Lead LAN/WAN network engineer, and lead systems administrator for Cisco, Aruba, Exchange, Linux, VMWARE , Microsoft Office365, Azure AD, Veeam, serving multi-location organization with 1300+ employees; manage and support WAN servicing 5 sites. Systems administration, network engineering, storage administration. Advising IT Manager on issues, and participating in creation of policy proposals, new initiatives and strategic plans. Lead administrator of current server pool, WAN/LAN network, and remote access systems, and VOIP systems. Analyze requirements for existing and planned applications, and provide recommendations for the use of the equipment, techniques, and software. Responsible for the development and implementation of strategies aimed at improved performance, enhanced disaster recovery capability, and redundancy. Deploy switching, routing, edge security systems, VPN, VOIP, SAN/NAS, and WAN, at HQ and remote offices. Oversee storage architecture and backup strategies, and develop enhancement plans for improved redundancy/disaster recovery. Deploy and maintain network security stack using Cisco next generation firewalls, Cisco ISE, SAML, RADIUS proxies, Desktop AV (defender/ESET)

Lead LAN/WAN network engineer, and lead systems administrator for Exchange, Linux, VMWARE ESXi, VSPHERE Center, and Windows, serving multi-location organization with 1300+ employees; provide support for national MPLS WAN servicing 4 sites. Systems administration, network engineering, storage administration. Advising IT Manager on issues, and participating in creation of policy proposals, new initiatives and strategic plans. Lead administrator of current server pool, WAN/LAN network, and remote access systems, and Shoretel VOIP systems. Analyze requirements for existing and planned applications, and provide recommendations for the use of the equipment, techniques, and software. Responsible for the development and implementation of strategies aimed at improved performance, enhanced disaster recovery capability, and redundancy. Deploy VPN, VOIP, SAN/NAS, and MPLS, at HQ and remote offices. Plan and deploy facility relocation strategy. Oversee storage architecture and backup strategies, and develop enhancement plans for improved redundancy/disaster recovery.

Designed, implemented and maintained corporate WAN via MPLS and VPN for 4 national sites. Designed, implemented and maintained enterprise VOIP solution Shortel. Provided support on customer facing projects that required extensive knowledge in Redhat, NIS, NFS, routing, NAT, and HTTP.

Lead LAN/WAN network engineer, and lead systems administrator for Cisco, Juniper Networks, Microsoft Exchange, Windows Server 2003, Solaris 10, RedHat, and SonicWall systems serving multi-location organization.

Responsible for all aspects of maintaining, troubleshooting and improving the Needham, MA facilities network infrastructure as well as being the lead person for the IT team in that location. Additional responsibilities include desktop, server and application support as needed. Report directly to the Network Operations Manager.