SUMMARY

• Wireless Network Engineer with 8 + years of experience in administration and support of Network infrastructure.
• Expertise in implementation, analysis optimization, troubleshooting, and documentation of WLAN/LAN/WAN/Firewall systems.
• Implementing and supporting F5 technologies such as SSL orchestration and Application Delivery.
• Implementing and supporting VMware on - premises on Cisco UCS compute.
• Routing / L2 & L3 switching, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP.
• Strongest with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure within the SDN framework, working with integrations of Voice / Collaboration, Virtual Machine Management, and Multi-Site Orchestration.
• Strongest with initial build-out and implementation of Nexus 9k’s, within the ACI environment.
• Worked with a large portion of Cisco Enterprise Networking products - including ISE, WLC, 6500, and 4500 series, and Nexus 9k and 7k, and 5k.
• Cisco WIFI, WLC, Aironet 00, Ruckus.
• Automation with Ansible and Postman, Cisco DNA center to generate health checks against Cisco IOS.
• Strongest with Initial design, build-out, implementation, and migration, on multiple F5 platforms (Viprion, i10k, i2k) administration and optimization.
• Expert-level knowledge of the F5 Application and Content Delivery products, including application security.
• Knowledge of SMF / UPF / AMF / MME, SAEGW, SPGW, ePDG, SaMOG 3GPP standards 5G / CUPS / LTE EPC/ GSM /VOLTE, VO-WIFI CDMA, VNet’s and VNet peering, VSS /VPCs/ASR and VPC Peering, Transit Gateways, Express Route, Azure Hub Spoke Configuration and call flows spectrum, Netbrain with qApps, Thousand Eyes
• Experience in monitoring nodes and health via SolarWinds, ISE, Net brain, Wireshark.
• Implemented DevOps and DevSecOps systems
• Managed DevOps for Amazon AWS, bash scripting, Jenkins Chef and Ansible.
• Experience with 2019 TMO Ultra core platform, TMO CUPS, TMO 5G deployment.
• Experience withCiscoStarOs, docker, Kubernetes, containers, microservices principles.
• Provided 1st tier support to Users Globaly utilizingCiscoCall Manager 7.1/8.5 andCiscoUnity 7.1/8.5.
• Managed and Maintained Analog fax lines, Voicemails, Auto Attendants, Phone setup, and Alarms/Alerts.
• Provisioned and Supported Existing infrastructure ofCiscoVoice Adds, Moves, and Changes to Voice Gateways, CTI Agent,CiscoSwitch, T1s, and Call Routing.
• Supported and Trained Users on Microsoft Applications, Voicemail Products, and Phone Features.
• Performed Administration and Deployment of CUCM, Unity Connection, Presence, DSPFarm Routers, Upgrade toCiscoUnified Attendant Console 8.6 to 9.x.
• WAN networks, Expertise covers all areas of maintaining medium to large networks and communication systems.
• Expert in handling IT Infrastructure management, Port security, NAT/PAT, large 24x7 Networks / Data-centre and managing multiple vendors.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Protocols: CAPWAP, EAP-TLS, 802.1X, Mobility Anchors, Wireless (802.1a/b/g/n/ac) 2.4ghz & 5ghz, STP, VLAN’s, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP.

Firewalls: Palo Alto, CISCO ASA (ASDM), Juniper, Checkpoint

Hardware: Cisco Wireless Controller 5520, 5080 & 9800, Cisco Wireless access point 1572,2702, 3802 & 9100.Nexus 2k,5k, and 9k, Cisco 3845, Catalyst 4000, Cisco 6509, Cisco 3560, Arista Switches, Aruba Switches, Fireeye, Microsoft Azure.

Tools: Cisco Prime, Netbrain, Infoblox, Cisco DNA, Ekahau Site survey pro

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Marietta, GA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Cisco ACI fabric, support and environment build out of green and brown field with deployment of VxRail, UCS-M, Azure L3out, and NSX-T.
• Support of modern data center (network, compute, storage) with cable patching of fiber, copper, and twinax.
• Deployment, administration and maintenance Cisco Nexus 9k’s, and all ACI infrastructure including spine & leaf additions.
• Providing support for 11 Wellstar hospitals, multiple medical campuses, and physician offices including WiFi (Cisco 1100 & 3600 APs) for medical equipment and devices (IoT), route / switch troubleshooting and resolution.
• Daily management of the enterprise and data centers inclusive of OTV and FabricPath with monitoring and management tools, i.e.
• SolarWinds Orion, vRealize Network Insight, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA Center, Cisco ISE, and Infoblox.
• Responsible for Visio designs, rack elevation drawings, data center design strategy.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Sr. Network Engineer responsible for F5 migrations from legacy devices to the Viprion platform with approximately 2000 virtual servers, pools, client / server SSL profiles, iRules, vlans, and routes.
• Provided daily support and resolutions to application delivery issues.
• Responsible for SSL cert and Cipher management, DNS entries and updates via GTM, and GoDaddy.
• Designed and developed SSL Inspection/Orchestration and services chaining via BlueCoat Proxy services, FirePower and FireEye over span ports (span traffic).
• Deployment, administration and maintenance Cisco Nexus 9k’s, and all ACI infrastructure, i.e., bridge domains, L3 out, vzAny, Application EPG’s, vPC’s, tenents and contracts.
• Support Spine & leaf / boarder leaf add’s and modifications. Infoblox ipam.
• Cisco ACI deployment for Cisco Expressway for MRA and B2B sip calls.
• Cisco ACI deployment for Citrix Netscaler VDI environment.
• Cisco Multi-Site Orchestration deployment to maintain uniformity across all ACI environments (UK and U.S.)
• CheckPoint, and Palo Alto rule submissions and verifications as it related to the F5 and ACI environments.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented network technologies includingCiscorouters, switches, and access points in office buildouts andCiscogears.
• Analyzed and tested network protocols (Ethernet, TCP/IP) using Wireshark to determine any outages.
• Configured Routing protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS,CiscoGSS GSLB, static routing, and policy-based routing.
• Identify areas that can be automated.
• These may occur during the initial setup of network device configuration deployment, change management, or acceptance testing.
• Internal documentation is used to transfer knowledge of implemented systems and processes to make the switch to Infrastructure as Code for our data centers.
• This is a fairly common occurrence inCloudenvironments.
• Large-scale, quick-to-deploy data center deployments.
• Provisioning with zero touch - such asCiscoDCNM and POAP
• PyATS, chaos monkey testing - automated network acceptance tests
• NSO and Ansible are two tools for automating network configuration.
• GitOps, Pipelines, and Jenkins are examples of automated deployment techniques.
• UCS, ACI, and Nexus areCiscodata center systems.
• REST APIs, NETCONF, YANG, JSON, and XML are all Network Programmability skillsets in Software Defined Networking (SDN).
• Files containing configuration and installation parameters also known as configuration files.
• Provide related teams with regular or weekly status reports.
• KPIs and KRIs must be met by the asset owner for network security infrastructure. Complete power over obsolescence, patching, and upkeep.
• Operational dashboard that allows for the detection of any possible problem using indicators and capacity planning.
• Network security architecture that is in line with the company's goals
• BAU automation and standard operating procedures are delivered and developed.
• Direct communication with suppliers and vendors at the maximum degree of escalation, STP, VLAN Routing.
• Configured BGP with different attributes like Weight, Local Preference, Next hop to load balance between multiple links.
• Engineered Route-redistribution between different routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP for increased efficiency.
• Implementing F5 load-balancing and experience with LTM, IP Networking, Cabling, Data Circuit Turn-up/Testing.
• Configuration of VLAN’s, VTP domain, Trunk Encapsulation, Ether channels, Inter VLAN Routing, STP, HSRP, stack switching and NetScout Sniffers and DC technologies, AWS ELB.
• Worked on Campus Wireless environments with 1000+ access points, Wireless LAN controllers
• Anchor Controllers, Authentication policies, BYOD policies, Integration with RADIUS. Experience with Aruba andCiscoWLAN.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured an AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and Database Subnet Group for isolation of resources within the Amazon RDS Aurora DB cluster.
• Supported and created Cloud Architectures for Security, Infrastructure, Data with delivery teams working primarily within an Agile Scrum methodology.
• Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
• Implementation of name resolution using DNS in TCP/IP environment
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN, VTP, trunking using dot1q).
• Worked on Cisco routers 7200, 3800, 2800 and Cisco switches 4900, 2900.
• Configuring OSPF, RIP, EIGRP protocols and IP sub-netting, Routers and Switches Supported and maintained networking devices, cabling, and standalone systems as part of job duties.
• Installed and Configured Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 and helped System Admins to set up LAN network in the company.
• Maintained systems up to date with the latest OS patches.
• Install and managing network devices including Hubs, Switches.
• Layer 2 switching technology architecture, implementation and operations including L2 and L3 switching and related functionality.
• This includes the use of VLANS, STP, VTP and their functions as they relate to networking infrastructure requirements including internal and external treatment, configuration, and security.
• Layer Three routing protocol configurations include but are not limited to distance vector and link state protocols such as: Directly Connected Interfaces, Static Routing, RIP, RIP2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF and other proprietary protocols used by Cisco.