OBJECTIVE:

• Challenging Sr. Network Architect/Engineer position with a successful, growth - oriented company that utilizes my years of experience and training in network technologies, analysis, design, troubleshooting and support.
• The ideal company would be one that uses cutting-edge technologies in a complex, technological environment.
• I would prefer to work for a firm with high standards and expectations for its employees and contribute to their success.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Confidential (IOS XR and XE), Nortel/Bay Networks, Juniper (JunOS), Arista, IBM, and 3Com.

Switches: Confidential Catalyst and Nexus (NX-OS ACI 9K, 7K, 5K), Brocade, Juniper, Nortel Networks, Alcatel/Xylan, Confidential ProCurve and 3Com/Extreme Networks.

Security: Firewalls - Palo Alto, Confidential ASA, CheckPoint, Juniper, Fortigate and Sonic Wall. PCI and HIPPA compliance design and implementation.

Intrusion Detection Systems: Confidential IDS/IPS, Cisco security manager, MARS, Juniper IPS, F5 and NetScreen security appliances.

Remote access: Confidential ASA VPN concentrators, AnyConnect, Nortel Networks Contivity Extranet switches and Juniper VPN concentrators. RSA Security, Cisco ACS, RADIUS and TACACS+ authentication servers.

IP Telephony and VoIP: Cisco Unified Communications Architecture Solutions (CUCM, CUCCE, CallManager, Unity voicemail and IOS VoIP).

Wireless Networks: Cisco Aironet and Aruba Wireless Access points and controllers and AirMagnet wireless tools.

Load balancers: Confidential ACE, CSSand Local/Distributed Directors, F5 BigIP/3DNS LTM/GTM, Citrix Netscaler, Foundry Server Iron and Coyote Point System Equalizer Traffic Management Appliances.

WAN optimization: Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS), Riverbed solutions and Blue Coat appliances.

Proxy Servers: Microsoft ISA, EZproxy and Blue Coat.

Network control and security: Infoblox.

Video conferencing solutions: Polycom and Tandberg Video Conferencing Solutions.

Storage and compute: Confidential Nexus UCS and MDS 9000, Brocade, EMC, NetApp, Confidential StoreNext and VMWare.

Network Technologies: LAN/WAN/MAN, Fiber, FDDI, ISDN, DSL, Frame Relay, T1/T3, OC3/OC12, DS3, SONET, RAS, NAT, QoS, VLAN, VRF, VPC, MPLS, DWDM, VPN, DMVPN, IPTV, NAC, CDN, Cisco iWAN, SD-WAN (Meraki,Viptela, VeloCloud and Silver Peak), Cloud networking AWS/Azure and IP Telephony/VoIP.

Protocols: IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, ARP, RIP, RIP2, OSPF, ISIS, BGP4, IGRP, EIGRP, PIM, MSDP, MPLS, LDP, L2TPV3, ISL, 802.1Q, HSRP, VRRP, VRF, AAA, PKI, EAP, PEAP, IPSec, SSL, SSH, LDAP, IPX, AppleTalk, FTP, TFTP, SNMP, RMON, RMON II, SLIP, DNS, DHCP, WINS, SNA, Bridging, VPC, VDC, OTV, DLSw, NetBIOS/NetBEUI, SDLC, PPP, HDLC, CIP, LANE, ELAN, PNNI, SAN, FCoE, HBA and NAS.

Network management and security: Network General Sniffer Pro (packet level traffic analysis), Wireshark, Confidential OpenView, IBM NetView, Cisco Works, Cisco ISE, Netscout, Packeteer, Solarwinds, Concord Network Health, Ntop, Nessus, Nmap and Snort.

Operating systems and apps: Windows Server, UNIX/FreeBSD/Linux Redhat/CentOS/Fedora/Ubuntu, VMware NSX, DNS, Wins, TACACS, AD and IIS.

Microsoft Office: Outlook, Word, Excel. Visio Professional, PowerPoint and Project.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Irvine, CA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement global SD-WAN solutions (Viptela, VeloCloud, Silver Peak). Implement cloud security (Palo Alto, ASA, Juniper cloud and on prem firewalls) and global SD-WAN network connectivity with AWS and Azure for clients global and regional connectivity.
• Create the logical and physical network designs (including SDN and Cloud), install and configure network equipment at client’s datacenters, offices and partner locations.
• Design and implement data center core network infrastructure with Nexus/ACI overlay technology and data centers security and load balancing physical and virtual appliances. Implement DCI with VXLANs (VMware NSX-T). Interconnect datacenter networks with AWS/Azure clouds, EVPN and SD-WAN.
• Evaluate network PCI security requirements and implement security solutions and policies to remediate client network environments.
• Create SOWs, BOMs and provide pre-sales support.
• Implement effective security policies backed by appropriate firewall configurations, VPN/remote access methods, 3rd party connectivity configurations to protect the security of corporate systems and network infrastructure.
• Research, evaluate and recommend network related tools and emerging network technologies to support effective SDN networks operation.
• Analyze and monitor network performance and provide security and performance recommendations.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr. Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop network architecture designs and strategies to meet client new business application requirements.
• Provide pre-sale support to account team with architecture and design proposals.
• Design, build new and upgrade existing corporate datacenters utilizing virtualized Nexus core ACI switching infrastructure with UCS, ASA security appliances, Netscaler and F5 load balancers.
• Create the logical and physical designs, install and configure network equipment, maintain high availability datacenters, and partner locations.
• Implement, troubleshoot and support wireless network infrastructure.
• Implement two-factor authentication client and clientless (SSL) VPN solutions.
• Perform hands on network implementations and network troubleshooting.
• Design and implement MAN, iWAN, MPLS WAN, Viptela and VeloCloud SD-WAN and DNAC networks.
• Design and implement AWS and Azure cloud network infrastructure integration with SD-WAN and data center networks. Integrate cloud security and network virtual network alliances with SDNs.
• Create formal network documentation for client handover of datacenter network.
• Analyze network security and design and implement required security solutions.
• Research and evaluate emerging network technologies to improve datacenter network performance, high availability and redundancy.
• Develop low and high level (LLD and HLD) network designs, statements of work, as build and all other required client handover documentation.
• Design and implement Amazon Web Services cloud solution.
• Perform data center and corporate network assessments, migration and upgrade plans and provide network end solutions to meet client business requirements.
• Lead engineering teams and projects.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr. Network Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop low and high level (LLD and HLD) data centers and enterprise networks designs, statements of work, as build and all other required client project handover documentation.
• Design and implement MPLS WAN and MAN networks utilizing virtualized Nexus infrastructure.
• Perform data center and corporate network assessments, migration and upgrade plans and provide network end solutions to meet client business requirements.
• Deploy network infrastructure data center and enterprise infrastructure.
• Lead the delivery of complex network solutions.
• Lead network project design and implementation teams.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Lead Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Develop network architecture designs and strategies to meet client new business application requirements.
• Design, build new and upgrade existing corporate datacenters utilizing Nexus core switching infrastructure with UCS, ASA security appliances, Netscaler and F5 load balancers.
• Create the logical and physical designs, install and configure network equipment, maintain high availability datacenters and partner locations.
• Provide pre-sale support.
• Design and implement MPLS WAN and MAN networks.
• Create DR plans and test business continuity scenarios.
• Create formal network documentation for client handover of datacenter network.
• Analyze network security and design and implement required security solutions.
• Research and evaluate emerging network technologies to improve datacenter network performance, high availability and redundancy.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Sr. Network and Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Architect, build, upgrade managed worldwide corporate datacenters.
• Create the logical and physical designs, install and configure network equipment, maintain high availability datacenters and partner locations.
• Analyze network security and design and implement required solutions.
• Research and evaluate emerging network technologies to improve datacenter network performance, high availability and redundancy.
• Design and implement data center security solution to meet PCI requirements

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Lead Network and Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide network architecture, network design, equipment specifications and network security for corporate network and datacenters.
• Create the logical and physical designs, install and configure network equipment and datacenters, offices and partner locations.
• Interface with CDN for assuring delivery of high quality video content to subscribers.
• Implement effective security policies backed by appropriate firewall configurations, VPN/remote access methods, 3rd party connectivity configurations to protect the security of corporate systems and network infrastructure.
• Research, evaluate and recommend network related tools and emerging network technologies to support effective delivery of video content over the Internet.
• Analyze and monitor network performance and content/media delivery to subscribers.

Confidential, Irwindale, CA

Sr. Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed network design and implementation plan for collapsing existing network equipment to new Cisco 7609 routers and Nexus switches.
• Created network design and configuration scripts for migrating from IS-IS to BGP4 routing.
• Implemented new network Nexus core equipment and network design changes.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Sr. Network and Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented DETE (Digital end to end) data center infrastructure to support WB studio’s requirement for high speed file transfers between digital movie production facilities.
• Designed and implemented network and NAS infrastructure for new encoding facility.
• Creating and maintaining network security policies, firewall rules and operational requirements.
• Supported data center infrastructure, high speed connections to Internet and affiliated companies and network security.
• Prepared and delivered technical functional specifications for new projects.
• Led, coordinated and project managed remote set-up required for new partner deployments.

Confidential

Sr. Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed network engineering plan for CCH’s data center migration from Torrance to Texas data center.
• Designed business unit new network infrastructure and implemented current network high availability data center network into the new data center.
• Conducted feasibility studies on strategic and tactical plans and evaluated network services/technology for current and future network development.
• Designed and implemented IPSec secure VPN for connectivity to IRS data centers and other business units.
• Performed wireless site surveys and implemented controller based wireless networks.
• Designed and implemented Cisco IP telephony solution.
• Conducted network analysis, reports and worked on new design and implementation projects.
• Supported current and new network infrastructures consisting of Catalyst switching redundant backbones, ATM MPLS WAN, IDS/IPS system, PIX/ASA and CheckPoint firewalls, F5 BigIP application load balancers, IPSec VPN with RSA authentication and Aironet wireless networks.

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented new data center routing and switching core network infrastructure to accommodate company’s consolidation of current Torrance and Anaheim facilities to new data center in Cypress.
• Installed Confidential redundant switching backbone network, secure IPsec VPN/DS3/MPLS ATM WAN, IDS and redundant ASA firewalls.
• Implemented IP telephony (CCM 4.1, Unity 4.0), PIX firewalls, ACS servers and CiscoWorks.