Professional Summary: I am an experienced network professional with over 15 years of experience in the areas of supporting local area networks, wide area networks and servers/workstations. I have experience supporting a wide variety of network devices from vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, F5 and Brocade among others. I am constantly looking for ways to contribute to improved services with little or no cost to the customer. I try to improve the quality of the services I perform as well to get better results on an ongoing basis. I am a team player and try to share lessons learned with others to add to the team's knowledge base.

Core Competencies:

• Routing
• Network Management Software
• Switching/Load Balancing
• Remote Access/VPN
• Security
• Network Documentation

Professional Experience:

Senior Network Engineer, Confidential

• Remote access/VPN/authentication/VOIP/MPLS, Help desk/monitoring, Routers, Switches, Load Balancers F5 technology , Wireless, DNS, IP Management QIP , Junipers, Brocades, Cisco ACS, ASA, Nexus, Blue Coat proxy, Riverbed Steelhead/Interceptor WAN Accelerators
• Senior Consultant, C-Serv for F5 Networks, February 2014 to March 2014
• F5 Networks Local Traffic Manager Bootcamp, 2/3 to 2/28. Vendor Training
• Deployed F5 LTM installs for various customers in a multi-vendor environment. Communicated and interacted with clients and F5 support on provisioning and installation issues
• Responsible for the implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting of complex redundant and secure multi-layer customer networks data center environments.

Senior Network Engineer, Confidential

• Managed and responsible for the planning, designing, implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting of complex redundant and secure multi-layer customer networks in Global Hosting Data Center
• Interfaced with customers, vendors and internal groups to develop good relationships through the delivery of superior products/services.
• Proactively tracked order status in cooperation with the Project Implementation Management team to research and resolve any pre-installation issues with designs as submitted.
• Communicated and interacted with clients and vendors on provisioning and installation issues
• Advanced experience configuring Cisco, Juniper, Brocade/Foundry and F5 Routers/Switches/Firewalls/Load balancers Juniper MX960, SRX650, Foundry 850/BigIron/FastIron, Cisco PIX 500/ASA 5540, routers 2600, 3600, 7200, 7500, 7600 and ASR9000, switches 2900, 3500, 3700, 4000, 5000, 6500 in OSPF/BGP/MPLS/QoS/VoIP/L2VPN environments.

Senior Network Engineer, Confidential

• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2600/3640/7507 routers, PIX 515/525/ASA 5540 firewalls, VPN 3030 Concentrators, Catalyst 2948/3550/4006/6506/6509 switches, 4404 wireless LAN controller, AiroNet wireless access points, AS5350 access server and Juniper SSG 520M firewalls for the National Weather Service. Managed T-1 circuits in point to point OSPF environments. Configuration of GRE tunnels between sites. Use of VRRP and OSPF/NSF routing for failover redundancy. Migration of supervisor engine 32 from RPR/RPR to NSF. Migration of spanning tree from PVST to RPVST . Upgrade of IOS and CatOS software. Use of CiscoWorks LMS 2.6/4.0, Cisco Access Control Server ACS 4.1, OmniPeek distributed sniffer, syslog and SNMP to manage network devices. Use of source-route bridging and translational bridging between token ring and Ethernet. Configuration of OSPF/BGP routing between networks. Configuration and maintenance of access lists and OS upgrades of PIX firewall. Migration of VPN instances and users from VPN 3030 concentrators to ASA 5540s. Support of Cisco VPN client and VPN users, CSU/DSUs and T-1 lines. Use of Metro Ethernet. Configuration and maintenance of security policies, routing, remote access and OS upgrades of Netscreen firewall. Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches, firewalls and servers using vulnerability scanners such as Nessus, router auditing tool, and Nipper. Familiar with NIST 800-53 controls and Certification/Accreditation process. Creation and maintenance of data and voice VLANs, access lists, network documentation, network wiring, and support of network operations center and users. Use of Red Hat Linux for syslog.
• Use of VRRP and OSPF non-stop forwarding routing for failover redundancy to reduce network downtime
• Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches, firewalls and servers to reduce vulnerabilities using vulnerability scanners such as Nessus, router auditing tool, and Nipper to generate vulnerability reports for remediation
• Creation of Linux shell scripts to automate maintenance tasks and analyze syslog and tcpdump files

Senior Network Engineer, Confidential

• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of CISCO 7500/3600 routers, PIX 535 firewalls, Catalyst 6500/4006/3550/3750 switches, Juniper MX240 routers, SSG 520 gateways, and F5 Big IP load balancers. Migration of client sites from frame relay circuits to T-1 circuits in EIGRP and OSPF environments. Configuration and troubleshooting of PIX VPN, CSU/DSUs and fractional/T-1 lines. Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches and firewalls. Installation of network taps for network monitoring. Creation of Vlans, network documentation, network wiring, and support of network operations center and users. Installation of Google search appliance to index state web site. Use of OpenBSD Linux for syslog, SNMP monitoring and MRTG. Electrical power auditing of data center network devices to reduce power outages.
• Support state web site using F5 load balancers in 24/7 data center

Network Engineer, Confidential

• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of CISCO 2600/2620/7507 IOS/IOS-XR routers, Catalyst 3524/3548/ 4006/5000/6500 IOS/CatOS switches and HP Brocade switches. Migration of field offices from frame relay circuits to DS3 and 4 T-1 circuits. Migrated routers and T-1 lines from frame relay to MCI vBNS very-high-performance Backbone Network Service /DTS Dedicated Transmission Service as part of MCI FTS2001 implementation. Upgraded memory on routers and switches, configuration and troubleshooting of VPN concentrators, Cisco Content Engines 560, 590, Larscom CSU/DSUs and MCI split T-1 lines. Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches and firewalls. Creation of Vlans, network documentation, network wiring, and support of network operations center and users. Use of Solaris Unix to host Cisco Works and Cisco Access Control Server 3.3/TACACS.
• Migrated client sites from frame relay to MCI vBNS very-high-performance Backbone Network Service /DTS Dedicated Transmission Service T-1 lines to improve bandwidth

Network Engineer, Confidential

• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of CISCO 2600/2620/7500 routers, Catalyst 3524/ 4006/5000/6500 switches, Checkpoint firewalls and HP Brocade switches. Migration of field offices from frame relay circuits to DS3 and 4 T-1 circuits. Migrated routers and T-1 lines from frame relay to MCI vBNS very-high-performance Backbone Network Service /DTS Dedicated Transmission Service as part of MCI FTS2001 implementation. Upgraded memory on routers and switches, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco VPN concentrators, Cisco Content Engines 560, 590, Checkpoint firewalls, Larscom CSU/DSUs and MCI split T-1 lines. Use of Solaris Unix to host Cisco Works and Cisco Access Control Server/TACACS. Vulnerability assessment of Cisco IP 7940 phones and Cisco Unified CallManager.
• Migrated client sites from frame relay to MCI vBNS very-high-performance Backbone Network Service /DTS Dedicated Transmission Service T-1 lines to improve bandwidth

Network Administrator, Confidential

• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of CISCO 2900 Catalyst and 3COM switches. Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Windows 2003/2000 and NT 4.0 Compaq/HP Proliant and Dell 1650/2850 servers. Installation, configuration, and maintenance of Cisco Pix 525 firewall and access control lists. Installation, configuration and maintenance of Citrix Metaframe and Winframe. Installation and configuration of Sun Solaris 2.8 SunFire 280R/420R and V240/V440 servers. Installation and configuration of Snort for intrusion detection. Active Directory and DNS domain setup, installation and configuration. Security auditing and hardening of routers, switches, firewalls and servers to reduce vulnerabilities using vulnerability scanners such as Nessus, router auditing tool, and Nipper to generate vulnerability reports for remediation. Certification/Accreditation using NIST 800-53 controls.
• Implemented intrusion detection to reduce vulnerabilities and improve security posture