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London, England, Gb

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

• Assisting with service take-on from delivery into support, ensuring new solutions are fit for purpose, meeting customer needs and that support teams are ready and able to support the solution.• Strategised, Architecectured and Executed Migration of Head Office in London from Berkeley Square to Grosvenor Place.• Migration of Head Office also included migration of Primary DC which was built on prem.• Deployed new Core and Access Level Switches to the new Greenfield… Show more • Assisting with service take-on from delivery into support, ensuring new solutions are fit for purpose, meeting customer needs and that support teams are ready and able to support the solution.• Strategised, Architecectured and Executed Migration of Head Office in London from Berkeley Square to Grosvenor Place.• Migration of Head Office also included migration of Primary DC which was built on prem.• Deployed new Core and Access Level Switches to the new Greenfield Migration.• Deployed Cisco Voice Solution for on prem voice.• Deployed new Wireless Solution for New HQ. Show less

Usa/ India

Spanning Tree Consulting provides specialized network architecture and design services for enterprises. Over the years we have specialized in providing communication solutions for medium and large-scale global networks.Our deep experience within the Financial, Pharmaceutical and Oil & Gas industries has helped us carve out a niche in core routing, data center designs, data center & branch migrations, campus designs, MPLS transformations (core and edge), Merger and Acquisitions projects… Show more Spanning Tree Consulting provides specialized network architecture and design services for enterprises. Over the years we have specialized in providing communication solutions for medium and large-scale global networks.Our deep experience within the Financial, Pharmaceutical and Oil & Gas industries has helped us carve out a niche in core routing, data center designs, data center & branch migrations, campus designs, MPLS transformations (core and edge), Merger and Acquisitions projects and ultra low-latency networks, deploying the entire range of Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper and Avaya portfolio.Expertise in:IPv4, IPv6, Dual-Stack IPv4 & IPv6 deployments.L2 & WAN Protocols:Ethernet / FastEthernet / GigabitEthernet / TenGigabitEthernet, MPLS, MPLS VPN, ATM, PoS, Frame-Relay, ISDN, SLIP, PPP and HDLC. Routing Protocols:EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGPv4 & MulticastingDesign and deployment of campus class LAN switching, Multilayer switching, Routed and SVI ports on L3 switches, VLAN's, InterVLAN Routing, VLAN Maps, STP, VTP, Trunking (dot 1q and ISL), L2 and L3 Etherchannels, Voice VLANS, Port-Based Security, Fall-Back Bridging.Network Secure Technologies:Cisco AAA (Authentication, Authorization, Accounting), RADIUS, TACACS+, Cisco PIX Firewall, IPSec (IKE, ESP, AH, MD5, SHA, RSA, DES, CA), IOS ACL, IOS Authentication Proxy, Secure Shell, IOS CBAC, IOS IDS, Cisco Secure Scanner, Cisco Intrusion Detection System, Cisco VPN Client. Misc Skills: IBM Web Sphere, Apache Web Server, IIS, HTML, DHTML.Products Experience: Cisco Routers: - 2K,3K, 5K, 7K, 9K series Cisco Switches: - Nexus Series 9K, 7K, 5K, 6500, 5500, 3500, 3700, 2900 and 1900 series. Cisco PIX Firewalls, IDS (Intrusion Detection System) Cisco ASA Cisco Tele Presence System 500, CTS-1100, CTS-1300, CTS-3000, CTS-3010 & 3200. Cisco Unified Comms Manager (CUCM 8.0), Cisco Unified Video Conferencing (CUVC) Cisco TelePresence Multipoint Switch (CTMS), Cisco TelePresence Manager (CTS-MAN) Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

• Assisting with service take-on from delivery into support, ensuring new solutions are fit for purpose, meeting customer needs and that support teams are ready and able to support the solution.• Helping to design, architect and assist with the implement and support of LAN, WAN and wireless solutions, as well as related technologies such as load-balancers, VPN and conditional access.• Working closely with internal stakeholders, to understand and capture requirements, developing… Show more • Assisting with service take-on from delivery into support, ensuring new solutions are fit for purpose, meeting customer needs and that support teams are ready and able to support the solution.• Helping to design, architect and assist with the implement and support of LAN, WAN and wireless solutions, as well as related technologies such as load-balancers, VPN and conditional access.• Working closely with internal stakeholders, to understand and capture requirements, developing technically and commercially viable solutions, either for new opportunities with new customers, transformation for existing services or complex problems for previously implemented solutions.• Acting as a technical authority, working with the support teams and respective managers to both support them in their day-to-day responsibilities and keep them appraised on changes in technology, helping drive appropriate technical training.• Identify opportunities for automation and innovation to help reduce time spent by support teams which can in turn, free time to innovate and drive service improvement.• Contributing to the standard documentation library for network products, ensuring they are regularly reviewed and updated in line with industry changes to technologies and methodologies.• Network Automation including Python, Ansible.• Work on other tasks as required to support wider business plans and initiatives. Show less

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

• Lead design engineer and architect for global network, cloud services, and application support.• Responsible for creating Designs and Standards for the manufacturing, retail, WFH infrastructures, from network, security to systems and application integration.• Integrated and implemented latest GDPR and eIDAS cloud services into existing applications and databases used by the different LOBs in the company.• Successfully migrated the current HR processes and framework to a global… Show more • Lead design engineer and architect for global network, cloud services, and application support.• Responsible for creating Designs and Standards for the manufacturing, retail, WFH infrastructures, from network, security to systems and application integration.• Integrated and implemented latest GDPR and eIDAS cloud services into existing applications and databases used by the different LOBs in the company.• Successfully migrated the current HR processes and framework to a global digital platform incorporating all U.S. and E.U. rules and regulations.• Lead the engineering effort with Aaces Inc. in creating a new CRM, Supply Chain and Manufacturing software platform with complete integration from sales order to customer delivery.• Installed new Cisco global VOIP corporate solution, allowing toll free calling across all sites and company extensions.• Architectured, Designed and implemented the rollout of Cisco Viptela SDWAN using ASR and ISR Infrastructure.• During an M&A of Golden Square Attire managed the Meraki SDWAN network for 8 months, and the migrated those locations to Cisco Meraki SDWAN and wireless.• Designed and installed two redundant DCs (Washington DC & Leeds UK) to support global manufacturing and sales needs.• Create and support all current software platforms used by the company from back office to manufacturing.• Responsible, for all security implementations between GSA and their clients/suppliers for VPN access to various business requirements. Show less

• Designed M&A MSSB touch point DMZs at Morgan Stanley Data Centers.• Created the engineering design, migration strategy & run-books for branch migrations• Created the branch routing architecture and separated the Morgan Stanley Data, Smith Barney Data & Voice traffic flows deploying multiple VRF’s on the CE.• Migrated all MS & Citi financial applications for routing over the MPLS PiP cloud for all branches and campus sites to access.• Migrated all 3rd party Vendors over from… Show more • Designed M&A MSSB touch point DMZs at Morgan Stanley Data Centers.• Created the engineering design, migration strategy & run-books for branch migrations• Created the branch routing architecture and separated the Morgan Stanley Data, Smith Barney Data & Voice traffic flows deploying multiple VRF’s on the CE.• Migrated all MS & Citi financial applications for routing over the MPLS PiP cloud for all branches and campus sites to access.• Migrated all 3rd party Vendors over from the legacy Data Centers over to the new MSSB Regional Data Centers.• Tested and developed configuration standards and templates for all branch types.• Managed a team of 4 Deployment Engineers• Assigned point of communication for engineering exchange with the Verizon engineering team located in various time-zones• Provided engineering supervision and Tier 4 escalation and support for all complex routing/network issues related to the branch, campus and data center migrations. Show less

New York

• Redesign of Credit Suisse’s TPNC, eDMZ and external Firewall environments.• Design strategy and standardization of client connectivity within Credit Suisse’s TPNC environment.• Defined company wide “Change Implementation” & “Escalation” procedures and RoE.• Monitoring & Analysis of weekly bandwidth trends across critical WAN links, Internet Gateways etc using various Network Management tools such as eHealth and Spectrum.• Pre staging & benchmarking of all network equipment to… Show more • Redesign of Credit Suisse’s TPNC, eDMZ and external Firewall environments.• Design strategy and standardization of client connectivity within Credit Suisse’s TPNC environment.• Defined company wide “Change Implementation” & “Escalation” procedures and RoE.• Monitoring & Analysis of weekly bandwidth trends across critical WAN links, Internet Gateways etc using various Network Management tools such as eHealth and Spectrum.• Pre staging & benchmarking of all network equipment to be included in Credit Suisse’s “Pre-Approved Hardware List”.• Provided Level 3 support for critical network issues with BGP peering design and configuration within the Credit Suisse global Tier 1 core as well as formulation of BGP routing policy standards for connectivity with the B2B clients.• Design strategy and routing architecture for data center connectivity to the Tier 1 global core.• Low level design and Method of procedure for migrating various customers during data center move from NY to PA.• Designed and planned strategy for migration of Credit Suisse’s old Market Data infrastructure to a new firewall controlled infrastructure.• Analysis of Internet traffic flow and planning of alternate and higher capacity Internet pipes. • Technical Design Lead for various major EOL projects in the AMRS region.• Designed and implemented redundant BGP peering architecture for servicing the Credit Suisse data centers.• Low level design and implementation of the External Connectivity Utility (ECU) and its secondary infrastructure within the ECU for separation of Internet and application traffic.• Extensive NAT experience working with Radianz and TNS in deploying B2B connectivity/applications.• Redesigned and migrated all of Credit Suisse B2B & VPN Client connectivity from New York to PA.• Deep experience in designing and deploying infrastructure for key financial applications and protocols such as FIX, CCA, FTP Drop boxes etc. Show less

• Responsible for design and deployment of new B2B client connectivity through the Bank of America’s EBNC environment involving RIP2, EIGRP and BGP peering with the clients.• Lead for the project involving migration of 100+ client connections through TNS and Radianz ensuring L3 convergence in the optical core and backups at various locations across the country.• Single point authority for approving and submitting new client connection (LVC) requests to TNS and Radianz on behalf of the… Show more • Responsible for design and deployment of new B2B client connectivity through the Bank of America’s EBNC environment involving RIP2, EIGRP and BGP peering with the clients.• Lead for the project involving migration of 100+ client connections through TNS and Radianz ensuring L3 convergence in the optical core and backups at various locations across the country.• Single point authority for approving and submitting new client connection (LVC) requests to TNS and Radianz on behalf of the Bank.• Handled multiple projects for BofA for trading floors build outs across.• Close interaction with the Bank’s governance team for feedback and implementation of new EBNC standards.• Part of the core team for the tier-2 support for LAN and WAN sites and DCs.• Problem ticket queue management and resolution at Tier-2 using Peregrine Service Centre.• Responsible for escalating unsolved issues to Cisco TAC and implementing the same in the network. Show less

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