Matthew Yauch Email & Phone Number

United States

Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

• Contractor hired by Cisco Systems on a massive project to provide MGM Resorts with a network lifecycle refresh, new product rollouts, and long-term network management.
• Led migrations of lifecycle refresh and interfaced between MGM project manager, onsite engineers, Cisco project managers, and Cisco remote engineers performing migration validation.
• Provided troubleshooting assistance when necessary to MGM engineers.
• Wrote Python automation scripts to analyze Cisco switch snapshots (show commands) from before and after migrations to verify all end devices are connected and no issues were present. This script sped up the migration.
• Wrote autoprovisioning and configuration validation scripts to speed up and increase accuracy of lab deployment/configuration of staged switches, and validate final configuration of field deployed switches.
• Performed various network planning tasks, including writing switch configuration based on site survey data, methods of procedure (MOPs), and current/future rack diagrams.

Las Vegas, Nevada

• Responsible for fleet of over 340 MikroTik routers, 60 ASA firewalls, and1500 Cisco switches across over 30 national events venues andconvention centers.
• Designed the network at the second largest convention center in theUnited States, among others.
• Interfaced with Fortune 500 companies and provided customnetworking solutions and topologies for top conventions in the country.
• Wrote Python scripts and Flask/Django web interfaces to manageMikroTik routers, Cisco ASA firewalls, and Cisco switches, automatetouchless software upgrades, and configure mass changes. Savedteam over 60 hours of.
• Managed security of distributed enterprise VPN network and accesscontrols for internal VLANs, including a total redesign to routed BGPtunnels.
• Provided datacenter network redesign to accommodate systemsteam's implementation of Dell VxRAIL Hyper-Converged Infrastructureplatform.

Las Vegas, Nevada

• Continued to perform previous responsibilities as a Network Administrator inaddition to:
• Promoted to lead the Tier 2 team during transition to 3 tier NOC within 1year and 4 months with the company due to leadership qualities andboth depth and breadth of technical skills.
• Managed team of 6 Tier 2 network, systems, and wireless administratorsincluding project workload and trouble ticket assignments.
• Handled escalations of company politics issues to allow team membersto focus on solving technical issues.
• Reviewed trouble ticket histories and coached team members toimprove processes and technical skills.
• Set yearly team member goals and held performance reviews.

Las Vegas, Nevada

• Provisioned and managed provider routed network including BGP,OSPF, and EIGRP.
• Configured and verified rate limiting for customer networks.
• Tested service provider circuits for correct bandwidth.
• Responded to trouble tickets from internal staff including general userand PC, AD/domain, wireless, and networking issues and prioritizedbased on severity.
• Monitored networks and systems for outages and logged issues.
• Deployed hotspot NAT networks on MikroTik RouterOS platform.Performed software upgrades on Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches,ASAs, and MikroTik hotspot routers.

Las Vegas, NV

• Networking
• Received trouble calls from MSP clients or proactively reached out toinform of possible issues based upon system monitoring and workedissues to resolution.
• Met with new customers, inspected current systems, andrecommended professional solutions to address technical challenges.
• Deployed dependable and affordable solutions from scratch for smallbusiness clients including Cisco 861W/Sonicwall routers, Dell PowerEdgemanaged switches, and Dell PCs/Servers.
• Configured Active Directory domains from the ground up running onboth Windows Server w/ Hyper-V and VMware ESXi.
• Inspected and tested infrastructure wiring, tested for cabling issues, andran new cabling where necessary.

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology - Security

Associate Of Applied Science, Computing And Information Technology - Networking

CCNA Routing & Switching Project Management A+