SUMMARY:

• winning, results oriented Senior Network Architect this is fully CCIE certified with 20 - years proven experience effectively supporting thousands of users across various industries. Strong, dynamic leader with analytical, technical design, and project planning skills. Skilled communicator; easily interact with clients, vendors, staff, and executive management.
• Effectively bridge the gap between business and technology teams. Customer includes the following customers at the corporate level: Nissan North America, NYSE/ICE, Wal-mart, Cisco, Gulfstream, ExxonMobil, St. Jude s Hospital, Baptist Health, First Data Corporation Advance Auto Parts, and Freeport Mcmoran. Providing outstanding troubleshooting and problem solving skills gleaned through years of hands-on technical management. Extensively trained; possess 30+ s and highly proficient in:
• CCIE VMWARE VCP Cloud Computing Data Center Network Design Firewalls
• SDN Routing\Switching Python Documentation Virtualization Customer Service
• Service Provider Firepower Ansible
• MPLS AWS Solution Architect Segment Routing
• Azure Architect SD-WAN NGFW
• Advanced Auto Parts. & Red River
• Supporting Conversion of Cisco Data Center & WAN Equipment from Catalyst to Nexus 7000/9000 support.
• Design and Implementation Complex BGP Environments
• Design and Implementation of Remote Access Solutions utilizing Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto Solutions
• Supporting AT&T SD-WAN Conversion for several thousand stores
• Supporting MPLS & WAN Circuit transitions.
• Implementation of ISE Policies with Meraki Environment
• Utilization of Infoblox for IPAM
• Consulting globally supporting client Cisco as a professional services consultant for their customer Wal-Mart’s nearly 10,000 sites globally from their HQ.
• Providing guidance to senior network engineers for configurations and design changes within their massive environment. Technologies include ASR 9000s, Nexus 9000s, and Catalyst 9000s, with VXLAN, PaloAlto, and Azure.
• Assisted with migrating the Events team from ASAs to Fortigate 2200s.
• Analyzing the customer environment with tools such as Splunk and Python Scripts.
• Providing mentorship to other team members and customers on emerging technologies.
• Troubleshooting an ACI environment, and implementation of a demo ACI environment.
• Implementing and Troubleshooting DMVPN environment.
• Implementation and management of FortiManager, and FortiSIEM
• Implementation of Cisco ACI in a multisite environment.
• Implementation and management of Juniper vMX cloud routers.
• Implementation and management of Arista EoS Cloud Systems.
• Implementation of Segment Routing on IOS-XE and IOS-XR devices
• Implementation of VXLAN environment in a multisite environment with DCNM
• Designing and Deploying MPLS-TE Automesh Tunnels with backups

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows Server (NT 3.5 - 2016). Solaris Unix, Linux, VMWARE ESXi (3.5 - 6.7)

Cloud Management: APIC, Cisco UCS Director, Cisco Intersight, VMWare VShield, VMWare vCloud Director, VMWare NSX, Nutanix, VMWare vSphere, UCS for SAP, UCS for BigData

Network Management: Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Works; Cisco ACS; Solar Winds; Sidewinder Firewalls, Websense, QIP, Ethereal Sniffer, Iris Network Analyzer; Retina Network Scanner; Net QOS;

Firewalls: Cisco Firepower, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, NetScreen, Checkpoint

Optical: Cisco ONS, Cisco NCS, Ciena

Hardware: Cisco IOS Devices, Cisco IOS-XR Routers, Cisco IOS-XE, Cisco Nexus Switches 7000\7700\5000\2000, Juniper Routers\Firewalls\Switches, Nortel ERS Switches, Firewalls, VPN, Encryption Devices, Internet Proxy Devices; Cisco 79xx Series IP Phones, Foundry Routers/Switches, Redback SE Routers, Ipanema Traffic Shapers, BIG IP F5, Riverbed Steelheads, EMC Storage, Cisco UCS, NAM, Cisco V-Block, Force10, Siemens Rugged Comm, Garret Comm, Viptela

Protocols/Technologies: MPLS; Segment Routing SRv6. LISP, MP-BGP; CSC, VRFs, TCP/IP, RIP, Multi-Area OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, BGP, VOIP, Wireless, 802.1Q, ISL, QOS, ATM, Frame Relay; PPPoFR, Multilink PPP, Multilink Frame Relay, ISDN, HDSL, DNS, WINS, DHCPMulticast, ASM, SSM, MDT, MP2MP, MPLS, DMVPN, GRE, PPP, NTP; Syslog, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, RCMD, IPV6, Dot1Q, Stateful Firewalls, NAT, PAgP, LACP, Etherchannel, Private Vlans, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Fabric-Path, Data Center Bridging, VDCs, OTV, VXLAN, ACI, SDN, Cisco APIC-EM iWAN, SAN, Fiber Channel, iSCSI, PON, ViptelaOther: Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SMS, Lotus Notes, GroupWise 5, Symantec Antivirus Server, Sharepoint; IWS, Adobe Connect, Microsoft Office Suite, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Consulting globally various organizations in the Aerospace, Automotive, Financial, Government, Health Care, and sectors on engineering their Enterprise Networks\Data Centers.
• Designed and implemented solutions in large organizations of over 20,000 endpoints/1000 nodes and utilizing technologies such as Velocloud, ACI, L3VPN MPLS, SDN, UCS, Firepower, ISE, Nutanix, Palo Alto, Ansible, AWS, and NSX.
• Implementation and Demos of DNA Center, and Cisco ACI.
• Utilization of UCS Director and UCS Central to deploy Private Cloud Solutions.
• Design and Implementation of Private Cloud Solutions in Tier 4 Gold Data Centers.
• Provide documentation for recommendation and Architecture projects.
• Supporting Big Data & Hadoop Installs.
• Presenting Documents and Reports to senior C-Level staff of organizations.
• Deploying Fortigate 3300s at DataCenters.
• Providing mentorship to other team members and customers on emerging technologies.
• Establishing Containers witb Docker and Kubernetes.
• 2017 Professional Services Engineer of the Year

Confidential

Senior Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the Military Joint Task Force network of securing detainees.
• Improving the existing infrastructure, by implementing best practices, and introducing new technologies.
• Transitioned Marconi ATM backbone to a 10 GB Cisco Campus with 8 MDFs and 30 IDFS.
• Providing Top Tier Network Support for everyday operations.
• Presenting Presentation and Reports to Director Level military staff.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Network Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform C-Level presentations for Fortune 125 companies relating to Network Design and Infrastructure.
• Member of a 5 man Consulting Team performing Network Consulting services for clients that include Visa, First Data Corporation, and Freeport McMoran.
• Assisting Customers with implementation projects.
• Providing recommendations for customer design to optimize their enterprise networks

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Critical Incident Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design comprehensive solutions for corporate and customer networks utilizing Managed WAN and Availability Services.
• Manage Juniper multi protocol label switching (MPLS) virtual private network (VPN) connections for various clients spanning numerous industries including financial services and banking.
• Resolve complex work issues escalating from the Network Operations Center (NOC).
• Support F5 Load Balancers; Extreme and Foundry Switches; Juniper and Cisco Routers and Switches; and Juniper Netscreen, PIX, ASA, Check Point Firewalls EMC SAN Solutions and VMWARE ESX Hosts for Data Center Virtualization and Storage solutions.

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Global Solutions Operations / Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Operated and maintained 30,000+ WAN network devices for 200+ clients spanning many industries including automotive, pharmaceuticals, energy, and others and including several Fortune 500 companies.
• Spearheaded quality control project that corrected network issues for clients.
• Optimized clients’ connectivity by redesigning client networks and the MPLS backbone.
• Collaborated with global carriers to effectively identify and resolve problems in their networks.
• Managing and Troubleshooting DMVPN Environments.

Confidential

Systems/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered and configured network routers and switches at HQ and remote sites.
• Collaborated with the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to successfully resolve serious border gateway protocol (BGP) issues between Afghan sites and various international locations.
• Supported Windows 2003 Active Directory for Joint Operation Center headquarters and all Afghan tactical servers covering more than 50 sites on 3 separate production networks.
• Established real time conferencing for all bases by properly configuring IWS and Adobe connect servers.