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Jackson, MI

NETWORK ENGINEER

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CSCO)
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CSCO)
  • Cisco Certified Design Associate (CSCO)
  • Eight years of work experience in North America, Middle East and Europe
  • Strong general management, negotiation, inter - personal, communication and team building skills

Eight years of extensive hands-on experience in network engineering, Windows / Linux systems administration, troubleshooting and repair. Designed, installed, configured and maintained complex routed LAN and WAN networks. Supervised permanent and contract personnel. Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels. A team player who also can work well independently.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

(Last Position Held)

Confidential, Jackson, Mississippi /

Network Consultant

Voice and data communications technician for the Mississippi armory\'s around the state. Involvement in a number of initiatives related to improved centralized and automated network management systems to meet military goals with minimum capital expenditure. Lead for the network re-architecture efforts to facilitate better product delivery to end users. Member of the team that managed the systems and associated network devices used to control the maintenance of all Mississippi armory\'s. LAN/WAN network of 3,000 TCP/IP based data devices controlled by over 20 high speed servers and 20 Cisco routers. Team member for replacing legacy Layer 2 switching equipment with Cisco 6509 Layer 3 switches to act as a campus backbone. Project manager for migrating all armory maintenance systems from legacy disk storage to RAID arrays. Resulting annual maintenance contract savings of $400,000. Experience with Cisco Routers, network security, Multinet TCP/IP, Compaq Alpha systems, Storageworks.

Exchange Server administrator for the state of Mississippi Military Department. Created and managed Active Directory accounts. Built Group Policy\'s as well a modified existing GPOs. Preformed traffic monitoring and analysis using Cisco equipment, Wireshark, Whats Up Gold, and Solar Winds. Designed Wireless networks using Cisco Aironet equipment. Designed Wide Area Networks, using HSRP, DMVPN, and IPS/IDS. Install and configured Cisco switches (2900 series to 6500 series) and routers (2800 series to 7600 series). Upgraded 100% of the National Guard Armories in the state of Mississippi from Frame-relay circuits to DSL Circuits which provides faster and cheaper IP telephony & Network Connectivity. Install Cisco Call Manager and Call Manager Express which connects routers in the Field to our home office to provide VOIP solutions.

Confidential, Hattiesburg, Mississippi

Network Engineer

Managed a team of up to 10 engineers, 200+ Cisco 3560 layer 3 switches / routers serving over 3000 users and 10 web servers. Hands on familiarity with products from Cisco, Nortel, Juniper, Netscreen, Foundry and Avaya.

  • Lead engineer for the management of Camp Shelby\'s Hot Standby Routing Protocol which provides network redundancy in the event of WAN failure.
  • Member of the customer incident review team
  • Team lead for the network equipment rationalization project for switch and router upgrade. Reduced equipment maintenance costs by over 50% through the phased removal of old and outdated equipment. This was achieved through a series of over 30 planned change windows.
  • Lead for the "Architecture Desk" which has responsibility for the research, evaluation, approval and implementation of all equipment additions to our topologies with an eye to long term supportability.
  • Team lead for architecting and implementing Camp Shelby offices established as part of the mobilization efforts.
  • Member of Camp Shelby\'s team responsible for making the data centers military compliant in accordance with the requirements of the U.S Army Standard Operating Procedure.
  • Team lead for a number of formal training exercises for the Engineering, NOC and Customer Care organizations. Developed a "Technical Lunch" program to provide technology briefings to other Directorates of Information Management.
  • Team lead for the annual code upgrading process for all network devices.
  • Member of the systems compatibility test systems lab responsible for verifying the functionality of various vendors\' equipment, supplied by customers or internally, with Camp Shelby\'s existing infrastructure.
  • Acting "Incident Manager" responsible for resolving issues that affect any users web site functionality in the absence of the Director of Networking.
  • Projects have included:
  • Lab testing to ensure that the Cisco ASA, IDS, IPS devices used were compatible with all Camp Shelby\'s supported network applications. Responsible for identifying and resolving a number of bug fixes.
  • Development and introduction of a centralized VPN service to be used by clients. Implementation of the infrastructure to create a single super NOC to monitor Camp Shelby 4 data networks.
  • Creation of PERL scripts to check the QA of network device configurations via SNMP and configuration file checks.

Confidential, Jackson, Mississippi

Network Administrator

  • Act as the Task Force 185th AVN Brigade Network Administrator, bringing valuable problem determination and trouble-shooting skills to the table, resulting in a robust and problem-free network.
  • Webmaster for the Task Force 185th AVN Brigade’s secure website, and the Anaconda Education website ensuring consistent connectivity and current, error-free information/updates are posted in a timely manner.
  • Maintain secure file-servers, web-servers, and Exchange servers, and one SUS server. Ensuring maximum user availability and uninterrupted access, resulting in streamlined file storage/retrieval and email communication for all Task Force 185th AVN Brigade users.
  • Maintain effective server/client backup schedules of sensitive and vital data, resulting in viable file access, regardless of catastrophic hardware failures.
  • Responsible for baseline and imaging of network devices.

ADDITIONAL TRAINING

  • Software Utilities, assembly/dis-assembly of Microcomputers, Wide Area Networks (WANS)
  • Satellite Communications, Tactical Local Area Networks
  • Database System Design and development (programming)
  • Error Recovery
  • Defense Message System and Exchange Server Messaging
  • Checkpoint FW-1: CISCO CS11000 L5 Switches, Building Cisco Remote Access Networks, CISCO LAN Switch Configuration, CISCO Certified Network Associate
  • CISCO Certified Network Professional: Cisco PIX Firewall Bootcamp, Sniffer Pro Network Analyzer (L2 & L3), Advanced Cisco Router Configuration, Cisco Internetwork Design, Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE

  • Network Routing Hardware: Cisco 7513s, Cisco 6500s, Cisco CSS L5/7 content switches, Juniper Load Balancers, F5, Foundry, Cisco, Routing Protocols, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, LAN/WAN Technologies, Ethernet, Frame Relay, X.25, VLANs, T1/DS3/OC3
  • Operating Systems: Linux / UNIX / Solaris, Windows NT / 2000 / XP, Network Management / Other HP OpenView, SNMP, Sniffer, DNS/BIND, PERL, Checkpoint & PIX firewalls, VPNs, DECnet.

Firewalls

Netscreen, PIX, and Checkpoint Firewalls, ASA, Intergrated Service Router

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