Joseph Wilson Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

Project lead for MPLS/VRF and Firewall technology implementations across the University. Duties include evaluating University Colleges network and security needs to determine proper hardware and architecture for their environment. Design and implement secure network transport and centralized security policies based on need. Automate tasks using Ansible to ease the work load and reduce human errors in deployments. Provide 24x7 on call operational readiness of the network, work trouble tickets, document network changes, and train new and junior engineers on all aspects of the campus network. Experienced with Cisco and Fortinet network equipment

New York, Ny, Us

Tasked with operational and engineering support of both Corporate and Production networks. Architect and implement fully encrypted, multi-tiered, geo load balanced, cloud networking topologies within AWS. Setup and maintain multiple AWS transit VPCs as well as child VPC's in both public and gov cloud environments. Part of Devops using Terraform, Ansible and Python to deploy and configure cloud network devices (AMI) within AWS. Experienced working with Meraki and Palo Alto firewalls as well as Juniper switches to ensure a highly secure, scalable and stable network.

Redwood City, Us

Worked in the Infrastructure and Operations Group performing both engineering and operations duties for all of Trion Worlds. Responsible for maintaining the operational readiness of the network acting as the final escalation point for all network issues. Worked with game teams and other business units to provide daily support of network and security requests. Created and modified firewall acls, created and assigned new vlans, subnets, and ip addressing, troubleshoot site-to-site ipsec vpn and client vpn connectivity. Supported DMVPN connectivity between sites. Supported all BGP and EIGRP routing issues within the company. - Implemented Akamai Prolexic DDOS mitigation solution for production DDOS issues- Evaluated Cisco Firepower NGFW and Palo Alto Firewalls to replace existing ASA's (in progress)- Upgrade company ASR routers to safe harbor o/s versions.- Worked to designed new network architecture to improve performance and reliability

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked within the network security and the identity group. Work involved the configuration of F5 load balancer LTM and APM access control policies for single sign-on and multi-factor authentication. Also responsible for the configruation of load balanced LTM vips and creation of iRules for various projects and business groups within Starbucks. Performed maintenance and upgrades of all F5 load balancers within the company. Troubleshoot operational issues and improve stability within application deployments, worked with application development teams to provide better load balanced solutions, as well as provided overall solutions to proposed new application architectures. Most projects involved abstracting the identity security layer and creating an APM/Identity tier using F5 load balancers to help secure all publicly accessible and internal applications using multi-factor and single-sign-on policies within the company.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Worked as part of the Core Scaling and Deployment group within Amazon AWS. Was responsible for the scaling and deployment of Cisco Nexus 7018 Routers and Juniper QFX Routers to meet world wide capacity demands beyond 5 Tb/s within the AWS Cloud Network. Write and modify PHP yaml and shell scripting templates to manage automated network configuration changes. Ensure all OSPF and BGP routing is configured and routing properly. Troubleshoot OSPF and BPG routing over internet and MPLS networks. The position worked directly with project management, change management, operations and on-site data center teams to analyze, plan, and implement capacity upgrades to the core, distribution, and ring areas of the Amazon global AWS network. All upgrades and changes were implemented without impact to production traffic.Day to day duties involve writing and editing network automation scripts using python and shell scripts to expand data center core architectures, add fiber capacity to metro fiber rings scaling up to 5T, adding additional capacity to the distribution layer and maintain the overall consistency within the network to be fully documented, interconnected, and fully redundant.I was personally responsible for clusters of data centers involving thousands of networked routers within the Amazon AWS network. The work I did within scalability projects was to ensure that all projects were completed on time, with the highest quality while meeting aggressive deadlines and maintaining the best network availability in the industry. Amazon's extensive use of large CLOS networking architectures allows them to provide the highest throughput, best quality and availability at the lowest cost for their customers. Using Amazon's proprietary software, hardware, and in house network automation tools, we are able to stay agile in a competitive cloud networking space to continually meet the aggressive needs of our customers.

Redwood City, Ca, Us

I worked full time in the Online Network Engineering group at EA. This group provided both a tier 3 operations escalation point as well as an engineering role for the design of new environments. I was responsible for the network build-out and operational support of several game titles before and after launch. I worked with developers and studios for each game project that I was assigned to ensure that the network, firewalls and load balancers were configured in an optimum way for each game. Credited projects include FIFA 13/14, many EA Mobile games, Crisis 3, Deadspace 3, and Pogo. Other projects supported were the launch of Simcity, Star Wars the Old Republic, and Battlefield 3. Day to day operational duties involved the monitoring of online network performance, provisioning and implementation of load balancer vips, asa firewall rules, ip assignments, routing, vlan and acl changes within the network for project deployments.Major accomplishments while at EA included the evaluation and roll out of a complete IP address management solution for EA Online, build-out of a new test lab for the engineering group, migration of EA Mobile to a new data center and a supportable network model, as well as the migration of the Pogo games group to a new collocated data center facility. I also worked to assist the enterprise network group to migrate the corporate MPLS cloud from Sprint to Verizon for all 60+ corporate sites globally within EA. This involved configuring new BGP policies across the backend enterprise VPN network.

St Petersburg, Florida, Us

Team Lead of global hardware re-architecture project. Project goal is to perform hardware refresh at all company sites (52 sites in 27 countries globally). Put all equipment on a 5-7 year life cycle. Re-ip all devices to a global standard. Implement a 10Gig backbone infrastructure. Move layer 3 routing to the access layer to provide improved stability and redundancy while preparing for next generation voice and video as well as other advanced global applications. Use VRF's along with mGRE tunnels to segment and secure the network from guest and thrid party customer networks that require access to jabil resources.

Austin, Tx, Us

Maintain day to day network engineering and operations of 22 office locations in North America and Europe. Maintain network equipment backups, as well as ongoing documentation of the network, network policies and performance. Ongoing maintenance and monitoring of the VPN, MPLS, and LAN network architectures. Design and Implement new systems to improve availability and ease of administration. Completely upgraded and re-architected company wide DNS to improve security, add additional redundancy, and ease the administration of DNS tickets. Researched and Implemented WAN acceleration (Riverbed) to facilitate a large data center move and ensure that move met its deadline. Work on-call as required to ensure 24×7 operations of systems and infrastructure. Document and diagram systems. Train other network engineers on our team as well as the NOC. Work with customers to correct network issues. Work with partners to seamlessly and securely integrate business systems. Work with development teams to assist with new applications rolling into to production.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Worked in Global Information Technology and Global Operations. Architected Match International office VPN networks to facilitate remote LAN access to corporate. Rolled out Cisco ASA firewalls for domestic and international offices. Provided support for all internal corporate and operations networks. Maintain and document configuration changes to enterprise firewalls. Design and support all network, security and load balancing architectures in all of the corporate environments. Setup and administer wireless corporate network. Implemented EIGRP in the corporate back bone. Worked in Global Operations to design and improve Match.com scalability to +800Mb/s of bandwidth for Millions of customers. Configured F5 load balancers, Cisco Routers and Switches, VPN, and PIX/ASA. Implemented BGP for multi-home peering. Implemented globally load balance architecture for all web properties. Worked with developers for new application launches.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

Worked within the Verizon E-business unit to configure Cisco CSS load balancer rules and ensure architectural integrity for Testing, Staging, and Production environments for www; Install, maintain and configur Cisco CSS-11150, CSS-11500 and CSS-11800 Load Balancers. Worked with developers and implementors to ensure new web applications work well within the existing infrastructure and are integrated into the existing web sites without effecting other existing applications. Work with integrators and developers to rollout unix based applications for improve web site functionality. Work with new technologies toprovide additional performance and functionality to the web site.

Architected and engineered the World’s first content delivery network (CDN) for dynamic http and https content. Designed and implemented a globally load balanced network of reverse proxy/cache servers in 48 points of presence (POPs) worldwide. Designed and co-designed the network topology and global connectivity architecture of the network. Performed research, evaluation and testing of vendor network equipment as well as server hardware equipment to determine the appropriate devices needed to comprise the network. Implemented the use of Foundry Networks equipment exclusively for Global Load Balancing, Local Load Balancing, Switching and Routing. Solely responsible for determining the scalability and capacity of layer 4 load balancing devices and solving these issues to enable continued growth of the network. Set up pre-production testing environments for the staging of new network equipment and software. Performed research and testing of new hardware and software to improve the performance and scalability of the existing network.

Worked within the Network Operations Center to install and maintain their logical and physical wide area network. Provided tier 3 technical support for customers. Designed custom connectivity solutions for customers. Used HP OpenView and MRTG (Multi-Router Traffic Grapher) to monitor network status, usage and capacity. Used QIP to manage IP addressing. Set up access lists on routers for route filtering. Configured NAT pools, static translations and conduits on PIX firewalls. Used Cisco debug utility and EtherPeek network sniffer to troubleshoot complex problems. Set up and supported Linux servers and desktops within the NOC. Set up and compiled Apache web server with MySQL and PHP support for internal NOC website, document repository and station logging applications. Experience in configuring Cisco 700, 1604, 2500, 2600, 4500, 7206, 7507 series routers, Cisco Catalyst series 1900, 5000 and 5500 10/100 Ethernet switches, Cisco PIX firewalls, Cisco Streaming IP Television, Stratacom BPX. Worked with DS0, DS1, DS3, OC3, OC12, OC48, Frame Relay, and ATM circuits. Very comfortable with VLSM, CIDR, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, Cisco vlans, Linux, Apache, Squid Proxy/Cache Server, Windows NT 4.0, IIS 4.0, MS Proxy Server, Solaris 2.6, Bind 8 DNS, DHCP and email administration. Solely migrated the LAN from a Novell 3.12 network to a Windows NT 4.0 network; Established the company I.T. department. Initiated company wide workstation baselines, login policies and set up an initial inventory and asset tracking of company computer equipment. Installed and maintained company phone system and voice mail. Developed company intranet web site using Cold Fusion and Perl/CGI scripts. Created a web front end to HR personnel database and web-based email access.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Established and Managed web development team to design award winning corporate Internet website. Performed web server administration of Netscape Enterprise web servers and Apache web servers running on Solaris 2.5.1/2.6 and HPUX 11.0. Set up access lists for password protected Inter-corporate Extranets used by partners and resellers. Set up web traffic analysis for all websites using Webtrends. Increased website traffic by 450% through proper use of META information and search engine placement. Implemented company wide internal publishing protocols. Worked with Marketing Communications to maintain consistent look and feel on the web. Extremely knowledgeable of HTML, JavaScript, Perl, and Java.

Austin, Texas, Us

Managed Novell 3.12 and 4.1 Local Area Networks. Performed desktop support for over 125 users. Troubleshot and Repaired IBM compatible PC workstations running Windows 3.1 and Windows 95. Supported Microsoft Office and GroupWise v4. Familiar with TCP/IP and IPX/SPX over Ethernet. Installed, Programmed and Maintained Integrated Voice Response (IVR) Units running on OS/2 2.1 and OS/2 Warp to Integrate Child Support ACD call center with the Child Support Mainframe database. Installed, maintained and supervised the installation and maintenance of regional office PBX and Voice mail equipment. Installed, maintained and troubleshot the statewide Child Support SDLC Mainframe SNA network. Used IBM Netview to ensure optimum network uptime and identify impairments before they occurred. Installed 3174 cluster controllers and 3270 display terminals. Worked with Mainframe Operators to maintain and configure IBM 3725 and 3745 Front End Processors and assisted in the implementation of additional HDS DASD when necessary. Installed new coaxial cabling and terminated to BNC for expanding offices.

Randolph Afb, Tx, Us

Worked in the Tech Control Center to troubleshoot, analog and digital voice and data circuits over satellite, LOS microwave, troposcatter, HF, and landlines. Maintained Department of Defense AutoVon and AutoDin circuits. Ensured quality communications through the use of spectrum analyzers, delay/frequency equalizers, and BERT equipment. Experienced with PCM, FDM, and TDM multiplexing. Trained in basic electronics and advanced telecommunications systems.

General Studies

Microsoft Technologies

Enrolled - Bachelor Of Applied Science, Network Operations And Security

Telecommunication Systems