Senior Modeling Engineer
• Served as Technical Lead and provided senior technical and management support for enterprise information technology services for an enterprise network comprised of mainly Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry hardware• Independently worked with customers on a daily basis to define and develop realistic and meaningful requirements that ensure all proposed changes fall within established system engineering policies and procedures – cited for excellent customer service and relations• Engineered a distributed network monitoring and management system implementing HP OpenView, XML, Cisco WAN Manager, Cisco and Juniper router configuration files, Cisco IOS, Python, Oracle 9i and 10g, flat files, and OPNET • Analyzed and simulated data protocols and services (i.e. IPv6, TCP/IP, UDP, ATM, DNS, SMTP) on numerous customer networks using the OPNET product suite• Analyzed and simulated network routing behavior (OSFP, BGP) running over Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry devices to identify misconfigurations, perform efficiency studies, and disaster recovery planning• Analyzed and simulated the performance and behavior of complete end-to-end IT systems (production, protoype, and conceptual) to facilitate overall performance tuning throughout the full life cycle, develop effective engineering solutions according to IT industry best practices, and identify potential impacts to other mission systems• Developed C-shell, BASH, and Python scripts for XML data manipulation as well as Python CGI and SQL web pages as a front end interface to an Oracle 9i database on an Apache web server to facilitate a rapid response enterprise architecture solution to satisfy critical customer requirements• Produced numerous, timely management-level and technical reports and briefings of results obtained through system analysis including CONOPS, SLA performance statistics, and bandwidth, routing, protocol, and latency analysis• Administered Solaris 8 and Windows 2000 servers including hardware and software