SUMMARY:

• Advanced experience in IT since 1996. I am dedicated to solving problems in Routed and switched networks in both the Enterprise and Data Center.
• I have more than 23 years of experience with networks, mainly IOS and in my most recent position Juniper. In my career, I have progressed and gained valuable experience working with most new major technologies and brands such as Juniper, Palo Alto, Riverbed, Cisco, A10 and Aruba.
• My ideal position would be partly Remote/Telecommute, Full Time position providing network design, installation and troubleshooting support of a medium to large networks where I am in a Lead, Sr. or working Manager role with responsibilities for budget and procurement.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Data Center: Architecture, IP Networks, Routing, Switching, Perimeter Security and Zone Policy.

BGP: Multiple Peers, multiple subnets Single AS

OSPF: Single Area, Some NSSA use, AWS VPC Configuration and deployment, QOS strategy for remote offices

Switching: Virtual Chassis, Virtual Chassis Fabric/Spine and Leaf, GRES/NBP, STP, LACP, Aggregate Ethernet, TCP/IP, VLSM, JUNOS, PANOS, IOS, AOS, RIOS

Panorama: Security Zone and policy design and configure, On Prem and Off Prem.

Voice: ShoreTel, Ring Central

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Irvine, Ca

Sr, Network Engineer and Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• A Dental Practice Management Company, My duties consist of supporting 650+ remote Dental Offices, 2 Data Centers and HQ site infrastructure. SME for all Network related functions, Recommend new technologies, draft/execute Methods of Procedures for changes Architect new deployments and IP Schemas for entire Enterprise. Suggest and implement Hardware solutions, and designs to fit the current and future needs and organizational goals.
• Architect new Data Centers located in Tier 1 Facilities, New high capacity support Centers supporting 500+ users for Voice/Video and Data
• Design and configure highly available Routing and Switching platforms using Juniper, Palo Alto and Riverbed hardware for all locations.
• Develop POCs for new platforms for Storage Using Nimble, Tintri, VMAX 10k, 100k and XtremeIO
• Develop and deliver to Admin team new configurations in Dental Office Network for deployment
• Design QOS strategy on Juniper SRX and Riverbed Steelhead devices
• Design and configure an all new dynamic routing scheme as we moved away from Static routing delivering a highly redundant and dynamic WAN architecture using BGP and OSPF

Confidential, Aliso Viejo, Ca

Network Engineer, Infrastructure

• Contract position. Responsible for the day to day execution of changes to the global infrastructure routers, switches, firewalls and Load Balancers supporting a heavily leveraged data center centric E - commerce environment consisting of 100’s of virtual and physical servers and the supporting network hardware consisting of Cisco cat6500 Switches, FWSM, ACE Modules, F5 Viprion LTM, and Cisco ASA 5515-X Firewalls.

Confidential, Costa Mesa, Ca

Network Analyst

• Responsible for building and supporting the West Coast LAN/WAN environments consisting of 2 sites, backup support for east coast LAN/WAN environments and data center. Responsible for the timely design and deployment of Costa Mesa, and Tustin Ca. LAN/WAN, Wireless Networks from scratch.
• Planned precise cutover of 250+ users to the new Ditech platform consisting of Cisco UCS Servers, NetApp and F5 Load balancers for a VDI environment.
• Configured and deployed a Multi switch LAN for the Floor using 3750 and 2960 Switches With 10G uplinks.
• Designed and deployed 10 APs with 802.1x Authentication and WLC.
• Configured and deployed Multi homed BGP, HSRP and OSPF, 100MB WAN links on Cisco 2900 ISR Routers
• Visio Documentation of physical design and logical data flows
• Baseline configuration of Cisco UCS Fabric Interconnect, UCS, NetApp 2240-2 Appliance and Redundant F5 LTM 2400 Load balancers
• Configuration of data center specific VLANs, and configuration cleanup of all Networking devices- of all devices for TACACS+

Confidential, Santa Ana, Ca

Sr. Network Administrator

• Responsible for all day to day support of a 7 site WAN and associated LANs, Enterprise Remote Access VPN, perimeter security. I managed all networking initiatives, special projects, Monitoring, notifications, trouble resolution and developed Root Cause Analysis.
• This position required heavy design creativity to solve problems that could otherwise be solved with a larger budget. Solving problems that meet limited budget quickly.
• Redesigned the LAN environment renumbering and installing a new core infrastructure
• Designed a small Data Center for Disaster Recovery. Consisting of a replication of our core routing and switching connecting the most critical applications. All traffic is designed to fail over to the DR site in the case of power loss or other disaster at HQ.
• Implemented 30+ AP, Cisco WLAN network
• Manage 7 site WAN using BGP and EIGRP. I also redesigned and standardized the remote site IP networks, as well as implemented new and improved switching and Security globally.
• Implemented IPSEC as a cost saving alternative to using PtP circuits
• Extensive vendor and Carrier management- XO, Qwest, ATT, VZ Business, TW Telecom, Sprint as well as mange and execute Telco change/cutover projects.
• Deployed Network monitoring system- SolarWinds Orion all modules
• Configured VoIP for remote sites for toll bypass on Cisco Routers, Remote Office VoIP using Cisco CME on 2900 Series ISR routers

Confidential, Santa Ana, Ca

Network Engineer II

• Duties include design and support of the Global MPLS/IPSEC WAN consisting of approx. 350 routers and over 600 switches utilizing EIGRP, BGP and OSPF routing protocols. Sites configured for MPLS and IPSEC, using Cisco 1841, 2621, 2821, 3640, 3725, 3845 and 7200 series routers.
• 24X7 on call Support for the corporate LAN switching/routing environment. Designed a new LAN switching environment that included many vlans running on Cisco Cat6509 Core Switches, HP Procurve 9300, Cisco 2948G, and HP4000M access layer switches
• Manage Sprint MPLS Backbone to ensure our SLAs are met each month, manage timely and qualitative RFO and trouble analysis.
• Configure, support and measure Bandwidth, Interface utilization, Uptime Monitoring, usage analysis and recommend new or more robust solutions for all sites using WhatsUp Gold.
• Responsible for the Global network deployment and Design of Local and Wide Area Networks at other global locations.
• Cisco WLAN installation and configuration of 1131,1232 and 1242 Cisco Access Points, WLSE
• Used Cisco ACS4.0 server for TACACS, Radius and user group management, deploying Network EAP, WEP and WPA on multiple SSID’s for the enterprise.
• Maintain PRI Dialup VPN and Remote Access network using Lucent Portmaster3, Manage Users and connections through Cisco ACS and Cisco 3000 series VPN concentrators.

Confidential, Costa Mesa, Ca

TAC Network Engineer

• Customer facing engineering role supporting Many retail food chains such as Subway, TGI Fridays, Popeyes Chicken, as well as other retail chain stores.
• Second Level support Engineer for Network Operations Center staff.
• Take escalations on network issues for more complex IPSEC, MPLS, Dial Backup connectivity issues for our Enterprise Customer solutions.
• Special Projects, Radius and DNS administration
• Technical write up as required for Root Cause analysis, as well as provide solutions and troubleshooting techniques to level 1 call center.
• Perform/Manage Major account audits for CPE Firmware upgrades, Solution validation and documentation.
• Troubleshoot, VRF/MPLS IP routing, OSPF, BGP, IPSEC, Cisco router configuration and troubleshooting.
• New circuit turn up and acceptance.
• Manage a large ticketing queue for large scale outages and identification of potentially service affecting conditions, taking effective and quick action.