Wayne Townsend Email & Phone Number

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Engineered and automated deployment of a hyperconverged Centos Linux based cluster for Dells PowerOne system controller using ansible. Worked with various opensource technologies including centos, openvswitch, glusterfs, kubernetes and heketi. Clustering technologies included Opennebula, pacemaker and corosync. Automated cluster deployment via ansible. Wrote prometheus exporters using golang. Built custom rpms to install patched versions of heketi built from source. Submitted patches to the heketi project. Created docker containers for opennebula, libvirt, lldpd and openvswitch. Remaster Centos ISO and create custom Centos repositories.

Raleigh, North Carolina

North Carolina

• Tier 3 datacenter engineer support supporting all Cisco Nexus switches including Nexus 1000, 5500, 5600, 7000 and 9000 series.• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network and server issues for various federal customers.• Provided troubleshooting and case resolution of issues involving Cisco 6100 series and 6200 series fabric interconnects.• Supported Cisco UCS B and C-series servers for various federal customers.• Provided guidance to customers attempting upgrades of existing datacenters.• Designed and implemented a lab datacenter environment to support troubleshooting and recreates for various cisco technologies including Cisco voice, datacenter, security and routing/switching.• Provided VMware troubleshooting support.• Provided various server virtualization support including Windows and Linux servers.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Troubleshoot and resolve complex network and server issues for various customers. Tier three datacenter support for various Cisco Nexus platforms and UCS servers.

New London/Norwich, Connecticut Area

• SME for Cisco Nexus converged fabric and datacenter interconnect technologies spread across three datacenters.• Implemented Cisco MDS 9250I SAN switches to support Fiber Channel connectivity into the Cisco Nexus 5596UP access layer.• Designed and Implemented Cisco Nexus 10gig converged fabric, fiber channel over IP and OTV in and between two datacenters.• Worked closely with server teams to implement and troubleshoot fiber channel over Ethernet and virtual port channel connectivity to new servers in two datacenters.• Redesigned a core network composed of Cisco 6509 chassis switches.• Performed network analysis and design recommendations for the core network of two additional business units.• Composed and delivered Cisco Nexus training to other senior and junior network engineers.• Designed and proposed a Cisco Nexus based DMZ comprised of 10gig datacenter grade firewalls and datacenter interconnects spread between two datacenters over a 10 gigabit MAN.• Tech Lead for a 5 year multi-million dollar switch refresh project including 700+ 3750 stackable switches.

Support hardware recommendations for government sponsored projects. Provide techincal support in setting up servers and clients. Provide technical support for a large software development lab composed of 17 esx servers and over 300 virtual machines. Provide technical support in configuring opensource vyatta routers(as virtual machines) to run nat and IP routing. Provide recommendations for cost effective upgrades to network servers and workstations. Perform day to day maintenance on domain controllers and exchange servers. Perform network upgrades to LAN switches and servers. Maintain and monitor internet facing firewalls and routers. Perform day to day maintenance on client workstations, servers and switches.

Network administration and technical support for Non-propulsion electronic system integrated test and support system in support of Virginia class submarine testing. Supported Microsoft windows active directory and server upgrades from windows 2000 server to windows server 2003 R2. Supported 7 domain controllers in a two site domain with over 500 users and 4 portable laptop domain controllers for use at remote locations. Supported microsoft sql server 2000 and IIS 6.0 appliction servers. Supported software testing and development efforts for a large visual basic dot net web application and visual basic dot net client application.

Managed 20 personnel in the completion of electrical repairs on navigation lighting and remote display equipment for 16 fast attack submarines stationed in Groton, CT.

Maintenance and repair of electrostatic gyro navigators, Radar, Remote display equipment including synchro and servo systems. Maintenance of navigation lighting. Maintenance of GPS systems, phone systems and interior communications equipment.

Bsit/Iss, Network Security

Aait/N, It/Networking

Networking and Security.

Certificate, Networking, Network Security

CCNA,CCDA,MCSA:Security,CCNP,CCNP Security,CCSP,CCDP,MCSE:Security