SUMMARY:

• Use my ability to negotiate and execute win - win strategies with customers (internal/external) as well as vendors is one of my strongest skillsets.
• I excel as a mentor to help support teams with gaining a better understanding of the technical requirements needed for any project.
• For every project I am there from beginning to end to ensure the outcome is successful for users and business leaders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

verview: Talent: Solution driven engineer, providing leadership and direction on the technology driving the evolution of today's infrastructure. (Industrial Revolution 4.0)

Top strengths: Designing, implementing, and supporting secure environments that are dynamic to meet the explosive growth of Internet/cloud acceptance, using layered firewalls and layered defenses tools at the security core.

Leadership: Provide assessments using security modeling (cost vs risk vs end user experience) to allow management to evaluate options.

Hardware: Checkpoint Firewalls, Cisco ASAs, Palo Alto Firewalls, Gigamon, Darktrace,F5 (ASM, APM, GTM, I-Rules) Darktrace

Software: Checkpoint Firewall Smart Console, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Any Connect, Illumio,Q Radar, CrowdStrike, Visio, Wireshark, SolarWinds, Tufin

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Network Security Engineer

Confidential, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Implementing detailed audit controls to ensure firewall infrastructure changes to comply withsecurity design compliance (Hi - Trust).
• Monitoring, detecting, analyzing, and determining remediation efforts for security risks.
• Security SME on migration team for Medline's Corporate Data Center move to Tier Point COLOs.
• Implementing Zero Trust model across network security landscape. Using multi layered defense model for visibility.
• Supporting Illumio across server infrastructure to enforce Micro Segmentation Model.
• Created firewall change form document to assist application owners requesting changes tocurrent/new application access.
• Contributed to a new IT security team with the focused on network hardware andservices. Team started with 3 engineers expanding to 12 as of today.

Network Engineer II

Confidential, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, installation, and support of Medline's data center
• Provided level 2/3 support for Core Data Center clients and other IT departments
• Scripting and implementing client requests on Cisco, CheckPoint and F5 hardware
• Provided identification and resolution of network problems, including routing, connectivity andapplication performance issues
• Provided support for client s incident/trouble tickets, as on - call Engineer
• Lead for Microsoft ISA to F5 migrations for SCCM & Exchange 2010, and Exchange 2010 to 2016
• Lead for SSO initiative using F5 for sales force automation tools including Concur and On Pointe
• Lead for migration of F5 Enterprise Manger to F5 Big IQ

Network Engineer

Confidential, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for LAN/WAN/Security/F5 engineering design, installation, and support of Pfizer sHospira division
• Lead Network Engineer for Hospira - Pfizer Data Center Migration
• Lead for project to upgrade F5 s LTM 3600s to F5 s LTM 5050s. SME for all F5 initiatives
• Lead for 2 factor authentication security integration, responsible for design, implementation andsupport
• Department lead providing mentoring and support to junior engineers
• Lead for security breach initiative of corporate email system (exchange 2010)
• Lead for conversion of all applications that are current using standalone proxies to F5 for reverseproxy support.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, installation, and support of FIS Commercial data center voice anddata network.
• Provided level 3 support for Commercial Data Center clients and other IT departments
• Scripted and implemented client requests on Cisco, Juniper and F5 hardware
• Provided support to manage/upgrade SSL certificates for client web sites
• Provided support for client s incident/trouble tickets, as on - call Engineer
• Lead for implementation/upgrade of Commercial Customer s MAC/BAU requests
• Achieved a 98% rating for RTF on all changes and scripts

Network Engineer

Confidential, Illinois

Responsibilities:

• Upgraded North America Manufacturing Centers to support layer 3 switching. Switch typesincluded 3550, 3560, 3750, 4510, 6506 - 13
• Provided support for MPLS circuit upgrades to support Engineering's increasing need forbandwidth, due to increasing - FTP CAD traffic
• Designed, configured and installed new International sites to connect to Global Network
• Used NetScout's Performance Manager to provide detailed analysis of performance issues
• Provided support and documentation for life cycle planning initiative
• Provided 3rd level support for Global Network Select Project Accomplishments:
• Lead WAN acceleration/compression project (using Riverbed) to help reduce overallbandwidth utilization and cost
• Lead Cisco - Wireless Guest/Visitor/Manufacturing Network rollout
• Lead WAN acceleration/compression project (using Riverbed) to help reduce overallbandwidth utilization and cost
• Lead Cisco - Wireless Guest/Visitor/Manufacturing Network rollout