SUMMARY:

• 14 years of extensive IT experience providing technical leadership in teh design and implementation of data and voice network deployments, and third - level operational support/troubleshooting in primarily Cisco environments.
• Experienced in executing large-scale, enterprise-wide LAN/WAN and Firewall/VPN projects, serving as technical lead and project manager. Demonstrated ability in staying fresh as an engineer, while developing a "manager's eye" for teh impact to business processes, teh bottom line and teh future growth and robustness of teh network.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols/Technologies: DC Bridging, Ethernet, STP, VLAN, VTP, 802.1q, HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, Etherchannel, vPC, FEX, LACP, DNS, DHCP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, 802.11 a/b/g/n, TCP/IP, VoIP, MPLS, SSL VPN, IKEv1, IKEv2, IPSec, TrustSec, GRE, ACLs, SNMP, SAN, FCP, FCoE, iSCSI, FabricPath, OTV, NAT/PAT, QoS/CoS, SIP, RTP, PIM, IGMP

Cisco routers: CSR1000V, 2600, 2800, 2900,3600,7200 series ISRs; VG224

Cisco Nexus switches: 1000v, 2000, 5500, 7000

Cisco switches: 3550, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500

Cisco Firewalls: PIX 525 / ASA 5520/5512X

Palo Alto Firewalls: PA-5020

Mgmt: Cisco WCS, Prime InfrastructureOS: Cisco (IOS, SAN-OS, NX-OS), Windows Server (2003, 2008 R2), Windows 7, Mac OSX, Ubuntu

AAA/Security: Cisco Secure ACS, ISE, AnyConnect

IP Telephony: CUCM, Unity Connection, Presence, Jabber

Monitoring/Deployment: Solarwinds NPM, NCM

Cloud: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace

Virtualization: VMware vSphere 5.x+

Packet Analysis: Wireshark

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Technical lead on teh Global Network Operations Team, serving as teh primary resource for all matters Routing/Switching, Enterprise and Carrier VPN, and Cloud/Virtualization-based Networking.
• Maintain teh network infrastructure for 6 office locations and 5 Data Center/Co-Lo sites spanning 3 countries. Primarily working with Cisco 2800/2900/3800 ISR series routers, Cisco ASA 5520 and 5512X platform, and Cisco CSR-1000V routers deployed in Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2.
• Actively manage over 500+ VPNs connecting to over 300+ carriers worldwide, as well as interconnecting a distributed compute environment spread out among AWS and Rackspace cloud infrastructure, and 5 physical co-location facilities.
• Developed a Network Refresh Design Proposal that is in teh process of being implemented. Teh proposal incorporates industry best practices as well as topology reform, hardware and protocol/platform recommendations. Praised by teh VP of Global Network & Infrastructure Operations for its creativity and unique use of advanced network technologies.

Senior Network Operations Center Engineer

Confidential, Alpharetta, GA

Responsibilities:

• Highly astute technical leader Reporting to teh VP of Engineering, tasked as teh escalation engineer for teh operational support/troubleshooting of all critical Tier 3/4 LAN/WAN, Firewall, Wireless, Data Center, and IP Telephony network issues for Adcap’s Managed Services Division.
• Configured new and troubleshot existing Site-to-Site and IPSec/SSL Remote Access VPN tunnels for clients running Cisco ASA 55XX and Palo Alto PA-5000 platforms. For example, deploying a new ASA for a new client branch site. Project Statement of Work included installing teh ASA with DHCP allocation, NAT/PAT, and a site-to-site VPN connection with teh Client’s HQ.
• Deployed two Metro Ethernet P2P implementations for a client onsite. Project required significant configuration changes to two Core switches at two sites (a Cisco Catalyst 6513 and a Catalyst 3750), and two Palo Alto’s PA-5020 firewalls. Statement of Work also included VPN migration.
• Implemented, maintained, and evaluated multiple client IP telephony systems including handling MACDs for IP phones, developing dial plans/translation patterns, and voicemail for end users. Strong working knowledge of VG224s, Cisco 2811 Routers. Proficient in CUCM 8.x, Unity Connection 7.x/8.x, Cisco Presence and CIPC/Jabber. Heavily experienced with deploying Cisco IP Phones 794x, 796x, and IP Conference 8831s.
• Excellent Team Player Committed to junior engineers on network troubleshooting and design.

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data, wireless, and firewall technical lead hired to revitalize EMHC's network team of 5 engineers, responsible for teh configuration, deployment, and optimization of all network nodes in support of teh hospital's 24x7x365 network infrastructure.
• Played key role in executing company-wide modernization of teh wireless LAN, increasing network bandwidth, expanding teh reachability and roaming functionality for 2000+ clients at over 15 sites. Project involved replacing over 100 Cisco Aironet 3500 APs with Aironet 3600i APs, five Wireless LAN Controller software upgrades, and teh systematic implementation of AP image upgrades on 450+ APs.
• Configure and monitor two bridged data center infrastructures each running redundant, dual-chassis Cisco Nexus 7010 core switches with multiple distribution VDC's. Utilize over 10 Nexus 5000/2000s switches for Data Center aggregation, maintaining over 200 Cisco Catalyst switches for LAN access and distribution layer switching.
• Streamlined firewall administration by single-handedly migrated teh company Cisco ASA 5520 software to code version 8.4, removing dated legacy configurations in place of a modern, object-oriented approach. Actively support over 50 site-to-site VPNs to maintain EMHC's interconnectivity with third-party vendors and clinical technology partners.