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New York, Ny, Us

Dallas, Tx, Us

Senior Network Architect responsible for the day-to-day operations of a wired and wireless multi-campus/multi-datacenter environment. Responsibilities include design, deployment, documentation, and support for all wired and wireless environments. Lead architect for the design, deployment, migration, and maintenance of two Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabrics utilizing OTV for Inter-DC communication. Lead architect for the design & deployment of Cisco’s Identity Services Engine (ISE) to provide network admission control (NAC) for approximately 25,000 wired endpoints and 15,000 wireless endpoints. Lead architect of a team to design & deploy an updated VoIP solution consisting of SIP trunking, eFax, WebEx, conferencing, and Cisco’s packaged enterprise contact center solution (PCCE).

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Network Engineer responsible for the operation of the LAN/WAN network. Responsibilities include design input, hardware implementation, and technical support/documentation for the LAN/WAN network. Generate method of procedures for personal execution and Operations team execution. Support for all datacenters with primary support and duties that include the configuration, testing, and turn up of the newest datacenter addition along with all new DMZ applications residing within.

Dallas Texas, Tx, Us

Senior Network Engineer responsible for the management and maintenance of a mission critical Enterprise LAN/WAN network infrastructure consisting of mainly Cisco enterprise network solutions residing in several International/US data centers and offices for a direct access stock trading Application Service Provider. Responsible for the research, documentation and resolution of data and voice network issues and anomalies. Responsible for the design and implementation of BGP for all sites, including data centers, to allow connectivity and resiliency for mission critical data and voice traffic. Team member or leader in projects such as the design, implementation, and future allocation of a company-wide IP addressing scheme, the build out of additional hosted data centers, the conversion to a hardware-based VPN solution, and the upgrade of hardware and software for the core data and voice infrastructure while providing zero or minimal downtime. Developed and maintained several Expect, Perl, and Shell scripts for automation of network management such as backups, performance monitoring, and repetitive tasks. Developed and delivered a script to answer a need for the ability to monitor traffic utilization on a per second interval to provide utilization statistics that were not available at the present time which provided a direct cost savings to the company by not having to purchase a commercial equivalent. The script was provided to the open source community on the Cisco-centric Open Source Community website and was briefly discussed in a TechRepublic.com article.

Dallas Texas, Tx, Us

Network Administrator responsible for the operations and maintenance of an Enterprise LAN/WAN network infrastructure consisting of Cisco enterprise network solutions and technologies for a clearing firm servicing several hundred corporate employees and broker/dealer customers across several offices and data centers. Architected the design and verification of a fully redundant BGP and EIGRP network solution to provide a high-availability Internet connection. Responsible for the design, implementation, and maintenance of TACACS+ to provide a centralized authentication and accounting solution for the network infrastructure. Designed and managed the implementation of Out-of-Band connectivity to the core network infrastructure to provide an emergency and disaster recovery system.

Director of Network Operations responsible for the overall direction of the design, installation, and maintenance of the network infrastructure. Coordinate and establish priorities of the Network Operations staff. Provide technical leadership in all areas of responsibility regarding network infrastructure. Manage and maintain vendor relationships to ensure maximum results & solutions with minimal costs. Provide weekly & monthly reports on network performance as well as forecasts of future utilization and requirements. Continuous evaluation of existing policies & procedures to ensure optimized operations management & performance.

Senior Technical Manager responsible for the supervision of local and remote systems engineering staff for a direct access stock trading Application Service Provider. Responsible for the continual evaluation and renewal of both existing and developing technology solutions with the goal of improved network performance and reliability, while delivering maximum return on those investments.

Network Engineer responsible for the operations and management of new customer installations at an 80,000 square feet data center providing hosting services by a Tier I Internet service provider. Coordinated and supervised all new customer installations with regards to customer placement, wiring, documentation, IP allocations, hardware configurations, BGP configurations, and troubleshooting. Responsible for the management of all data and voice MDF/IDF wiring and the termination and extension of all customer provided telco circuits.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Member of the Network Engineer team responsible for the turn up of new customers within the southern region of the US for a Tier II Internet service provider. Responsible for the overall process of the customer turn up including documentation, consulting, troubleshooting, and verification of data integrity during the first 48 hours of the initial customer connection. Exposed to multiple vendor network solutions and network technologies such as Cisco, Redback, Ascend, Netgear, Netopia, Frame-Relay, ATM, Point-to-Point, ISDN, and DSL. Provided technical expertise and assistance to customers, team members, and departmental network provisioners.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Network Analyst for a team providing remote support to the installation, configuration, documentation, and troubleshooting of midrange Xerox network printers to customers and onsite Xerox field analysts. Access to a lab environment providing the capabilities to duplicate any customer network in order to resolve any installation issues, network anomalies, or to determine previously unknown hardware and software bugs. Exposed to and required to have knowledge of multiple types of networks and operating systems including Windows, Macintosh, Novell, Unix, Banyan Vines, IPX/SPX, and AppleTalk.

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