Alfred Gatchalian

Jersey City, New Jersey - Contact number: 201-***-****

Email: acghh1@r.postjobfree.com

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alfred-gatchalian/11/120/954/

Professional Profile

Experienced in Project Management, building and designing Data Center and

network infrastructure, servers and application solution that enhances

business efficiency and productivity. Install and configure Cisco routers,

Nexus & Cat switches, HP switches and administration of F5 Load Balancer.

Provides engineering for hardware and application support with a broad

range of Cisco network, Active Directory & Exchange administration, FTP and

WSUS management, Anti-Virus implementation and collaboration with

management and vendors. Expert in creating detailed technical

documentations utilizing Microsoft Office, VISIO and other software.

Technical Skills:

Software:

Microsoft Windows 2008 R2, Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Active Directory,

Windows 7, MS Office, MS Project, VISIO, Windows XP, IBM OS/2, MAC OSX,

Microsoft Exchange 2003 / 2010, Microsoft SQL, DNS, FTP, TFTP, IIS 6/7,

WSUS, SiteScope, ePO, Citrix, VMWare ESXi, Ms Hyper-V Virtualization, VMW

Workstation 7, Cisco Network Assistant, Cisco Works, Linux, MS Office,

ArcServe, BackupExec and RedGate SQL Backup.

Protocols:

TCP\IP, IPX, BGP, HSRP, VRRP, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VPN, GRE, VTP, STP,

VOIP, NAT, PAT

Hardware:

HP Blade servers, IBM and Dell servers, iSCSI HBA cards, Cisco Routers,

Cisco Nexus and Cat switches, Wireless Access Point, Cisco Aironet 1142 &

1242 PoE, HP ProCurve switches, Cisco ASA 5500 Series, Cisco Wireless

access point, Sonic Wall Firewall, F5 BigIP 3900 load balancer, Juniper

SRX5600, Fortinet 3600c, HP, Canon and Xerox Network Printers, Backups and

Storage, SCSI, and KVM infrastructure.

Certification:

F5 BigIP LTM V10.2 Essentials

Overall Strength:

Strong leadership, quick learner, adapt easily to new technology and/or

environment, accommodating person, good listener and understand customer

expectations, resourceful, responsible, dedicated and able to manage or

handle any task given with no supervision from direct superior, problem-

solver and delivers solution, and a team player in any given task and/or

projects.

Professional Experience:

Bank of New York Mellon - Woodland Park, NJ_

September 2013 to Present

Project Manager / Infrastructure & Network Engineer - IT Consultant

Assisted Bank of New York Mellon with their Market Data Extranet Migration

and EDC Infrastructure project for their New York and Florham Park, NJ

location.

. Responsible in project planning, design, migration, consolidation,

configuration, Installation, testing and deployment of Traders Market

Data network devices to the new EDC infrastructure.

. Work with business architects to understand business models and value

chains.

. Partner with business technology groups in gathering requirements,

performance and cost analysis, and administering network design

proposals.

. Identify technologies that can be applied to solve business

opportunities and validate their effectiveness through proof of

concept exercises.

. Evaluates performance of existing systems to ensure they are

performing adequately for customer applications, modifying and/or

reconfiguring the network to solve traffic problems as deemed

necessary.

. Responsible in preparing and submitting hardware and circuit

requirements and reviewing quotes received from different vendors.

. Responsible for all communication on the status of the project to the

rest of the IT project team, IT Silos, GNS team, EDC, and other

interested parties as required.

. Experienced with Cisco products assisting BNY Mellon staffs with

routing, switching configuration, and troubleshooting with emphasis in

eBGP, Multicast, vlan creation, trunking and ip subnetting.

. Responsible in coordinating with Vendor Service Providers (ie

Bloomberg, Tradeweb, Reuters, EBS, Broadway, etc.) from installation,

testing of data circuits, deployment and interfacing of network

devices and testing of Trader application to market data environment .

. Assist in the creation and development of a network inventory document

to track connectivity information from Carrier Provider, Circuit ID,

device and port allocation, IP and client application assignment and

so on.

. Expert in preparing and creating technical documentation,

presentation, deployment plans, Visio network diagrams, generating

reports and schedule management utilizing Microsoft software's.

. Represent the Trading and Vendor Services Extranet group on Resiliency

meetings to review and validate environmental documents, technology

specifics documentation, monitoring and alerting, instrumentation,

failover capability, incident review and training or knowledge

transfer.

Deutsche Bank - Parsippany, NJ_

June 2013 to September 2013

Automation Project Manager / Network Engineer - IT Consultant

Assisted Deutsche Bank with their Network Management Services Automation

project from planning, designing, research, documentation and testing.

. Liaison to Vice President of Network Management Services.

. Work closely with Deutsche Bank Managers and IT Departments to

analyze, understand and document current Network Management Service

workflow process in order to define simplified solution and

recommendation for automation.

. Prepare project document, gather data's, generate network architecture

design, create VISIO network diagrams, testing analysis, test plans

and risk assessments to ensure project requirements are met.

. Responsible in holding meetings and coordination from different

Departments and project contributors locally and overseas to discuss,

validate, gather data's, analyze requirements and review automation

design.

. Assist Core Network Infrastructure Engineer in troubleshooting network

issues and trouble reports.

. Provide assistance to F5 LB Administrator in documenting existing

configuration from application hosting instances mappings and creating

network diagrams for Internal and External Load Balancer.

. Understand and document current Request Flow and Deployment process to

integrate with the automation project.

. Provide assistance to Network and Deployment group in configuring,

troubleshooting and installation of routers and switches.

. Support other IT Departments on existing projects that requires

technical expertise and documentation assistance.

AT&T - Middletown, NJ _

June 2012 to April 2013 Network

Architect / PM-Technical Support Engineer - IT Consultant

Responsible in assisting and translating AT&T Infrastructure business

needs into technical solutions, and define solutions to problems through

reasoned application of information technology.

. Responsible for developing high and low level project plans and

budgets for data center program, projects and/or data center

components of broader Enterprise Infrastructure efforts; specifically

Data Center Consolidation program and its portfolio of projects.

. Responsible for the management, coordination, and execution of all

Enterprise Data Center assigned tasks and resources at the project

level.

. Responsible for tailoring existing EDC best practices for project and

operational management to suit the needs of any given project.

. Responsible for all communication on the status of the project or

program to the rest of the IT project team, IT Silos, Corporate

Services, EDC, Enterprise Projects, and other interested parties as

required.

. Responsible in coordinating all activities of the projects between

parties and program groups as well as external resources such as the

Engineering Design Team, General Contractor, etc.

. Responsible for the development and timely delivery of all EDC related

project and program deliverables.

. Prepares and generates network architecture design, documents, create

VISIO network diagrams, testing analysis, test plans and risk

assessments to ensure sound architecture are met.

. Created a detailed layout of Cisco Nexus design and configuration to

support the Site-to-Site Geo Redundancy project between Watertown, MA

and Allen, TX.

. Lead teams that analyze the network, architecture design,

implementation of External and Internal F5 BigIP to load balance the

Datacenters and Application servers in order to best meet client

requirements for its reliability, security, performance and

availability.

. Researches technological advancements to ensure that voice and data

networking solutions are continuously improved, supported, and aligned

with industry and company standards.

. Evaluates highly complex data or voice networking technologies to

understand their potential and recommends future direction.

. Evaluates cost analysis and vendor comparisons for large scale

projects to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations, and

measures feasibility of various approaches.

. Determine integrated hardware and software architecture solutions that

meet performance, usability, scalability, reliability, and security

needs.

. Provide recommendation on Backups and Storage solutions.

. Build productive internal/external relationships and collaborates with

other teams and vendors.

. Interface with other Project Managers and Engineers to gather input

for design and evaluation of design improvements.

. Ensure project plans adhere to scheduled timelines and are within the

procedural guidelines.

AARK Investments - Brodheadsville, PA

March 2012 to June 2012

Network Engineer

Responsible in the network migration project that involves planning,

design, installation, upgrade and

re-configuration of network devices connecting offices in the west coast.

. Coordinate and assist Project Managers and Network Engineers in the

analysis, design, troubleshooting and reconfiguration of current

network topology such as BGP4, OSPF and EIGRP.

. Responsible in the research, evaluation and purchasing of hardware's

and software's.

. Provide recommendations to improve network throughput, performance and

reliability such as application and improvement of route

summarization, VLSM, sub netting and circuit enhancement.

. Performed IOS upgrades and configuration backup on Cisco routers and

switches.

. Coordinate with service providers and vendors in the troubleshooting,

circuit testing and installation.

. Setup monitoring tools to administer Firewall, Cisco network devices,

servers and applications.

. Prepares document, build procedures and Visio network diagrams to

assist in the migration project.

. Assisted System Administrator with the hardware and OS upgrade on

existing Windows 2003 Domain to Windows 2008 and the role out of

clients.

. Provide technical support and helpdesk function in the administration

of Windows AD.

The JK Group Inc, - Plainsboro, NJ

November 2011 to March, 2012

Data Center Project Manager / Systems and Network Engineer

Successfully completed the infrastructure projects that involve planning,

design, installation, re-configuration, capacity planning and deployments

supporting all systems in the company.

. Manage all facets of technical projects to ensure deliverables are met

within schedule, budget, and quality goals.

. Analyze and reconfigure existing topology network and its connectivity

throughout the organization and provide recommendations to improve its

performance and reliability.

. Recommend and setup network monitoring tools in the Data Center area

such Firewall Manage Engine, Cisco Assistant, Kiwi logger, F5

Dashboard and others.

. Assisted in the implementation and deployment of F5 BigIP 3900 LTM and

MsUAG so it can leverage to route both incoming and outgoing traffic

through the most appropriate UAG server.

. Provide assistance in the implementation and deployment of External

and Internal F5 BigIP 3900 LTM to migrate and load balance Database

and Applications servers from creating & configuring virtual IP pools,

assigning virtual servers and setup of health & performance monitors.

. Created detailed documentations, procedures and Visio network diagrams

to assist all IT Departments.

. Assist Developers in the upgrade and deployment of IIS7 Windows 2008

Web servers.

. Upgraded and migrated fifteen Database servers to a new hardware

platform and updated software's.

. Responsible in the administration and Sonic Wall Firewall rules setup

for Front and Back-End systems.

. Administer and mentor staffs in the daily administration of Windows

Active Directory for internal network with approximately 250 users.

. Assisted in the re-design and layout of current Production and

Development environment from planning to implementation.

Volvo Cars of North America / Volvo IT - Rockleigh, NJ

January 2011 to October 2011

Project Manager/Infrastructure & Network Engineer

Assisted Volvo Cars of North America with their infrastructure migration,

installation and configuration, capacity planning, deployments and support

of all technologies in order to facilitate a smooth implementation to

productions.

. Project team player working closely assisting team members and

Engineers in Volvo-Sweden with the network transition from Ford Motors

to Volvo network in the U.S. that involves design, planning, preparing

budget plans, implementation, scheduling and reconfiguring of existing

network devices in North America and in Canada.

. Responsible for tailoring existing Data Center best practices for

project and operational management to suit the needs of any given

project.

. Prepares presentations, project plans, scheduling, resource or budget

and cost analysis utilizing Microsoft software's such Ms Project,

PowerPoint, VISIO, Excel and Word.

. Responsible in setting up meetings and coordination of all activities

of the projects between overseas teams, Engineering Design group,

General Contractor, etc.

. Re-configured device protocol settings and implemented VTP, VLANs, STP

and Cluster management on all Cisco routers and switches from branch

offices and dealership across North America and Canada.

. Setup device configuration management and monitoring tools such as

Cisco Network Assistant, TFTP server, Syslogger and Cluster Management

Suite (CMS) to administer switches and routers.

. Setup Wireless Access Point on all branch offices and warehouses using

Cisco Aironet PoE devices.

. Assisted System Engineer and Developers in the migration

implementation of Windows 2003 server to Windows 2008 R2, including

the installation of all Web application, testing and production

rollout.

. Assisted Systems Engineer in maintaining Windows Active Directory,

Microsoft Exchange 2003, Cluster Administration and setup of Windows

Server Update Service (WSUS) to facilitate smooth roll-out on

scheduled security updates on all servers and clients.

. Conducted extensive research and collaborated with vendors on device

upgrades to improve site performance and functionality.

. Created detailed documentation, procedures, Visio network diagrams and

configuration backups to assist team members in maintaining the

network.

Barnes and Noble - New York, NY

August 2003 to December 2010

NOC Operations Data Center Engineer

Responsible for the day to day system operation, monitoring, maintenance,

installation, configuring and administration of systems and network. Daily

task include planning, documenting and implementing Local Area Network

(LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN), Wireless Network, Remote Access Services

(RAS/RAN) solutions.

. Monitor Website traffic, performance and availability utilizing HP

OpenView, Sitescope, KeyNotes & Scoreboard Website Performance Monitor,

IBM Tivoli Netcool Real-time Performance and Service Management Monitor,

Cisco Network Assistant/Cisco Works and F5 BigIP Traffic Manager.

. Responsible in building Desktop & Server hardware and configuring

Windows 2008/2003/2000/NT Servers plus installation and testing of

application software.

. Responsible in Windows 2003/2008 ADs, Microsoft Exchange, GPOs and User

Account administration.

. Worked with Project Managers and Developers on new projects in the

design, planning and development of BN network infrastructure.

. Assisted in the deployment of F5 BigIP 3900 LTM for Client Access Server

of Exchange 2007 to support the Ms OWA and Ms Exchange ActiveSync client

application, the POP3 and IMAP4 protocols and the new Outlook Anywhere

feature.

. Responsible in the administration of F5 BigIP 3900 LTM Load balancer

from creating & configuring virtual IP pools, assigning virtual

servers, health & performance monitors, control in binding, unbinding,

and taking server/node In & Out of Service during scheduled maintenance.

. Investigate network setup, identify equipment and routes that requires

enhancement and connectivity improvement and perform technical research

to improve website traffic performance and submit such recommendations

to the IT Managers.

. Administer AAA authentication / TACAS and ACLs on routers and L2/L3

switches.

. Responsible in configuring and administration of Cisco ASA 5510 Series

Adaptive Security Appliances Firewall with SSM-10 module, identify

illegal ISP, spammers, viruses that attack the website performance and

administer security blocks at firewall.

. Coordinated and worked closely with vendors in the installation,

configuring and successful implementation of Cisco Unified Call Manager

Express on VOIP network.

. Provide escalation point for resolving complex system and network

problems requiring extended skills, extensive research and collaboration

with vendor support organizations.

. Assisted IT Manager in administering and maintaining up to date

documentations such network diagrams and procedures.

. Responsible in the deployment of Web site updates, Anti-Virus updates,

Windows Security Server patches and Microsoft product updates utilizing

the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS).

. Assisted programmers and developers in providing Quality Assurance

analyst throughout the execution and testing of new codes, deployments

and migrations.

Dun & Bradstreet - Berkeley Heights, NJ

April 1992 to July 2003

Computer Operations Engineer

. Supervised the day to day system operation and network monitoring of

Gateway 3 - Berkeley Heights office in New Jersey. Configured,

installed, maintained and administered all network devices.

Responsible for software installation and deployment updates on

servers and desktops. Provided Technical Support on data communication

issues, DBOnline, Fax service and Voice application problems. Daily

task include planning and implementing Local Area Network (LAN) and

Wide Area Network (WAN) solutions, install, configure, and administer

network devices such as Microsoft Exchange Server, Windows NT Server,

NT Workstation; Windows 9x, install and maintain other applications as

required.

. Participated and work closely with Project Managers and Developers in

the U.S. and overseas during major Data Center migration project that

involve planning, design and implementation.

. Provide assistance and recommendation to Project Teams on network

requirement project, network security, for all open network

connectivity installation.

. Responsible for signal operations to include NOC operation and

monitor, site inspections, procurement and installation of

infrastructure and upgrade of Application Delivery Network, cable

laying operation.

. Responsible in updating Operation and Network documents and

verification of deployment task to ensure proper naming convention for

Servers, Workstation and Users are adhered.

. Setup T-Bar switching, patch panel, route & bridge redundancies and

backups to support any link or network failures reducing downtime and

production availability.

. Interact with Project Managers and Application Developers in defining

system requirements for new projects, processing and evaluation of new

hardware and deployment of new system.

. Responsible in building Compaq Proliant servers & IBM compatibles,

cabling and OS configuring.

. Configured and administered all Windows 2003/2000/NT4.0 servers,

create users ID, and provide necessary permissions to access home

drive and File & Printer servers.

. Responsible in deployments of all Microsoft security patches and

application code updates.

. Participated and provide lead support on yearly Data Center Disaster

Recovery Testing.

McDonnell Douglas Information Systems Ltd. - Hemel Hempstead,UK

June 1985 to December 1991

Computer Service Manager / Engineer

Hired by McDonnell Douglas based in Hemel Hempstead, UK responsible in

assisting Regional Sales Office on technical matters supporting clients in

the Middle-East such as Saudi National Guard in Riyadh, Royal Saudi Air

Force in Dhahran, Dammam and Jubail, HSBC Saudi Arabia Ltd., King Fahad

Hospital, King Khalid University Hospital, King Faisal University Hospital,

Qatar State Police, and other Government clients. Managed the Service

Departments located in the three regions of Saudi Arabia and supervised six

field service technicians. McDonnell Douglas is sponsored by Yussif Bin

Ahmed Kanoo.

. Setup three Service Departments in Saudi Arabia to support the entire

Middle-East countries for the installation and maintenance of

McDonnell Douglas computers and TYMNET X.25 equipments.

. Worked closely in assisting Regional Sales Manager on Technical

support and installation of new systems for clients such as Government

Offices, Hospitals and Banks.

. Responsible for developing high level and low level project plans and

budgets for data center program, projects and/or data center

components of broader EI efforts.

. Responsible in providing client trainings in the system operation and

its maintenance.

. Managed daily work schedules for Service technicians in administering

trouble reports.

. Coordinate complex technical and application issues with Developers

and Systems Engineer.

. Assisted and worked closely with Client Technical Managers in the

design, planning, scheduling and installation of new systems.

. Responsible for Level I, ll and Level IIl support for both stand-alone

and networked computer systems throughout the multi-regional areas.

. Support client in repairing PCs and peripherals, system data recovery,

installation of new hardware and software, and troubleshooting data

communication circuits & network devices.

. Provide document assistance to Operations Department in setting up

detailed Operations guides to administer the daily system maintenance,

server/s daily backup, accounts creation and update,

. Coordinate and work closely with customers, team members and

management to procure, configure and distribute life cycle replacement

for Servers and Workstations.

. Hold monthly meetings with service personnel's and conduct knowledge

base technical trainings.

Education:

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineer

F.E.A.T.I. University - Manila, Philippines

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