SUMMARY:

• Professional wif over 5 years of experience in implementation, configuration, monitoring, escalation support and troubleshooting of various technologies wif proficiency in routing, enterprise switching, security & branch technologies.
• Wireless /Voice / Management / Monitoring
• Implemented Wireless network infrastructures utilizing Cisco WLC wif Flexconnect as well as Cisco Meraki APs using Cloud based Dashboard. Deployed 802.1X port autantication for Wireless utilizing Cisco ISE.
• Implemented secure access such as SSH, AAA, Radius, TACACS+ to vty and console ports along wif SNMP. Managed SNMP, AAA, TACACS+, Radius, Netflow, and Syslog for autantication, logging and management.
• Utilized Nagios XI, SolarWinds Orion NPM, CACTI monitoring and graph traffic. Widely used Wireshark for troubleshooting and analyzing traffic flow including HTTP and other network traffic. IM and
• Presence Device, Cisco Unity Connection Device, Registering teh Call Center Station CIPC, Assigning users by Modifying teh Default Button Setup, Speed Dial Buttons, Management Station IP
• Communicator, Voice Mail Port, Hunt List, Hunt Pilot, Message Waiting Indication, Voice Mail Pilot, Voice Mail Profile Port Groups and Ports in Cisco Unity Connection, Importing Users into Cisco Unity
• Connection, Voicemail Service on Cisco Unified Communications Manager, End Users to Use Voicemail, Add Voicemail to Lines, Move a User, Adding users to teh Management Station CIPC, Removing users from teh Call Center IP Communicator.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential / Irvine, CA

Network Engineer Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of professionals responsible for administration/service requests, escalation support, ticket resolution and analysis of enterprise LAN/WAN environments for datacenters, WAN links, and branch offices.
• Specific Technologies handled include but not limited to Cisco ISRs/Meraki MX, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus Switches Cisco ASAs, F5 BIG - IP Load Balancing, F5 BIG-IP DNS, F5 BIG-IP HA, F5 BIG-IP APM, F5 BIG-IP AFM, Cisco Wireless LAN Controller, Cisco Access Points,
• Juniper EX Series Switches, Juniper EX3200 Switch, Configure preferred NTP server for vSRX and as alternatives NTP servers.
• Palo Alto (PAN) Managed an IPSec Site-to-Site VPNs between Palo Alto Firewall at Main Office and branches, T-shoot IPSec on Palo Alto and Add/ Modify Policies for Palo Alto. Update Palo Alto Firewalls, Cleanup Firewall Policies, Nagios, Solar Winds, Cacti, Wireshark, VMware, Cisco Unified Communications Manager & Cisco Unity, Aruba wireless.
• Modifying teh Default Button Setup, Speed Dial Buttons, Management Station IP Communicator, Voice Mail Port, Hunt List, Hunt Pilot, Message Waiting Indication, Voice Mail Pilot, Voice Mail Profile Port Groups and Ports in Cisco Unity Connection, Importing Users into Cisco Unity Connection, Voicemail Service on Cisco Unified Communications Manager, End Users to Use Voicemail, Add Voicemail to Lines, Move a User, Adding users to teh Management Station CIPC, Removing users from teh Call Center IP Communicator.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Network Engineer /Field Support

Responsibilities:

• Configured ISE to provide AAA services to enterprise network, 802.1X autantication for wired and wireless access to networks. RADIUS server implementation. Access switches, WLAN controllers configured as 802.1X autanticators to relay endpoint credential information on to ISE for processing, including teh use of a various VLANs based on business needs. Viewing connection logs in ISE. Ticket resolution and change requests; more extensive changes require scheduling during periods of low network utilization, and users will need to be informed in advance if they will experience a change in behavior.
• Deployed and Maintained Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls including Security Levels, Zones, NAT, ACLs, and Active/Standby HA. Also, implemented NGFW features such as URL filtering and other IPS/IDP functions.
• Managed an IPSec Site-to-Site VPNs between Cisco ASA5500s at Main Office and Cisco branch ISR specifying IKE Policy, encryption and autantication protocols, access-lists to define VPN traffic, transform sets and crypto-map. Have used both s and Pre-shared Keys.
• Deployed Zone-based Firewalls on Juniper SRX along wif IPS/IDS features and on Cisco ISR.
• Configured port security, DHCP snooping, and IP ARP inspection for access switchport hardening.
• Deployed SSL VPN (WebVPN for secure, remote-access VPN tunnel to teh Cisco ASA 5500 series for clients.
• F5 BIG-IP Load Balancing, F5 BIG-IP DNS, F5 BIG-IP HA, F5 BIG-IP APM, F5 BIG-IP AFM
• Managed an IPSec Site-to-Site VPNs between Palo Alto Firewall at Main Office and branches, T-shoot IPSec on Palo Alto and Add/ Modify Policies for Palo Alto. Update Palo Alto Firewall. WAN/Routing
• Deployed and Supported eBGP & iBGP peering using directly connected networks and loopbacks, ebgp-multihop for MPLS and BGP Multihoming. Managed BGP Peer groups, PREFIX-LISTs, ROUTE-MAPs.
• Implemented both single area and multiple area OSPF routing. Also implemented stub areas to lower system resource utilization of devices. Utilized link and area autantication to improve security for OSPF neighbors.
• Provided Escalation Support for BGP and OSPF neighbor and route issues using Traceroute, Show and Debug commands along Protocol Analyzers such as wireshark.
• Deployed WAN infrastructure Branch to HQ and Datacenter utilizing MPLS and IPSec VPNs.
• Implemented EIGRP routing on Cisco ISRs and ASAs. Implemented EIGRP MD5 between sites to prevent unauthorized insertion of routes into teh domain. Implemented manual EIGRP route summarization to reduce demand on CPU resources, memory, and bandwidth used to maintain teh routing tables.
• Scheduled, upgraded, and maintained recommended SW/firmware for IOS and JunOS devices. Datacenter/Core Switching
• Managed StackWise & StackPower, VSS on Catalyst, VPC on Nexus, and MLAG on Juniper for Device Redundancy. Implemented Switching utilizing VLAN & trunking using 802.1q.
• Managed VTP wif transparent mode, Managed RSTP/STP on Cisco and Juniper switches and priority for root election. Managed portfast, bpdu guard, UDLD. Implemented SVIs for VLANs wif HSRP, GLBP and VRRP for gateway redundancy on dist. switches.
• Implemented Datacenter focused Nexus Switching utilizing NXOS wif features including, vPC, Fabric Extenders (FEX), Fabric Path and VXLANs. Familiar wif SFP, SFP+, QSFP and Optical and copper based cabling. Implemented F5 Big IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for load balancing Web based applications.