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Sydney, Australia

First operations hire & Engineer for Google Fiber project. Helped build, deploy and manage backbone (AS16591). Lab testing of services, helping develop product prior to launch. Played large role in building NOC from ground up, including technical lead role, testing systems and tools, developing standards and processes. Interviewed nearly all team hires. Working with all types and ‘layers’ of devices, backbone, access and edge, firewalls. Alcatel-Lucent 7360, SR-7750, Juniper MX and T series, custom CPE platforms. Supporting Google Fiber FTTH, Google Fiber TV, IPTV and backbone. Protocols directly involved in supporting: IPv4, IPv6, BGP, MPLS/LSP/RSVP, ISIS, IGMP, SSM/Multicast, DHCP, DNS, GPON, SNMP, Syslog and more. Senior level role and position. On-call.

Sydney, Australia

Administrate and architect for private VoIP national backbone (AS32385). Engineer and maintain BGP policies with > 25 networks. Maintain global and local IP routing policies on a national Cisco network. Facilitate installation of VoIP servers, managing and assigning logical (IP) and physical (network ports) resources. Documenting network topology in various tools (eg Visio). ARIN IP & BGP ASN POC. Engineer and manage office networks, and VPN solutions. Create technical processes for NOC, provide training and mentoring. Travel to colocation POP’s/IXP’s for installation and maintenance work. 24/7 on-call for escalation issues. Engineer, administrate and support all layers of the IP network: high-availability data center access layer, backbone design, routing, security, etc. Ensure greater than 99.999 network availability, and a high-level of QoS.

The Comcast backbone organized into a dedicated group, from a generalized NOC group. I became a Senior Operations Engineer on the backbone team. The Comcast backbone (CBONE) was a private QoS based network, running Cisco 7600 and multicast for video. The IBONE (Internet Backbone, AS7922) was primarily a Cisco CRS platform, exceeding 2.5Tbps of transit bandwidth (at the time). As I started with AS7922, it had about 5 e BGP peers, and grew to maintaining BGP peering with > 100 ASN’s when I left. BGP peering lead for SIP (VoIP) and BGP customer networks, and other high-profile peering. Review, approve, coordinate and implement major scheduled maintenance projects. Troubleshoot and repair all router & routing events, including high-profile, advanced and escalated issues. Lead various projects from configuration audit and standardization, national hardware upgrades / replacements ,and deploying new technologies / policies. Work closely with architect engineers. Author and review operational processes, technical documentation. Author and present technical training. On call duty, and ability to work all hours and travel. Coordinate with peers, customers and vendors to complete projects or troubleshoot network events. Work closely with vendors on complex issues and maintenance. Ability to resolve network faults under stressful conditions and within SLA period. Maintain network to ensure a greater than 99.999 operational uptime.

IP network administration and monitoring. Responsible for the availability of the Comcast IP network - including Internet , voice/VoIP and video. Perform advanced troubleshooting on network faults. Coordinate with on-site technicians to resolve physical faults. Communicate with local markets, upstream provider or vendors as applicable. Familiar with network equipment from many vendors, including Cisco, Arris, Motorola, ADC, Foundry, F5 and others. Complete scheduled maintenance activities. Point of contact for technical implementation of legal compliance cases. Escalation lead.