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• Analyzes information through data models and architecture diagrams
• Communicates the value of new IT strategies and keeps stakeholders informed of ongoing initiatives
• Defines a best-fit solution for existing problems

• Completed repairs, upgrades, and migrations on field site, campus, and data center network infrastructure. Collaborated with system administrators, engineers, and application owners to perform fault isolation and.
• Designed virtual solution using VRFs to consolidate environment with multiple hardware stacks into one physical infrastructure, simplifying topology and cutting down ongoing administrative overhead and maintenance.
• Minimized implementation service interruptions and eliminated design specification for separate hardware stacks by integrating routed network design into existing layer 2 topology utilizing transit VLANs for EIGRP.
• Deployed Policy Based Routing (PBR) to forward backup and replication traffic over alternate / secondary WAN link, reducing circuit congestion and improving application performance over WAN.
• Decreased mean time to deployment for future business projects by automating repetitive tasks, delivering single point provisioning, and allowing automatic fabric deployment with data center migration to Cisco.

• Provided Tier 3 network support and issue management of WAN perimeter and data center networks. Optimized WAN infrastructure between data centers and primary health care sites. Migrated legacy Nexus environment in the.
• Developed route-policy standards based upon optimal forwarding and constructed route-maps, enforcing policy on WAN routers achieving greater speed, resiliency, and high availability of critical business applications.
• Transitioned data center DMZ and Internet Edge workload to Cisco ACI, simplifying design, and standardizing connections between data center core infrastructure and perimeter security resources.
• Extended Layer 2 adjacency between data centers for DR continuity project with Cisco Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), delivering workload mobility between data centers.
• Migrated 15 Microsoft DHCP servers to Infoblox, allowing IP address tracking and management of DHCP services from unified console reducing management overhead of core DDI services.

• Identified and repaired network connectivity issues. Performed proactive diagnostic monitoring to locate potential network issues. Developed network policy standards, best practices, and managed hardware support to.
• Improved availability of critical Internet-facing applications for clients by deploying both BGP multi-homing on company Internet edge and cloud-based Neustar UltraDNS authoritative DNS.
• Created and implemented a network for a new disaster recovery site and met business continuity objectives by mitigating potential downtime for critical business applications.o Project tasks included: itemizing critical.
• Determined and remediated cause of intermittent service interruptions on Campus LAN, developing NTP and Syslog policies and devising standards for centralized Syslog collection on Linux servers enabling event.
• Completed network audit, provided specifications for a hardware refresh, and developed plan for LAN upgrade, addressing network performance concerns of business owners after a re-architecture and roll-out of critical.
• Enhanced customer experience with critical business applications, configuring layer 7 inspection, and session persistence on load balancers, allowing customers to restore sessions and access cached information on.

Master'S Degree, Music Performance, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Music Theory And Composition