Former - Senior Network Engineer
Cisco Network Engineer (1/2010 – 9/2021) Plan and implement network system upgrades, fixes and patches and provide tier-three network support for the fifth largest food distributor in the US. Support configuration and installation of retail LAN, WAN and WLAN for 165 corporate retail grocery stores and 90 independent stores. Maintain iOS versions on Cisco network equipment for corporate-owned stores and 23 warehouses. Manage standardization of retail access control lists (ACL). Recommend system efficiency, reliability and performance modifications. Coordinate with cross-functional teams to facilitate migrations and introduce technologies. Oversee break fix hardware configuration. Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation. Monitor network devices via SolarWinds Orion and administer store configuration via SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM).• Recognized with multiple awards for exceeding customer expectations in providing solutions that keep stores and warehouses running• Managed post-merger transition of WAN circuits and configured, implemented and deployed Cisco network switches and routers at 85 corporate retail stores• Coordinated Access server installation and configuration projects at six field engineer locations• Led project to ensure all corporate distribution centers had secondary external routes• Mapped steps to accelerate and simplify broadband circuit modifications; created a batch script to ease transitions in case of new internet services with altered IP addresses