Summary

Information Technology professional with over 15 years as a Network Engineer including design implementation and management of global, high bandwidth wide area network. Aggressively study emerging technologies.

Professional Experience:

Network Engineer

• I was hired to analyze, redesign and optimize the Cisco-centric telemetric/telephonic wide area network infrastructure utilized by Caltech, the United States Geological Survey and all the other participants of the Southern California Seismic Network. I designed and implemented two network monitoring systems to monitor their entire real-time mission critical applications, local area network, and wide area network. Configured dynamic routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, and RIP v2 for their 25 router and 25Cisco Catalyst switch environment. Configured ASA 5500 series Firewalls for perimeter network security, site-to-site IPSec VPNs. I have mastered the fundamentals for the bottom three layers of the OSI model and use this knowledge to keep LANS and WANS operating efficiently.
• Designed IP addressing schemes for all new networks, redesign IP addressing scheme for legacy subnets.
• Document and publish on intranet wiki standard operating procedures and disaster recovery procedures and communications systems.
• Document and publish disaster recovery plans Visio diagrams of the networks on intranet wiki.
• Installed and configured 2 Cisco 2811 routers with multi-network multi-vlan HSRP EIGRP and static routing to replace legacy Cisco 7200's.
• Installed and configured 2 Cisco 2901 routers with multi-network multi-vlan HSRP EIGRP, Rip2, and routing.
• Installed and configured OpenVPN on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 to replace public IP address and remove un-scalable NAT access-lists.
• Installed and configured Zenoss and Nagios Network Management packages on RHEL6 using SNMP to monitor network faults, and performance.
• Diagnose Ethernet routing and switching issues using WireShark, tcpdump, nfsen, ntop.
• Designed a wireless 802.1x mesh Ethernet radio network to supplement our seismic telemetry data, for disaster recovery, redundancy, and propriety.
• Prepared plans for an MPLS VLAN for cellular cloud interfacing with our seismological equipment
• Redesigned the campus Local area network to take full advantage of Cisco Spanning-Tree, VTP, and VLAN flexibility.
• Installed configured and maintain 11 Cisco 3650 layer 3 switches with dot1q trunking over the Microwave Radio system servicing our seismic data acquisition over southern California.
• Installed and configured Cisco 3560's with HSRP and EIGRP, OSPF routing.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Company desperately needed an expert technologist to help them move their telecommunications and data communications infrastructure in a two week time frame. I successfully moved the company of over 200 people, 20 servers and an assortment of routers firewalls, switches, and mission critical software applications beginning at 5:00 p.m. on a Friday and had them up and running at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. I supported their main call center application written for Sybase Adaptive server, Active Directory, Exchange/Outlook, EMC retrospect backup servers, Remote Terminal Servers, all Internet/Intranet web issues, and all supporting software and hardware for their 24/7 call center/Data Network. Installed maintained and monitored 16 IP Surveillance cameras for campus security. Responsible for all hardware, software planning, implementation, maintenance of mission critical applications and web site. Charged with all forward looking strategic direction with respect to information technology resources and issues. Reporting directly to the president and indirectly to the CEO. Transitioning Exchange 2003 Email server to 64 bit Exchange 2007.

Confidential

Licensed Banker

I was recruited as a licensed personal banker by Wells Fargo to educate their current customers about Wells Fargo's financial products and services. I was responsible for profiling customers to ascertain their financial status and goals. Using pertinent customer data I was able to formulate a suitable financial strategic plan and presentation as well as execute trades and other front offices matters as an employee of Wells Fargo Investments.

Confidential

Senior Systems Engineer Reporting directly to the CTO, build, test, evaluate and document prototypes of 802.11 access points, repeaters, from reading and interpreting industry standards. Responsible for workflow and document management of cross-functional teams. Encourage disciplined approaches and consider real risk involved in resource usage. Manage critical project path employing cost and contingency analysis. Responsible for marshalling customer requirements, baseline market thresholds for product entry and dominance. Design and deliver curriculum and training of manufacturers 802.11 wireless communication products. Training encompasses sales, planning and design, installation, and troubleshooting

Confidential

Senior Network Consultant

• Design, implementation and management of global wide area networks. Consult with engineers and management regarding Cisco routed WAN's deployed throughout the world. Responsible for project management, resolving issues related to performance, capacity planning, disaster recovery, preventative maintenance, security, and network monitoring and troubleshooting chronic and/or catastrophic problems.
• Sold, Planned, designed, installed 802.11 network equipment since 2002
• Designed Internet E-Commerce network infrastructure for the ultimate in E-Commerce activities Online Real-Time Equities Trading for NASDAQ/NYSE at Newport Exchange Online/Trading Academy. MS SQL-Server backend, CyberTrader front-end. Designed back-up Quote streaming infrastructure using DirectPC and Cisco bridges over T1 link. 260 users.
• Monitored and responded with remedial modification of LAN/WAN for Digital Satellite TV Provider DirecTV, using HPOpenview on SUN Solaris 2.5 platform.
• Monitored and responded with remedial modification for WAN VPN outsourced to UUNET for Nation-Wide Insurance Company. 500 users.
• Produced Graphical and Written Documentation of existing International LAN/WAN for market leading Security Software and Hardware Vendor and published on Intranet.
• Managed, Configured, and maintained International WAN of 66 Cisco Routers for manufacturer of high technology personal computer components Western Digital. 5000 users.
• Managed the build out of co-location facilities in ILEC central offices using various installation vendors. Responsible for training, certifying and managing in-house customer installation technicians and outside vendor customer installation technicians of DS0 DS3, and xDSL equipment for start-up CLEC Rhythms NetConnections.

Confidential

Senior Product Manager

• Starting as the product manager for strategic, and technical leadership for the development and market launch of a full 32 bit audio/video conferencing software designed to run on the Microsoft Windows 95/NT operating systems over the Internet, ISDN, POTS and LANs.
• Reporting directly of the President in Tokyo, Japan, accepted the project in a post seminal design state and lead a team of five software engineers including the CTO to re-organize the architecture to reflect the threshold demands of the marketplace and conform to the latest technological advances within the Microsoft VC development platform. Lead the review and revision of functional specifications for IP multimedia/telephony communications package eye2eye and continued to hold weekly code/design review meetings with all the software engineers and the CTO.
• Cursory duties have included writing and editing technical manuals and FAQ's, attending and representing the company and product at trade shows, and customer support. Acted as resident expert concerning all Microsoft NT networking issues and general manager of all other personnel, including sales, marketing, etc.
• Managed 2 million-dollar budget for all product development schedules, release to manufacturing, release to market, and beta testing schedules. Lead and managed the entire user documentation process with cross-functional input from sales, engineering and marketing teams. Wrote specifications for bug tracking database and assisted the database programmer with the design in MS Access. Interviewed and hired software engineers to the development team. Contracted for all outside services involving testing and manufacturing. Responsible for partitioning engineering responsibilities in order to optimize development productivity from team members. Continuously interfacing with distributors and re-sellers regarding business development and technical support issues. Staff of 16

Confidential

Communications Planner

• Provided expert direction and guidance in the design, implementation and maintenance of an enterprise wide area network. Studied all aspects of voice and digital communications needs for the corporation and provided recommendations and designs. Also, provided follow-up maintenance and support of various systems.
• Major project: converted a 35 site nation-wide bridged point-to-point mesh network into a switched frame relay based Cisco router routed network, with BRI and PRI ISDN backup.
• Responsible for configuring Frame-Relay, ISDN, EIGRP, Decnet and IP protocols on Cisco 2503's. Troubleshoot and analyze traffic patterns and protocols using Network General Sniffer. Served as Network administrator and Helpdesk for entire corporate Wide Area Network.
• SNA gateway to VMS/Decnet integration
• Rykoff-Sexton Inc. now US Food Services is a 6 billion-dollar food distribution company. Because of this project, was able to reduce their telecom costs for data to 18,000 a month from a high of 62,000 a month. 10,000 Users. Staff of 5

Confidential

Project Manager

• Provided network management support for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District.Supervised the implementation of LAN/WAN and design networks.
• Duties included troubleshooting the telephone system and serial communications, managing cabling projects.
• Perform evaluations and provide recommendations for radio, microwave, and internetworking products.
• Provided expertise in analyzing and troubleshooting network problems
• Provided network specifications for use by third-party contractors.
• Principal in preparing procurement documentation for the Corps of Engineers.
• 10,000 users. Staff of 3

Technical Skills

ACTIVE DIRECTORY, Cisco 7500, 3600,2811, 2901, 3550, 3560, 4500, 2500, 2600, Catalyst 6500, VLANS, Ethernet, Frame-Relay, ISDN, T1,DS3, OC3,Windows 2003 Server, C/C , VMWare,SNMP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, H.323 VOIP, Cisco Call Manager 3.3 4 , EXCHANGE 2003/2007 Asterisk, 802.11b, 802.11g ,802.11n, OSPF, EIGRP, TCP/IP, MS Project, PIX FIREWALL, Cisco ASA 8.44 VPN,, Visio, Nagios, Cacti, RRDTools, WireShark, Zenoss, Solaris, Redhat Enterprise Linux 6. Programmed in 'C' for Fedwire, Telex, letters of credit, financial electronic funds transfer for Security Pacific Automation International Merchant Bank.