PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Consultant

Confidential,Chicago IL

Responsibilities:

• Currently located in teh Rogers Park area of Chicago, IL. Business development - Registered Disabled Veteran Small business. Maintained routed iPv4/IPv6 Consulting Network Engineer for infrastructure projects include IPv6/IPv4 WiFi, Cisco Nexus 5600 Series NX-OS FabricPath
• Paravirtualization on AWS, Google Cloud, KVM, Xen, bhyve - supporting AWS Linux 2, Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, and FreeBSD.
• Recent work with Kubernetes, Symfony, Drupal 7-9, Drush (on Drupal.org since 2008), MariaDB, PostgreSQL in Kubernetes clusters.
• Automated deployment of Debian and Alpine, NFS, and Drupal to Kubernetes clusters.
• Work with Node, NPM, Terraform, Angular.
• Automated deployment on push from GitHub with scanning for security issues.
• Care and feeding of multicast UDP feeds from major stock exchanges, BGP peering, Cisco, Juniper and Arista, Linux admin (SL/CentOS and Ubuntu), AWS, monitoring with mrtg, cacti, smokeping, nagios
• 2011-2012 System and Network Manager/Engineer E-Vergent/WI.net wi
• Administration of Linux Systems, Installations CentOS, SL, through 6.1, AoE, Xen, Cisco, Mikrotik, Mysql, Asterisk, VoIP (Cisco, Mitel, Polycom) BGP, OSPF, Security, E-Mail, web servers. Applied for, managed, and deployed IPv6 /32 allocation from ARIN for core routing infrastructure.

Consulting

Confidential, Madison WI

Responsibilities:

• Current work with BGP multi-homing and Cisco routers
• Support of half a dozen web sites
• Support fully functional IPv6 web and e-mail.
• To end in late July 2007. Primary job as 52X40 - also provided tracking of work and equipment and supervised armor upgrades. Set up and support 2 FreeBSD systems dat act as satellite connected -Internet routers and cache for over 400 troops. iraru
• Iraq War Veteran with OIF campaign ribbon.
• Over 22 years of service and retired.
• Brigade level Tactical Operations Center experience
• M160-M10 Juniper Core routers Junos 5.1, FreeBSD, TCP/IP, IPv6, BGP4+, IS-IS, Tunnels, Sendmail, Perl, Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, RRD, MRTG, MRT, Bind (Including Bind 9), VoIP, IPSec, VPNs
• Designed, prototyped, and Manage systems Engineers in developing network measurement systems.
• Participated as part of teh core network design team building an OC48c national network from teh ground up.
• Designed peering strategies and worked with team to develop peer sites.
• Negotiated Peering
• Made contacts and preliminary negotiations as well as implementation of transit connections.

Director Network Engineer

Confidential, D.C

Responsibilities:

• Cisco Core GSR 12016 routers, Cisco ONS 15454, Cisco long-haul OC192 DWDM, FreeBSD, TCP/IP, BGP4+, IS-IS, NAT, Tunnels, Sendmail, Perl, Apache, PHP, MRTG, MRT, Bind (Including Bind 9)
• Set up preliminary peer and transit connection as well as Cogent's first BGP session.
• Part of core network design team build OC192c national network from teh ground up.
• Designed peering strategies and worked with team to develop peer sites.
• Negotiated Peering and developed contracts.
• Made contacts and preliminary negotiations as well as implementation of transit connections.
• Worked as ARIN representative to get /19 IP allocation and ASN.
• Cisco 75xx, Frame Relay, WAN, Sun Solars, FreeBSD, TCP/IP, BGP4, OSPF, NAT, Sendmail, Perl, Apache, PHP, MRTG, Bind (Including Bind 9)
• Designed and directed establishment of a multi-state network to feed over 200 radio station properties.
• Build a default-less core network as a nucleus for future Internet projects.
• Worked with team to develop corporate Internet strategies including research and business modeling of possible ISP and Portal products.
• Negotiated transit and developed contracts.
• Designed and supervised build-out of colocation sites for Internet web servers and network assets.
• Worked as ARIN representative to get /19 IP allocation and ASN.

Consultant and principal

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• AIX, HP-UX, Solaris 2.5, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, NT, TCP/IP Networks (OSPF, BGP4), E-Mail (Post.Office, Sendmail), Usenet News, DNS (Including Bind 8)
• Designed network architecture including sub-netting and IP address allocation schemes.
• Integrated Unix systems as file servers into AppleTalk and NT networks.
• Established, maintained, trained and documented deployment of basic Internet services for multiple ISPs.
• Established dial-up networking using Ascend, Cisco 5000, Livingston PM3s, & USR equipment.
• Installed and configured connections with national Internet providers using a Fore ASX-1000 ATM Switches, Cisco 75xx & GRF-400 routers.
• Developed Java based applications using JDBC links to DB2.
• Deployed web servers for reports, management and commerce using SSL and server-side dynamic web page tools such as php3 and shtml combined with database back ends.
• Participated in IETF and NANOG.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential - Chicago, IL

Responsibilities:

• Solaris 2.5, FreeBSD, BSD/OS, NT, TCP/IP Networks (OSPF, BGP4), E-Mail, Usenet News, DNS
• Designed network architecture including sub-netting and IP address allocation schemes.
• Negotiated peering agreements with major national backbones.
• Represented Confidential at NANOG and IETF.
• Established Internet services me.e. Usenet News, E-Mail, DNS and wide area network interconnects running teh spectrum of WAN technology from 14.4 PPP to OC3c ATM.
• Coordinated peering and transit including router configuration and entries in teh Routing Registries.
• Install and managed Cisco 7000 and 75xx series routers on a no default route Internet backbone.
• Worked with Fore ATM switches, Cabeltron hubs and Bay routers.
• Administered and installed BSDI, FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, NT, and Win95 systems within teh network.
• Administered and maintained Internic IP registration for CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing) blocks using SWIP (Shared Who Is Project) registration forms.
• Work with multiple SNMP based management systems.

Network Manager Alpha.net

Confidential, Milwaukee, WI

Responsibilities:

• Solaris 2.3, Solaris 2.4, BSD/OS, TCP/IP Networks, E-Mail, Usenet News, DNS
• First employee and only full time employee for teh first 8 months of operation.
• Established, operated and maintained Internet services - Usenet News, E-Mail, DNS and WAN interconnects from 14.4 PPP to DS3 ATM.
• Installed CISCO, Livingston, and Netblazer routers.
• Installed and maintained TCP/IP networks.
• Supported over 60 corporate networks.
• Coauthor of teh AADS NAP (Multi-Lateral Peering Agreement) MLPA.
• Developed first marketing flyers.
• SunOS, Solaris 2.3, NetBSD, System V; Sun SPARC, Intel
• Maintained Internet services me.e. Usenet News, E-Mail, Domain Name Service and wide area network interconnects.
• Installed and maintained FDDI and Ethernet TCP/IP networks.
• Installed and supported end user applications including development systems, WABI, and X11R5 based mathematics and modeling applications.
• Maintained wide area communications using PPP, SLIP, and UUCP.
• Acted as teh trustee of teh mil.wi.us domain.
• Contributed configurations for inclusion in RFC1480

Senior Consultant Computer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Foth & Van Dyke, Green Bay WI - SunOS; Sun SPARC, CLIX; Intergraph 2020
• Centralization of system management function using NIS, NFS and shell scripts.
• Trained support personnel in Unix basics, editing using teh vi editor, and shell programming.
• Unix, XENIX & MS-DOS - 286, 386, 486 PCs, C, MS-DOS batch files, and Unix shell
• Responsible for specifying and acquisition of systems.
• Installed hardware, system software, and application software
• Implemented a wide area e-mail system
• Implemented a TCP/IP network with NFS, in-house.
• Provided end-user support for Tricom's clients.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Unix, MS-DOS, Macintosh, RISC (Sun, IBM, HP), x86, 68xxx, C, MS-DOS batch, HyperCard, PostScript, and Unix shell
• Ported public domain software between Intel Unix, AIX, HP-UX, and AT&T Unix.
• Setup PC router for TCP/IP network using an AT.
• Implemented Internet mail, and USENET news systems.
• Implemented TOPS (Macintosh) networks.
• Designed Postscript Type 2 fonts.
• Integrated Macintoshes into TCP/IP network.
• Provided end-user support and trained users in use of PC, Macintosh, and Unix applications.
• Unix, XENIX, MS-DOS, CP/M-86, Theos - 286, 386 PCs, C, 80x86 Assembly, MS-DOS batch, and Unix shell
• Developed systems level product design including selection of processor and peripheral chips as well as initial boot-strap code for teh first S-100 board level computer.
• Worked in conjunction with teh lead hardware engineer to port CP/M-86 to teh product.
• Managed small software development projects.
• Wrote low-level routines to test hardware and developed device drivers.
• Developed documentation for hardware development project.
• Administered budgets, prepared financial reports for investors, and provided managerial support functions.