TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

SECURITY TECHNOLOGIES:

Firewalls: Juniper SRX, Juniper J Series Routers, Netscreen Firewalls, Check Point Firewall/Provider1 R71, R70, NGX, NG AI, NG 2K,, Cisco ASA, Microsoft ISA

VPN: Check Point VPN, Netscreen, Juniper SRX, Cisco ASA, ISA 2004, Nortel Contivity

IPS/IDS: Forescout Active Scout, Net IQ, Checkpoint SmartDefense

Security Scanners: Qualys, Foundstone, Net IQ

Mail Filter: Trend Micro, I Hate Spam, Bright Mail

Antivirus: Trend Micro Scan Mail for Exchange, Norton Antivirus for Corporate Network/Exchange

Two Factor authentication: Secure ID, Alladin E - token

Web Filter: Websense, Surf Control

Peer to Peer Filtering: L7 from Akonix, Surf Control

Patch Management: Update Expert, Shavik, MS SUS

Spyware: Sunbelt Counterspy Enterprise, Spybot Search and Destroy

NETWORKING TECHNOLOGIES:

Routers: Cisco 7200 Series, 3600 Series, 2100 Series, 2500 Series. 2800 ISR Routers, Juniper J2320

Switches: Foundry/Brocade Big Iron, Cisco Catalyst 3500 Series, 3550 Series, 4000 Series, 6500 Series, Dell, 3Com

Load Balancers: Citrix Netscaler, F5 Big IP 9.X and 4.X. Foundry/Brocade Server Iron, Cisco CSS Local Load Balancer, Cisco Local Director Load Balancer, Cisco Distributed Director, Global Load Balancer, Cisco Global Site Selector, Cisco Secure Content Accelerator

Network Monitoring Tools: PRTG, MRTG, CiscoWorks, HP Openview, Sniffer Pro, Ethereal

WAN: DS3, T1, ISDN, DSL, Cable Modem

LAN: Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Fibre Channel

Routing Protocols: BGP

Platform: IOS, ScreenOS, Junos

Wireless: Aruba, Check Point, Cisco Aironet, Linksys, WEP, WAP, IKE over WIFI, 802.11A, 802.11B, 802.11G, 802.1X

SYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY:

OS: Windows 2008, Windows Vista, 2003, 2000, NT, XP, Millennium, 98, 95

Virtualization: VmWare ESX 3, Vcenter, Workstation, Server, etc.

Applications: Exchange Server 2003 and 2000, SharePoint Portal, IIS, Certificate Authority, Windows Clustering for Exchange, SQL, and Oracle, DNS, WINS, DHCP, Blackberry Server, Goodlink Server

Servers: Compaq/HP Proliant DL Series, Dell PowerEdge Servers

Desktops/Laptops: IBM, Sony, Dell, Compaq/HP

Software: Net IQ App Manager; Sitescope, IP Check, Microsoft Office Suite. Visio

Storage: HP EVA, Compaq Storage Area Network, MA 8000, RA 8000, MSA Series, Data Replication Management. Brocade Fibre Channel Switches, Emulex, San Castel Fibre Channel over IP

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Senior Knowledge Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Check Point Provider1/Vpn 1 for versions R55 to R71
• Juniper Junos
• Juniper Junos for Service Routers (SRX)
• Netscreen Firewalls/VPN 5.X to 6.X
• Citrix Netscaler 8.X to 9.X
• F5 Big IP version 4.x, 9.x, and 10.X
• Foundry BigIron
• Foundry ServerIron
• NAT for CHKP, IOS, F5, Netscaler, and Netscreen
• IPSec Tunnels for CHKP, Netscreen, and PIX/ASA
• Systems Testing for the following plugins:
• Cisco IOS
• Cisco ASA/PIXFoundstone VA scanner
• Qualys VA Scanner
• Juniper Netscreen
• Juniper Junos
• Juniper Junos for Service Routers
• Check Point Firewall/VPN
• Foundry/Brocade Ironware

Confidential, San Mateo, CA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I managed a team of network and systems engineers, as well as serving as the technical lead, chief architect, and implementation engineer for customer services and solutions as well as our internal corporate IT services.
• I have a vast set of skill sets and have worked on projects involving various platforms and technologies.
• I have designed and implemented many solutions for clients, ranging in size from Global 2000 to startups.

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I redesigned, configured and tested the rollout of a new infrastructure for a global monitoring network that spans 31 datacenters in 19 countries.
• The new infrastructure was an upgrade to an existing “production” environment.
• Once the new infrastructure was up, clients were migrated one by one to the new production environment.
• I served as the architect, and technical project manager for the project.
• Cisco ASA 7.2.2 Firewalls, Cisco 2811 ISR Routers, Cisco 3500 Series Switches, HP Proliant DL Series Servers, Windows 2003 Server, Mercury Business Process Monitor, Mercury Business Availability Center, Sitescope, PRTG, Symantec Antivirus
• I designed and built and rolled out a production environment around Red Herring’s requirements. The design provided for secure hosting of their 3 tier application as well as secure access to remotely upload content to their staging and CMS servers.We are currently providing the hosting and management of the online magazine.

Applications and Equipment: Checkpoint NGX Firewall, Cisco 2800 Series Routers, Cisco 3500 Series Switches, HP Proliant DL Series Servers, Windows 2000/2003 Server, Microsoft CMS Servers, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL 2000 Clusters, NetIQ App Manager, Site Scope, Symantec Antivirus, Symantec Backup Exec, Cisco Content Services Switch

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Confidential hosted their application in our managed datacenters.
• The infrastructure for this project was not designed properly and had a lot of performance issues.
• I worked with our engineers and the end users for a period of time to identify and troubleshoot the issues.
• I redesigned the infrastructure and rolled it out to the new environment with little disruption.

Applications and Equipment: Checkpoint NG Firewall Clusters, Cisco 7200 Series Routers, Cisco CAT 4000 Series Switches, HP Proliant DL Series Servers, Windows NT/2000/2003 Server, Microsoft Exchange Server 2000, Microsoft IIS, Microsoft SQL 2000 Cluster, NetIQ App Manager, Site Scope, Symantec Antivirus Symantec Backup Exec, Cisco Content Services Switch, Cisco Secure Content Accelerator