SUMMARY:

Seasoned and analytical Information Technology Professional with a strong background in datacenter/collocation, network design, implementation, management and documentation.

SKILLS:

Cisco: IOS, MPLS, OSPF, EIGRP, ACL, IPsec, BGP, REP, VLAN, ASA, Fast/Gigabit Ethernet, Load, Cisco PrimeBalancers, Nexus Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, Cisco WLAN, Catalyst, IE - 3000, C819HG 4G LTE

OS: Red Hat, Solaris, CentOS, Juniper JunOS, Microsoft Server, Active Directory, NT/XP/Vista/7, Exchange, Apple

Macintosh OS: X, IBM SNA, DECnet, AppleTalk, XNS

Networking: TCP/IP, VPN, WLAN, Mobile WiMax, VoIP, Protocol Analyzers, Sniffer, F5 Load Balancers, GSMOTDR, MPLS, Juniper, SCADA, M2M, GPS, Cellular, Wireless Mesh, 4G LTE, GSM, IoT, CDMA

Security: ASA/ASDM Firewalls, IDS, Iptables, ACL, AAA, RADIUS, RANCID, SNORT, SSL, OpenViewCiscoWorks, Spectrum, Tivoli, Splunk, Checkpoint

Virtualization: VMWare ESX, VirtualBox, Xen, Hypervisor, RedHat RHEV

Telecom: T-1, OC-3, OC-192, SONET, VoIP, Smart Jacks, POP, DSU/CSU, Multiplexers, Channel Banks, Digital Loop Carriers,Converged Voice, MDF, Twisted Pair, Coax, Fiber Optics, Central Broadband, RadioMicrowave, Infrared, Frame-Relay

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Oceanside, California

Project Manager / Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Acted as Project Manager for designing the IP Fiber-Optic Backbone and MPLS Wireless WAN components required for the production-level networking infrastructure of the PTC (Positive Train Control) system in accordance with the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
• In addition to my PM responsibilities I also acted as the Sr. Network Engineer/SME for deploying and managing the Cisco REP (Resilient Ethernet Protocol) Backbone Ethernet Ring which interfaced Cisco Wireless C819HG 4G LTE M2M Gateway Routers, Cisco IE-3000 Industrial-grade M2M switches, MPLS Routers, Layer 2/3 VPNs and ASA Firewalls for the purpose of asset tracking and railroad, switch and SCADA signals and alarms in high temperature, shock/vibration and hazardous environments between the OCC, Wayside, Back Office Servers and the TMDS (Train Management and Dispatch System).
• Given Project Management responsibility for the implementation of an outdoor Wireless Mesh WiFi system infrastructure with Layer 3 fiber optics backhaul including site surveys, mounting poles, assemblies, radio equipment, CCTV, MU-MIMO 802.11ac access points, switches and fiber optic cables.
• Project participation in the Digicon to Confidential INC cutover between Metrolink (SCRRA) and North County Transit District (NCTD), the Operations Control Center (OCC) relocation and the implementation of the new Backup Operations Control Center (BOCC) for NCTD.
• Responsible for configuring and implementing WiFi, 3G/4G Cellular WAN, Fiber-Optics, GPS, Microwave and 220 Mhz Radio connectivity.
• Responsible for maintenance of the following systems: Enterprise Cisco Prime, Positive Train Control Communications Systems, Centralized Train Control Communications Systems, Radio Systems, Wireless Access Points and Strix Devices.

Confidential, San Diego, California

Senior IT Network Analyst / Manager

Responsibilities:

• Established pet supply ecommerce site with responsibility for all business and technical functions to include finance/accounting, vendor negotiations, procurement, and website/network support.
• Responsible for datacenter/colocation build-outs for rack locations, power, cable, circuit provisioning and related requirements.
• Building and deploying network Cisco Layer 2/3 switches and routers, Cisco ASA firewalls, VPNs, F5 LTM / GTM load balancers, SSL accelerators, Telco lines and wireless access points.
• Successfully installed, configured and hardened a virtualized, RHEL Linux-based Dell Server farm resulting multi-year savings and datacenter platform footprint reduction.
• Site surveys, build outs, maintaining, optimizing, and provisioning networks and security systems to ensure zero down time, optimal performance, and the highest of security standards for multiple data centers.
• Configuring and installing network and security systems, standard OS, Linux and ESX virtualization, hardware maintenance and troubleshooting network performance issues.
• Maintaining Internal and External DNS records and domain name registrations.
• Responsible for mission critical, hosted application networks (ASP/SaaS).

Confidential, San Diego, California

Test Engineer/Subject Matter Expert

Responsibilities:

• Provided helpdesk support with responsibility for Cisco Routers/Switches and all peripherals integrated within the defense contractor’s Joint Range Extension (JRE) platform built on UNIX (Solaris).
• Confirming security configuration after cut over of circuits, insuring encryption implementation of traffic.
• Monitor and supported Network/Backbone, which consist of Layer1, 2 and 3 network components and configured network information such as router EIGRP and its interfaces.

Confidential, San Diego, California

Senior Network Field Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for corporate network interconnections and datacenters/colocations between some of more than 300 ISPs and telcos in the carrier hotel meet-me rooms in the One Wilshire Building in downtown Los Angeles, MAE-West and other NAPs supporting the San Diego, Orange County, Las Vegas and Phoenix data center regions.
• Primarily responsible for the design and provisioning of TDM and Layer 2/3 Ethernet based circuits in support of both enterprise and wholesale market segments.
• Customer liaison, managing a host of IP network issues not typically found in the standard IP support model. Cisco router management/configuration, network subnetting/routing/ circuit provisioning, and MPLS BGP configurations.
• Project Management oversight for cross-connects, DS-1, DS-3, OC-3, OC-48, OC-192, Carrier-class Gigabit Cisco 12000 Routers, Juniper Edge Routers, Ciena/Sycamore DWDM and streaming video cache servers.