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Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago, Il

Chicago, Il

-Served as lead network engineer in client on-boarding projects to our ASP hosted trading platform. This involved designing and implementing the network infrastructure associated with a client solution, including firewall modification, new or upgraded WAN segments, and new exchange connectivity.-Turned up several Market Data exchanges including NYSE-Liffe, Eurex NTA, IDEM receiving multicast data and unicast traffic for orders and prices within trading applications.-Architected network connectivity solutions to client onboarding projects-Supported global network in a financial trading environment and covered US, APAC, and European clients.-Troubleshot network infrastructure during production incidents in a financial trading environment, including Multicast traffic for price updates and Unicast for order routing.-Built multiple site-to-site IPSEC VPNs with Checkpoint and Cisco firewalls to different clients and assisted in troubleshooting VPN connectivity.-Planned and executed a physical office move including relocating office network, servers and telephony, 3rd party services including internet service and voice PRI-Maintained fiber switches for SAN, and SAN administration.-Built a resilient VMware cluster using ESXi hosts and vCenter as global management system.-Create multi-node windows cluster solutions running trading applications. -Provided after hour support and weekend availability as necessary.-Production datacenter floor plan and rack elevation planning using Visio. Provided network documentation highlighting production connectivity.-Participated in client solution design and commercial proposals.-Performed rack, power, and cross-connect procurement to accommodate system capacity scale-outs and new implementation projects.-Lead the weekly Change Control Board , and peer reviewed implementation plans.-Maintained vendor relations, solicit quote requests, built business cases and summarize proposed IT purchases managed via a PO system.

Downers Grove, Il

Configuring and administrating the following routers and switchesCisco 2600, 2900, 3500, 3600, 3700, Nexus 7000IOS, NX-OS, JUNOSJuniper VPN, Cisco VPNRSA tokensCheckpoint Firewalls, Cisco ASA, Juniper 3600 SRXQualys SafeGuard PCI scannerExtreme Networks 8810 BlackDiamondExtreme Networks switchesHP SwitchesDell SwitchesF5 LTM and GTMInfobloxImperva Web Application Firewall

-Created several VMware images using VMware server and converted physical servers to virtual-Constructed and deployed servers using MS Windows technology including Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise Server, DHCP, DNS, WINS servers, and SAN Technology including 2 node Clustering-Configured and managed Outlook Web Access with Microsoft Exchange-Planned, designed, deployed and executed a cutover from INFOBLOX to Windows DHCP server, migrated Email User Accounts, Groups, and Computers to new Domain-Designed and managed Nagios monitoring server using Linux platform-Provided 24/7 on call support

-Fabricated servers with Windows Server 2003 operating system-Deployed and configured all printers and desktops for four remote call centers -Designed different images with various pre-loaded software for laptops, desktops, servers-Provided superior support to all executives 24/7 including 1000 employees

-Deployed and programmed servers and computers for florists on a national basis and configured backups for their databases-Engineered LAN configurations and VPN solutions-Installed and trained a market leading Point of Sale system