SUMMARY

Confidential is an Information Technology professional who has provided exemplary support to customers in various industries. He is equally comfortable working in enterprise - scale environments and small team environments and has gained a familiarity and understanding of numerous technologies. His focus is on the design and engineering of network infrastructure and the elements thereto, so his experience covers wide area networking, local area networking, firewalls, routers, and switches. Additionally, he has exposure to servers as well as workstations, and the various platforms that are incumbent to those technologies. He continually strives to increase his acumen and range of experience in both existing and emerging technologies.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cisco IOS Check Point Firewalls
• Cisco Routers/Switches Aruba Wireless Controllers
• Cisco Firewalls Cisco VPN Concentrators

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Senior Network Services Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performing as sole resource in the Americas region focused exclusively on firewall.
• Environment is comprised primarily of Check Point platforms (VSX, Secure Gateway, UTM), augmented by Cisco technologies (ASA firewalls or VPN Concentrators) at specific points in the topology.
• Responsibilities include resolving firewall requests for all regions received through Algosec FireFlow (as well as incident tickets raised in Remedy).
• Resolution requires evaluation and design of a suitably secure solution for access to/from business partners and/or external hosts.
• Additional tasks include troubleshooting of application/server connectivity issues (firewall logs, packet captures, etc.) and implementations as part of long-term projects.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided senior consulting support in the implementation of local area networks (Cisco wired and Aruba wireless) enabling integrated data, video and voice traffic for Americas regional service delivery, in accordance with global hardware and software configuration standards.
• Design and engineering also included equipment planning/purchase (vendor quotes, BOM, etc.), IP address planning/management, DHCP scope configuration/implementation, and DNS configuration.
• Functioned as escalation point for network operations level-III support team.
• Participated in global projects with international colleagues (enterprise-wide) for applicable business processes.
• Participated in global technical domain committee for wired and wireless networking to determine hardware/software/configuration standards, as well as implementation design standards and on-going reviews.

Confidential, Mountain Lakes, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided network engineering and support for a hosted application service provider.
• WAN connectivity for enterprise clients provided via MPLS with on-site routers at customer sites and/or IPsec site-to-site VPN tunnels to co-location data centers.
• Deployed, configured, and managed Cisco FWSM and ASA 5500 firewalls for internal segregation and security of traffic between all clients, including multi-context configuration.
• Extensive usage of NAT/PAT on routers and firewalls to maintain discrete functional environments, as well as IOS-based access control lists within data centers.
• Additional duties included on- call support, CiscoSecure Confidential administration, and evaluation of firewall logging solutions for migration/upgrade.

Confidential, Allentown, PA

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Administration and support of monitoring platforms supporting various infrastructure silos, including network, servers, and storage.
• Leveraged knowledge of monitoring applications, network platforms, server operating systems, and databases to streamline, consolidate, and standardize monitoring solutions for the enterprise.
• Provided additional technology support for monitoring issues on Nortel, Cisco, Extreme, and F5 platforms.
• Additional duties include evaluation of FireMon for comprehensive management of Checkpoint firewalls.

Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Maintained a reliable and stable data network, fostering a consistent and productive environment for global, mission-critical applications.
• Provided comprehensive network operations support amongst a global R&D site and secondary local site.
• Served as escalation point for two additional R&D sites in North America.
• Daily operational duties included application and server connectivity troubleshooting, with packet-level analysis, and support of building management systems secured by Cisco PIX firewalls.

Confidential, Morris Plains, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided second-level network operations support in a multinational LAN/MAN/WAN environment comprised primarily of Cisco equipment.
• Collaborated on a team responsible for the consistency and stability of all data communications for NYC Metro sites, a global data center provisioning mission-critical applications, and all WAN connectivity for all Americas sites.
• WAN support included MPLS, Point-to- Point, Site-to-Site VPN, and some DWDM.
• Support tools employed include Sniffer Portable, Sniffer InfiniStream, Sniffer Enterprise Administrator, Sniffer Enterprise Visualizer, Apcon IntellaPatch switches, and CiscoWorks 2000.