PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Experienced in a variety of roles as Technical Project Manager/Engineer/Architect successfully managed mid to large IT deployments of varying complexities.
• Strong technical skills acquired from hands - on experience combined with excellent organizational capabilities, excellent communication skills, and a desire to always improve on technical skills in a progressive.
• Always setting new goals, while keeping technical skills current, currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Cybersecurity.
• Equally versatile in an engineering role as a project management.
• Enterprise implementation & deployment experience with data/voice network design, migrations, plus extensive experience network design and architecture.
• Technical expertise with route/switch (cisco) acquired by hands-on experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Voice technologies: VOIP - Cisco UCCX, CUBE, Call manager, & Avaya

Cloud computing AWS/ Confidential: Azure/Office 365 architecture/migration

Data center implementation and technologies: Data Center technologies Nexus 7K - FEX, VPC, OTV

Network infrastructure technology: route/switch - catalyst series /Nexus 5K and 7K, CAT-OS,Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, and NX-OS, routing protocols

Firewall technologies: PIX / ASA 5500 Checkpoint, Sonic Wall

Load balancing technologies: Citrix, NetScaler &XenApp

Virtual technologies: VMware, Hypervisor, Virtual Box, Sandbox

Wireless technologies: 802.11 A/B/G/N, Interior/Exterior AP’S, Cisco, Motorola WAPS

WAN technologies: F5 Big LTM, GTM, Riverbed circuit provisioning, MPLS

Management Systems: CA, Tivoli, Remedy

Network Monitoring: Wireshark, Orion Solarwinds

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Albany, New York

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Consolidating network architecture for migration to central Data Center
• Demonstrated experience with design, implementation and support of remote access solutions.
• Verified remote network sites, inventoried site architecture
• Demonstrated direct working experience with design, implementation and support of a multi-vendor network environments, configuration and support of routers, switches, VPNs, and firewalls
• Prepared Visio design documents for implementation
• Inventoried and verified local site data centers
• Direct. Hands-on working experience troubleshooting application issues using protocol analysis tools. (i.e. Wireshark).
• Direct, working experience with design, implementation and support of Cisco wireless technologies, including both lightweight and autonomous
• Hands-on working experience with design, implementation and support of WAN/LAN technologies, including Multicast, RIP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, Spanning Tree, LLDP and Link Aggregation protocols.
• Demonstrated experience with design, implementation and support of Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems
• Provided technical guidance and training applications including: Office 365, Solarwinds, Wireshark, and any Agency specific application needs.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Wichita, Kansas

Responsibilities:

• Mapping network architecture in preparation for implementation of a SDWAN solution
• Verified remote network sites, checked and verified site architecture
• Prepared Visio diagrams for implementation
• Prepared network templates in Cisco Prime
• Uploaded network templates in Viptela

Environment: Cisco 2900 series, 3580. Cisco WRX switches, Viptella, Cisco Prime, Orion

Network Engineer

Confidential, Lansdale, Pennsylvania

Responsibilities:

• Managed integration pre-acquisition networks over MPLS, migration of EIGRP to BGP
• Security assessment feasibility DFARS assessment for NIST 800 compliance.
• Migration of legacy network environment to meet security compliance
• Knowledge of CISCO IOS (NAC, netflow, QoS, S; DMZ, LAN/WAN, security zone),
• Cisco ASA5500 /Juniper SRX firewalls
• Routing switching in an enterprise environment, BGP, OSPG, EIGRP, route redistribution and policy based routing.
• LAN switching (HSRP, port security, trunking and vpc), solid knowledge of CISCO IOS (NAC, netflow, QoS, S; DMZ, LAN/WAN, security zone

Environment: Netscreen series (Juniper) SRX220, Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus 7K, Paolo Alto, OSPF, Cisco 4500 Catalyst 6500, Cisco 3945. Cisco2901, 2921 series routers

Confidential, Miami

Network Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Review and ongoing assessment of firewall, router, switches, VPN, SSL and other network component policies and configuration standards.
• Security assessment of firewall, router, switches, VPN, SSL concentrator and other network component security configurations.
• Web and mobile application security development requirements based on OWASP, PCI and other standard methodologies to ensure secure coding practices are incorporated with the SDLC process.
• Network and Application vulnerability scans, and track proper remediation of findings, in order to determine company exposure and related security risk.
• Configuration and maintenance of network devices monitoring tools (including setting up intrusion event alerts and notifications).
• Validation of firewall configuration and rules to maintain secure connections (internal and external).
• Assist in the development and maintenance of Information Security Policies & Procedures as necessary to address technology changes, business needs and evolving security threats.
• Coordination and follow up on the remediation of internal and external penetration tests.
• Part of Network security team responsible for global LAN/WAN and security. Analyzed a large volume of security events and identified data breaches in firewall events to assist in troubleshooting.

Environment: Netscreen series (Juniper) Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus 7K, Paolo Alto, OSPF, Cisco 4500 Catalyst

Confidential

Technical Architect Security

Responsibilities:

• Operations Integration Management (OIM) team member in support of Confidential BlueSky Legacy migrations to iGEMS.
• Directed the day-to-day of the technical team edge Cisco routing and switching, routing protocols.
• Responsible for interfacing and facilitating collaboration with Work Center Operations Implementation SMEs, IT Operations Technical staff members, Confidential technical staff as well as other OIM Team members to implement the Incident Management Operational Model specified.
• Coordinated necessary internal infrastructure requests necessary to initiate the connectivity solution based on current designs
• Communicated the transformation approach as needed to various external teams or stakeholders
• Resolution of technical connectivity issues, topology mapping and architecture
• Work and assist the SD engineers for the necessary configuration/script changes to enable monitoring and connectivity
• IT technical staff coordination Network Operations, Network Engineering and Network Project Management iGEMS Confidential (SMARTS) ad SNMP Network Management Systems (NMS) architecture
• Large complex IP networks and associated components,
• Confidential Office and working knowledge of Windows OS / Unix / Linux / Ubuntu systems
• Use of IPSec encryption tunnels to implement a SNMP v3 Network Monitoring System for enterprise clients standard

Environment: Architecture, VPN SNMPv3, Confidential & Confidential tools, Action 4, AOTS, Business Direct, Visio: IPSEC tunnels

Confidential, Portland, Oregon

Network Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Implementation of Avaya VOIP - Avaya 3524/48 Confidential switches
• Supervised network equipment installation, validation and certification activities in nationwide enterprise upgrade.
• Frequent communication and coordination with various project managers to meet an aggressive deadline, to efficiently resolve escalated issues.
• Supervised equipment testing and validation
• Development of hardened equipment configuration standards
• Test result documentation and upgrade of existing project architecture and documentation.
• Managed a variety of technical tasks, as part of implementing and operational validation of the WAN and LAN infrastructure.
• Support of a large integrated DC environment (Cisco), Checkpoint firewalls, Cisco switching, Wireless, Routing (BGP & OSPF) checking and validation of existing configs to conform to project architecture runbooks
• Support Working knowledge F5

Environment: Cisco Route, Avaya Switch & VOIP architecture, Motorola WAP’s, Cisco, Nexus 7K, BGP, OSPF

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade data center to support AWS cloud infrastructure Data Centers AWS Prod & EC2 Technical AWS infrastructure and edge Infrastructure, edges devices, routers aggregate switches, including SRX firewalls, Nexus 7k
• AWS cloud technologies: EBS, S3, Cloud front, virtual private cloud, IAM, High Availability, Route 53
• Design and deployment of AWS architecture, elasticity, bootstrapping, auto scaling
• Direct connect optics provisioning DWDM & SONET connections
• Spec’d new equipment, procurement requests, BOM, PO’s, PCR’s and change requests
• Coordination data center net techs & engineers
• Managed 27 multiple competing cross-functional global projects/programs simultaneously.
• Worked with in conjunction with engineers ‘detailed and creative solutions to complex problems,
• Ensured consistency in deployed configurations and track exceptions for follow up and escalation.
• Excellent organizational skills and project tracking abilities; experience of procurement and logistics, used strong focus with attention to detail; working in a very fast-paced, hectic, and energetic environment, yet able to maintain high quality standards; project/task prioritization and schedule development.

Environment: AWS: Cisco, Juniper

Confidential

Deployment Program Manager

Responsibilities:

• Program manager Confidential (Global Foundation Services) Infrastructure deployment
• Led deployment projects through TPMs, NPMs, facilities, and other Data Center deployments, server, installation, migration for augmentation of cloud services to support Confidential Azure and Office 365 Verticals for global DC’s
• Prepared project management plans specifying the tasks (Agenda for kick-off meetings, Scheduled Kick-off coordinating with global network personnel, co-ordination to ensure time-critical deliverables, liaising across project teams on complex sub tasks, (optical inter-connectivity) and approaches to be used to provide the services including deliverables, analyses, and reports necessary in addition to conducting & participating daily status meetings to fulfill the requirements of the statement of work.
• Data center design, architecture and implementation, Data center’s Tacoma, Asia, & EMEA
• Security procedures for HBI, MBI, Environments
• Manage & Monitor technical staff (feet on the ground) Data Center Rack, Stack, Cable and Energize, Network, SAN, Imaging, Asset Update, & Imaging and facilitation with Azure and Office 365 engineers.
• DWDM /SONET/optical interconnects project for direct connect DC’s
• Budgets project average $30,000,000.00 plus.

Environment: Cisco, Arista switches ASR, Cisco ASA, BGP, OSPF. GRE, Confidential Lync, SharePoint, Excel, Office, Office 365. .

Confidential

Consulting Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consultant network administration Miami satellite office
• Troubleshoot network connectivity issues
• Windows Server 2003, Back office, Confidential Exchange Server
• Disaster recovery
• Implemented network security protocols (SonicWALL)
• Telephony-. Nortel Confidential

Environment: Windows 2003 Server, Exchange 2003, SymantecPresidio Network Solutions 07/2011 - 08/2011VOIP Project Manager