SUMMARY:

• To obtain a rewarding position as a lead network engineer/architect that would allow me to design and maintain resilient wired and wireless networks.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Software and Other Packages: Statseeker, PRTG, Solarwinds, NTP, TCP/IP, SSH, HP Openview Operations, HP Openview Network Node Manager, HP Openview Internet Services, Telalert, Cisco Works, VMware Vsphere client, WhatsUpGold

Hardware: Cisco 6500, 7200, 7600, Pix, ASA 5500, 4400, 3750,3800,2800,1700, Cisco Nexus 9K/7K/5K utilizing Cisco VDC, Riverbed Steelhead EX/CX, CMC/SCC, Meraki MX,MR,MV

Programming: C++, Perl, UNIX Shell Programming

Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, IOS - XE, UNIX ( HP-UX 11i, 11.0, 10.2; SUN Solaris 2.6, 2.7, 8, 9,10; IBM AIX 4.2.1, 4.33, 5L), Windows(NT, 2000, 2003, 2008, 2008 R2)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement an SDWAN solution for a medium sized company maintaining 468 locations throughout the United States.
• Utilize Cisco IWAN via Meraki MX appliance devices to design and deploy an inexpensive and resilient network.
• Enable load balancing and fail over through the use of two circuits at each location. Design and implement new data center colocation facilities using Cisco 9K, UCS and Fabric Interconnect devices.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and maintain all components of the network infrastructure for a worldwide advisory services firm.
• Design and maintain six data center networks located in various countries utilizing Cisco Nexus switches.
• Work with enterprise storage and virtualization teams to deploy new systems within a VBLOCK infrastructure.
• Take over WAN/LAN routing and switching for 50+ locations worldwide.
• Design and deploy QOS solutions utilizing Cisco MQC and Riverbed WAN acceleration devices.
• Develop network monitoring using Statseeker, PRTG and Solarwinds products.

Confidential

Data Tower Lead

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of network engineers while maintaining responsibility for all data network infrastructure used by an outsourced client.
• Ensure all data tasks assigned to the network group are handled in a timely an orderly fashion.
• Assign engineers various tasks as the need arises.
• Serve as the liaison for all incidents that would be handled by network engineers, consisting of subject matter experts in the areas of wireless, security and quality of service for network infrastructure components. Ensure that all engineers actively maintain documentation of all network devices including the location and logical design.
• Serve as the primary point of contact to the customer.
• This involves making sure that all network changes are properly documented as per ITIL and providing the third level of escalation for all network issues that would occur.
• Meet with the customer on a regular basis to ensure their needs are being met by the network team.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, maintain and upgrade data network infrastructure components for an outsourced client.
• Utilize various routing protocols including EIGRP, BGP and OSPF to segment the network and ensure that design goals are met.
• Design network upgrades/implementations and provide documentation to implementation engineers who perform the actual work needed to complete an assignment.
• Segment a large EIGRP network into various BGP AS partitions to fix issues with routing.
• Design a network strictly for voice traffic with built in redundancy to failover to the standard data network in the event that the optical voice network failed.
• Review network designs on a regular basis to ensure the correct and proper implementation.
• Design and implement various load balancing features such as MLPPP link bundling on WAN links.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain LAN/WAN network infrastructure utilizing Cisco network equipment.
• Upgrade Cisco 4000 series switches to the more scalable Cisco 6500 platform. Develop VPN solutions that work as backup WAN connections when primary circuits are inoperable.
• Deploy wireless solution utilizing Cisco 4400 series WLC.
• Maintain and update Cisco ASA 5500 firewall to provide demarcation between our DMZ, secure internal network and the external network.
• Develop an enterprise monitoring solution utilizing BMC ProactiveNet.
• Monitor all critical network links for up/down status using forwarded Cisco SNMP traps.
• Design a load balancing solution with BigIP’s F5 LTM/GTM devices.

Confidential

Technical Staff Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement new IP subnets for other hospital systems that are acquired by the Medical system. This includes working with users and engineers to assure the smooth transition of 3000+ devices to the new IP address layout. Develop detailed diagrams and other documentation of environments before, during and after the IP conversions.
• Design and Maintain LAN/WAN connections using VPN, EIGRP and BGP . Lead a team of engineers to properly deploy changes using various DNS/DHCP platforms including Lucent QIP. Ensure that all critical routers, switches, ether channels, uplinks and WAN connections are properly configured and monitored .
• Configure, install and design Cisco networks utilizing MLS switches. Perform upgrades of Cisco Wireless Location Appliance hardware.
• Attend weekly meetings to advise a change control committee on the feasibility of infrastructure changes. Provide full advance documentation regarding network projects. This documentation would be reviewed by a change committee before approval and implementation.
• Lead an enterprise level deployment of HP Openview . Duties include designing and implementing several monitors used to notify relevant staff in the event of failure or system degradation. Work with a budget to purchase all items needed to implement Openview in the Medical System.
• Monitors were designed for server systems including HP-UX, Sun Solaris, Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows. In addition monitors were designed for network services such as DNS, DHCP, network hardware and Web portals used throughout the entire Medical System. Design and implement a notification system using Vytek Telalert .

Confidential

Senior UNIX System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Support nearly 200 servers running both the Solaris and HP-UX operating systems in a 24x7 mission critical operating environment.
• Share on-call responsibilities with a team of administrators.
• Duties include configuring and installing Microfocus Cobol for both production and development environment on a mission critical application.
• Lead in development of system capacity planning.
• Design Korn shell scripts to automate various system administration duties, including decreasing and increasing filesystem space on HP-UX. Maintain and coordinate backups for the entire corporate environment using Veritas Netbackup.
• Project lead and consultant on all issues related to Sendmail including the Open source and pre compiled vendor versions.
• Troubleshoot server-related issues related to software and hardware failures.
• Manage NIS+, swap space, file systems, system security, NFS, automounter, and the TCP/IP configuration.
• Other responsibilities include helping users with various UNIX issues.
• The users in this environment were mostly DBA’s and application developers.