SUMMARY

• Technical accuracy via thorough, detailed and accurate work
• Creating sound and cost - effective solutions dat meet the needs of the business
• Quick time to delivery dat meets or exceeds service level agreements
• Effectively mentoring others through education and knowledge transfer
• Excellent communications through presentations, leading discussions and written work, delivered to a wide audience
• Honesty and high ethical standards in all efforts
• Accurate, decisive, sound analysis and on-target recommendations
• Leadership by setting the example

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cisco CatOS, IOS and Nexus
• Cisco routers, switches, wireless
• Cisco ASA Firewalls
• VMWare and HyperV hypervisors
• CommVault Simpana
• Splunk and RSA SIEM Tools
• Aruba OS and Aruba Airwave
• F5 LTM and GTM Load Balancers
• Endpoint Protection
• SUSE and Redhat Linux
• Solarwinds Orion
• ExtraHop Wire Analytics
• Brocade and Cisco FibreChannel Directors
• Riverbed WAN Accelerators
• Citrix Netscaler Load Balancers
• GigaMOn Packer Brokers
• EMC, IBM and Sun disk and tape subsystems

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Incorporated the Online Business Unit's 500+ network devices into the corporate instance of Solarwinds Orion. Configured thresholds for alerts and configuration management to improve the reliability and recoverability of the network.
• Lead technologist on a project to POC and install the ExtraHop wire analytics platform to monitor and alert on performance impacting Layer 2-7 issues in the OBU data center environment.
• Responsible for maintenance of F5 LTM and GTM load balancers including upgrades, patches and creation of complex VIP and WIP configurations.
• Responsible for migrating key core services like ASAs, DNS and load balancers from an Cisco 6509 core to a new Cisco 7710 Nexus core.

Confidential, Oakbrook, Il

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for upgrading the server and network monitoring too - What's Up Gold to the latest release and configuring all devices in the product.
• Lead project to upgrade corporate headquarters’ wifi network from Cisco standalone controller based network to one based on the Cisco Meraki cloud wifi architecture.

Confidential, Green Bay, Wisconsin

Senior Network and Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead system engineer for the Gas Control Group move to Joliet. Configured the EMMS routers, switches and workstations needed for the new location. Coordinated wif IBS groups on the equipment installs.
• Lead system engineer for RSA Security Analytics project. Researched alternative solutions. Worked wif vendor to create configuration for WPS. Wrote a supporting document for the request to purchase the equipment sent to upper management.
• Upgraded and maintained Solarwinds Orion installation for alerting and monitoring the network.
• Implemented Cisco routers and switches for extra capacity.
• Successfully replaced the aging digital KVM and back leveled DSView software wif new Avocent digital KVM’s at both data centers wif redundant DSView instances at both sites as well.
• Layer 2 Spanning-tree protocol (STP) network infrastructure remediation following best practices.
• Routinely worked wif engineers, controllers and ITS to implement changes to the EMMS DeMaxx Energy Management System including pushing firewall rules and troubleshooting circuits.
• Assumed lead responsibility for CommVault Simpana backup environment. Completed bringing the four CommCells up to a current level. Began implementing best practices for backups based on classes taken in early 2013.

Confidential, Madison, Wisconsin

Network Engineering Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Proposed a converged FC and IP network using Cisco MDS and Nexus 10 GbE FCoE hardware. The solution reduced hardware, power, cooling and cabling requirements which identified a $1.7 million dollar savings by consolidating infrastructure. The project was presented to management, approved and implemented on time and wifin budget.
• Wifin the first six months of joining the group, initiated changes to internal workflow dat reduced the mean time to delivery for new server IP requests from weeks to same day fulfillment while increasing accuracy through automation.
• Installed and maintained a 24-appliance Citrix NetScaler load balancing infrastructure. Coordinated wif application developers and middleware team on deploying load balancing configurations and associated firewall rules.
• Maintained a campus wide Aruba wireless network and implemented a separate Aruba wireless infrastructure for 6 regional offices and 3800 remote offices.
• Lead network technician for initial VMware virtualization project and for VMware infrastructure migration to HP blade enclosures. Piloted Cisco 1000v distributed virtual switch for VMware.
• Maintained and upgraded separate PCI-DSS network segments for applications dat processed credit card information.
• Maintained Bluecoat packet shaping security and WAN optimization appliances. Worked closely wif security teams on other aspects of security like IPS, IDS and Data Loss Prevention.
• Led the ongoing effort to administer the 2500 port SAN consisting of over 2 Petabytes of storage in 2 Data Centers and 7 regional sites.
• Key behaviors: Achieving results, inspiring confidence, highly adaptable, remaining calm under pressure, maintaining focus, strong written and oral communications, planning and organizing.
• Maintaining a hybrid routed network infrastructure using OSPF and BGP layer 3 routing protocols.
• Implementing IPSec VPNs on Cisco ASA gear.
• Administrating and maintaining Cisco ASA firewalls including upgrades.
• Involvied in network security design efforts for DMZ and Internet Edge environments.
• Multilayer switching using Cisco catalyst switches and InterVLAN routing.
• Enterprise layer 3 routing using OSPF and BGP.
• Infrastructure routing redundancy via HSRP.
• WAN network infrastructure implementation and maintenance including T1 and MPLS circuits.
• WAN network design and implementation using Cisco ISR routers.
• WAN routing through BGP routing protocol.