SUMMARY:

• Motivated and talented senior engineer offers over 14 years of experience working closely with complex network architectures and computer systems.
• Experience includes troubleshooting, performing configuration reviews and approvals, network design and architecture, and customer service technical support.
• Able to make sound decisions and justifiable recommendations; based technical skills and background.
• Years of experience with the usage and function of Alcatel - Lucent, Fujitsu, Cisco, Brocade, F5, and Juniper products.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• LAN/WAN Architecture
• Fujitsu Flashwave Optical Architecture
• Cyber Security
• DNS and DHCP
• Project Management
• Splunk
• SolarWinds Orion
• Cisco Prime
• Brocade Load Balancing
• Cisco Firewalls
• Juniper SRX Firewalls
• Juniper ISG(Fortigate) Firewalls
• Juniper/Pulse SSLVPN
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Cisco Routing & Switching
• Alcatel 7xxx Routing & Switching
• Juniper Routing & Switching
• Project Vendor Management
• IPTV Network Architect/Administration
• OSPF
• BGP
• MPLS Protocols.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Indianapolis, IN

Customer Deployment

• Deploy worldwide customer connectivity using Accenture NGWAN Cloud
• Lead Juniper SRX firewall IPS/IDS implementation
• Junos support for the Customer Deployment team
• Developed the SRX procedure to implement IPS/IDS licenses
• Converted SRX 1400 configurations to SRX 4100
• Developed procedure to migrate NGWAN cloud SRX 1400 to SRX 4100
• Implemented, tested site-to-site VPN connectivity for customer remote sites
• Created end to end decommission scripts for customer remote sites

Confidential, North Chicago, IL

Sr Network Engineer

• Designed new university architecture to migrate Extreme Networks to Cisco
• Lead and managed 3 month network migrations from Extreme Network to Cisco
• Designed University Security Architecture for Juniper ISG2000 to SRX1400
• Maintained compliance to HIPPA, FERPA standards
• Manage Campus Cisco/Aruba wireless network
• Managed Pulse SSLVPN connectivity for remote access
• Maintain Nagios and Solarwinds network monitoring platforms
• Performed wireless network surveys for over 850 new Ethernet connections providing wireless service to student housing apartments
• Maintained Audio visual network connections internal and external to the university

Confidential, Phoenix,Az

RNOC Engineer

• Coordinate and resolve all proactive and reactive network incidents
• Perform triage and remote restore in a Tier III environment
• Minimize customer service interruptions and customer impacting outages
• Internal/external escalation point of contact for hardware, software, and circuit trouble requests
• Managed hospitality wireless networks in Las Vegas using Dell Aruba, and Cisco

Confidential, Richardson, TX

Business Development Sales

• Present Confidential 520 SAM technical presentations to customer regional and executive teams
• Customer advocate in all technical and new product integration
• Provide customer training on FW400, FW9500 optical network devices
• Develop customer network designs and diagrams
• Conducts multi vendor integration lab trials using Fujitsu FlashWave optical platforms with Confidential 7450, 7705, 7750 service switches and routers
• Conducts First Office Application(FOA) field trials Confidential cellular backhaul sites
• Install and configure Confidential 5620 SAM as the customer NMS architecture
• Demonstrate 5620 SAM discover non-ALU network devices

Confidential, Austin, Tx

Product Development Engineer

• Lead engineer in Uverse IPTV labs dedicated to new product and proof of concept testing
• Architect network integration of 3rd party vendor concept prototypes in early stages of research
• Integration test lead on Confidential 7750 SR12, 7330 ISAM, 7342 SW, Cisco 2900 series, Juniper MX460 and Cienna network routing & switching devices
• Maintain network connectivity of Confidential &T research labs
• Manage lab security network architecture using Cisco ASA, ISG2000(ScreenOS), SRX 1400/4100
• Manage Juniper NSM, Cisco Prime, Confidential 5620 SAM, and Cisco ASDM monitoring platform

Confidential, Plano, Tx

Field Engineering Team Lead

• Single point of contact for all field technical issues
• Proactively evaluate the customer network improving network reliability
• Track and coordinate product and software quality concerns
• Develop and implement cellular backhaul procedures
• Technical lead for daily operations of Uverse laboratory
• Review and approve Juniper ISG 2000 firewall configurations
• Manage the migration of all Uverse firewall from CheckPoint to Juniper ISG 2000(ScreenOs)
• Develop test procedures to test Video Hub Office(VHO) backend network flows
• Designed lab mockup of the Southeast region integrating the Atlanta Super Headend Office(SHO) with the existing Mission, Ks SHO
• Manage a team of 9 engineers during live Uverse VHO migration of 175,000 customers over a 5 month period without service disruption
• Manage a team of 7 engineers during live Uverse VHO migration of 750,000 nationwide subscribers from Reference to Optimied architecture
• Manage a team of 6 software automation developers decreasing VHO turn-up time from 5 weeks to 1 week creating increased operational efficiency