Background Summary

Contact Information

Email:  nsjobsmail@gmail.com

Phone:  919.599.3177

Education

BS Electronics & Computer Tech, June/2001

Certifications:

·               CompTIA Security+

·               Sourcefire Certified Professional (SFCP)

·               AirDefense Certified Professional

·               Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

·               Brocade Professional IP Administrator (BPIPA)

Clearances:

·   Active Top Secret (TS) Clearance with SCI

Professional Experience:

·   Network Enterprise Architecture

(13+ years)

·   Network Enterprise Data Center

(13+ years)

·   Data Center Disaster Recovery

(8+ years)

·   Network Security (10+ years)

·   Wireless Security (4 years)

Skills/Technologies:

Brocade/Foundry (7 years)

·   Super X/Fast Iron GS/SX1600 switches

·   Net Iron MLX-e/Big Iron RX Routers

·   DCX8

Cisco (13+ years)

·   ASA/FWSM/PIX Firewalls

·   Nexus 7K/5K/4K/2K

·   L3 Switch/Routers

·   Cisco ACS 3.x to 5.x

·   Wireless 4400 Controllers

·   Thin or Light Weight Access Points

·   VOIP

Web Proxy (6+ years)

·   Bluecoat SG Proxy

·   Bluecoat Director

·   Bluecoat Reporter

·   McAfee Web gateway

·   Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance  Manager & Web proxies

·   Squid Proxy

Penetration Testing Wired/WIFI

(5 year)

·   Backtrack, Kali Linux

·   Knoppix

Air Defense – WIDS (3 years)

·   Sensors

·   Appliance

Source fire NIDs (5 years)

·   IPS/IDS

IBM ISS HIDS\NIDS (2 years)

·   IDS

·   HIDS

F5 Network (11 years )

·   F5 Firepass

·   GTM – Global Traffic Manager

·   LTM – Local Traffic Manager

·   ASM – App. Security Manager
 

Riverbed (OPNET) Technology (4 years)

·   VNE Server

·   IT Sentinel

·   IT Guru Network Planner

·   ARX Appliance

TOP Layer ( 2 years )

·   IPS
 

Clients/Projects/Contracts:

·               Department of Justice – Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)

·               Department of Defense - Army Knowledge Online (AKO)

·               Department Of Treasury - Office Of Financial Research (OFR)

·               US Army - NEC (Fort Knox)

·               Department Of Homeland Security (DHS) – Transportation Security Administration – (TSA)

·               Amtrak – IT Services

·               GE Capital Financial Services

·               GM Financial Services

·               GMAC

·               AFC

·               Belk

·               Florida Power & Light

·               Fluor Daniels

·               ILS

·               IRS

·               NASCO

·               Nationwide

·               Sears

·               GMAC

·               Medco

Namon Sloan

Experience Summary:

     I have over 15+ plus years of professional experience in Network Design, Support and Security.  Through my experience I’ve obtained a broad knowledge in network infrastructure technologies with expertise in customizing solutions that have specialized requirements.  The clients I have supported are the following, DOD Army (Fort Knox) via I3MP project, Army (Fort Belvoir) via AKO project, DHS (TSA) via ITIP project, Department Of Justice (DOJ) – Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Commercial Financial customers GE Capital, GM/GMAC and IBM Mainframe datacenter customers (Amtrak, Michelin, JC Penny’s, etc.).   I currently hold an active DOD TS clearance with SCI. 

Work Experience:

ICS-NETT- Washington, DC (02/2015 – Present)

Principle Network Engineer – Department of Justice (DOJ) - Federal Bureau

of Investigation – (FBI)

Responsibilities:

As a Principle Network Engineer, I provide operations support for Enterprise Infrastructure services along with Network Engineering.  I’m a subject matter expert for Enterprise load balancing.  I also support Firewall security technologies and Datacenter.  I manage the following technologies and vendors

Application Delivery Controller (ADC)/Load Balancer (SME)

·   F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM)

·   F5 Global Traffic Manager (GTM)

·   Cisco ACE 4K series and ACE Module 6509 blades

Security:

·   Juniper SRX/Netscreen firewalls

·   Cisco ASA firewall – 5500 & X series

·   Taclane KG-175A & KG-175D

L2/3 Switch & Routers

·   Cisco 2900, 3700, 4500 series switches

·   Cisco 4500, 6500-E, 6500-VSS switches, 7200 Routers

Datacenter

·   Nexus Datacenter Enterprise Infrastructure

·   Nexus TOR, SPINE and LEAF series switches (9K Architecture)

·   Datacenter CLOS Technology for cloud clusters

·   VPC, Peer-Switch, etc

Xcelerate Solutions - Fort Belvoir, VA (01/2014 – 02/2015)

Senior Network Architect/Engineer - US Army (AKO)

Responsibilities

As a Senior Network Engineer, I provide Network Architecture, engineering and

operations support for datacenter infrastructure services.  I manage the

following technologies and vendors.

Security:

·   Juniper Netscreen firewalls

·   Cisco ASA firewall – 5500 Series

·   Cisco ACS 5.x

·   Cisco NAC

·   Taclane's KG-174A & D, KIV-7M

Load Balancer

·   F5 LTM & GTM 11.x version, irules, specialized load balancing methods, along with custom health monitors.

L2/3 Switch & Routers

·   Cisco 2900, 3700, 4500 series switches

·   Cisco 6500, 7600 L3 switches

·   Cisco 2900 routers

Dynamic routing protocols, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP,

Standard and Extended ACL’s,

Cisco L3 switching SVI's and VRF’s

Datacenter Virtualization

·   Cisco Nexus 7K

·   VMware Vcenter 4.x, 5.x

·   VMware ESXi Hypervisor 3.x, 4.x, 5.x

·   Cisco UCS – Fabrics and Chassis

Server Administration

Sun, Oracle, Red hat, DNS, rsyslog, tftp, etc.

Microsoft AD 2008R2 administration (DNS,DHCP, etc)

Computer Science Corporation – (CSC) – Arlington, VA (04/29/13 – 01/2014)

Senior Security Engineer – TSA (Transportation Security Administration)

As an Engineer, I provide operation and maintenance support of security infrastructure devices. 

-          Cisco ASA Single & Multimode Firewalls (5500 Series)

o Remote (Anyconnect) & Site to Site administration

o ACL, Static/Dynamic Translation administration

-          McAfee (Web Washers) Web Proxies (Forward & Reverse)

-          Symantec Antivirus

-          IBM ISS HIDS & NIDS

-          Sourcefire NIDS

-          F5 Load Balancers (LTMs)

-          Cisco ACS, Ciscoworks, CSM administration

-          Solarwinds monitoring and management

Booz Allen and Hamilton, Mclean, VA, USA

Associate – Cyber Security Architect (06/2011 – 04/29/13))

As an Associate, provide technical expertise in developing cyber technology solutions for new commercial and DOD customers.  This includes gathering customer requirements, conducting analysis and testing solutions.

Clients - Projects

Treasury Departmental Office (DO) – Office Of Financial Resource (OFR)

(Network SME Architect/Engineer) – 10/01/12 - 06/2011

·   Manage Ciscoworks Prime 4.x and Cisco ACS 5.x VMware & appliances to support infrastructure.

·   Designed and Implemented Cisco MAB solution for OFR and other DO bureaus.

·   Managed Cisco Nexus 4KI and Security Enclave for OFR organization.

·   Experience with Nexus 4Ki, 5K and 7K in datacenter environments with Treasury (Designed, Configured, first deployment of  Enterprise QoS for DO infrastructure)

·   Managed Router ACL’s for Security Enclave for OFR organization.

·   Designed and Implemented QoS solution for DO enterprise to support VOIP infrastructure.  Also to support enterprise applications for OFR and other bureaus.

·   Modified design and configured ASA 5580-40 for a security enclave proposed design.

Client – Projects continued

Defense Acquisition University (DAU), Fort Belvoir

(F5 SME Architect/Engineer) – 05/01/12 - 10/01/12

Roles/Responsibilities

·               DIACAP Certification and Accreditation of Atlas Application

·               F5 Load Balancer Subject Matter Expert (SME)

Brocade Communication Systems, San Jose, CA

(Network Architect/Engineer) 10/01/10 – 06/24/2011

Strategic Business Systems - (A Brocade Company - Professional Services), Herndon, VA  (Network Architect/Engineer Consultant) 02/08/10 - 10/01/10

As a Brocade Resident Consultant, Mr. Sloan was responsible for the design and support of Brocade (Foundry) Infrastructure for DOD customer (Fort Knox NEC). 

He assessed customer requirements and network infrastructure on future architect design upgrades.  He replaced Extreme Network core with brocade high-end routers and switches.  He maintained DISA network security STIGs for Brocade layer 2 & 3 switches.  Also maintained server security STIGs for Sun Solaris and Windows 2008 servers.

Strategic Business Systems experience (contd)

DISA STIGS are the guidelines he used to test, assess, and evaluate technologies deployed within the infrastructure.  He scanned windows & Unix applications to verify if services are secure.    He evaluated the security of the network protocols used by the application with sniffers.

Application and Equipment Testing:

Brocade Switch/Router configuration

Cisco Switch/Router configuration

Cisco VOIP – Call Manager/Unity & IP Phone

Unix & Windows Server operating systems

Brocade Iron view Network Manager (INM) application

Computer Associate (CA) Spectrum Monitoring System application

Avaya VOIP infrastructure – CLAN & IP Phone connectivity

Unisys – Reston, VA

Network Architect 10/15/07 – 02/08/10

As a Network Architect, Mr. Sloan was responsible for supporting and designing DHS/TSA infrastructure.  His initial focus when starting on the TSA project was as a subject matter expert (SME) for F5 load balancers products.  He designed and tested new F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM) solution to upgrade old

F5 load balance WEB, Application, and backend database tiers.  He also worked with the Unisys SOC to review the current IDS/HIDS infrastructure for compliance against customer requirements.  This lead to an upgrade to replace the current Sourcefire IDS and IBM ISS NIDS.  He also took the lead as the AirDefense engineer on designing and testing Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) to protect the customer’s first wireless WI-FI Protected Access 2 (WPA2) AES-128 certificate based supplicant wireless system infrastructure.  He reviewed customer security requirements to update documentation on new architecture.  He evaluated requirements and new designs in a lab environment while documenting the as-builts for technical references in support of certification and accreditation.  Assisted in Cisco VOIP administrative tasks and upgrades for internal and remote customer locations.

Amtrak – Washington, DC

Network Architect/Senior Network Engineer (Full Time) 07/11/07 – 10/15/07

As a Network Architect, Mr. Sloan was responsible for designing all IT environments within the Amtrak Enterprise, with a heavy focus on the datacenter.  He reviewed customer requirements to evaluate the current infrastructure, and then designed solutions for IBM to fulfill current and future requirements.

IBM (International Business Machines) – Manassas, VA

Senior Network Engineer (Full Time) – (Amtrak Account) 03/21/05 – 07/11/07

As a Senior Network Engineer, Mr. Sloan was responsible for the design, implementation and management of network infrastructure for the Amtrak Datacenter and other campus network locations throughout the enterprise. His responsibilities were to monitor and maintain datacenter switches, routers, firewalls, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), Domain Name System (DNS), Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) servers, Cisco and F5 Load Balancers.  He worked with third party financial service vendors to maintain their connectivity to the Amtrak IBM mainframe.  He worked heavily with UNIX and Windows administrators on day-to-day requests, projects and issues.  He trained contractors to build a dedicated datacenter network team for maintaining daily operations and weekend maintenance updates. He managed the network personnel and on-call rotation.  He maintained network security for the Amtrak datacenter using the following technologies. 

Products:

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS)

Microsoft Windows Radius Server

Steel belt Radius Server

Cisco firewalls:  PIX 525, Firewall Service Module (FWSM), ASA 5510

Checkpoint firewalls:  Nokia, NG FP3 software

Cisco Routers:  2600, 3600 series

Cisco Switches:  Cat 4000, IOS 2900, 4006, 3700

Bluecoat Proxy Firewall

Products:  Continued…

Cisco local director

F5 Load Balancers:  Local Traffic Manager 1500, 3500

F5 Fire pass & Application Security Manager (ASM)

.

Financial Projects for Amtrak:

Project 1 – Quick tracks and Zappi Redesign

-          Re-designed and supported IBM Mainframe z/OS connections to the datacenter LAN to provide secure financial application communication.  These connections were for the Amtrak Kiosk’s across the United States to process financial transactions through F5 load balanced applications servers, then to F5 load balanced Microsoft Host Integration Servers then through FWSM to mainframe.

IBM (Amtrak) continued…

Project 2 – Internet Booking Internet & DMZ Distribution Redesign

-          Re-designed and supported Amtrak Internet booking frontend with F5 Load Balancers and F5 Application Security Manager (ASM) from threats across the world.  The common hacks were SQL injections and website modification Crawlers.  The F5 ASM appliance served as an application layer firewall to protect the customer web, application and database data from hacking attempts.

IBM (International Business Machines) – RTP, NC

Network Management Professional (Full Time) 06/01/01 – 03/21/05

(COOP to Full Time)03/02/01 – 06/02/02

As a Network Management Professional, Mr. Sloan was responsible for managing and troubleshooting E-business, IBM Internal, and Commercial customer account environments across the US and overseas.  He also monitored customer environments via Tivoli Netview or through E-business operation techs to detect network down issues for customer accounts.   He supported all IBM US-wide network Local Area Network (LAN)/Wide Area Network (WAN) infrastructure and managed Research Triangle Park (RTP) network infrastructure.  He was responsible for vendor management consisting of System Network Architecture (SNA), Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connectivity on the LAN/WAN for internal and commercial accounts within the IBM infrastructure.  He maintained network security for all IBM Internal datacenters, e-business, and commercial customers. 

Products used:

Cisco firewalls:  PIX 515E, 525, 535, Firewall Service Module (FWSM)

Cisco Routers:  2600,2800, 3800, 7200 series routers

Cisco L2/L3 Switches:  Cat 2900xl,  Cat 4000, 3500, 3700, 4006, 4500, 6509 series switches

Cisco VOIP infrastructure LAN support

Checkpoint firewalls:  Nokia, NG software

Cisco CSS load balancer

Alteon load balancers

Financial Projects for IBM:

Project 1 – GE Capital Financial Services

-          Maintained secure LAN IBM mainframe communication throughout the GE capital datacenter by Data Layer Switching (DLSW) on perimeter routers.  This merged the token-ring to Ethernet environments together for interoperability with secure IP/SNA communications.  ACL’s where also used as additional layer of protection.

IBM (Financial Projects) continued…

Project 2 – GMAC and GM Financial Services

-          Managed Checkpoint firewalls in a Multi-enterprise customer environment where datacenter to company communication was controlled heavily.  Push firewall rules and troubleshoot proposed network related issues.

Education

BS Electronics & Computer Tech, North Carolina A&T State University, 6/2001