SUMMARY:

• Accomplished Network Engineer 10 years of LAN, WAN experience, planning, designing, and deployment of network technologies and cost containment. Effectively utilized current technology and a multcertified professional supporting all areas of the network infrastructure, including end user interaction.
• Operating efficiently with astute analytical capabilities and perceptive of operational policy requirements. Successfully exploited new, emerging, and existing technology while harnessing security, speed, and reliability.,
• Extensive networking experience configuring, design, installing, and maintaining BGP,MPLS, MULTICAST, OSPF,OSPFv3, PIM, mpls ldp MPLS Traffic engineering, ipv6, VPNV4,VPNV6, ISIS,, LANs, WANs, VLAN's, NEXUS. Enterprise Data Center relocation and deployment, creation and validation of documentation. Migration of older cisco to nexus. Work independently and/or with large team, plan design, build, move, migrate tire 3, & tier 2 data centers. Configure NEXUS 7k’s 5k’s & 2k’s, during planned outage, or on the fly while in production. Examine configs for deficiencies and flaws. 24/7/365 mission critical environment. Span sessions, data collectors.
• Manage team of engineers, find strengths to use on demand, develop weakness. High availability, mission critical systems reliability to 99.9%. Develop data center blueprint topology physical, and logical
• Cisco routers, Cisco switches, VPN CLOUD, Wi - Fi, Windows servers and clients. Expert in designing, deploying, security, configuring Cisco routers, Cisco switches, and structured maintained VoIP networks, as well as volume upgrades, and migration, XP virtual mode, Windows XP/NT/Server, 2003,2008. Upgrade and compatibility, deployment licensing un Confidential atic trouble shooting and automated tape backup.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Hardware: Specialized in CISCO Catalyst switches routers: ASR routers, NEXUS 7k s, NEXUS 5k s, SFP s, XFP sFET s, NEXUS 2k s, 4506e 4503e 6513, 2900 s,2811,w1841, 871w, and: 3550,7200,3650,3750,g,& x. Firewall ASA 5505, Tipping point, IronPort, Server 5520, Blade Technology. NETOPTICS Director X Stream SPAN Aggregator 2400x, Built and supported HP, Intel dual Xenon servers, and desktop PCs; experienced in ASA, Span Aggregators, Firewall tipping point, bluecoat, IRONPORT, Checkpoint, Dell and Toshiba, PoE, Aruba,Cisco,Wi-Fi wireless FLUKE DTX1800 Fluke, link Runner, Fluke Aircheck.

Applications: Cisco IOS upgrades, IOS XR, NX-OS, Window 7, XP64, VM Ware, Oracle VB, Microsoft/Word/PowerPoint/Office, Visio, OUTLOOK. EXCEL, WordPerfect, Linux, Solaris. KIWI CatTools, VOIP cisco unified call manager.

Protocols: VLAN, OSPF, HSRP, GLBP, BGP,EIGRP, Access-List, monitoring,Span, trunking, switcports, NATPat overload, IPv4, Spanning-tree, DHCP, Port Chanel, FEX, trunking EtherLink, EtherChannel Load Balancing, Dot1q, 802.1q, QoS, Layer 2, Layer 3, HDLC,PPP, dual homed MPLS circuits, LAN, WAN.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designs rebuild, and relocate 2 enterprise data centers, develop and validate documentation, for a network blueprint on VISIO and EXCEL, in preparation of migration from Cisco EOL to Nexus.
• Daily operations for HQ, SEC regions, 2 data center included customer support +5000 users ticket system prioritization. ACL sweep clean up. Layer 2 security sweep.
• Nexus SPAN sessions, Vlan, HSRP, GLBP port channel FCOE 2k 5k uplinks FET’s, Fabric extenders SFP’s, FEX configs NX OS upgrades License installation, LAN closet operations daily reports. NEXUS 7k,5k,2k, unboxing configuration deployment into production &k supervisor, blade installs setup power supply, NX OS install, 5K NX OS install License install 5k, 2k L2 configs.
• Configuration change request submission via government interoffice software program, creating script of changes, and providing reasons, and descriptive information as to why to change.
• Network Architecture re-design for SPAN for 2 data centers utilizing 10 gig Juniper hybrid product
• Net Optics SPAN Aggregator 2400, Super-Agent Data collectors, ASR 1004 cores Card & XFP transceiver, MPLS BGP.
• ASA 5520 configuration racking production deployment, SEC Management router configuration design, EDGAR router configuration Daily use of solar winds and Net optics Kiwi Cat tools, IP assignments/logging for new end user/host
• MY Visio physical and logical topology creation, Excel logical topology Documentation was created by myself, it was unchecked and used for successful 24/7 365 mission critical government enterprise data center fork lift move from Tier 2 data center to Tier 3 Modular data center. and 2800 configs decommission cisco EOL 4500, 6500 non E chassis, Direct Vendor relations, and also warranty shipping, out of band console server Construction configuration
• HWIC.
• High level meetings reports and presentations. 24/7/365 mission critical on call team rotation.
• Managed team of network engineers and Data center personnel for segments of enterprise data center move.

Confidential, Annapolis, MD

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plan and manage all networking projects, budget, configuration, installations and support.
• Managed LAN/WAN environment, with Cisco switches 3560, 2960 and Cisco routers 6500, and
• Windows NT servers, Pix 500 firewall, and remote access VPN, and multiple labs configurations. Network supports up to 150 end-users clients.
• Improved network uptime from 90% to 99% with preventative maintenance, automated upgrade deployment, and desktop support end user interaction security policy.
• Designed and set up ECI IP network security using Checkpoint Firewall (internet access security and VPN) Met or exceeded all performance goals to date. For skills and work ethic, retained following 75% reduction in department staff (2005) and layoffs following corporate acquisition (1999).
• Administered Solaris/Windows NT on Dell E450s, Sun Ultra 10s, SPARC 5/10 workstations, NT2000 and 4.0
• Servers, and Windows client PCs. Directed storage area network, which included Hitachi 7700e and 9960
• Subsystems and McData ED5000, ED6064 and ED6140 Fabric Channel. Administrated video service EMARCS-
• 1000 redundancy control with Motorola Se series MPEG Encoders.
• Installation for ECI and X/IP. Achieved on time and under budget, delighting client.
• Supervised team of 15 engineers during on-time, on-budget integration of third-party products.
• Configured and monitored HP OpenView, Network Node Manager, and local data access (Frame Relay connections).
• Devised blueprint and deployed network scheduling evaluation, purchasing configuration, and installed equipment; wired building direct personal correspondence fire marshal and building inspectors.

Confidential

Network Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• LAN design and support, PCB design, International Manufacturing, International exporting from China, Taiwan, Singapore, Export DOC, FOB. Microprocessor component purchasing IC programing with Logitech Allpro Data IO chiplab, Built HC705 Motorola c8 programmer, PM for shipping receiving administration departments.