SUMMARY:

• Senior Architect and Network Engineer with more than twenty years of IT experience utilizing a disciplined and structured approach to delivery of services. Seventeen years of concentrated experience in network design, management, security, monitoring and operations. Strong team skills with extensive team leadership experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Architect/Engineer

Chevy Chase, Maryland

Acted as Network SME on Enterprise Deployment and Development of Monitoring, Performance and Event Management solutions. Provided Data Acquisition and Reporting of Enterprise Infrastructure Systems for Data Analytics. Consulted project stake holders, project team and lines of service to ensure proper direction of project efforts. Project scope includes Application Performance Management (APM), Network Performance Management and Diagnostics (NPMD), Event Management, Service Dashboarding and Reporting of Key Performance Indicators. Developed Training for Operational Processes and Documented SOPs

Confidential

Senior Network Securuty Engineer

Urbana, Maryland

Served as Network Engineering SME for consulting and support services to IBM transition team for Fannie Mae infrastructure outsourcing. Provided engineering effort for the outsourcing and migration of Fannie Mae's Enterprise NOC to AT&T Global NOC. Maintained inventory and documentation of systems infrastructure to aid future troubleshooting, configuration and expansion exercises. Managed and supported data center and enterprise network routing, switching, access control, authentication, load balaning, proxies, DNS and IPAM. Executed, troubleshot and documented DR failover test plan elements.

Confidential

Network Architect and Senior Network Engineer

Chantilly, Virginia

Designed network solutions in compliance with established security policies. Maintained security Certification and Authorization (C&A), Interim Authority to Operation (IATO) and Authority to Operate (ATO) status on numerous environments. Contributed to LTM/PTM/CTM production for various network architecture and engineering tasks.

Provided ongoing architecture, engineering and management support of leveraged service delivery environments. Architecture solutions provided a secure access methodology and leveraged solutions for security, management and monitoring of customer infrastructure.

Led the network design and implementation of CSC’s United States based SOC Disaster Recovery locations. Provided Network and Firewall SME support to numerous DHS projects including Data Center designs, standups and migrations Led DHS Data Center Network consolidations, application migrations and DR solutions. Supported multiple healthcare clients through architecture and engineering efforts of Data Center Environment. Provided leveraged service delivery architecture monitoring services to healthcare data center customers.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineering Consultant

Herndon, Virginia

Supported internal network infrastructure for enterprise and web hosting environments. Duties included network build - outs and provisioning of network services to support growth requirements. Performed metrics monitoring, reporting, device discovery and alert management using network monitoring and management software. Provided ongoing capacity planning and system management as needed. Led technical and project efforts to deploy a secured enterprise wireless network. Efforts included solution design and development, proof-of-concept, production pilot and production deployment. Administered and maintained Cisco Secure ACS and authentication platforms.

Confidential

Senior Consulting Engineer

Lanham, Maryland

Served as network engineering SME supporting IRS portal test and development environment O&M. Scope of SME responsibilities ranged from physical layer data center cable plant management to application layer load balancing and content switching design and support. Contributed to new “ground up” portal design and portal DR proof-of-concept efforts. Managed web content switching and load balancing for portal applications as well as SSL encryption offloading. Responsible for load balancing of web, application and backend portal layers. Customized health monitors for optimized performance and availability of portal applications. Supported network build-out and provisioning of network services for expansion of portal test and development environments. Provided network consulting and support for application performance testing.

Senior Consulting Engineer

Chantilly, Virginia

Provided engineering consulting services and solutions to Federal Government customers. Supported CSC’s new business initiatives through network engineering SME role on proposal efforts. Efforts included network analysis, architecture and design. Served as technical writer and contributor to CSC’s proposal teams.

Senior Network Engineer/Engineering Team Lead

Falls Church, Virginia

Functioned as O&M Network Engineer and Team Lead for a complex and large enterprise network environment. Diverse architecture consisted of Campus, Data Center, WLAN, WAN, MAN, Extranet, Enterprise Core, Internet Peering, Global Network Peering and Portal network modules. Implemented processes and procedures consistent with ITIL based approach to service delivery and management. Processes and procedures ensured compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements. Acted as lead for SOX compliance assurance. Led development of standard solution sets through vendor solution assessment and TCO analysis. Developed additional standards ranging from standard network designs to device configurations in an effort to ensure consistency and adherence with best practices. Designed high availability solutions to meet customer SLAs. Performed network capacity planning through the proactive use of network management tools. Liaised with Network Management Center maintaining up-to-date device and account information. Performed daily reporting to Account Team of systems status, significant events, root cause analysis for outages and notification of upcoming environment changes. Provided Tier 3 escalation support to customer problem intervention teams. Provided various levels of Project Management for high visibility projects. Contributed to and lead various aspects of project lifecycle for large scale enterprise core network redesign, implementation and migration. -Project addressed HA at every layer from diverse facilities to diverse carrier SONET rings from diverse COs.

VENDORS AND PLATFORMS

Operating Systems - *nix (Ubuntu, BSD, Solaris) and Windows Server GNS3 Virtual Lab Virtualization - VMWare, VirtualBox, Dynamips, QEMU Firewall - CheckPoint Security Auppliances and NGFW, Cisco ASA, McAfee/Sidewinder Firewall Enterprise and NG Firewall, Juniper SRX Monitoring and Event Management - Netscout nGeniousONE, Solarwinds, Cisco Prime, CA Performance Center NetQoS/Network Flow Analysis/ReporterAnalyzer/, Infoblox NetMRI DDI/IPAM - Infoblox, VitalQIP, NetID Cisco - Nexus, Catalyst, ASR, ISR, ACS, ASA, IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS Juniper - MX Series routers, SRX Firewalls, Junos, ScreenOS F5 BIG-IP GTM/DNS and LTM Brocade - ICS and Fastiron Extreme BlackDiamond and Summit Riverbed - Steelhead WAN Optimizers Avaya Nortel - ERS Radware - Alteon Application Delivery Control/Load Balancer

SOLUTIONS AND STANDARDS:

Enterprise Network Systems and Security Architecture Large, Complex and Fluid Network Systems IT Operations Management (ITOM), Infrastructure & Operations (I&O) Management ITIL Service Management Development and Deployment of ITOM, ITOA, NPMD, NPM and APM High Availability and Disaster Recovery DDI/IPAM Solutions SLB/GLB Load Balancing Firewall/Proxy/NAT/ACL Security Monitoring and Logging - SNMP, SYSLOG, IP SLA, CBQoS and Netfow/IPFIX LAN Switching - 802.1d/802.1w/802.1s Spanning Tree, 802.1q

Tagging, VRF, VTP, LACP (802.1ad)/PAgP Link Aggregation

First Hop LAN Redundancy - HSRP (RFC 2281), VRRP (RFC 3768) and GLBP Authentication, Authorization and Accounting - TACACS+, RADIUS and LDAP VPN Solutions - DMVPN mGRE/IPsec/NHRP, IPsec, PPTP and SSL Layer 2 Tunneling - L2TPv3 (RFC2931), PPTP and GRE WAN Layer 2 Protocols - Frame Relay/HDLC/PPP/MLPPP Routing Design - OSPF and EIGRP, MPLS - MP-eBGP VPNv4, ECMP Wireless - IEEE 802.11 WLAN Standards, Encryption and Authentication