SUMMARY:

• Highly motivated and skilled Network Architect with a record of accomplished infrastructure design and upgrade projects linked to broader strategic objectives.
• Active CCIE in Routing & Switching
• Expert level understanding in Enterprise Campus Design
• Product research, development, design, and deployment
• Adapting new technologies to fit business objectives
• Executive collaboration and presentations

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SD - Access Sales Expert

Previous Positions

Technical Leader

CCIE Technical Instructor

Infrastructure Manager

Network Engineer

Technical Experience

Avaya IP Office

Batch Scripting

BGP

Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

Cisco ASA/PIX Firewalls

Cisco Call Manager

Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/NX-OS

Cisco Routers

Cisco Switches

Cisco UCS Servers

Cisco Wireless Controllers

DDNS

Device Security

Dell/EqualLogic Storage

DHCP

Disaster Recovery

DMVPN

DNS

EEM Scripting

EIGRP IPv4/EIGRP IPv6

Ether-Channels

FabricPath

GLBP

GRE

HSRP

IGMP

IPSec

IS-IS

IPv4

IPv6

LACP

MPLS/L3VPN

MS Active Directory

MS Exchange

MS SQL Server

Multicast Routing

NAT

Network Security

Network Optimization Services

NHRP

OSPFv2/OSPFv3

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PAgP

PIM

PPPoE

QoS

RIPv1/RIPv2

Riverbed WAN accelerators

Route Redistribution

SD-Access

SMTP

Solar Winds NPM

SonicWALL Firewalls

Source-specific multicast

System Management

PVST+/RPVST+/MST

Symantec Backup Exec

Symantec NetBackup

UDLD

VMware ESXi

VMware vCenter

VDC vPC

VRF

VTPv1/VTPv2/VTPv3Websense

Local Area Networking

Storage Area Networking

Wide Area Networking

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York, NY

TECHNICAL LEADER

Responsibilities:

• In corporate technical solutions to meet customer business objectives
• Deliver innovative solutions in line with the customers long term architectural strategy.
• Build trusted technical and business advisor relationships
• Translate technical challenges and business requirements into strategic design decisions.
• Maintain customer intimacy to understand their business and technology environment.
• Provide technical guidance to Cisco partners regarding various solutions and products.
• Understand technology dependencies to lead and coordinate Cisco delivery teams.
• Collaborated with account teams driving and aligning product sales with architecture strategy.
• Provided technical and architectural guidance on various projects for US Public Sector customers.
• Partnered with Project Managers to manage and distribute work among supporting technical specialists.

Confidential, Manor, NY

OWNER/TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR

Responsibilities:

• Develop VoD training materials consistent with Cisco’s CCIE Routing & Switching blueprint.
• Train and mentor Cisco networking engineers to achieve their CCIE certifications.

Confidential, St. Clair, MI

SENIOR CCIE RS TECHNICAL INSTRUCTOR

Responsibilities:

• Managed all CCIE R&S course content including technical lab guides, bootcamp, and VoD training.
• Trained and mentored Cisco networking engineers to achieve their CCIE certifications.
• Reduced refunds by 100% and obtained 100% course satisfaction rating.
• Increased annual revenue from $480k to $800K for Routing & Switching products.

Confidential, Darien, CT

MANAGER of ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE

Responsibilities:

• Managed a team of six network and systems engineers.
• Collaborated with executive team to align IT strategies to the corporate vision and mission.
• Served as Lead Network Architect including planning, design and implementation of related hardware including all Cisco routers, switches and firewalls.
• Managed all infrastructure projects working cross - functionally in a matrix structure.
• Used a critical path methodology to keep all project stakeholders focused and on-target.
• Developed strategic partnerships with business units, sharing ownership and accountability for project outcomes.
• Managed all project-related activities including budgets, schedules, milestones, real-time performance tracking, consensus building, and vendor relations.
• Changed the paradigm of IT from a cost center to a value-added group, linking technology solutions to broader strategic objectives.
• Orchestrated large-scale network upgrade in upstate NY manufacturing facility.
• Leveraged technology to decrease downtime resulting in increased productivity.
• Improved corporate IT security procedures and policies.
• Decreased turnaround time while increasing performance and service levels.
• Implemented corporate wide disaster recovery policy and procedure.
• Managed Enterprise VoIP Implementation with Cisco Unified Communications.

Confidential, Elmsford, NY

Systems Engineering Manager

Responsibilities:

• Maintained all system and network hardware including Cisco routers, switches, SonicWall Firewalls and HP servers.
• Supported Senior System Engineer’s daily tasks and across 3 companies, privately-owned by Palladian Capital Partners.
• Developed and enforced all policies and procedures to adhere to multiple financial security audits, including SAS70.
• Managed infrastructure projects including all upgrades, enhancements, and budgetary items.
• Researched and presented new technologies to executive team and Board of Directors.
• Worked closely with Director of IT and Operations regarding budget and future technology growth.
• Partnered with business units to align our efforts with their objectives including cost efficiencies, productivity, system reliability, leaner operations, and profitability.
• Used a “value-added” approach to maximize return-on-investment for IT budget spend.
• Streamlined/re-engineered processes and workflows to improve project delivery.
• Utilized goal setting and performance metrics, taking a proactive versus reactive response to risks and opportunities, and as a baseline for continuous quality improvement.
• Designed, planned, and orchestrated new data center migration.
• Proactively managed all projects within budgetary requirements.
• Performed Active Directory upgrade, implemented Avaya IP Office, and developed enterprise disaster recovery procedure.
• Implemented VMware ESXi cluster with high-availability.
• Designed and implemented high-availability local area network.

Confidential, Montebello, NY

NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Provided third level LAN/WAN support for all 34 branch offices, as well as headquarter office, totaling 600+ employees.
• Monitored Network Systems Solar Winds Orion and participated in 24/7 on-call rotation to ensure 99.9% uptime of the network infrastructure.
• Led Technical Engineer for 2003 Active Directory domain including Group Policy management, Exchange 2003 Cluster, SQL 2000 Cluster, VMware V13 Environment, and all DNS, DHCP, WINS servers and RSA Secure ID Servers.
• Managed Active Directory 2000 to 2003 R2 migration.
• Used Exchange Server 2000 Standard/2003 R2 Enterprise Cluster Migration.
• Implemented Blackberry Enterprise Server for Microsoft Exchange 2003.
• Upgraded Citrix PS4 Secure Gateway Server with Secure ID Authentication.
• Designed and installed VMware Cluster using EMC SAN.
• RSA Secure ID migration from Version 5.2 to 6.1 adding redundant server.