SUMMARY:

Network Engineer with a degree in Computer Science, encompassing a wide range of networking knowledge using technology and best practices

MAJOR TECHNOLOGIES:

Microsoft Server Platform including: Windows Server 2003 - 2008, installation, upgrades, user migration, server hardening, raid arrays/configurations, IP networking, and setting up file and print services.

Cisco Networking including: over one hundred remote locations with Cisco routers, switches, deployments and remote troubleshooting

KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Vista, Win 7, Win 8, Win 2003 - 2008 Server, Linux, and AIX

Applications: Cisco Configuration Professional, Remedy, HP Service Now, LANDesk, Symantec Backup Exec, SCCM, Norton Ghost, Acronis, VNC, Team Viewer, Active Directory Services, Radius Server Running on Windows, Visio, Wireshark, VMware Workstation

Network: Experience With Data Center, deployment and troubleshooting experience with the Cisco Nexus, Arista, HP ProCurve 2950/2960/3560/3750/4500/6500/6800 and switch stacking

Extensive knowledge of: TCP/IP, Ethernet, Lan/Wan, Subnetting, Vlan’s, OSI model, Site to Site VPN between Cisco Routers, HSRP, Tacacs, Routing protocols Eigrp, Ospf and BGP to include Cisco Wireless Access points AP-1242, and Cisco ASA 5585 Nat configurations

Hardware: Experience with Cisco routers and switches, Dell Servers and Adics for tape backups

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Arden Hills, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of Infrastructure Team Performing new Sight Turnups and Refreshes
• Set up new networks subnets in InfoBlox, to include printers, split tunnel, Mpls circuits, backup circuits, Vpn Tunnels
• Redundancy with Hsrp with voice, data, and set up Aruba wireless access points
• Submitted Site Surveys for quotes for our Wireless Network
• Configured Checkpoint firewalls for our security network
• Provided Visio Diagrams for our Network Team and provisioned all of the devices
• Worked with Contractors providing them with a Scope of Work for Wiring Estimates and with Internet Suppliers for our Mpls and Backup Circuit Connections
• Performed the Site Turnups and performed any troubleshooting needed to satisfy our clients

Confidential, Mpls, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Updated Cisco ASA firewalls to allow for virtual patching applications, monitored VMware Log Insight, as well as Linux jump servers to monitor log files looking for errors on our network
• Wrote firewall rules for the ASA, wrote dynamic and static Nat for multiple sites, configured whitelists & blacklists
• Defined new subnets using Men & Mice for new facilities as needed
• Decommissioned Confidential switches as well as firewall rules on Cisco ASA’s
• Performed troubleshooting as needed in a large data center across firewalls, routers and layer 3 switches
• Set up Arista and Confidential switches, port channels, trunks, vlans
• Set up and configured span sessions on our Confidential switches in conjunction with firewall tool ports and rules for our Gigavue switches.
• Configured Change requests with Remedy and Service Now and am comfortable with both. Certified with ITIL

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Network Engineer: Network & Monitoring Support Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Provided technical expertise to our Microsoft engineers for new site turn-ups of new servers
• Supported our large datacenters with troubleshooting skills and network configuration to meet customer timelines
• This would be with a Confidential switching environment with some Fex switches for server connections, to include: Port Channels, Lacp Bonding, Heartbeat, Vlan configuration for data backup
• I became a Gigamon Guru setting up new map rules and tool port configuration. We supported our engineering group as it was critical that we knew what traffic was passing on our network for our customers
• Decommissioned numerous switches and performed multiple change requests within Remedy during the off hours to support our customer’s needs
• Became involved in troubleshooting with any new sight turn-ups when the new servers or sites were brought online

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• I was in charge of upgrading security on over six hundred switches at their grain facilities.
• Each site was mapped with Visio to determine the need for each site upgrade
• A script was written and I logged in remotely and upgraded them from telnet to ssh
• The site mapping took approximately six months. A site inventory was taken and compared to our CMDB to determine which switches needed to be replaced and decommissioned.
• Once on each site I would look for duplicate IP address and remedy.
• Those switch ports that were on the wrong vlans were fixed with a script that I had written to change the active vlan and save the new one to the running config on the fly.
• If I remember correctly I configured over one hundred plus switches.
• This involved talking the site leads, scheduling the installs, decommissioning the old switches and troubleshooting any issues that would come up with installs
• On numerous occasions we had to order multimode fiber, sfp modules or trouble shoot the connections
• I ran into duplex errors, gateway issues, wrong subnets, motor control devices running at half duplex
• The majority of these switches were catalyst: 2940,2960,IE 3000, 3550 and 3560 s and we ran eigrp as our main routing protocol

Confidential, Bloomington, MN

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Deployment Team MemberSCCM Team upgrade USCIS service Centers in U.S. coordinate site moves
• Admin 2008 Win ServersActive Directory Management, Print Servers, Server Upgrades
• Windows Update ServicesLANDesk, WSUS, Shadow Copy, Windows Backup, Symantec Backup Exec
• Remedy, Incident ReportingSite lead when in town resolving incidents, work orders, and change requests
• Security SweepsEvaluate Pc’s for vulnerabilities using LANDesk and Patch
• EncryptionSecure Doc & MacAfee Encryption on Laptops
• Cisco Vpn & PKICisco AnyConnect Client for remote login & PKI entrust for outlook
• System Admin in MplsSupported five remote sites with over one hundred users in active directory

Computer Database Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Admin for 2003 Server Active Directory Management
• Set up Win "Terminal Server"For Remote Log In with Baril BV (Dutch)
• Configure PC’S LaptopsDisk Imaging for File & Data Recovery
• Developed Computer Color Matching Datamatch Pigment & Paint Dispensers
• Databases Running as a Service on Win 2003 Server
• Sybase 9.0 Database ManagementRunning as a Service on Win 2003 Server
• Train employees to Color MatchSet up remote file and print services
• Develop Polyaspartic DispersionsSet up Sybase 9 Matching Database Match Pigment