Christiaan Els

Flat ** Cavatina Point

London

SE8 3FG

Tel: 077********

Date of Birth: 15 July 1977

e-mail:acq6w4@r.postjobfree.com

Nationality: British and South African

CCIE# 47088

Professional Profile

Possesses over 10 years of experience in the design, implementation and support of LAN and WAN networks. Highly motivated individual who is capable of working in a team with a strong desire to learn and develop professional skills.

Technical Proficiencies:

Protocols &Technologies:

Ethernet, EtherChannel PAgP LACP, LAN Security

Spanning-tree, VLAN Trunking Protocols, Catalyst VSS 1440,

TCP/IP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IPv6,

MPLS, LDP,QoS, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF,

IPsec, VPN, Cisco IOS Firewall, Multicast, PIM, IGMP, Frame Relay,

T1/E1, PPP, Access-lists, GRE, SSH, SNMP, RMON, syslog.

Hardware: Cisco 1800 ISR, 2800 ISR, 2900 ISR, 3800 ISR, ASR 1000

7200 series routers, Cisco

Catalyst 2950, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500 series product range.

Cisco Nexus 2K, Nexus 5K.

Cisco Catalyst blade switch 3120 for HP, Riverbed Steelhead, Blue Coat

ProxySG, Cisco 5500 Series Wireless Controller.

PIX 500 Firewall, ASA 5500 firewall series, Cisco CSS 11500 series

Content services switch, Nokia Checkpoint firewalls.

Software: Cisco IOS release 11.x – 12.4T, Cisco NX-OS,

CatOS, Windows XP, Solarwinds, IOS-XR

Cisco Works, Wire Shark, Microsoft Visio, PRTG.

Employment History

Liberty Mutual Insurance March 2013 –Current

Principal Network Engineer

Currently working as a Network Engineer for Liberty Mutual, looking after the EMEA network operations, which include the network design and support off all Cisco devices.

Daily Duties include:

• Network monitoring and troubleshooting.

• Network administration and security support.

• New office opening / datacentre provisions and migrations.

• Lifecycle management and upgrades to core network infrastructure in EMEA.

• Wireless network solutions for corporate, guest access.

• New technology first deployments including Cisco UCS, Citrix appliances.

• MPLS design specification and Qos policy definitions.

• VPN/IPsec design and support.

• Citrix network administration.

• Definition, design and execution of large and complex network changes.

• 3rd line support for troubleshooting complex network issues.

AT&T March 2010 – December 2012

Data Network Engineer

As a member of the IT Operations Project Team, I was responsible for assisting in the delivery of projects, implementation and testing of devices on the European network. I provided support for initiatives and improvements which assisted clients to achieve business goals and improve overall effectiveness and efficiency.

Daily Duties included:

Responsible for the design, build implementation and testing of network solutions working within the project delivery team.

Resolve support issues relating to the project and escalate issues to third party providers as required.

Work closely with the Technical Architects and third parties to ensure that all solutions are aligned to client’s strategy.

Document and communicate change to IT and the Business.

Configuring, testing and troubleshooting of Cisco ASA5510 and Checkpoint firewalls.

Configuring, testing and troubleshooting of Cisco 6500, 4500, 3750, 3560 switches.

Configuring, testing and troubleshooting of Cisco CSS Load Balancers.

Configuring, testing and troubleshooting of BGP connectivity to PE routers.

Configuring, testing and troubleshooting of MPLS L3 VPN’s.

Merrill Lynch February 2007 – November 2009

Senior Network Project Engineer

Worked for the Network Solutions Delivery team where I was responsible for the overall project management, implementation, and testing documentation and hand-over into production of multiple networking projects in the EMEA region. I was responsible for selected analysis and designs, where applicable. Responsible for managing the day to day network environment as well as responsibility for all changes on production network.

Daily Duties included:

The technical project management of all new and upgraded data infrastructure initiatives within EMEA.

The implementation, configuring and testing of all new data and Voice infrastructure initiatives within EMEA.

Provisioning of project plans for all projects undertaken.

Provisioning of detailed hand-over documentation for all projects undertaken.

Provisioning of network incidents through a managed queue system.

Responsible for raising change controls for all networks installs.

Configuring and testing off Cisco Router and switched product range.

The administration of Checkpoint and Juniper Netscreen firewall rules.

Working mostly with the Cisco 6500 product range (SUP720’s, Sup32).

Working closely with market data and market access systems.

The implementation of upgrades and testing of the network.

Barclays Wealth Bank September – December 2006

Network Engineer

Worked mainly on End-of-life Network hardware refresh, whereby I was responsible for the design, doing network documentation and ordering off all new LAN and Wan hardware.

Daily Duties included:

Responsible for designing and fault finding off switched LAN infrastructure.

Ordering off various Cisco Catalyst 6500 switching hardware and liaising with suppliers.

Configuring and troubleshooting off Cisco PIX ASA firewalls.

Responsible for site visits and the planning off network installations.

Configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting off BGP, OSPF, Pix firewalls, and Catalyst 6500's.

Old Lane Financial Trading Hedge fund February - September 2006

Senior Network Engineer

American Financial Hedge fund with offices in London and Pennsylvania, Old lane underwent a new network and office rollout in New York, London and Pennsylvania. I was involved in the network design, configuration and deployment of these new network sites.

Daily Duties included:

The Design and implementation off all Networking devices.

Configured BGP Multihoming on Cisco 2800 series routers.

Configured Cisco Pix 515e firewalls in failover mode.

Configured Cisco 3750G’s in Stacking mode.

Configured Cisco VPN 3005 concentrators to support remote VPN users.

Configured Vlan’s on Cisco 3750G’s and deployed servers on LAN.

Accenture Technology Infrastructure Services March 2004 – December 2005

Network Deployment Engineer

Worked for Accenture Technology Infrastructure Services where I was responsible for the technical Design, engineering and implementation of networking devices for customer project networks in the EMEA region.

Daily Duties included:

Design and implementation of new switched and routed infrastructure for EMEA region.

Was responsible for managing global EMEA customer projects.

Act as prime customer interface for the implementation of projects.

Configuring of routers to work with GRE, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP.

Configuring routers to support backup VPN connections over the internet.

Configuring and installing off Catalyst 3550, 6509, 6513 Cisco switches.

Provisioning of detailed handover documentation for all projects undertaken.

One Tel July 2000 - December 2003

Network Engineer

Implementing and maintaining of all networking devices for the European network including offices in London, Paris, Zurich, Frankfurt and Amsterdam.

Daily duties included:

Installing, configuring, operating and troubleshooting of WAN, LAN and Dial Access Services.

Supporting European users on Help desk and providing them with technical support.

Worked very closely with technical suppliers and Cisco Technical Assistance Centre.

Configuring of Catalyst switches for vlans, trunking, and spanning-tree.

Configuring of Cisco routers for EIGRP and BGP routing protocols.

Configuring and supporting Checkpoint Firewall-1 and Cisco Pix firewalls on European network.

Telsaf Data August 1998 - June 2000

Technical Field Engineer

Working on local area and wide area networks, supported and maintained over 2 customers per day varying from installations to fault finding on networking products.

Daily duties included:

Configuring and installing of Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches.

Programming and loading of new Software on Data Equipment.

Supporting and configuring of Micom products for voice over data.

Assisting customers with first line technical support.

Professional Certifications

CCIE# 47088 Service Provider

ITIL v3 Foundation

Education

Pretoria Technicon Purchasing Management 1996 to 1998

Wonderfontein High School 1995

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