Experience

Senior Network Architect

• Examine complex environments spanning many networking technologies to create solution designs and supporting documentation as a template for implementation engineers to follow.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to set standards for implementation and documentation standards as a road map for implementation engineers to reference during project builds.
• Responsible for maintaining a large lab environment that mirrors the production environment so that new router, switching, wireless, voice, and server software can be tested without jeopardizing the production network.
• Provide technical resource and assistance on multifaceted network and server systems to insure best decisions were made during hardware upgrades and deployments.
• Assist in network architecture during documentation creation standards in relation to implementation practices such as layer 2 nomenclature, routing protocol selection, security policies, and wireless deployment models in a highly secure environment.

Confidential

Senior Wireless Architect

• Enterprise wireless architecture for large organizations supporting tens of thousands users.
• Designed and implemented wireless networks as large as four thousand access points, spanning several Cisco 6509 chassis, containing multiple Wireless Service Modules. WiSM
• Held accountable as the wireless network architect for large hospital systems across the country, large school districts and higher education entities statewide.
• In charge of large enterprise network architecture design for hospital environments supporting 20 thousand users utilizing services such as medicine dispensing, patient monitoring, asset tracking, etc.
• Designed, implemented, and utilized many Security Information Event Managers such as Splunk and ArcSight
• Implementation of complex wireless mobile designs that use multiple WAN links, including satellite, cellular, and WIFI networks.
• Implementation of enterprise wireless appliances, physical and virtual, such as Prime Infrastructure, mobility service engines, and ACS.
• Utilized wireless LAN planning tools such as Prime Infrastructure, Airwave, and NetSpot.
• Responsible for design and implementation of customer's network infrastructure.
• Designed Mobile Device Management solutions using Meraki and Maas360 for large enterprises and school systems.
• Designed Wireless Intrusion prevention systems based on Cisco WIPS and Meraki Air Marshal
• Designed and implemented 10-gigabit failover paths for hospitals supporting 40 thousand users enterprise wide while keeping the network functional during the hardware and software upgrades.
• Responsible for using wireless tools such as spectrum analyzers across multivendor platforms such as Cisco Aironet Utility and Fluke Fluke Airmagnet.
• Conducted wireless assessments, Radio Frequency analysis, and wireless spectrum feasibility studies.
• Expert in multiple wireless technologies such as cloud managed, autonomous, CAPWAP, WGB, and long distance point to point links PtP .
• In depth knowledge of radio frequency phenomenon such as multi-path distortion, refraction, RF attenuation, scatter, and absorption.
• Implementation of complex routing and switching protocols such as EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, STP, and VTP among others.
• Responsible for producing customer network assessments and documentation including technical, operational, and economic assessment

Confidential

Network/Senior Wireless Engineer

• The lead wireless subject matter expert for the entire university supporting 5000 concurrent users daily with 75,000 unique wireless connections.
• Responsible for 16 WiSM controllers spanned across two 6509 chassis located in two different locations for disaster recovery.
• Designed complex IP addressing schemes that supported 32 thousand users and provided seamless failover for wireless clients in the event of a catastrophe.
• Accountable for the maintenance and functioning of 1200 LWAPP/CAPWAP access points.
• Implemented secure wireless access university wide using the highest possible wireless security encryption coupled with RADIUS and TACACS .
• Accountable for the design and deployment of new wireless technologies that span throughout 260 buildings across VCU's campus.
• Liable for supporting and maintaining a switching environment that supports 45 thousand users.
• Designed multi-path networks that use routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP.
• Responsible for the routing/switching integration of university infrastructure with Avaya VOIP services and phones.
• Liable for securing switching environment within the university network. This may include but not limited to port security, Acls, physical security, disabling ports, assign ports to non-active VLANs etc.
• Design, implement, and maintain multiple networks to provide seamless connectivity to end-users.

Confidential

Network Engineer/Avaya Systems Integrator contractor

• Install and configure Avaya media gateways at remote locations to interface with communication manager at main location.
• Deploy and configure different types of phone stations including IP phones, Digital phones, and analog phones.
• Responsible for doing thousands of cross connects to attach digital stations to the phone system s .
• Helped establish a QOS, company-wide standard, within a Cisco routing environment, to efficiently route and prioritize all VOIP traffic.
• Accountable for the integration of Multivoip products so that IP phones can function in survivability mode.
• Multitech products such as Multivoips and modems were devices I configured on a daily basis.
• Liable for the installation of VPN phones and all back end hardware such as Avaya Security Gateways and Cisco Pix Firewalls.
• Work with WAN technologies such as MPLS to connect remote offices and their phone systems back to a corporate headquarters.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Execute daily operations of Cisco security, wireless, firewalls, and routing.
• Daily duties also include VPN constructions between multiple sites, ACL setup and configuration, and the deployment of wireless technologies.
• Designed multi-path networks that use routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP.
• Help configure and maintain networks as large as 30 servers and 500 end user machines.
• Responsibilities include problem detection and solving, fixing and reinstalling any network related hardware, and maintaining the functionality of the entire infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain multiple networks to provide seamless connectivity to end users.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, install, upgrade, configure, and repair all related networking system components.
• Install and interface multiple brands of networking hardware including Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, and Sonic Wall.
• Develop procedures for testing reliability, stability, and scalability of interfaces for network environments.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity, desktop configuration, printers connectivity, and network access issues regarding permissions.
• Structure, developed, and maintain a network built completely with Cisco hardware.
• Maintain CAT-5 cable around the servers using the punch down tool and other related cabling instruments, service quad racks, and uninterrupted power supplies UPS .

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Head of design and hardware deployment of wireless network links in excess of two miles or more.

• Responsible for a 100 Cisco network supported by multiple Windows 2000 Advanced Server Machines.
• Liable for the deployment and repair of DNS, DHCP, Web servers, POP3, VPN, Terminal Services, and SNMP.
• In charge of all networking hardware purchases and upgrades/replacement of all equipment.
• Experience with configuring and managing anti-virus software from the server side.
• Documentation of network infrastructure changes with Microsoft Visio was a part of daily duties.
• Responsible for backing-up mission critical data using Veritas Backup software.

Confidential

Intern

• Constant Interaction with Cisco devices was part of my daily routine.
• Helped configure and maintain Cisco PIX Firewalls.
• Worked with Cisco Call Manager Servers on a weekly basis.
• Configured Cisco VOIP phones over LAN and WAN links on secure VPN connections.
• Worked with multiple WAN technologies on a daily basis such as, T1, PRI, BRI, and Synchronous DSL.