• Network Architecture and Design: Lead design and implementation of complex network infrastructures, ensuring optimal performance, scalability, and reliability across enterprise environments.• Advanced Network Solutions: Develop and maintain sophisticated network solutions, including WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, and Wi-Fi systems. Focus on load balancing, network redundancy, and high availability to support operations.• Network Security and Compliance: Implement and manage robust security measures, including firewalls, VPNs, and encryption protocols. Conduct regular security assessments and ensure compliance with industry standards to protect against potential threats.• Troubleshooting and Issue Resolution: Utilize deep understanding of networking protocols, such as BGP, OSPF, MPLS, etc., to diagnose and resolve complex network issues. Minimize downtime and ensure uninterrupted business operations.• Pre-Sales Engineering and Solution Design: Collaborate with sales teams to provide technical expertise in pre-sales activities. Design tailored network and security solutions to meet specific customer requirements, enhancing sales potential across various sectors (Oil & Gas, Health, Financial, IT, etc.).• Automation and Scripting: Develop automation scripts using Python and Ansible to streamline network deployment and management processes.• Documentation and Technical Leadership: Create detailed documentation, including high-level and low-level design diagrams, statements of work, and bills of materials. Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for network-related projects and initiatives.• POC & Demo Coordination with Partners: Partner with external vendors to orchestrate Proof of Concepts (POCs) and product demonstrations for customers, showcasing the capabilities and benefits of proposed solutions.

• Support the campus environments as required, remote site locations, and corporate Data Center Locations.• Evaluate, design and maintain the most highly technical and complex aspects of existing and proposed network solutions. This includes WAN, LAN, Load Balancing, and Wi-Fi solutions.• Support and rationalize hybrid voice network currently including VoIP systems and legacy PBXs.• Design, oversee implementations, assist with troubling shooting outages, maintain highly advanced network strategies to meet a broad spectrum of business requirements• Lead network related projects from start to finish with proper documentation (SOW’s, As Builds, & diagrams)• Support the user community via support tickets and assist in problem resolution• Make recommendations of advanced solutions which includes both hardware and software• Prepare network designs, lead implementations, or perform modifications to complex network solutions• Act as the Network SME for the team• Provide timely project status updates to customers, PMO Teams, and management.• Work in an enterprise IT environment with specific tasks related to network security, and firewall administration. Conduct regular compliance assessments of the enterprise network environment.• Participate in design and strategy meetings for assigned IT projects for the enterprise network.• Work with various IT and business-based groups as a subject matter expert (SME).• Perform complex problem isolation within the network infrastructure.• Participate in an advisory role with other IT and Business based groups as it relates to networking.• Lead implementation efforts across the enterprise network and ensure that projects are executed according to design, within project time frames, and budget• Develops and recommends strategies for network growth, Wi-fi, Load Balancing, security, and other network enhancements by maximizing functionality of routers, switches, Wireless, and firewalls.

• Worked with and supported the Sales teams in a pre-sale’s role by designing network and security solutions to meet customer business requirements.• Provided architectural network design expertise to Sales team and customers.• Created Estimates, Statements of Work and Bill of Materials for Professional service work.• Worked with partners to provide POC’s & demos for customers• Preformed post-sales implementation of new networking solutions at customer sites.• Configured network hardware such as Cisco/Meraki switches, routers, firewalls, and Cisco Nexus Data Center Solutions.• Supported, setup and configured complex networking environments.• Troubleshooting network issues of impacted production environments.• VPN/remote connection setup and infrastructure support for remote configurations.• Troubleshot defective devices, logical issues, or systematic errors on a wide range of technologies.• Managed assigned projects and activities to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.

• Acted as the technical escalation point as well as a Design/Deployment Specialist for our customers.• Worked closely with customer’s Senior Support Engineers until their virtualized environments were running optimally and all errors resolved. • Documented relevant information & handed off designs ensuring the customer understood their environment and how it functioned.• Resolved customer reported issues while working closely with the Engineering, Sales and other cross functional teams while providing feedback to Engineering for improving the product quality and reliability.• Assisted with recovery of degraded vSAN disk groups, node failures in a cluster, hardware errors, reviewed log bundles and helped with recommendations on other VMWare products that the customer may not have purchased to improve their environment reliability as well as performance.• Worked with technologies like python, postgress SQL & Linux to pull and decipher logging to find Root Cause Analysis.

As one of the top 5 sellers of VMWare Velocloud my team designed, configured & implemented Secure SDWAN technologies. Responsible for design and delivery of network services including SD-WAN, DIA, MPLS, and Voice (UCaaS & CUCM). Work with customers to meet required objectives. Maintain customer relationships. Provide escalation point for internal departments. Configured and deployed Cisco Network and Routing equipment for legacy services.Achievements:• My creation of Python scripts for automation of Network creation through APIs, was the driving force behind full implementations of phone, network and security for customers of 100+ sites• Created a method to automate Cisco phone deployments to effectively reduce the configuration time of a sites phone roll out.• Combined my organizational PM skills with my MS Excel skill set to build project tracking for large scale projects.

Work on copper and fiber lines by repairing and splicing. Maintaining and installing satellite dishes, Provide award winning customer service. Wire telecommunications/network equipment, switches, routers and cable trays. Establish home and virtual portal network integrations. Provide site troubleshooting support through test identification and correction of issues. Strategically plan network installations according to customer orders, technical specifications and manuals.

Maintained project books and documentation (Piping Isometrics, Reqs, reports, correspondences, etc.) Tracked NDT’s and classified needs on the construction site, handled and received materials and contacted vendors to find necessary materials. Verified equipment and transmitter tag numbers, compiled data books and construction volumes. Communicated with customers, contractor personnel and others to resolve issues/questions. Researched and provided necessary documentation and information to work site, support and personnel. Executed document control maintenance activities and performed other administrative duties as needed.

Maintain/process project documentation (invoices, contracts, agreements, purchase orders, reports, correspondence, etc.) Maintain documents within electronic data management system. Execute document control maintenance activities such as sorting, revising, uploading, printing, filing, and scanning. Communicate with customers and contractor personnel to accomplish project completion. Provide necessary documentation and communication to all personnel on the work site and projects. Create spreadsheets and copies, general filing and faxing as well as other administrative duties as needed.