OBJECTIVE:

Seeking an engineering or management position with An Information Technology or Communications Company that will leverage my experience, education, and leadership skills and provide me with opportunities for advancement

SUMMARY:

• More than 16 years of experience in operating systems, networking, business production software and hardware.
• Broad range of technical and managerial experience in Networking, communications and computing
• Excellent work habits, experienced in UNIX, Linux,Cisco,Checkppoint,PaloAlto Networks Remote management LAN / WAN technologies, best practices and protocols
• Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Wireless and Load balancers
• Confidential Switches, SDN, Data Centers Technologies and best practices
• Palo Alto networks, solar winds monitoring, Campus Networks (Wired/Wireless)
• Load balancers,Wan Accelerators, Edge network security (silverPeak, Riverbed and F5)
• Polycom &teleprecense solutions, Remote Offices Upgrades
• EMC backup and storage / SRM and Business continuity planning
• Experienced in check point Firewalls(splat /windows) Migration to PaloAlto Networks
• Check Point best practices and tools (smart dashboard, monitor, tracker)Accounting and usage Analysis
• Aruba Wireless solution and 802.11x Authentication along with cloud Deploy Wi - fi
• Wireless 802.11ac design and deployment in Arubausing Airwave, Design and deploy Wave 2 cisco using prime in addition to Cisco Aironet Meraki and SOHO solutions including IAPs, Yagi, Senao and Sectorial APs along with Sight Survey and tunning of power/Frequencies
• Cisco IOS,Fierwalls Migration to PaloAlto networks, VLAN,BGP,MPLS,RCS sniffing and Ethernet troubleshooting tools and applications(check point, Fluke, Wire Shark)
• Security Setup and Maintenance, Load Balancing using Cisco ACE and Citrix NetScaler’s and hardware appliances(coyote point), web accelerators(river bed), proxy servers, Radius and TACACS
• Auditing and implementing strong system and network security(IPS,IDS, Intrusion Tests, DOS/DDOS mitigation and disaster recovery plans)
• Networking and network troubleshooting instillation configuration and maintenance LAN/WAN/WLAN/MPLS /BGP Static and dynamic routing, Cisco routers and multi-layer switches,VLANS, Enterprise server and network storage(SAN,NAS,RAID,iSCSI,LVD, SAS,SATA III,EMC) Dell Blades HP blades including HPUX and various servers.
• Monitoring tools implementing configuration and operation (Cacti, Nagios, NetFlow GigaMon Windows Apps Health Monitors, HP OpenView, Dell open Manage, Alarm point,PRTGG,KeyNote/Webmetrics and SolarWinds).
• Linux configuration, open source application and reporting management(CentOS, PFsence/Mikrotik FWs, Elastix (Asterisk based), Open Vpn, Nagios).
• Exchange servers, Active Directory, VPNs, Virtual Servers, Antivirus servers, Terminal Servers SharePoint, Reloading, DNS DC and DHCP Servers, IIS and Application Servers, Backup and Database Replication including tape loaders
• Desktops, servers, mainframes and data centers instillation operation configuration and maintenance as well as telecommunication mobile switching offices dispatch centers and command and control centers.
• Experience administering and architecting virtualized and physical systems.
• SDN(Cloud Vision),SD Wan using PaloAlto VTIs to decrease MPLS coasts and Cloud Genix
• SilverPeak,Riverbed Wan Acceleration
• Help Desk/ Ticketing and PC Support experience.
• Willingness to learn and apply new technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

IT Project Management Skills and tools: BMC Remedy, Service Now, Agile/JIRA- ITIL-Lean Management-MS Project and service now, ITIL,SixSigma

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Sr.Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Lab consolidation and relocation projects, manage network related items
• Configure network switches and upgrade OS prior to crating to remote Data Centers for instillation.
• Bring mergers labs and acquisitions into RFC1918 Compliance
• Manage network ip Space and prepare network changes to configure along with Security diagrams and subnets design
• Ready the network for Confidential and Microfocus spin up
• Check sited configurations and plan upgrades with scalability and future growth and budgets in mind
• Upgrade labs security appliances from checkpoint and Fortinet to Palo alto while maintaining same connectivity for multiple Virtual routers / zones with PA 5050 and higher hardware

Network Engineer

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Data Centers refresh with newer technologies increased capacity/Network performance
• Remote offices Refresh with newer technologies and increased stability
• Design a solution for SD wan to replace higher cost MPLS and deploy remote sites faster while maintaining same security via using Palo Alto networks 3020 for Confidential, main office and Datacenters and PA220 at remote sites

Network Engineer

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and upgrade Confidential and remote offices / Mfg. sites IT infrastructure and Datacenters
• Migrate Confidential network infrastructure from PFSence (open source)firewalls to Enterprise standard PaloAlto networks utilizing PA5050 for Confidential and Datacenters, PA 3020 for lab and POC/Development pa 200/500 for remote sites
• Continuous upgrade and standardization for above offices to meet business needs and ensure compliance and best IT practices
• Support Enterprise LAN-WAN telecomm facilities, VOIP and IT services for above
• Wireless and VPN continuous enhancements

Network Engineer

Confidential, San Fran, CA

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and upgrade Global E Commerce offices IT infrastructure
• Develop build and use application monitoring and Global threat using Palo Alto products for better visibility in the network operation center(NOC)
• Auditing/Reviewing/implementing FWSM/ASA FW rules and make sure they are in compliance with PCI using Archer Migrate EoL equipment to Palo alto where fesible
• Maintain and optimize walmart.com production/QA Network and sites including MPLS network and troubleshooting routing protocols (OSPF,BGP&EIGRP)
• Prepare Change control (CRQ) for any changes in production and QA related to Nexus 3k,5k,7k Switches Routes, Firewalls NetScaler /ACE Load balancers, BGP,MPLS and review . upgrading administering monitoring and automation tools configure SPAN& RSPAN on related switches & daily troubleshooting tickets, traffic log analysis on incidents basses packet captures and analysis for application troubleshooting Administration L1/L2 Troubleshooting/Triage

Sr. Production Network Engineer

Confidential, Palm Bay/Port St Lucie, FL

Responsibilities:

• Insuring the operation of multiple critical 24 X 7 NOCs including equipment, LANs and global WAN interconnecting multiple sites, with both Internet and Intranet interconnectivity.
• Network performance troubleshooting & problem resolution.
• Interact with Operations, Production Support and Customer Support to answer customer questions and resolve customer network issues.
• Provided Servers/Network support relating to software and hardware failure for the Data centers.
• Maintained excellent level of knowledge of operating systems, both Windows and UNIX, and associated application software to provide high levels of support to the Operations department
• Consulted with the development IT team on efficient application deployment strategies and system optimization and QOS
• Monitored and evaluate efficiency of software/hardware usage
• Installed new or updated software applications on production systems
• Assisted in installation of VoIP, telephone and related telco WAN facilities
• Recommended, defined and installed improved network solutions including checkpoint cluster xl with bridged mode, Migrate from Checkpoint to PaloAlto due to the lack of support for bridged mode in cluster(ha)mode from checkpoint side

Systems Engineer/Systems Manager

Confidential, Melbourne, FL

Responsibilities:

• Handled IT infrastructure upgrade for all offices around the states after that project became call center IT lead and systems administrator managing AD,VOIP, firewall, network infrastructure,VM,Help desk and trouble tickets system, etc(750 users network) at a zero downtime facilities and techniques
• Call centers IT manger for a team of 14 including project time tables KPIs etc
• Traffic Network (NOC, Switches, LAN, Firewalls, SSH and VPN and Crashes Data Base) management at Confidential, where we did system optimization efficient application deployment strategies.

Planning Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Engineering management and planning responsibilities including crosscutting projects (capacity building and Information Technology Infrastructure) on Muthanna Governorate Structural Plan As well as preparing methodologies (more than 16 cities and 2 Governorates
• Network manager for bearing point camp responsible for all routers, switches access points IP phones(VOIP)network printers and print servers and camp LAN / WAN network configuration and operation
• Implemented and maintained social security network and Ministry of labor and social affairs datacenter network
• Designed configured and implemented and maintained Confidential of Iraq datacenter network and Data Security including most sophisticated multi-layer Cisco switches ISA servers and PIX firewalls along with Active directory and Exchange Server instillation and application servers
• Filling in IT department manager role for bearing point camp on need bases

Network/System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Instillation supervisor and quality inspector for HF Network project
• Quality Manager for previous project September..
• AFRN systems manager. took place in Baghdad final site surveys and site Construction in Addition to Governmental Dispatch Center (GDC), Mobile Switching Office (MSO) instillation And Command and Control Center Instillation (CC) in both MOI and Confidential building and installing a major Network Operating Centers Compound with Configuration Instructor and hand on Job Trainer for VCS(Voice Communication System) and Dimetra IP (Tetra)systems in addition to being the IT lead of the Advanced First Responder Network project being responsible and the only person capable for restoring complex switching systems where there were failures and maintenance of a sophisticated trunked radio network across Iraq on behalf of lucent.
• O&M technical Dimetra Advisor where I had to Interact with Operations, Production Support and Customer(MOI) Support