Objective: To maximize extensive experience and certifications in enterprise networking by utilizing broad technological knowledge and applying various industry accepted practices, while having the opportunity to grow within the company.

Experience

Senior Network Architect

• Examine complex environments spanning many networking technologies to create solution designs and supporting documentation as a template for implementation engineers to follow.
• Collaborate with engineering leads to set standards for implementation and documentation standards as a road map for implementation engineers to reference during project builds.
• Responsible for maintaining a large lab environment that mirrors the production environment so that new router, switching, wireless, voice, and server software can be tested without jeopardizing the production network.
• Provide technical resource and assistance on multifaceted network and server systems to insure best decisions were made during hardware upgrades and deployments.
• Assist in network architecture during documentation creation standards in relation to implementation practices such as layer 2 nomenclature, routing protocol selection, security policies, and wireless deployment models in a highly secure environment.

Confidential

Senior Wireless Architect

• Enterprise wireless architecture for large organizations supporting tens of thousands users.
• Designed and implemented wireless networks as large as four thousand access points, spanning several Cisco 6509 chassis, containing multiple Wireless Service Modules. WiSM
• Held accountable as the wireless network architect for large hospital systems across the country, large school districts and higher education entities statewide.
• In charge of large enterprise network architecture design for hospital environments supporting 20 thousand users utilizing services such as medicine dispensing, patient monitoring, asset tracking, etc.
• Designed, implemented, and utilized many Security Information Event Managers such as Splunk and ArcSight
• Implementation of complex wireless mobile designs that use multiple WAN links, including satellite, cellular, and WIFI networks.
• Implementation of enterprise wireless appliances, physical and virtual, such as Prime Infrastructure, mobility service engines, and ACS.
• Utilized wireless LAN planning tools such as Prime Infrastructure, Airwave, and NetSpot.
• Responsible for design and implementation of customer's network infrastructure.
• Designed Mobile Device Management solutions using Meraki and Maas360 for large enterprises and school systems.
• Designed Wireless Intrusion prevention systems based on Cisco WIPS and Meraki Air Marshal
• Designed and implemented 10-gigabit failover paths for hospitals supporting 40 thousand users enterprise wide while keeping the network functional during the hardware and software upgrades.
• Responsible for using wireless tools such as spectrum analyzers across multivendor platforms such as Cisco Aironet Utility and Fluke Fluke Airmagnet.
• Conducted wireless assessments, Radio Frequency analysis, and wireless spectrum feasibility studies.
• Expert in multiple wireless technologies such as cloud managed, autonomous, CAPWAP, WGB, and long distance point to point links PtP .
• In depth knowledge of radio frequency phenomenon such as multi-path distortion, refraction, RF attenuation, scatter, and absorption.
• Implementation of complex routing and switching protocols such as EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, STP, and VTP among others.
• Responsible for producing customer network assessments and documentation including technical, operational, and economic assessment

Confidential

Network/Senior Wireless Engineer

• The lead wireless subject matter expert for the entire university supporting 5000 concurrent users daily with 75,000 unique wireless connections.
• Responsible for 16 WiSM controllers spanned across two 6509 chassis located in two different locations for disaster recovery.
• Designed complex IP addressing schemes that supported 32 thousand users and provided seamless failover for wireless clients in the event of a catastrophe.
• Accountable for the maintenance and functioning of 1200 LWAPP/CAPWAP access points.
• Implemented secure wireless access university wide using the highest possible wireless security encryption coupled with RADIUS and TACACS .
• Accountable for the design and deployment of new wireless technologies that span throughout 260 buildings across VCU's campus.
• Liable for supporting and maintaining a switching environment that supports 45 thousand users.
• Designed multi-path networks that use routing protocols such as OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP.
• Responsible for the routing/switching integration of university infrastructure with Avaya VOIP services and phones.
• Liable for securing switching environment within the university network. This may include but not limited to port security, Acls, physical security, disabling ports, assign ports to non-active VLANs etc.
• Design, implement, and maintain multiple networks to provide seamless connectivity to end-users.

Confidential

Network Engineer/Avaya Systems Integrator contractor

• Install and configure Avaya media gateways at remote locations to interface with communication manager at main location.
• Deploy and configure different types of phone stations including IP phones, Digital phones, and analog phones.
• Responsible for doing thousands of cross connects to attach digital stations to the phone system s .
• Helped establish a QOS, company-wide standard, within a Cisco routing environment, to efficiently route and prioritize all VOIP traffic.
• Accountable for the integration of Multivoip products so that IP phones can function in survivability mode.
• Multitech products such as Multivoips and modems were devices I configured on a daily basis.
• Liable for the installation of VPN phones and all back end hardware such as Avaya Security Gateways and Cisco Pix Firewalls.
• Work with WAN technologies such as MPLS to connect remote offices and their phone systems back to a corporate headquarters.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Execute daily operations of Cisco security, wireless, firewalls, and routing.
• Daily duties also include VPN constructions between multiple sites, ACL setup and configuration, and the deployment of wireless technologies.
• Designed multi-path networks that use routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP.
• Help configure and maintain networks as large as 30 servers and 500 end user machines.
• Responsibilities include problem detection and solving, fixing and reinstalling any network related hardware, and maintaining the functionality of the entire infrastructure.
• Design, implement, and maintain multiple networks to provide seamless connectivity to end users.
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, install, upgrade, configure, and repair all related networking system components.
• Install and interface multiple brands of networking hardware including Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems, and Sonic Wall.
• Develop procedures for testing reliability, stability, and scalability of interfaces for network environments.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity, desktop configuration, printers connectivity, and network access issues regarding permissions.
• Structure, developed, and maintain a network built completely with Cisco hardware.
• Maintain CAT-5 cable around the servers using the punch down tool and other related cabling instruments, service quad racks, and uninterrupted power supplies UPS .

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Head of design and hardware deployment of wireless network links in excess of two miles or more.

• Responsible for a 100 Cisco network supported by multiple Windows 2000 Advanced Server Machines.
• Liable for the deployment and repair of DNS, DHCP, Web servers, POP3, VPN, Terminal Services, and SNMP.
• In charge of all networking hardware purchases and upgrades/replacement of all equipment.
• Experience with configuring and managing anti-virus software from the server side.
• Documentation of network infrastructure changes with Microsoft Visio was a part of daily duties.
• Responsible for backing-up mission critical data using Veritas Backup software.

Confidential

Intern

• Constant Interaction with Cisco devices was part of my daily routine.
• Helped configure and maintain Cisco PIX Firewalls.
• Worked with Cisco Call Manager Servers on a weekly basis.
• Configured Cisco VOIP phones over LAN and WAN links on secure VPN connections.
• Worked with multiple WAN technologies on a daily basis such as, T1, PRI, BRI, and Synchronous DSL.