Stephen Gutierrez Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Orange County, California, United States

Network Engineering, design, support, technology evaluation, project planning, documentation. Currently working on technology migration, implementing new core, distribution and access layers. New infrastructure will parallel old and migrate all hosts and servcies to new. Exciting opportunity to make some quality impacts to service and organization.

Orange County, California Area

Supported Hoag Hospital network buildout in new Irvine location. Developed network testing and validation plans. Performed all testing and delivered comprehensive validation documentation to I.T. management.

Analyze business network infrastructure to identify opportunities for optimization or cost savings. Support nationwide routing and local area switching, Internet and third party security, virtual private network systems, application server load-balancing and domain name registry systems.

Designed, built and managed corporate data network systems. Daily support of WAN/LAN routing and switching using Cisco and Foundry products; network security using Cisco, Nokia and Checkpoint firewall products; virtual private networks using Cisco VPN 3030 appliances and Cisco IOS VPN products; network analysis using Wireshark protocol analyzer, Network.

Analysis and recommendation of network optimization and cost efficiencies.Multi-discipline technology support.

Project management, design, implementation and sustainment of a nationwide data network across multiple data centers.

Manage staff of eight network engineers for design, aquisitions, implementation and sustainment of a nationwide network across mulitple data centers.

Manage staff of five engineers monitoring nationwide network of routers, switches, data circuits. ATM, Frame Relay, Gigabit, Microwave, SONET. Problem resolution, metrics reporting, vendor escalation.

• Implemented and managed business administration, retail, and engineering wide area data communications network throughout Southern California.
• Achieved role as project manager of four member Data Internetwork Engineering group.
• Completed as-built documentation manuals of network, simplifying problem resolution.

• Developed and implemented strategies for the continuous evolution of a data network supporting 1200+ workstations on a seven building campus with an additional 800 workstations spread across six remote sites in the US.
• Implemented and sustained all data/ voice communications hardware that delivered reliable and cost effective network solutions. Supervised activities of telecom engineer and outside vendor technicians to ensure quality.