NETWORK ENGINEER

SUMMARY

Willing to relocate and deploy to any worldwide location Able to obtain a security clearance at any level Currently hold active Department of Defense / DOD Secret clearance.

CAREER EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Network Engineer/ Layer 2 and 3 Infrastructure
• Networking duties included network support for local sites
• Maintained monitoring tools in support of local site personnel utilizing CA-Spectrum
• Troubleshooting of local and wide area network physical connectivity
• Troubleshooting of routing protocols BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP as it relates to physically connected routers
• Troubleshooting of local Switch complexes and related protocols DHCP, DNS, STP
• Limited administrative duties for ACS access to local routers and switches
• Senior network support for local site network engineers
• Maintained network Visio drawings as required
• Monitored LAN/WAN network activity utilizing CA/Spectrum monitoring tools
• Escalation point for local level engineers

Confidential

Network Engineer II / 25th RNOSC

• Network Engineer/Civilian contractor, US Army - RNOSC/Afghanistan High profile, high availability tactical/strategic network environment
• Networking duties to include network support for local sites in and around the local Kabul area
• Maintain monitoring tools in support of local site personnel utilizing CA-Spectrum
• Troubleshooting of local and wide area network physical connectivity
• Troubleshooting of routing protocols BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP as it related to physically connected routers
• Troubleshooting of local switch complexes and related protocols DHCP, DNS, STP
• Limited administrative duties for TACACS access to local routers and switches
• Senior network support for local site network engineers
• Maintain network Visio drawings as required
• Monitored LAN/WAN network activity utilizing CA/Spectrum monitoring tools
• Escalation point for local level engineers

Confidential

Network Engineer / IT Analyst / 25th RNOSC

• Network Engineer/Civilian contractor, US Military, Army/Air Force at Bagram, Air Base, Afghanistan High profile, high availability tactical/strategic network environment
• Worked closely with US military personnel in maintaining NIPR, SIPR, and Centrix secure and non-secure networks, both data and voice in support of the war fighter personnel, downrange Afghanistan
• Worked closely with military personnel in building new local NOC/RNOSC along with procedural documentation for US Army at Bagram Air Base, and Afghanistan downrange theater sites
• Introduction and administration of Spectrum 9.2, SNMPc, What's-Up Gold and Solar Winds monitoring tools for NOC Monitor and troubleshooting Layer 2 and 3 Cisco devices associated with the downrange theater Account Administration of Cisco Secure ACS v4.2
• Responsible for providing technical and operational engineering support to functional users within RNOSC's, AOR for managing, monitoring and maintaining situational awareness of the WAN/LAN networks and systems both tactical and non-tactical environments
• Advised SWA-TNOSC on technical and operational requirements to improve performance and quality of service for all networks and systems under the responsibility of the Afghanistan RNOSC Analyze and troubleshoot network devices to include Layer2 and 3 management and configuration
• Documentation of physical network topology, utilizing Visio Pro

Confidential

Functional Analyst / Network Engineer

• Network Engineer /Civilian contractor assigned US Embassy within the International Zone IZ Baghdad, Iraq
• Daily duties included monitoring of high profile US Embassy and those supporting tactical sites within the IZ for NIPR, SIPR and CENTRIX networks Monitored, and troubleshooting of Cisco routed and switch complex
• Monitored tools including INMS/NeuralStar, Solarwinds/Orion Monitored and reported network outages to upper echelon military and civilian personnel
• Tracked network outages utilizing Remedy ticketing system
• Reported to local Iraq RNOSC and TNOSC organizations Tracked local ASI progress for reporting purposes

Confidential

Watchofficer / Network Engineer / IT Analyst / 25th RNOSC

• Network Engineer/Civilian contractor, US Military, Army/Air Force at Bagram, Air Base, Afghanistan High profile, high availability network environment
• Worked closely with US military personnel in maintaining NIPR, SIPR and Centrix secure and non-secure networks, both data and voice, in support of the war fighter personnel, downrange Afghanistan
• Worked closely with military personnel in building new local NOC/RNOSC along with procedural documentation for the US Army at Bagram Air Base, and Afghanistan downrange theater sites Introduction and administration of Spectrum Solaris based, SNMPc, What's-Up Gold and Solar Winds monitoring tools for this NOC Monitored and troubleshooting of Layer 2 and 3 Cisco devices associated with the downrange theater
• Responsible for providing technical and operational engineering support to functional users within the RNOSC's, AOR for managing, monitoring and maintaining situational awareness of the WAN/LAN networks and systems, both tactical and non-tactical environments
• Advised the SWA-TNOSC on technical and operational requirements to improve performance and quality of service for all networks and systems under the responsibility of the Afghanistan RNOSC Analyzed and troubleshooting of network devices to include Layer2 and 3 management and configuration Documentated physical network topology, utilizing Visio Pro

Confidential

Network Engineer / Consultant

• Network engineer for 8000 router/switch network for Bank of America's internal operations center Duties very similar to that of Worldcom
• Network surveillance, monitoring and troubleshooting network issues Platform included 12000 GSR - 2500 series routers Switches included the 6509 1900 series Monitored tools such as Netview6000, CIC and ticketing systems Tivoli and Peregrine to NOC's operations Troubleshooting of Bank of America's Data Centers Distributed sniffers utilized, and troubleshooting of TCP type issues on an as needed basis
• Troubleshooting of router and switch connectivity issues Circuit testing with nationwide telcos
• Troubleshooting of large switch complex and VLANS
• Troubleshooting of routing protocols EIGRP, BGP4, OSPF
• Implementation of scheduled maintenance to both router and switches

Confidential

Network Engineer III

• Network engineer for very large, 8000 Cisco router/switch network
• Internal network operation of Cisco 800 ISDN - 12000GSR Carrier Class routers
• Maintained and troubleshooting of MCI/Worldcom internal enterprise backbone network
• NOC duties included surveillance, monitoring and troubleshooting of utilizing network tools Cabletron/Spectrum, Optivity and Sniffer Pro protocol analyzer
• Tracked customer network issues utilizing ticketing systems Remedy, Tivoli Circuit testing T-1 to T-3 level utilizing ETMS

Confidential

Telecomm Technician

• Contract position to Wiltel Telecommunications, providing Texas Instruments with MAC moves, add and change support of telephone, computer and Local Area Network hardware.

Confidential

Jr. Systems Engineer

• Assist Sr. Engineers in setup and support of Novell, Windows NT, and Lantastic operating systems, with hardware setup and support Working knowledge of DOS, Windows95 and Windows3.1

Hardware/Cabling Technician

• Duties included install, test and troubleshooting of various cabling topologies, Cat5 / Fiber, for voice and LAN installations Tokenring and Ethernet

Computer Hardware Technician

• Hardware tech in SCO Unix environment Buildup, test and troubleshooting of Unix servers Implementation of serial communications via Maxpeed and Digiboard technologies for local point of sale in lumber industry

Cable / LAN Technician

• Cable Technician for high-tech network cabling company Duties included installation, test and troubleshooting of various Fiber Optic, UTP, and STP cabling topologies for both Voice and Network topologies Test and baseline installed cabling with Fluke, OTDR and related LAN testers