OBJECTIVE:

• Design, maintenance, and security of local, metropolitan or wide area networks that safely, reliably and efficiently meet organizational needs/requirements.
• To provide network users with a network structure that promotes ease of use and enables efficiency and security within the network environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System and Cloud Environments/Languages: Apple s MacOS, iOS and OSX AWS (Amazon) and Microsoft Azure cloud virtualization deployments (VPN and dedicated cloud connectivity via MPLS). Cisco Internetworking Operating System (IOS), Cisco WebNS Software; Cisco PIX/ASA Firewall Software (4.4 and up), UNIX/System V (HP/UX 10 and up for RISC; 11i for Itanium; IBM AIX 4.3 and up; Sun Solaris 2.5 - 2.9 for SPARC; Solaris 2.8 for x86) Linux distributions as implemented under: Red Hat Linux /Cent OS; Microsoft Windows variants through Windows 10; Windows Server through Server 2008Telephony, Media, Networking and Routing Protocols/ Environments:AppleTalk; ATM; BGPv4; DS-1; DS-3; Cisco's EIGRP; Frame Relay; IGRP; IPX/SPX/SAP; ISDN; VLAN Trunking; MPLS; MUX; OSPF; RIPv2; SONET; TCP/IP; VrF Routing virtualization, VPN; HSRP/VRRP; VACL; VLAN; VoIP; xDSL (IDSL, SDSL and ADSL); MGCP as implemented by Cisco; PPP (dedicated, remote access); CHAP; NetBIOS, SMB, PPTP (Microsoft); Cisco's IP/TV technologyIP, Security and Service Related Network Functions:802.1x port and wireless security, SSH (Secure Shell) suite; FTP; SCP (Secure Copy Protocol); TACACS+ (Cisco ACS and ISE); Radius (Cisco ACS, Radiator, Steel Belted Radius, and Microsoft s Internet Authentication Service); SNMP; DNS; WCCP (Web Cache Communication Protocol)Recent Relevant Applications: AirMagnet Wireless Enterprise WLAN Management and Spectrum Analyzer CiscoWorks /Cisco Prime Infrastructure software as well as F5 Big IQ. Network performance monitoring tools such as Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor, HP OpenView Network Node Manager and HP OpenView Operations Network traffic and NetFlow collection applications such as StatSeeker, Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG), and Network Physics Splunk Microsoft s Internet Information Server (IIS), Active Directory, Exchange Server and ISA (Internet Security and Acceleration) Server; Office Suite Omnipeek WildPackets, Wireshark and varying packet sniffing utilities

Network Hardware: Cisco Router Series (Most, IOS familiarity current) Cisco Access Points and Wireless controller hardware. Cisco Catalyst Switch Series (Most, IOS familiarity to 15.x) Cisco PIX Firewall Series, Cisco ASA Security Appliances, Sourcefire/Cisco Firepower Platform Cisco Application Services Devices: GSS, Cisco AVS (Application Velocity System); Cisco WAAS (Wide Area Application Services) Appliance Cisco (Arrowpoint) Content Smart Web Switch Series (CSS); Cisco Cache (Content) Engine 500 Series; Cisco Ironport Web Security and Email Appliances Cisco Video Conference Express Gateway F5 Big IP Platforms: GTM (Global Traffic Manager), LTM (Local Traffic Manager), Big IQ, APM (Application Policy Manager), ASM (Application Security Manager) as well as iRule scripting Gigamon G Tap Series Various other customer premise network, VoIP, and video hardware: (Web Ramp; Enterasys, Adtran, Netgear; Linksys; Bay Networks) Juniper Networks (M5 Series); Polycom (VSX 6000, 7000, ViewStation 512 H.323); various CSU/DSU (Adtran, Kentrox, Solo) and MUX devices (Telco Systems DS1/DS3 MUX systems)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide daily support and maintenance to the Confidential internal and external facing networks. This entails maintenance of VPN (user and B2B) environment, active on-call for off hour issues troubleshooting of network performance issues, software upgrades, maintenance and engineering of network infrastructure solutions depending upon business need and growth.
• Complete network hardware design and refresh projects from conception (whiteboard and requirements) to vendor quote interaction, procurement, delivery and meeting of implementation schedule. Budget the future purchase of hardware, network application software as well as hardware maintenance contracts. Forecast additional bandwidth and circuit connectivity needs.
• Design and maintenance for customer and vendor facing DMZ environments and provide global load balancing DNS and connectivity for these applications at multiple data centers. Design and maintenance for internal and external facing applications including secure environments (PCI), governmental organizations and varying support vendors as well as mobile device connectivity and application performance.
• Analyze and mitigate unaccounted for or potentially malicious activity found in the network infrastructure. Provide support and forensic information for investigations as well as mitigation of security audit concerns, caveats and critical vulnerabilities.
• Assist IT Services in multiple locations with design and exposure of all applications via DMZ or cloud services. Provide IT Services with support for development and QA initiatives within contained environments.

Confidential

Consultant/Contractor

Responsibilities:

• Provide network and systems documentation and perform technical and procedural writing for Confidential database team regarding service applications, revision control and change management for independent audit.
• Subcontract to Insight Systems for support regarding J.P. Morgan Chase’s nation-wide consolidation and standardization project due to complete spring 2008. Perform server builds and assist in workstation rebuilds for Chase branches, as well as end user support regarding pre and post rebuild issues and concerns. Provide tier two and three level support to dispatch on site technicians regarding connectivity issues, hardware issues and software/AD related issues (Authentication, Radia, incomplete rebuilds, et. al.)

Confidential

Technical/Application Networking Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provide application networking support to clients/partners of Confidential . Validate, discover and/or design of application networking services based on Cisco's Application Services product line; Perform support regarding IOS configuration of Cisco based network infrastructure in regards to application networking and acceleration.
• Platforms involved include Cisco's AVS (Application Velocity System), Content Smart Switch (CSS) and Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) platforms along with varying Cisco Edge and core solutions such as the Catalyst 6500 architecture and integrated multiple vendor web and network application and technology solutions such as HP OpenView Radia, clustered web server environments and distributed application acceleration.

Confidential

Network Administrative Support, Infrastructure Group

Responsibilities:

• Provide Tier 2 and 3 level support, primarily regarding network infrastructure client/server connectivity issues. Provide additional support regarding network monitoring tools (CiscoWorks and Tivoli).
• Maintain support of, configure, troubleshoot and replace HRAO network infrastructure hardware defined as routers, switches, print hardware and wireless. Aid in establishing policy procedure regarding network addressing and naming, as well as defining and documenting best practices regarding network device configuration and deployment.
• Design and assisted management of network infrastructure server/service functions such as DNS administration and authentication via Windows Server 2003, Active Directory domain concerns as applied to the HRA Ohio facility, network device security, network redesign and segregation and the like. Platforms utilized include AirMagnet Enterprise Management, Aventail SSL VPN appliances, Symantec SGS firewall architecture, Juniper/Peribit data compression appliance and Solaris 8/9 custom application support.

Confidential

Team Lead, Network Operations Tech

Responsibilities:

• Maintain support of, troubleshoot, and make required changes to ODJFS network infrastructure.
• Acting project team lead for overhaul/evaluation of ODJFS NOC network monitoring tool set. Acting project team lead for management of NOC implementations of HP OpenView Network Node Manager (HP OV NNM) and Operations. NOC representative for ODJFS network change, technical peer review and revision control.
• Began work on rollout/install of NNM 7.5 on Solaris 9 and HP/UX 11i and was NOC technical point in compiling ODJFS TFM (Trusted Facilities Manual). Contract ended

Confidential

Sr. Network Administrator/Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintain, monitor and perform hardware and software upgrades to APK’s IP based Cisco powered wide area network. Provide network design, craft and implement security policies and router/switch configurations for APK WAN as well as network pre-engineering design and troubleshooting for clients of APK
• Work under the direction of the CIO alongside project management and sales engineering to design and document secure data and voice solutions, properly document and monitor customer project progress, provide customer, circuit provisioning, also to set and meet hardware install dates and document network design and concerns.
• Other customer engineering duties include VPN design and implementation, firewall configuration, install and maintenance, IP Telephony, secure user authentication using TACACS+ and Radius, e-mail replication, virus scanning and other solutions.
• Troubleshooting duties include circuit testing, network routing issues, customer phone support, working with uplink providers and peering networks to solve route propagation issues, employment of traffic shaping for bandwidth conservation/optimization, hardware management, security assessments, intrusion detection and problem diagnosis via SNMP (as examples). See “Relevant Applications” section for applications used.