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Ontario, Ca, Us

Ontario, California, Us

• Network Professional with over 18 years of hands on engineering experience designing, implementing and managing small, medium and enterprise networks.• Team oriented Senior Network Engineer with an excellent work ethic and skilled at overseeing complex networks with a focus on efficiency, security, performance optimization and capacity planning to improve business productivity, agility and continuity.• Proven ability to manage projects and meet deadlines autonomously with excellent communication skills.• Detail oriented and proactive with strong troubleshooting, communication and analytical abilities.• Highly experienced with Cisco routing and switching, wireless, network security and voice technologies.

Corona, California, Us

Irvine, Ca, Us

• Operational support of LAN, WAN and wireless infrastructure consisting of 30 locations and 3,500 users in a 24/7 production environment maintaining 99.9% network uptime.• Design, implement and manage network and wireless rollouts for 7 new distribution centers and warehouses.• Tier 3/4 Support - Work with team members and local IT contacts troubleshooting, identifying and resolving complex connectivity issues.• WAN Redesign for high availability and redundancy utilizing Cisco 4331 routers, MPLS and 4G tertiary backup.• Implement WAN Optimization/SDWAN solution utilizing SilverPeak appliances.• Design and implement an agile VPN solution to expedite secure connectivity for 3 site acquisition to support business requirements.• Implement Cisco mobility anchor for Guest wireless connectivity to enhance and secure guest wireless connectivity.• Implement and manage a netflow collector solution to enable detailed traffic analysis, troubleshooting and capacity planning.• Standardize network device hardware, OS and configuration for switches and routers to simplify deployment and enhance security.• Implement and manage a network management solution (OmniCenter) for monitoring, alerting, trending and configuration backup.• Implement Web Security Appliance for content filtering to increase company security posture.• Oncall support on a rotational basis for problem resolution and escalation.• Define and adhere to escalation and change management procedures for network activities such as OS and circuit upgrades.• Backup support for Cisco VoIP infrastructure.

Santa Ana, Ca, Us

• Support network infrastructure (LAN, WAN, Wireless and Security) for 110 campuses across the U.S. and Canada, supporting over 15,000 administrative users and over 70,000 students.• Collaborate with partners for data center redesign to collapse 6 data centers into 2 utilizing the Cisco Nexus line of switches, Cisco ASA 5500, Cisco ASR routers and F5 LTM’s.• Redesign of WAN for 6 data centers and 4 contact centers utilizing Catalyst 6500’s and ASR 1000’s for a dual homed highly available configuration.• Migrate 115 campuses to fully meshed Sprint MPLS to support Enterprise VoIP and new Student Management System.• Upgrade bandwidth at over 100 campuses to T1 MLPPP, FDS3 and OC3 at the data centers and contact centers.• Redesign and implement core infrastructure from Layer 2 to Layer 3 modular design using Cisco 6509E’s to enable a high speed switched backbone, sub-second re-convergence, fault- tolerance and scalability.• Implement Cisco wireless solution for the enterprise consisting of over 2500 AP’s, centralized wireless controllers and management system (WCS).• Design, implement and support network infrastructure for over 100 VoIP campuses and 4 contact centers.• Design and implement a 100,000 user base distributed Websense deployment for the enterprise to save bandwidth, enhance security and enforce the internet usage policy.• Implement SSL VPN for over 3000 faculty staff using Cisco ASA.• Design and implement an Enterprise wide solution to analyze and report on network traffic (ManageEngine/ZOHO - Netflow Analyzer).• Provide expertise and documentation to maintain IT SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) policy and compliance.• Implement and manage an Enterprise network monitoring solution (OmniCenter).• Plan and facilitate connectivity for a Disaster Recovery location in Phoenix and maintain bi-annual DR testing.• Design and implement redundant ACS authentication server and VPN access using Cisco ASA.