Consulting to a Major International Defence and Civilian Manufacture of Kerosene powered Spinny Things.

On the Transport Security and Audit TeamEngineering and Auditing Hundreds of thousands of rules across hundreds of firewalls for the 3 divisions of Verizon USA and Verizon World. Process Improvement for Jr. Engineering Teams.

The ultimate educator of the Jr Engineer, Automation Leader, Logging Inspiration, Network Eng and F5 Subject Matter Expert keeping the bank running effectively on the internet and the customer information within the bank. Looking at the packets for them to whisper to me how java treated them wrong. The sober real voice for the Application Delivery at the bank I spend most of my time designing how applications being designed can be more resilient, more secure and up not matter what is failing in the cloud, the data center or at the vendor. Skills include Coding for failure, Network Design, Firewall, DMZ IDS/IPS, Proxy, Load Balancer Network Acceleration and LBaaS automation with the F5 tool sets. Ancible, Teraform and most scripting languages anyone want to use to manage networks via what they call "intent". Strong Linux and Windows Programming Background. The newest platform I am intersted in is ELK and Cribl, the patch pannel and translator for logging messages.

From nothing Architecture and deployment lead of a Duel Cloud DMVPN integrating new MPLS with existing DIA and LTE technologies into a redundant infrastructure. From clients desire to deploy to documentation and design notes in the first two weeks. Providing turn up support and spot troubleshooting before network goes into production. Technologies used included Cisco Cisco 4451-X , Cisco 4431 and Riverbed WAN acceleration. This project was ended May 2015. 77Energy was ultimately reabsorbed by Chesapeake Energy.

Expert troubleshooting and process support of a global service provider contract providing multitude of support services between IBM, their client and the service delivery providers. Detailed ot overview support of the provider relationship with ATT, Tata and Verizon.Provided reporting and recommendations for the uptime and network performance and top app usage at 200+ sites across the globe, with downtime costs in the tens of thousands of dollars per minute. Developed and deployed TSQL scripts to bind multiple products datasets together for a CIO suitable report. Day to day incident and cisco expert troubleshooting of a International MPLS network. Dedicated Internet Firewalls for outgoing connectivity (ASA of all sizes) and backup for MPLS internal links. LWAP controllers, 4700 Series Load Ballancers, Nexus 7k, 6k, 5k, 2k. ASR and Clasic Cisco routers. Daily interactions with offshore teams troubleshooting Vmware, Webservers, Websphere and a multitude of other problems that had been associated with a “network problem”. QOS, VoIP problem remediation. Support of WAAS network acceleration and confirmation that new apps took advantage of acceleration. Built out single database , multi poller Solarwinds monitoring platform and integrated existing information to provide a better troubleshooting support. Integrated viso and other documentation into the Solarwinds database and Gui. Automated creation of network maps. Developed a inventory process for the 2700+ LWAP and standalone Wireless APS. Migration to 4700 to F5 planning and scripting. Load ballancer change process into current support process. Implementation and support of NETSCOUT probes, servers and collectors. Infinistream. Provided recommendations to standards and practices, change management and process improvements to IBM and the client to drive down the labor costs to IBM and the client.

Design and Implementation of Cisco Network Switchs to DC redesign for client in the insurance arena.NEXUS 7k,6k,5k,2k,1k...ASA, ASR, Palo Alto, F5, 6500s, 4500s and everything else cisco.Attention HR minions, I know you lurk here. I spent off weeks doing Technical Interviewers of candidates for Experis, CCIE to desktop support I inspected, cajoled and coached. I can spot a puffed up resume from across the room and identify the next wiz kid. Ultimately my goal was for non of my newly minted coworkers to not live up to customer expectations and bring down the banner I worked under.

Short stop to confirm that State Farm was not the ideal environment for career growth for a IT migrant worker. If you like Bloomington IL and forms it was a cool place to work.

Back inside one of the largest stacks of DCs in the country for very large foreign sounding Insurance Company based here in the US. NEXUS, F5, ASA5580.

CONTRACTOR EXTORINARE. Back to the DC without video on the wall.

IP Network Eng/Operations within the Video Head Ends. Putting the commercial break into the national feeds off birds or fiber uses a ton of IPv4 multicast technologies and they needed a multicast guru the first day of the spinco. At the time the beast that did that the best was the cisco 6500 with Sup 5-6. Fixing Video On Demanda internal systems faster than the vendor could. Not much on the set top box, but everything the set top box reached out to is a Video Head End was a challenge for a company that just inherited VZ footprint. GTE branding was still on the consumables, so it was an interesting challenge with a company figuring out as we went along.

Consumer and Industrial NBC / UNIVERSAL - NOW CABLETOWN!

Web Design, VB/ASP development and Server Management