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Pre-Sales Systems Engineer for Radware. Radware is the global leader in integrated application delivery and application security solutions for business-smart networking. Radware assures the complete availability, performance, and security of business-critical applications for enterprises and carriers worldwide.

Accountable for an Internet Infrastructure for Schwab.com, a highly secure, mission-critical financial services site serving >1MM clients. Infrastructure comprises 4 ISPs, 2 data centers, load balancers, route optimization appliances, routers, and switches. Achieved network availability of 99.99999%. * Plan capital improvements and contribute to development of capital expense budgets of up to $2MM.* Technical Lead in successful design of the new Internet/Extranet feed/core design to minimize impacts of DDoS attacks. Worked closely with operations to optimize process and procedures related to DDoS alerting and playbook development.* Key contributor to evaluation and procurement of Level3/Prolexic solution for enhanced DDoS monitoring (ABM) and services. Engineered and implemented solution at multiple data centers, streamlining support, and improving DDoS protection.* Served as Lead Network Engineer in major network hardware upgrade of Denver call center with 2400 employees and administrative offices with 650 employees. Designed network topology and network infrastructure. Oversaw on-target implementation of network infrastructure, improving performance and reliability with zero impact to productivity. * Led a network standardization effort for the Richfield, Ohio, data center. * Manage migration of external websites from legacy load balancers to Citrix Netscaler load balancer, then to BIG-IP F5 load balancers. * Key contributor to emergency capacity upgrades of web, application, and database servers, and 4 BEM servers, earning team recognition for successful, ahead-of-schedule completion.* Virtualized 28 email servers with no disruptions.* Earned numerous Excellence in Service awards.

Network Architect (1997-2000)Promoted to lead evaluation, test, and integration of new peer-to-peer network technologies. Led a project team of 6 in readdressing the SPS network, utilizing Class B network address subnetting to allow route summarization. Served as a member of the Campus Network Architecture Standardization Team.Senior Network Analyst (1994-1997)Promoted to support site networking services encompassing analog and digital remote access, routers, hubs and switches, and routing of TCP/IP, Appletalk, IPX, and Decnet. Resolved escalated internetworking issues. Designed LAN architecture. .Senior PC Support Analyst (1992-1994)Supported SPS Sector IS organization, including hardware installation, configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting, email platform implementation and gateway, server and client configurations, maintenance, and troubleshooting.