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Syracuse, NY, US

Syracuse, New York, United States

- Design and develop advanced network solutions for small, medium and enterprise networks. Using technologies from Arista, Cisco, Palo-alto, SonicWALL, AWS/Azure/Google Clouds and many others. - Architect and implement IP video systems to support high-quality video delivery.- Develop complex hyper-visor solutions to optimize network performance and.

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• Engaged in dialogue with advanced AI systems to explore and identify logical and ethical challenges.
• Contributed to the development of AI by providing real-time feedback and insights to enhance its understanding and responses.
• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary team to refine AI algorithms and ensure ethical considerations are integrated into system behavior.
• Participated in training sessions to teach AI systems appropriate reactions and decision-making processes.

Syracuse, New York, United States

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New York, New York, United States

• Designed and managed several macro and micro-segmentation projects in legacy and cloud networks to make them compliant with today’s strict information security policies.
• Implemented and maintain network security measures to protect against unauthorized access, breaches, malware, and other cyber threats. This involves configuring firewalls, VPNs, intrusion detection systems, and access.
• Ensure that the network infrastructure complies with relevant industry standards, regulations, and best practices for data security, privacy, and reliability.
• Designed AWS interconnect including Datacenter connections utilizing TWG Direct connect, VPC’s and redundant VPN’s.
• Containerized workloads, updates, and redundancy in multiple data centers.
• zScaler, SonicWALL, Palo Alto and F5 management.

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Provide guidance and training to junior network engineers, sharing knowledge and best practices to develop their skills and expertise.
• Optimize network performance by analyzing traffic patterns, identifying bottlenecks, and implementing solutions to improve speed, reliability, and efficiency. To reduce downtime or disruptions during implementation.
• Design, planning, budgeting, implementing, and managing large-scale enterprise networks.
• Managed public and private fiber across multiple locations with redundant paths.
• Managed relationships with several large vendors for interconnect circuits, equipment and over 27,000 active interfaces.
• Large data center, overseeing electrical and logistical aspects.

Syracuse, New York, United States

• Maintain comprehensive documentation of network configurations, diagrams, procedures, and troubleshooting steps to ensure clarity and continuity in network operations.
• Managed relationships with network equipment vendors, negotiating contracts, evaluating products and services, and ensuring vendor performance meets the organization's standards and requirements.
• Served as a liaison between the IT department and other business units, communicating network-related initiatives, challenges, and successes to executive leadership and key stakeholders. To ensure alignment between IT.
• Carrier migrations and equipment upgrades including costs and budgeting.
• Large data center logistics, electricity management, heat management and connectivity with carriers.
• Vendor relationship manager.