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Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

● Managing multiple concurrent architecture projects to create unified feature setacross the group that we have acquired as a VC backed acquisition horse.● Migrations to a single Juniper MX platform from varying legacy platforms such as Cisco 6500series, Extreme Networks of various Ethernet / IP services such as VPLS, L2VPN,L3VPN, VLAN, DWDM, Amplification with EDFA.● Working with vendors on strategy and long term fixes to bugs or feature requests● New PoP architecture and best practice design● Project creation, design and implementation not limited to: requirements captures, LLD, HLD, budgets, purchasing, rack design, configuration, documentation and handing over to support. ● Risk Management / Risk Reduction across PoPs and backbone estate.● Juniper MX / QFX / EX based Equipment

Datacentre MigrationNetwork RedesignNetwork Migration and Optimisation

Twyford

* Designed and implemented business case to perform datacentre consolidation project to make more efficient use of budget, designed and implemented the project to migrate customers seamlessly between facilities and decommission old PoPs.* Managed Microsoft ExpressRoute over Equinix Cloud Exchange relationship and network configuration across a multitude of devices including Cisco ASA multiple context, Cisco ASR 9001 (ios-xr), Nexus 5000 Series (nx-os), Cisco UCS.* Managed relationships with RIPE, Datacentres, Transit providers, critical private peering links etc.* Managed corporate VPN with PFsense/OpenVPN and radius backing on to corporate Active-Directory.* Managed corporate offices wifi with vlan separation between organisational units, guests and the public, WPA2-PSK, Radius, POTD, Captive Portal, Ubiquiti UAP. * Deployed the following technologies: Oxidized configuration management, Observium and Opsview monitoring, Logging Logstash, Graylog, MongoDB.* Produced teamwork flow using Kanban boards and Gantt Charts, provided weekly updates to senior management on progress/blockers/needs. Managed Team budget and expenses.

Reading & Maidenhead, United Kingdom

• Acted as the network resource in a committee of five who organised the migration of 400 racks of physical dedicated servers from four datacentres nationwide, in to one new purpose built datacentre in only nine months with minimal downtime, no renumbering and multiple other constraints. • Conducted an RFP process to select a next generation network core to aid in datacentre migration, determined hardware and software needs, then worked with vendors to negotiate a discount frame work. Deployed network ahead of schedule and under budget.• Reduced costs continuously by re-negotiating contracts and providing add-on services by utilising network technology potential.• Routing: Extreme Networks x450a , Cisco 6500/7600 and latterly Juniper MX 480/960 routers, fluent at migrating customers between these devices with minimal downtime. • Switching: Extreme x350/x430/x440, Cisco 4948/4900M, Juniper EX-Series.• Managed the peering relationships for this ASN, multiple Private Network Interconnects for key links, Multiple public exchange presences, route optimisation with standard BGP techniques to improve routing for clients. (as-path, local-preference, BGP communities etc.)• Managed BGP downstream customers relationships, correct use of prefix-filtering, route-objects and scaling features such as no-announce communities, blackholing etc. to ensure customers satisfaction.• Proxy-arp, Route Injection, MLAG, L2VPN, Pseudowires, QinQ, MPLS (RSVP) , P + PE, Maintenance configuration scripts to move traffic off circuits and withdraw prefixes at exchanges.

Maidenhead, United Kingdom

• Implemented DWDM network across six datacentres spanning 350km of dark fibre. Able to calculate optical loss/attenuation, understand affects of poor splicing, fibre characteristics such as CD and PMD on the optical infrastructure.• Migrated customers from Extreme Networks BD8k Routers to Cisco 7600 Routers with minimal downtime.• Built two self healing vendor diverse metro ring networks for layer 2 requirements using Extreme Networks EAPS and Foundry Networks MRP protocols, Supported these two networks through outages, upgrades, customer add/move/changes requests and platform upgrades.• Handled the design, specification and rollout of customer Ethernet solutions, including sitting in on sales meetings to discuss with customer technical representatives. Able to respond to RFP documents for tenders to larger corporations.• Rolled out IPv6 to all Internal and External customers within six months and assisted in educating internal teams.• Puppet, OpenBGPd, Quagga, Cisco IOS, Juniper JunOS, Extreme Ware and XOS, automated Blackholing, BGP Triggered Black holing, Opsview, RRDtool, ARP/ND.

United Kingdom

• Internet network consultancy work for many of the company’s clients performing all manner of tasks including 2nd line, 3rd line and out of hours support as well as network design and consultancy. • Designed and physically implemented BGP networks from scratch assisting clients with choice of vendors, providers and business model, assistance with security and best practice. Also provided assistance to existing networks to reduce costs, improve performance or mitigate network issues.• Trained up members of my team to provide them with the knowledge to deal with common tasks in addition to unusual problems.• Maintained and grew one of the first self healing Ethernet metro ring networks in London offering cheap reliable interconnects between sites for a client. Ran the NOC on behalf of the client doing everything from new provides to adds/moves/changes to dealing with outages, fibre cuts and customer emergencies.• Managed Internet connections in a hotel chain for a client utilising a variety of lease line technologies and provided seamless failover to lower capacity SDSL/ADSL technologies in the event of a failure.• BGP4, HSRP, VRRP, OSPF, Route Injection, Route Reflection, OSPF3, IPv4, IPv6, Cisco 800-7600, Cisco 2900-6500. Cisco 350x Wireless, QOS, VOIP, Asterisk, VLAN, P-VLAN, ACL, rate/policy limiting. RANCID config management. IP / Vlan Management, Subnetting, Sflow/Netflow/Jflow in to NfDump/Nfsen. DDOS detection and mitigation.

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