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Vernon Hills, IL, US

Vernon Hills, IL, US

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

San Francisco, California, US

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Develop, build and maintain business and technical partnerships with leading technology companies
• Incubate new teams including Cloud Candidacy Assessment Team, Cost Optimization Team, Compliance and Governance, Cloud Automation
• Mentor and guide new leads into valuable roles and positions within the Cloud Practice
• Manage 6 industry professionals in 3 teams.
• Responsible for day to day operations of my practice including assigning rolls, organizing teams, ensuring exceptional work and
• Managing expectations of my employees and management chain

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Assist sales team to market emerging Cloud options
• Deep dive and certify on Google Cloud and AWS Cloud

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Design and build an Automation and Orchestration practice focused on the Cisco Cloud Center platform.
• Creation of Cisco Cloud Center automated testing system to speed up completion and coverage of Test Driven Design (TDD) requirements.
• Design and implement zero downtime data center migration.
• Design, organize and present custom 2-day ACI training course for Customer’s network operations team.
• Custom adaptation of ACI deployment to automate rebuild of ACI Lab from ACI Production backup.
• Automation of ACI deployment

Maryland Heights, Missouri, US

• Team Lead for Routing and Switch deployment projects.
• Provide Q&A oversite for regional multi-site health care campus upgrades.
• LAN core upgrade from 6509-VSS to 6807-VSS. LAN edge upgrade from 3750 to 3850.
• Automation of network discovery process used to document pre-upgrade state of large health care network.
• Automation of configuration build process. Reducing errors and change response time to minutes instead of weeks.

• Consulted on various network, security and wireless projects for business of various sizes.
• Deploy Cisco UCS B Series servers and Nexus 6001 switches for Data Center upgrade
• Upgrade code for ASA Firewalls
• Deploy Cisco Wireless solution and ISE for guest and employee access
• Setup Netflow Analysis system to help customer implement firewalls in new Data Center
• Upgrade campus network to new 4500 access switches and Nexus 7000 series Data Center switches

Sidney, Nebraska, US

• Manage daily network operations and strategic projects for the network engineering team.
• Supervise a team of 9 network engineers responsible for the daily operation of the entire Cabela’s network.
• Manage $3 Million in annual budget for the Network Team
• Work with team to improve on the install process for new store construction. Reducing on-site install time from 7 to 3.5 days.
• Support day to day operations of the Network, Load Balancing, Wireless, WAN, WAN Optimization, Video Teleconferencing and Employee VPN infrastructures.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of the Retail store network ensuring complacence with PCI regulations, Cabela’s proprietary securities and POS system needs.

New York, New York, US

• Lead local team in updating network systems to new corporate standards while ensuring no disruptions to any critical business in a live trade facility.
• Integrate new customers into the existing infrastructure while ensuring future designs could be applied with minimal interruption.
• Support day to day operations and assist with troubleshooting of current environment.

Englewood, US

• Design and implementation of network segregation for 6 sites.
• Responsible for planning and implementing the separation of the Aurora network and the Lehman Holdings network, including New WAN links, DNS, DHCP services as well as Firewall and security infrastructure for Remote.
• Assumption of day to day network operation from previous managers in New York.
• Discovery and migration of Extranet/Business to Business links from New York to new headquarters in Colorado.
• Migrate from Lehman Checkpoint Firewalls to new Aurora managed Sidewinders, including consolidation and validation of the rule base.
• Implement new IPSec VPN solution using Cisco ASA5510’s and RSA two-factor authentication.

Santa Monica, California, US

• Responsible for day to day IT security operations including Firewall changes, VPN connections, and internal network security;
• Migrate management of Checkpoint firewalls from 3rd party Managed Service Provider to in-house.
• Upgrade hardware from single node on Nokia IP350, to 2 node cluster on IP360’s.
• Evaluate new products and technologies for possible deployment within the organization
• Design and plan the installation all new IT Operations hardware and software projects.
• IT SOX compliance point of contact.

San Francisco, CA, US

• Installed new Checkpoint Firewall 1 NG-AI cluster system based on Secure Platform to replace existing Checkpoint on Solaris.
• Implemented external Security Audit system for automated penetration testing of corporate Internet connections. Also, added internal scanner for scanning of systems in the DMZ for vulnerabilities as if a hacker had.
• Updated Hardware VPN systems to new generation Sonicwalls for telecommuters.
• Worked as part of the build team to install the network in a new multi-building campus.
• Designed combined OSPF routed and VLAN tagged network for new campus to support the various needs of the user groups moving into the campus.
• Migrated WAN from RIP routing to OSPF with area summaries to reduce size of routing table.

• Provided clients with strategic, yet practical, network design and installation consultation and execution including Internet and WAN connectivity services and technical expertise in Internet/network security.
• Analyzed, documented, and recommended network system design improvements to the client’s senior management.
• Implemented design and ensured proper implementation by working in close collaboration with end users and IT staff to evaluate success and determine potential process improvements.
• Personally managed vendor relations and equipment procurement on behalf of the firm and its clients.
• Pre-configured and shipped equipment, and supported local and HQ staff regarding installation and issues.
• Designed, installed, and maintained a Linux based web server farm

US

• Improved Internet security by migrating to router, proxy, and software-based firewall system.
• Set up and maintained routers, hubs, and switches.
• Served as e-mail system administrator as needed.
• Designed and implemented Windows NT Server WAN across eight countries.
• Created corporate backup and offsite storage plan.

High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, GB

• Provided Windows NT-based product support. Delivered technical product presentations. Beta tested next-generation Windows NT products.
• Resolved client issues or escalated to engineering support. Key role in design of company support infrastructure.
• Liaison between sales, technical support, product marketing, and engineering.

Bs, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Computer Science