Ryan K. Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

Focused on route switch, and SDN. Integrating the two into a completely scalable solution for my customers. Bleeding edge doesn't have to hurt as long as smart decisions are made in your design.

• Lead Architect on Software Defined Networking (SDN) initiative to evaluate and deploy NSX to reduce capital expenditure and enable Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) strategies• Develop and deploy Global WAN optimization design for 46 locations to enhance performance and increase productivity to remote branch offices• Design and implement corporate campus internet redundancy with multiple providers and facilitate testing and validation with peer IT groups and the business• Security and prevention focused firewall administration and design• Configure and implement dynamic routing (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF) to enable redundancy and resiliency• Global video conferencing design and deployment to enable collaboration and reduce travel expense within the company• Implement and upgrade Cisco voice cluster install in Asia region working with multiple locations and compliance requirements• Corporate office VLAN migration and re-design campus wide deployment with minimal downtime• WAN/LAN and Global IP subnet planning including public address space to meet current and future growth• Load balancing and migration from ACE to virtual Netscaler appliances across multiple sites and complexities• World wide deployment and maintenance of over 150 site secure VPN implementation• Enterprise class Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K, 1K design and deployment, supporting high availability and redundancy• Greenfield OTV data center deployment to support data center moves with legacy systems and applications• Experienced design and support for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)• Support and maintenance for VCE vBlock multiple data center configurations• Disaster Recovery testing and auditing

• Designed and completed two data center migrations to support growth and end of life initiatives on time and on budget• Successfully planned and migrated over 600 brick and mortar VPN sites• Re-designed and migrated corporate office VLAN migration• Designed and supported F5 load balance for business critical applications and services• Architected and deployed a secure perimeter/internal firewall• Metro Area Network design to enhance performance and resiliency• Partnered with tier 1 providers to improve campus internet design• Provided experienced dynamic routing (BGP, OSPF, RIPv2)• Infrastructure design and support for Voice over IP implementation