Sr. Network / Security Engineer | CDW 01/23 to PresentConsulting for Metropolitan Council. Project encamp Cisco Infrastructure grades.• Identify issues with Cisco Nexus 9500 series, 3850 Cat Switches, and wireless infrastructure and provide corrective action for upgrades• Providing upgrade feedback on Cisco ISE and Check Point firewall infrastructure• Upgrading IOS code on Cisco switches• Configuring vPC and interfaces for server migrations• Auditing IDF and DC for annual inspections• Evaluating Network Security Standards• Evaluating Data Center Improvements• Code Upgrades on Cisco infrastructure• Shadowing junior Engineers on projects and ticketing issue.• Going to customers sites to qualify Cisco wireless, switches and router setups.• Obtained Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Level 4 Security Certification• POC project for Palo Alto and Fortinet Firewalls

• Identify issues with Cisco Firepower and provide corrective action. • Identified active ACL rules on the c3750 cores switches to migrate to Cisco 5545 ASA.• Configured the new c9500 cores switches for Portsmouth and Paducah KY sites. • Spec’d out the fiber ports needed for the c9500 cores switches before rolling the devices to production.• Providing daily status update reports to management.

• Obtained my OSHA 10 certification. • Dailey meetings with Presidio, MSG management to review architectural floor plans.• Inventory incoming network infrastructure equipment and document it on spreadsheets.• Coordinate meetings to discuss leads times on equipment shipments.• Generate weekly status MSG Sphere reports.• Update Design engineer with change on leading times

• Racking, setting up and configuring Juniper SRX 550, SRX 320, EX 4200, EX 4550 and EX 4600. • Configuring BGP protocol on SRX 550, SRX 320 routers.• Utilizing Solar Winds to analysis traffic and TCPDUMP files on Wire Shark.• Troubleshooting issue with AVPN devices.• Making recommendations on policies and systems improvements.• Utilizing Solar Winds to monitor and troubleshoot • Utilizing Service Now for change control and service tickets.• Acting standby implementation and designing with Aruba Wireless System with ClearPass.• Protocols: BGP and OSPF

Security Network Engineer: (09/20 to 03/21) TEKSystems contracted for Promega, Inc. Projects on Cisco Firepower and ASA remediation. • Updating code on Cisco ASA FTD 5506, 5512 and 5545 with the use Cisco Firepower Management Console.• Upgrading code on Cisco Firepower Management Console to 6.6.1.• Configuring VPN policies on Firepower Management Console.• Troubleshooting issue with Cisco ISE 2.4.0.357, QRadar v7.2.8• Utilizing Observium to monitor outages, IPAM to reference IP subnets, and MY WORK to create Change Requests for maintenances.• Making recommendations on policies and systems improvements.

Network Engineer: (12/19 to 06/20) Diag Partners contracted for Thomson Reuters. Projects on Data Center Migration. Migrating Data Centers from London, Dallas to Eagan Data Centers. Platforms: AWS, Azure and Data Center Infrastructure.• Supporting Cisco Nexus 9000, 5000, 6509 Cat and 4515R switches, Cisco ASR 1001, 4321 routers and F5 load balancers.• Configuring ACL Cisco ASA 5500 Firewalls, Check Point and Palo Alto Firewalls.• Configuring L3 and L2 VLAN’s, configuring Prefix list on BGP policies. • Utilizing Wire Shark to pin point routing issue on ACI, Firewall and routers.• Configure Direct Connects and routing and ACL on AWS and Azure.• Using Service Now to create Changer requests for maintenance.• Evaluating AWS firewalls, Palo Alto, and Check Point.• Troubleshooting BGP protocols.

Network Engineer II: (09/18 to 06/19) Experis contracted for Stratasys. Supporting Stratasys Global Network Infrastructure. Consisting of 2 Data Centers, and 48 WAN Sites. • Supporting Cisco Nexus 5000, 4515R, and 3850 switches, Cisco ASR 1001, 4321 routers and F5 load balancers, Cisco 5508 Wireless Controllers in the Data Center infrastructure.• Consulting: Making recommendations on Infrastructure Cisco ASA Firewall and F5 Load balancers LTM, ASM and Cisco Firepower.• Supporting Cisco Call Manager 10.5.2, Cisco Firepower 6.3.0 and Cisco ISE 7.2.0.470, configuring Policies and troubleshooting issue.• Supporting AWS cloud services and Zscaler cloud services.• Mentoring Junior Network Engineers on configuration and troubleshooting issues for Cisco routers, switches and firewalls.• RCA: Live Action Netflow• Attending CAB meetings for Change requests implementation and ITIL requests.• Updating code on Cisco 4351 Routers. • Upgrading Live Action and Cisco Prime Infrastructure 3.4.• Protocols: BGP, VRF, HSRP, EIGRP, IPSec, STP, and MPLS.• Venders: Century Link, Verizon and AT&T• Rotational On-Call.