Sr. Network And Security Engineer
Maple Plain
Some of my successful projects at Proto Labs, Inc.- Lead design and refresh of the data network core for all US plants:transformed the flat network with many single point of failures into a high resilience, high available layer 2 and 3 Cisco Nexus network core, resulting in low latency traffic, scalability and UX enhancement.- Lead ROI study, planning and implementation DNS / ISP / Firewall failover, gaining a total of 1500+ hours of uptime for all websites, resulting in approx $1.2 M. profit per year- Lead firewall upgrade for US sites, implemented network defense-in-depth using VLANs, using frameworks from NIST, DOD. Compliance with PCI and SOX, other security related projects like Nessus audits- Lead architecture and implementation WLAN network for all US sites, improving stability of critical business - Part of the engineering project team to work with stakeholders and vendors to architect, capacity plan, and change a single-plant to multi-plant 300+ node HPC cluster to support business requirements using latest layer 2 and 3 data-center resilience technologies (Cisco OTV)- Dell server farm and EMC SAN upgrade and replacement projects Some daily tasks:- For 1 yr+ was the only systems engineer on the weekend, performing infrastructure administration and troubleshooting of 95% tier 2 - 3 : ERP, CMS, multi-site point-to-point networking, SAN storage, DNS, DHCP, AD, software issues - Training and support of new helpdesk / network admins - R&D for multiple new technologies in remoting CAD/CAM- Administration and documentation for VMware ESX, VSphere, EMC VNX, Isilon, Clariion, Celerra - Automation of multiple repetitive tasks using PowerShell, Batch, PSexec, Python- Setup and Monitor systems, network appliances, network resources for availability with Solarwinds, and ManageEngine software- Provide security patching / compliance with Shavlik / WSUS - Cisco licensing and contracts management- Planning part of IT roadmaps and budgeting