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Medford, Nj, Us

Medford, Nj, Us

.Joined the Network and Security Team at Holman.Extended the company's data centers into Microsoft's Azure for cloud-based hosted solutions including Data Factory, Power-BI, and Synapse..Expended and maintained an international network with a presence in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia..Worked with large service providers to extend the organization's MPLS network to many global locations.Engineered complex BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP solutions in order to enable communication among the various parts of the global and local networks.Lead a project to engineer and deployed an organization-wide WIFI network using the cloud base Meraki dashboard and a variety of Access Points including the MR46 and MR76..Engineered and supported wired and wireless LANs at the company's various locations including Disaster Recovery using a variety of vendor equipment from Cisco, Meraki, HP/Aruba, and others..Operated a variety of firewalls from Palo Alto, Cisco and FortiGate.Received security notification through a SecureWorks service and acted accordingly.Supported a variety of Load Balancers including F5 and Kemp.Engineered and supported SSL/IPSEC Remote Access and Site to Site VPN solutions using Cisco ASA firewalls, Barracuda, Cisco ACS as a Radius/Tacacs appliance, Verisign Enterprise Gateway, and VIP Manager for 2-factor authentication. .Provided monitoring and troubleshooting using a variety of tools such as a Linux-based Syslog server, Kiwi Cat Tools for system backups and change management, Statseeker for bandwidth utilization, circuits health monitoring, and capacity management, Scrutinizer for NetFlow statistics, Orion’s Solar Winds for network monitoring and IP management, and other tools such Cacti and PRTG.

Mullica Hill, Nj, Us

As a senior network manager/specialist, covered all aspects of acquiring, designing, installing, securing, maintaining and managing data and voice communications over wired and wireless networks.•Led major projects to renovate and innovate the organization's network infrastructure.•Performed wired and wireless network engineering and management (Cisco and Alcatel). •Divided a flat network based on few large broadcast domains into an error resilient network with multiple smaller broadcast domains. •Removed reliance on static routing by implementing dynamic routing based on OSPF and BGP.•Removed single points of failures by implementing redundancy at the WAN layer, and all LAN layers including, core, distribution, and access layers. •Changed the organization’s Internet access from a single access point to a fully redundant multihomed Internet access with load sharing using policy routing, BGP, and virtual security firewall environments. •Added redundancy and security to the wireless network by duplicating the number of wireless controllers in a dynamic failover setup. Transforming the antennas from 802.11bg to 802.11a and 802.11n, replacing WEP by WPA2 EAP and 802.1x.•Managed the organization’s firewalls (Netscreen and Cisco ASA) and VPN access using IPSEC, GRE and SSL.•Acquired and deployed snmp, netflow/sflow network management tools, reporting tools such as Solarwinds Kiwi syslog server and viewer and Network Observer, diagnosing tools such as Network Instrument’s Gigastore. •Administered the network enabling services such as DHCP and DNS. Replaced Window’s server by fully redundant Blue Cat’s Proteus and Adonis platforms.•Implemented network configurations to accommodate IP multicast applications, QoS for telephony and video conferencing, policy routing, WCCP and other features.•Designed and tested the organization’s disaster recovery plans.

Hired as a consultant and was engaged by Dow Jones to:•Streamline the project requirement gathering process and help create a Statement of Work template to be used in better scoping future projects for resources and budget allocation. •The engagement was extended to provide support to the engineering team and work on various network related projects including an IP Multicast project that provided Dow Jones a faster ticker symbol system and a clear advantage over the competition.

Hired as a consultant to take the lead on a number of projects aimed at improving Bear Sterns e-commerce and market data networks. Led a team of six network engineers to replace Nortel routers by Cisco routers at the network's core layer and to manage over 100 Netscreen firewalls.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Mba

Mis (Management Information Systems), Bachelor Honours Degree