SUMMARY:

• To apply my knowledge and experience in a Network Engineer/Architect position.
• I am considered an expert in network engineering and operations.
• I teach and mentor my co - workers.
• I learn, understand and integrate an organization's business needs into requirements and design and communicate those along with plans to the stakeholders.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Internetworking Platforms: Cisco Core/Distribution/Access Routers, Ethernet Switches, and Firewalls, Cisco 800, 1900, 2900, 3900, ISR, ASR, Catalyst, ASA, IOS, XE, XR, and NX-OS. Juniper Routers and Switches, Extreme Networks switches, HP Procurve, Remote Access Servers and Routers (Multiple Vendors), Infoblox DDI and NetMRI, Load Balancers (multiple vendors), IEEE 802.1p and 802.1q, VLANs, HSRP, LACP, Spanning Tree, WiFi, Wireless Ethernet (802.11ac), VoIP, SIP, VPNs, Structured Cabling, Fiber Optics, CWDM/DWDM, Metro Ethernet, MPLS.

Internetworking Transports: IPv4, IPv6, Ethernet, SONET, MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay, X.25, DS1, DS3, xDSL, ISDN, VPN, PPP.

Routing Protocols: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), RIPv2, RIPng, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF, OSPFv3), Cisco EIGRP.

Internet Services: DNS, SNMP, SMTP, POP, Radius, TACACS, DHCP, NTP, IP Multicast, HTTP/HTTPS, SSH, Telnet, FTP, H.323, SIP and more.

Network Security: Security Design and planning for networks connected to the public Internet, risk assessment, policy, ACLs, Firewall, Cisco ASA, Fortinet, Sonicwall and others.

Network Design: Network, Systems and Security Architecture, service providers, data centers, education, and enterprise.

Operating Systems, Software and Languages: UNIX, Linux, Solaris, MacOS X, VMware, Microsoft Windows, Office, Word, Excel, Visio and Power Point, Perl, Python, TCL, Expect, UNIX/Linux CLI tools and scripting, C, Basic, Pascal, and several assembly languages.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible for design, troubleshooting, and maintenance of the global Ameriprise network.
• I was the team lead for the Confidential network operations team providing escalation and mentoring.
• I documented, peer-reviewed and worked complex and critical changes in a strict ITIL/ITSM environment.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• Designing, building and supporting Code42's LAN, WAN and Cloud infrastructure as a member of the Code42's cloud engineering group.
• Code42's global infrastructure supports its customers and products CrashPlan.
• I was a member of the enterprise architecture team.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, St. Paul

Responsibilities:

• In the roll of network engineer/architect I planned, installed and operated the Confidential network, providing high-speed connections to the Internet, Internet2 and Confidential Enterprise Services applications served out of the Confidential data center.
• The Confidential network serves 50 member school districts, and numerous private and charter schools.
• Primary responsibilities included overall network architecture, private and public dark fiber, DWDM/CWDM, commercial transport services, and architecture for Linux systems and appliances as well as data center architecture.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis,

Responsibilities:

• I installed and offered support for Internet access and Nortel Norstar telephone.
• I designed and developed Voice over IP services based on standards based protocols, SIP and open source software, Linux and Asterisk, as a replacement for the Norstar systems.

Consultant

Confidential, ND, WI

Responsibilities:

• I added QoS support to a bank’s multi-state network required for IP video conferencing.
• Worked with several private colleges on network and data center projects.
• Assisted several metropolitan school districts with upgrades from a frame relay network to a gigabit Ethernet fiber network.
• Designed and installed a data center, and provided network operations and system administration for a rural business incubator.
• Consulted with rural telephone companies in Minnesota, North Dakota and Wisconsin, building data networks using SONET and DSL.
• Provided network and Internet training services.

Consultant

Confidential, Moorhead

Responsibilities:

• I designed a network which won an RFP for 18 telephone companies to provide IP video conferencing, broadband WAN and Internet access for 120 K-12 schools and libraries in northwestern Minnesota.
• I provided templates to configure equipment, installation project management, QoS design, and network operations training.

Consultant

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I assessed the design, reliability and costs of broadband Internet service and ISP operations for the management of their CLEC operation.
• Provided training to systems and network administrators, redesigned IP network routing, implemented and documented disaster recovery systems for key Confidential servers for their ISP operation.
• A major project was to build and connect our network to a shared ATM backbone with other rural Minnesota Telephone companies to share upstream ISP bandwidth and video head-end services.

Senior Network Architect

Confidential, Minneapolis, St Paul

Responsibilities:

• As an early employee of new startup company, I was the architect for the network design and operations consulting practice, including security and network monitoring products based on ITIL/ITSM frameworks.
• I provided peer review to other group leaders.

Consultant

Confidential, Arden Hills

Responsibilities:

• I designed new corporate network, managed implementation. I planned and deployed WiFi network. Integrated legacy PBX and VoIP phone systems.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, Minneapolis

Responsibilities:

• I was a technical lead of a large team of network and systems engineers. Served on the corporate technology planning team.
• My responsibilities included network operations, security, planning and design.
• I ran monthly technical round table meetings for our customer’s technical staff.
• Projects I led include the design and implementation of a statewide broadband ATM network;
• I designed and built new Internet points-of-presence and data centers.
• I designed and deployed data services on the MEANS statewide SONET networks after Confidential was formed.

Campus Network Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed built and managed the campus-wide computer network.
• Supported the students and faculty in their use of campus computer systems and the network.
• Managed two Digital Equipment Corporation VAX mini-computers.
• Managed mixed network of UNIX systems tied sharing network storage using NFS protocols.
• Connected the campus LAN to the Internet as a member of MRNet in 1989.
• Connected campus VAX system to BITNET in the fall of 1988.
• Designed first web site for Nobel science conference in 1994.
• Gave presentations and training at other schools and conferences to evangelize building campus networks and connecting to the Internet.