Network and security testing for new features and new platforms. The platforms include both switching products (enterprise and industrial), and UTM firewalls.Responsibilities included testing of all supported features eg BGP, OSPF, ISIS, RIP, xSTP, ERPS, Profinet, PTP, SD-WAN, 5G, UTM features (DPI, IDS, AV),IPSec via both manual and automated testing to ensure highest quality software.Required use of many and various tools, but particularly Ixia traffic generators, python scripting, Jira/Zephyr for issue and test management.

Contract position as technical lead on key infrastructure projects, which included planning, configuration and rollout of firewalls to 54 major markets within the South Island, and implementation of a video conferencing DMZ accessible from guest and internal wireless.

Career break to look after our 2 young children and further study, primarily so my wife could return to her career

Design, installation and maintenance of wide range of vendor platforms from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, HP, and Aruba through to less common platforms.Have been engaged for a number of high profile, larger clients in the Christchurch area and around NZ. These included complex network and security designs, where a detailed technical understanding and meticulous approach required.

Design, installation and maintenance of wide range of vendor platforms from Cisco, Juniper, HP, Extreme Networks, Fortinet through to less common.Have been engaged for a number of high profile, larger clients in the Bay of Plenty and around NZ, working on mission critical networks where a detailed technical understanding and meticulous approach is required.

Aug07 – Jul14​ Bloomberg LP​ London,UKSenior Network Feeds Engineer (Sep13 – Jul14)• Design, installation and maintenance of real time financial data feeds throughout EMEA• Checkpoint and Palo Alto rule implementation for Global firewall infrastructure• Using protocol analyzers to troubleshoot exchange and customer issues• Configuration and installation of PE & CPE, and datacentre elements of data feeds, including linux based appliances for translation of incoming multicast to unicast streams• Installation and management of webproxy services using 2 tiered Checkpoint firewalls, Bluecoat webproxy and antivirus appliancesSenior Network Engineer (Aug07 – Sep13)• Design, installation and maintenance of LAN infrastructure for Bloomberg LP EMEA operations, including corporate, TV, vendor and wireless networks.• Project work as both project manager and lead technical specialist. Notable projects include the redesign and installation of the Bloomberg Broadcast network to support 10GigE/OSPF/BGP; installation of Bradford Networks NAC (Network Access Control) to secure all corporate access ports within London and provision of wireless services at 19 sites throughout EMEA.• Managed small to large projects, which entailed typical project tasks such as requirement gathering, identifying and managing risks, documenting and communicating to stakeholders to ensure that projects completed on time and within budget.• While managing projects, remaining as lead technical specialist and directing the planning, design and implementation stages• Provide support and act as final escalation point within the department for the wide range of technologies and research new technologies where potential to add value within the company. Included wired routing and switching platforms both in the wiring closet and datacentre, Juniper and Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco wireless, remote web access (webproxy), Bradford Networks NAC, Infoblox DHCP

Sole responsibility for network Supported Juniper NS208 firewall cluster and Cisco CSS11500 series content switches , load balancers for e-commerce site.Managed Internal user remote access via Juniper, Dialup VPN Project work, most significantly including Complete Hardware upgrade of,the head office from Cisco Calayst 5500 to Nortel 8600.

Supporting high value customers with Installation, maintenance and troubleshooting of a variety of network and server technologies including the following: Dedicated circuits, HDLC, PPP, Frame Relay, MPLS, multilinked circuits, ADSL.Firewalls, netscreen, PIX and Watchguard.High availability technologies including HSRP, NSRP and SLB and GSLB on Foundry Load BalancersCisco routers 800-7200. &Switches from 2900-6500Responsible for Client support on a range of server OS, Linux Redhat, Windows, Free BSD, Maintained web services, Apache, DNS, Mail, FTP and My SQL database.