Highly qualified IT professional with extensive engineering and leadership skills demonstrated in both enterprise and complex hosting environments.

·   Advanced routing experience with configuration, troubleshooting, and design of static routing, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, dynamic routing protocol and static route redistribution, path control, router configuration, and both iBGP and eBGP in an enterprise environment.

·   Advanced switching experience with configuring, troubleshooting, and design of STP, VTP, trunking, switch configuration, ether channels, and limited experience MPLS. Experience in configuration and administration of cisco Nexus equipment, including Nexus 7k’s and nexus 2k FEX’s. Experience with both Cisco ASR 9000’s and ASR 1000v’s.  

·   Advanced firewall configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting including ACL’s, static NAT, PAT, dynamic policy NAT, L2L IPSec VPN, Remote Access SSL VPN, and remote access IPSec VPN. Administration of TACLANE encryption devices. Administration of both SIPR and NIPR DoD network environments. Administration of InfoBlox DNS solution, including adding/removing zones, adding/removing A, PTR, Host, TXT, MX, and SRV records. Administration of InfoBlox IPAM.

·   Team leadership oversight of enterprise level projects and junior staff training. Managed team, overseeing DR site Data Center Relocation Project. Coaching and mentoring juniors by providing hands on training with complex configurations. Creating detailed documentation for both government and technical staff. Designed recommendation presentations on new technology and data center design.

·   Tools architect including design and maintenance of Riverbed cascade environment. Designed and maintained InfoBlox DNS solution. Designed, implemented, and maintained NetMRI automation environment.

·   Project management leading troubleshooting and packet sniffing tools such as rspan monitoring with, Riverbed Pilot, Wireshark and Omni Peaks, local firewall packet captures and monitoring software such as Solarwinds, Appnetta, Splunk, Traverse, and Big Brother.

 

 

Nexus 9k/7k/5k/2k – Catalyst 65xx/49xx/29xx – Cisco ASR 9k/1000v – NX OS/IOS

 

OSPF – BGP – EIGRP – STP – MPLS - Port Channel/VPC – VTP – Route Redistribution

 

Palo Alto Firewalls – Cisco ASA – Checkpoint Firewalls – ACL’s – NAT/PAT - IPSEC/SSL VPN

 

F5 GTM/LTM – Brocade Load Balancers – Coyote Point Load Balancers – Cisco ACE Load Balancers

 

Solarwinds – Riverbed Cascade – Infoblox – Wireshark – Splunk/Linux Syslog – Riverbed Steelhead Wan Optimizers

 

Cisco ACS 4.X/5.X – RSA SecureID – Tipping Point IPS/IDS

 

 

Apex Systems, Inc. – Scott Air Force Base, Illinois

 

Sr. Systems Engineer/SRA Network Lead ………………….…….......……………………… May 2015 – September 2015

·   Leadership role including training of junior staff and oversight of large projects.

·   Lead Engineer in charge of DR site data center relocation project. The current building did not provide redundant power so I am the lead engineer in charge of all aspects of the move. This includes getting bids for 3rd party vendors to perform the un-racking, palletizing, movement, and re-racking of data center equipment. This also includes the creation of documentation for our overall project plan and tracking the SOP’s related to the technical processes our teams will follow. Perform sight surveys for physical design oversight and oversee all technical aspects on the moving days.

·   Coordinate with government about technical aspects of high level projects.

·   Lead engineer in the migration of our IP networks to a new address space. This project includes moving IP’s to a new address space along with changing our f5 load balancers to be authoritative for all incoming DNS requests for lookups into our enterprise. 

·   Designed new SSL VPN for use with 100+ vpn users. Terminated this connection on cisco asa5525 along with overseeing junior staff upgrade the code and teaching them the process of building out the SSL VPNS. 

·   Making recommendations on new technology and data center design.

 

Stifel Financial - St. Louis, Missouri  

 

Sr. Network Engineer ……………………………………………………………….…………..…. October 2014 – April 2015

·   Supports the enterprise backbone including three data centers in the US and one in the UK. This enterprise includes full BGP AS across all core and edge devices, MPLS and OSPF distributed to all backbone and branch devices.

·   Lead engineer in charge of design, development, training and implementation of multiple enterprise tools.

·   Designed, implemented and maintained Riverbed Cascade enterprise environment including netflow reporting on over 1500 networking devices and policy maps for key trading and business apps.

·   Managed the rollout and implementation of over 300 Riverbed Steelhead Network Optimizers, which increased the throughput to branch offices up to 40%, and reduced the need for costly circuit upgrades enterprise wide.

·   Designed, implemented and maintained InfoBlox DNS solution for local management of networking forward lookup zone. This environment performs zone transfers to the Microsoft AD environment for full DNS mesh.

·   Designed and implemented InfoBlox NetMRI environment for network automation, mass policy pushes, inventory reporting, personalized troubleshooting for each engineers’ set of branch devices and automatic discovery for synch with our InfoBlox IPAM environment.

·   Management and design support to ACS 5.x environment.

·   Implemented and maintained Riverbed Pilot packet analyzing tool.

·   Use of network monitoring tools including Appnetta, Nagios, Splunk and Traverse. 

·   Ownership of over 20 branch networks. Engineering duties include network gear upgrades, troubleshooting local issues and circuit upgrades. 

Valdez International - Scott Air Force Base, Illinois

 

Subject Matter Expert, Network Engineering ……….……………………………………………. May 2014 – October 2014

·   Supports the Scott Air Force Base enterprise networking staff by managing the design, implementation and administration of both Classified and Unclassified enclaves.

·   Provide engineering and direct configuration of projects including a phased core infrastructure upgrade to a nexus platform including the replacement of catalyst core, distribution and access devices to Nexus 7k cores and 2k fex’s acting as both distribution and access layer.

·   Upgrades to classified network authentication devices.

·   Maintained all existing network engineer duties listed below.

 

Network Engineer ………….…………………………….………………………………………….. February 2013 – April 2014

·   Design, Implementation, configuration, and administration of elements for both NIPRnet (Non Classified DoD network) and SIPRnet (Classified DoD network) enterprise environments for the Department of Defense.

·   Lead engineer for the design, configuration, implementation and administration of Cisco ACS 5.2 solution, including Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting for all NIPRnet enterprise network equipment and host machines. Implemented 802.1x for all DoD desktops under our management scope.

·   Lead engineer for design, implementation, configuration and administration of Solarwinds monitoring environment for classified and unclassified enterprise networks, including the daily monitoring and troubleshooting of issues highlighted by the monitoring software.

·   Configure and install layer 2 and 3 Cisco switches, including logical configuration of both 12.x and 15.x IOS versions and physical data center installation. Administration of Nexus 7k core switches and 2k FEX’s.

·   Configuration and administration of cisco UCS environment, including virtual switch and vlan management in conjunction with VMware and Storage departments.

·   Configuration and administration of TACLANE encryption devices.

·   Administration of Cisco Network Compliance Manager, comparing current network device configurations against DISA compliancy STIG’s and addressing compliance issues. 

·   Completion of customer trouble tickets and troubleshooting issues affecting users across the Air Force enterprise.

·   Configuration and administration of Cisco ACE load balancers. Extensive experience configuring load balancer solutions for new environments and troubleshooting of existing load balanced environments.

·   Participate in 24/7 on call rotation.

 

Connectria Complex Hosting - St. Louis, Missouri

 

Network Engineer …………………………….………..……………………..…………………….. June 2010 – February 2013

·   Complete internal and external trouble tickets.

·   Design, Implementation, configuration and administration of local networks and over 150 unique, complex customer networks. 

·   Lead engineer for customer networks, including two production HA pair firewalls, two disaster recovery HA pair firewalls, one remote firewall for vpn backup access, two coyote point load balancers, 60+ servers, SIP VC device suite, and fourteen local and remote routers in an ospf instance with dynamic redistribution through a 3rd party mpls cloud.

·   Participate in 24/7 on call rotation.

 

Network Operations Center Technician ……..……………………….………………………….. January 2010 – June 2010

·   Responsible for manual checks of 70+ IBM I-series devices for message wait jobs, errors and terminated batch jobs.

·   Responsible for proper escalation and documentation of all outstanding issues.

·   Racking, cabling and provisioning of customer and in-house servers.

·   Troubleshooting of physical infrastructure and data center equipment.

·   Responsible for maintaining Commvault tape backups.

·   Managing tape lists for recall backup service.

·   Participate in 24/7 shift work rotation.

 

Associate Applied Science, Computer Programming and Applications

Active Secret Government Clearance

Comp Tia Security+ Certified (Sys-301)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) - July 2009 - July 2012

Occupational Certificate (Network Associate)