TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Proficient with Juniper SRX, EX, and MX

Proficient with Cisco IOS Routers: 3921,4507, 6500,6509 and 7206 series

Proficient with Cisco Nexus:7000, 5000 and 2000 series

Proficient in layer 2 and 3 Cisco Switches: 3650, 3750, 3850 and 6500 series

Proficient with Cisco access points

Proficient with Aruba Instant AP - 105 (250 unit deployment), Meraki

Installation and support of F5’s Big IP and Citrix NetScaler

Proficient in network management software: SolarWinds, WUG, ManageEngine

Experience with Metro-Ethernet, MPLS, and AVPN IPSEC

Proficient with Wireshark

Proficient with Fortigate

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Complete redesign of Datacenter. migrated from Checkpoint to Fortinet
• Complete LAN redesign to Juniper/Cisco mix
• Single Network Engineer handling day to day operations while redesigning Datacenter
• Reduced WAN cost by $3400 per month by negating contracts on single circuit.
• Reduced yearly cost by over $20,000 by reviewing smartnet and vendor agreements.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer-Operations

Responsibilities:

• Assist engineering with the build out of 2 new Datacenters using an Arista/Juniper model
• Support day to day operations supporting 4 legacy Datacenters
• Lead Engineer bringing 250 devices back in-house 4 months ahead of schedule
• Assist with SRX5800 deployment
• Lead Juniper Engineer

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and configure over 200 3850X for 350,000 sq. ft. office building
• Work with carriers to bring up and test new circuits.
• Test all VLANs for each segment before move in.
• Support 14 remote site plus 3 data centers

Confidential

Director of technology/primary architect

Responsibilities:

• Complete redesign and implementation of Juniper SRX650 and EX4200 in the Nashville datacenter.
• 24/7 support for 2 live data centers in Atlanta and Nashville
• Primary support for 80 servers both standalone and Virtual.
• Design and upgraded Level3 internet for all datacenters
• Corrected issues causing data replication between data centers. Saving company travel time.
• Redesign and support existing Juniper SSLVPN SA2500

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• 24/7 support for 3 data centers hosting over 3 million devices.
• Design and migrated 2 key datacenters from Cisco 3750’s to Nexus Platform.
• Installed and Supported SolarWinds 11 for all sites. Including custom access for users.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migration off Cisco 3000 VPN to Juniper SSLVPN and SRX210
• Design and full support for 400 node networks alone.
• Completely redesigned 20 remote sites to layer 3 switching to improve performance using Juniper Ex4200
• Migrated 25 remote sites from Frame Relay to MPLS with no downtime
• Implemented mGRE tunneling across AVPN/BGP to allow for full load balancing between BGP and EIGRP
• Replaced old Cisco AP with Aruba ap-105 using a built-in controller
• Managed bandwidth and upgraded circuits were needed proactively
• Registered and installed ASN to allow sharing IP using BGP
• Installed and supported SolarWinds 10 for all sites. Including custom access for users
• Designed, configured, shipped, and managed network for new plants in China and Poland
• Designed, configured and installed network for new 280K square foot super plant
• Completely redesigned and moved our primary data center with NO downtime.
• Designed deployed 25 SRX210 to plants for backup circuit

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completely redesigned the existing environment migrating from AS400 to Oracle.
• Design and support of a 3-tier security model using Cisco ASA and Juniper SSG-550.
• Design and support of a 3-tier Network model using 6500’s and 3750 layer 3 switches.
• Design and install new internet circuit allowing full failover between data centers using Juniper ssg-550.
• Design new internet access consisting of Juniper Firewalls and Bluecoat filtering.
• Support large Frame-Relay network consisting of complete failover between carriers

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Redesigned a large Frame-Relay network to provide complete redundancy
• Strong use of network tools: Visual Uptime Select, Cisco Works, SolarWinds and Fluke Networks
• Provide 24 x 7 support for a large Cisco shop consisting of over 100 routers and 400 switches
• Upgraded 50 3500 XL switches with Cisco 3750 stackable with little downtime
• Using network tools like Ethereal and Fluke INA and protocol expert to troubleshoot complex issues
• Upgraded WAN to 2821ISR
• Support for Cisco VPN solution
• Redesigned all sites with layer 3 switching to increase performance

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Completed upgrade of existing 6500’s to Supv. 7200’s
• Support for Cisco 2950 and 3500 series switches in the Corp office
• Took a single VLAN network and broke it up to 15 VLANs to improve performance
• Redesign and support of a 250 node Frame-Relay network running EIGRP
• Reduced Network cost by 25% in WAN
• Completely redesigned our National Headquarters LAN to Foundry layer 3 switching
• Completely redesigned our 24/7 call center to provide 99.99% uptime
• Converted warehouse from a single router to a dual carrier configuration using HSRP
• 1st level support for Check Point Firewalls.
• Network monitoring tools: Cisco works, What’s up gold and HP OpenView
• Work with Network providers to provide 99.99% uptime
• Provided Tier 3 support for our remote locations IT staff.
• Traveled on site to assist in troubleshooting when needed

Confidential

Lead Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked trouble tickets and change control on Remedy.
• Troubleshot customer network and server issues for 11 data centers.
• Designed and configure Cisco switches, routers and load balancers for customer installs
• Designed and turned up management network between Atlanta and Kansas City
• Lead team of six in the day to day operations providing 7 x 24 coverage and support
• Designed and installed LAN network for call center
• 3rd level Support for 11 data centers with large Cisco network
• Converted 11 data centers from Cisco CSS to F5’s BigIP
• Supported LAN for the web hosting building. 7500 and 4000 series routers, 2 CAT 5500 switches
• Designed network for new customer including load balancing

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshot customer conferencing issues in control center
• Designed and installed new solutions
• Responsible for large customer retention
• Support for Nortel Opt 81 PBX using over 125 T1’s
• Redesigned VPN network to allow routing to a backup switch site in Nashville
• Designed and installed 25 Ascend Video routers
• Primary engineer for the Y2K upgrade