Senior Network Consultant Resume

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

I am an experienced network professional with over 15 years of experience in the areas of supporting local area networks, wide area networks and servers/workstations.
I have experience supporting a wide variety of network devices from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, F5 and Brocade among others.
I am constantly looking for ways to contribute to improved services with little or no cost to the customer.
I try to improve the quality of the services I perform as well to get better results on an ongoing basis.
I am a team player and try to share lessons learned with others to add to the team’s knowledge base.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Network Consultant

Confidential

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Senior Network Engineer

Confidential

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Senior Consultant

Confidential

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Deployed F5 LTM installs for various customers in a multi - vendor environment. Communicated and interacted with clients and F5 support on provisioning and installation issues
Responsible for the implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting of complex redundant and secure multi-layer customer networks data center environments.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Parole, MD

Responsibilites:

Managed and responsible for the planning, designing, implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting of complex redundant and secure multi-layer customer networks in Global Hosting Data Center
Interfaced with customers, vendors and internal groups to develop good relationships through the delivery of superior products/services.
Proactively tracked order status in cooperation with the Project Implementation Management team to research and resolve any pre-installation issues with designs as submitted.
Communicated and interacted with clients and vendors on provisioning and installation issues
Advanced experience configuring Cisco, Juniper, Brocade/Foundry and F5 Routers/Switches/Firewalls/Load balancers (Juniper MX960, SRX650, Foundry 850/BigIron/FastIron, Cisco PIX 500/ASA 5540, routers 2600, 3600, 7200, 7500, 7600 and ASR9000, switches 2900, 3500, 3700, 4000, 5000, 6500) in OSPF/BGP/MPLS/QoS/VoIP/L2VPN environments.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

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Use of VRRP and OSPF non-stop forwarding routing for failover redundancy to reduce network downtime
Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches, firewalls and servers to reduce vulnerabilities using vulnerability scanners such as Nessus, router auditing tool, and Nipper to generate vulnerability reports for remediation
Creation of Linux shell scripts to automate maintenance tasks and analyze syslog and tcpdump files

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Silver Spring, MD

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Network Engineer

Confidential, Washington, D.C.

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implementation. Upgraded memory on routers and switches, configuration and troubleshooting of VPN concentrators, Cisco Content Engines 560, 590, Larscom
CSU/DSUs and MCI split T - 1 lines. Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches and firewalls. Creation of Vlans, network documentation, network wiring, and support of network operations center and users. Use of Solaris Unix to host Cisco Works and Cisco Access Control Server 3.3/TACACS.
Migrated client sites from frame relay to MCI vBNS (very-high-performance Backbone Network Service)/DTS (Dedicated Transmission Service) T-1 lines to improve bandwidth

Network Engineer

Confidential, Washington, D.C

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Migrated client sites from frame relay to MCI vBNS (very-high-performance Backbone Network Service)/DTS (Dedicated Transmission Service) T-1 lines to improve bandwidth

Network Administrator

Confidential, Washington, D.C

Responsibilites:

Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of CISCO 2900 Catalyst and 3COM
switches. Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows 2003/2000
and NT 4.0 Compaq/HP Proliant and Dell 1650/2850 servers. Installation,
configuration, and maintenance of Cisco Pix 525 firewall and access control
lists. Installation, configuration and maintenance of Citrix Metaframe and
Winframe. Installation and configuration of Sun Solaris 2.8 SunFire 280R/420R
Implemented intrusion detection to reduce vulnerabilities and improve security postur