SUMMARY

Successful technical professional with 15 years' experience in wide area networking and telecommunications. Extensive experience in data facilities and bandwidth management including optical technology and high bandwidth ring technology. Progressive growth in the areas of team leadership, technical competency and technical project management. Strengths include:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

• Data Networking Consultant - Premier Client Group June 2013 - Present : Provide pre-sales design and engineering support for enterprise clients. Design complex solutions including internet and private network connectivity, Voice over IP, Managed Security and Cloud services. Client base ranges from medium size businesses to fortune 500 customers. Work with customer technical resources to validate requirements and collaborate on design and implementation of solutions. Maintain relationships with clients to assist direct sales team with obtaining new business and growing existing business.
• Technical Sales Consultant-Business Integrated Solutions May 2011- June 2013 :Provide technical and engineering support for Sales Representatives marketing voice and data solutions to AT T small and medium sized business customer base. Duties include meeting with customers and preparing technical proposals to win new sales. Additional duties include post-sale processes such as generating contracts, managing and coordinating the efforts of project teams to get new service installed and properly implemented, and maintaining relationships with customers after services are installed to manage customer retention efforts.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer Network Services

Senior member of a team responsible for the design, development and maintenance of a wide area network running MPLS and serving 600 locations worldwide. Held key role in the installation and implementation of our current wide area network. Managed multiple projects within the network and telecommunication areas including the design and implementation of two AT T UVN DWDM technology rings with bandwidth capacity equal to 32 OC-192's, the successful upgrade of all Cisco 6500 switches to Supervisor 720 modules and native IOS and the migration of various private line and internet circuits responsible for the ingestion of digital assets and providing redundancy between our data centers. Extensive background in working with upper management to prepare and modify the budget for the network engineering and data communications teams, which exceeds 17 million annually. Other duties included supporting the network and resolving network outages at all levels, ordering and configuring equipment for new site installations, and performing various network upgrades including hardware and software on various types of equipment. In this role I was exposed to many types of Cisco equipment including all types of routers and switches. Currently working to expand skill set on checkpoint and Cisco firewalls ASA and FWSM , Aruba Wireless equipment, DMVPN scenarios for circuit redundancy and Cisco load balancing equipment, including CSS and ACE.

Confidential

Systems Engineer: Served as customer facing systems engineer specializing in Compaq server hardware, Novell operating systems and Cisco routers and switches. Worked on many different implementations for a variety of customers. Duties included building servers and configuring routers and installing equipment at customer locations. Additional duties involved going to customer locations to troubleshoot and fix server and network related problems.

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Network Engineer: Implemented and maintained a combined LAN/WAN environment that consisted of two large data centers and 40 access sites. Served as technical lead on multiple initiatives, including a complex project to implement a PECO Hyperion SONET ring to host WAN circuits. Duties included building and installing Novell servers on Compaq server hardware, as well as building and maintaining network infrastructures using Cisco and Bay Networks routers and switches. Other duties included resolving trouble with LAN or WAN hardware as well as completely documenting the network as it was implemented.

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PC Support Engineer: Supported the desktop and laptop PC environment for 350 users. Duties included ordering and building new PC's and installing and maintaining the applications required to support the users. Additional duties included testing new application prior to their use on production machines and managing and protecting user data.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cisco Routers: including all product lines from access level to enterprise level
• Cisco Switches: 1900, 2900, 2950, 4500, 6500, CSS Content switches, Nexus 2000, 5000, and 7000
• Data Circuits: T1, T3, OC-3 through OC-192, Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet Optical circuits
• DNS/DHCP: Infoblox 500 through 1500 series appliances
• Wireless: Cisco 350 and 1300 series wireless bridges, Aruba Controllers and Access points, Symbol access points
• Cisco IOS: Extensive experience with current and legacy versions of router and switch code
• Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, SMTP, TELNET, SSH
• Routing Protocols: OSPF, BGP, HSRP
• Switching: Spanning Tree, VTP, 802.1q trunking
• Monitoring: InfoVista, Ciscoworks, HP Openview Cacti
• Optical ring technology including SONET, DWDM and other solutions: design, maintenance and trouble shooting from customer perspective. Works well with providers to understand facilities, maximize capacity, and resolve design and production issues
• Check Point firewalls: experience with management console and secure platform system
• Cisco firewalls: Limited Experience with FWSM and ASA platforms