Education professional driven to inspire students to understand the fundamentals of computer networking, IT Security, Data Center networking, and assist them in attaining a recognized network industry certification.

Hands-on technical manager and team leader highly dedicated to the development of secure and efficient systems that meet business needs. Demonstrates an extensive understanding of security issues at both conceptual and technical levels, enabling successful collaboration with both senior management and implementer. A dynamic leader, organizer, motivator and team builder, with outstanding communication and interpersonal skills and extensive experience working with diverse groups. Possess the self-motivation and intellect necessary to excel in fast-paced, challenging environments.Team lead and mentor to both network security team, network infrastructure team and collaboration team. Launched an initiative to upgrade and replace aging data center gear with start-of-the-art Cisco Nexus 9000 spine and leaf technology to ensure network reliability and enhance performance.Continuously improve processes and procedures to provide a secure computing environment balancing security risks with business needs. Built cyber incident response plans and monitored the team’s compliance with them.Provide data for compliance audits with internal, external, Loews, and government audits.Mentored individually and in a group setting to help advance security analysts.

At Cisco, I partner with Account Managers in a pre-sales technical role, showcasing Cisco’s Datacenter Virtualization, Collaboration, Video, Security and Unified Access product solutions. I am responsible for customer and partner technical presentations, hands on sessions, running proof of concepts, etc. I help to influence and design solutions to meet my customer’s business requirements. I have a strong focus on the Internet of Things and Data Center solutions.

Designed, Installed, supported and maintained hardware and software infrastructure according to best practices, including routers, switches, aggregators, wireless, firewalls and other infrastructure equipment for wide customer base.Implemented network installations, diagnosed network outages and technical issues under tight time constraints.Assisted with the development, design, guidelines and procedures for IAAS sold to customers.

Single Point of contact for all network implementation, support and design at Multi-national Corporation.Successfully managed the design, installation and ongoing maintenance of a million dollar data center migration project.Oversaw and implemented the migration from Frame-Relay to MPLS WAN network.Assisted with achieving a year over year 10% savings in network infrastructure.

Designed and installed start of the art six million dollar datacenter with newly available 10 Gigabit backbone. Designed and implemented 2.5 Gigabit POS datacenter interconnect with a DS3 backup circuit. Followed up installations with day to day operations of tertiary DC environment and seventy plus remote branch locations