SUMMARY:

• Multi - faceted 12-year career designing, deploying, expanding, monitoring, and managing reliable, secure, and highly available network infrastructures for UMDNJ, Bank of New York Mellon, Office Depot, Confidential & Beyond, and Allergan.
• Extensive experience in building, upgrading, and optimizing LAN/WAN/VLAN infrastructures to improve performance, reduce risk, increase uptime, and enhance delivery of services to national and global users.
• Interface extensively with customers, teams, vendors, and management to analyze needs, design solutions, and resolve critical issues.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols: TACACS, Standard/Extended ACL, WCCP, EIGRP, OSPF, EBGP, IBGP, WOS, STP, Zone-Based Firewall, VPC, VSS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, 802.11ABGN, Static/Dynamic NAT, VLAN, DHCP

Platforms: IOX (XR, XE 15.X, 9.5(2), 03.08X), IOS, MS WINDOWS, MAC OSX, LINUX SUSE

Tools: MS OFFICE, MS VISIO, SOLARWINDS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Madison, NJ

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER / CONSULTANT

• Chosen as a member of team to bring in-house and stabilize previously outsourced complex 24/7 LAN/WAN infrastructure for this global pharmaceutical company. Deploy, configure, and administer Cisco switches and routers, wireless controllers, and Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, and Riverbed firewalls. Provide Level 3 support for the resolution of escalated issues.
• Contributing in upgrading and standardizing 300-node global MPLS infrastructure to reduce outages and impact to warehouse, distribution, and corporate sites throughout Japan, Australia, and Canada.
• Assisting in designing and implementing infrastructure for new corporate headquarters in the West Coast to support the consolidation of 70 offices throughout New Jersey into a single campus for 700+ employees.
• Collaborating in building separate network infrastructure for new call center within the centralized West Coast corporate site supporting 500+ employees.

Confidential, Union, NJ

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER / CONSULTANT

• Retained to build, upgrade, expand, secure, and administer LAN/WAN/Wi-Fi infrastructures to meet the evolving needs of retail locations and corporate headquarters throughout the United States. Designed, installed, configured, and supported large Cisco based network infrastructure. Assisted in analyzing and resolving performance, downtime, and security issues.
• Migrated infrastructure at the New Jersey and North Carolina data centers from Cisco Catalyst to Cisco Nexus switches that improved availability and redundancy.
• Designed and built Cisco-based network infrastructure for large million sf warehouse to support business growth.
• Built network infrastructure for new headquarters leveraging Cisco ISR 1002-X routers and Cisco Catalyst VSS technology at the core, and migrated 700+ users to new environment.
• Implemented new rules and changes into Cisco ASA firewalls to strengthen overall posture and mitigate risks.

Confidential, Boca Raton, FL

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER / CONSULTANT

• Selected as a core member of IBM team to upgrade and administer Office Depot’s large newly outsourced 24/7 MPLS infrastructure to support business growth and merger with Office Max. Praised by senior managers and stakeholders for the seamless post-merger integration efforts and minimal disruption to business operations.
• Participated in $10M initiative to upgrade network infrastructure for new warehouses, retail stores, and corporate. Evaluated and defined hardware requirements, deployed new routing and switching infrastructure, implemented redundant Internet connections, and migrated network equipment and users that improved performance and speed.
• Deployed and configured zone-based firewall solution for routing infrastructure supporting 2,000+ stores worldwide that maximized security of customers’ transactional data.
• Chosen to assist in building network infrastructure for new corporate headquarters in Florida. Led the upgrade of hardware from Cisco 6500 Catalyst Blades to 6800.

Confidential, New York, NY

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER / CONSULTANT

• Chosen for strategic project to design and build LAN/WAN infrastructure for 2 data centers in support of large-scale relocation of corporate headquarters, and migration of trading floors, users, and systems.
• Contributed to the on-time deployment of highly redundant and stable infrastructure for primary and disaster recovery data centers leveraging emerging Cisco Nexus technology that improved performance across a user base of 10,000. Installed, configured, and optimized Cisco Nexus 2K/3K/6K/7K switches, ASR 1002-X routers, and Catalyst VSS. Documented network infrastructure and deployment plan.
• Architected and implemented multi-layer OSPF infrastructure for the migration of 500+ users to new trading floor.

Confidential,  Newark, NJ

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER / TEAM LEAD

• Earned 3 promotions to final role as Senior Network Engineer accountable for administering and ensuring optimal uptime of infrastructure servicing 8 sites throughout the State of New Jersey for this leading academic institution for health sciences.
• Held critical role in improving uptime and strengthening security posture of infrastructure that mitigated potential risks and enhanced delivery of services to 15,000 users.
• Learned and successfully configured new switches, collaborated in upgrading network, and assisted in designing and building the Network Access Control (NAC) infrastructure that enabled university to comply with HIPAA regulations.