SUMMARY:

• Highly accomplished Datacenter Network and Security engineering professional with over 10 years of experience in designing, deploying, migrating, and supporting critical multi - site redundant datacenters and campuses. Expert at leading complex multi-stage projects and migrations. Proven ability to manage all phases of project life: inception, documentation, procurement, deployment, and turnover for monitoring and administration.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Hardware
• Cisco access layer - 3550,3750,2900,4500s series distribution - 6500s,6800s,6900, series core - 6500s,6800s,6900, series data center - Nexus 7k/5k/2k service provider - ASR 1k, 9k security - ACS, ASA
• Arista
• 7280/7010/7050/7060
• Chassis - 7500
• 1G, 10G, 25G, 10G, 100G
• Cloud Vision Portal
• Break-out cabling
• Various Vendors
• Bluecoat proxies
• PAN firewalls
• Bluecat DDI
• Juniper SRX
• Juniper SAG
• Cabling and Installation of various technologies
• MM/SM fiber copper rack and stack
• Technologies
• Advanced Route/Switch/data center experience - OSPF(v2 & 3), BGP(including MP and PIC), EIGRP, IS-IS, MPLS(including L3VPN), VRFs, NAT, IPsec, MST, RPVST, QoS, PIM, IGMP, MLAG/vPC, OTV, VxLAN, redistribution, VPLS, L2TP, DMVPN, and many others
• OS experience - EOS, IOS, ASDM, NXOS, JUNOS, IOS-XE/XR, Linux, Redhat, OSX, Windows
• Monitoring
• Wireshark, Cacti, VMware, Firemon, NMT, Statseeker, Observium, Splunk, Info Vista, Akips

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Engineer II

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

• Implemented cutting-edge 100G Arista environment for high-bandwidth global collaboration network utilizing VxLAN and EVPN
• Heavily involved with data center migration from Cisco to primarily Arista with minimal downtime utilizing VxLAN
• Implemented over 250 Arista switches for new data center deployment in a CoLo facility utilizing Python scripts I built
• Heavily involved with data center internet migration to multiple ISPs and redundant sites utilizing BGP
• Deployed Cloud Vision for future monitoring and support, as well as future deployment of new devices (ZTP), and multi-switch changes
• Implemented integrated Cisco equipment from legacy data center into the new CoLo, as well as new standardized Cisco devices for DMZ environments
• Worked with HPSM and ServiceNow to handle tickets for various support tasks
• Deployed, configured, and maintained Cisco WLC 8510 and 8540 with 3700 and 3800 APs supporting 802.11a/b/g/n/ac

Confidential, South San Francisco, CA

• Implemented Nexus 7010 as core switches, 5548 as distribution and 2248 FEX as TOR design with VPCs
• Implementation and configuration of Cisco Nexus 7018, Nexus 5596 and 2248/2232 FEX switches with Layer 2/3 functionality as DMZ and Server Farm devices.
• Configured Rules, NAT, PAT and exemptions on Checkpoint Firewalls
• Migrated existing Checkpoint Firewall configurations to multiple Cisco ASA5585-Xs with HA failover.
• Design and deployment of resilient Cisco campus network utilizing Cisco 4500-E and 3750-X switches.
• Configured and implemented Cisco 2800, 3800, 2900, 3900, ASR1000 and 7200 series routers with various handoff interfaces.
• Tier 3 support resource for escalated network issues
• Migrated over 50+ B2B VPNs from Cisco IOS to ASA as part of hardware consolidation effort
• Participation in rotating overnight/weekend on call schedule.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

• Implementation and configuration of Cisco7609, 7206, 3750 and 2960 routers/switches.
• Provide network security utilizing Cisco’s ASA 5500-X series Firewalls
• Team lead responsible for WAN/LAN/DC upgrade.
• Configuration and administration of Cisco 1900, 2900 and 3900 series integrated services routers.
• Used NetQoS management tools to analyze traffic, detect problems and provide capacity planning.
• Configured Cisco’s 11500 Series Content Services Switch (CSS) for load balancing & SSL acceleration.
• Provided support for client MPLS-VPN services and Metro-Ethernet circuits. Configured PE-CE routing and MP-BGP on Cisco 7200 and 7600 series routers
• Participated in planning, designing, installing and configuring Network elements for client inter site Metro-E connectivity. Diagnosed and resolved failures during test and turn up
• Performed hardware and IOS upgrades, updated configuration and topology documents including network Visio diagrams and backup files in tftp servers
• Implementation IPSEC VPNs on edge Cisco routers for connectivity between dealer sites and core data centers.
• Design and implementation of new LAN for resiliency, implemented various protocols including HSRP on distribution switches, trunks, spanning tree, port channels and VLANs on Layer 2/3 devices including Cisco 2960, 3750, 4500 and 6500 series switches. Configured OSPF, EIGRP and RIP routing protocols as needed on internal routers
• Installation, configuration and testing for new ISP managed services with Verizon.
• Deployed Cisco 2821 and 3845 routers for internet connectivity to over 400 remote offices in North America.

Confidential, San Francisco, CA

• Utilized Wireshark with the NAM-2 on the Cisco 6500 to troubleshoot intermittent application issues and network outage events
• Involved in complete LAN, WAN development (including IP address planning, designing, installation, configuration, testing, maintenance etc.)
• Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Catalyst 6509, 7609, 7613, Cisco 3640, Cisco GSR 12416,21418(with PRP and RPR processors)
• Provided daily network support for national wide area network consisting of MPLS and B2B VPN.
• Configuration of HSRP, EIGRP, ACLs on core/aggregation infrastructure
• Coordinate with customer and perform KT for various required technologies
• Configuration of route redistribution into BGP/OSPF