SUMMARY

• Dedicated, conscientious network engineer and design professional who is adaptable, self - starting, quick learning, detail oriented, and quality focused.
• A reliable professional who invests in the organization he’s a member of. A team player who is able and willing to do whatever it takes to get the job done to meet the goals of the organization or project.
• Skilled in bridging the gap between the technical and the non-technical environments to provide an organization with relevant and clear explanations, support and resources needed to be successful.
• Evaluates situations independently and determines the appropriate response or action using creative and cost-effective solutions that maximize existing resources or represent a sound long-term technology investment.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Routing and Switching:

• Complete design and execution of small to medium-large enterprise level networks including high level design, low level design, bill of materials, implementation plans, and service handoff
• Design and implementation of routing in complex environments leveraging virtualization, routing, and high availability technologies such as VRF, BGP, HSRP, EIGRP, DMVPN
• Design and implementation of layer 2 and layer 3 LAN switching using Cisco and HP technologies such as Cisco chassis and stackables
• F5 Big IP LTM load balancing sizing, deployment, and operations
• Implementation of fundamental QoS strategies

Wireless:

• Wireless planning and design of new deployments using Cisco Prime, site surveys, etc.
• Design and implementation of wireless LAN controllers such as Cisco 2500 & 5500 series
• Wireless performance tuning of existing environments pinpointing bottlenecks and trouble spots
• Design and integration of wireless authentication with ISE, ACS, and NPS in mixed OS laptop environments (Windows, Linux, Mac OS)

Voice:

• Design and implementation of Cisco CUCM and CUC environments
• Design and implementation of Asterisk ( Confidential ) environments
• Design and setup of partitioning, calling search space, routing, route filtering, voice gateways to support complex office deployments
• Design and execution of major IPT platform upgrades involving Cisco IPT products
• Implementation of virtualized faxing software

Security:

• Design and implementation of authentication systems such as Cisco ISE, ACS integrated with LDAP, Active Directory / NPS, and other identity sources
• IPS implementation and customization for live traffic monitoring and filtering
• Firewall design, implementation and management of inspection rules, site to site VPNs, mobile VPN client groups using Cisco ASA, IPTables, PF, and other open source
• Palo Alto firewall implementations including IPS / content filtering behind other firewalls
• Cisco ISR firewall implementation leveraging CBAC and ACLs
• Complex switch and router ACL creation for traffic shaping, traffic filtering, and access management
• Implementation of 802.1x port level authentication

Virtualization:

• Design and implementation of high availability corporate ESX environments with 10Gb redundant connectivity to server cores
• ESX environment administration (virtual machine builds, clones, backups)
• ESX virtual routing and switching creation and management

Linux Servers:

• Design and implement Linux servers performing application and utility functions
• Fluency in Red Hat and Debian based OS environments at the CLI
• Scripting skills for server management, switch management and monitoring leveraging Bash, Perl, Expect, etc.

Active Directory / Windows Server:

• Designed and implemented Windows Active Directory building root forest and regional domain models
• Group policy development including wireless profile deployment
• OU management and design
• Migrated large organizations from Novell to Active Directory
• Design and implemented NPS environments for wireless authentication and other authentication purposes

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows: 2012, 2008, 2003, 2000, NT4, 10, 8, 7, XP, 98, 95, DOS Linux: Red Hat linux variants version 5, 6, 7; Debian linux variants 5, 6, 7 (Including Ubuntu) Macintosh: 10.13 - through 7 Cisco IOS: 16, 15, 12, 11 Cisco ASA: 9, 8, 7 Palo Alto: 7, 6, 5, 4 F5 LTM: 11, 10, 9

Hardware Platforms: Switches: Cisco (Catalyst and Nexus), Brocade, HP, Nortel Routers: Cisco ISR, ASR, Juniper Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, F5 LTM, PFSense IP Tables Servers: Lenovo, Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, Apple Desktops/Laptops: Apple, IBM, Dell, HP, Compaq, Toshiba

Applications: Apache, PHP, Perl, Postfix, Sendmail, FTP, SSH, IPSec VPN clients (Checkpoint / Cisco / Racoon / Shrewsoft /etc.), PuTTY, MS Office, Open Office, MS Visio, MS Project, Lotus Domino, Extreme Z-IP, VMWare ESX / Workstation / Fusion, Commvault, Arcserve, Oracle Applications, MS SQL, Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS, Cisco ISE, Cisco Prime, Cisco ASA, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Unity, Cisco Unity Connection, CiscoWorks, Cisco ACS, Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver, Flash), and many more.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Senior Network Engineer and Solution Designer

Positions held: Global Account Network Designer and Engineer, Team Lead Engineer, Subject Matter Expert, Switching / Routing Engineer, Voice Engineer (Transfer to this company as part of a strategic outsourcing agreement)

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Senior Network Engineer

Team positions held: Team Lead Engineer, Switching / Routing Engineer, Voice Engineer, Security Engineer, Linux Engineer, Domain Administrator, Windows Server Engineer, Storage Engineer, Backup Engineer

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Senior Macintosh/PC Technical Analyst

Team positions held: Team Lead Analyst, Remote Office Analyst, Digital/Web Group Technical Analyst

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Photography & Confidential Technical Manager

Confidential, Eastpointe, MI

Photography, Confidential, web site design/consultation, computer systems support

Confidential, Warren, MI

Senior Confidential Technician

Confidential, Royal Oak, MI

Custom Confidential Confidential Technician

Confidential, Troy, MI

Confidential Editorship (Internship)

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Confidential Lab Manager

Confidential, Detroit, MI

Confidential Lab Manager