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Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Network Infrastructure site reliability engineer for a healthcare improvement company of approximately 3,900 U.S. hospitals and more than 150,000 other provider organizations. With a focus on Network Infrastructure; responsible for DevOps tools and methodologies to automate common tasks. Cross-train and empower the network operations team with automation scripts using the Linux shell and Ansible playbooks.Notable Projects & Accomplishments:- Eliminate the need for several commercial tools by creating custom scripts to automate the backup of network devices.- Setup a Cacti server to provide group specific monitoring to validate a commercial monitoring product used by the NOC.- Write scripts and templates that allows management to identify unused network resources.- Write Ansible playbooks and roles to manage configurations on IOS & NXOS devices in an idempotent fashion.- Create Ansible roles to audit and remediate package presence and configurations of network tools required on Linux boxes.- Create WebUI interface to facilitate automation and orchestration for common Cisco and F5 device configurations.- Write scripts to interact with the Infoblox API make bulk changes for upcoming datacenter migration tasks.- Assist in F5 datacenter migration that required the conversion of http classes to traffic policies: Wrote scripts to parse and output compatible configurations for F5’s 12.1.2 software.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Network infrastructure subject matter expert for a privately owned financial services company with 10,000+ employees spanning across 50+ sites accessing resources in 4 primary datacenters. Actively participate in architecture, engineering activities and provide support for multiple business initiatives.Notable Projects & Accomplishments:- Design and deploy a redundant out-of-band DMVPN network.- IPsec migration of all customer routers from Cisco ASA to ISR.- Lead Engineer for Cisco ACE-SM to F5 migration in all datacenters.- Define base configuration and deploy UCS-E blades globally.- Perform scripting and Linux support for any network related activities that required automation.- Architect secure private cloud deployments with AWS, Azure, GCP and SoftLayer.- Design, build and participate in all lab activities for several infrastructure proof of concepts including, but not limited to, CheckPoint, PaloAlto, F5, NetScaler deployment scenarios.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Designing standards, building and managing end-to-end network infrastructure for an enterprise spanning multiple business segments across 30+ countries, 350+ locations and with 14,000+ employees. Strategically splitting and migrating the company’s networks in accordance to merger and divestiture demands while ensuring minimal downtime. Responsible for 3 regional datacenters in N. America, Europe and Asia as well as for the WAN and LAN’s of all remote sites. Responsibilities also extend to proxies, load balancers, firewalls, DNS and most other security related appliances. Serve as an engineering escalation point to analyze and resolve complex issues; taking the lead and if necessary working with other teams to resolve problems. Managing my own projects on site LAN equipment refresh and to work directly with a project manager for large migrations.Notable Accomplishments:- Created naming and documentation standards for the enterprise.- DHCP & DNS migration to Infoblox.- Large divestiture; built a new datacenter in N. America and splitting the company in half.- 2 datacenter migrations from Germany to the Netherlands & from Shanghai to Hong Kong.- Migrated load balancers from Cisco ACE to Citrix NetScalers- Built a Cisco enterprise wireless deployment with ISE integration.- 3 datacenter splits; one in N. America, Netherlands and Hong Kong (splitting the company in half a second time).- IPsec to DMVPN design and migration.- Sharing knowledge and mentor local and remote associates to raise baseline skillsets to perform given tasks.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Primary duty was to provide monitoring and support for all network facilities and associated components and products. Worked daily with T1/E1, Metro Ethernet, MPLS, Frame-Relay, PPP, VoIP, BGP, IS-IS, EIGRP, OSPF, IPsec and other transport and routing technology in a multivendor Telco environment.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Provided round-the-clock IT support encompassing all facets of business operations. Managed vendors and ran several IT projects involving site moves, Network WAN migrations and a Microsoft Domain to AD conversion.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Provided end-user support for a variety of products, including IE3.01-5.0 (Win32/Unix/Mac), Windows9X, and Office 2000 setup.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

Started a web media company that became a web hosting provider and colo-subletter. Performed configuration and security monitoring of network devices and servers as well as provided website hosting for customers.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Provided On-Site setup, break/fix of PC systems and maintained networks services for a variety of businesses.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Provided PC system installation, configuration, service and maintenance.

Bachelor’S Degree, Geography

While attending I played with several data analytical aspects of geographic data. Wrote several python and Linux scripts that converted.

Associate’S Degree, Network Administration And Support

Wrote a paper for the IT department documenting security flaws in a library web system designed to allow students to view books checked.