and Steelhead setup and administration
• Cisco Nexus 5K 7K
• Cisco IOS-XR
• Cisco UCS data center experience
• Juniper ScreenOS and JUNOS
• Cisco network design and engineering
• Limited but growing SCOM 2012 and SolarWinds experience
• Juniper IDP 1000 experience
• Ability to perform detailed management, installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco router/switch and ASA devices.
• Ability to perform detailed management, installation, configuration and troubleshooting of TCP/IP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, RIP, STP, Vlans, IP, VoIP, ACL's, VPN's and GRE tunnels.
• Ability to perform detailed management, installation, configuration and troubleshooting of all layer 3 LAN, Vlan routing, physical layer and fiber optic architectures.
• Ability to perform detailed management, installation, configuration and troubleshooting KG-175E and KG-
• Multicast PIM, ICMP
• Linux workstation and server administration Debian based
• Wireshark
• Cisco Wireless Lan Controller and indoor/outdoor AP installation and administration.
• Various Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall configuration
• Limited but growing knowledge of MPLS installation and administration
• Proficient with network troubleshooting tools such as PING, NETSTAT, NBTSTAT, TRACEROUTE, IPCONFIG and ARP.
• Skilled in repairing and troubleshooting CAT-5, CAT-5e and CAT-6 straight-through and crossover cables, Fiber optic OM-3 cabling

Work Experience:

Network Engineer contractor

Confidential

• Responsible to the daily maintenance of multiple Nexus 7K's and Cisco/Foundry access switches across the US, and in a large data center in West Chester, PA.
• Managed a US regional network of about 10 Steelheads optimizing traffic to our data center in West Chester.

Confidential

Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer

• Directly coordinated and oversaw network changes and new technology implementation across 20 European offices, and indirectly across dozens of sites in North America and Asia.
• Switch configuration and modification including voice vlan creation,
• Responsible for the installation, upgrade, maintenance, design and engineering of our European data center situated in Berlin, Germany
• Developed and utilized networking monitoring tools from IP SLA's to vender specific ISP and MPLS bandwidth tools.
• Numerous meetings with venders to discuss new WAN and LAN technologies and how to incorporate them into our enterprise.
• Dynamic routing implementation such as EIGRP through site-to-site IPSEC VPN's
• GRE tunnel creation interconnecting multiple sites around the globe
• Nexus hardware and software upgrade
• High level network design and implementation
• Riverbed Steelhead xx50 and CX series optimization and Cascade/CMC experience
• Troubleshooting experience involving SMB2 and email optimization issues with Steelheads
• Experience leading a team of 3 other engineers
• Responsible for handling daily outages or link degradation of varying degrees related to routing, security and optimization.
• Limited experience using SCOM 2012 to monitor our network devices
• Cleaned up existing network documentation and SOP's for deployments in our EMEA region.
• Experience working with a team of server, AV and virtualization guys to determine what's needed for a project and timelines for completion

Confidential

Network Administrator II

• Responsible for maintaining a large deployed military network and the day to day operations of NIPR and SIPR workstations, servers, switches and routers.
• Experience with Proxy Servers and Firewalls, providing wide ranging coverage with host based and behavioral based security features.
• Monthly crypto loading experience with numerous industry standard models.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Experience designing, maintaining and upgrading a large multi-site enterprise network utilizing multiple LANs across an outsourced WAN backbone.
• Projects to date have included the implementation of a Cisco wireless mesh network starting from the design phase all the way to the completion and engineering phase.
• Cisco ACS appliances and wireless MSE appliance used for location services.
• Experience running day to day network operations to include fixing switch and routing issues, checkpoint firewall issues as well as issues related to the implementation of a new Cisco VoIP environment.
• Limited experience working with CUCM version 8, including creating and editing call clusters, adding and removing phones and moving voice trunks to SIP trunks.
• Created network designs and documented existing network infrastructure using MS Visio
• Used SolarWinds via SNMP to monitor switch and router port configuration and topolgy

Confidential

Sr. WAN/LAN Technologist II

• Responsible for maintaining and engineering CENTRIX, ISAF and MEX classified networks containing numerous network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, IDS's, proxy filters, and border edge devices.
• Hands on experience with iBGP and eBGP, various routing technologies used for IDP's and Juniper routers running ScreenOS and JUNOS.
• Experience setting up Cisco VoIP phones and connecting them to their call managers in various worldwide locations.
• eBGP and iBGP technologies such as peer-groups, GRE tunneling and route-maps.
• Some experience with route redistribution.
• Linux administration using SunOS and Red Hat Server.
• Comfortable using various commands and troubleshooting techniques.
• VERITAS backup system administration, integrated into SunOS
• Cryptographic device administration, such as keying KG's and other two-way encryption devices.
• Limited experience administering Cisco Unified Communications Manager
• Hands on experience with CAT OS and Cisco IOS 12.x. Having configured Cisco 6500 series layer 3 switches, 2800 series routers, and 5500 series ASA/PIX devices.
• Extensive experience with switches and routers, with the configuration, administration, troubleshooting and support of Cisco devices.
• Manage network infrastructure of three independent campus sized networks and peer review all changes that take place on them.
• Complex network configurations such as firewall boundary separation, management/data traffic separation, IDS sensor configuration, and dynamic routing.
• Partnering with customers and venders to help make plans come together. Experience working with other techs of various backgrounds and companies.
• In depth knowledge of LAN/WAN architectures such as Frame Relay, MPLS, VPN T1, T3 and protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, HSRP and technologies
• In depth knowledge of network operating systems and trouble-shooting techniques and related diagnostic hardware and software tools i.e. probes, sniffers .
• Provides leadership and direction in the definition and maintenance of network voice, data and security Services Infrastructure standards.
• Deep understanding and daily use of network infrastructure protocols such as HTTP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, Syslog, SNMP, LDAP, and multicast.
• Hands on experience deploying, troubleshooting and documenting Cisco campus and WAN networks with devices such as Cisco 3650G, 6509E layer three switches Cisco 2800 and 7200 series routers Cisco 5520 series PIX firewalls.
• Translating complex business requirements and aligning the appropriate infrastructure solution to support business needs.
• Streaming IPTV video over the Cisco/Juniper fabric using multicast, IGMP and PIM-SM.
• Experience with vulnerability scanners such as Nessus and Retina.

Confidential

Lead Network Administrator/Systems Administrator

• Troubleshooting and Information Assurance of the company's secure and unsecure network with devices spread out from Tokyo to the Muira Peninsula.
• Provided tier 2 and 3 level network and system administration support to a DoD enterprise network utilizing Remedy as our trouble ticket queue manager.
• Experience working in a high paced environment traveling to multiple sites across a 100km radius.
• Experience leading a team of Japanese and American engineers.
• Experience configuring Cisco 3750E, 3750G, 4500 layer three switches, with CatOS and Cisco IOS.
• Delivering Network Services Infrastructure solutions at the enterprise level with the US Navy One Net WAN stretch across Asia.
• Regularly solves performance and connection related issues in relation to Cisco switches and routers, Juniper firewalls and VoIP devices.
• Worked as a clutch person dedicated to providing network maintenance and administration utilizing an array of routers and switches at US European Command and Africa Command in Stuttgart, Germany.
• Setup VTC conferences and Tandberg devices used for the conferences.
• Utilized a trouble ticket system where immediate response was required very often and as a result I learned how to manage and prioritize multiple open tickets at once.
• Honed skills and problem solving ability with regular ticket calls as a field system administrator, providing quick solutions for many Windows and Unix hardware/software related problems.
• Leadership for multi-disciplined technical teams deploying and supporting network services.

Confidential

Senior Airman

• Led a team of six people responsible for the upkeep of an in-house secure LAN equipped with Active Directory, Windows 2000 Server, DNS, Citrix, and VERITAS/Symantec storage software.
• Experience leading a team of 6 peer engineers.
• In depth knowledge of TCP/IP networking data communications, network infrastructure and operating systems, DNS network/internet protocols SMTP, HTTP, SNMP, Windows Domain services
• Experience coordinating day to day activities of a team to meet deadlines.
• Worked at Network Operations Center NOC for two years gaining firsthand experience with tier 1 level network and system support.