SUMMARY

My background includes 10 years of hands-on experience in various Network Engineering and Network Administrator positions with multi-platform hardware configured in LAN/WAN. Skilled in working with various technical and engineering functions design, debugging, troubleshooting, implementations, and with global experience always a valuable addition and leader for any team.

TECHNOLOGIES AND NETWORK PROTOCOLS

• TCP/IP, OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, VRRP
• ETHERNET, FAST ETHERNET, GIGABIT ETHERNET
• VLAN, STP, VTP, 802.1Q, TRUNKING, ETHERCHANNELS
• DHCP, DNS, FTP, HTTP, BGP
• NETWORK MANAGEMENT: ORION-SOLARWINDS, NETBRAIN.

EXPERIENCE

• Network Engineer Highly focused on teamwork and leadership. Well aware of the bottom line and exceeding both internal and external customers conditions for success. I believe that challenges are to be sought out and met, tested against, and ultimately overcome through hard work and insight gained through making challenging technical contributions.
• Senior Network Engineer, responsible for designing a new network to test for ip cameras, before being deployed in the field. A network security camera, or IP camera, is a great way to monitor many different areas without having to physically be there.The new design should help integrate the existing analog system into ip-based solution. The solution enables to take advantage of numerous functionalities, such as remote pan/tilt/zoom, Power over Ethernet, audio detection and video motion detection.
• Maintain all networking equipment, including switches, routers and security technology related hardware and software, systems management

Network Engineer

Confidential

• Supervise day to day operations of the local area networks and manage equipment maintenance, configurations and relevant updates.
• Maintain, engineer, observe and troubleshoot the National Science Foundation Network through the configuring of Cisco routers 2800s, 3600, etc , switches 6500s, 4500s 3750s 2960s etc and other network devices.
• Implement NAC Network Admission Control on the switches. This helps recognize users, their devices, and their roles in the network by evaluating whether the machines are compliant with security policies. NAC also enforces security policies by blocking, isolating, and repairing noncompliant machines.

Training and Certification

Confidential

Review Cisco security VPN through lab and independent studies

Confidential

• Monitored tasks to determine status and action to ensure timely and accurate completion.
• Attended a wide variety of meetings to gather requirements and give directions to many delivery managers to ensure that a complete solution is vetted
• Configured and Monitored network devices routers, switches
• Cisco Switches: Cisco 6509, 3550 ,3750 3560
• Hands-on for configuring and troubleshooting VLAN's, VLAN TRUNKING, STP, VTP, 801.1Q, ETHER-Channels.
• Foundry Switches implemented: BIGIRON, NETIRON, MLX-16 and FASTIRON.
• Migrated servers and applications from Cisco Old DATACENTER to /Foundry/Brocade New DATACENTER
• Assisted in configuring F5 networks, the BIG-IP for load balancing servers.
• Resolved reported user connectivity issues submitted in Remedy Ticket System
• Performed network device and IOS upgrades as required
• Troubleshoot issues with third party vendors to resolve and narrow down problems and achieve resolutions
• Supporting different vendors, including Foundry, Cisco and other vendors
• Analyzed and interpreted test data.
• Provided on-call support to CBP.

Confidential

• Collected and compared important audit information from sources when attempting to discover the details of a catastrophic configuration change to avoid more serious problems to network equipment.
• Performed analysis, configuration, and optimization of all existing .Network Management: HP Openview, Orion Solarwinds.
• Conduct Site Survey for clients
• DHCP, DNS configuration and troubleshooting on networks
• VLAN configuration and troubleshooting
• Maintain Documentation
• In charge of providing on-call support to Maryland Dept. of Transportation

System Administrator:

Confidential

• Member of the Technical Staff, Information System and Network Group.
• Responsibilities include providing technical and operational support for MTA Mass Transit Administration sites throughout the Baltimore area. This support included the maintenance and troubleshooting of personal computers, hardware components, software applications and configuration changes.
• Assisted in various projects at the MDOT Motor Vehicle Administration, Maryland Aviation Administration, Maryland Port Authority, as well as the General Services Administration.
• Performed administrative tasks using Novell Netware 4.11, Novell 5.1, Windows 2000 and Windows 2003
• Installed onboard devices and peripherals.
• Established user network profiles and printer configurations.
• Prepared, installed, and troubleshot coaxial and twisted pair cabling for network connectivity.
• Created user accounts and administered permissions and rights.
• Trained newly hired technicians for the MIS department at the Maryland
• Transportation Authority MTA
• As the advisor to the MTA/MIS supervisor, I was commended for recommended changes in handling of trouble tickets that cut the response time from 2 days to 4 hours.
• Managed and controlled computer helpdesk at the MTA in the absence of the supervisor.

NETWORK ADMINISTRATOR

Confidential

• Managed the Maryland State Board of Elections', in which the project required configuring 24 Windows NT 4.0 servers and 48 workstations for 24 counties. This project allowed all 24 counties to be monitor from the state capital in Annapolis during the election. This project required traveling to different counties and planning, installing and configuring various devices to achieve the successful 2002 election.
• Provided technical support for software/hardware and operating systems. Tier II level support
• Performed systems configurations with NT Servers, Network cabling and termination, hardware, software configuration, implement and support of networks.
• Installed and configured Toptools, software, Oracle, memory and LAN Cards.
• Managed and troubleshoot backups and restored using Arcserve for Windows NT.
• Remotely managed from CSC to sites to apply patches and upgrade the firmware on the HP Netserver.

ANALYST:

Confidential

• Member of the Information Systems and Networks Technical Staff.
• Supported a centralized infrastructure helpdesk to assist users with computer related problems.
• Remedy Ticket system
• Provided high quality technical support service to all infrastructure end users.
• Support included installation and maintenance of hardware and software, trouble shooting and systems configuration for Lotus Notes TCP/IP Windows 95/98, NT workstations and NT Servers 4.0 and Novell based systems.
• Diagnosed and resolved all system and Network related problems.