SUMMARY

• IT professional with 25 years of experience including the last 15 years of extensive experiencein network architecture, design, security, and implementation of numerous sites
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert CCIE - Written with demonstrated experience in network switches, routers, wireless LAN and VPN concentrators installs and configures
• Data Center Storage and Virtualization, Network Integration, Security, and Cloud Computing, Cisco VoIP
• Solid network performance and troubleshooting skills
• Hands on experience with Sniffers, load balancing, Windows, UNIX, and some mainframe, Call Manager
• Designed and installed networks i.e. Cisco and Network Security
• Led team of 17 technicians including senior level Unix and Windows administrators, system engineers, VoIP engineers, and network engineers at Verizon
• Excellent communication and persuasion skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Systems:

Cisco routers 800, 1800, AS5500, 1000, 4700, 7000, 7500, 2500, 2600, 2800, 7500, Lightstream 1010, IGX, BPX, MGX, AXIS . Configuration of Cisco Catalyst Switches and Multi Layer Switches 1900, 5000, 5500, 6000, 6509, 6513, 8500 series, Cisco Aironet Wireless access point 350, 1200 Configuration of Nortel Networks Token Ring Switches 2700, 3000, 5000 series. Configuration and maintenance of Cisco ACE 4710 Load Balancer, CISCO ASA 5500 series. Configuration of High end CSU/DSUs Verylink, Terminal Servers, Cisco Voice Over IP, Cisco VPN 3000 series . Configuration of Nortel, 3Com routers and switches, Extreme Network switches. Cisco Secure Access Server for troubleshooting.

Protocols:

IPX, Apple Talk, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IGRP, HSRP and BGP4 Netbeui, SMTP, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, FTP, ICMP, HDLC, PPP, LDAP, SLIP, IPSec, IKE, DES, MD5, RSA.

Network Connectivity:

Frame Relay configuration, configuration of ISDN switches. Worked with Ethernet 10base 2, 10base 5, 10base T, 100base T, 100base FX Fiber, Gigabit Ethernet 10 gig Ethernet Token Ring Synoptic, M.A.Us and Hubs. Knowledge of bridges, worked with Switches, Repeaters, T1, T3, ATM, PPP, VPN, SRB/ SRT, DLSW, OC3, MPLS

Network Management:

HP Openview, Navissaccess, and Netview node manager, Use of Visio 2000 Design, configuration of Cisco fast Ethernet switch probes. Configuration of Network Associates ATM sniffers, and Cisco Fast Ethernet Probes, Knowledge of Concord Nethealth, installation and configuration of Ciscoworks, Installation and configuration of NetScout LAN Gigabit and Fast Ethernet probes to maximize network performance, solarwinds

Network Security:

Configuration and Installation of Cisco Pix Firewalls 515, 520, 535 and ASA 5500 series, Configuration of Juniper Firewalls, installation and management of Checkpoint Firewalls.

Operating Systems:

Window 7, Windows VISTA, XP, Windows 2000/NT 4.0 server, Wins, WinMe, Dos5.x-6.x, UNIX BSD/System V, SunOS/Solaris SUNs, HP-UX 9.X/10.X HP9000s, Windows/NT, RAID 5/Volume Management S/W, LINUX, NCR, DOS, OS/2, VM/CMS, MVS/TSO, VMware

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Security / Remote Access VPN Architect

• Responsible for the configuration and installation of Cisco ASA-5525's for Remote User VPN connections
• Configuring Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager ASDM
• Troubleshooting Network Router Switch configuration issues as they relate to Remote Access

Confidential

Senior Solution Architect

• Responsible for designing Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure Solutions and responding to RFPs and/or RFI
• Value Engineering Business Case Development including ROI and TCO analysis
• Cloud Build Services - Advising Clients about Public Cloud, Detailed assessment of client environment and recommending roadmap, Designing and Implementing Public Cloud

Confidential

SolutionArchitect

• Responsible for all technical support, design, delivery, configuration and installation of ZTE products which compete with Cisco as well as business development and pre-sales support.
• In addition to being viewed as a trusted network advisor to the client, as the Solution Architect, have regional responsibility for network solution designs, business development, and transition of projects from presales to delivery, and sales support while maintaining national responsibility for the development and rollout of new network solutions.
• Provided pre-sales technical support and expertise in analyzing customer requirements, in conjunction with the customer's current network and system capabilities, and ensuring technical solutions will accomplish the customer's objectives.
• Also write training manuals and deliver technical training.

Confidential

Sr. Network Architect - VoIP

• Acted as the AT T Network Architect representing IBM the Prime Contractor on a year-long Medimmune contract in Gaithersburg, MD.
• Created design drawings
• Directly responsible for the Network Architectural Design of all new sites.
• Delivered on-site engineering support and handled specialized IP telephony equipment.
• Monitored whether fresh IPT implementations are in accordance with customer expectations.
• Imparted second level support for problem diagnosis and assisted 3rd party and client operational staff, engineering and sales teams.
• Acted as customer technical liaison and established IPT operational standards.
• Coordinated with engineering on expansions to operational systems and with internal department product roadmaps.
• Regulated VoIP implementation, design and architecture.
• Supervised the 24x7 NOC in Gaithersburg, MD for Medimmune
• The NOC supported both WAN and LAN including but not limited to Cisco Routers, Switches, VoIP, Windows, and UNIX.

GetWell Networks, Bethesda, MD ConfidentialLead Systems Engineer

• Designed and installed networks at major hospitals in the Mid-Atlantic Region i.e. Cisco and Network Security .

Confidential

Sr. Systems Engineer

• Directly responsible for the new Client's IP Telephony IPT Solutions. This consisted of an all Confidential s Solution with either CallManager with Unified Messaging or CallManager Express with Unified Messaging Express, Land Mobile Radio Over IP LMR-over-IP, as well as Wireless Solutions.
• Also troubleshoot and resolve any performance problems

Confidential

Sr. Network Business Consultant

• Responded to RFPs
• Directly responsible for the overall Network Architect responsibilities for all of CSC New Business endeavors.
• Created, presented technical pitch
• Designed network architecture
• Specified vendor equipment i.e. Cisco AVVID, Nortel, AVAYA
• Direct Sale of CSC's Technical Solutions to the Government
• Configured BGP with MPLS
• Video to the desktop, VoIP, multicasting, satellite wireless communication.

Confidential

Systems Engineer/Manager, Technical Architecture

• Designed the ATM backbone between Bell Atlantic and its newly acquired partner, NYNEX
• Developed the Technical Strategy / Criteria associated with launching Bell Atlantic's Information Systems IS Business Plan into the future.
• Led team of 17 technicians including senior level Unix and Windows administrators, systems engineers, and network engineers
• Designed, implemented and rolled out Bell Atlantic's xDSL Service
• Troubleshotthe DSLAM, analyzed Loop Test, and provisioned circuits.

Confidential

Firewall Operations Supervisor

• Built the firewall structures for Anheuser Busch, Ford Motor Company, and JP Morgan, to name a few
• Supervised the Firewall Operations Group using Check Point Firewall -1 version 4.0 with VPN-1. All firewalls were installed on Nokia 440's, and 650's.
• Used tools such as Provider-1 and SSH, as well as Netcool/OMNIbus on UNIX 3.4 .

Senior Network Architect

• Oversaw and developed the technical approach for all of AT T support for the year-long RIGGS Bank Project.
• Designed, configured, implemented, and project managed a 58 site Frame Relay with ISDN backup network
• The LAN portion of this project consisted of OS/2 LAN Server routing Netbios and Novell 4.1 routing IPX.

Lead Engineer

• Programmed and supervised the installation of 84 CISCO Routers 7000's, 7010's and 2501's for the support of the South Western Bell Telephone Project.
• Wrote configurations to route X.25 PSN via TCP/IP variable subnets which also included Appletalk, Novell and CLNS routing.

Lead Engineer

• Supported the Department of Defense Anti-Drug Network ADNET . As part of this congressional mandate, DOD tasked Booz-Allen Hamilton to implement a communications network to link Federal Law Enforcement Agency LEA counter-drug CD elements with DOD resources applied to the CD effort. In response to the congressional tasking, the ADNET Program implemented an integrated network of workstations WSs which enabled diverse DOD and LEA CD elements to rapidly exchange graphic, text, and contract data classified to the collateral SECRET level. DOD/LEA elements submitted requirements to the ADNET Program for over 150 additional ADNET WSs.
• Successfully used Commercial-Off-The-Shelf COTS and Government-Off-The-Shelf GOTS hardware and software, and the existing Defense Data Network DDN
• Rapidly implemented a network of 130 ADNET WSs which interconnected the DOD and LEA sites in the U.S., Canada, and U.S. bases/embassies in other nations
• Proposed and implemented architecture including router based X.25 and TCP/IP backbone with HP-750 and IBM RISC/6000 servers using the following Open System Applications OSA software: Emerald, Unified Build, X-Desktop, ELT-2 and Rapport.

Project Manager

• Trouble-shot UNIX and Oracle problems
• Managed this contract and served as a Technical Consultant
• Promoted to Project Manager of the Defense Information Systems Agency DISA contract after successfully completing the Department of Treasury Local Area Network LAN design project.
• Supported group on JACS application software problems on the NeXTstation.

Network Engineer III

• Designed, installed and tested the network
• Worked on the newly proposed 1500 node Local Area Network for the Department of Treasury. Responsibilities:
• Installed and programmed a Client Server Star Topology configuration with a Network Manager Workstation running Novell 4.01 and SynOptics Optivity.

Senior Systems Engineer

• Integrated and installed both vendor supplied Comshare Commander and contractor developed EIS workstation software
• Provided support to the EIS development effort in the areas of EIS workstation software analysis, design, integration, testing, installation, and training. Responsibilities:
• Planned and designed in support of migrating the system to an Open Architecture.
• Engineered system hardware and software
• Analyzed, tested and implemented the communications interface requirements at both the application layer and the transport layer
• Supported the Navy Medical Executive Information System EIS for both Local and Wide Area Networking between the user and the mainframe system host. Responsibilities:
• Configured, controlled and administered systems for the EIS
• Developed automated install software and procedures for EIS distribution
• Analyzed and performance tuned the communication interface with the host system
• Analyzed impact of environmental changes on EIS users.

Confidential

Project Manager

• Responsible for facilities design, design reviews, and telecommunication and LAN design. Was aware of FCC and NEC codes and had thorough knowledge of building code enforcement. Responsibilities:
• Designed telecommunication systems and LANs
• Supervised all employees during design, fabrication and testing
• Procured equipment procurement
• Developed job/task labor estimates and schedules
• Maintained contract awards and organized bid meetings
• Managed large contracts and modified as needed
• Supervised employees in the Systems Integration Division
• Received IBM Quality Management Award for the AAS Project.