SUMMARY:

• Disciplined, conscientious, high achieving Senior Engineer knowledgeable in the planning, building and maintaining of enterprise and service provide grade data networks.
• Carry multiple industry certifications from Cisco and Juniper with knowledge in sales and support of solutions to Enterprise market segments covering wide array of industry verticals.
• Confident and comfortable translating technical sales presentations into business selling opportunities by articulating the value of the solution while overcoming objections.
• Diligent and persuasive at negotiating with C - Level executives and persuading them to make buying decisions by creating need and breaking down the technical implications across various platforms.
• Define and present implementation architectures and project blueprints for leadership.
• Skilled as customer and partner advocate for project success and best practices.

SKILLS SUMMARY::

• Cisco network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, security)
• Alcatel SR routers
• Strong technical support/troubleshooting skills
• Refined customer service skills
• Proven communication skills
• Team leadership/project management
• Mentoring junior level engineers

SKILLS LISTING:

Routers: Cisco CRS-1, ASR, 72xx, 76xx, 39xx, 29xx, 19xx

Alcatel SR 7750: Juniper MX

Protocols: OSPF, MP-BGP, MPLS, RSVP, LDP, IPv6, Multicast, PIM, IGMP, EIGRP

Switches: Cisco Nexus, 65xx, 3750, 3560, 2950

Juniper EX: Wireless

Access Points: Cisco 350, 122x, 123x, 124x, 125x, 1410

Controllers: Cisco 55xx, 5760

Management: Cisco Prime, Solarwinds NCM/NPM, Arbor Peakflow, PRTG

Survey Tools: AirMagnet

LAN Technologies: Link Aggregation, Virtual Local Area Networks, Advanced Spanning-Tree, Trunking

Network Performance: QoS (prioritization/policing)

Management Tools: Cisco Prime, MRTG, Fluke Test Tools, PRTG, Solarwinds, Wireshark

WAN: DWDM, 10gig, SONET, ATM, L2 Tunneling/Pseudowires, MPLS

Datacenter: Cisco Fiber Extenders, Load balancers (F5/Netscaler), VPC/VSS, VDC

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior/Lead Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Led switch and router lifecycle projects evaluated/recommended new products and developed templates.
• Created compliance program for addressing vendor security vulnerabilities.
• Migrated Cisco ACE to F5 load balancer Third level support for critical infrastructure of enterprise
• Worked on datacenter segmentation projects to protect critical assets

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Served as BGP peering coordinator growing settlement-free from 50gb to over 100gb.
• Lead network engineer in support of transition of network from UW managed to independently managed
• Support customers by implementing stable/high performing network
• Work with hardware, software and facility vendors to improve network backbone and expand network connection points
• Quickly became Juniper route/switch subject matter expert after no previous experience

Confidential

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Advanced engineer for Cisco data, network, and wireless applications Support our customers by selling, designing, and implementing stable/high performing networks
• Collaborated with sales and implementation teams to assess customer requirements, design, strategize, price, and present appropriate solutions.
• Determine client technical requirements, feasibility, and expectations architect and design solutions, deliver executive briefings, and system demonstration
• Provided written responses to RFP/RFI submissions seeking information about products and services.
• Subject matter expert on core and distribution routers within our network Serve as top internal escalation point for difficult problem resolution
• Lead operations engineer for rollout of our next generation network. Implemented over 100 new routers utilizing complex MPLS, Pseudowire and BGP designs.
• Integral member of IPTV rollout team. Worked closely with vendors and architects to ensure solution would integrate into our existing network and serve as trainer and mentor to coworkers and other teams.
• Mentored two junior team members providing constant feedback and training to ensure they can provide the level of quality work TDS demands.
• Manage TDS BGP peering and transit architecture. Work with all partners to make our network as efficient as possible for our customers.
• Worked every day to make our network faster, stronger and more stable for all our 250,000+ customers.

Confidential

Senior Infrastructure Consultant/Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Deliver custom networking solutions to diverse clients Team lead and project manager for Cisco practice area Pre-sales engineer for wireless and security solutions
• Developed a wireless practice group within Cisco team. Created a customer event for wireless and created playbooks for sales team.
• Developed certification and training plans for Cisco staff
• Refined pre-sales procedures/processes for Cisco projects
• Designed and implemented PCI compliant wireless solution for 6 site company with 750+ employees
• Managed a customers network consisting of 50 sites, including wireless, WAN (BGP/DMVPN), LAN switching, and security solutions (MARS, IPS, ASA)
• Converted large client to MPLS network, design included QoS, Multicast, and BGP.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deliver custom networking solutions to diverse clients Consulting leader in Cisco wireless and security
• Implemented Cisco access points and controllers for large eastern Confidential .

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported retail environment of 160 stores, 4 distribution centers, and 5 offices
• Conversion from ISDN to Verizon frame relay at 150 stores with new Cisco 2811 ISR routers and DSL backup links.
• Migrated over 1000 Cisco access points to lightweight mode with controllers and management systems