TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco Meraki technologies suite, Cisco 6500, 4500, 3700, 3600, 2900 series switches; Cisco Nexus 5500 series switches; Cisco 2800, 4300 series routers; Cisco FTD appliances; Cisco ASA 5500, 5500x firewalls; Azure and AWS networking; VPN; Anyconnect; Iptables on Debian; FireEye NX; Cyphort; Riverbed Steelhead CX; Riverbed SteelCentral Profiler; Brocade BigIron, NetIron, and FastIron switches and routers; Juniper, Sidewinder, Sonicwall, Watchguard Firewalls; Netapp, Equallogic, Compellent SANs; VMWare ESX; HyperV; Windows Server NT/2003/2008; Exchange 2003/2007; Active Directory; DNS; File, Print, Terminal Services; Veritas/Symantec Backup Exec; Solarwinds; Project Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Network engineer with a strong focus towards regional, international, and support offices,
• Manage the network experience from project planning, requirements gathering, implementation, and ongoing support, Work closely with all Information Technology teams around the world for discussion and planning
• Extensive experience with many infrastructure technologies from companies such as Cisco, Meraki, Riverbed, HP, and Brocade
• Managed the transition from an entirely office based team to almost 100% telework for the entire company in roles such as various levels of planning, consulting, implementation, and support,
• Manage cloud networking and firewalling aspects primarily in Azure with less focus on AWS
• Manage business and vendor relations for our all of our teams, consultants, and third parties.

Lead IT Security Engineer - IT Security

Confidential, Bethesda, MD

Responsibilities:

• The only network engineer that managed all LAN, WAN, and datacenter networking for three datacenters and 135 remote locations;
• Managed all security appliances; Implemented large changes to improve security and availability such as FireEye NX devices, Riverbed Steelhead CX and install and administration, Cyphort pilot implementation, Nexus Datacenter Switching, migrated business away from Juniper firewalls to a Cisco ASA technology, DMVPN based datacenter circuit failover, convert office switching from HP to Cisco Catalyst switching, implementing Netflow monitoring using Riverbed s SteelCentral platform, and implemented discrete vpn concentrators;
• Managed day to day uptime of the enterprise; Managed relationships with vendors, suppliers, management, and users;
• Planned, managed, and implemented full enterprise MPLS with cellular failover in partnership with Confidential
• Researched specifications, gathered business needs, and deployed networking to facilitate full office move and datacenter migrations;
• Worked within PCI guidelines and secured the network to try to be Confidential secure than required;
• Developed working knowledge of F5 load balancing, Azure Networking, Cisco Prime, Splunk, and Rapid7 vulnerability scanner.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Millersville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Manage small and medium business clients cloud, desktop, network, security, and project needs;
• Managed HyperV virtualization solution for outsourced datacenter “Cloud” solution;
• Managed project facilitating next generation Flexpod solution for datacenter project
• Full scope Windows server management including Active Directory, DNS, User administration, Group Policy, Terminal Services,
• Exchange and etc. on Server 2003 and 2008 platforms; Managed backups using Backup Exec, Vembu, and Windows solutions using disk to disk, tape, and remote storage methodologies;
• Migrated client’s server infrastructure into Cloud solution including mail, file data, databases, printing, and etc into our Datacenter;
• Consulted on floor to ceiling datacenter revamp;
• Managed site surveys and project management for prospective clients and cloud migration candidates.

Network Engineer

Confidential, College Park, MD

Responsibilities:

• Contract Network Engineer in charge of day to day operations and ongoing operations of local and remote sites; Juniper Firewalls; Cisco 6500, 4500, 3700, 2900 series of switches; Cisco 2800 series routers; Barracuda web filter; Network monitoring; Vsphere 4.1 administration; DNS management;
• Project work including network requirement planning for a VDI project, scheduled maintenance planning, and network documentation.

Network Architecture Engineer Leader

Confidential, Annapolis Junction, MD

Responsibilities:

• Escalation point for all networking related issues;
• Maintained, implemented, planned, troubleshot, and supported all layer 2/3 services and load balancing in the labs;
• Replaced aging Brocade BigIron backbone equipment with NetIron MLX and 10Gb connectivity;
• Implemented IPv6, MPLS, VPLS in the lab environment; Planned full network refresh for lab refurbishment;
• Maintained network stability in a constantly changing lab environment;
• Supported and assisted users, projects, and teams as needed for networking functions;
• Supported other functions of the lab including Vmware Vsphere, VDI, monitoring, logging, power management, cable management, equipment planning, hardware refresh, DNS and IP management, Firewall administration, liaison with parent company for networking needs, and etc.

Network Engineer - Team Lead

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Responsibilities:

• Team lead directly reporting to the Director of IT and functioning as the technical escalation point for a team of ten; Supported several offices throughout the US and internationally; Primary responsibilities included network stability, vpn stability to offices and clients;
• Dual datacenter Netapp SAN management including Snapshots, Data retention, SnapManager for Exchange, Primary support, and Storage planning; Vmware ESX setup, management, support, data/server migration via P2V/V2P; firewall, switch, and router changes, implementation, and troubleshooting, storage management, and backups; Firewall management using several vendor’s products; Supported the corporate network in addition to client project consultation;
• Project management; Vendor management; ISP management in support of circuit, QoS, and MPLS services;
• Supported all corporate hardware to include Netapp FAS2050 SANs, Equallogic SAN, Servers, client machines, tape libraries, switches, routers, firewalls, ESX 3.5 cluster; Operation systems supported include Windows NT/ 2000/2003/2008/ XP/Vista/W7, Netapp Ontap, and PGP.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Rockville, MD

Responsibilities:

• Managed varied client sites with individual needs;
• Maintained, troubleshot, upgraded, and supported servers, NAS, firewalls, switches, routers, email, backups, and all manner of client specific hardware;
• Operating systems supported include Windows 9x/NT/2000/2003/XP/Vista Confidential client sites and headquarters;
• Solutions management from initial research and project management through implementation;
• Budgeting and procedural support; Full spectrum support for business clients ranging from five to two hundred fifty users;
• Steady trend of growth, client satisfaction, and bonus worthy work.