SUMMARY

• Senior Network Engineer with over 20 years’ experience designing, implementing, maintaining and developing enterprise level network architectures for clients such as Confidential Co. Consolidated, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential, Confidential and Confidential
• Experience with installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Cisco, Foundry Network switches, and Cisco routers
• Adept in in designing and architecting networks, documentation of network topology and configurations.
• Comfortable configuring and troubleshooting IP routing protocols in an enterprise environments BGP, EIGRP and OSPF.
• Skilled in managing the full of the life of projects to work with external vendors ordering and evaluating new equipment and mentoring and evaluating junior technicians’ work for consistency

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking: Avaya VoIP, BGP v4, Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco IOS firewall, Cisco Routers, Cisco Works, DMVPN, EIGRP, F5, FDDI, Frame Relay, IPSec, IPX, LANAlert, NAT, Netscreen 5GT firewall, Linux, Nortel Passport 8600, OSPF, PPP Client, PPP Server, RIP, SIP, SNMP, T1, TCP/IP, V.32 Connections and WINS/DHCP.

Software: CDE 1.2/ OpenWindows 3.6, Cisco Network Registrar DHCP/DNS, MachTen 4.0.3 UNIX, Macintosh System 7.x.x - 10.X.X, Microsoft Office (Mac & Win), Network General Sniffer Distributed SniffView, Open Transport, SCO UNIX, Solaris 2.6/SunOS4.1.3 - 9/SunOS5.9, UNIX and Perl scripting, VERITAS Volume Manager™ 3.5, Visio, WildPackets EtherPeek NX.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Charlotte NC

Sr. Network Engineer/Network Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Aiding in troubleshooting potential network issues in rolling out ISE in trusted end point project.
• Administration and configuration of Juniper SA-6500 firewalls.
• Implementing Zone Based Firewalling and Security Rules on the Palo Alto Firewall.
• Supporting, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco IOS-XR/XE and IOS product lines.
• Upgraded Cisco ASA firewalls from 8.2 thru 9.1 and the converting of firewall rules to new OS.
• Supporting sale person team in complex solutions. Work with sale team to align solution design with customer’s business requirements.
• Review current status of client technology process.
• Assisting with the design and modification of product configurations to meet client requirements.
• Pre sales scoping and documenting of costumers networks, documenting cost and building and material.
• Pre and post sales technical support for network infrastructure, layer 2, 1 and 3 LAN WAN WLAN Networks; TCP/IP Design WAN, LAN, VLAN, and MPLS.

Confidential, Fort Mill, SC

Sr. Network Engineer/Network Architecture

Responsibilities:

• Assigned the tasks of designing, implementing, maintaining and developing enterprise level network architectures.
• Redesigned and refresh European networks, configuration of switches, and firewalls for Germany, France and London. Worked with local administers to document networks move user from a flat single IP network to VLANs and routing network.
• Responsible for coordinating connectivity area transition projects and changes to existing network architecture implementations.
• Technical support for Confidential network infrastructure, layer 2, 1 and 3 LAN WAN WLAN Networks; TCP/IP Design WAN, LAN, VLAN, and MPLS.
• Monitoring tools such as sniffer, whatsupgold working with ASA Firewall and high level of experience with switching and routing equipment, namely, Cisco IOS, TCP/IP, MPLS-VPN, and BGP.
• Responsible for daily tasks and upgrades 3550, 3750, 6500, adding and troubleshooting of network equipment.
• Provided solutions and resolution of routing and switching related issues.
• Troubleshoot issues related to connectivity, Vlans, Trunking, VTP, Layer 2/3 Switching, Ether- Channel, STP, RSTP, MST.

Confidential, Washington DC

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Cisco, Foundry Network switches, and Cisco routers. Involve in designing and architecting of networks, document of network topology and configurations.
• Configured and troubleshoot IP routing protocols in an enterprise environments BGP, EIGRP and OSPF.
• Inventory of remote sites, redesign network topology, order equipment and installed equipment in change window.
• Working with Cisco VoIP, Cisco Unified Communication Manager administration, configuration and support of ISDN, SRST, h323-gateway, sccp, sip, dial-peers, call-manager-fallback and QoS.
• Maintain, Configure and support MPLS, T1 and DS3 line in an IP enterprise Network.
• Standardize and document of switches and routers configuration.
• Configuration of multicast on Cisco routers and switches.
• Installation as well as upgrade of Cisco IOS and CATOS on Cisco 6500 switches.
• Implantation and upgrade of Cisco wireless networks.
• Data Center network infrastructure utilizing Cisco Nexus network infrastructure. Configuration and administration of Nexus 5020 and 2248 server access switches, utilizing Nexus FEX and VPC connections.
• Working with 7010 core switches 10G LAN/WAN connection with multiple distribution VDC’s running EIGRP for route propagation between them.
• Administration and configuration of Cisco PIX, ASA and CheckPoint firewalls.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of MacAfee Sidewinder.

Confidential, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration and configuration of Cisco 6500 multi-layer switches with MSFC2 routing modules, core, distribution, and access switches.
• Installation and upgrade of Data Center distribution switches, dual Sup II to Sup720. Upgraded switches from Cisco CAT OS to IOS.
• Installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Foundry Network and Nortel multi-layer switches.
• Cisco routers and CSS IP Load Balancers. Document network topology and configurations.
• Monitored enterprise network using network-monitoring tools that included Frame-Relay, ATM and TCP/IP technologies.
• Was Responsible for troubleshooting and correcting various, configuration problems within the managed networks as well as change management.
• Redesigned OSPF network, moving corporate network from single area to a backbone and stub areas.
• Redesigned spanning-tree network, removing single point of failure from corporate network.
• Help design and install test network environment of over 300 sever running in parallel of production data center.
• Installation as well as upgrade of Cisco IOS on Cisco switches and routers.
• Troubleshoot network and server performance issues using Sniffer Distributed Console and Sniffer Distributed SniffView software.
• Providing administration and installation of NetWare 5.11, Sun OS 5.8 & Solaris 8 UNIX, Windows NT 4 and Windows 2000 file servers, Windows SQL 6.5-7, NAL, ZENworks as well as Microsoft office support.
• Researched disaster recovery solutions for Novell and Windows servers and performed the installations and administration of Double-Take for Novell and Windows.
• Worked on network migration project, I was responsible for managing the full of the life of the project. I worked with the internal and external groups. Worked with junior technician assigning work and evaluating their work. The project included moving from token ring to Ethernet. Designed, Installation, configuration of switches, including VLANs, IP, IPX, OSPF as well as the installation and administration Microsoft SNA server.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As the lead engineer my role was to design, install, and maintain all necessary hardware/software for international projects. I was responsible for managing the full of the life of the projects. I worked with the external vendors ordering and evaluating new equipment. Worked with junior technician assigning work and evaluating their work.
• My duties included the design of the NetWare Directory Service Trees, installation of Novell IntranetWare 4.11 file servers, Shiva LanRovers, and Microsoft Exchange 4.0 mail service.
• I have installed and configured various hubs and switches including the installation and configuration of remote workstations.
• My position included providing all network and software training of administrators and end-users.
• Posted sale support, worked with customer to ensure proper configurations and usage of equipment and software.

Confidential, Vienna, VA

Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a complete Network Operation Center.
• Provided pre-sale support for the selling of the Proactive Network Management products and services.
• Installed and configured various local and remote Cisco routers and routing protocols.
• Performed pre-sale network performance analogy given customer an over view of their network performance.
• Analyzed monitor servers and network performance doing network stress testing and upgrades.

Confidential, Washington, DC

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for providing hardware/software support for all corporate Macintosh computers: installations, evaluations, requisitions, networking and technical support.
• Initiated and configured various NetWare 4.1/3.12/3.11 & Windows NT 3.51 servers and workstations for local and coastal offices.
• Installed and configured various Sun OS 4.1.3 & Solaris 2.6 UNIX servers and workstations.
• Installation and troubleshooting of Ethertalk, Ethernet networks on LAN/WAN as well as new increments to networks.
• Assisted in the configuration of Cisco Routers to include AppleTalk protocol over .

Confidential, New York, NY

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administration and installation of AppleShare, NetWare 3.11 file servers, print servers and Microsoft Electronic Mail server.
• Installation and trouble shooting of AppleTalk, Ethernet networks on LAN/WAN.
• Connected remote location to WAN via Cisco Router.
• Provided technical support and training to end-users.