Willard Sharp Email & Phone Number

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States

Senior Network Engineer at Sammon's Financial.

Grimes, Iowa, United States

 Design, implement, and support a large multistate enterprise network. Implement and support network solutions in the Hy-Vee data cetners including routing, switching, firewall, and ACI solutions.  Point of contact for equipment additions and removals from the West Des Moines and Chaska data centers.  Data center cable and DC standards documentation.  Monitor network equipment for problems and SLA metrics with Orion from Solarwinds. Experience with the following routing protocols: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and static routes. Experience with MPLS, VRF, QoS, HSRP, STP, and SDWAN technologies. Experience with the following network technologies: T1, DS3, Ethernet layers 1 – 7, Fiber WAN concepts, frame relay, wireless, DWDM. Provide network architecture and design experience to managers as they implement various solutions to the enterprise. I then implement that design for the project. Work with various network vendors to complete projects at remote locations. Maintain up to date documentation on the layout and configuration of the network as well as troubleshooting guides for support staff.  Currently pursuing my Cisco CCNP certification. Currently learning programing and scripting for automation of network configurations in ACI.  Currently gaining knowledge in Cisco Firepower products and security solutions.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

* Design, implement, and support a large multistate enterprise network.* Implemented and supported a Cisco DWDM optical network running on a 1500 mile plus fiber network.* Implemented and supported a MPLS L2 & L3 network with Brocade MLXe core switches that ride on top of Cisco DWDM network. * Implemented and support high speed Internet connectivity with multiple ISP vendors.* Implemented and support BGP in the core MPLS network to support Internet connectivity with multiple organizations. * Designed and implemented a highly scalable and available Cisco Nexus 9500 core network in our Waukee & Hiawatha data centers.* Designed and implemented highly scalable and redundant Brocade MLXe core network switches at UnityPoint data centers and affiliates.* Implemented and support various Brocade FCX,VDX, & Cisco Nexus 93180 switches in our top of rack data center solutions.* Implemented and support various Cisco edge switches in UnityPoint affiliate and clinic locations.* Designed and implemented Cisco 5508 & 5520 controllers and Cisco access points at various hospitals and clinics. Also implemented WPA2 preshared key, and WPA2 enterprise security in the wireless environment.* Support TACACS for network hardware user authentication. * Work with various cabling and other network vendors to complete projects at hospitals and clinics.* Implemented OSPF into the UnityPoint Health network and removed RIPv2 for better redundancy.* Optimizing network routing and summarization with standard IP addressing scheme and OSPF on the network. * Readdressed portions of the network that did not conform to IEEE private Ethernet standards.* Designed and implemented a redundant network for clinics that use Electronic Medical Records for high network availability. * Monitor network equipment for problems and SLA metrics with Orion from Solarwinds.* Experience with the following routing protocols: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and static routes.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Des Moines, Iowa Area

Managed a 1000 node windows network as well as staff that supported the network, servers, and end user devices.

Supported a 250 user Novell and token ring network.