SUMMARY

• Wif over 15 years of experience, hardworking individual seeking employment that will challenge my Engineering.
• Architecture, Operations, and/or Management experience, while utilizing my networking, systems, and operational skills.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Senior network engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture, development, and maintenance of multi - vendor network environment, including, but not limited to Extreme, Arista, Cisco, F5, and Palo Alto.
• Responsible for teh support and development of corporate, as well as, production customer facing systems to maintain SLA’s.
• Redesigned and consolidated architecture for Cloud and Fabric based architecture to include, but not limited to, AWS, GCP, Extreme, ASR/ASA, and Palo Alto.
• Optimize routing and architecture to meet redundancy, security, and future growth requirements.
• Maintain security standards and audits across infrastructure.
• Create documentation, maintained monitoring, and developed SOPs for operations to address lower level issues.
• Develop automation solutions for deployment of offices and datacenter equipment.

Senior network engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture, development, and maintenance of multi-vendor network environment, including, but not limited to Juniper, Arista, Cisco, F5, and SilverPeak.
• Responsible for teh support and development of corporate, as well as, production customer facing systems to maintain 99.999%.
• Redesigned and consolidated architecture and footprint of over 30 offices, 10 data-centers, and multiple cloud infrastructures.
• Reviewed and optimized circuits to include, but not limited to, MPLS, DMVPN, IPSEC, WAN, and DIA.
• Refreshed architecture to include, but not limited to, network, server, and cloud gear, to meet compliance models, fix vulnerabilities, and correct security vulnerabilities.
• Wireless optimization and deployment of, but not limited to Aruba, Aironet, Meraki, Mist, Aerohive for enterprise managed solutions.
• Maintain and address security standards as related to connectivity via Wireless, Wired, Remote Access, and Bring You're Own Device.
• Created documentation, maintained monitoring, and developed SOPs for NOC to address lower level issues.
• Develop automation solutions for deployment of offices and datacenter equipment.

senior network engineer manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for architecture and development of multi-vendor environment, including, but not limited to Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Arbor, and Unix/Linux.
• Responsible for teh architecture and support of DDoS mitigation platform (Arbor), including, but not limited to Arbor PI, Arbor TMS, and Arbor Pravail.
• Redesigned architecture to be more efficient and TEMPeffective for services provided; while reducing cost per site 50%
• Proof of concept testing and breaking wif various venders to determine equipment’s value to teh platform.
• Utilization of protocols such as, but not limited to BGP, OSPF, ISIS, AnyCast, IPSEC, MPLS, GRE.
• Identify weaknesses and vulnerabilities in teh DDoS mitigation platform, and apply architecture changes as needed, while complying wif change management standards.
• Develop and deploy new provisioning tactics to give Confidential teh ability to integrate customer networks and future services into our platform.
• Maintain PCI compliance and review audits to maintain a secure and up to date environment.

network engineer iv

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for two collocated datacenters, as well as, remote offices and remote users expanding teh globe.
• Responsible for all networks, firewalls, servers, software, voice, back-up and storage devices.
• Network equipment and protocols used, but not limited to, Cisco ASA5500, C1900, C2100, C2900, C3600, C4500, IOS, CatOS, ASDM, PPTP, VPN, IPSEC, GRE, MPLS, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Intervlan Routing, VTP, HSRP, NAT.
• Server equipment and function consists of, but not limited to, public/private web hosting wif IIS/apache, Terminal Servers, Active Directory, Exchange, DNS, RAS, DHCP, DFS, NFS, Samba, SMTP, Mail Storage, Domain Controller, Netflow, Nagios, SNMP Polling.
• Back-up and Storage hardware and software consists of Teinburg Tape Storage, Dell Equalogic, and Dell PS Storage Arrays.
• Support of voice network consisting of multiple clustered Cisco Unified Communications Systems expanding teh globe.
• Daily responsibilities consisted of assessing hardware/software performance, addressing WAN issues, maintain SLAs wif internal and external employees and vendors, and deployment and maintenance of remote offices and colocations.
• Software/Tools used consisted of, but not limited to, Netflow Analyzer, Nagios XI, OTRS, Kibana LogMeIn, VNC, Spark, Wiki, Solarwinds.

network engineer ii

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Cisco network gear, Checkpoint firewalls and related concepts (including, but not limited to: IP subnets, OPSF, BGP, VLANs, Access Lists, Spanning tree protocols, DNS, DHCP, Checkpoint firewall policy updates and VPN configuration/troubleshooting)
• Provide monitoring and technical support for teh Network Operations Center; both tier 2 SA support and junior level Network support.
• Responsible for ensuring optimal uptime and correct issues that impact Confidential (or associates) business systems in a 24 hour day, seven days a week basis.
• Responsible for teh maintenance tracking and recovery of all over 1600 servers and network devices that support internal/external services and tools.
• Responsible for analyzing alerts, problem definition and determining recommended course of action wifin teh Confidential internal and external environments.
• Multi-task several incidents in a time sensitive environment.
• Utilization of noledgeable in Solaris, Linux, and various Windows operating systems as well as wif Cisco routers switches and related protocols as well as Checkpoint firewalls.
• Understanding and working noledge of networks and TCP/IP protocol.
• Routers (configuring, installing, troubleshooting)
• Centralized event based management experience (i.e. Tivoli, BMC, Netcool, Solarwinds, Cacti, etc)
• Cisco Guard and Detector units wif custom schemes.

network operations manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Utilization of Enterprise applications such as Netcool, Netrake EMS, Sphereical, RADCOM, and F5 Firewall Interface.
• Utilization of languages, such as, MySQL, PHP, HTML, Wiki Mark-up, Perl, and BASH.
• Interface wif Network Equipment, Operating Systems, and Servers, such as, Netrake, Cisco, F5, Sylantro, SUN, CentOS, Mandrake, RedHat.
• Understanding and utilization of protocols such as SIP, MGRP, SER, OpenSER, Sphere, Sylantro, RMS, TDM, ISDN.
• Utilization of VoIP hardware such as Polycom, NEC, ATS, Linksys, and Indomedia.
• Scripting used, but not limited to, Nagios, Perl, NRPE, PHP, HTML, BASH, Batch.
• Manage teh daily activities of a developing 24/7 Network Operations Center including scheduling, hiring, training, and equipment.
• Develop teh tools and procedures required to build a successful Network Operations Center.
• Develop teh procedures teh Network Operations Center needs to transition information about evolving applications and networks.
• Evolve and adapt existing monitoring applications to include additions to service and networks.
• Monitor VOIP Telephony networks and Web Applications to insure guaranteed service to Confidential Consumers.
• Maintain inter-departmental communication and coordination. This includes, but is not limited to, maintenances, upgrades, troubleshooting, and procedures.
• Maintain information and relationships wif Confidential Vendors and Carriers to insure information is correlated efficiently and TEMPeffectively.

NOC Administrator Team Lead

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Receive incoming trouble calls and emails from customers; Create and manage queues of technical trouble tickets.
• Perform non-intrusive and intrusive physical & logical layer troubleshooting on service issues.
• Work TEMPeffectively wif internal and external organizations to expedite repair efforts.
• Intermediate and advanced noledge of telecommunications, networking, and internet essentials.
• Solid noledge of network access server functionality & troubleshooting.
• Ability to troubleshoot teh following: SMS, MMS, MM4, MM7, ISDN, SS7/RLM Group and Radius.
• Ability to properly operate and maintain Mobile 365 tools & applications: Remedy/Magic Trouble Ticket system, NOC web site, Windows 2000, SUN Solaris, Linux OS and Netcool.
• Experience wif UNIX/Linux CLI/GUI.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Routing
• BGP
• RADB
• RIP
• LEAF-SPINE
• EIGRP
• ASR
• OSPF
• VXLAN
• ISIS
• MULTICAST
• IGRP
• EVPN
• MPLS
• HSRP
• GRE
• DMVPN
• PAT
• NAT
• Switching
• VTP
• QOS
• STP
• VSS
• MLAG
• 802.1Q
• Protocols
• DNS
• DHCP
• DFS
• NFS
• SMTP
• SNMP
• VPN
• IPSEC
• L2TP
• PPTP
• 802.11
• LDAP
• Security
• RADIUS
• EAP-TLS
• AES
• 3DES
• ACS
• 802.1X