SUMMARY:

• Senior Network Engineer with over eighteen years experience as a Network Engineering Professional. Positions have been both challenging technically and I have thrived in areas where there is a challenge to my knowledge base. Always looking for new and exciting opportunities for both personal and professional growth and to always keep the return on investment to the customer at the top of the list and understanding they are the reason that we are here and continue to be challenged.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Ft. Meade, MD

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Plans and performs network engineering research, design development, and other assignments in conformance with network design, engineering and customer specifications. Responsible for major technical/engineering projects of higher complexity and importance than those normally assigned to lower level engineers. Coordinates activities of Network Engineers and Network Technicians assigned to specific network engineering projects, as well as perform other duties as assigned. Senior Network and System Engineer, who serves as a trusted advisor to internal and external customers. Directly involved with the architecture, design and development of network and infrastructure technology assets, analyzes customer’s needs and develops short and long term strategies to meet customer’s communication needs.

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designs and plans network communications systems. Provides specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture. Provides specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. Conducts testing of network design. Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc. Evaluates and reports on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network. Works under only general direction. Independently determines and develops approach to solutions. Work is reviewed upon completion for adequacy in meeting objectives. Complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories and concepts, in the field. General knowledge of other related disciplines. Frequent inter - organizational and outside customer contacts. Represents the organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects. Provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems. Solutions are imaginative, thorough, and practicable, and consistent with organization objectives.

Confidential

Sr. Telecoms Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Primary duties involve the review, validation, development and/or processing of Department of Defense Information Systems Agency ( Confidential ) Direct Order Entry (DDOE)/ Telecommunications Service request (TSR) to the final Telecommunications Service Order (TSO). Additional duties involve the analysis of customer service requests and provide technical solutions/recommendations for voice, data, video, and wireless circuits. The analysis will include identifying and verifying the appropriate Confidential Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) solution that may use any combination of telecommunications transmission medium such as, but not limited to Microwave, Satellite, Ultra High Frequency, Fiber Optics, TCP/IP, Local, Metropolitan, and/or Wide Area Networks (LAN/MAN/WAN), Cable, Frequency (FDM), Time Division Multiplex (TDM), Asynchronous (ATM) or SONET Defense Wave Division Multiplexed (DWDM) systems.
• Track all provisioning actions through to completion/operation using on-line tools; these online tools consist of a variety of automated systems and databases such as the Worldwide On-Line Systems (WWOLS), DDOE Program, Defense Information and Telecommunications Contracting Office (DITCO) on-line system,Telecommunications Service request Editor (TSRE) and Telecommunication Office Support System (TCOSS). The above tools are utilized on a daily basis to research DISN Capabilities to ensure proper utilization of resources to satisfy customer requirements and perform cost analyses to ensure cost effective resource allocation prior to provisioning.

Confidential, Sr. Telecoms Analyst

Confidential - Falls Church, VA

Responsibilities:

• Plans, evaluates, and/or coordinates the installation of local and/or remote data and voice communications equipment such as terminals, modems, video conferencing units, concentrators, minicomputers, central processing units, facsimiles, and pagers. Designs entire networks or portions of networks that include selection of hardware and software packages. Oversees voice network reconfiguration and billing reconciliation’s. Ensures that all software including network control programs satisfy the communications needs covering both the hardware and software installed. Develops or assists in the development of standards for carrier service and equipment. Prepares or ensures that appropriate network documentation exists, including operational instructions. Provides regulatory monitoring and voice network analysis regarding short and long range planning for in-house systems.

Confidential, Optical Network Design Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Duties include but are not limited to performing engineering for Confidential CONUS Optical Tier II Engineering group with emphasis on transitioning current lease and non Confidential assets to the Confidential owned assets to increase control and cost effectiveness for the United States Government. This is in direct support of
• Defense Information Systems Agency-CONUS Regional Networks Operation and Security Center. Directly responsible for the Implementation, management of complex telecommunication networks using newly developed technology. This network enlists key segments of the U.S. Military's Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) network directly supporting the Joint Chiefs of Staff and war-fighting components (e.g. Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines) missions. This network also carries data, voice, imagery, VTC, and numerous computing platforms, operating systems, both secure and non-secure across a widely dispersed geographical area. Responsible for analyzing telecommunication requirements and develop a fully integrated solution via the network.

Confidential

Network Design Engineer II (ATM Engineer)

Responsibilities:

• Provides leadership and engineering direction to the design of network systems. Develops and implements strategy for generating multiple alternate designs at each development level, and trade-off results which trigger iteration of the design process. Designs and implements highly complex networks that typically link numerous computing platforms, operating systems, and network topologies across widely dispersed geographical areas. Responsible for the implementation of engineering processes that provide for timely and appropriate integration of all engineering disciplines to ensure a network system design that meets all requirements. Identifies problems and risk areas and mitigates their impact. Performs technical design reviews.

Confidential, Crystal City, VA

Senior Network Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Duties performed at Confidential as a Network Engineer II. Highly visible team member on team that designed built and implemented a thin client solution that provided multi-level security between NIPRNET, SIPRNET, and JWICS Networks. Participated in the building and maintenance of two test labs, which were used for point solutions, technology exploration, development and Proof of Concepts. Other responsibilities included desktop setup and maintenance, troubleshooting desktop issues as well as documentation. Tasked as well for server setup, network design and troubleshooting.