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Reno, NV, US

Golden, CO, US

• Design, procurement, implementation, and ongoing support to both IT & OT network. Areas of responsibility include LAN, WAN, WLAN, Internet, Firewall, Virtualization (Hyper-V and VMWare), NAS, VPN, Server, and Windows.
• Improving application uptimes by moving OT and IT on-premises servers to co-location facility
• Improving application performance by consolidating 100 virtual machines running on 12 end of life servers to 4 new systems that also provide head room for growth.
• Successfully transitioned company from legacy on-premises remote access VPN to highly scalable cloud based zero trust network access (ZTNA) platform.
• Introduced vendor agnostic approach that tangibly reduces costs and contributes to the division’s overall profitability.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

Design and configuration via network as code servicing Facebook Reality Labs. Equipment qualification for a multi vendor environment. Work in development servers writing original Python code, editing existing, and performing debugging to code as needed for central Infrastructure policy enforcement, automated device configuration, and audited central change.

Fremont, CA, US

• Sr. Staff Network Engineer–Global Unified Communications-Seagate (12/2017–05/2019)Assisting in Data Center consolidation efforts by intake and architectural redesign of Cisco Unified Communications (UC) on Cisco.
• Awarded the FY ‘15’ & FY ‘17’ Key Contributor bonus
• Certificate of Excellence for contributions to IPAM solution

San Jose, CA, US

• Working high growth territory segment seeding top technology start-ups. Technicalsales lead architecting on premises and colocation solutions including compute, storage,collaboration, security, and networking. Clients.
• Fiscal Year 2014 Systems Engineer of the Year
• Led team and region in data center Nexus 9000 sales post product launch.

Santa Cruz, CA, US

• Local subject matter expert for network, network security, and data center communications tothe company. Supporting and ensuring reliable delivery for switching, routing to any networkattached (wired and wireless).
• Transitioned global engineering environment to cloud SIP provider
• Spot bonus award for exampling original design, excellent planning, and co-ordinationto global network projects.

Reno, Nevada, US

Responsible to configure, deploy, and support District Cisco Internetworks. Lead role in LAN,WAN, and VoIP administration. Original implementation and ongoing support to Internetworkmonitoring system with Nagios and SNMP calls decreasing technical support response timesand increasing customer satisfaction.

• Self owned and operated corporation providing business-to-business technology services.Working on mid size projects serving a variety of industries and government agencies. Notable commercial customers included.
• Profitable services company first year of operation

• Provide phone (help desk) and on-site support for Booth Creek managed retail outlets,Northstar-at-Tahoe point of sale systems, resort management personal computers, networkinfrastructure, systems software, and.
• Reduced systems transaction delay at ticketing, rentals, food, and beverages.

Reno, Nevada, US

• Provide front line hardware/software support to the 3,500 client desktop PC’s and peripheralsconnected to the Washoe County network. Duties included help desk and on-site support forthe 34 county departments. Network.
• Solved 90% of trouble tickets without escalation.

Reno, Nevada, US