Stephen K. Email & Phone Number

Fort Worth, TX, US

Berlin, Berlin, DE

US

• Various roles as contractor in the Dallas-Fort Worth area on a number of different complex projects and migrations. Usually brought in as a Senior Network Consultant, I am relied on as a last level escalation for.
• Senior escalation point on all things VPN including leading global VPN redesign project that moved from multiple ASA firewalls to a single ASR platform, saving valuable real estate as well as provided a scalable.
• Senior escalation point on all Citrix MPX Netscaler platforms including planning upgrades to outdated gear and migrations to updated platforms.
• Senior escalation point on most ASA Firewall issues/projects including migrations from pre ASA8.2 code to ASA8.3 code. Developed a script to assist with the numerous pre ASA8.2 version upgrades and limited the number.
• Design and Implementation of Cisco ASA with FirePower Services.
• Technical lead on major upgrades/replacement of critical network equipment during 4DX and PCI compliance initiatives.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• A Verizon owned company. Member of the Network Implementation and Engineering team consisting of 20+ engineers staffed 24x7. Responsible for all customer facing and network infrastructure deployments include new data.
• Work with several Fortune 100 companies who outsource IT to Terremark, including network and infrastructure. Responsible for new implementations, ongoing administration, and connectivity with partners and vendors.
• Terremark is one of the largest web hosting companies in the world comprising of data centers across the United States, Latin America and Europe. A level 5 datacenter in Miami supports Enterprise customers as well as.
• Heavy work with Cisco ASA’s, Citrix NetScalers, Cisco Nexus, and enterprise routing environments. Migrated several large customer instances to our datacenter while allowing for maximum uptime.
• Drove customer calls on several implementations of VPNs, on both Cisco routers and ASA firewalls.
• In charge of scripting all migrations from legacy datacenters to newer environments without issues.

New York, New York, US

Maintenance and proactive monitoring of a 38,000 node network using BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, and multicast on Cisco 7200, 3600 and Cat 6500 switches and Juniper M10i routers, Severity 1-4 troubleshooting and resolution, create change control scripts, execute configuration modifications. Monitor and maintain Riverbed and Expand compression engines, Citrix.