DON LUU

**** ** ** *****

Fort Lauderdale, FL ***09

202-***-**** Mobile

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PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

As an IT Infrastructure Manager at National, Mr. Luu has successful and track record for

5 migrate and update LAN/WAN Edges, CORES, firewalls, SSL-VPN, IBM p690, EMC

Symetra, NetApp, and WIFI infrastructure projects.

He managed and support over all of the LAN/WAN/VPN, Cisco, Brocade, Force10, and Juniper

routers and switches including Check Point and Palo Alto firewalls, DNS, DHCP, and

clients/servers on Tivoli TSM, EMC ECC/Celerra/Clariion, Microsoft Windows, IBM AIX 5.L

pSeries, Sun Solaris, and LINUX Red Hat. Mr. Luu primary responsibilities include but not

limited to the stability and business continuity for both data and voice services.

December 2000 – August 2014

Job Title: Manager, IT Infrastructure/National Geographic Society

Managerial Responsibilities:

• Proven technology leader with strong business skills and demonstrated client service ability.

• Broad experience includes managing budgets, operations, managing projects, vendor selection

and negotiation, new product design and portfolio management for leading global media

companies.

• I.T. resource projections, budgeting, capacity planning, identifying and enforcing security

policies, and managing corporate network infrastructure.

• Assign tasks and responsibilities to subordinates and manage the productivities of the technical

staffs including performance reviews and job training.

• Provide technical direction and support to other senior staffs in area of advanced technical

implementation and development including procedures and documentations.

• Participate in cross-division projects, monitor, and coordinate work assignments as needed

• Evaluated, review, and keep up to date a matrix of selected strategic technologies related to data

and voice networks.

Technical Responsibilities:

• Deployed and migrated Cisco 5500, 6500, and Brocade backbone infrastructures.

• Implemented and converted fire rules and policies from Rapter to Juniper ISG-2000 to Palo

Alto PA-5060

• Effective and proficient on systems capacity and topology planning, system implementation

and integration, and documentation core infrastructure of corporate LAN, WAN, VPN, Firewall,

WAN Optimization, Security, Authentication, Access Control, TSM, SAN, NAS, Voice & Data,

UNIX, Linux, Windows.

• Maintain and upgrade network infrastructures devices such as Cisco, Juniper, and Foundry

firmware and hardware.

• Manage and support UNIX, Windows, and Linux operating systems such IBM AIX 5.L,

Solaris, Red Hat ES5, and Windows 2008.

• Experience working with vendor hardware such as IBM pSeries and Dell blade servers.

• Proficient with SAN/NAS storage allocation and connectivity such as EMC Symmetrix/Clarion

and NetApps via fiber channel or iSCSI attached.

• Working knowledge with support PeopleSoft, Oracle, SQL, DB2, Domino, SCC, NICA, Great

Plans, SSH, DNS, DHCP, Radius, TACAC++, WhatsUp Gold, Syslog, Sudoer, Apache, IIS,

Citrix, Juniper and CheckPoint firewalls, Cognos, and other utility software.

October 1997– May 2000

Job Title: System Engineer/3H Technology, L.L.C.

Mr. Luu held a System Engineer position at GSA/NCR based on his expertise, knowledge, and

specialization in Campus Network infrastructures and Wide Area Networking (WAN), gained

while working with Cisco and Bay Networks product lines.

• GSA/NCR for all post-installations, configurations, upgrades, and management of all Cisco

routers and Catalyst Campus-switching network infrastructures were his daily responsibilities.

• Setup a management system with Cisco Works for Windows NT. The management system can

remotely view, configure, and trigger an alarm to the entire CORE Team in the event of a switch-

link failure or complete switch failure located anywhere within the Building.

• Design, spec, and implemented video conferencing systems with Radvision H323 MCU and

Picturetel P330 MCU on Windows NT.

• Served on the National Telecommunications Agency Team that supports the Citrix Metaframe

remote access server, which, in turn, supports access by remote clients in the GSA network.

May 1996 July 1997

Job Title: Network Engineer/Science Applications International

Corporation/Maryland Department of Transportation/M.V.A., Glen Burnie,

MD

As Senior Network Engineer, Mr. Luu was assigned to the Systems Information Division of the

Maryland Department of Transportation (MDT), located in Glen Burnie, MD, which supports

forty five (45) remote sites throughout the state of Maryland.

• Thoroughly studied, analyzed, documented, and diagrammed the existing thin-net backbone

infrastructure and WAN connectivity of some sixty three (63) remote Motor Vehicle

Administration (MVA) sites. This included the MVA Headquarters site, all of its remote

branches, the Maryland Port Authority, the Maryland Aviation Administration, and the Maryland

Transit Authority sites throughout Maryland.

• In the MDT network infrastructure design, Mr. Luu introduced the Cisco CDDI/FDDI WS-

C1400 workgroup concentrator to interconnect MDT backbone for all IBM mainframes,

client/server RISC-based architecture machines, and Cisco Catalyst switching to fifteen hundred

(1500) clients’ Intel Pentium-based machines.

• Installed and configured two (2) Cisco CDDI/FDDI WS-C1400 workgroup concentration

devices and ten (10) Cisco Catalysts.

March 1993 May 1996

Job Title: Network Engineer/Computer Training Center, Bethesda, MD

At the Computer Training Center (CTC), Mr. Luu researched WAN connectivity for three (3)

locations within the Washington Metropolitan Area. He then designed and implemented WAN

connectivity for all three CTC sites using Cisco 2524 routers for the Bethesda site and Cisco

2503 routers at the Arlington and Alexandria, VA, locations. He implemented ISDN PRI on the

Internet and BRI ISDN at the Arlington and Alexandria sites. Mr. Luu also managed and

supported multi-platform LANs for the CTC, including Windows NT, and Novell NetWare.

Certifications/Training:

ITIL Fundamental Certification

Juniper Netscreen & SRX & NSM

Deploying MPLS: Foundry Network

EMC NAS Operation & Management

CISSP Training

Global Knowledge: Project Management

NGS: Budget

EMC ECC SAN Management

NGS: Presentation Skill

NGS: Decision Making

NGS: Time Management

IBM AIX 5.2 Administration I & II

IBM pSeries LPAR: AIX 5L

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) May 2000

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Nov 1999

Microsoft-Certified System Engineer May 1998

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