Business Architect supporting the U.S. Air Force and Joint DoD programs. Responsible for shaping and driving Cisco network designs and architectures. Assist with scoping of strategic engineering projects that have significant impact on customer missions. Work closely with Cisco internal sales teams, product development roadmaps and delivery engineering teams to help ensure Cisco technology and services have the best impact on customer's missions and goals. Assist in translating customer business and operational strategies into Cisco solutions and architectures.Technical engineering lead on large U.S. Air Force initiatives, missions and projects. Focused on network architectures and modernization efforts such as Software Defined Access (SDA), Software Defined WAN (SDWAN) and Cloud to improve mission effectiveness, security, network programmability and gain efficiencies.Help grow internal engineering talent by providing guidance, sharing knowledge, and providing leadership. Enhance the delivery and technical skills of others through mentoring and technical leadership. In-depth knowledge of network design, routing & switching, service provider, data center, and security technologies.

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Responsible for understanding complex business requirements and translating them into an overall design and solution. Responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and operating multi-vendor infrastructure solutions for customers. Responsible for leading a technical team of highly skilled engineers.o Evaluate customer requirements, implicit and explicit, to then design and architect a solution for each customer that meets their underlying business requirements.o Mentored and lead the Core Network Practice of Engineerso Technical oversight and leadership in respective technology o Subject Matter Expert for all RS, SP, Sec, DC, and Wifi technologies o Leveraged for validation/review of complex designs and designs that are to meet specific customer needso Technical Champion on multiple cutting edge technologies to include Cisco DNA, ISE, iWAN, and ACI.o Peer with other technical thought leaders, trusted advisors, and influencers to develop new solutions and offerings

Responsible for designing and supporting EnerNOC’s network computing infrastructure. Focused primarily on production enterprise service delivery, working with R&D, Architects and Project Managers in a cross-functional team and focus on designing, building and deploying high availability, robust, resilient and maintainable solutions to support Platform and Corporate Services. Focused on service operations, ensuring that services are highly available, have sufficient network capacity in place and are fully resilient across multiple data centers. In addition, ensure the Network Team continues to deliver results on schedule and adhere to established processes using existing tools and procedures in a consistent manner across the team.• Provides day to day management and direction to the network team for hardware, software and security solutions. Manage resources on the team for efficient and effective resolutions to issues, projects and day to day operational tasks.• Coordinate and manage the network team with maintaining and monitoring secure network technologies (including but not limited to Firewalls, Switches, Network security, Site connectivity, Software patches, Load Balancers, Voice systems, AWS VPCs, WAN optimization and MPLS circuits, etc.); conducts research on network hardware, software, and protocols in support of procurement and development efforts, and provides recommendations to the IT Management Team.• Conduct problem analysis of network software and hardware issues, implement resolutions for network related software problems, network hardware installation and configuration; administer security and backup procedures for LAN and WAN devices; participate in software and hardware evaluation. Mentor the network team with instructions in analysis and resolution of problems.

Responsible for the day to day support of the network, design and operations of the data and voice networks (wired and wireless), enterprise network architecture, network technology evaluations, protocol analysis, configuration, documentation, research, complex trouble shooting and analysis. In addition, the Senior Network Engineer takes an active role in capacity planning, network monitoring, and technology mentoring.• Responsible for ensuring the movement of data through highly available networks that comprise the EnerNOC enterprise network environment.• Design, implement and troubleshoot VoIP network.• Design, develop and implement network solutions for Disaster Recovery, SaaS and Back Office environments.• Provide highly skilled technical assistance in network planning, engineering, and architecture.• Develop technical standards and documentation, identify and evaluate new products, and provides resolution for network problems.• Identify and diagnose complex problems and factors affecting network performance.• Provide implementation and technology reviews for the Network Infrastructure team.• Interface with vendors to identify and purchase hardware and software that meets requirements defined by the IT Infrastructure team.• Provide guidance and direction for less experienced Network Engineers.• Evaluate new technologies and platforms to determine whether their applicability aligns with the businesses needs.• Evaluates and identifies opportunities for network performance and functionality improvements.• Work with technical team to ensure that hardware and software infrastructure is maintained with latest firmware and software requirements.• Manage basic and expedited support to resolve all networking related issues.• Troubleshoot and resolve all expedited issues impacting internal and external customers.• Proactively communicate the status, plan of action(s), and resolution(s) of issues.