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Taylors, SC, US

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Ahold/Delhaize Distribution Center Refresh Project: Upgraded 22 distribution centers. Created a configuration template that could be used for all distribution centers. The new core used Cisco 9500 and 9300 switches..
• Ahold/Delhaize Return to Work Project (using FortiGate Firewalls & Cisco 9K Stack Wise Virtual Switches: New design for all small to medium office sites, that remove Cisco WAN routers and terminate circuits on.
• Professional Place Office Upgrade from Catalyst 6500 Switch to New Cisco 9500 & 9300 Stack Wise Switches: Professional Please is a large office complex with on-site application servers. Refreshing this site was normal.
• Greenville Datacenter Consolidation of WAN between ATT and Verizon. Created a new MPLS Design to Work with Datacenter Nexus Core. Designed new separate BGP routing infrastructure to collapse current Ahold Corporate and.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

Sr Engr Consultant-System Architecture, Lifecycle Architecture and Engineering-Ahold/Delhaize Distribution Center Refresh Project: Upgraded 22 distribution centers for Delhaize and Ahold.-Ahold/Delhaize Return to Work Project using FortiGate Firewalls and Cisco 9K Stack Wise Virtual switches.-Professional Place Office Upgrade from Catalyst 6500 Switch to.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

Houston, Texas, US

• Cisco Nexus Core Retail Datacenter Upgrade. Designed new datacenter redundant BGP routing solution for 1000+ retail stores. Upgraded all stores from older core 6500 Cisco network to new Nexus core network. Designed BGP.
• IBM S/390 Mainframe to Nexus Core. Designed new OSPF routing with multiple areas across Nexus 7000 core. Challenges were to move 2 IBM processors over to the Nexus core in a limited outage window. Design goals were to.
• Designed and implemented a new Cisco dual router store solution for 1000+ Ahold grocery stores. Migrated stores away from ISDN to cellular circuit restoration. Challenges involved BGP routing to core network using.
• Upgraded Stop and Shop warehouse, Freetown Massachusetts for Redundant routing using multiple carriers.

• Accomplishments:
• Designed million dollar plus new Cisco network for Ahold warehouse American Sales, Lancaster NY. Upgraded existing network to new Cisco IOS 6500 redundant cores, 3500 distribution switches, and 1200 AP wireless.
• Responsible for configuring core network IBM Disaster Recovery, Gaithersburg MD. Responsible for configuring core network for WAN/ LAN network within a 12 hour period. Configured network successfully and tested MPLS.
• Successful core router WAN upgrade of 700 Stop and Shop stores to OC3 ATM over frame-relay network. The challenges were to convert the stores on the primary core router network from T3 circuit to OC3 ATM. The secondary.

1506 MA Zaandam, NL

• Accomplishments
• New Ahold IS Datacenter in Greenville SC. Installed and configured a new Cisco network along with a design team to support the Ahold datacenter and core campus offices. Configured Cisco Catalyst 6500 and 4000 switch.
• Redesigned the OSPF routing for BiLo stores to support multi-area OSPF Dial on Demand Routing. Configured Cisco AS5300 access servers to support multi OSPF area routing and Cisco Secure ACS authentication for ISDN and.
• Developed the new BILO store point of sales network using Cisco routers and switches. Designed new network in lab to implement new technologies using frame-relay, multi-area OSPF routing, Cisco DLSw (SNA over TCP/IP).