Michael Crane, Distinguished Sextuple CCIE #5531 Certified Cisco Systems Instructor  #34923 505 Fanleaf Court Severn, Maryland 21144  Cell – 410-262-8742 Email: mike@irontrain.com

 

Currently available for consulting or full time engagements. Clearance: TS/SCI with Full scope Polygraph/Lifestyle -Active

 

Recent Project Experience:

 

·         Upgrading University from 7.1 to version 9 of Cisco Emergency responder, Contact Center or UCCX, Unity Connection, Auto Attendant, Communications Manager, all on UCS.

·         Configured all components of the Hosted Collaboration Solution consisting of Unified Computing  System  5108, VMware, Vcenter, MDS 9148 Storage Fibre Channel, ASA 5585 with vrfs, Nexus 7k in VDC mode, ASR 1004 in CUBE mode, Nexus 7010s, Nexus 5548’s with Nexus 2k vpc’s, Nexus 1000v, with CallManagers, Unity Connection and Presence. 

·         E-IGRP, VPLS Redesign of a large worldwide e-commerce network

·         Rolled out Cisco Identity Service Engine at Connecticut State University – 802.1x, Radius/Policy Servers, Admin and Monitoring servers.  Wired and wireless guest authentication.   Configured FLEX authentication for MAB, 802.1x, and Web auth.

·         IPv6 testing and researching transition mechanisms

·         Participated in 2700 site technology refresh for USDA with 2921 routers, Riverbed compression devices. Cisco Wireless Access Points.

·         Upgraded customer from Call Manager version 4 to version 8.6

·         Upgraded customer from Unity to Unity Connection 7

·         Developing security solutions using ASA firewalls, VPN, IPS.

·         Developing CCIE Datacenter labs for ccie boot camp course.

·         Lead VoIP engineer/architect for Large Secure Cisco VoIP Enterprise network

·         Data Center design including load balancing, server farms, ACE modules, and context based Firewalls, Security, etc.

 

Hardware:

·         Cisco Unified Computing System 5108

·         All Nexus Switches

·         Cisco Service Control Engine, Subscriber Managers

·         Nexus 7000, 5000 series,5500 series,  2200 series, 1000v

·         ASR 1000 series

·         Wireless lan Controllers 4200, 2106, WCS

·         Wireless Access Point 1242

·         ASA 5510, 5520, 5540, 5550, 5585

·         MDS 9216, 9506

·         MCS 7845, 7835, 7825,7815

·         Cisco Content Engine 11000 series

·         Cisco Routers 1600,1700, 2500, 2600, 3600, 3800, 7000 Series

·         Cisco Switches 1900, 2350, 2900, 3000, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4000, 4948, 5000, 6000 series.

·         AdTech SX12 Satellite Simulator, Terminal Servers: Cyclades TS-1000, Cisco terminal server.

·         VPN Concentrators

·         Firewalls: Pix 525, 515, FWSM

·         Service Provider: IGX –80, MGX, BPX

·         IBM BladeCenters

·         IP Phones:7900/9900 series

·         Misc:  Dell Poweredge Servers 2550, Compaq Network General Sniffer (LAN Analyzer

 

Protocols and Media:

·         MPLS (CCIE Service provider)

·         Windows, Windows XP, Linux, Ubuntu, Red Hat

·         SSL, IPSec

·         H-REAP, LWAPP, WMM

·         Fabric Path, Fiber Channel, Fiber Channel over IP, I-SCSI

·         IPv6

·         PKI, RSA

·         Quality of Service –WRED, Ether Channel, ToS, DiffServ, RSVP

·         IP Telephony – MGCP, SIP, VoIP, Skinny, H.323

·         IP Multicast

·         Service Provider – MPLS, Traffic Engineering

·         Wireless LAN and 802.11A, B,G,H,E, i

·         Layer 1 – Ethernet, FastEthernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI

·         Layer 2 – HDLC, PPP, X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN, HSRP,GLBP

·         Layer 3 – IP, IPX, Appletalk, IPSec, VPN

·         Routing Protocols – OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IGRP, RIPv2, BGP,ISIS

·         Network Management – CiscoWorks, What’s Up Gold

·         AAA, TCP/IP, SNMP,  STUN,  SNA

 

Software Platforms: Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0, XP, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Novell, Linux

 

Certifications:

Cisco Certified Systems Instructor #34923

CCIE Data Center – September 2013

Cisco Certified Systems Instructor (CCSI) – September 2013

Cisco Certified Business Instructor (CCBI)– August 2013

NetApp Certified Data Management Administrator – August 2013

CCNP Data Center - June 2013

CCNA Data Center June 2013

Cisco Unified Fabric Technology Design Specialist July 2013

Cisco Unified Fabric Technology Support Specialist July 2013

Cisco Data Center Networking Infrastructure Design Specialist July 2013

Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric Design Specialist July 2013

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist May 2013

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist April 2013

Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric Support Specialist – May 2013

Cisco Collaboration Specialist 1- March 2013

Vmware Certified Professional (VCP) 5.0 – April 2013

Itil Version 3 Foundation –February, 2013

Cisco WAAS for Field Engineers – March 2012

Comptia - CWNA- March 2012

Security + -February 2012

CCNA Voice – January 2012

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design Specialist – May - 2011

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Support Specialist – April 2011

Cisco Unified Computing Design Specialist – March - 2011

Cisco Data Center Support for UC Specialist –Feb 2011

Cisco Unified Computing Technology Support Specialist – Jan 2011

Cisco Certified Design Expert qualified - June 2009

CCIE-- Wireless qualified - March 2009

CCNP Wireless – Jan/2010

Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist – November 2009

CCNA Wireless – Nov 2009

CCNA Security – Nov 2009

CCIE-- Storage – completed May 31^st, 2008

CCIE-- Voice completed May 30^th, 2007

CCIE -- Service Provider completed June 30^th, 2004

CCIE -- Security completed Oct 4^th, 2002

CCIE Routing and Switching #5531- completed February 1st/2000

Unified Communications Architecture and Design Specialist– October 2009

Cisco Lifecycle Services for Advanced Unified Communications – August 2009

Cisco IP Telephony Specialist Oct 2006

Cisco Certified Voice Professional – June 2006

Cisco Certified Security Specialist – December 2005

Information Systems Security Professional (InFoSec)- Dec 2005

Cisco IDS Specialist – Dec 2005

Cisco VPN Specialist – August 2005

Cisco Storage Design Specialist – July 2005

Cisco Storage Support Specialist – June 2005

Cisco PIX Firewall Specialist – March 2005

Cisco Content Networking Specialist – December 2004

Cisco Unity System Engineer 3.0 February/2003

Cisco IP Telephony Operations Specialist October/2002

Cisco IP Telephony Support Specialist October/2002

CCIE Design Written Qualifier passed 2002

Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist June/2002

Cisco Certified Academy Instructor Oct/2001

Cisco Certified Design Professional – Wan Switching June/2001

Cisco Certified Network Professional – Wan Switching June/2001

Cisco Qualified Specialist– SNA/IP Design Specialist December/2000

Cisco Certified Network Associate -Wan Switching December/2000

Cisco Qualified Specialist- SNA/IP Support Specialist November /2000

Cisco Certified Network Management Specialist - August/2000

Cisco Certified Design Professional 3.0 - Aug/2000

Cisco Qualified Specialist- Security Specialist - July/2000

Cisco Qualified Specialist Voice Access Specialist - October/1999

Cisco Certified Network Professional LAN ATM Specialist – Sept/1999

Cisco Certified Design Professional 2.0 – June/1999

Cisco Certified Network Professional - May/1999

Cisco Certified Design Associate - March/1999

Cisco Certified Network Associate - December /1998

Microsoft Certified System Engineer 4.0 - August/1998

Novell Master CNE Jan/1996

Microsoft Certified System Engineer 3.1 - August/1995

Computing Technology Industry Certification - A+ Certification October/1994

Novell CNE - February/1994

Network Professional Association - Certified Network Professional

 

Relevant Work History

IronTrain

Chief Technology Officer

January 2012  to  Present – Various consulting assignments

 

January 2011 to December 2011 – Principal Network Engineer

Responsible for redundant data center design and remote access to the data centers using SSL and IPSec vpns.  Virtual Switching System, Nexus switches and ASA firewalls and ASR routers. Service Control Engine 1010 and 2020

 

April 2010 to December 2010  - Security Engineer

Designed redundant PKI topology using Cisco ios 15

Influenced customer to migrate to Virtual Tunnel Interfaces

 

April 2008 to April 2010 – Unified Communications Architect

Lead engineer/architect for large Cisco UC with CallManager 6.x project.  Provided direction and strategy for deploying large UC secure network.  Also deployed voice mail and MeetingPlace application.  Responsible for all components including Gateway design of DSP resources.  Provided mentoring of Voice protocols to all engineers on project.

 

October 2006 to April/2008

Network Consulting Engineer

·         Various consulting assignments to include IPS, Voice Network Analysis,

CallManager 4.2

·         Implemented Intrusion prevention System (version 5) for Raytheon with Cisco Security Manager and integrated with CSMARS.

·         Educated customers on new technologies and best practices

·         Developed trusted advisor role to customer.

·         Developed a trusting, advisory relationship

 

Principal Technology Architect – February /2004 – September 2006

·         Provided engineering/design/support services to customer.  This position involved working with the Content Switch module (CSM) and 11506 switches content switches.

·         Designed Dynamic Multipoint VPN tunneling strategy between used between datacenters.

 

Network Engineer – Oct 2001 to Feb 2004

·         Performed network analysis using sniffer to determine where latency existed.

·         Documented results and contributed to larger overall document describing the tests

·         Instrumental in the design of encryption strategies utilizing IPSec 3DES encryption.

·         Designed Quality of Service strategy for latency sensitive applications utilizing Class Based WFQ.

·         Designed Network Management strategy utilizing Cisco Works 2000 with three Enterprise servers.

·         Implemented Cisco Call Manager 3.3 with security features and 7960 phones.  Extension Mobility included.

·         Implemented Video, Data and VoIP over an asymmetric satellite connection.

·         Designed IP routing strategy with an emphasis on simplicity.

 

Convergent Communications – Part Time

Lead Course Developer

·         I developed the new Cisco Security for Service Providers course (since renamed Defending Complex Core Networks).   This work involved a 42 router lab at RTP and working on the chapters for the course.

·         Performed train the trainer at RTP in March/2006.

 

Part Time Instructor for  area colleges October/2001 - Present

Harford Community College – Cisco Certified Academy Instructor Currently teaching the Cisco curriculum – CCNA, Cisco Fundamentals of Network Security

Montgomery Community College – Cisco CCNP Instructor

Howard Community College – Cisco Instructor Wireless Technologies, developed basic and advanced VoIP courses for the college using CallManager 4.0, 6.12, Call Manager Express routers and Cisco Unity Express

 

Cisco Press, Author - Jan/2000 – Present – Part Time

201 West 103rd Street 

Indianapolis, IN 46290 

·         Responsibilities include reviewing chapters of book proposals. Book outlines are reviewed as well.

 

 

Network Architect July/2000 – October 2001

Assigned to ARINC Global Network Design Team

·         Installed IGX 8400 Switches for customer ARINC

·         Assisted in designing ARINC Global Network with over 1600 remote sites using FRF.8 Service Interworking, ATM, Frame Relay, and IGX Switches.

·         Designed OSPF implementation

·         Trained ARINC personnel on the OSI model.

·         Delivered several high level presentations to the ARINC executive community

·         Selected core and distribution layer products (routers, switches) for the global network

·         Designed QoS (quality of service) implementation

·         Designed implementation of STUN tunneling.

 

Cisco Instructor April/2000 – July/2000

·         Assisted with development of Presentation skills for Junior Instructors.   Assisted Junior Instructors with teaching all the major protocols.

 

Network Engineer Nov 1999- April 2000

·         Provided new multiservice technologies including IP/TV and Voice/IP/Frame using Cisco IP Phones to the Army Reserve Network.

·         This network consists of 5000 Cisco routers in all 50 states, with over 200,000 computers.  Fore ATM switches serve at the core layer for the Backbone. 

·         Installed and configured Cisco Callmanager version 2.4

·         Applied knowledge of current and emerging technologies to develop solutions and recommendations to the Army.

·         Resolved issues of connectivity between the States, and recommended solutions. 

 

Technical Manager (October 98 to Oct/99)                            

·         Assigned LAN/WAN tasks to engineers.

·         Coordinated installs of Wide Area Networking equipment with customers.

·         Installed various vendor equipment including Cisco, Nortel, Adtran, Micom, 3Com, Eastern Research, Motorola, Osicom, Ascend, Shiva, and Sonoma.

·         Configured Firewalls, Routers and CSU/DSU's for VoIP/Frame, ATM, TCP/IP, Multiplexing, etc.

 

Assigned to Executive Office of the President of the United States: Sr. System Engineer

Washington DC (June 98-October 98)-

Developed network management procedures for three Cisco 7000, and twenty 2500 series routers.

·         Analyzed data on the FDDI ring.

·         Resolved IPX broadcast issues.

·         Responsible for development and maintenance of overall processes for managing and maintaining the infrastructure.

 

Sr. System Engineer 

March 1997 to June 1998

·         Installed nationwide 100-cisco router network for the Department of Labor.

·         Designed ISDN backup procedures for the 100-router network.

·         Successfully installed Catalyst 5500 and Cisco 5000 series switches with ISL for the Department of Labor.

·         Implemented EIGRP routing protocol on the network.

·         Successfully implemented Mobile Routing for the Dept. of Labor.

 

Various consulting assignments

(May 1995 - March 1997)

·         Upgraded 1100 Workstations at Naval Research Laboratory from Windows 3.1 to -Windows 95

·         Monitored the USDA backbone using Net Director, Openview and Managewise.

·         Performed Novell network administration duties for AARP.

·         Provided 3rd Tier technical support to the 100 LAN Administrators at N.I.H.

·         Provided system-engineering support for a 1300 user Novell Network with 12 Netware 3.11, 3.12 servers.

·         Implemented the Intel Landesk Management Suite V2.0 with traffic monitoring.

·         Lead a team in the migration of 2 - Novell 3.12 servers into the Netware 4.1 environment using SFTIII over a 100 megabyte FDDI ring.

·         Provided remote access to LAN using Novell’s Connect version 2.0.

 

Senior LAN Administrator (June 1991-May 1995)

·         Developed concepts for, designed, maintained and provided advice on LANs on AlliedSignal's Enterprise WAN, a 500-user network.

·         Conducted extensive analysis and evaluation of the existing network systems. I planned, designed, installed and tested both hardware and software for Novell in a DOS environment.

·         Maintained the network, upgraded computing resources and improved efficiency.

·         Served as the primary support person for technical problems regarding Microsoft Mail v3.2a. .

·         Re-designed the external routing of e-mail to improve efficiency and Directory Synchronization.

·         Served as the primary contact for the company's SAA gateway which provided 3270 emulation to about 100 users. I provided user support in reference to all LAN and Software questions.

  

Digi-Data Corporation               1988-1991

C + P Telephone                             1980-19986

General Instrument               1974-1980

 

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Received numerous Letters of Appreciation from various clients

 

Presenter Maryland Information Technology Conference “Risks and Rewards of Wireless Networking” June 14, 2002 ---Harford Community College, “Higher Education and Training” Center, Aberdeen, Maryland

 

Presenter for Cisco University Feb 19^th, 2002 “Certification Training” – Columbia, Maryland

Presenter for Cisco University “Cisco Certification Test Taking Strategies” –January 8^th, 2004, Columbia, Maryland

 

Adjunct Faculty of the Year award winner Howard Community College for 2007

 

Education:

Two Year Vocational School equal to AAA

 

TRAINING

Software Defined Networking – Georgia Tech August 2013

Flexpod – August 2013

UCS-IP Course from Firefly – July 2013

Vmware 5.0 Install, Configure and Monitor – March 2013

Data Center Unified Communications Integration (UCS) – March 2012-

Nexus 7k boot camp October 2011

CiscoLive 2011 – July 2011

CCBootcamp CCIE Wireless Bootcamp March 2010

Fastlane CCIE Wireless Bootcamp September 2009

Content Switch Module April 2006

Security for Service Providers –October 2005

MDS 9000 Troubleshooting June 2005

Cisco Storage Design Essentials June 2005

HelloComputers CCIE Voice Lab Bootcamp January 2005

Advanced Content Switching Module Class October 2004

Train the Trainer Fundamentals of Wireless Lans Class July 2004

Train the Trainer Cisco Secure/Advanced PIX Firewall Class June 2004

Project Management 1 – Sept/2003

OPNet Application Characterization Environment Tool – July/2003

Popkin System Architect – July/2003

Enterprise Voice over Video Data Design – May/2003

Implementing Cisco QoS – March/2003

Cisco Unity Engineer -3.0  Feb/2003

Cisco Unity Administrator 3.0 Jan/2003

Cisco Works Fundamentals – Jan/2003

Cisco Secure Virtual Private Network – Jan/2003

Cisco Deploying Quality of Service – Dec/2002

Cisco Intrusion Detection Systems course – Dec/2002

Implementing Cisco Multicast  - Dec/2002

Cisco IP Telephony 3.0 Nov/2002

Popkin System Architect Training – November/2001

Cisco Certified Instructor Training – October/2001

Cisco MACC (Stratacom MGX ATM Concentrator 8220, 8850 configuration) -May/2001

Cisco MSSC (Stratacom IGX Wan Switching) Course - Jan/2001

DLSw+ Course - December/2000

Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices - May/2000

Friesen, Kaye, and Associates Instructional Techniques Workshop 4-26-00 to 4-28-00

Cisco IP Telephony 2.0 course - January/2000

Cisco Voice over IP/FRAME/ATM - July/99

Motorola University - Vanguard Voice Module - April/99

Motorola University - Van Guard Series Foundation Course – IP March/99

Cisco Catalyst 5000 course - November/98

RAD Data Communications, Inc - TDM/WAN Products - October 1998-October 21/98

Cisco - SNA Configuration for Multiprotocol Administrators - January/98

WANG - New Technology Briefing – August 18/97 – August 22/97

Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting - October/97

Installation and Maintenance of Cisco Routers - February/97

Advanced Cisco Router Configuration - December/96

Introduction to Cisco Router Configuration - November/95

Howard Community College - Oral Presentation - March/95

Howard Community College - Unix Overview - September/94

Novell SAA/SNA Gateway - June/94

 

Network Management:

Cisco Works 2000 Revision 5 with Resource Manager Essentials, Internetwork Performance Monitor, Campus Manager, Access-List Manager, Service Level manager.  Device Fault Manager, PIX Device Manager , Quality of Service Device Manager, What’s Up Gold Version 8

 

Certifications continued:

 

Project Experience continued:

·         Implemented EtherChannel over Gigabit Ethernet links at Layer 2.

·         Designed IPSec 3DES strategy with DMVPN

·         Designed Network management strategy using Cisco Works.

·         Consulted on numerous network design issues.

·         Currently teaching Cisco Security, VoIP, Wireless,  CCNA, and CCNP courses for local community colleges.

·         Recently developed courseware and trained engineers on customer network.

·         Influenced customers in selecting routing protocols

·         Performed a network analysis on a large network utilizing the OPNet capture agents, and determining where delay and latency exist on the network.

·         Designed a Quality of Service strategy using the Type of Service field for voice, video, and data network transmitting over satellite