SUMMARY

• CCIE Written, CCNP certified Network Engineer with over 10 years’ experience in the design, installation and configuration of Cisco switches, routers and firewalls
• Skilled using network management and monitoring tools CiscoWorks, HP OpenView, SolarWinds, AAA TACACS+ and other packet sniffers.
• Communicates well at all levels and has developed a wide range of practical IT skills.
• Logical and methodological in approach to work; able to work effectively at all levels of an organization with minimum supervision and meeting set deadlines.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing: OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP. TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, RARP, ICMP, RIP (V1 & V2), IS - IS

Switching: VLANS, EtherChannel, STP, RSTP, VTP, SPAN, MPLS

Security: Access Lists, Cisco ASA 5500, IPsec/SSL VPN, AAA

Networking: Ethernet/Fast Ethernet 802.3, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.1q, STP, RSTP, PVST, VLAN, VPN, Frame Relay, Point-to-Point, MPLS, ATM, HDLC, ISDN, SNMP, SMTP, FTP, DHCP, DNS, NAT

Domain experience: Network Infrastructure Services and Network Support

Cisco Switches: 2900, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6000 and 6500 series, Nexus 3k, 5k, 7k

Cisco Routers: 1900, 2600, 2900, 3600, 3700, 3800,3900,6524,7200,7600,12000, CRS-1, CRS-3

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Greensboro, NC

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and troubleshoot a wide-range of Cisco routers 6500,4500,2900 and 3900,3800,2800,2600,1800,800 series
• Interact with vendors, peers, and contractors to ensure secure, reliable systems implementations and upgrades are performed within project parameters
• Support, configure and maintain L 2/L3 switches and routers and build switch stacks. Design networks from layer 1 to layer 3.
• Respond to emergency network outages in accordance with business continuity and disaster recovery plans, assisting other departments as required·
• Used IT Sentinel for auditing 5000+ node network. Automated scheduled task such as network standards, PCI compliance and network drawings.
• Make recommendations to senior or executive IT management regarding product/vendor selection, technology evolution, and design strategies.
• Determined root cause analysis, developed and executed corrective action plans for resolution of complex technical issues related to platform and service performance disruptions
• MPLS switching and IPV6
• Deployed AAA (Radius) configured and implemented routing protocols RIPv1 and RIPv2.
• Configured, implemented, and tuned EIGRP and OSPF routing protocol with NSSA, stub, and totally stub environments. Good knowledge of IS-IS routing protocol and design implementations.
• Worked in environment where VLSM, CIDR implementations were required.
• Implemented dynamic routing within IEEE’s private WAN infrastructure. This project used open standards routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.

Confidential

Technical Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• Designed network infrastructure and worked with Project Manager to finalize Bill of Materials
• Prepared configuration templates for each device and standardization of the environment
• Worked with SME teams, in region and globally, to develop design documents following BOM configuration approval and which included hardware designs.
• Collaborated with teams to ensure initial changes on the configuration template were correct and assisted in resolving any implementation issues.
• Involved in PCI compliance and network drawings.
• Placed orders with Cisco with appropriate discounting. Completed export licenses, customer clearance, required documentation prior shipping the devices to the countries.
• Engineered, installed Cisco equipment per SOW. Liaised with offshore engineering

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Consulted with Business Manager and System Strategy Representatives to define network infrastructure solution
• Prepared business and IT requirement determination, documentation and system modeling.
• Created high level design documentation and contractual proposal to meet business requirements.
• Automated scheduled task such as network standards, PCI compliance and network drawings
• Implemented product and managed support structure throughout Product Life Cycle.
• Managed stakeholders, reported time, cost and quality expectations throughout service management and approval.
• Ensured solution delivered conformed with and contributed to business strategy and services delivered and complied with commercial and control policies from line of business and entity perspectives
• Configured F5 Load balancers for failover, BGP Route Reflector and supported Juniper
• Authored all release and support documentation
• Managed and troubleshot LAN/WAN, provided network support to other sites
• Configured ipv6 unicast on gigabit Ethernet
• Worked with team of engineers, participated in project, which involved design and implementation of firewalls
• Engineered DHCP NAT, DNS SMTP, HSRP for remote network, OSPF, BGP Spanning Tree and vPC Nexus 7000

Confidential, Dallas, Texas

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Used IT Sentinel for auditing 5000+ node network. Automated scheduled task such as network standards, PCI compliance and network drawings.
• Built and ran flow analysis and DES simulation using IT Guru Network Planner. Troubleshot network and application performance issues
• Performed ACE trace analysis, identified problem areas, and reporting.
• Managed VNE Server - imported network objects via automation tools and manual imports.
• Troubleshot network related issues, routers, L2/L3 switches, network protocols Ethernet, TCP/IP, SNMP, IS-IS Level 1-2 VLAN trunking. Configured EIGRP and OSPF on Nexus 7000
• Managed QoS, and policy-based routing with Cisco IOS
• Interacted with teams across multiple platforms and in varying environments

Confidential, Dallas Texas

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed network with OSPF, EIGRP, with BGP, IS-IS L2. Configured BGP policy with VPN and redistribute routing protocol. Managed and troubleshot LAN/WAN issues
• Configured F5 Load Balancing and 6500 core switches
• Authored all release and support documentation
• Configured and supported VoIP, ATM, BGP, ISDN, DLSW
• Followed company policy to configure DMZ on VPN
• Engineered DHCP NAT, DNS SMTP, HSRP
• Used HP OpenView to monitor routers and switches and for proactive troubleshooting

Confidential

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Engineered MPLS with VPN 7600 Provider Edge router and exchanged routes with Customer Edge router. Configured MPLS with BGP 6500 router with Provider Edge router traversed data to Customer Edge router.
• Used monitoring tools TACACS, HP OpenView to monitor connectivity of hub and spoke
• Configured ATM with PVC and CVS (qsaal,ilmi). Configured BGP with confederation and route reflector with different AS
• Migrated servers in data center. Configured VLANS and installed switches across multiple sites
• Supported VPN with gateway load balancing protocol. Configured routers 2500,3600,4500,4700,7200
• Configured NTP authentication recurring, NTP Master, NTP authentication and NTP peer
• Installation, configuration and support HP OpenView and CiscoWorks
• Involved with design of servers and drafting of documentation for delivering and supporting the platform and relevant applications.

Confidential

System Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Worked with team of engineers, participated in design of and implementing firewalls between LAN. Installed, supported, monitoring tools TACACS+ and HP OpenView and OPNET
• Engineered ATM with PVC and CVS (qsaal, ilmi), BGP with confederation and route reflector with different AS. Configured spanning tree VLANS and installed switches across multiple sites
• Configured DHCP NAT, DNS SMTP, HSRP for remote network
• Implemented NTP authentication recurring, NTP Master, NTP authentication and NTP peer
• Advised on methods of enhancing systems for better management with reduced overhead.
• Arranged and coordinated pre- implementation and post-implementation testing and functionality.
• Managed projects from system design and specification to implementation.
• WAN/LAN administration including provision of implementation
• Setup, installed and supported server based computing technology.

Confidential

Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed network operations in three sites that made up Confidential ’s Hospital Trust.
• Implementation and standardization for rollout of new 1200 new PCs. Configured pint queues on NetWare and NT Network.
• Developed and implemented network-wide data backup strategies using third-party software, Seagate and ArcServe.
• Worked with external support firms in the maintenance of the hospital network infrastructure including cabling, network tuning and monitoring hubs, routers, and bridges.
• Responsible for allocation of IP addresses, configured user profiles, and organized installation of software on end user workstations.
• Maintenance and configuration of Exchange Servers and MS Mail server; created new user accounts, configured connectors for external e-mail, migration of users from MS Mail to MS Exchange and monitored the security of e-mail transfer between local and external networks.
• Developed strategy for monitoring the anti-virus policy within the hospital trust.
• Worked in partnership with external contractors to develop and implement the hospital intranet site and associated firewall strategy.