Michael Goin Email & Phone Number

Warrenville, IL, US

Geneva, Illinois, United States

Network Engineer taking care of changes on the switches. Designed and Implemented a new Network Monitoring Cisco/Arista/CheckPoint... System for the Company using SolarWinds NPM and two APE's. Used Microsoft SSMS for DB access and SWQL Studio for NPM DB access. Had alerts on Syslog events that came in as well as SNMP Traps. Tested for SNMPv3 connectivity.

Geneva, Illinois, United States

Evanston, Illinois

• Worked with Splunk & Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) creating Dashboards, Alerts & Reports as well as hunting for Malware or malicious traffic.
• Use Palo Alto Networks FW IDS/IPS Traps & Wildfire cloud threat analysis took care of upgrade to 6.0.1 for Traps Agents
• Manage Qualys for scanning network and put data into Splunk for asset DB data
• Quarantine ports using Aruba Clearpass Policy Manager
• Took Proofpoint training and use to assist in email phishing investigation
• Use Duo and maintain for MFA/2FA to enhance university security & we use Footprint ticketing

Lombard, IL

My team works with 3 main technologies, Intrusion Prevention/Detection Systems[IPS/IDS], Log Collection Systems(Syslog/Custom) and Multiple Firewall platform clusters. We support logging from all types of devices such as Firewalls, Routers, Switches, Unix/Windows devices and IPS/IDS systems from many different vendors. We work with VPN's, VIP's, VLAN's.

• Install/ Configure/Upgrade Network Monitoring System for our Servers and Network Devices using WhatsUp Gold v11, 12 & 14 Distributed. Support servers in VMWare Citrix and Unix environments. Handled backups in the.
• Developed WhatsUp Gold Monitoring Practices w/Manager to more efficiently monitor our Servers and Network devices in a streamlined simpler process to keep configuration complexity low.
• Maintained the WhatsUp Gold Databases in our VMware environment by establishing a plan to Purge, Optimize and Compact the WUG Databases
• Automated WUG setup process to simplify and speed up the environment configuration using AutoIT scripting tool.
• Tested "Citrix Receiver" Application on iPhone/iTouch/iPad for remote application connectivity successfully.

Responsible for Resolving server and DNS/DHCP/Proxy & Firewall issues. Make recommendations for Procedures and High level process improvements. OS’s supported are Unix(Linux, AIX, HPUX, SunOS and Solaris), Microsoft(NT, XP and Advanced) and Novell(4.11 & 6). Main monitoring tool is IBM Tivoli, Netcool and Network SNMP based tools. Remotely access servers.

WISP (Wireless Internet Service Provider) Providing an alternative Internet access option for localities that have no service or too few options. Based out of the Far Western Suburbs of Chicago.Have done equipment vendor analysis and have chosen Motorola Canopy equipment. Additionally have set up agreement for backend internet access connectivity with.

Responsible for the recommendation, purchase, testing and support for IBM RS6000's and IBM 7133 SSA 10k RPM RAID array on AIX at our Willmar, MN facility. Handling failover manually via ksh scripts. Using Epicore's DataFlo ERP system with Unidata Database and OnContact contact management system with backend Oracle Database.Responsible for the WMS.

Network EngineerResponsible for Timeplex Timeview NMS application on SunOS Spark/10's and Unix Administration. Testing all new releases and hardware for Timeview Application. Future Network Design steering group working on IP security CA's and Encryption technology. IP Study group leader researching IP network & security solutions. Completed Risk.

Electrical Engineering

Ee Associates, Electronic Engineering