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New York, Ny, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Supporting and growing internal customers. I've been designing customers into a shared tenancy space and build tools to help automate deployments. Less focus on traditional network engineering, the knowledge is still important but building tools has required expanding my programming knowledge in Python and soon Go.* Developed workflows to offload operational and delivery tasks to appropriate teams.* Developed process for migrating customers from old to new infrastructure.* Drove early adoption of proprietary ACL management tools while mentoring others in its use.* Led a team of five engineers in workflow development and process improvements.* Mentored engineers junior to myself in new technologies, designs, and internal system* Facilitated bias-busting workshops designed to assist people with recognizing unconscious bias, and how to address overt bias in the workplace.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Merging into the Acquisition Network Operations group, I am continuing working with the ITA Software network but adding other acquisition networks into my realm of responsibility. Using proprietary version management tools. More Cisco and Juniper experience. Adding more fun with Arista. Building and maintaining several small networks geographically dispersed throughout the globe.As of March 2015, Acquisition Network Operations is now part of Corporate Network Operations.* Designed, deployed, and managed standardized network infrastructure for multiple internal customers both domestic and internationally.* Developed the network process for moving customer deployments into modular clusters to reduce area of effect, increase isolation, and improve flexibility for maintenance, outage, migration, and scalability.* Drove the network design to deploy and support the world’s largest single purpose macOS fleet.* Consolidated multiple individual network deployments into a shared tenancy environment, saving resource and operations costs while improving redundancy and reliability for all customers.* Onboarded newly acquired companies to the Google ecosystem. Audited and designed new network solutions for these acquisitions.* Authored procedural documentation for performing regular tasks.* Migrated all ITA networking data to Google standard systems.* Evaluated new networking hardware* Created modules for network device verification tool* Supported Edge Caching deployments* Designed and deployed the first IPv6 network for internal customers.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Continuing work from ITA Software, Inc but now as a division of Google. Added experience in this position includes Fortinet firewalls, A10 load balancers, Arista switches. Protocols include various multicast components such as PIM, IGMP and MSDP. Troubleshooting higher speed connections over fiber up to 10Gbps.* Planned and executed customer migrations from ITA Data Centers to Google cloud based services (Borg).* Continued all roles and Responsibilities from ITA Software below

Cambridge, Ma, Us

Firewall, router, switch and load balancer updates. Includes Netscreen Firewalls, Cisco and Juniper routers. Extreme switches. And Foundry switches and load balancers.Plan, design and build out of data centers for the purpose of housing customer server farms.Work with systems administrators and other network engineers to plan out best practices for the data centers.Research and recommend networking hardware.Work with customers to turn up new data connections to the data centers.Handle escalations from the Software Operations Center (SOC) regarding network outages and issues.* Designed and deployed domestic and international data centers.* Redesigned and deployed classic top-of-rack architecture into an end-of-row architecture, reducing overall operational and maintenance costs while improving scalability and redundancy.* Deployed entire networks from quotes, purchasing, inventory, installation, configuration, and management of network routers, switches, load balancers and firewalls.* Support airline and online ticketing agency WAN and VPN connectivity into the ITA data centers.* Schedule and execute network changes to resolve customer requests.

Novi, Michigan, Us

Switch Products Division (Pollak) VPNs, firewall policy and Websense integration on a Nokia IPSO firewall appliance running Check Point FW‑1/VPN‑1 NG with Application Intelligence. Includes backing up and auditing daily firewall logs.Manage Websense content filtering server and serviceManage and secure VLANs on Cisco Catalyst switchesPhysical and logical maintenance, troubleshooting and standardization of Cisco routers and switches running static, RIP and EIGRP routing protocols across T1 and frame-relay circuits. Included both wired and wireless networks, running on Lucent/Orinoco 802.11b WAP, using TCP/IP and WEPManage Debian Linux servers running NMS software including MRTG, Nessus, RANCID. Also managed the configuration for What’s Up Gold! Running on a Windows server.Manage Solaris servers and workstations to run Unix CAD applications, Pro Engineer, Ideas/C3P, Unigraphics, Catia, Windchill/PDMLink.Resolution and escalation of issues through the TrackIt help desk ticketing system.

Remote Hands

Princeton, Nj, Us

Physical and logical maintenance, troubleshooting and standardization of Cisco and Extreme routers and switches using BGP4, ISIS, OSPF and RIP routing protocols. Additional exposure to Juniper routers and CPE including Open Route/Proteon and Ascend routers.Perform router configuration changes as needed for improved performance across the internet backbone and ingress/egress points. Turning up, tearing down, and troubleshooting peers, transit providers, customers and high speed circuits. ISDN, Frame-relay, ATM, T1, DS3, OC3, OC48, Point-to-Point, Packet Over Sonet, TCP/IP. 802.11b wireless networking using Lucent/Orinoco wireless gear.

Manage NMS software running on Solaris and Debian Linux servers: MRTG, tkined, HP Open View, Netcool, Nervecenter, NOCOLService administration on DEC Unix: POP3, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, DNS, NNTP, NTP, SNMPResolution and escalation of trouble tickets through the “req” ticketing system. Rotating 24x7 primary on-call schedule as well as being secondary on-call escalation for three our of four weeks and performing off-hours maintenance. Telephone support for dial-up users on most major operating systems. Support for most major Internet clients. First support member to pass the PC Product Support Specialist test at Ultranet.