Objective

An analytical network architect with exceptional technical and problem solving skills well versed with the intersections of business/technology and research/engineering. I'm a solid communicator from the white board to the boardroom, with 10 years experience in writing and presenting. As a leader and teacher, I've developed strong skills in course development and delivery, mentoring, and coaching. Seeking a Network Architect/Technical Director position with an Enterprise, Service Provider or Professional Services consulting company.

Summary of Qualifications

• Provide cost effective design enhancement and recommendations to large enterprise networks in various industries such as hospitality, energy, and financials.
• Exceptional technical and problem solving skills
• Exceptional communication skills
• Self motivated and self managing accustomed to working outside the box and shifting roles as needed
• Strong mentoring, teaching skills and communication skills.
• I have more than 10 years of experience in designing, installing, troubleshooting, and operating large Service provider and Enterprise WAN and LAN Networks and am currently the Technical Lead for the Navy Sea Systems Command NAVSEA Engineering team, focusing on advanced IP-based networks and Collaboration technologies.

Networking Technologies

• IP routing protocols BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, OSPF
• A broad range of layer 2, transport, and virtualization technologies
• Internetwork design and deployment including highly available designs
• Core and edge internet routing
• Cisco, Juniper and Brocade router switch configuration, deployment, and architecture
• Network security design implementation at the control and data planes
• Switching/Forwarding Technologies: MPLS technologies, AToM, Carrier Ethernet, CEF, STP, LACP, PAgP, VPC, SSO, Q-in-Q, ISL, 802.1q, NSF, BFD. PIM Multicast, SSM, MSDP.

Networking Platforms

• Cisco: Routers, Switches and Nexus Configuration and deployment
• Juniper: J-series/M-series/T-series/MX-Series/EX-Series
• Foundry Brocade : Routers and Switches

Job History

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Senior Network Architect

• Directly support the design and architecture of the Military Hospital infrastructure.
• Lead in overall company direction towards technologies. Work as solutions architect on projects of varying scopes. Bringing together a focus of strong design, presentation and implementation skills to lead successful projects.

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Network Engineering Technical Lead

• I lead a team of twelve 12 engineers in architecting, designing and supporting HQ IT infrastructure.
• We just completed the deployment of Multicast Anycast/MSDP , in preparation for Digital Signage DMPs and DMMs

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Architect

• Technical leadership of design, architecture, and implementation of datacenter network infrastructure technologies
• Design and architecture ISP datacenter WAN infrastructure
• Architecture and support of LAN infrastructure
• Leadership and mentoring of junior staff members in network support methods and techniques
• Technical project management of technology related organizational initiatives
• Development and delivery of proposals and statements of work to support sales and internal company initiatives
• Definition and publication of technical standards, policies and other documentation used in design and support of technology solutions
• Proficient at translating business and customer requirements to technical requirements related to IT and data center infrastructure.
• Design and implement data center solution to deliver RDC client services, including service management, performance monitoring and fault management.
• Evaluate data center technologies and products. Work closely with external service providers to deliver a competitive RDC client service offering.
• Coordinate the development, testing, evaluation, or design of system or infrastructure architecture used throughout the IT solution set
• Design and implement a highly available client service, develop DR strategy and perform DR testing.

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Senior Principal Network Engineer Enterprise Technology Services

• Technical Lead for Enterprise WAN Architecture and Data Center, supervising a team of six Engineers.
• Configured and deployed 3 regional data centers consisting of Cisco Nexus 7k's, 5k's, 2k's and 1k's.
• Provide technical leadership and mentoring of junior engineers in the day-to-day support of a large, complex MPLS based enterprise network, and data center switching infrastructure
• Configured and deployed company's dual internet gateways utilizing Cisco ASR 1000 series routers, WAAS, 6500 VSS, and BlueCoat Proxy SG for web content filtering.
• Configuration and deployment past and present of company's MPLS based network utilizing VRF Lite and BGP across 180 sites. Sites consisting of T1, T3, OC-3 and OC-12 based circuits, using Cisco based platforms of 2800/2900, 3800/3900 and ASR 1002 routers with switches of 2950/2960,3550/3560,3750, and 6500.
• Configuring and updating QoS Quality of Service profiles on the WAN to meet needs of VoIP and Video projects.
• Tier III support for WAN network consisting of over 180 sites made up of T1's, T3's, OC-3's and OC-12's as well as 3 regional data centers.

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Network Consulting Engineer Advanced Services

• Managed a network of over 4000 devices segmented into four 4 different OSPF domains and interconnected with BGP for a global leader in the hospitality industry Marriott .
• Lead a team of Engineers in designing, deploying and migrating a metropolitan transit rail's legacy network with RIP and EIGRP, to an MPLS L3VPN architecture, MVPN and OSPF Washington Metro
• Redesigned business continuity and resiliency Services Company's flat layer-2 architecture, into a scalable, reliable and resilient VPLS network.
• Acted as the Subject Mater Expert in optimizing and improving a over 2000 multi vendor router enterprise network comprising of EIGRP and BGP for a large energy company.
• Designed and architected solutions to integrate an existing Data Center infrastructure to a next-generation Disaster Recovery Center, in a hot/warm setup which improved data replication, systems integration and implementation approaches.
• Work with customers to facilitate IT strategy and requirements. Provide a complete technical solution for a large and global customers or equivalent sized business unit of global and high complexity.
• Present Quarterly Business Reports both to business executives and engineering staff, as well as technical training to enable the engineering team support and maintain the network.
• Given a set of business requirements, can provide a complete technical solution for a small to medium size enterprise or equivalent sized business unit of moderate complexity.

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Senior Network Engineer

• Configured, deployed and supported a large MPLS and Frame Relay network as well as VOIP and QoS.
• Worked with the server, firewall and load balancer teams, assigning VLANs and providing network support to enable them deploy their servers.
• Deployed and implemented layer 2 technologies VTP, ISL, VLANs, STP, Portfast, Uplinkfast, BPDU guard, PAgP, LACP, 802.1q.
• Troubleshot EIGRP SAI issues and provided summarization and filtering solutions to contain the queries.

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Network Engineer

• Configured and deployed OSPF in several call centers and enterprise office locations.
• Monitored the network using management tools like HP Openview, Netcool and NerveCenter and Remedy ticketing.
• Worked with several ISPs in troubleshooting Frame Relay and ISDN networks.
• Provided hardware installation, software upgrades and device configuration as well as change control support.
• Day to day support of AOL Call Centers worldwide
• Assist in resolving configuration, design, implementation issues

Additional Information:

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President/Chief Architect

Confidential is a premier team of Technology Consultants. We provide Advisory services as well as Network Architecture, Design and Implementation in Enterprise, Service Provider, and the Public Sector.

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President/Lead Instructor

Provide CCNA, CCNP and CCIE training.