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Reno, NV, US

Boise, Idaho, US

Boise, Idaho, US

Boise, Idaho, US

Austin, Texas, US

Boise, Idaho, US

US

• Created & led a national team of engineers & developers creating next generation network solutions for telecom & fortune 500 clients for: SDN, NFV, Service Orchestration, and Cloud solutions.
• Design, deployed and maintained AWS and Azure POC/Dev clouds for ACS customers.
• Designed and deployed custom Docker based network automation tool for telecom.
• Architected, developed, & deployed custom Tail-f NSO Service Orchestration platform for vEPC for AT&T (Java, Python, MySQL, YANG).
• A member of Pivot Technology Council for all Pivot Companies advising on strategies for current & emerging technologies.
• Developed and trained AT&T engineers on NSO, Agile Methodologies, and Open Source solutions for SDN, Orchestration and service Testing.

Alpharetta, GA, US

• Architected, developed & deployed custom networking device configuration tool ConfigBot: automatic turn-up configuration of network devices thru serial & ethernet via Perl, MySQL, Node.js, socket.io code.
• Modified & tuned ConfigBot tool for embedded BeagleBone solution with custom C based serial server with modified LTE connectivity for lights-out and remote operations.
• Developed & configured custom wireless networking solutions for AT&T’s ~2000 retail locations.
• Created custom hardened Debian kernel for CofigBot application
• Hardened Linux servers in with IPtables firewall, SELinux ssh key login, modified port mappings, & all nonessential services disabled.

Dallas, TX, US

• Designed & developed custom configuration tools for AT&T for projects & day to day operations for architecture, NOC, & operations groups.
• Developed automation tools for configuring 100,000+ networking devices
• Developed web based auto configuration generation tool for ~70,000 AT&T Retail networking devices
• Performed Network Engineering duties for AT&T WAN Network: retail stores, remote offices, business partner connections.
• Managed, facilitated & engineered DC business partner connections & worked on on-call networking engineering team for AT&T premiere DataCenters
• Created a automation solution that saved AT&T $100,000 & 5 months of project time & ~1,000 work hours

• Designed & installed IT infrastructure, including setup & installation of Cisco firewall, router, & switches.
• Firewall configuration included stateful packet inspection, application inspection & NAT translations. Router & switch configuration included route-maps, static routes, BGP, OSPF, VTP, QoS, ACL, VACL, CEF (Layer 3-7.
• Maintained & configured BIND DNS server & secure DNS zones.
• Installed & managed Postfix email servers including spam filtering & blocking & IMAP SSL authentication.
• Developed & administered several VLANS for internal traffic & a DMZ for external services.
• Designed, configured & administered Linux based web server cluster.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Managed the Hardware Technical Service group & lab at HP's Boise Data Center.
• Developed, modified, & implemented servers based upon engineering requirements & customer needs.
• Worked with various engineering teams on implementing & trouble-shooting hardware, software, networking & SAN solutions.
• Deployed & configured servers in DMZ & external subnets in accordance with HP's security standards.
• Helped manage the 1,000+ node Data Center operations including: resource planning, power & cooling calculations & security operations.
• Managed inventory & logistics of spare parts inventory in excess of $150,000.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Worked in the HP Indigo R&D Quality labs, which included design, setup, & administration of various hardware & OS builds.
• Worked independently coordinating exploratory testing & research on HP & third party software, hardware, & networking components.
• Created test projects based on research to verify functionality.
• Projects routinely involved custom repair & setup of applications (Apache, MySQL, J2EE, Tomcat, DNS, DHCP, & various other software on multiple OS's), switches, & other networking components (routers, gateways &.
• Trouble-shooting involved custom scripts, error log analysis & analysis of captured network packets.
• Developed & taught Perl programming class for Adecco UNIX test team.

Palo Alto, CA, US

• Performed hardware, software (OS & all printing applications), & networking research & testing as needed for customers.
• Verified & documented product issues, & provided feedback to development engineers.
• Supplied feedback to divisions on product lines' success in the work place, for use in future products.
• Created technical documents for worldwide support database.
• Collected call data from company divisions.
• Performed product testing in relation to customer issues, & acted as resource for other agents.

Education record

Openstack Foundations

Education record

Education record

Silver Peak Expert Training