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Frisco, Texas, United States

Plano, Texas, United States

Assigned as a project resource for the Tenet account. Responsible for providing technical direction related to Switch and Router activities. Working on an SD-Wan conversion for 50 hospital in the network. Staging and implementing Nexus switch swap out in the data centers. Implementing cloud connectivity with Microsoft Azure and Equinix Google Cloud.

Plano, Texas

Assigned as North American network Team Lead for the Hilton account. Responsible for providing technical direction related to all Switch, Router and Load Balancer activities. I serve as a senior escalation point in North America for network related issues as well as some project work. I attend Major Incident Management calls to lend expertise. I help.

Plano, Texas

Assigned as Network Architect for Dell Government Services Division. Responsible for providing technical direction related to all Firewall, Router and Loadbalancer activities. I serve as Senior esculation point for all Network, Firewall or Loadbalancer issues as well as implementing big projects. Also train 2nd and 3rd level network support team in the.

Plano, Texas

Assigned as a Network Data Center Migration Tower Lead for Dell Services Division. Responsible for leading a group of network engineers through Data Center Migration activities as we consolidate data centers and move customer gear and services into Dell owned facilities. Responsible for providing technical direction related to all Firewall, Router and Load.

Plano, Taxas

Assigned as Technical Design Consultant for Dell Government Services Division. Responsible for providing technical direction related to all Firewall, Router and Loadbalancer activities. I serve as Senior esculation point for all Network, Firewall or Loadbalancer issues as well as implementing big projects like the 2012 OMB Government Mandate to implement.

Assigned as Firewall lead, Senior Engineer, for Perot Systems Government Services. Responsible for installing, maintaining and troubleshooting 20 different Firewall contexts within the environment. I serve as Senior esculation point for Firewall issues and I implement rules related to customer connectivity. Also train 1st and 2nd level network support team.

Assigned as network engineering 3rd level support and design for a major commercial customer. Thirty million annual revenue. Responsibilities included building a 14 person 3rd level network support team in the U.S. and overseas. Created on-call rotation / 7X24 coverage. Served as Team Lead and a single point of escalation for all network problems and issues.

Responsibilities Assigned as part of a network engineering 3rd level support and design for internal as well as external customer Internet networks. Worked along with 3 others to migrate various Perot System U.S. facilities to a single Campus environment. Installed, configured and troubleshot issues with Cat 4500, 6509 and 2900 series switches, and 2600.

Responsibilities Assigned as network engineering / operations 2nd level support for internal as well as external customer Internet networks. Responsibilities include configuration / design of the Perot Systems Internet as well as various external customer networks. Accomplishments * Completed CCIE written exam. CCIE accreditation and lab completion ongoing.

Assigned as router operations support for the EDS*LINK Internet network. Responsibilities included telephone support of installations, configurations of routers from serial interfaces, Ethernet, token ring, source-route bridging, to RIP and SAP filters, and troubleshooting network problems from basic Telco failures to complex database problems and working.