Network (WAN) Engineer Resume West Seneca, New York - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Certified IT professional with 10 years of experience across many areas including, but not limited to: pre - sales enterprise server and storage consultation, technical training, software development and automation, enterprise and data center network design, deployment and support, network security, Linux/Windows server administration and virtualization with Vmware and Hyper-V .
Looking for new opportunities to learn and grow as well as share my experience to help an organization achieve its goals.
Subject matter expert for servers, blades, and storage solutions for largest technology distributor in the world.
Responsible for setup of their OSP in the Philippines which included traveling there to setup the call center and hire, train, and mentor the staff.
Developed configuration application for the organization to automate, streamline, and ensure the accuracy of all HP server and business class storage quotes - totaling millions of dollars per day.
Developed CRM application for one of the most profitable franchise locations of the largest shipping and business services provider in North America.
Designed, deployed, and manage the new core routing, data center and network security for one of the largest private networks in NY state serving 104 school districts and 250,000 users.
Designed new MPLS network to provide greater flexibility and performance for 104 school districts.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Network (WAN) Engineer

Confidential, West Seneca, New York

Responsibilities:

Network Engineer managing the core and data center network servicing 104 school districts.
Implement and support network security and content filtering for ~250,000 users.
Team leader for core network/security group.
Level 3 support for any PC, server, or network related issues that can't be resolved by other groups.
Extensive experience troubleshooting, supporting and configuring Avaya, Nortel, Cisco, Juniper, Sourcefire and Checkpoint routers, switches, firewalls and IPS. Some platforms include: Catalyst 3500/3600, 4500, ISR routers, MX5/80/480/960, EX4200/4550, ASA5505 to ASA5585-SSP-60, Nortel 8600, Avaya 55x0, VSP4K/7K, Checkpoint VSX, 4800, 12607, GAIA and SPLAT (R62-R76), Provider-1, essentially all blades excluding DLP & AV.
Some areas of focus include: BGP/OSPF/RIP, PIM, MSDP, QoS, extensive L2 switching including STP/RSTP/MSTP/PVST+, L2/L3 MPLS VPN, tunneling (GRE/QinQ), encrypted VPN services - both L2L & remote access and interop of these tunnels between various vendors, configuring and analyzing packet captures, traffic analysis, DDOS mitigation, Radius/Syslog, Linux/Windows server administration, security auditing, change management, clustering/high availability. In my free time I also teach a free network technology class every week.

Software Developer

Confidential, Niagara Falls, NY

Responsibilities:

Development of existing financial management and public utility software. Collaborated with customer support and end users to understand client requirements for enhancements and fixes.
Designing, testing, and implementation of customer-specific modifications as well as correcting application bugs.
Maintained detailed documentation of issues and modifications and follow with customers and inside support reps.
Languages used include Visual Fox Pro, SQL & Delphi.

Senior Technical Support Specialist/Technology Consultant

Confidential, Williamsville, NY

Responsibilities:

Provided presales consultation to end user customers and inside sales reps. Areas of specialization included enterprise server, blade, and SAN (storage area network) solutions and virtualization.
Also provided technical training for customers and inside sales/technical presales representatives.
Designed, deployed, and maintained custom configuration application responsible for millions of dollars of hardware quotes generated per day.
Department liaison for business with external multinational corporate sponsor - developing ROI reporting, training plans, etc.
Provided post sales problem resolution support for blade & ISS products as well as SAN, networking products.