SUMMARY

• A Motivated Senior Level Network and Design Engineer with 20 Years of Technical experience and 4+ years of Management and Leadership.
• My passion is to build a healthy team culture with empowered Engineering and Sales staff that own the goal of growing the Company.Prior Certifications
• CCIE Routing and Switching Written, CCNP Routing and Switching. Working toward recertification.

Responsibilities:

Confidential - Richmond, Virginia

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, Install and configure a layer 3 routed core for Spine Leaf attributes using the Cisco Catalyst 9500 switch platforms.
• Troubleshoot Data Center Edge Routing and Switching platforms using BGP and EIGRP across Cisco, Dell, Juniper, and Palo Alto platforms
• Life Cycle management of Network Hardware
• Admin use of Cisco ISE for Dot1x access
• Support Large Cisco ACI Spine and Leaf Fabrics using Nexus 9ks
• Troubleshoot Data Center Edge Routing and Switching platforms using BGP and OSPF
• Plan and maintain Access Layer Switch Port Density for Virtual Machines/Bare Metal Servers and Appliances

Confidential - Richmond, Virginia

Senior Network Engineer (VITA) Virginia Information Technologies Agency

Responsibilities:

• Assist with the Network Transition from Northrop Grumman to Verizon Management and administration of remote Networking devices.
• Train Senior Network Engineers to troubleshoot and redesign complex routing protocols to include BGP and OSPF.
• Encourage Team members to create goals for new certification paths and increase learning to bring value to our customers and themselves.
• Assisted with the deployment of a Cisco ACI fabric for the purpose of security segmentation between vendors with a Multi-Vendor Managed Service Environment.
• Inspired Junior level Engineers to become think Leaders as part of the Customer onboarding process
• Worked as part of a team to redesign and implement the Primary Data Center Core Network Infrastructure replacing a Legacy Cisco Nexus 7010 Layer-two Virtual Port-Channel with an Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) platform so that customer onboarding time could decrease
• Designed and troubleshot remote customer Wide Area Networks and Local Area Networks on various Cisco Routing, Switching, Wireless platforms, and Palo Alto Firewalls.

Confidential

Technical Consultant/Pre-Sales Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a trusted advisor and Solutions Engineer to the Federal Government, I advised the client using leading-edge technologies to include Software Defined Networking (Cisco ACI and VMWare’s NSX) Cisco Wireless technologies, Data Center Design Best Practices and Security Solutions (TrustSec and 802.1X).
• Required to understand numerous Cisco and IBM LAN, WAN, Wireless, and Data Center solutions.
• Created Bill of Materials (BOM) and acted as part of a team which replied to RFPs/RFQs/RFIs
• Trained Junior Engineers concerning hardware selection and design strategies
• Created value regarding I.T. technologies during presentations and demonstrations to C level leadership

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included; designing new infrastructure implementation, troubleshooting Routing, Switching, Wireless and Server related problems as they relate to the Network infrastructure.
• Assisted with the redesign of the current Data Center which is active/passive in order for a Next Generation Active/Active implementation using Cisco Nexus platforms.
• Assisted with a design to allow Blue Coat servers to monitor internet bound traffic using WCCP
• Trained the engineering team in best practice design and deployment methods for small to medium size remote offices (clinics)
• Designed and implemented a Layer 3 MPLS solution for private WAN links between HQ and 33 remote sites.
• Troubleshoot complex asymmetrical routing issues through Cisco firewalls, Catalyst and Nexus switches
• Trained junior engineering staff to implement proper routing and switching technologies
• Assisted with the design and turn-up of a TPMG remote location, which could be templated allowing the junior engineering staff to re-implement the same configurations throughout other newly built remote locations therefore saving the company money using Dell 3000 series switches and SonicWALL firewalls.

Confidential . - Richmond, Virginia

Network Services Manager/Senior Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed a skilled team of Cisco, Microsoft, and VMware Engineers in customer-facing situations
• As a Senior Lead Design Engineer, I created new infrastructure deployment requirements (Voice, Data, Wireless) for SMB customers.
• Troubleshoot complex Voice and data outages for small and medium enterprise clients with 30 or more remote locations on Cisco ASA, Ad Tran routers, and Dell switches
• Designed and configured Cisco routers and switches for complex Metro E and Layer3 MPLS VPN private WAN deployments.
• I trained junior engineers in best practice design principals in order to deploy end-to-end managed networks for SMB customers.
• As a Sr. Network Engineer, I provided high performing network solutions for our internal Dominion customers. I was responsible for the design process and facilitating the installation of the design. I am well versed with the advanced engineering of multiprotocol routers, multilayer switches, network security devices, copper, and fiber optic cabling.
• I was responsible for training junior members of the team and seeing them and Dominion thrive in the excellence of skill and attitude.
• I designed and deployed LAN to WAN networks at numerous Power Stations and Substations for the Eastern part of the country using ASR1k, 4506E, 3945E, Juniper and Palo Alto Firewalls, 2602I APs to support Enterprise Wireless, Voice, Data, and Video solutions.
• I designed a network solution as well as assisted with the Wireless Sites Surveys in order to upgrade Dominion campus area networks to support second Generation Cisco 2600 N series Access points with Cisco 5500 series Wireless LAN controllers.
• Well versed in customer-facing solutions

Confidential - Chester, Virginia,

Network Engineer 4 (Implementation and Design)

Responsibilities:

• As the Senior technical lead for a team of people I worked to fulfill the design and implementation requests for Virginia State Agencies at remote locations using Cisco equipment including routers and switches as listed; 6509, 3945,3845, 2951,2921,2911,2811,881,3750 and 3560s.
• Required consistent customer-facing interactions
• Implementation and Design for large scale enterprise class MANs, Campus Area Networks, and LANs using cutting edge technology to include DMVPN with IPSEC, UCaaS (Unified Communications as a service) which allows Voice and Data collaboration, SRST, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and VRF Lite.
• Created an expedited process which would allow the implementation of an in-band management network throughout the Commonwealth of Virginia (more than 5000 devices) network so that control plane and data plane traffic could flow through two separate logical circuit paths.
• Support Cisco 4400, and 5500 Wireless LAN Controllers. Implement the "Secure Wireless" 802.11a/b/g/n solution for the Commonwealth of Virginia. Currently, 500+ APs deployed throughout the Commonwealth providing secure connections for customers and a simple-to-use guest wireless network.
• Part of an integrated, hands-on technical team with representation from server, network, and security engineers to complete the Network Transformation and Server Re-IP work associated with various state agencies.
• Planned and implemented complex routing and switching configuration to allow legacy networks to communicate with complex MPLS Cisco edge equipment
• Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the Networks using automated tools and manual means to create in-depth layer 2 and 3 topology maps to redesign the current networks
• Team member of the Northrop Grumman /Virginia Information Technology Agency (VITA) Network Transformation Team, researched and designed network solutions for approximately 1,000 Virginia Agencies Sites using VRF Lite through Verizon’s MPLS network.
• Responsible for configuring more than 1,000 Layer 2 and 3 devices using Cisco Platforms to include 7604, 6509, 3845, 2851, 2811, 3560, and 3750.
• Other tasks include creating Bill of Materials for sites, which are surveyed
• Advanced technologies being configured for customer premises equipment that includes VRF lite, BGP, OSPF, Layer 3 switching, Ether Channel, and HSRP.