TECHNICAL PROFILE

• Operating Systems: Cisco OS and CatOS Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP Apple iOS 7, 6 Riverbed OS
• Networking: TCP/IP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, L2 and L3, DNS, DHCP, IP Subnetting, using VitalQIP, reading up on Infoblox , LAN/WAN, datacenters, WOS, Wireless, Firewalls, SAN, Cisco Wireless Controllers and AP's , Cisco Switch and Router setups, Telnet, FTP, TFTP, Cisco IP Telephony, code upgrades, switch configuration and trouble shooting, Break/Fix 24x7, RMA's
• Software: MS Outlook , PuTTY, VitalQIP, Wireshark.
• Hardware: Cisco 3750-X, 6500e, 2960-X series IOS Switches, Cisco wireless controllers and AP's, Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, Riverbed Steelhead, Crossbeam firewalls

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Supported 10,000 users for East Hanover, Parsippany, Florham Park, NJ New York and Suffern NY Novartis campuses.
• Worked on a team of 8 engineers who refreshed the entire Novartis US headquarters campus in East Hanover 6,000 users with state-of the-art Cisco gear, covering 75 LAN closets, 8 MDF's. Our routing protocol is EIGRP. Installed and racked Cisco 3750 stackables for 75 existing LAN closets, upgraded distribution layer from Cisco 6500 to 6500e Completed on time and within budget.
• Worked on a team of 8 engineers that refreshed 30 switches in the data center rows from 6500 to 6500e
• Installed, racked, cabled and configured Cisco 3750 stackables for 30 new LAN closets in 3 new buildings for 3,000 users
• Installed, racked and fibered Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000.
• Worked with the Senior Engineer on upgrading the distribution layer in the data center from 6500 to 6500e
• Replaced bad supervisors and modules on Cisco 6500e and 6500 chasses, same for power supplies
• Installed and mounted several appliance devices for firewall row in data center, including Crossbeam
• Lead implementer on moving the firewall row to another location in the datacenter.
• Assisted in setting up dozens of replacement Wireless Access Points throughout the East Hanover office, including making changes to controllers.
• Installed, racked and configured Riverbed Steelheads for initial WOS installation.
• Installed, racked and configured Riverbed Steelheads for WOS Riverbed upgrade.
• Working with Senior Engineer on upgrading 30 supervisors in the data center
• Managed Cisco replacement hardware for the site.
• Pharmaceutical industry experience: we follow GxP for an FDA regulated customer, both for our network and for entering manufacturing sites. Took semi-annual online Novartis courses with tests at the end. We adhere to strict compliance for the entire network esp. with labeling all devices, all cabling and all fiber, accurate network drawings, correct naming of all devices and ports following BT models. Experience working in manufacturing clean areas.
• Change Management procedures, Hardware qualification procedures for new hardware and decommissioned hardware
• Provided telephone, IM and email support for: LAN, WAN, WOS, Wireless, IP Telephony, firewalls, user applications
• Daily MACD activities for relocating employees to ensure connectivity at their new location, enabling and naming ports and editing their old location ports.
• Daily server installs in the data center, following strict ticketing procedure.
• Performed: Cisco OS upgrades, configuring switches, Break/Fix on a 24x7 coverage, setup cubes for new hires and internal transfers, and setup IT equipment for events.
• Assisted other vendors troubleshooting their networks on campus: Comcast cable internet and cafeteria cash registers network.
• Handled and assisted on the following projects in MDF/IDF rooms and Data Center:
• Decommissioned 8 LAN closets and one MDF for a building being demolished, recovered all hardware.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Supported live cell phone carrier networks, finding urgent solutions to cell phone network outages
• Built copies of the customer's cell phone networks in the lab to replicate their issue s
• Took findings and solutions from customer network outages and submitted requests for change to the design documents
• Acted as Lab Manager, racked and stacked Cisco and Juniper gear and did all fiber and copper connections. Familiarity with OSPF as our routing protocol, for multi-vendor interoperability.
• Working with a Senior Engineer, upgraded entire lab to a virtual Layer One software switched lab
• Using EdenTree software
• Responsible for purchasing Cisco and Juniper hardware and software to keep the lab current

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Entry level engineer working with the Implementation team of 15 engineers, worked on new corporate HQ in Times Square, and existing user building in Jersey City, new datacenter in Chelsea and a new data center in Florham Park, NJ
• Moved the entire company in 7 days to the Jersey City office after 9/11
• Racked and stacked, partially configured, fibered and cabled Cisco 6500 in LAN closets and data center
• Worked on a team that moved 3,000 servers from NY to NJ, 100 at a time, every Friday night for 30 weeks, was a result of 9/11
• Patched 10 servers every night with connections to 2 production switches, a terminal server and the SAN