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Network Team Supervisor for Western Area Power Administration. Direct supervisor for 6 Federal staff. Co-manage workload for 12 Federal and 3 Contract staff. Responsible for the planning and execution of $6M yearly Network Team budget. Project Manager duties. Manage the network team which designs and maintains the WAN/LAN infrastructure consisting of Cisco routers/ switches; firewalls; cyber-security tools; VPN; and network management tools. Provide Cyber Security solutions for the network infrastructure to maintain security across the multiple enclaves.Project Examples:Network Security: Proposed, designed, and implemented the Secure Enclave Support Center (SESC). The SESC is an isolated distributed overlay network which is used to provide secure remote access, support services, and cyber security monitoring for WAPA’s Operations Technology (OT) infrastructure; including SCADA, control centers, substations, and Comm facilities. The solution uses firewall-isolated dedicated core hardware stacks distributed across four core locations interconnected with IPSec VPN tunnels. The core sites are connected to 100+ remote OT sites via redundant FlexVPN and DMVPN tunnels. Additional technologies built into SESC include Citrix, RSA, VMWare, EMC SAN, QRadar, Sourcefire, Trend, Nessus, Solarwinds Orion, Veritas, Tripwire, Infoblox, and Symmetricom.Network Security: Proposed, designed, and implemented the original Network Security Operations Center (NSOC) at Western Area Power Administration. The NSOC is used to provide continuous Cyber Security Monitoring services for the agency. The NSOC has grown to become a key component of the Cyber Security program at WAPA. The original NSOC was staffed with 2 full-time Contractors, which has since expanded to 5 Cyber Security Analysts and a dedicated System Administrator. The NSOC toolsets include Splunk, QRadar, Nessus, Tenable, Solarwinds Orion, and Tripwire.

Lead Engineer for the Layer 3 portion of our national CLEC DSL Network with over 100,000 customers. Designed and configured the core, access, and NMS networks consisting of: Cisco routers (7513, 7206, 6400), RedBack routers, BGP, OSPF, ATM, Frame Relay, DSL, OC3, DS3, T1, RADIUS, PPPoE, AAA, RFC1483, VOIP. IP Administrator for ARIN and RFC1918 addresses. Provided top level technical support, training and documentation for the NOC Engineers. Lab testing using routers, BPX ATM switches, LAN switches, DSLAMs, ATM concentrators, SmartBits, Agilent, wireline simulators, firewalls.Project Examples:Network Security: In charge of designing and implementing a VPN tunneling solution for secure remote CPE configuration over the Internet. This was accomplished using RADIUS servers, L2TP, VPDN tunnels, and PPPoE.Network Design: Designed and implemented a fault-tolerant NMS Network using HSRP, BGP Local Preference, Frame Relay circuits, ATM circuits, and dial-backup circuits. Prior to this solution, the NOC would experience several significant NMS outages weekly. After this solution was implemented, the NOC did not experience any NMS outages.Network Testing: Developed test designs for router hardware and software implementations. These extensive test designs included functionality, DDOS attacks, link failures, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), route redistribution, timers, NAT, SNMP, HSRP, CEF, route-maps, access-lists, throughput, CPU utilization, and many other scenarios. Using this test methodology; we have discovered several vendor code bugs in our lab. We worked with the vendors to fix the bugs or develop workarounds prior to production deployment.

Designed, configured, monitored, and maintained a 48-site national WAN consisting of: Frame Relay, T1, ISDN, dial backup, OSPF, Cisco routers (3600, 2500), Cyberguard firewalls. Experience with WAN tools including: CiscoWorks, NetSys, MRTG. UNIX experience.Project Examples:Network Security: In charge of designing and implementing security policies and firewall deployment for the government agency. This involved developing security assessments, network designs, remote capabilities, encryption, AAA, firewall selection, deployment, and administration.Network Design: Designed cable plant, data and voice network for a multi-state regional call center with Nortel PBX, Symposium software, Computer Telephony Integration software. This center reduced agency costs by consolidating individual state centers into one center.

Designed, maintained, and provided technical support for two Novell NetWare LANs. Project leader / programmer on several large multi-user database application programs. Programming languages included: FoxPro, Clipper, Sybase, C/C++. Provided software and hardware technical support, along with end user training. Project Example:Database Development: Designed and programmed several large multi-user relational database systems to track records and transactions for multiple federal and state government agencies. Developed a large Data Warehouse system that is used to track, analyze, and maintain millions of historic records.