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Results-driven IT specialist with an impressive four-year tenure as a network engineer, managing and operating classified, unclassified and coalition networks. Highly skilled in swiftly identifying and resolving network disruptions, while also providing leadership and training to enhance team capabilities. Equipped with the expertise to provide efficient configuration management, strategic planning, and seamless integration, to elevate, expand and sustain network capabilities.

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  Network Engineer

  United States Air Force

  Oct 2020 - Present - Ramstein Air Base, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

  • Leading a dynamic team of 6-8 members in ongoing network infrastructure projects and trouble tickets, providing training and guidance through quarterly rotations.• Maintaining complex 3-tier Cisco networks made up of 1500+ network devices (Catalyst 9k, 3850, 2960x, Nexus, ISR, ASR).• Proficiently manage classified network using 400+ General Dynamics TACLANEs via GemOne, employing redundant DMVPN tunnels for enhanced security and resilience.• Monitoring security, network uptime, and disaster recovery via SolarWinds and Cisco DNA Center.• Support organizations for network connectivity, i.e., SecureView, VDI, VTC, ACBN, BICES, BlackNet, and Wireless.• Standardized network designs and architectures bringing L3 down into the distribution layer and reducing hop-count for end-devices through efficient and redundant data paths.• Implemented and managed 600+ Aruba wireless access points providing unclassed AFNET connectivity.• Planned, constructed, and upgraded classified L3 and L2 network. Installed 2 ASRs with DMVPN capabilities which included configuring and replacing over one hundred Cisco switches• Lead technician for seamless Moron AB network integration into Ramstein AB's infrastructure, executing a full hardware refresh with minimal downtime in coordination with internal and external Air Force teams.• Designed, developed, and implemented new network transport solution for classified network in expeditionary communication kits.• Efficiently managed the replacement of more than four hundred end-of-life Cisco 3600, 3700, 2900, and 3800 model switches with 9300 series model switches, significantly enhancing network performance and reliability.• Selected to lead TDY assignment at Lajes AF Base, taking charge of restoring the SolarWinds server, essential for mission-critical network monitoring.