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Chandler, AZ, US

• Network Design and deployment of WISP network environments, utilizing best industry practices.
• Management of the Network engineering team and driving project to accelerate the growth of the company, while building scalable and reliable networks and systems.
• Configuration and deployment of Palo Alto firewalls for secure network management in an ISP environment.
• Deployment and design of fiber PON systems (G-PON, XGS-PON) to provide ‘fiber to the home’ services in green field and brown field environments in Arizona (Calix, Ufiber).
• Deployment and configuration of Cambium, Siklu and Ubiquiti wireless AP’s and BH’s in a WISP environment to provide internet services to rural locations in Arizona.
• Management and monitoring of VMware ESXi servers, build and deploy Virtual Machines (VM).

• Management and upgrades of Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS) - securing traffic in multiple data center locations, cloud (AWS and GCP) and office locations.
• Design and deployment of Panorama Centralized Management servers, deployment of Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewalls ()NGFW) to replace Cisco Firepower NGFW’s and IPS’s in production.
• Design and deployment of a new SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) deployment, for network monitoring and management, configuration management (NCM) of the full CNA network environment.
• Day to day operation, upgrades, and management of Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE), for network device authentication TACACS and Dot1x end-user Authentication on Cisco Switches (AAA).
• Network Design, configuration, and maintenance of data center, cloud and office network environments - utilizing best practice network technologies: MPLS, IPsec/GRE VPN, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VRRP, HSPR VRF’s.

Rochester, New York, US

• Global Deployment of Cisco ISE, Dot1x, TrustSec, TACACS+
• Configuration and deployment of Palo Alto firewalls for SCADA environments, supporting manufacturing environments.
• Install and Deploy Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and migrate off end of life Cisco ACS systems. Configure network device authentication in ISE using Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA).
• Configure Dot1x Authentication on Cisco Switches, for network authentication and authorization against Cisco ISE.
• Configure Cisco TrustSec (Cisco ISE) on Cisco switches for secure access to network services and applications.
• Network Design, configuration and maintenance of a large network environment, utilizing: MPLS and IPsec/GRE VPN - OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VRRP, HSPR VRF’s.

Denver, CO, US

• Install and Deploy Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and migrate off end of life Cisco ACS systems. Configure network device authentication in ISE using Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA).
• Build wireless secure access and guest self-service registration portals in Cisco ISE and Cisco Wireless LAN controllers (WLC). Build and deploy access policies for guest wireless bring-your-own-device (BYOD) networks.
• Manage multiple Solarwinds deployments for the environmental monitoring of all network devices and servers that support the operation of the CoreSite 18 data centers, 375+ ISP networks and 300+ cloud providers.
• Configuration of Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM), Server & Application Monitor (SAM), Network Configuration Manager (NCM) and other Solarwinds modules such as Netpath, WPM, IPAM, VNQM, WPM, NTA.
• Manage the production deployment of multiple Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) “Callmanager” and Cisco Unity systems. Support the production operation and call flows for video security door cameras and video.
• Installation and management of Cacti open sourced monitoring tool. Installation of the MAC track and auto8 plugin for MAC address tracking and auto graph generation.

London, GB

• Network Design, configuration and maintenance of a large ASP (Application Service Provider network) environment, utilizing: MPLS and IPsec/GRE VPN - OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VRRP, HSPR VRF’s and QOS
• Design and configure customer video networks, utilizing VRF’s and Context firewalls to maintain customer traffic and security separation on a common virtualized network infrastructure.
• Installation and deployment of Cisco ASA security contexts firewalls, in a virtualized network environment
• Design, deploy and operate Cisco 12000 series GSR (Gig Switch routers) and ASR (Aggregation Services Routers) running XR IOS
• Designed customer connectivity models for MPLS customers connecting on shared access MPLS circuits. Deployed this environment using recursive BGP routing to advertise routes into the BT ASP network.
• Design, install and configure Cisco Wireless Networks. Using Cisco Wireless Control Systems (WCS), Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) and Cisco Aironet lightweight Access Points (AP’s)

Redwood City, US

• Re-called from Lay off 11/2007
• Network Administrator responsible for the high availability operation, configuration and maintenance of multiple Cisco IP telephony Phone systems.
• Configure and maintain Cisco Call Manager (CCM) and Cisco Internet Protocol Contact Center (IPCC) clusters.
• Design, Install and configure Cisco Call Manager Express (CME) phone system with Unity Express voice mail.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco VOIP Gateways for MGCP and H.323. Testing and turn up T1 Voice PRI Circuits.
• Maintenance and expansion of a large high availability switched network. Configuration of multiple VLAN’s through VTP and QOS for VOIP phones. (Cisco Catalyst 3560 switches)

Redwood City, US

• Network Administrator responsible for the high availability operation, configuration and maintenance of multiple Cisco IP telephony Phone systems.
• Configure and maintain Cisco Call Manager (CCM) and Cisco Internet Protocol Contact Center (IPCC) clusters.
• Design, Install and configure Cisco Call Manager Express (CME) phone system with Unity Express voice mail.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco VOIP Gateways for MGCP and H.323. Testing and turn up T1 Voice PRI Circuits.
• Maintenance and expansion of a large high availability switched network. Configuration of multiple VLAN’s through VTP and QOS for VOIP phones. (Cisco Catalyst 3560 switches)
• Maintain Cisco Pix and Net Screen firewalls and VPN’s to remote locations.

• Senior Network Administrator / Network Engineer
• Configure and maintain Linux Routers, utilizing IPROUTE2 and Zebra for Static, OSPF and BGP routing.
• Build network monitoring servers from Open Source tools, Nagios, Cacti and Smokeping
• Build and configure wireless hotspots (Captive Portals) using Wrap and Soekris embedded PC hardware.
• Configure and maintain Linux firewalls on embedded and standard PC hardware (M0n0Wall), Configure and maintain Cisco Pix, NetScreen and SonicWall firewalls.
• Setup and Configure bandwidth management servers, Netequalizer software running on Debian.

• Responsible for the deployment and design of new network segments. Initial configuration and troubleshooting of newly deployed Cisco routers and catalyst switches.
• Resolved Network connectivity issues on circuits, troubleshot and tested with Local Exchange Carriers (LEC).
• Provided technical consulting skills to Qwest field service technicians, performed equipment upgrades, migrations and network expansions.
• Provided technical field training to Qwest Central Office employees, Cabling and the installation of Cisco routers and switches.
• Managed and trained network connectivity staff.

Cisco, Networking

Computer Science

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