Profile Summary

Professional with over ten years of experience in the computer industry as a Cisco/Juniper/Microsoft Solutions provider and support representative seeking a career with a progressive organization where I can utilize my skills, knowledge and experience in technology, management, operations, and communication in a challenging role that allows for advancement and growth.

Areas of Expertise

• Network Engineer specializing in small to large network and hardware systems planning, design, and implementation. Extensive understanding of multiple communication protocols utilized in LAN/ WAN infrastructures as well as experience with various networking equipment and network troubleshooting capabilities. Thorough understanding of multiple desktop and server platforms. Overall project management skills and project planning. Excellent experience with equipment evaluation and testing as well as creating strong vendor relationships.
• Hands-On technical leadership with knowledge of building and leading technical teams.
• Full architecture solution providing an increased availability of business connectivity, security, disaster recovery and business continuity by utilizing providers such as but not limited to Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, f5, Foundry, Avaya, Microsoft, Aruba, VMware, and Citrix.

Additional Skills

• HARDWARE: CISCO WAN/LAN architectures: Ethernet-all variants, FDDI, ATM, Frame-Relay, T-1, T-3, OC:12, 48, ISDN BRI/PRI, HP DL360, 380, 580 IBM mainframe bus architectures: ISA, EISA, PCI CISCO Routers ,2900,3800,8600,7200 , Experience Operating CISCO LOCAL DIRECTORS 430/CSM 3COM, PBX, Cisco Switches 2900, 3500, 4000, 6000 , Nexus 5500 v1000 Switches Juniper EX MX SRX, Netscalers, Foundry, F5 BIGIP, Aruba Wireless, Infoblox, PIX/ASA, Checkpoint, All Fortinet Appliances Riverbed/Cisco WAN Accelerators, Juniper VGW.
• SOFTWARE: OS/NOS: Windows 9x/NT/2000/2003/2008/XP/Win7 Linus Active Directory, Terminal Services, Novell, IBM LAN Server, Veritas NetBackup, Remedy, Cisco ACS Cisco Works, Microsoft LAN Manager, FC, FCoE, iSCSI, DOS, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP v1, v2 , IP, IPX, TCP, UDP, ICMP, SNMP, HSRP, DNS, PPP, CHAP, HDLC, NAT, PAT, ACL Access Control Lists , MPLS, VPC Database: SMS Access, SQL E-mail Systems: cc:Mail, Lotus Notes, Solarwinds Orion, VMWare Vsphere 4.0/5.0, MS Exchange 2003-2010 , MS PowerPoint, Visio Professional, MS Project, IIS, Citrix Metaframe. Wireshark, Netmri

Experience

Confidential

Network Engineer/Team Lead

• Managed a team of four Network Engineers to manage the day-to-day network and security support of all NY Times locations worldwide.
• Worked with upper management to determine the business needs while working with my team to determine and implement the best technology practice to carry out the Business needs.
• Put together a set of rules and procedures to ensure the efficient and timely delivery of projects and support throughout the corporation.
• Managed vendor relations for all hardware and software needs to meet business requirements.
• Worked closely with other business units and provided the coordination and communication needed to design and implement various technology projects required by the business worldwide.
• Supervised my team to ensure quality resolution of all network problems and maintained ticketing queue to monitor the progress of our delivery.
• Worked with various technology vendors to obtain the best technology to allow my team to efficiently implement and support the corporate LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Worked with upper management to create yearly budgets for network equipment maintenance contracts, equipment upgrades and purchases, software support requirements, training, and other requirements for my group.
• Responsible for the stability and integrity of voice, data, video and wireless network services throughout the corporate infrastructure.
• Responsible for planning, designing, and developing local area networks LANs and wide area networks WANs across the organization.
• Designed and implemented a solution using f5 Big IP load balancers to front end an exchange environment and a web server farm.
• Designed and implemented a network infrastructure to support the implementation of VMWare ESX servers in the network while minimizing the potential of network issues caused by virtual servers.
• Played a major role with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all network hardware, software, and communication links.
• Built new Datacenter using Nexus 7000/5000/2000 / Juniper 4500 switches to implement a top-of-rack design supporting FCoE and iSCSI
• Implemented a scalable and versatile Exchange/Sharepoint environment by front ending it with f5 BIGIP load balancers.
• Configured and maintained Citrix Netscalers to front end our corporate web servers for load balancing and content switching.
• Designed and implemented a solution utilizing Riverbed Steelhead WAN Accelerators and Cisco WAAS to enhance the experience of our overseas customers while using our applications.
• Designed, implemented, and supported an MPLS network with BGP and OSPF routing to facilitate communication between Headquarters and all remote sites.
• Designed, implemented, and maintained LANs and WANs using Cisco routers 2800-7200 series, switches 2900-6500 series, Cisco ASA, Cisco Nexus Series, Juniper Switches, Routers and Firewalls, Checkpoint, RSA Secure ID, Juniper Security Platforms, Fortinet firewalls, Load Balancers, and Nortel router/switches and VOIP products.
• Managed and implemented project to update over 30 remote locations routers, switches, and install new AT T AVPN WAN circuits.
• Redesigned and implemented various remote networks to enhance routing using BGP and OSPF and create a more stable and fault tolerant topology using existing Cisco routers and Juniper switches.
• Tested multiple Vendor equipment including Cisco and Juniper in Lab environments to determine best fit for an upgrade of all End of Life equipment at our remote locations.
• Designed and implemented a dynamic and secure solution to support the use of VPCs to public cloud providers.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

• Responsible for the day-to-day support of the companies LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Designed and implemented the expansion of the companies LAN environment to various locations in the building.
• Upgraded the centralized backup infrastructure from Veritas Netbackup 6.0 to version 6.5.
• Upgraded the OS of various network components including but not limited to Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, concentrators, and IDS to the latest versions.
• Configured several LAN-to-LAN tunnels to allow the management of various remote locations operated by the organization.
• Upgraded the ESX/GSX VMware environment to the latest release to utilize new enhanced features introduced with new releases.
• Evaluated and updated the organization's security settings such as ACLs to enhance the security of the company's network.
• Configured and maintained various networking components such as but not limited to Cisco 7200, 3600, 2660 routers. Cisco 6500, 4500, 3700, 2900 switches. Pix 515 and ASA 5520 firewalls. Juniper Firewalls. Cisco 5300 Access routers.

Confidential

Senior Engineer/Team Lead

• Managed a team of 4 analysts to support the corporations' LAN/WAN environment.
• Responsible for all aspects of human resources such as hiring, firing, career development, performance objectives and performance reviews.
• Ensured the success of projects within their domain by providing needed resources and/or recommending alternatives as well as by having an in-depth understanding of the clients' needs while providing guidance on strategic direction to ensure that the group's efforts are directed towards meeting the objectives of the client.
• Lead Engineer responsible for designing, implementing, documenting, and managing a major project to replace Mainframe based Claims Processing system with a new system built on a Microsoft .NET/IIS/ASP platform.
• Configured/Installed Cisco's Aironet 1200 Wireless Access Point using 128 Bit WEP encryption 802.1x LEAP authentication using an external Cisco ACS RADIUS server.
• Installed and configured various HP equipment including but not limited to DL Servers, Blade Servers, MSA/SAN, NAS servers managed by Insight Manager.
• Installed, configured, and maintained VMWare environment consisting of ESX and GSX servers.
• Installed/Configured/Miantained various Cisco Equipment including but not limited to 2600/3600 Routers, 2900/3500/6500 Series Switches, 515 Pix, 1200 Aironet Wireless AP, IPS/IDS, 3000 VPN Concentrators, Cisco CSM, Cisco CSA..
• Used Subnetting/Super-Subnetting, Security DMZs, VLANs to segment the LAN and enhance management and troubleshooting.
• Used Sniffer Pro and Ethereal to review, analyze, and evaluate network performance while using things such as Load Balancing and Ether Channels to enhance performance.
• Configured Cisco routers to use BGP, OSPF, RIP, HSRP, ACLs, PTP T-1 Lines, IPSEC, NAT, PAT. .
• Configured Cisco PIX 515 firewall with NAT, PAT, IPSEC, ISAKMP, ACLs, DMZs, Stateful Failover, Websense.
• Configured Cisco Concentrator 3030 for LAN-to LAN tunnels using pre-share, DES, 3DES, HMAC, SHA. Also configured access to allow users to dial in from home.
• Set up multiple Windows 2003 Active Directory Domains with Trust Relationships to allow users in different domains to share resources throughout the company. Configured Group Policy.
• Setup and configured Exchange 2003 cluster environment with a BES server.
• Installed and Configured Websense Software on a Windows 2003 with SQL environment to monitor and filter internet traffic throughout the company. Ran monthly reports showing internet activity for individual users.
• Configured the Cisco Intrusion Detection Sensor running on a Unix platform to monitor possible network infiltration and take appropriate actions such as shunning performed by the main Internet router.
• Configured Cisco CSM to Load Balance WEB/APP server farms for fault tolerance and to enhance performance.
• Technical Lead on a project to replace Intel network infrastructure with a Cisco network infrastructure consisting of 6513 and 2900 series switches. Deployed Cisco Works to monitor/maintain new infrastructure.
• Reviewed, analyzed, and evaluated network performance while recommending improvements to the network. Provided documentation and management reporting for upper management. Provided tactical and strategic input and overall network planning on various projects.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Installed, racked and configured 4 Cisco 2621 routers using V12.1 IOS. 2 routers in Frankfurt, Germany using HSRP Hot Standby Routing Protocol on all interfaces for fault tolerance.
• Configured Cisco Routers to NAT Network Address Translation internal private IP
• addresses, where the routers are the first initial security wall, followed by the firewall.
• Responsible for the WAN engineering/re-engineering of router configurations including, turning up router interfaces, adding modules, changing/adding IP addresses, and routing protocol issues.
• Created 6 DMZ's, for all sites, controlled by the firewalls. Each DMZ has restricted policies between each other controlled by access lists.
• Designed, documented, implemented a large scale Global WAN architectural design providing connectivity to Always-On employees located in New York, New Jersey, Israel, Germany.
• Created supported a VPN backbone solution interconnecting all LANs within their respective geographic location to enhance corporate communications...
• Proposed and implemented a global directory solution for optimal performance of web servers using CISCO local director 430.
• Extensive hands on experience of Windows 2000 Server including installation, domain configuration, maintenance of group policy, application upgrades and hot fixes as well as general Active Directory administration.
• Implemented and supported SQL 7.0 server and SQL 2000 using Windows Server 2000 as platform, both remotely and locally.
• Installed and configured 27 application servers running windows 2000 and Citrix Metaframe 1.8 on Compaq Prolient servers.
• Installed and configured 1 Exchange 5.5 Server over a Windows NT 4.0 platform for 110 users worldwide. Installed and configured Exchange 2000 Server to be utilized over an ASP model for public Internet use
• Installed and configured 7 domain controllers and 9 DNS servers using Windows Advanced and standard Server 2000.

Confidential

Senior Network Analyst

• Responsible for the implementation of telecommunication WAN links and all other network devices and peripherals within all levels of the enterprise network.
• Acted as a team lead in the design, installation, and implementation of LAN/WAN networks consisting of Cisco Routers 2600,3600,6000,7500 , Nortel Bay and Cabletron routers, switches, and hubs.
• Played a major role in a Backbone Redesign project which consisted of installing, configuring, and maintaining 30 Cisco 6509 switches with Layer3 Switching capabilities.
• Extensive hand-on experience with Cisco 6500 series switches, dealing with VLAN, Traffic Management, Port Assignments.
• Designed and implemented a corporate wiring schema to interconnect Cisco 4000 and 6500 switches within 6 Buildings using fiber optic GIGE technology.
• Provide Level 4 support for troubleshooting exceedingly complex network impairments and degraded performance issues.
• Worked with external communication carriers in designing the architectural layout of the telecommunication room, and assisted in the termination of various WAN circuitry T1, T3, ISDN, Frame-Relay, 56k at their respective points of demarcation.
• Responsible for network traffic analysis and general house cleaning for all router configurations within region of responsibility using various test equipment to test circuits and equipment including: Sniffer, T-Berd, Fireberd, T-Com, ISDN testers, and Fluke.
• Managed and coordinated with vendors regarding the installation and configuration of CSU/DSU units terminating WAN circuits in compliance with FCC standards..