SUMMARY:

• Highly qualified results - oriented business professional with an engineering background and prove abilities in strategic planning, managing projects, and improving efficiency of operations, team building, and detailing project information to determine effective processes for operations. Demonstrated ability to motivate staff to maximum productivity and control costs through effective use of available resourcesStrengths
• Executive Management / Business and Technology Leadership / Strategic Planning / Vision and Perception / Technology Turnaround / Turning Business Needs into Requirements / Agile Methods

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Architect (Lead)

Responsibilities:

• Architect networks that effectively reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements, and other technology parameters.
• Develop design principles, models, plans, internal standards, budgets, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Participate in selection of networking technologies and products for implementation
• Lead teams of network designers and engineers in developing detailed designs and quality-control mechanisms during implementation.
• Communicate the role and value of the network to the organization and present the business case for technology investments.
• Continually update understanding of business and technology status and objectives and respond to strategic design requests as the business evolves.

Network Engineer III

Responsibilities:

• Managed daily center operations: network and systems infrastructure, environmental controls and components, access control, vendor maintenance contracts and government furnished equipment
• Collaborates with vendors and internal teams to define, plan and implement infrastructure technologies that continuously improve infrastructure services
• Designed, configured and deployed VMware vSphere vCloud Services Suite 5x (Private Clouds) improving application development’s performance, reliability and security

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Network Engineer III

Responsibilities:

• Temp-to-hire position with Harris Inc. supporting the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency responsible for managing data center network and systems infrastructure:
• Manage and monitor Cisco Catalyst 6509 switch with Supervisor Engine 720 10Ge, PoE blades, Cisco Nexus 5000 switches, Cisco IP Phones 7960, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, ASA 5000 series Firewall/VPN
• Manage VMware ESXi 4.1hosts, vCenter /Win2K8 SQL and VMware Lab Manager running on dual platform Sun Blade 6000 Chassis and Sun ZFS Storage 7120/7420 appliances

Confidential, Clarksville, VA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed secured network infrastructure resources for the Small Business Administration, Office of Disaster Assistance.
• Manage and monitor Cisco ASA 5510 Firewall/VPN and Cisco 3750 and 3650 series switches between district and regional facilities, configure, and monitor Juniper SSG 550 and SSG 140 Secure Services Gateways

Confidential, McLean, Virginia

Senior Network Engineer (Lead)

Responsibilities:

• IDP on Juniper’s 3400 and 3600 SRX Service Gateways (Service and Network processing cards, routing engine and 2x10 Gigabit XFP Ethernet I/O card)
• F5 Network’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) 8900 Series, F5 Network’s BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) Virtual Edition (VE)
• VMware ESX Server Version 3.5 on HP ProLiant BL460c G1 Server blades installed in a HP Blade System c7000 Enclosure
• Installed and configured VMware Infrastructure 3; VMware Virtual Center on a ProLiant DL380 G5 server running Windows 2003 Server R2
• Dell PowerEdge M1000e Blade Server Chassis - 16 PowerEdge M710HD Servers running Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise x64,
• Redundant Dell PowerConnect M6348 Gigabit, M8024 10GB and Brocade M5424 FC 8Gbps switches with Dell/EMC CX4 Fiber Channel terabyte storage array,
• Dell Power Edge 1950, 2950, R610, R710 Servers running Windows 2003 and 2008 Server
• Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3020 for HP c-Class BladeSystem, one HP 4Gb Virtual Connect Fiber Channel Module and two HP BladeSystem Onboard Administrators (active and standby modes)
• Configured Juniper SSG 550M Firewall appliance trusted, untrusted and DMZ zones
• NetApp 3040: SAN/NAS Aggregates, Volumes, LUNS Fiber Channel and iSCSI
• Designed 10 Gigabit Ethernet switching architecture in tandem with NICHD’s current network infrastructure and business requirements incorporating Cisco’s 4500 Series switches, Supervisor V10-GE and Supervisor IV/V Engines, Gigabit Ethernet (Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC) or Small Form-factor Pluggable (SFP) line cards and Fast Ethernet Power over Ethernet line cards
• Upgraded NICHD’s core switching infrastructure increasing speeds to 10 Gigabit Ethernet between core, distribution and access devices
• Collaborate with corporate partners and vendors to plan, develop and implement state of the art information solutions facilitating corporate growth

Confidential, Denver, Colorado

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Trained and mentored internal staff; setting priorities; managing multiple technical projects and developing short and long-range networking plans.
• Appointed as technical lead on FPS Mobile Command Unit for the 2005 Presidential Inauguration Recipient of Certificate of appreciation, Federal Protective Service, for successfully implementing and supporting wired and wireless network for the 55th Presidential Inauguration
• Prepared divisions 2005 fiscal year’s IT budget encompassing expanding application and data requirements

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of the National Capitol Region (NCR) Geospatial Information System (GIS) Weapons Mass Destruction (WMD) initiative board
• Created and maintained network and system documentation, network topology diagrams and user’s manuals in accordance to FPS guidelines.
• Successfully developed, tested and documented disaster recovery policies and procedures for all Windows NT / 2000/2003 Server systems and Windows NT/2000client workstations, including off site storage of backup media

Confidential, Reston, Virginia

Systems Engineer:

Responsibilities:

• Successfully developed and employed improved processes to meet short and long-term goals for ESE Project
• Coached and directed team engineers in operational activities to ensure compliance with ESE project goals, objectives and budgets
• Authored detailed business requirements for the operations functions of ESE project
• Authored several technical documents for ESE server base; BizTalk, Structured Query Language (SQL), Commerce and Accuracy to include installation, configuration, and disaster recovery policies and procedures
• Evaluated and addressed training and professional development needs for ESE staff member
• Primus eServer Knowledge Base; member of technical review board responsible for reviewing and approving technical solutions eligible knowledge base and technical case resolution.
• Consistently delivered division’s Performance report prior to deadline by importing, analyzing and compiling an average of 2000 Cases per month
• Managed five hundred data center servers running Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Windows NT and UNIX providing Web, File & Print Services, Exchange, Active Directory, and Citrix services.
• Provided 24X7 level three technical support to clients, successfully resolving all system and network errors within ninety minutes, replaced failed hardware devices and restored service within four hours
• Monitored all system and network devices using Cisco Works and HP Open View and backed up Cisco routers, Cisco Layer 3 and 2 switches, Cisco PIX Firewalls, Altheon Web Switches, Net Caches and Net Screen 1000 VPN/Firewall to standalone TFTP server

Confidential, Oxon Hill, Maryland

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Revamped Windows NT 4.0 print servers and services by reinstalling and reconfiguring 200 print devices and drivers, implemented several print solution projects within budget and timeline, successfully eliminated numerous old printers and increased network performance by 15%
• Certificate of Recognition, Department of Defense Health Affairs, response to network virus attack, May 25, 2000