SUMMARY:

• Highly dedicated leader with more than 25 years of experience designing, selling, and implementing core network architectures in large service provider and enterprise environments, and over 10 years of experience leading highly technical engineering teams.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

NETWORKING HARDWARE: Cisco Nexus Product Line, Cisco CRS Product Line, Cisco ASR 9K Product Line, Cisco ASR1K Product Line, Cisco IOS Routers, Cisco / Catalyst Switches, Cisco MGX, BPX, and IGX WAN switches, Juniper EX Series, Juniper QFX, Series, Juniper M Series, Juniper MX Series, Lucent B - STDX 9000 Frame-Relay switch, Lucent B-STDX 8000 Frame-Relay switch, Lucent CBX 500 ATM switch, Redback Subscriber Management System 500/1800/10000, Ericsson - Redback SmartEdge 800 Intelligent Transport (TDM and Optical), Ericsson - Redback SmartEdge 800 Router.

ROUTING AND WAN PROTOCOLS: IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, Segment Routing, BGP-LU, PCE, PCEP, LFA, BGP-LS, PCEP, LFA, TI-LFA, LFA-FRR, ATM, SR-MPLS, SRoLDP, LDPoSR, SR-IPv6, Traffic Engineering, RSVP, Inter-AS Options A, B, and C.

NETWORK OPERATING SYSTEMS: Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco NX-OS, Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XE, JUNOS

NETWORK MANAGEMENT: Cisco PRIME Network, Cisco ISC, Cisco NCM, Cisco ANA, Cisco WAN Manager 9.2.x, Cisco WAN Manager 10.x, HP Openview, MRTG

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Director of Network Engineering IP/MPLS

• Provide technical and functional leadership both within and outside the Network Engineering team and the ability to effectively communicate technical issues to a wide range of audiences including executive management both orally and in writing.
• Design and architectural review in cross-functional teams of deployments and software developments that impact Network Engineering.
• Designed, implemented and built-out an Confidential ( Confidential ) to support a Global Unified IP/MPLS Network presence in the U.S. (Frisco) to support 24/7 unified services throughout PAN India.
• Responsible for parameter optimization & fine tuning to improve overall network performance, and standardizing baseline parameters network performance audit and recommendations.
• Collaborate with the colleagues on SDN requirements to create templates and standards for router configurations and deployments and update documentation accordingly.
• Technical contributor for a portfolio of technologies. Spans wireless, wireline and IP technology, including 4G LTE Voice and Data, FTTX, EPC, IMS Networks, Business/Consumer VoIP and industry leading MPLS/IP networks. Working planning and design team on the migration and transition of traditional network platforms and services to support Software Defined Networks (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Segment Routing (SR) and LDP interworking.
• Experience in Capacity planning and traffic engineering for all services offered in the whole domestic and international Unified MPLS network.
• Technology contributor for various POC’s in the Access Network for FTTX, LTE, Segment Routing over LDP, SDN/NFV vCPE, vFirewall, vSwitch, vRouter, vLoad balancer to provide services to various customers.
• Knowledge in networking design and deployment of technologies physical and/or virtual
• Conduct annual performance reviews and recommend compensation changes as appropriate
• Participation with Network Engineering management and divisional management on cost reduction platform initiatives

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Director of Network Engineering & Operations

• Responsible for hands-on leadership and directing a team of IP Experts in network design, architecture, implementation, documentation, and deployment of network IP infrastructure services.
• Responsible for the vendor management and working with CAPEX and OPEX for the network infrastructure as new designs or optimization of re-grooming efforts are identified by the business units utilizing various technologies for public and private services. Familiar with spinning up services via AWS stack utilizing EC2, Simple Storage Stack (S3), SimpleDB (S3) and SQS (S3).
• Leading and managing the efforts of all network related issues including but not limited to monitoring network infrastructure; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with 3rd party support resources and fellow Cloud Service leads to manage and optimize West Telecom network.
• Developed and implemented a strategic plan for network planning, strategies, and policies for circuit and bandwidth projections for network growth and scale.
• Defined strategies to ensure that technology goals are aligned with the expectations of executive management business requirements and technology roadmap.
• Responsible for all Cisco products including firewall, VPN Concentrators, switches, routers, IPS, IDS and DMZ design and implementation.
• Conducted technical reviews of products or solutions to compare and evaluate their applicability
• Responsible for deploying Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery utilizing multiple carriers for domestic and non-domestic networks via Global MPLS infrastructure. The design included but not limited to path diversity in the last mile and data center entry points including diverse power to network elements on the LAN/MAN/WAN and geographic redundancy for hot and cold data centers in the event of a major catastrophic or occurrence.
• Directed the design and engineering of an industry leading nationwide VOIP tandem switch network to transit over 8 billion minutes.
• Oversee the efforts involved in the network design of technical solutions that enable the designated business segments to maintain high levels of customer satisfaction and profitability with respect to the architectures and platforms employed in accordance to corporate and departmental standards. I am responsible for a growing global converged network infrastructure that generates $50 million in annual revenue from media, wireless, wireline and data customers.
• Responsibilities include with but not limited to VoIP/IP telephony systems, software, and hardware i.e., Sonus platforms, GSX, PSX and SGX, Asterisk, SER, SIP routers, SBC, and firewalls supporting traditional TDM and IP networks.
• Provide day to day support to several IP routing platforms including but not limited to several IP routing technologies (e.g., MPLS, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, BFD, Traffic Engineering and MPLS FRR).

Confidential, Southlake, Texas

Network Consultant/NNO Data Service Engineering

• Provided hands-on expertise of writing configurations and implementation of Method of Procedures (MOPs) to support WSN, WVN, RAN, VNI and EDN network elements within the VZW network infrastructure. The support included but was not limited to BGP, OSPF, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6 for VPNv4 and v6 technologies.
• Supported the Confidential RAN (Radio Access Network), WSN (Wireless Services Network), WVN (Wireless Voice Network), EDN (Engineering Data Network) and the IT Networks configuring and supporting IP routers, Ethernet switches, MPLS routers, and some legacy ATM equipment which needed to be configured to meet customer requirements, network capacity and project demands.
• Provided design input, implemented hardware, and provided extensive technical support and documentation for LAN/WAN networks.
• Audited network elements for alarming, configuration inconsistencies and optimization.
• Performed accurate and timely capacity management for both hardware and circuits as internetworking issues were discovered/experienced, proactively provided troubleshooting and offered guidance to operations.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Sr. Network Consultant/Engineer

• Setup and configure Juniper Routers (SRX 5800, 5600, MX480 & NS5200), and Juniper Firewalls, NAT routers and core Cisco 7613 layer 3 routers and 6513 Switches. Implement Method of Procedures (MOP) which include but limited to Juniper and Cisco configuration tasks, hardware verification, migration plans, data center equipment connectivity test, ISP connectivity test, Post-Migration connectivity test and Back-out procedures if necessary.
• Set up and configure First Field Application (FFA) of the Core Nexus 7010 switch to provide layer 2 connectivity via VLAN and port channel to I.T. Customer base for scalability and replacement of existing Cisco Catalyst switch.
• Responsible for configuring Layer 2 switches for VLAN creation, utilizing VTP, Spanning Tree, Ether Channel, and Trunking. Responsible for Core network design and support of new Mobility Project that will launch very soon which include but not limited to Core MPLS design with BGP and OSPF. Configure and setup of n-PE routers with multiple VRF to multiple edge customers.
• Configure and setup the F5 GTM/LTM, Viprion load balancers to support various customer application within the MDF/IDF build in their Data centers.
• Setup and configure router based VPN to multiple customers to provide application resources for phone zone end users that traverse core backbone services.
• Responsible for implementing Layer 3 static routes, BGP and OSPF for internal and external traffic to the data network over MPLS cloud and this may include influencing route-maps, communities, policies, and access-list for customer traffic.
• Setup and configure router based VPN to multiple customers to provide application resources for phone zone end users that traverse core backbone services

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Director of Network Engineering & Operations

• Provide hands-on Management of a team of network engineers to support a global technology & outsourcing company and multi-protocol technologies. Responsibilities may include but are not limited to network implementation and design of the global I.T. infrastructure.
• Leads and builds a highly agile network engineering team and Leads network designs. Support all Aegis data center network equipment (routers, switches, firewalls) built and operations functionality. Provide no single points of failure; all failovers fully tested on regular schedule. Regularly review the health of the network and ensure it is operating optimally.
• Implemented and designed redundant MPLS clouds for Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery between multiple carriers for domestic and non-domestic networks. The VRF includes any-to-any mesh connectivity via several Cisco routers with QoS markings and VoIP traffic traversing the MPLS networks.
• Deployed BGP and OSPF for internal and external traffic to the data network over MPLS cloud and this may include influencing route-maps, communities, policies, and access-list for customer traffic.
• Responsible for all Call Center VoIP traffic traversing the MPLS cloud via Cisco and Extreme PoE data switches. The MPLS profile over the WAN/QoS includes but not limited to 60% VoIP, 30% data and the remaining traffic as Best Effort via QoS.
• Designed and proposed solutions to customers for LAN/WAN/MAN/IP MPLS/VPN's/Network Security/IP Telephony. This design required BGP Dual-homing or Multi-homing for redundant routing with route filters for proper route redistribution. Used various BGP attributes for load balancing across multiple ISP's.
• Tested Cisco NAC (Network Admission Control) appliance that utilizes the network infrastructure to enforce security policy compliance on all devices trying to access network resources of the infrastructure.
• Rolled out NAC Standard Manager as a Beta to support one remote site servers, switches, users, printers and IP phones for test and turn up.
• Provided hands-on day-to-day support to a global MPLS network infrastructure for several clients throughout the United States and several parts of India and the U.K.

Confidential, Southlake, TX

Data Services Operations

• Provided support for BGP and OSPF router configurations and troubleshooting including but not limited to policy routing, BGP communities, Route Reflectors, Access & Prefix Lists along with IGP route redistribution.
• Provided support for ATM WAN links via ATM/SONET technology. Including but not limited to T1, T3, OC3, OC12, OC48, turn-ups and outages. QoS implementation and support utilizing VBR, VBRrt, VBRnrt, UBR & ABR over ATM WAN link.
• Provided day-to-day support for Checkpoint VPN-1 and Firewall-1 production over Nokia and Cross Beam platforms included but not limited to firewall rule sets and firewall pushes.
• Provided support including but not limited to the Nortel Passport (7k & 15k) layer 2 switches as well as Cisco MGX 8250, 8850 & 8950 WAN switches to internal and external customers via SONET.
• Provided implementation and day-to-day support of the Juniper M320 Choke Routers and Cisco 7600 Choke Routers peering via BGP to external customers.
• Provided support including but not limited to the Cisco CSS 11000 Content Service Switch and Content Services Gateway to support IT customers’ internal and external retail Stores and Kiosk.
• Provided implementation and support for Out-of-band (OBM) Management Frame Relay network to internal customers.