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Beverly Hills, California, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Migrated Nationwide Interior Design conglomerate to Fortigate Firewall from Meraki firewall. Designed and built out Data Center network of Dell 4048 and 4148 switches with VLT for ESx private cloud. Designed and installed Meraki MS120, MS250 Switches, HA MX450 Firewalls and MR86 AP’s for a nine site community wifi network for the City of Hopewell. Migrated 5 site Santa Cruz Biotech from Cisco routers and catalyst 2960 switches to 5 new Fortigate 40F, 100F firewalls with Meraki switches. Installed new Fortigate 40F, 60E firewalls to over 30 branches of a medical rehab facility in New England. Installed new Fortigate 100E HA firewalls for New England Patriots’ voice network. Installed fully redundant and secure Wan, connecting 8 branch Texas Bay Federal Credit Union with data center and bank headquarters, incorporating a combination of L2 and L3 MPLS with VPN tunnels, utilizing BGP with an OSPF overlay routing infrastructure to enable ECMP across multiple paths between all branches. Migrated Neurological clinical network in New York from PFsense firewalls to new Fortigate 200E Firewalls and 221E AP’s. Migrated customers from Sonicwall, PFSense, Cisco ASA and Watchguard to Fortigate firewalls. Upgraded Acadia Credit Union to Fortigate Firewalls with redundant inter-site links composed of private fiber circuits and VPN/SDWAN. Installed new Fortigate firewalls and AP’s for Vaughan Nelson financial services at their offices in Texas and Chicago.Expertise: Fortigate firewalls from the 40F up to the 500E. Fortigate switches including 124 series and the 1024 series. FortiAP’s various models. Meraki MX firewalls from 64 up to 450. Meraki MS switches from L2 only 120 series to L3 250 series. Meraki AP’s including MR32, MR33, MR46, MR 76 and MR 86. Fortianalyzer and Fortimanager.

Network Redesign for Regional School System including regional Highschool plus outer island elementary and middle schools. Reconfigured 30+ Cisco 3750 and 3550 switches. Installed and configured PfSense firewalls/VPN gateway for security, monitoring, QoS, Load balancing and improved circuit utilization of regional high School. Installed new computer systems and networks for local architecture and landscape architecture firms. Consulted with Town of Bar Harbor for new phone system. Assisted with Town of Bar Harbor LAN and WAN switch upgrades and data center network LAN and SAN switch fabric based on Cisco 3750 and Netgear 10Gb switches.

Worked to grow small computer consulting firm to take on larger customers with more advanced security and networking needs. Evaluated Acadia National Park (ANP) network and voice system and proposed upgrades. Developed thin client Xen hosted solution for ANP agents. Maintained Schoodic Education and Research Center’s (SERC’s) 25 Cisco 3750 switches and one ASA firewall. Upgraded Bar Harbor Savings & Loan PBX to hosted system with new Yealink phones. Designed and installed OpenMesh Wi-Fi networks for Hotels, Inns and campgrounds. Installed point-to-point wireless links and point-to-multipoint IPsec VPN. Designed and installed openVPN client-to-network. Installed both hosted and on-premise phone systems. Designed and implemented call-flow. Installed Synology Network Attached Storage for video storage for Diver Ed’s Dive-In Theater. Troubleshooting of VoIP. Designed and installed new fiber, switches and Wifi networks for SERC onsite housing complex. Administered Grandstream UCM (Asterisk based) PBX. Configured and installed Yealink and Polycom VoIP phones. Designed and installed Ubiquiti Litebeam AC point-to-point wireless links. Configured Spectrum analog and SIP trunk.PfSense firewalls. Cisco/Netgear/TP-Link switches. OpenMesh wifi. Grandstream and Yealink VoIP phones, Grandstream UCM PBX. Spectrum SIP trunks. Cisco 3650 and 3750 Switches. Cisco ASA routers.

Evaluated and Designed mobile network solution for American Red Cross’s mobile ERP solution. Developed test criteria for mobile cellular network equipment and executed testing. Performed field testing of Cradlepoint cellular network gateways. Troubleshoot WAN/DHCP, Administer Cisco Meraki wireless network. Performed extensive surveys of wifi and cellular coverage of American Red Cross facilities all over New England. Performed systems upgrades at locations throughout Southern California.

Developed and executed highly detailed Data Center Network upgrades for Dell Networking customers. Completed systems discovery as part of upgrade planning. Highly detailed cable planning, IP address accounting and power budgets. Built multi-vendor integrated systems for Fortune 100 customers. Designed and installed Equalogic and Compellent iSCSI SAN’s as per best practices. Performed Sonicwall Firewall configuration. Designed Dell M1000e blade server chassis configuratios and supervised installation and integration with customer network. Built prototype private cloud platform based on BGP, IPv4 and IPv6 for Dell/Microsoft. Designed and installed Virtualization hardware solutions for VMware ESX, Hyper-V, Xen. Performed IT Assessments and produced as-built design documents. Reviewed and advised on Network Architecture. Surveyed Hangers at McConnell Air Force Base for new wifi network. Upgraded network at the Philadelphia Prison Systems campus in North Philadelphia for the inmate computer systems. Installed Dell switches for the 6 campus Metropolitan Community College in Kansas City. Installed new data center switches for eClinicalworks’ private cloud at data centers in Atlanta and New Jersey. Designed and installed data center fabric for Aprimo in Indianapolis IN. Installed Dell switches and Blade chassis systems for various customers, including Harvard University, US Army, Aramco, Arlington Community Federal, Bayer Healthcare, Boeing, Chicago Public Schools, Cities of Austin, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Murfreesboro and Philadelphia, Cree, Education Networks of America, Fidelity Investment, Interstate Battery System, Jefferson Parish Schools, Lockheed CMS, MD Anderson, Miami Dade County, New York Life, Ohio State University, Procter & Gamble, Samsung SDS America, Stanford University, ToysRUs, Verizon Wireless.Expertise: MLAG/VLT, IPv6, OSPF, BGP, iSCSI, Dell M1000e chassis, MXL i/o blades, z9000, s55, s60, s4810, s4820. VMWare network integration, Xen and Hyper-V.

Bar Harbor, Me, Us

Built record of improving reliability, performance, and security. Provided troubleshooting and network development services via range of roles and positions, working remotely, independently, as part of team, and supervising technical staff. Oversaw 2500 node network, developed partnerships with the University of Maine and local LEC to build fiber optic network from Bar Harbor to Boston. Completed thorough network analysis and redesign to evaluate and recommend changes - improved security, performance and reliability. Network Engineering● Designed and implemented network upgrade; deployed gigabit to the desktop with PoE, 10Gb uplinks to redundant core. Installed collapsed datacenter network with support for line rate 1 and 10Gbps. ● Migrated DNS/DHCP services to Infoblox cluster. Implemented IPAM. Managed complex DHCP configuration● Administered Checkpoint FW/VPN with site-to-site VPN and dynamic routing.● Installed and managed Juniper WAN Accelerator and VPN Gateway● Managed complete network redesign with new IP address scheme following best practices and supporting complex business requirements.Troubleshooting● Performed rapid detection and proactive troubleshooting of LAN, WAN, DNS, DHCP and wireless issues using combination of Splunk, Nagios, What’s Up Gold, Kiwi Cattools, Appneta Pathview, Network Instruments Observer and Cisco Wireless Control Server. ● Adept at troubleshooting low grade performance issues, such as latency variance and low grade packet loss that affect applications but don't causing a full outage.● Installed enterprise wireless network. Developed requirements, bid out project, supervised design consultants, deployed and configured new system. Wireless network grew to 350 wireless access points and 8 wireless LAN Controllers in several locations.Network / Telecom Management

Ba, Philosophy

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Philosophy