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Newark, New Jersey, Us

Newark, New Jersey, Us

• Leading agile team of 8+ individual contribtors from enterprise technology and business units through consolidation and corporate agile transformation and pandemic driven move to full time work from home. I was able to keep my team happy and productive by making sure they had the right tools at home, and spending extra time in MS Teams meetings to stand in for being in the same physical location together• Created operations focused network and telephony dashboards using on hand platforms and resources. My team came together to create a set of impactful reports in Tableau, preferring to “live off the land” with legacy on premise resources rather than waiting for corporate realignment– Created custom SNMP poller in Python to address gaps in enterprise network management platforms– Reverse engineered Avaya PBX console control protocol to generate automated reports, bypassing gap in legacy platform observability without purchasing expensive third party management platform– Made use of enterprise Splunk and Tableau deployments and created custom ETL pipeline inPython to process data• Developed an enterprise specific architecture for automated fulfillment of self service requests, makinguse of enterprise platforms where available and developing the glue to orchestrate them– Created datacenter connectivity self service workflow in ServiceNOW and integration with AnsibleTower for orchestrating infrastructure configuration on switches and in Infoblox– Performed data export and auditing for migration from legacy in house IP address database toInfoblox to support self service– Created MVP of self service diagnostics for remote access users, with ServiceNOW self serviceworkflow, Apigee API gateway, and custom diagnostic logic microservice using Python Flask framework

• Designed and implemented wireless and security solutions for enterprise customers in medical, finance, and education verticals• Piloted and implemented emerging IoT platforms like PoE smart lighting and WiFi/BLE tracking• Created software tools for project teams and client infrastructure staff using Python for automation,network management, and data analysis, significantly reudcing labor and time to complete delivery• Led consulting projects and delivered analysis and documentation on network architecture, security,and application performance• Multiple projects completed for a large (1,200+ bed main hospital, 5 million sq. ft) hospital system inthe New York metropolitan area– Led seven person team to produce RF designs for all buildings in hospital to support AdaptiveWireless Intrusion Prevention System. Created fully automated process to verify consistency and create deliverable design document package from Ekahau wireless design software output, reducing documentation effort from 4+ hours to minutes.– Created software tool in Python for project to deploy access port security with DHCP snooping to 500+ access switches, reduced delivery time from two weeks per switch to 30 minutes• Assessment of legacy, undocumented Sendmail infrastructure for a large university, leading a team of three systems engineers; performed detailed analysis of 21 GB of sendmail logs using Perl, awk, and MySQL• Data analysis and reporting on datacenter move of over 1,600 physical and virtual servers using OTV on Cisco Nexus. Summarized disparate Excel plans from customer into weekly cadence using Python/Pandas/Matplotlib, and identified several weeks with impossible move schedules.• Created software tool in Python for project to implement security policy of shutting down all switchports inactive for more than 30 days for multiple network vendors in national scale multi-site real estate development company

New York, Ny, Us

• Implemented Stanley Healthcare Aeroscout Active RFID to track medical equipment and prescription medicine in hospital environments• Designed, implemented, and supported Cisco LAN, WAN, and Ironport Web/Email Security Appliances• Designed and implemented one of the first major wireless networks to support Active RFID / RTLS ina 350-bed hospital in Mid-Atlantic region• Designed and implemented wired and wireless NAC for a city public school system with 17 facilities,over 1,000 employees, and over 10,500 students

New York, New York, Us

• Led the Converged Network Team in managed service NOC, grew from two to ten engineers• Supported over 50 corporate customers in New York metropolitan area with in house network managenentplatform and managed services, including national rollouts of corporate WAN and Voice over IP• Implemented an internal email and LAN/WAN modernization project to completion, including de- ployment of Postfix, Exchange, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, MPLS WAN, customer remote accessVMware/Remote Desktop environment, DMVPN for remote NOC engineers