Patrick Adams Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

Systems and Process Architecture in Network Engineering Operations: responsible for developing orchestration automation, configuration standards compliance, new tools- both custom and off-the-shelf systems development and implementation. Network Engineering Architect responsible for coordinating and conducting network-wide IP Routing redesigns. Focusing on iBGP Route Reflection, IGP implementations, and long term processes to best manage upstream resources.I lead a small permanent DevOps team inside the Engineering Operations group. We request and consume the API products of a software engineering team to create network engineer workflows and high volume data oriented automation tasks. Our team liaises with the records team to create and manage the IP business data records and network models.Systems development and deployment include Ciena ROA, NetCracker IP-augment requests, remotely triggered blackhole servers, Cisco NSO/Tail-f, SevOne, Rancid, Cisco Mate/Cariden, and many others. I also manage a custom Rancid add-on for network orchestration research.

Boxborough, Ma, Us

Lead technical teams on war-room style network upgrade and transition efforts. Improve the body of IP/MPLS operational best practices.Design, develop, and integrate software for engineering staff. Create policies and skill-sets for Network Engineering Operations engineers to enhance scalable network orchestration.Orchestrate and automate standardization of network wide configurations.Solve high level routing and switching technical challenges.Improve design and implementation of data-network database model to facilitate automation projects.

Washington, Dc, Us

Notable Achievements• Hundreds of engineer hours saved yearly through automated device and site integration router configuration suite. Created a framework for adding new hardware and protocols to be managed by engineers.• Implemented two year SDN testing environment for Cariden MATE (now Cisco Prime).• Eliminated persistent low level network packet-loss through systemic evaluation of all hardware at the ASIC level. - Implemented policies for load planning across various hardware.• Established new best practices for traffic engineering solutions for efficient circuit utilization.Principle IGP Architect• Authored multiple years of IGP architecture, routing maps, standards, training, and implementation plans. Personally responsible for Intra-AS link state and path vector protocol configuration and design. • Designed and implemented network-wide hierarchical route-reflection for iBGP.• Designed and implemented multi-level IS-IS topology enhancement in parallel with hierarchical Route Reflection.IP Engineer• Maintain router configuration standards.• Write configurations in procedures for network migrations or augments.• Develop and communicate engineering best practices and standards.• Responsible for maintaining NetFlow collection architecture. • Work in on-call environment for Tier 3 escalations.• Interact with vendors for bug or hardware support.• Design & maintenance of reactive control plane policing policies on core, access, and edge routers.• Implemented border security policy per what became the IETF BCP.

Washington, Dc, Us

Telemetry• Responsible for scaling probe and trap design in a growing worldwide network. • Authored NMS heuristics, installed MIBS.• Wrote and managed configuration parser for NMS probe and look-up tables.• Log analysis for Advanced Persistent Threats detection. • Worked with Abuse to organize policies for hostile probes and intrusion efforts.NOC Tools• Automated the installation package greeting systems for new customer installs. Reduced tier 1 personnel time per turn up by 30 minutes on average.• Developed troubleshooting training curriculum for network and NOC systems. • Trained customer service and network operations engineering.• Evaluated and integrated COTS NMS for optical transmission equipment (CTM).• Produced customer service ticket closure statistics with Perl and Remedy Crystal reporting.

Washington, Dc, Us

Deployed to foreign country to manage technical staffing issues. Was responsible for gathering documented and undocumented network knowledge and troubleshooting methods.

Washington, Dc, Us

Lead NOC Engineer (2004-2006)NOC Night Shift Leader (2002-2004)Start-up NOC Engineer (2001-2002)

Installed leased line IP circuits. DS0, ISDN, DS1, DS3, OC3, OC12. Configured CPE router. Worked with customers to test and troubleshoot initial installation of IP circuits, including telco provisioning defects. Was responsible for over 80% of installed revenue in 2000. Spearheaded multiple technology initiatives. Maintained technical installation documentation for new products.

Maintained the testlab environment, kept standard load servers and workstations available for software integration testing. Performed enterprise level OS/software/security patch testing (6000+ clients). Wrote code to automate thousands of multi-user workstation upgrades.