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Seattle, WA, US

• Partner with customers to design and build scalable cloud architectures; act as a trusted customer advocate and technical advisor.
• Collaborate with CIO, CTO, and CISO to develop business strategy, key performance indicators, risks, and risk mitigation strategies. Work directly with C-suite to develop policy for cloud adoption following best.
• Work with CISO and cybersecurity teams to establish baselines for AWS security services, application and cloud log collection, monitoring and notification, and incident response runbooks
• Guide developer teams through Well Architected Reviews offering recommendations for building secure, reliable, performant, and cost-optimized workloads in AWS
• Promote AWS service best practices through blogs, speaking engagements, and whiteboarding sessions
• Provided mentorship to internal employees and external individuals looking to advance their careers in technology.

Oakton, Virginia, US

• Provide expert level technical leadership to a team of 15 senior network engineers
• Build a centralized logging appliance for log collection and analysis
• Build an Ansible environment to automate network operations
• Lead a team of Ansible engineers to automate daily tasks using Ansible
• Write code in Python and Jinja2 to automate repetitive tasks, perform Linux management operations for regulatory compliance
• Write and deploy Ansible playbooks to automate configuration management

Oakton, Virginia, US

• Design, configure, and maintain a high throughput, highly available, ultra-low latency core devices in a service provider network
• Design, install, and manage Palo Alto aggregate services firewalls in a core network
• Develop, test and implement next generation IPsec encryption and authentication technology for the highest security of data in transit
• Administer Linux systems including the initial configuration, ongoing operations and maintenance, and automation of tasks via cron jobs
• Perform advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution for complex network problems
• Create network designs using Microsoft Visio for engineer review boards and customer briefings

• Designed and implemented a dual DMVPN environment with stub routing technology using OSPF, EIGRP, and NHRP
• Designed and implemented a dual WAN network using MPLS as primary transport
• Tested and implemented Next Generation IPsec encryption and authentication technology to enhance end-to-end security
• Performed advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution of the most complex network problems
• Evaluated and monitored health and performance of the network using Solarwinds
• Continually researched and tested vendors’ hardware and technology including Cisco (routers, switches, and ASAs), Juniper, McAfee, Forcepoint, FireEye, and Palo Alto

Reston, Virginia, US

• Provide expert level support on high priority projects with short deadlines
• Work extensively with network concepts, best practices, and technologies including, but not limited to AAA, SSH, IPsec tunnels, DMVPN, NHRP, RADIUS, TACACS, stateful firewalls, access control lists, configuring and.
• Design and implement network virtualization including, but not limited to, VMware vSphere ESXi hypervisors and Amazon Web Services, Brocade Vyatta 5400 routers, and Juniper vSRX firewalls
• Full life cycle engineering: design, configuration, implementation, and management
• Perform testing of OS upgrades and deploy updates to production devices

Chantilly, VA, US

• Completed Palo Alto Networks installation, configuration, and management training (EDU-201)
• Completed Palo Alto Networks cyberthreat management course (EDU-231)
• Completed Palo Alto Networks advanced debugging and troubleshooting (EDU-311)
• Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Juniper SSG, SRX, and virtual Juniper devices
• Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Cisco routers switches, and ASAs
• Extensive experience implementing, configuring, and managing Vyatta virtual routers

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• First article network engineering design, pilot, and implementation projects with a focus on network security at a customer location
• Responsible for the programmatic control of a minimum of 20 concurrent projects
• Gain project concurrence at customer required enterprise control gates
• Provide guidance concerning engineering and cost to meet program objectives
• Oversee lab testing of next generation firewalls, produce documentation, and present results to government management for selection as enterprise standard
• Access knowledge bases on the Internet to aid in troubleshooting

Norfolk, VA, US