Server and Firewall Administrator Resume

SUMMARY:

Experienced Checkpoint Firewall, Security and Network Administrator as well as a Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA).
While at Fifth Third Bank he served as the Level 3 Support Firewall Administrator (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint), on-call support for 30 Cisco and 2 Checkpoint firewalls, Cisco routers and level 3 switches.
Member of team that managed and supported all of Fifth Third Bank's Internet and Intranet Infrastructure (Firewalls / Load Balancers/Dial In Partners).
On-Call support for F5 BIG-IP Load Balancers.
On call support for Cisco routers (AT & T Managed) and company owned LAN switches.
Managed WAN Across 40 sites in 4 Continents.
Team member for support of over 1,000 Cisco and Checkpoint Firewalls.
Drafted and installed Checkpoint Firewall rules and policies.

HIGHLIGHTS:

EXPERIENCE

Confidential, April 2012 - Present
Firewall Engineer (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)

Level 3 support Firewall Engineer (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)
Lead Firewall and Security Administrator
On-call support for 45 Cisco and 3 Checkpoint firewalls
Managed Smart Center Checkpoint management server (SmartView Tracker)
Managed Checkpoint Firewalls from the command line (cpconfig and Sysconfig)
Managed Cisco firewalls from both the Command line and ASDM
Managed Linux Syslog server
Designed and implemented Company Wide Security Policies
Migrated 7 VPN Tunnels from Checkpoint to Brand New Cisco ASA firewalls
Worked with an outside vendor to implement new Cisco ASA Remote Access VPN with 750 user licenses
Managed WAN Across 40 sites in 4 Continents
Implemented the migrated policies from Checkpoint R60 to Cisco ASA 8.6
Created and configured VLAN on LAN Switches
Set up hide NATs and Static NATs for new company Internet gateway on Cisco ASA
Created and Implemented 2 New DMZ subnets to abate security nuisance
On-Call support for F5 BIG-IP Load Balancers
Managed the F5 Big IP backup and VIP creation
On call support for Cisco routers (AT & T Managed) and company owned LAN switches.
Created new Subnets and configured new routes to reach them
Made network changes following company change management policy
Managed Ticket queue assigned to himself and his group

Confidential, N ovember 2011- April 2012
Firewall Administrator (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)

Level 3 support Firewall Administrator (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)
On-call support for 30 Cisco and 2 Checkpoint firewalls
On call support for Cisco routers and level 3 switches
Member of team of four that managed and supported all of Fifth Third Bank's Internet and Intranet Infrastructure (Firewalls / Load Balancers/Dial In Partners)
Network Administrator for Internet gateway routers and core switches
Advised application teams on appropriate security policies for Bank on-line applications.
Approved or disapproved security policy changes or additions to comply with Financial industry requirements.
Approved/Disapproved requests for security deviations.
Regularly Summarized and sent performance reports to management on Word and Excel formats as requested for security planning

Confidential, June 2011 to September 2011
Firewall Administrator (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)

Level 3 support Firewall Administrator (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)
VPN and Data encryption expert
Team member for support of over 2,000 Cisco and Checkpoint Firewalls
Drafting and installation of Checkpoint Firewall rules and policies
Worked on a project to migrate Checkpoint on Nokia firewalls to Checkpoint on HP hardware
Level 3 firewall Break-fix support - received and acted pages from Level 2 and corrected faults
Collaborated with multiple HP customers to design and manage best practice solutions for network security problems

Confidential, 2008 - 2011
Network, Server and Firewall Administrator

Handled Cisco firewall/router, Cyber Cafe and Windows 2003 Terminal Server/Windows 2008 administration
Managing Partner
Configured and managed a network of WYSE 60 thin client computers using Microsoft Terminal server technology
Lead trainer for Cisco and Microsoft certification

Confidential, November 2000 - October 2007
CISCO Network Security Technician/Checkpoint Firewall Administrator

Level 3 support Firewall Administrator (Cisco ASA and Checkpoint)
Team member for support of over 1,000 Cisco and Checkpoint Firewalls
Drafted and installed Checkpoint Firewall rules and policies
Level 3 firewall Break-fix support - received and acted pages from Level 2 and corrected faults
Root Administrator Unix, Linux, (Log servers for Cisco devices-After 2004)
Level one support for Oracle Unix servers (Before 2004)
Junior UNIX Administrator at General Motors Tech Center Warren. Monitored and reported errors for more than 50 Sun Solaris and HPUX servers (Before 2004)

Confidential, 2006 - 2007
Windows 2003 Administrator

EDUCATION

Technical Certificate in C Programming and UNIX Administration

Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Multiple Corporate Trainings In Network Administration and Security
BS Health Sciences