SUMMARY:

• Self - Motivated, highly effective IT professional successful at precisely executing networking solutions across various industries and businesses to meet and exceed company goals and expectations.
• Successful in meeting new technical challenges and finding solutions to meet the needs of my employer
• Comprehensive knowledge of latest networking technologies and protocols
• Skilled in designing, planning and implementing LAN/WAN solutions.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and logical thinking skills.
• Team Lead of up to eight engineers
• Lead Engineer on numerous projects for MSP.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with individuals at all levels

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Tools: EIGRP|BGP|OSPF| MP-BGP| RIP|TCP|IPv6|VPN|LDP|UDP|NAT|WLAN|STP|MST| IPSEC, DMVPN, VPN technologies, Radius, TACACS+, ACL, Quality of Service, MPLS, DMZ, STP, PPP, PPPoe, SPAN, Network Monitoring & Performance Optimization, Routing and Remote Access, Riverbed WAN Optimizers, F5 BIG IP Load Balancers, Cisco Firewalls, Palo Alto Firewalls, Juniper router, Juniper switches, Aruba Wireless Access Controllers, Aruba Wireless Access Points, Cisco Voice (VoIP), Cisco WAN Design & Architecture, Microsoft Visio, Cisco Voice and Unified Communications Admin, Cisco Call manager, CUCM, CUPM, CUC, SNR, Newtork Security Design, Network Routing Design, VoIP Design, Systems Integration Design, VPN Design, Firewall & Security Infrastructure Implementation.

ENVIRONMENT: Cisco IOS,Cisco CAT OS, Cisco Catalyst 2900|3500|3700|4500|Nexus 3500|5000|7000|9000

Cisco Routers: Cisco ISR 4000, 3700,3900, 2800,2900,7200, 7600, Cisco ASR 9000, Cisco ISR 1000v, Cisco IOS XR. Cisco VOIP 7960, Gateways (Cisco 3845), Cisco Phones: 7940/7942/7960/7962/7970. ASA 5505 Firewall, Cisco ASA 5585, IPS/IDS Security Appliances

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, New York City, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Direct report to the VP of IT and Global Infrastructure.
• Architected and designed new networks, LAN and WAN technologies, and implemented the latest technologies in the network
• Implemented and improved change management procedures including implementation
• Created and recorded documentation of the entire network including existing technologies
• Consistently reduced costs by resigning network to eliminate unused and under-needed circuits.
• Eliminated company's dependence on outside consulting firm for all implementations, monitoring, and support.
• Developed and documented IT policy and procedures for use throughout the organization, including change management, disaster recovery, and baseline build parameters.
• Diagrammed overall company networking infrastructure for internal security purposes.
• Worked closely with application management team to determine business process and right technology strategies to support business objectives
• Lead a team of approx. 8 other engineers on on-going projects
• Researched all network vulnerabilities and oversaw patch upgrades to all network equipment as well as firewalls.
• Researched F5 vulnerabilities and oversaw patch upgrades
• Created and troubleshot multiple new DMZ segments containing ASAs and F5 load balancers
• Architected Avaya Voice migration of all Headquarter locations
• Architected LAN and WAN topologies for all United States offices.
• Provided 4th Level escalation to the other engineering team
• Architected Cisco ISE solution in all Confidential . office locations
• Designed and installed the new Confidential . Headquarters office as well as working with vendors to meet deadlines.
• Expert in working with vendors and all inter department projects.
• Architected and introduced internet failover between the Headquarters location and the DR datacenter for the first Confidential in the network.

Confidential, Newark, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead technical engineer on numerous data migrations projects
• Served as Lead Project Engineer on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) transition from AT&T to CenturyLink network.
• Designed and delivered DMVPN network 2 Hub and 200+ Spokes
• Implemented and troubleshot legacy site to site IPSEC VPN
• Troubleshooting MPLS L3 VPN heavily
• Implemented and troubleshot BGP heavily
• Implemented and troubleshot EIGRP heavily
• Implemented and troubleshot OSPF heavily
• Configured and supported Cisco ASA 5505 firewall.
• Communicating/ Troubleshooting with 3rd party vendors
• Implementing and troubleshoot DMVPN phase 2, running with IPSEC, QOS. VRF profiles
• Configured and troubleshot both Cisco Catalyst switches and Nexus switches.
• Met with upper management teams to outline key business activities and report on network performance indicators and projects' status; works closely with users to ensure client satisfaction.
• Provided technical design management of infrastructure.
• Configured and troubleshot static NAT, PAT, dynamic NAT troubleshoot Internet connectivity issues
• Assisted remote engineers with troubleshooting network issues in remote offices
• Very comfortable with Wireshark and interpreting packet captures
• Implemented and troubleshot Fedline devices
• Assisted in core VoIP upgrades of the network
• Experience troubleshooting voice quality
• Troubleshot and support, CUCM, CUPM, CUP, UCCX
• Maintained and observed the networks stability utilizing NPM -Solar winds.

Confidential, Rutherford, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement requested and approved changes to company routers and switches.
• Troubleshooting and configuring EIGRP heavily
• Configured Network Reachability protocols
• Maintained network inventory, documentation, and project plans
• Installed/configured routers/ switches.
• Responsible for general maintenance of networking hardware troubleshoot static routing and route maps/ policy based routing
• Documented network design and connectivity information. troubleshoot trunking related issues
• Configured and managed VLANS
• Configured other spanning tree features PortFast and UplinkFast.
• Followed through on assigned project tasks and consultations.
• Monitored network activity using SolarWinds
• Created Visio diagrams detailing company network and system architecture

Confidential, Montclair, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented routing protocols EIGRP, RIPv2.
• Configured static routes on routers
• Configured ports for different Vlans
• Configured 802.1q trunks
• Responsible for networking hardware
• Configured Etherchannel
• Setup/configuration and management of Cisco routers
• Configure interfaces on ports connected to switches.