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Longmont, CO, US

Boulder, Colorado, United States

• Oversee risk management and resiliency infrastructure for multinational IT service firm with clients representing Fortune 500 companies across government and private sectors.
• Implement strategies improving performance, accuracy, and quality, while driving analytics to predict, test and resolve potential client issues.
• Generate emergency management plans for recovery decision-making and client communications.
• Develop and initiate long-range strategies driving organizational goals and initiatives for business growth.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to support and respond to business demands.
• Multiple Commercial accounts supported around the world including Arrow Electronics, Dole Foods, Multiple States IT and Database Solutions, Ace Hardware and many more international companies.

• Managed and maintained cybersecurity, using firewalls, switches and routers while building design solutions and security audits for IBM network clients.
• Implemented more than 2,000 network changes per year on over 900 security devices, achieving a 99.9% success rate without any outages.
• Created automation scripts for network monitoring and support, achieving record level time and resource savings for client groups.
• Designed and constructed one of the first Juniper network solutions for centralized national IBM data center, partnering with the office of the CIO to drive 25% in cost savings over a traditional Cisco environment.
• Led long range project to replace Checkpoint firewall solutions with equivalent Cisco Solutions on more than 300 devices, evaluating configurations, writing python scripts, and documenting new devices, resulting in.
• Developed and installed the first Cisco Telepresence environment at IBM, leading network buildout, security infrastructure, and server and room installation, driving cost savings across multinational sites.

• Audited and redesigned commerical networks, providing custom solutions, maintaining and monitoring networks for security and network uptime for external multinational IBM clients.
• Achieved a 99.5% positive service level agreement, eliminating network outages and security issues.
• Designed, configured and implemented customized network monitoring solutions, using Python and other tools to prevent outages on IBM worldwide commercial accounts.
• Resolved complex problems pertaining to networking protocols such as TCP and IP and Ethernet technologies.
• Assisted with installation of new equipment including routers, switches, servers.
• Managed and maintained network security systems.

Almaden, CA

• Created Database to keep track of user connections within the site. Had to build and maintain database along with user front end written in java.
• Wrote user interfaces to easily upgrade computers and change network connection devices. These were done using Visual C++
• Provided support for end users by resolving issues related to deployed applications.
• Collaborated with other developers to integrate multiple systems through APIs.
• Maintained databases by writing complex SQL queries and stored procedures.

Education record

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Classes that I have taken: • Computer Photography Visual Computing • Database Systems Concepts & Design • Educational Technology • Health.