SUMMARY

• Cisco Certified Network Associate in Routing, Switching and Wireless deployment.
• 15+ years of progressive experience in Telecom and Wireless Industries
• 7+ years of Sr. Network Transport Engineering coordinating mission critical projects
• 7+ years of Project Management coordinating, deploying and executing projects on customer premise.
• Highly experienced Communications Professional wif operation support of wireless and wireline infrastructures.
• System Engineering skills for end to end feature management and virtualization technologies
• Supports teh virtualization of components allowing a flexible network infrastructure.
• Multivendor noledge and configuration of Aruba Wireless and Cisco wireless Controllers.
• Experience using IB wave & Airwave to import drawings and perform predictive RF analysis during RF design.
• Understand teh use of SIP and Diameter in teh context of IMS and LTE to deploy VoLTE services.
• Experience wif Device testing and interoperability running voice over their LTE networks.
• Create databases, mops and job scope to configure new and existing network equipment.
• Cisco's Prime Network Element Management System, Cisco's LAN & WAN Management Solution EMS
• Knowledge of teh OSI model and networking protocols: VLANs, MPLS, BGP, OSPF TCP/UDP.
• Strong ability to troubleshoot complex multi - vendor network issues in teh LAN and WAN networks
• Manage complex projects related to all aspects of teh Telecommunications infrastructure and construction.
• Work as team lead on customer premise deploying new applications in lab and live environments.
• Self-Managed, motivated individual responsible for teh design, implementation, optimization and verification.
• Design wireless systems for Inside & Outside infrastructure in a fast paced collaborative environment.
• Manage, procure, and oversee teh implementation of inside and outside plant scopes of work.
• Obtain quotes, request necessary funding, and track purchase orders through equipment installation.
• WLAN deployment: RF Design, AP Placement Design, Wireless LAN implementation
• Post-Installation site-survey, develop and perform user acceptance testing, transfer and documentations
• Track and manage Network elements such as UNC's, PDSN's, HA's, MME's, SGW's, EPC's and 7750's.
• Understanding of teh OSI Network Layer model, and its practical implementation, IOS XE & XR.
• Network Security - IPSec WLAN, AAA Architecture, TACACS+, RADIUS, ASA, Checkpoint
• Ability to read and interpret test results from Sweep, PIM and OTDR test equipment and reports.
• Server Deployment Systems Administrator to support theWindows and Linux server field deployment.
• Database administrator and Database management test and implement database structures.
• Net Analyst Test circuits DS0, DS1, DS3, ATM, Frame Relay and CSU/DSUs.
• Supported Load Balancers, Wireless networks, and Layer 3 switches (Nexus) IPSEC VPN.
• 2800, 1900, 2900, 3800, 3900 series Cisco Routers and Cisco Nexus 7000, ASR 9000, 7200 and 6500.
• IEEE 802.11 standards (ac,b,g,N), 802.1x Wi-Fi, Wireless Controllers 5760, 4400 and 5500
• Wireless Access Points, Strong understanding of LAN Switching technologies (VLANs)
• Proficient wif IMS/ EPC/ 4G LTE technologies, Voice gateway configurations (MGCP, H323, SIP, SCCP)
• Experience analyzing traffic and utilizing packet sniffer utilities (Wires-hark, Net-scout, JDSU tools)
• Experience using tools like Wire-shark to test or troubleshoot data throughput speeds
• Experience wif Fibre Channel, FCoE, 10G DWDM, CDN providers,Metro Ethernet,Voice over IP (VoIP)
• Ability to function under pressure and maintain composure in chaotic situation to resolve service related issues.
• Cellular sites infrastructure experience including: Lucent, Motorola, Nortel and Ericsson
• Cisco ONS 15454,Cienna Metro 5200, Optellian, Transmode, Lucent DMX, Hitachi, Infinera, Nortel OME, Preside
• SONET, DWDM, ATM, Frame, Fujitsu, CIENA, Infinera, F5 Balancer, Tellabs, CoreStream or Optera
• Routing protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and LAN Switching: VLAN, VTP, STP, EtherChannel, CoS

TECHNICAL SKILLS

L3 Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, CEF, MPLS, MPLS Layer 3 VPN’s, VRF-Lite, PFR

L2 Protocols: Frame-relay, STP, RSTP, PVST, MSTP, VLAN, LACP, GVRP, PVLAN, VLT, VTP, UDLD, 802.1q, RSPAN and SPAN

IPv6 Protocols: OSPFv3, EIGRPv3, Tunneling techniques (GRE, v4tov6 and v6tov4)

Multicast: PIM, MSDP, Auto-RP, BSR, IGMP, IGMP-Snooping

Network Services: NTP, GLBP, WCCP, NAT, DNS, DHCP, DHP snooping and subnetting.

Redundancy Technologies: Virtual Scale (CISCO VSS), VCP, Virutal Link Trunking (VLT), VRRP, HSRPOther Network Hardware Juniper firewalls, CSU/DSU’s, DACS

Transport Protocols: ATM, MPLS, Frame-Relay, HDLC, IMA, PPP

Business Applications: Remedy Ticketing, Citrix

Office Automation: Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint

Planning & Design: Microsoft Project, Flow chart Project, Visio

O/S and Software: Windows XP, Solaris, BSD, SSH, VPN Client

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

Core Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supports operation management for customer-servicing infrastructure implementation projects.
• Familiarity wif 4G/3G standards and cellular concepts, cellular feature and application noledge.
• Able to create development test cases and run them on test equipment.
• Solid noledge of LTE, WCDMA, and windows subsystems.
• Promote teh use of repeatable processes to increase throughput and rapid deployment.
• Manage individual workload and deliver to agreed-upon milestones.
• Has gone through a complete development and certification product cycle.
• Develop business cases that support changes to network and system infrastructure.
• Design an effective test plan for any new / changed customer-servicing infrastructure.
• Implements technology and customer-servicing infrastructure changes.
• Ensure communication of process and procedure changes to teh IT organization.
• Leadership and communication skills to build and strengthen relationships in teh IT organization.
• Highly motivated and self-directed individual, bringing a strong sense of focus and energy to work.
• Strong project leadership skills and execution focus to drive results through performance - bothat teh individual level and at teh group level.
• Work wif other program manager(s) to identify and manage project dependencies Major responsibilities.
• Excellent understanding of teh software development lifecycle, and change control practices needed in a carrier class IT production environment.
• Good financial management skills - to ensure adherence to budgetary responsibilities.
• Identify changes needed in teh customer-servicing infrastructure configuration to achieve teh technology organization goals
• Supports teh customer-servicing infrastructure strategy reviews and development by performing applicable analysis.
• Analyzes network & system response and determines tuning recommendations to improve performance.
• Interfaces wif teh vendors’ senior technical staff/management on critical/escalated network and system related outages.
• Support effective issue identification and resolution process.
• Good experience in installation, configuration, troubleshooting of CISCO routers like 2800, 3750, 2900, 7301, 7600, 12410, ASR1k. Catalyst 6509, 4507 and Data center switches like 7k, 5k and 2k of nexus.
• Expertise in configuring, troubleshooting network topologies which includes OSPF, BGP, HSRP, VRRP & STP

Confidential, Alpharetta GA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploy Wi-Fi services responsible for teh design, installation, testing, implementation and maintenance of theWireless Network.
• Deploy and operate Cisco wireless network architecture to support teh access needs throughout teh company and convert access points from autonomous mode to Flexconnect mode .
• This may include configuration and deployment of wireless controllers and access points and integration wif authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) systems in accordance wif policies.
• Previous experience wif deploying Wi-Fi in a large enterprise networks utilizing multiple wireless venders and Cisco MSE version 7.6 and Cisco Wireless LAN controllers 4400, 5508, 8510 Series OS version 7.6 .
• Wi-Fi deployments to teh latest technology standards, remediating gaps in coverage, deploying new Wi-Fi services including guest, BYOD, certificate based access in 70 locations worldwide.
• Responsible for design and configuration of LAN/WAN environment for core and access node in U.S. and transcontinental cities utilizing network hardware such as Cisco 2800 & 3800 series routers, Cisco 4506, and Cisco 6509 switches.
• Responsible for network traffic analysis, capacity planning, and monitoring and reporting network throughput via Solarwinds, Nagios, PRTG and Cisco RTMT (Real-Time-Monitoring Tool). Implemented traffic measures such as NetFlow.
• Installed and maintained security infrastructure, including Cisco IDS/IPS, log management, and security assessment systems. Assess threats, risks, and vulnerabilities from emerging security issues. Implemented security measures such as: ACL, RADIUS, TACACS+ and IDS/IPS.

Confidential, Blvd Franklin, TN

Avaya/Cisco Wireless Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Wireless Network Engineer for troubleshooting, configuring and tuning of wireless voice phone systems at Medical facilities and Enterprise locations.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills on Cisco 3800 router.
• Teh ability to handle critical customer issues/problems.
• Teh ability to determine problems and deliver non solutions wif a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Teh ability to determine root cause and resolution for previously unnon problems.
• Teh ability to work on problems of moderate to wide scope and moderate to high complexity where analysis of situations or data requires a review of identifiable factors.
• Teh ability to exercises judgment wifin defined procedures to determine appropriate action.
• Good verbal communication skills, teh ability to interact across TAC teams and development teams at peer level
• Troubleshooting skills Wireless Access Points, Wireless Client Association
• Wireless Controllers 5760,5500 & 4400, CSMA/CA, RTS, CTS protocols, RF transmission
• Antennas, IEEE 802.11 standards (a,b,g,N), 802.1x Wi-Fi, 1Q Trunking, Ether channel
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills on Cisco 3800 router.
• Strong understanding of LAN Switching technologies (VLANs) Cisco 4700 and 3650 switches
• WLAN Security in teh areas of authentication, encryption, IDS/IPS using Radius, AAA authentication, EAP, LEAP, PEAP, PSK, AES-CCMP encryption (AES- Counter w. CBC MAC Protocol), Wireless Sniffers
• WEP encryption (Wired Equivalent Privacy, WPA (Wi-Fi Protocol Access), WPA2
• Cisco LWAPP and IOS based solutions, WLSM, WiSM, WCS
• Avaya CS1000 and 6140 Phones configuration

Confidential, Bloomfield, NJ

Transport Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Detailed noledge of telecommunication engineering concepts, fundamentals, and theory for Wireless and Wired Networks projects, implementing and deploying Cisco's Prime Network Element Management System.
• Project Management skills, wif Software Development, Programming, configuring RAN, IMS and EPC networks.
• Customer support setting up accounts and budgets for new and existing wireless projects and perform audits.
• Ability to understand customer requirements and present solutions that will meet business objectives.
• Maintain cross-department communications to understand priorities and scale resources.
• Distributed Antenna Systems, Remote Radio Head end systems ACS provisioning and compact base stations.
• WIFI network design, planning networks and deployment of network infrastructure to next level.
• Working noledge of GPRS/EDGE, UMTS & IP Multimedia Core Subsystem VoLTE, SIP, packet data networks and teh core data nodes: SGW/PGW/PCEF, PCRF GGSN, RADIUS, DHCP, DNS, Routers, etc.
• Teh ability to lead projects, including planning and implementing short and long term scope of work plans and successfully completing projects on schedule.
• Knowledge of LTE Performance from end to end and focus on LTE Call Flow and call fall back.
• Supports teh virtualization of components allowing a flexible network infrastructure.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues in lab and commercial networks and strong debugging skills.
• Installation, test and turn up, monitor and scheduling routine maintenance to telecom industry standards.
• Trace a data packet through teh LTE Network and teh various Nodes.
• Statement of work, Site survey, signal reading and project planning & management.
• Work wif teh team to complete complex project configuring switches and routers.
• Experience in co-ordination wif various Telco, and Facilities teams
• Strong noledge and experience wif Cisco routing, switching and ACS provisioning.
• Network installation of: Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Hubs, NICS, CSU/DSU, Modems, Cabling, T3, T1.
• Strong ability to communicate effectively wif customers, vendors and management.

Confidential, Texas

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of all required administration and construction of base stations for Sprint Network.
• Vision project for teh eastern region: New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Markets.
• Provide hands on and technical support of new Samsung MMBS for Sprint Network. Integrate.
• Operate and maintain over 500 sites in teh New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia Markets.
• Perform installation of Sprint 2.5 equipment.(Batterie­s, DU Shelf, Fiber, AC/DC Power, Rectifiers, and Routers).
• Conducted test calls over teh Samsung Network Vision Equipment. Correct fiber and Power issues.
• Maintain RMA tracking and documentation for MMBS equipment. Perform Q-Scope’s and Network Testing.
• Work closely wif Sprint and Samsung management reporting daily status and completions.
• Follow up installation, Maintenance and troubleshooting of CAT 5 and 6 data networks.
• Configured Cisco ASR 901k Router (Firmware, License and Configuration).
• Performed Alarm Testing on Samsung MMBS Cabinets (Texon and Emerson).
• Connect MMBS lines to all sectors radios perform PIM test and Sweep Test.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup budgets for new and existing wireless projects and perform audits.
• Build Distributed Antenna Systems, Remote Radio Head end systems and compact base stations.
• Ability to understand customer requirements and present solutions that will meet business objectives.
• Strong interpersonal, communication and problem-solving skills combined wif technical understanding of voice, data, VoIP, WiFi, RF and fiber optic systems.
• Designing and deploying Cisco, Rokus and Aruba WLAN product in LAN/WLAN/VPN environments.
• PM wireless communications projects for MSC’s: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, Samsung and Ericson, Windstream.
• Cell site back Haul network and Layer 3 network which supports Clients 4G LTE services.
• Experience in troubleshooting issues in lab and commercial networks and strong debugging skills.
• Analysis of Proper call flow requests, responses and/or updates using Tracing tools.
• Manage contractors and DAS Construction Project Managers during teh construction process
• Capture SIP, Diameter, TCP, UDP and other LTE-EPC and IMS Protocols.
• Monitor, Analyze and resolve faults occurring in network elements
• Trace a data packet through teh LTE Network and teh various Nodes.
• Net Analyst Test circuits DS0, DS1, DS3, ATM, Frame Relay and CSU/DSUs
• Statement of work, Site survey, signal reading and project planning & management.
• Work wif teh team to complete complex switch and router installations.
• Experience in co-ordination wif various Telco, Cabling, Audio Video, Security, Facilities teams
• Provisioned F5 Load Balancer, Cisco routers and switches. Installed order circuits and network equipment.
• Proficient wif SAID/ EPC/ 4G LTE technologies, Voice gateway configurations (MGCP, H323, SIP, SCCP)
• Experience analyzing traffic and utilizing packet sniffer utilities (ie. Wires-hark, Net-scout, JDSU tools)
• Experience using tools like Wire-shark to test or troubleshoot data throughput speeds
• Cellular sites infrastructure experience including: Lucent, Motorola, Nortel; CDMA data
• Lead projects, including planning and implementing and successfully completing projects on schedule.
• Telecom domain noledge, understanding of VoLTE for Samsung, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.