SUMMARY

• Inventive Information Technology (IT) Designer/Engineer with a stellar, 15+ year record of advancement and achievement.
• Uniquely skilled at installing and planning business - driven networks and systems.
• Drive continued improvement by supplying incisive high- and low-level project information, troubleshooting, and administration.
• Ensure positive customer experience by providing expert LAN/WAN installation and support at all points.
• Strong team member who works with others to provide a complete solution to IT systems. Adapt readily to new systems, technologies, and operations.
• 15 plus years of Architecting, Implementation and Management of LANS, WANS, Internet, Intranet and Extranets as a Senior Network Engineer, Firewall Administrator and Network Security Engineer.
• In depth on various Firewalls, Security reviews, VPN Implementations, Local and Wide Area Designs and Upgrades. Expert level knowledge in Checkpoint Firewalls, Pix Firewalls, Cisco Routers and Switches, Nortel/Bay Routers and Switches.
• Experience with very large networks (Over 500 subnets, 30K nodes).
• Project Management and Project Lead experience over multiple sites and multiple resources.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Network Configuration
• Service & System Monitoring
• Project & Program Management
• Network Infrastructure
• New Technology Implementation
• Team Training & Development
• System & Operations Maintenance
• End User Relations Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Switches: Cisco 2XXX, 3XXX, 4XXX, 5XXX, 6XXX, Nexus 2k/5k/7k

Nortel Passport 1XXX, 8XXX:

Routers: Cisco 1XXX, 2XXX, 3XXX, 4XXX, 7XXX, Nortel Passport 5XXX, 8XXX

Firewalls: Checkpoint/Nokia R65/R70, Pix/ASA 5XXX, Fortinet

Firewall Clusters: Cisco Pix/ASA, Checkpoint/Nokia. Fortinet

VPN: Cisco VPN Concentrators, Juniper Net screen, Nortel Contivity

Load Balancers: F5 LTM and GTM, Cisco Content Switches

Network Scanners: Cisco's Secure Scanner, Compuware Vantage Suite

Network Management: Cisco Works, ACS, HP Open View, and Nortel Optivity, Compuware Vantage, SolarWinds, Cacti, Net flow collectors, NetQoS

Other: Expert Experience with SSL, PKI, Certificate Authority, Kerberos,

IPSec: Multi factor authentication, Remote Access, NAT, VPN, Intrusion Detection, DMZ Design, Security policies, Content Switching, Load Balancing

LAN: Ethernet, ATM, Switched Ethernet, Gigabit/10G Ethernet,

WAN: All Cisco Routing Protocols, OSPF, IGP, BGP-4, IS-IS, ISDN, X.25, Frame Relay, MPLS, and SONET etc.

Other Products: HP ProCurve, Motorola, DEC, Bay, FORE, Juniper, Foundry, Enterasys

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Network Design/Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on role personally managing network operations, equipment refresh and act as Tier 3 support
• Prepare detailed network equipment.
• Develop network-related documentation specifications, including diagrams, charts, equipment configurations, or recommended technologies.
• Coordinate installation of new equipment
• Participated in Network Monitoring and Daily Network Operations

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Network Design/Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on role personally managing network expansion projects for new sites, multiple site equipment refresh, WAN circuit migration and Tier 3 support to include:
• Prepare detailed network equipment.
• Set up BGP, EIGRP and OSPF routing on Cisco 2600, 3800 & 7200 series routers.
• Performed network traffic analysis i.e ip sniffer applications,
• Develop network-related documentation specifications, including diagrams, charts, equipment configurations, or recommended technologies.
• Extensive config& troubleshooting on CUCM, CCME 4.2/CUE 3.2 on 2821 router Unity module install and config, dsp resource allocation, dial peers, FXO trunk to PBX, ATA fax module, ephones, DN’s, Telephony Services, AA scripting, MOH, Prompts, etc.
• Performed the IOS upgrade of over 600 switches which encompassed the NIPR and SIPR network.
• Coordinate installation of new equipment
• Managed projects exceeding $5,000,000 in total cost

Confidential,Miamisburg, OH

Network Design/Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage MPLS vendor migration of Corporate network
• Design and build off site data center
• Design and implement new network security structure
• Implement network management system

Confidential  

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze current country wide Air Force Strategic Communications System
• Analyze network security and encryption
• Conduct security threat assessment
• Develop remediation and support plan
• Configured Hot Standby Routing Protocol (HSRP) to provide network redundancy and failover capability to Cisco gateway routers.
• Develop ATM to MPLS migration plan
• Finalize report and presentation to Air force General Staff

Confidential, Cincinnati, OH

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Analyze client local and wide area networks.
• Determine scalability and data capacity to support new applications, users, and remote connectivity.
• Design and implement Disaster Backup Center and Network
• Migrate remote sites from frame relay to MPLS
• Manage Telco vendors and co-ordinate migrations

Confidential, OH

Network Capacity Planner

Responsibilities:

• Analyze local and wide area networks. Determine scalability and data capacity to support new applications, users, and remote connectivity.
• Design network replacements and upgrades.
• Design and manage WAN point to point to MPLS migration
• Schedule, configure, manage and implement new equipment.
• Conduct security and threat Assessments
• Designing and planning responsibility for corporate network with over 500 remote sites and over 35,000 users

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Senior Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Physical plant design and documentation
• Logical network design and documentation
• Subnet/DHCP Addressing
• Switch and router configuration, software upgrades and maintenance
• Firewall/VPN/Remote access implementation and configuration
• Network management installation, map building and local training
• Security and threat assessments
• Long term onsite support of local staff