Network Engineering Manager/Architect

Skills:

• Networking: TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, NAT, SDWAN, VPN, VoIP, OSPF, BGP, Routing, Switching
• Network Firewalls/Hardware: Cisco, Meraki, Palo, Adtran, Juniper, Fortinet
• Cloud Platforms – GCP and AWS
• Monitoring Tools: PRTG, Auvik, Solar Winds

Major Projects:

• Planned Cisco to Aruba migration for Rollins College Orlando, FL. Configured Aruba 8320s and shipped for their implementations team. Used Visio and provided scripts for their onsite Network Lead to understand new architecture and manage efficiently.
• Planned and configured network infrastructure for Major League Soccer team FC Cincinnati. Worked with multiple vendors to standardize their infrastructure and support different vendor network hardware.
• Network Engineer for an international fabric company (1000-acre campus). Provided onsite assistance for planning migration from their Catalyst 6500s to the new installation of Cisco 3850s. Racked, stacked, and provided cable management while coordinating with their network engineer remotely to ensure minimal downtime.
• Meraki deployment moving from MPLS with ASAs to site-to-site VPN on SD-WAN to cut costs and provide more visibility for monitoring for 3 branch colleges.
• Updated customer (Automotive industry) network routing for their Citrix farm. The customer had 25 locations that connected to the Head End (Netvanta 3448) location via VPN. Added New VLANs and ACLs for port forwards at Head End and configured DNS proxy so that remote sites could access servers across the VPN
• Move multisite banking business (8 total) from ATT MPLS and converted to OSPF using Spectrum’s EPLAN cutting costs and allowing faster internal routing.

Experience:

Senior Network Engineer (04/2021-current) Delek US, Brentwood, TN

• Retail Infrastructure Lead
  • Manage 250 Delek-own retail stores in an SDWAN environment
  • Coordinate circuit qualification, cutovers, installs, and network configuration for new marketing projects and design
  • Design and update network diagrams representing network architecture and for presentation during PCI audit.
  • Provide documentation and direction for process and escalations for daily issues
  • Uphold vendors to SLAs and process efficiency through contract review, and metric meetings, team feedback.

Network Engineer (12/2018-04/2021) Premise Health, Brentwood, TN

Manage Solution Provider for 300 plus sites (Project Lead for VoIP implementations)

• Configure firewalls for installs (Migrated 100+ sites from MPLS using Fortinet to Meraki)
• Coordinate circuit cutovers from T1 to fiber and/or Ethernet, and network installations
• Perform upgrades to customer networks
• Manage customer networks (utilized Infoblox for DNS and subnet tracking)

• In-Office Management
  • Maintain in-house network stability and security (Cisco, Palo, Meraki)
  • Collab with systems and our security department to maintain compliant with healthcare policies
  • Roadmap ideas for continuous improvement on current applications and research for new systems to be cost-effective and efficient in network management

Network Engineer Consultant (06/2018-12/2018) Independent Contractor, Remote

• Perform site survey and network analysis of current network infrastructure
  • recommended upgrades and process improvements
• Network Upgrades and migrations
• Network hardware installs
• Data migration and PC imaging

System Administrator (12/2017-06/2018) SAIC, Huntsville, AL

• Primary duty is to field ACN software for Army Aviation:
  • Reimaging PCs for Win10 GOTS/COTS
  • Use SQL Management studio to manipulate database tables for conversion
  • SQL 2012 Server management and configuration
  • Created VMs for database testing
  • Configure IP schema, set up the local firewall, and group policy
  • Lead classes to train units on the process to reimage, converting their PCs, managing their server, and troubleshooting the network.
  • Configure CAISIs and set up networks to work with VSATs

Enterprise Operation Engineer (07/2014-12/2017) API Digital Comm, Huntsville, AL

• Promoted to Enterprise Ops Eng 1 year after official hire date (10/14)
• Routing/Switching (Out of the box to implementation and management)
  • Several clients (including Real Estate, car dealers, schools, and medical facilities) supported using Meraki, Digium VoIP software, Google Apps Administration
  • Upholding security standards for VLAN access control and policies
  • Setting up VPNs 1:1 NATs, and Port Forwards
  • Working knowledge of routing protocols
  • Switch stacking for unified management
  • Group policy management, SMS (Meraki Systems Management)
  • Helped with SIP peers on Linux server
  • Day-to-day includes network maintenance/upgrades, updates to ACLs/Policies, VPN updates, and onsite troubleshooting. Also, manage our Active Directory internally and some basic Perl scripting in our Ticket System
• Project Management/Maintenance and documentation
  • Creating Method of Procedures (MOPs) for installs and network configuration changes
  • Project collaboration using Basecamp and Teamwork Projects
  • Recommendations for customer’s hardware and network design based on infrastructure needs and budget

• SDWAN (5 years), Cisco (5 years) Helpdesk (12 years)

Network Management, process improvement, Project managementt, Team Management

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