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United States

• High level NOC utilizing advanced troubleshooting and privileges with reduced need for escalations to the next tier support groups. Monitor, troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity issues to and within Huntington.
• Utilized Panorama to view real-time and historical events to aid in troubleshooting network connectivity and log in issues.
• Worked closely with other teams in other IT departments to help troubleshoot and solve IT issues in the network.
• Assessed and mitigated high-priority production issues in real time

Maplewood, Minnesota, United States

• Provided global Tier 1 support for Cisco NGFW 5516, 5525, 5545, 1100 and 2100 series firewalls utilizing Adaptive Security Appliance and FirePower Threat Defense software in a highly productive manufacturing.
• Utilized Cisco Security Manager to view real-time and historical events to aid in troubleshooting network connectivity and log in issues.
• Provided training to team members regarding new global standards and optimization for the current network environment.
• Assessed and mitigated high-priority production issues by being on 24/7 on call rotation.

• Directed key networking operations while working with Checkpoint 1450, 23k, 15k firewalls in the production environment. Headed vital operations surrounding transference of licenses across Checkpoint devices, ensuring.
• Offered expertise on firewall, segmentation, network security, vulnerability trends and remediate systems based on supplied threat intelligence information.
• Ensured connectivity for remote users and vendors by migrating 150 B2B VPN tunnels from a firewall having single point of failure to core.
• Assessed and mitigated high-priority production issues by being on 24/7 on call rotation every 2 weeks.

Madison, Wisconsin, United States

• Utilized Cisco Meraki MX65W, MX80, MX400, and MX600 auto VPN features to deploy self-configuring site-to-site VPN
• Deployed End Point Protection Services with ISE to quarantine malicious endpoints from the rest of the network
• Lead a team of technicians responsible for the day-to-day administration and maintenance of ASA firewalls, F5 load-balancers and Juniper SRX series firewalls
• Integrated Cisco ISE with MobileIron MDM to support end user device registration
• Implemented ASA B2B and B2C solutions including AnyConnect, ASA Phone Proxy, Easy VPN and DMVPN
• Configured Meraki MX480 as hub-and-spoke design for datacenter failover

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Implemented BFD for BGP on Cisco ASR1000 and Nexus 7700s to improve convergence during indirect next-hop failure scenarios
• Migrated over 100,000 firewall rules from Cisco PIX firewalls to Cisco ASAs and Juniper SRX firewalls
• Migrated from Juniper SRX firewalls to ASA 5585 pairs for new data center extranet environments
• Lead in greenfield design and implementation of customer Data Center utilizing Cisco Nexus 56128’s and Nexus 7700 with F2e and F3-series line cards
• Designed Meraki MX series for application visibility and control with deep packet inspection
• Deployed Meraki MX series in hub-and-spoke DC-to-DC failover configured in NAT mode

Dallas, Texas, United States

• Lead efforts with NetApp/N1K/VSG implementation on UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects to N7K
• Developed configurations deployment strategies and test plans for datacenter equipment, which included Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k and 1000v switches utilizing VPC, VDC’s, OTV, ISSU, FabricPath.
• Upgraded Cisco Nexus 9396PX from 6.1(2)l2(1) to NX-OS release 6.1(2)l3(1) in support of 2200 series Fabric Extenders (FEX)
• Configured, deployed, and managed Cisco Meraki MS220-24, MS320-24, MS320-48, MS410-32, and MS420-48 Series Switches
• In-depth knowledge of virtual-chassis design, best-practice & implementation on both MX & EX series devices
• Designed and implemented redundant DMVPN hub-and-spoke with EIGRP to provide small/medium size office connectivity to tier 2 offices

Boise, Idaho, United States

• Implementation engineer on Multiple 6500 to Nexus core tech refresh projects extending to the LAN and WAN edges
• Designed and implemented RBAC schema for UCS environment to restrict and authorize access based upon user organization
• Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k / ASA 5585 firewall virtualization/network replacement at all US locations. Installed and migrated the various cloud/customer physical network pods into this new virtualized Cisco infrastructure
• Designed and implemented BGP in various configurations including EBGP Multihop, AS Path Pre-pending and Policy Based Routing
• Designed and migrated from Cisco ASA 5585-Xs to Palo Alto PA-5060s in an existing data center
• Configured and implemented Cisco 6500 and 4500 series switches with Layer 3 functionality as Core devices

Phoenix, Arizona, United States

• Configured various routing protocols including OSPF, BGP and EIGRP. Utilized technologies such as route tagging, BGP communities, AD manipulation and distribute lists to ensure optimal packet pathing
• Provided information and suggestions to Network team regarding implementation of new firewall rules across entire Core network
• Designed and implemented Cisco wireless infrastructure using 8540s with 8.1 code for centralized control and management
• Conducted site surveys and contributed to planning of new offices, remote sites and relocations
• Maintaining a Syslog (Kiwi) server for all events on the enterprise network. Including analyzing logs periodically
• Viewed statistics regarding connection count and node status from TMSH show LTM commands.