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Austin, Texas, Us

Austin, Texas, Us

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Design, Deploy and Operate Corporate and Service Provider networks• Utilize strong skills in many protocols including TCP, UDP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, STP, HSRP, etc• Acted as interim manager of the Network Engineering team between Jan 2018 and Apr 2018• Manage incoming projects, tasks and escalations and assigning to the team• Drive team direction and responsibilities, and report progress of high visibility projects• Ongoing security vulnerability remediation via upgrades, patches, configurations• Create and present knowledge transfers to operations teams on technologies and infrastructure• Troubleshoot complex routing and switching environments across data centers, Internet segments, WAN backbones, office buildings• Write and maintain the technical run books and standards for the network teams• Lead mergers and integrations of networks for acquired companies• Manage rack elevations for data centers and office comm rooms• Develop Ansible and Python tools and scripts (bash, expect) to simplify and automate the network and repetitive tasks• Plan and execute data center consolidations, migrations and closures • Create, document and maintain configuration and deployment standards for network equipment• Manage global IP, ASN, VLAN, etc numbering assignments, standards and schemes for BlackBerry networks worldwide• Serve as technical lead on call escalation point for BlackBerry corporate networks• Perform advanced packet analysis using TCPDUMP and Wireshark toolsets• Design, deploy and operate a network for scalable and large storage and compute clusters (VMWare and OpenNebula)• Work with many networking platforms including but not limited to Avocent, Checkpoint, Cisco, F5, Juniper, and Palo Alto which includes routers, switches, load balancers, firewalls, OOB console, IDS/IPS, WIFI Controllers and APs, Content Filters, WAN Accelerators.

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Perform network operations in conjunction with tier 1 carriers such as ATT, Verizon, Level3, and TATA• Provide technical support for break/fix of the corporate and manufacturing network• Maintained environmental and security networks for applicable appliances such as HVAC, data center UPS units, and card readers• Led the deployment of BlackBerry manufacturing facility networks• Member of the 24/7 on call rotation for the corporate and manufacturing network• Maintained 99.999 availability of the BlackBerry corporate and manufacturing network• Member of the operations team responsible for over 2500 networking devices globally• Member of the operations team responsible for critical services including BlackBerry App World, BBID, BBM.• Maintained corporate network infrastructure for over 20,000 employees globally at peak• Responsible for operating and maintaining many platforms including Avocent, Checkpoint, Cisco, F5, Juniper, Riverbed• Member of the team that provides operational support for Desk connectivity, VoIP, WiFi, WAN Acceleration, Load Balancing, Core DC, WAN connectivity, Client and Site to Site VPN, Firewalls, Content Filtering, IDS, and AAA

Waterloo, Ontario, Ca

• Coordinated and prepared change tickets for carrier maintenance of all WAN circuits in the BlackBerry network• Performed network device code upgrades, port configurations, and ACL updates• Assisted team members with after hours repairs/changes within data centers and comm rooms• Updated network documentation• RMA defective equipment to vendors including the physical removal of modules and components• Managed the logistics of shipping and maintaining global inventory of networking equipment

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Updated network documentation to ensure accuracy of WAN circuits and physical network topology• Assisted with troubleshooting issues at remote offices in the Toronto area• Created a small network and labs for new co-ops to learn how to configure network equipment and routing protocols• Created reports of VPN and network activity for executives to review on a weekly basis• Performed network enumeration on devices to discover and identify security vulnerabilities

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Managed software development projects to ensure that timelines were met• Created and implemented test cases and plans to discover defects in banking software• Utilized automation to run test cases on software to increase the agility of testing• Provided technical support on site for IT staff

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