Vice President Resume
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Able to design, configure, install, and maintenance LAN/WAN & Linux server infrastructure at a SMB to Enterprise/ISP level with diverse operating systems
- Network topologies, and computer platforms. Serve as a sole point of contact as well as perform physical site visits for network, NAC, and application issues such as routing/switching, firewall, server and PC OS, and various Internet related services. Perform in - person repairs, upgrades, and troubleshooting.
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
NETWORKING: Knowledge of TCP/IP, Ethernet, LAN/WAN/MAN, ACLs, DSL, Cable, Dialup, IPv4 & IPv6 Deployment, NAC, Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), DNS, DOCSIS 2.0 - 3.0, DCHP and many more
HARDWARE: Ability to install/upgrade/manage PCs, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Servers and peripherals to ensure proper configuration as well as network connectivity. Knowledge of the Following Vender Hardware DELL (R610), D-Link, NetGear, Linksys, Motorola, Arris, A10, F5 (Big IP), Ixia, Sun, Cisco, Juniper, HP(G5,G6,G7), Apple, Extreme, 3COM, EnGenius, Tufin, Checkpoint, FortiNet, ForeScout CounterACT CT10k and many more
Networking Hardware: Cisco AP ( 1100 - 160 2 with 5500/2504 controller & software based controller), 800, 1800, 2800, 3800, 3900, 4500, 7600, 10K, 14K, ASR9010, ASA5 505 - ASA55 58, N70 04-701 0, Juniper SRX, MX240, MX480, MX960, 7i, 10i, Extreme Summit 200 - 400 , 3COM, EnGenius, Edgewater EdgeMarc 4550, ForeScout CounterACT and many more
Networking Tools & OS’s: PuTTY, JUNOS, CISCO IOS/NXOS/CAT OS, XR OS, XE OS, CiscoWorks (NCM), Tivoli NMC, NV6000, Fluke VitalNet, NetQoS, OpenView, Peregrine, Visual Up Time, Nagios, Solarwinds, Cisco NCM, SevOne NMS, NetFlow, WireShark, Pressler PRTG, ForeScout Enterprise Manager
TCP / UDP Protocols: FTP, SFTP, SSH, Telnet, NTP, SMTP, SNMP, DNS, HTTP, HTTPS, DHCP, COPS, and many more (RFC 1700).
Linux: Ability to install/upgrade/manage CentOS, RHEL, Ubuntu, Mint, Apache, Tomcat, CPanel.
Layer 1 Management: Able to install all physical hardware necessary for racking & stacking server & networking peripherals. Eg. Patch panels, server racks, cable trays, wire crimping (RJ45/11, RG6), cable management, and power management.
Vendor Management: Have managed vendors at all levels of business which included purchasing of equipment, engineering, troubleshooting, and project management on new technologies.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Vice President
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Designed, Managed and deployed over 240 ForeScout CounterACT CT10000 series appliances across the world for a global financial institution.
- Interface with ForeScout Support and/or R&D for any escalations, plugin development, bug reporting and tracking, and new system code development.
- Definition and creation of CounterACT polices in accordance with customer’s business requirements which included informational policy as well as robust enforcement policies.
- Manage equipment installation and configuration at data centers as well as large sites with localized data closets.
- Manage CounterACT software and hardware upgrades ranging from service packs, plugins, and premium plugin upgrades.
- Project management of the ForeScout solution in accordance with the customer’s business goals.
- Acted as the resident engineer and SME for any ForeScout related questions.
Sr. Network Engineer
Lewes, DE
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Designed, configured, and installed various networking peripherals such as but not limited to: Cisco Aironet 1140AG – 1602i CAP/SAP, ASA5 505-555 8 Firewall, Cisco SG 200-500 , Cisco 2950/2960, Cisco 3750, Edgewater Edgemarc 4550 VOIP Router, Dell PowerConnect, and Cradlepoint.
- Installed and maintained several NMS tools such as PRTG & Solarwinds
- Installed and maintained several open source programs on a Linux OS platform such as but not limited to: Catci, NetMon, Snort IDS/IPS, Snorby, Aanval, Squidguard.
- Assisted with VOIP Phone deployments using Polycom Telephones connecting to a Cloud based PBX system guaranteeing QoS through Edgewater’s VOIP router as an edge device.
- Worked as the lead Network Engineer by consulting, performing site surveys, and troubleshooting both medical and non-medical networks in various environments and different types of vendor equipment.
Sr. WAN Engineer
Dover, DE
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Designed, purchased, configured, and installed Cisco infrastructure for several main DOT campuses within Delaware. Equipment purchases in the multi-million dollar price range.
- Used various tools to monitor and maintain Delaware DOT’s Network such as Solarwinds, Big Brother, IPPLAN, IPDB, and Cacti.
- Handled wiring and termination vendors on various jack and wiring installations on DOT owned buildings.
- Terminated and punched down VOIP and Data wiring to patch panels as well as 66 and 11 0 phone blocks.
- Supported a wide breadth of networking equipment vendors such as: Cisco, Extreme, 3COM, DigiBox, Juniper, HP, and Dell.
- Supported all Internet connections such as but not limited to: Frame Relay, DS3, T1, Fiber Optics and Cellular. This included troubleshooting downed connections, operating as the far-end tester, and performed new Internet upgrades.
- Managed, Upgraded, Configured, Repaired the following equipment types:
- Cisco: 800, 1800, 2600, 2900, 3500, 3600, 3700, 4500, 5500, 6500, 7600, Aironet, Nexus 7004, ASA5 505 – 552 0, Edgewater Edgemarc 4550 (VOIP Router), Dell PowerConnect 2800’s, SF300 MP 24-52
- Extreme Summit: 250, 350, 450, Sentraint & Juniper 10i, 7i, MX240
Sr. Security Engineer
Branchburg, NJ
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Routers:
- Troubleshot/Audited/Maintenance ACL’s on several large Cisco routers – 2K’s – 14k’s, ASR-9010, 1k’s
- Troubleshot/Audited/Maintenance ACL’s on several Juniper Routers such as MX-480’s & 960’s
- Troubleshot/Audited/Maintenance Firewall/VPN Policy on Checkpoint Firewalls (Running R75)
- VPNs:
- Modify/Add/Delete existing VPN connections within Checkpoint of FortiNet Firewalls.
- Worked as the lead engineer in a migration project
- ACL Auditing:
- Evaluate ACL creation and ACE handling.
- Evaluate network diagrams & current set of ACL’s to ensure security compliancy & avoid filter weak points.
- Consolidate 10,0 00 – 20 ,000 ACE’s into a smaller ACL.
- Evaluate ACL’s per router basis and compare each similar ACL to ensure ACE integrity.
- Write several Perl & PHP programs to dissect Cisco Running-Configuration files to perform quick ACL audits per device.
- Generate an ACL Dashboard with an automated process to eliminate the need to re-audit a device manually.
- Write “Golden ACL’s” in which becomes the new standard per ACL group.
- Write MOPs out for Implementation Engineering to follow to complete audit per router.
- Work with an appliance called Tufin to monitor and aid in auditing router configurations.
- ACL Ticketing:
- Handle Internal & External Customer requests via Remedy Ticketing.
- Join Maintenance Calls based upon tickets submitted and/or auditing.
- Become an ACL Point of Contact for escalations and outages.
- Technical Documentation Writing:
- Write and edit several Firewall and ACL security standards
- Write several in-depth MOPs (Methods, Orders, or Procedures) in order for router work to be implemented.
- Write several data flows and design documents to show new filter paths for ACL’s and Firewalls via Visio.
DOCSIS III Engineer
Philadelphia, PA
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Designed, tested, purchased, configured, and deployed several large scale server deployments ( 170 servers 85 clusters) for a new PCMM platform within Comcast. Equipment purchases in the multi-million dollar price range.
- IPv6 Development:
- Design network infrastructure for IPv6 in order to support end-to-end IPv6 connectivity to CPE.
- Design all necessary changes to network infrastructure in order for IPv6 readiness
- Upgrade current network infrastructure to support IPv6 (Router, CMTS).
- Test all IPv6 connection technologies for performance and select those that meet or exceed our stringent guidelines.
- Trial, analyzes, and gathers information on IPv6 technologies -- assesses the impact on existing current infrastructure.
- Develop and design training modules for Comcast employees nationwide for IPv6 readiness.
- Build and maintain IPv6 supported websites.
- Assist in development of the architecture, designs, and deployment plans for edge network devices such as DOCSIS Cable Modem and Wireless devices, as well as other web and network applications and capabilities important to the delivery of a next-generation broadband service.
- Present and defend architecture, design, and technical choices to internal audiences.
- Develop requirements to be used by the vendor community to develop solutions to meet business application needs.
- Evaluate various architectural solutions, implementations, and vendors.
- Establish and maintain productive relationships with peer organizations.
- Establish and maintain productive relationships with equipment and software vendors.
- Participate in standards bodies and organizations, including CableLabs and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
- Proactively identify other high-speed Internet services and/or capabilities that may be beneficial to customers.
- Develop test plans/cases to be used in verifying documented requirements.
- Participate in / oversee the testing and certification process of multiple technology platforms.
- Technical leadership & mentoring of others in the engineering organization.
Network Engineer
Durham, NC
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Performed design work for managed customers' new sites and turn-ups per managed customer requirements &/or guidelines.
- Network Operations Center (NOC) Analysts to work in a 7x24 network operations center monitoring and managing WAN, LAN and VOIP (Voice over IP) networks for Domestic and international clients.
- Advanced knowledge of network operation, configuration and troubleshooting.
- Data-Networking knowledge and experience including Cisco and/or Nortel Routers, TCP/IP, and Circuit troubleshooting.
- TCP/IP, Router skills, Switch skills, VLANs, VPN technology and implementation, Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF & EIGRP), NAT/PAT address translation, HSRP configuration, VoIP, Cisco command structure and usage.
- Familiar with the following monitoring and recovery tools, NMC, NV6000, CiscoWorks, and problem/change systems.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Advise users on network Troubleshooting
- Perform analytical & apply advanced network troubleshooting techniques.
- Implement Cisco devices through remote configuration and vendor meet conferences.
- VOIP Troubleshooting knowledge (Avaya Products)
- Troubleshot a wide variety of networking devices such as Cisco (1 800-760 0 routers, 6500 Catalyst switches, and Nexus), Juniper, Foundary, 3COM, HP, Dell and many more
Network Engineer
Ashburn, VA
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Assisted with designing and deploying major router infrastructure to expand capacity within Verizon Business's backbone infrastructure.
- Responsible for implementing, monitoring and maintenance of local and wide area networks that typically link to numerous computer platforms, operating systems and network topologies across a widely dispersed geographical area.
- Work to ensure that the site network and network management environment is reliable and that performance meets predefined service levels.
- Serve as an escalation point for network issues including backbone routing, customer router configuration and various Internet related services.
- Provide complete front-to-end engineering, maintenance and security of Cisco and Juniper router-based IP network solutions.
- Responsible for creating related engineering documents, drawings and IP administration efforts.
- Develop new designs and documentation to improve current network operating procedures.
DSL/FTTC TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Carlisle, PA
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Recognized for outstanding quality of customer service with numerous commendation from clients.
- Provided excellent customer care and rapport for existing and new Embarq clients.
- Resolved client DSL and router malfunctions in a timely and effective manner.
- Successfully aided clients that were unfamiliar with technologies such as computer hardware, network hardware, and software, through troubleshooting their network and DSL malfunctions with exceptional results.
Freelance Computer Technician
Shepherdstown, WV
Confidential
Responsibilities:
- Removed virus/Trojans/malware
- Installed virus protection software and performed their updates
- Perform system backups and restores
- Executed system performance upgrades
- Implemented computer optimization & tuning
- Software troubleshooting/installation
- General Internet advisement & hook up.
- Built PC’s per customer specifications.