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Gainesville, Fl, Us

Gainesville, Florida, Us

* Provide network engineering support including maintenance, networking upgrade solutions, design and operations support in a 24x7x365 environment for the University of Florida's 800G Enterprise backbone/network.* Design, implement, manage and support the University of Florida's 800G backbone, 600+ layer3 building PoP's, 2 Datacenters, dual 400G boundary, etc...* Design, implement, manage and support multi-homed boundary egress/ingress dual 100G and 400G connectivity.* Design, implement, manage and support 2 geographically and logically separate data centers for the University of Florida.* Manage and support the University of Florida's Cisco VPN concentrator's.* Implement, manage and support SNMP management and monitoring tools.* Design, implement & manage the network management network for the University of Florida.* Lead technical activities and projects to design and support network topologies and services based on best practices and proven technologies.* Anticipate and interpret business and customer needs, assess requirements and identify solutions.

Tallahassee, Florida, Us

http://www.flrnet.org* Provide network engineering support including maintenance, networking upgrade solutions, design and operations support in a 24x7x365 environment for the FLR's 400G State of Florida optical backbone/network.* Provide guidance, support, services for 100+ FLR connectors.* Design, implement, manage and support multi-homed Internet connectivity with 100's of network peers.* Design, implement & manage the network management network for the University of Florida.* Lead technical activities and projects to design and support network topologies and services based on best practices and proven technologies.* Anticipate and interpret business and customer needs, assess requirements and identify solutions.

Gainesville, Fl, Us

* Provide network engineering support including maintenance, networking upgrade solutions, design and operations support in a 24x7x365 environment for UF&Shands Academic Health Center.* Design, implement, manage and support the UF&Shands AHC 10 Gig backbone, 10 Gig distribution and access layer networks (6 hospitals, 25 clinics, 7 labs, 6 UF health related colleges, 6 major research institutes, 46,000+ active ports/interfaces)* Design, implement, manage and support Cisco WiSM controller based wireless network supporting multiple corporate, clinical and guest SSID's covering 3.5 million sq. ft. of hospital, clinic, office, academic and research floor space using 2x fully redundant 6500's, 8x WiSM modules, 1800 AP's.* Design, implement, manage and support multi-homed boundary egress/ingress connectivity using Palo Alto 5050. (PA replaced Cisco FWSM & Juniper ISG2000* Design, implement, manage and support the Shands HealthCare Metropolitan Area Network (MAN) around the city of Gainesville FL.* Design, implement, manage and support 2 geographically and logically separate data centers for Shands HealthCare and UF HSC.* Networking with VMWare environments.* Design, implement, manage and support UF&Shands AHC network side of the VoIP deployment (Shands = 1000 wired and wireless NEC IP phones; UF HSC = approx. 6000 wired and wireless Cisco IP phones).* Manage and support Shands Health Care Cisco 3030 VPN concentrator.* Implement, manage and support SNMP management and monitoring tools.* Design, implement & manage the network management network for UF&Shands AHC.* Design, implement & manage the UF&Shands FreeRadius infrastructure.* Lead technical activities and projects to design and support network topologies and services based on best practices and proven technologies.* Anticipate and interpret business and customer needs, assess requirements and identify solutions.

* Administration and configuration of the Adelphia Communications backbone (AS19548).* Administration and configuration of the Adelphia Communications HSI/HSD network (AS7843).* Administration and configuration of Juniper Networks M10i, M20, M40E, M160 and T320 series routers used for core routing, distribution, peering and access layers.* Administration, configuration and support multi-homed peering and transit sessions with multiple AS's.* Administration , configuration and support of multi-platform Juniper and Cisco routers for WAN connectivity using static routes, OSPF, ISIS and BGP routing protocols.* A real understanding of the Internet.* Configure, administer and support the Adelphia HSI/HSD network containing Cisco Catalyst 5500, 6500, 7600 series switches in layer 2 and layer 3 implementations.* Configure, administer and support CiscoIOS and CatOS running in native and hybrid deployments.* Configure, administer and support the Adelphia Data Center containing Cisco 12000 GSR's, 6500's, 3560's in layer 2 and layer 3 implementations.* Configure, administer and support the Adelphia Cable TV IP multicast network containing Cisco 8500's, 7600's, 6500's in layer 2 and layer 3 implementations.* Configure, implement, administer and support Sandvine traffic policy servers.* Installation and support of various 3rd party vendor circuits (T1, DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48).* Configure, administer and support Juniper and Cisco router Firewall Filters/Access Control Lists.* Facilitate network outages and change managements.* Serve as on-call backbone and HSI/HSD network engineer.* Configure and support SNMP network monitoring and management.* Facilitate hardware replacements and hardware upgrades for Juniper routers and Cisco equipment.* Juniper JUNOS and Cisco IOS software upgrades.

Broomfield, Colorado, Us

* Implemented networks for fortune 100 and fortune 500 companies (front-end internet connections, backend connectivity).* Provide top-level escalation and support for the ISE department.* Provide layer 1 through 4 support for 450+ co-location customers.* Manned Global Crossing's NYC LGA and JFK central offices.* Facilitate scheduled and emergency maintenances Provide analysis and recommendations pertaining to network optimization and enhancements in order to improve performance, increase efficiency and reduce costs.on Cisco 12000, 7500, 6500, 5500 series routers and switches.* Installation, configuration and support of customer LAN/WAN environments.* Support of customer and facility circuits (T1, DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48, POS).* Monitoring and support of Global Crossing and Global Center LAN/WAN network issues.* Had hands in turning up the first OC192.