Objective

To find a senior level network position with a successful company where I can harness my years of network design, installation, support experience as well as Windows 2008 administration and Linuxexperience to our mutual benefit.

Professional Experience

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

• Develop technical documentation and written procedures to ensure network staff can assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and the changing of complex customer environments
• Provide top tier escalation support on networking issues for internal company and client services in Connecticut, Delaware and Cedar Rapids
• Plan, design and implement large scale LAN/WAN wired and wireless networks for new and prospective clients as well as internal Windows 2008 server infrastructure and redundant VMware environment
• Assist the sales group to craft RFP responses for prospective clients on wired and wireless network projects
• Research and evaluate vendor products and make recommendations for the purchase and/or upgrade of networks
• Monitor, anticipate and mitigate potential security breaches through network firewall and routed connections to ensure security and service availability internally and for clients
• Deployed MRTG and Whatsup Gold to bring the data services group up to speed with monitoring and historical performance reporting processes. Trained network staff in use of monitoring and reporting tools to inform capacity planning and design decisions

Confidential

Network Manager

• Provide top tier 24x7 network support for Confidential clients in the Confidential including support for Cisco ASA firewalls, routing/switching, VPN remote access services, Cisco Unity, CallManager and Contact Center systems
• Serve as interim Technical Director at SunGard client sites as needed. Duties include leading network and server organizations, communicating and influencing operations at a senior level, documenting baselines for operations, developing strategic roadmaps and managing budgets for projects/operations
• Exercise independent judgement and creative problem-solving along with over 10 years of server, application and network support experience to provide technology solutions as well as to support company initiatives

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

• Top tier 24x7 network support for Confidential staff and students
• Manage perimeter Cisco ASA firewall, routing and VPN concentrator equipment
• Top tier support of campus wide switching and routing infrastructure including Catalyst 6509meshed core, 10Gig fiber backbone and Cisco 7206VXR router dual homed to the Internet and Internet2
• Team lead for a small groups of Jr. technicians to attain project goals
• Monitoring/Capacity Planning of Internet and LAN network utilization to ensure current optimization and future growth of internal and Internet network resources
• Manage Cisco Unity voicemail server for 1500 users
• Manage Cisco CallManager 6 cluster for campus wide Voice over IP VoIP phone system

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Configured, troubleshot, deployed and supported Cisco PIX firewalls, routing and VPN concentrator equipment
• Managed half a dozen large scale LAN/WAN network design and implementation projects
• Configured/Deployed/Supported 13 site PIX to Concentrator VPN network spanning from Virginia to California
• Configured/Deployed four site frame-relay network and security hardware for major automotive dealership in the Houston area. Deployed layer 3 core switch to optimize LAN network design
• Top tier network support for US and international clients
• Oversawsmall groups of Jr. technicians to attain project goals
• Monitoring/Capacity Planning of WAN and LAN network utilization for U.S. and international clients

Confidential

System Administrator

• Attained the highest level of security access for this international banking organization
• Supported internal LAN/WAN network infrastructure including Ethernet, Frame-relay and ISDN as well as VPN
• Built, maintained and supported 50 Compaq/HP Proliant rack servers and fiber network storage array
• Security hardening of Server and Workstation resources
• Capacity planning and resource monitoring for File, Print, Database, Application and money transmitting servers
• Domain administration for 500 users in an Active Directory and Exchange environment
• Extensive project management responsibilities including initiation, planning, execution, and closeout
• Provide all company desktop/application support including support for Compaq/HP/IBM laptops
• Monitor and administer network and server infrastructure with Solar Winds, Compaq Insight Manager as well as Dameware

Skills

• Networking/Protocols:
• Cisco ASA/PIX Installation/Configuration, Firewall/Router access list configuration and optimization, Cisco VPN concentrator Installation/Configuration, Cisco Router Installation/Configuration, Cisco Switch Installation/Configuration, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, DHCP, DNS design/configuration, BGP, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP Protocol Configuration, Cisco VoIP
• Operating Systems:
• Linux/UNIX, Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows NT Server, Cisco CallManager, Cisco Unity,Windows 7/Vista/2000/98/95, DOS
• Programming Languages:
• Java, C , UNIX Shell Scripting
• Hardware:
• Dell Servers, HP Proliant Servers, IBM compatible PCs, Apple IMACs, Building and configuring server hardware, Building and configuring desktops, Printer Maintenance/Repair
• Applications:
• Wireshark, Nmap, NetSpot, VMWare, MRTG, Microsoft IIS, Apache, Ipswitch Whatsup Gold,Visual Studio, Eclipse, Netbeans, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Visio, CAD

Summary of Qualifications

• Extensive experience with high level trouble shooting and analytical problem solving
• Extensive project management experience

• Able to prioritize activities and stay focused in a high stress and a constantly changing atmosphere
• Eager to take on new and difficult challenges
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills
• Years of experience installing network and server hardware and software