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EXPERIENCE

09/2007 - 03/2008 Windstream Communications Concord, NC

IP Network Engineer

  • Network migration and convergence.

  • Education and documentation on current network status and procedures.

11/1999 - 09/2007 CT Communications (acquired by Windstream) Concord, NC

IP Network Engineer

  • Highest senior level Packet/Data position (non-management) available at CTC.

  • Architecture, Planning, and Operational support of the critical core IP/Ethernet infrastructure.

  • Security and firewall policy design, implementation, and suport.

  • MPLS over 10Gig Ethernet core network design, implementation, operation, and support.

  • Packet capture, inspection, and analysis of IP and Ethernet network traffic.

  • Metro-Ethernet design, implementation, and support over MPLS and Ethernet.

  • WAN circuit design, implementation, and support.

  • Muticast IPTV head-end transport design, implementation, and monitoring.

  • VoIP softswitch transport design and endpoint stress testing.

  • IP management design and support for other departments.

  • Network trending and reporting using Linux/Unix using open source tools.

  • Program design and development identifying and backing up new network devices.

  • Perl and bash script development to assist Engineering and operations departments.

  • Solaris/UNIX/Linux server, PC, and LAN administration.

  • Various network/ISP related device management

09/1997 - 11/1999 Internet of Concord (acquired by CTC) Concord, NC

Network/Systems Administrator

  • Full network/systems design and operation reporting only to company owners.

  • Design, Implementation, and Operation of ALL ISP network and server components.

  • Designed and Rebuilt entire ISP network and server farm from ground up.

  • Created real-time network monitoring solutions using MRTG, IPSentry and paging services.

  • Transitioned modem pools from 33.6k modem banks to PRI fed, V.90 Lucent Portmasters.

06/1996 - 07/1997 Intrex Computers Chapel Hill, NC

Service Manager

  • Working manager for PC service department for Chapel Hill store.

  • Telephone, in-house, and on-site customer PC and network support.

  • Custom built and repaired PC systems (numerous brands and models) for walk-in customers.

  • Responsibilities included management of 5-7 techs, safe access, alarm codes, and store keys.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

  • BS - Computer Science, UNC - Charlotte

  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES, & PROJECTS

  • Strong Routing Experience - MPLS, BGP, OSPF, QoS,..

  • Strong Switching Experience - VLAN Trunks, PVSTP, RSTP, STP, Port Channels,..

  • Strong WAN Support Experience - dial-up, T1 (Frame Relay/ATM/PPP/HDLC), T1 ATM IMA, T1 MLPPP, DS3, OC3, OC12, dark fiber, WDM, media converters, 2BASE-TL (bonded copper),..

  • Strong Firewall Experience - Checkpoint, PIX, Netscreen, ATA, Iptables.

  • Strong MetroE Design Experience - L2VPN, L3VPN (vrf), point-to-point, multipoint, Internet,..

  • Strong Packet Analysis Experience - Ethereal, Wireshark, Netflow, TCPDump,..

  • Strong SNMP Experience - Parsing MIBs, extracting OIDs and gathering/trending statistics.

  • Strong IP DSLAM Experience - Occam Networks, Paradyne Grandslam/4200ip

  • Strong Internet Server/Service Experience - DNS (named), Apache, DHCP (isc dhcpd), TACACS+, TFTP, FTP, Radius, OpenSSH, HP Openview, many others...

  • Strong Linux System Experience - Red Hat, CentOS, RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, SLAX,..

  • Strong Windows System Experience - XP, 2000, NT, 95/98/ME

  • Load-balancer Experience - Foundry ServerIron, Riverstone 3k

  • Programming Experience - Perl, HTML, Perl-CGI, bash/sh, DOS(.bat), PHP

  • Trending and reporting tools - MRTG, Cacti, flow-tools, ntop,...

  • VPN Experience - Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator, DD-Wrt PPTP VPN

  • Wireless 802.11b/g Experience - private and secured point-to-point for business, public and secured access points,...

  • Strong Cisco Router Experience - 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 7200, 7500, 7600, others...

  • Strong Cisco Switch Experience - 2900, 2950, 3550, 3750, 4000, 4500, 6500, others...

  • Other Hardware Experience - Ineoquest Singulus multicast analyzer, Packeteer packet shapers, Hatteras Networks IEEE 802.3ah 2BASE-TL Ethernet over bonded copper, IXIA packet generators.



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