SUMMARY:

Telecom/Network professional with 26 years expertise in network design, web development, systems engineering, wireless telecommunications, technical analysis and project management. 6 years DOD naval engineering and telecommunication system network design engineer, voice, data and 11 years of project/product management. Experience in vendor selection, hardware, selection, implementation, build out of internal CO areas, switch installation, coordinating resources and programming troubleshooting. Establishing maintenance and upgrading schedules, management of more than 100 international customers’ 5ESS - AMPS (Advance Mobile Phone Systems) and Walgreen’s enterprise Confidential deployment network project.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support-Install-Configure-Troubleshoot corporate and International Network Routers, Switches PoE, Controller, AP, firewalls, Load balancer, and other devices: Cisco 2960S, 28xx, 29xx, 3750, 4500, 3560, Nortel 8610, HP 2524, 5406, Cisco ASA 5505. 5510. Dell NSA E5000Sonicwall FW, Riverbed Steelhead accelerator CX755L, Cisco controller 5508, Bridges and APs 1142, 12XXAG, 13XXAB, VPN, ShoreTel VoIP, WAN, LAN MPLS - OSPF, Confidential & Confidential AVPN, DSL Century Link, Cable Network Comcast, Etherchannel, Metro Etherchannel, Fiber, Barracuda Load Balancers 340, Netgate, EMC Clarion Storage System.
• Blue coat Web PoxyNetwork Tools: Whatsup Gold, VCN, ASDM, Solarwinds TFTP Network Monitoring, DHCP, DNS, IP Management, Putty, Zoc, Tacacs, RADIS, KeePass, Nortel Enterprise Switch Manager, Wireshark.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Support-Install-Configure-Troubleshoot the following Cisco and non cisco gear; Switches PoE 3750S, 6506E, Nexus 5548, 6513, 3725, 7345 and 3545. Routers 3845, 2921 and 2921, ASDM/ASA Firewall5520 and 5512. Wireless ATA 187, AP 3555, Controller 55XX, 7925 Wireless phones, VoIP, SIP, 8945 phones, UCM 8.X, Voice Gateway 224/2911. IPSEC VPN 3000 DES, 3DES-AES, VPN 2XX Server. 1120 ACS Security. UCS 5108 blades, 6248 Fiber interconnect. Video Conference. Non Cisco Juniper, F5 load balancer, Storage EMC VNX 5300. DNS. IBM X3250 Blade Confidential & Confidential PTP Microware. MPLS BGP. Gig-Ethernet. Comcast Metro Ethernet, WAN Signal mode Fiber: T1, E1, HSRP, VLANs. Solarwinds TFTP Server. RMS Change Control. TACACS SSH

Confidential

Team Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands-On Team Lead Part of a 18 member team of Cisco router/switch Wireless Forntinet Firewall network engineers that perform front-line support (40% phone, 60% hands on) to Walgreen’s retail, a massive 50 state NOC/Deployment. Cisco SME VoIP, Confidential 1.0, Confidential 1.5 and 2960S, Cisco Wireless 25xx controller and 35xxi APs SME Fortinet 200B Firewall deployment. IPv4, L2/L3, TFTP IOS base network configurations as well as created site configurations and tested prior to it being shipped out into the field, off hours monitoring and Tier 2 support of Data Center Linux Servers, Tier 1 F5, VDI, Windows Servers 2000/2003/2008/ Exchange, Tandems Servers, IBM.
• Tier 3 and 4 Hardware/software tools: Cisco 2821/2921 with DSU/CSU routers, 3560G, 2960G and 2960S switches. Cisco IP phones 7941/42G and 7961/62G, 7925 wireless phones. Cisco UCM 6.1/8.5, and UCM Express, Hughes HN7700 SAT systems, AS400, IBM, POS, Wireless APs, Cisco Controllers, MPOS. Unix Intel/IBM servers, Solar Wins Vlan, VOIP, QoS, SIP, 802.1Q, BGP, IS-IS. HDLC, PPP, Frame, MPLS and T1 and T3, VPN/IPSec, Bar code scanner, disaster recovery Support. Develop training docs, policies and procedures. Communicated incident/ownership to management
• Network tools: Wireless Wavelink, DNS, DHCP, Tacacs, SNMP-pc, Putty, NSS, NIS Lantrack, Angry IP scanner, SMARTS, Remedy, managed switch port mapping. The upgrading of old routers, to put back into service.
• Design store Specific router configurations for Cisco, UCME Switch port configuration i.e. MPOS, APs. Design VoIP Test lab, Fortinet Firewall test lab and ISP vendor specific MPLS/WAN BGP.
• My role was to design, test, provision and migrate client side Cisco enterprise routers eVPN MPLS networks i.e. hardware, cabling, power and IOS configuration: Cisco 2801, 2811, 2821, 3825, 3845 IOS, Paradyne CSU/DUS with T1, T3/DS3, Frame Relay, AIM, ATM/IMA, HSRP, ISDN PRI/BRI, VOIP and VSAT backup, Token Ring, DLSW and SDLC, IPsec/tunneling, Cisco test & Turn-up, Cisco LAN migration, MLANs, MACDs and LMACs Layer 2 and 3. BGP, IGP, EBGP, OSPF routing, CoS, and FastEthernet or GigabitEthernet, using the following Confidential & Confidential project management and provisioning tools EFMS, ICORE, DBOR, Pre Hoip, Rapido, UNIX, OSA, TACACS and eNC3 or ePVC Wizard to create PCV, GCB installation drawings and Customer site project management MOPs for North America.
• Siemens Nuclear Medicine - Consultant System Administration/Desktop EngineeringWindows 2K/2003 Domain and XP Pro Migration IBM Desktops, Servers, printers as well as SNA/SDLC, SAP JDE, Office 2003, Visio, banking, Clarify CRM, Citrix Nfuse TS, applications, Marimba Tunes, Trend Micro, Hummingbird, WMI: ADS, DFS, SMS, support. CA UniCenter, DFS, as well as UniCenter for Windows ADS. Knowledge of network security applications such as firewall, Cisco VPN, PKI2 Smartcards, CSA Token, and roaming profiles.Connected all tellers to the new “Citizens” 3Com Superstack switch and Cisco 26XX router converted tellers stations.
• Used Veritas backup, ghosting hard drives. CSU/DSU Adtran IQ710, and Dmarc. Rack & Stack all new equipment.
• XP Migration, Wireless LAN, WiFi from Win2K. Laptops consisted of Dell, Gateway, HP, and Compaq using such tools as Remedy and Ghosting of hard drives.
• Installed Office 2003 applications, email, and Microsoft Groove application

Confidential

System Engineer / Administrator

Responsibilities:

• I reported to the CEO as the project manager/ systems admin for vendor selection, hardware recommendations, selection as well as implementation.
• Network engineering, desktop support, software support WAN/LAN/WLAN and VPN email, SMS web design. Also performed cellular support, placed all IT orders, and wrote RFP for all network servers. Win2K/XP desktop remote support for laptops. Windows NT/2K servers HP DL3XX with RAID controllers and HP Systems Insight, planning and implementation of Domain PDC, DNS, WINS, and DHCP migration to Windows 2003 Enterprise ADS,DFS, and GPOs, Wireless LAN, Netgear and WiFi Firewall/VPN Netscreen 25, Netopia NAT, HP hubs with Cisco 2950XL switch, Exchange Mail 5.5 SMTP and Web Mail admin, planning and implementation to Exchange 2003/SQL and 2003 SMS servers system admin for Citrix for Elite terminal services, and tools such as Remedy and Ghosting of hard drives. Installed Office 2002, VPN clients, network fax, Outlook 2000/2003 UMS/FAX, support Spybot, Micro Trend virus, login scripts, disaster recovery, SAN VERITAS Backup Exec for Servers and exchange applications. Project planning,
• Supported VPN, T1 Data network from Megapath, Nortel VoIP. Corporate web/SharePoint design, and support IIS, as well as internal web sites.

Web tools: Dreamweaver and FrontPage. Applications: Excel, Word, Visio, Project, Access, Outlook 2K/2003

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• NAR Install, configured, tested, maintained, and RF Calibration of Lucent s CDMA 850/PCS Flexent Wireless Modcell voice and data Network, Legacy 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0, Modcell 4.0 and HD 4.0, as well as 2G/3G1XEV - DO VoIP, GPS, T1/E1, WIN, AIN, SS7 signaling links IS-95, IS-95 data, IS-41, and IS-634. APX-1000 MSC
• Translations and 5ESS Translations, as well as integrating of other vendors equipment
• Project Architect Engineer for 100 international customers. 5ESS-AMPS (Advance Mobile Phone Systems) Wireless PTA (Product Test Architect Engineer)
• Responsible for project management, gathering customer requirements, and writing customer engineering and configuration documents for customer support.
• Worked on high-visibility projects in a fast-paced environment with accurate tracking and weekly reporting on status, with targeted milestones.
• Coordinated across departments, identified dependencies and critical paths. Used time management and prioritization skills to accommodate dynamic changes in international wireless while attaining a 98% on time schedule. Configured documents for customer support, worked with the customer acceptance team for testing, i.e. remote technical support helping with customer FOA sites, regression testing, as well as new feature testing, and troubleshooting .
• (Calling scenarios: AIN, WIN, SS7, R2, TUP, ISUP, VoIP, IS-95, GSM, UMTS, CDMA-2000, TDMA, and Analog TANDEM: PSTN to PSTN: Mobile to PSTN
• Mobile to Mobile: PSTN to Mobile, 2G and 3G Mobile High Speed Data, and Mobile switched Data). APX-1000 MSC translations and 5ESS translations, SONET, Gigabit ATM, ISDN, PBX Definity call center management solutions, basic MPLS and video conferencing.
• Administration and security of Win2K servers, and workstations, migrating of NT4.0 Design Active Directory Services and (GPOs). Designed, configured, installed and tested network infrastructure, as well as support and troubleshooting.
• Minor software development using C++; JAVA, Perl, CGI, ASP, HTML, DHTML, ASP, Office Suite (Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Outlook), VBASIC, Web ODBC-SQL and SMS, and Antivirus.
• Supported the following operating systems: Windows 98, ME, NT, XP, OS/2 UnixWare, Unix MP-RAS, Unix Sun Solaris scripts. Setup DHCP, DNS, SMTP, LDAP, LAPF, LAPD, POP3, RIP, RIS, RRAS, WINS, IIS, FTP, SSL, and Transaction Servers. Protocols: VPN, IPSec, QoS, DSL, DS0, T1, T3, OC-3, PPP, PPPoE, TCP/IP, UDP, FTP, SPX/IPX, OS/2, Ethernet, Token-Ring, and Novell, 803.2 and 803.11 Wireless, LAN/WAN/MAN. Cisco routers and switch install and setup, firewall configuration: NAT/PAT, DMZ. Cisco IOS configurations: RIP, IGRP, OSPF, ACL, VLAN, Frame-Relay, ISDN, AMT-SONET. Provided mentorship training for web/SharePoint page design, hardware, data and voice network protocols

Confidential

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Engineered, installed, tested, and provided maintenance support of 100k line DMS 100/200 Switches.
• Network systems hardware and software upgrades plus expansions: CO, TOLLS, TOPS, and STP switches. DMS translations transmission, fiber, SS7, PCM, X75, and 68030/40 Motorola processor ISDN, T1, SONET, DACs, DSX CO-SAM's, MDF's, DC power, and remote COs.
• Voice switching design, hardware/software customizing, analysis, troubleshooting support, and project management