CAREER SUMMARY:

Experienced in network and data center architecture, engineering, infrastructure, and project management. 15 plus years of experience with 8 years specializing in the financial industry. Flexible and self - initiative work style with outstanding customer service track record and performing as an excellent team player with a long term focus on working smarter not harder.

CORE COMPETENCIES:

Cisco routers, switches, wireless, firewalls, ISE, WiFi, VOIP, VPN, UCS. HP switches. Juniper VPN appliances. F5 load balancers, VPN. Monitoring: Solarwinds, Splunk, PRTG, Netscout, Cisco prime, HP IMC.

CAREER HISTORY:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Security upgrade for DOD manufacturer as part of complete infrastructure upgrade to become DFARS compliant.
• Traveled throughout 12 U.S. locations, upgrading switching and Wi-Fi infrastructure to support 802.1X using Cisco ISE.
• Worked an average of 65 hour per week to complete hardware installation by the end of 2017.
• Configured and replaced (80) Cisco 2960X access switches in 7 locations across the US in 28 days.
• Configured (108) access switches and (5600+) interfaces for 802.1X and ISE configuration across 4 sites.
• Configured and installed (65) Cisco 2800 AP's and configured and installed Cisco 5508, 2504, and mobility express WiFi controllers across (5) locations.
• Managed and provided escalation support for 2 other network engineers on the project.
• Ongoing remote support of installed infrastructure.

Confidential, Santa Barbara, CA

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Healthcare supporting hybrid cloud environment with 11 data centers (3) international (8) domestic including AWS for production servers.
• 200+ remote appliances at customer sites.
• Key member of Hitrust certification. Implemented IPV6 in 2 data center routers, Hardware: F5 LTM VE’s, Nexus 5K Catalyst 3700, Meraki wireless with MR 42 AP’s, Cisco 5510 and 5516X firewalls, Shoretel Voip, 300 users.

Software: Vmware, Solarwinds, Splunk, JIRA, Confluence, Zoom, Slack, Trend, Kaseya

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Healthcare supported hybrid cloud implementation of Azure VPN and Expressroute with support for O365 across 4 data centers including 2 Azure sites.
• Worked closely with CISO and SOC team on threat mitigation. SOC2 compliant environment.

Hardware: Nexus 9K, 6K, 5k, 2k, Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3700, Wireless 5500 and 4400 controllers. ASA 55XX firewalls. Tintri storage. Firewall POC with Palo Alto and Cisco firewalls. (5) domestic remote sites and (2) international sites in India all connected via MPLS. 3500 users. Software: Solarwinds, Hyper-V, Call manager

Confidential, Los Angeles

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed network analysis and evaluation for environment consisting of 7 remote offices and 2 data centers. connected via MPLS and IPSEC VPN utilizing Cisco ASA's and Meraki firewalls. Solarwinds NMS, Cisco 9K, ASA 5520, Catalyst 6500, and 3750. Meraki AP's.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for supporting WiFi and LAN environment at Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Burbank, and Orange county airports utilizing Cisco 8500, 2504, controllers, 3650, 3700, switches, and 3702 AP’s. Solarwinds, Prime 3.0, Splunk.

Confidential, Los Angeles

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of team responsible for network upgrade project replacing 300 access layer switches with Cisco Catalyst 4500 switches.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementing the infrastructure to support 200 remote offices, with a 60-site MPLS network and 3,500 employees.
• Implemented and maintained VPN connectivity to AWS supporting 150 servers.
• Maintained and supported a hosted (Shoretel) VOIP system.
• Lead engineer for project to replace hosted VOIP with Cisco Unified Communications.
• Supported corporate data center, DR site and future migration to Equinix data center for all network engineering needs.
• Supervised and mentored 4-person network infrastructure team and external vendor consultants.
• Developed standardized modular branch strategies to reduce cost and streamline the opening of 5-10 branch offices per month.
• Maintained and supported Cisco 2504 wireless controller for 50 model 1600 AP’s.
• Implemented project to install Meraki wireless at 200 remote offices.
• Provided network support for a high-availability and high-bandwidth Cisco UCS, HP, and VMware servers, and HP, NetApp SANS.
• Supported Cisco 6500, 3750, 2900, Nexus 2K, 5K, 7206, 2600, ASA 5500 and HP 2910 ProCurve equipment.
• Reviewed, maintained and consolidated support contracts to ensure cost effectiveness and savings for the enterprise.
• Implemented and maintained network monitoring system using Solarwinds Orion and PRTG.

Confidential, Lisle, IL

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Part of six-member team supporting the 60 site corporate global MPLS network.
• Team lead in global rollout of 60 site Riverbed WAN accelerators.
• Hardware supported included Cisco 6500 and 3560’s, Riverbed, F5, Juniper VPN, NetScout, HP Blades and servers, NetApp, EMC SAN and fiber switches.
• Responsible for all copper and fiber connectivity to hardware in Confidential data center.
• Application support included Windows Server 2008, VMware ESX, Windows 7.
• Supported and configured global VPN infrastructure running on Juniper SA4500’s
• Managed proof of concept evaluation of SSL VPN from Juniper, F5, Cisco, and Microsoft UAG.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported 600-user desktop community.
• Managed all desktop network connectivity at main location.
• Desktop hardware included HP desktops running WinXP/Win 7.
• Applications support included MS Office and proprietary medical applications.
• Supported desktop equipment in all labs across five hospitals and main lab location.
• Worked on various small-scale projects for various clients.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Supported complex, fully redundant (active/active) trading network consisting of Cisco 6500, 3750, 7206 FWSM, PIX, VPN 3K, ASA, Call Manager express, and F5 LTM.
• Managed implementation of redundant F5 LTM’s at disaster recovery site.
• Supported CME, NYMEX, and NYBOT trading network connectivity.
• Implemented and managed upgrade of Cisco 3750 switching infrastructure on five trading floors.
• Project managed WAN connectivity from vendors including Internap, Cogent, AT&T and Yipes.
• Configured client and site-to-site VPN connectivity for various customers and vendors.
• Familiar with network monitoring tools, Solarwinds, Cactai, PRTG. Sitescope, Compuware, What’s up gold, WireShark, NetScout.
• Managed network connectivity and hardware installations at disaster recovery site.
• Documented all network connectivity and server layouts using Visio.
• Applications supported include Pats, GL Trade, TT, CQG, Proprietary trading platform. WinXP, Win2000, Sophos, and MS office
• Installed Cisco call manager express in New York office along with managing office move
• Managed infrastructure installation of Avaya PBX upgrade
• Supported server infrastructure including server 2000, 2003, Red Hat, Debian, and VMware.
• Server hardware by Dell, HP, Blade servers NetApp filers
• Provided level-3 desktop support for trading users, including at the CBOT and CME trading floors.
• Participated in annual budget planning pertaining to infrastructure needs.
• Project managed data center upgrade projects for HVAC, UPS, generator and cable plant.
• Participated in 24 x 6 on-call support rotation.
• Provided technical support to traders regarding implementation of new technology including remote trading and VPN solutions from the CME and wireless applications. Built a new financial trading network including physical expansion of computer room. Installed Cisco switched network using Catalyst 4006, and 3500’s, Cisco 7206, 1720’s, and Pix 506 firewall. Installed WAN connections for remote traders using T1’s and T3’s.
• Installed and maintained electronic trading systems including Trading Technologies, Easy Screen, Globex, CQG, Bridge, Cantor Fitzgerald and Bloomberg.