SUMMARY:

• Professional with a master’s degree in IT and over 9 years of progressive technical experience in engineering, project implementations, configuration and troubleshooting of various technologies which includes proficiency in routing, routing protocols, switching, security, wireless and d Confidential center technologies on Cisco, Meraki, Cradlepoint (in Netcloud), Fortinet devices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing/Switching Technologies: - Cisco Routers ASRs/ISRs, Cisco C Confidential lyst/Nexus, Juniper, CRADLEPOINT LTE in Netcloud environment, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, Cisco IOS, Spanning Tree Protocol, BPDU, CDP, ACL, NAT, PAT, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, VTP, SMTP, ARP, TCP, UDP, VLAN Trunking, HSRP, SVI, CEF, Portfast, VSS, VPC.

Security/Firewalls Technologies: - Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls, Cisco IPS/IDS, Cisco ASA 1000V cloud firewall, Juniper SRXs, Palo Alto, AAA - TACACS+/RADIUS, SSH, SSL/IPSec.

Wireless/Voice Technologies: - Cisco WLC, IEEE 802.1x & 802.11, WLAN, WAP, AP, SSID, LWAPP, Aironet - Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), VoIP/SIP, CUCM, UCCM, UCCX, SCCP, PoE, MMDS, LMDS, CCK

Monitoring/D Confidential Center Technologies/APPS: - Wireshark, Cacti, Nagios, Solarwinds, Orion, Remedy - VMWare, F5 Big-IP LB (GTM/LTM), Cisco Prime, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, HTTP(S), SMTP, SFTP.

Other Technologies: - Windows Server 2008/2010, Microsoft Exchange, Visual Basic for Applications

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of engineers responsible for Network design buildup and implementation of new technologies for Confidential clients
• Tier IV for Confidential customers

Confidential

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of engineers responsible for Network design buildup and implementation of new technologies for CenturyLink clients
• Conducting activation of Juniper routers and Switches for Starbucks stores
• Tier II for Starbucks activation

Confidential

East Africa Regional IT Officer

Responsibilities:

• Technologies include but not limited to local area network (LAN) technologies, wide area network (WAN) technologies, server and enterprise applications, desktop technologies, Outlook/Exchange and Windows Servers.
• Professional responsibilities included supporting engineers which includes collaboration, escalation, coaching, mentoring,, administration, documentation and following policies and procedures.
• Specific Technologies include but not limited to Cisco ISRs/ASRs; Cisco C Confidential lyst/Nexus Switches; Cisco ASAs; Juniper EXs; RIPv1, RIPv2, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and IGRP.
• Technologies in network environment include but not limited to routers, switches, security, firewalls, voice, wireless and related technologies along with various server/application administration, system reimaging, and remote setup.