Michael Cook Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Martinsburg, West Virginia, United States

Fort Detrick

Network Engineering Technologies – Ft. Detrick, MarylandMy responsibilities include configuring hubs, switches, routers and firewalls. I utilize locally run software to monitor network performance and perform network diagnostics. I provide all tenants a core infrastructure to carry their server and end-device traffic. This infrastructure consists of an OSPF backbone with MPLS and BGP to provide VRF solutions. Representing the customer when troubleshooting with higher organizations is a main duty to make sure their traffic gets to the target destination in a secure manner. This can range anywhere from pushing a PPS through the correct channels, to a Site-to-Site VPN service. In gathering these requirements, I am responsible for getting a project plan together and handing it off to team members for implementation. I work with each member to make sure they understand the task at hand and provide technical guidance in getting the project completed. Responsible for creating network maps that show the high-level LAN and WAN. Also responsible for detailed network drawings necessary for specific local tenant traffic flows.

Supported the NETMOD-C contract with VAE supporting network infrastructure standardization at all Army bases across the Continental United States. Each site consisted of three phases; Survey, Install, and Migration. The purpose of the survey is to look at all possible locations for Core network equipment. The locations need to provide ample power, fiber availability, and rack space for the hardware. The second trip was to install and configure the core equipment. The third phase is to assist the site in the migration of the edge switches. Throughout the full duration of each project we ran network scans to collect information on the network. This tool provided necessary information from the current network state to provide a successful migration to the new infrastructure. Full documentation was taken and handed to the customer of every site to provide a baseline moving forward. Lead the technical evaluation concerning the implementation of the national United States Postal Service’s Spine and Leaf project providing core network services that support business requirements.

Fort Detrick, Maryland

During my time at Fort Detrick I was promoted to Senior Network engineer serving as the Lead Technical network administrator on the large local system. These responsibilities included configuring hubs, switches, routers and firewalls. I utilized locally run software to monitor network performance and perform network diagnostics. I provide all tenants a core infrastructure to carry their server and end-device traffic. This infrastructure consists of an OSPF backbone with MPLS and BGP to provide VRF solutions. Representing the customer when troubleshooting with higher organizations is a main duty to make sure their traffic gets to the target destination in a secure manner. This can range anywhere from pushing a PPS through the correct channels, to a Site-to-Site VPN service. In gathering these requirements, I am responsible for getting a project plan together and handing it off to team members for implementation. I work with each member to make sure they understand the task at hand and provide technical guidance in getting the project completed. Planned, designed, developed, and integrated the Cisco ASA 5585X Multi-Context Firewall network system infrastructure to inherit the duties of separate existing physical firewalls within the Data Center. I lead the Multi-Context project which consisted of developing the requirements necessary for the acquisition of the Cisco ASA network hardware, software version and license necessary, and services it would be supporting. Responsible for creating network maps that show the high-level LAN and WAN. Also responsible for detailed network drawings necessary for specific local tenant traffic flows. Worked on a local project that created a configuration management plan. Designed VPN solution for connectivity to one of our remote sites.

Hagerstown, Maryland

At General Dynamics Information Technology I worked on a government contract supporting the DoD Enterprise Portal Service (DEPS) project. I served as the PMO for Network Communications Support for DEPS. There are environments on both NIPR and SIPR networks located at dedicated DECC’s. For these environments I provided support to the customer to build the project from the ground up. I created the Visio Network Drawings for the Engineering solutions that will show the customer, at a high level, how the network is designed. As the Communications Engineer, I built the CCC PI Guide which includes Subnet requests, VLAN requests, VRF information, Network Drawings, Server Production IP lists, and firewall rules. The CCC PI Guide is a living document that is continuously updated as the project progresses. I also was responsible for any network troubleshooting and testing that was needed with projects that were in sustainment.

Bethesda, Maryland

At McKean I work closely with government employees to operate and optimize the existing network at a handful of Navy bases accross the country. I am currently located at the West Bethesda Carderock NAVSEA base. In this position I have experience following STIG compliances, in accordance to the Certification and Accreditation(C&A) process, and contribute to building solutions to meet these compliances. Also I work with our team to meet the challenges of day to day operations to ensure optimal uptime of the network. Duties include IOS upgrades, switch and router upgrades, installation of new VPN hardware and VPN configurations, trouble tickets, network troubleshooting both on site and remote, IOS recovery, creating new VLANs and subnets, creation of baselines for equipment, and other duties as assigned.

Sterling, Va

In this position I work alongside my NOC team to maintain and troubleshoot any and all network problems. I monitor all of our customers servers and network equipment and help ensure 99.999% up time. We use CRM as our ticketing system and monitor with SolarWinds and MonitorIT. I get into contact with each Point Of Contact at every business when there is a trouble in the clients infrastructure and devise a plan with them that is acceptable for both parties.

Martinsburg, Wv

Volunteer my time to come into the college to establish and maintain the Distance Education Lab. The time I volunteer is spent on configurations of the labs used is the Distance Education Lab and to help complete the pod racks of routers and switches correlating to the implementation plan written by the Chair of Information Technology at the college. I also help write proposed grants for further educational courses at the college.

Hagerstown, Md

In this position I assisted the IT department in going to various schools in the County and helped with troubleshooting PC hardware problems. This also consisted of removing and installing hardware on the devices.