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West Palm Beach, Fl, Us

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Us

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Fl, Us

⁃ Stage, rollout & support the companies’ enterprise network operations, which consists of 800+ Juniper (SRX & EX) sites with connections to both data centers and cloud based environments.⁃ Assist and advise multiple internal teams to implement projects and troubleshoot outages. Provide mentoring and knowledge transfer to other engineers.⁃ Provide technical services and support for the following areas: Network level: WAN and LAN connectivity, routers, firewalls, and security Internal systems, cloud and network infrastructure. Remote access solution support: VPN, Terminal Services, and Citrix⁃ Configure networks to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes.⁃ Ensure network connectivity of all servers, workstations, telephony equipment, and other network appliances.⁃ Practice network asset management, including maintenance of network component inventory and related documentation and technical specifications information.⁃ Monitor and test network performance and provide network performance statistics and reports.

Orlando, Florida, Us

• Responsible for the operation, implementation, and maintenance of provider's network/telecommunications infrastructure. This is a mixed vendor environment with Juniper, Cisco, Brocade, etc.• Played an integral part in the testing and implementation of provider's high availability network to meet 99.999% (five nines) reliability. The core of this network consists of Juniper MX480s that has ACX5ks (PEs) at its edges.• Provided assistance and escalation level support for the IP/MPLS/Transport network to internal departments, customers & vendors. • Completed Projects: Migrated South West Florida customer base from legacy network to new carrier grade network; Built geo-redundant Corporate DNS farm; Assisted in the turn-up of CMTS property; Implemented Google Caching Servers & Netflix Content Servers; Solarwinds Server upgrade (Central & South West); Email Redundancy.

• Directed all of the client’s IT support services.• Mapped out the scope and gathered the requirements necessary to seamlessly migrate the client’s entire infrastructure to "the cloud" (Hosted Services).• Coordinated the entire implementation process without data loss or downtime.• Completely eliminated the need for ongoing IT support.

• Built a profitable Mixed Martial Arts supply business.• Managed all technology initiatives and directions.• Performed contract negotiations with vendors.• Conducted the day-to-day operations related to providing product fulfillment services.

Miramar, Fl, Us

• Responsible for Level II IP network support services for ship-to-shore voice and data communications resolving over 200+ cases. • Designed and coordinated multiple Cisco/Linux/Windows based projects - configuring and performing build outs on devices such as: Satellite Netmodems; Cisco Routers (1700-7200) & Switches (1900-6509); Access Points; Laptops/Desktops/Servers running a variety of operating systems. • As part of the first deployment team, performed cruise ship & oil rig conversions. • Lead HQ Colocation and major voice/data upgrades. Implemented ISDN PRI for Royal Caribbean International. Migrated frame-relay connections to MPLS. • Acted as the single POC to coordinate efforts between IT teams, internal business units and customers. Trained and mentored newly hired support staff and collaborated daily with my peers.

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• Implemented and integrated a Cisco PIX Firewall solution.• Created VPN IPSec encrypted site-to-site tunnel connecting V1.0 Systems, Inc. to their customer, a major medical liability corporation, based in New York.• Supported Credit Check’s infrastructure, applications and daily operations.• Upgraded existing 100Mbps to a 1Gbps connection. Renewed their 128bit Thawte Certificate.• Enhanced their system performance through benchmarks and testing.

Boston, Ma, Us

• As the Applications Integrator, my role was to support all users’ front-end applications and document these applications’ installation procedures to prepare them for the package creation process.• Coordinated the implementation of SMS into the production environment giving the Applications Development team the ability to troubleshoot and deploy applications remotely ("push" technology).• Successfully removed the Applications Integrator, a crucial position, from this location.• Enhanced data center security by scanning all ports in use and identified their functionality as it pertained to the servers’ applications, services, components, and OS.• As the Infrastructure Support Specialist provided tier 2 network and server support services to a data center consisting of 133-enterprise class servers and Cabletron switches. I maintained configuration responsibilities of their corporate Firewall.• Creatively designed and presented a possible DR solution for implementing redundancy in a Cisco LAN/WAN environment - connecting 4 geographically dispersed GE Businesses.• Performed cost and product analysis in a LAN upgrade project. This involved evaluating current and potential network equipment and finding suitable replacements.