Yosteen Yaacoub E-mail: acrhtj@r.postjobfree.com

Raleigh, NC 27614 Cell: 919-***-****

US Citizen

SUMMARY

Over 11 years of experience in network infrastructure Design, implementation, troubleshooting and providing day to day support for Data Center networks. Experienced with L2 and L3 protocols. Providing advanced security solutions through different firewall platforms.

Hardware: Cisco IOS (2690,3750,4500,6500) NX-OS (3K, 5K-2K, 7K,9K),MDS 9148, Firewall (ASA5505,5508) Juniper (SSG, SRX) Linux firewall (Open BSD) Checkpoints firewall(IP695).

Technologies:

Routing and switching: L2, L3(EIGRP. OSPF, BGP),

Firewall: NAT, ACL, Site to Site VPN, remote access VPN, Advanced troubleshooting.

Edge security: Extreme Networks NAC, Cisco ACS, 802.1x.

Monitoring tools: HP procurve, Fluke time machine, Scrutinizer, Solarwinds, Cisco LMS. Wireshark, OmniPeek. Net brain.

Virtualization: vSphere 5.5, vSphere 6.0, VSS, VDS, N1Kv,NSX 6.1.4, NSX 6.2

Compute: Cisco UCS C-series, Cisco UCS B-blades. Cisco UCS manager.

Storage: VNXe, VNX, XtemIO

Objectives: New challenges.

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

B.Sc. of Mathematics 2007

Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE 2003) 2009

Enterasys Certified Specialist NAC (ECS-NAC) 2012

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 2010

Cisco Certified Network Associate security CCNA Security 2012

Cisco Certified Network Associate Data Center CCNA Data Center 2014

CCNP Data Center in progress (passed the first exam, second one booked, target end of 2015)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Platform Engineering – Sr. Cloud Engineer Vblock, VxBLOCK, VxRACK VCE Apr2014-Present

www.vce.com

-Designing and validating the public and private cloud builds.

-Network planning, network architecture design and engineering for all VCE groups and infrastructures in California and Durham. (Nexus 3K, 5K, 7K, 9K, MDS, Arista)

-Monitor the network and designed the Disaster recovery policy.

-Validating the designs for the virtual networks (N1kv, VDS and NSX)

-Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco UCS B-series and C-series.

-Managing, configuring and validating all the Data Center aspects (Compute, network, storage)

-Configuring the virtual environment (vSphere, ESXi, …)

Network Engineer II – DC OPS Windstream Hosted solutions (WHS) Apr 2013 – Apr2014

http://www.windstreambusiness.com/data-center-solutions

Troubleshot and configured WHS cloud environments for more than 26 Data Centers around the country, including:

- Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco switches (Nexus 7K,5K, 2K and 1K, Cat 7200, 6500, 4500, 3750 and 2960)

- Configuring and troubleshooting dedicated and shared cloud Load Blancers (F5 and Cisco ACE).

- Maintain and troubleshoot advanced routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF and BGP)

- Configuring/installing and advanced troubleshooting for firewalls (ASA, Juniper, Check Points and OpenBSD)

- Configuring and managing Cloud environments for all the Data Centers.

Network Engineer NIEHS(National institute of Environmental Health) Nov2011 – Present

www.niehs.nih.gov

-I was a key player in migrating the campus network from HP gear to Cisco, Configuring new Cisco switches as we deploying them for the access and distribution layer (2960,3750,4500,6500 )

-Migrating the Data Center to the Nexus platform (7K, 5K, 2K)

-Designed and maintained the Network access control rules using 802.1x and mac authentication campus wise for authenticated users, guest access and unauthorized users using Enterasys NAC soulution.

-Dealing with a day to day network tickets. Including configuring new switch, troubleshooting the connectivity problems and ran captures using Wireshark and Fluke Network Time Machine to determine the bottlenecks.

-Maintaing the network in a healthy shape using different kinds of Network Monitoring and analysis tools (Fluke Optiview, MRTG server, Cisco LMS, HP Procurve Manager, HP Enterprise Discovery)

- Running all backbone fiber between campus buildings.

IT Support GFI Software Apr 2011 – October 2011

www.GFI.com

As a Front line Support I was responsible for supporting GFI products via phone, email, chat and remote sessions.

I was supporting the the following Products for a vast range of clients (medium to large networks):

GFI LAnGuard: network security and vulnerability assessment, Patch management, Assets inventory, Risk analysis and compliance

GFI MAilArchiver: maintain an archive of all corporate email correspondence, complaints, email Auditing.

GFI WebMonitor: Protect the network from dangerous downloads. Block socially-engineered phishing scam websites and prevent data leakage.

IT Support ServiceTec Global - RDU international Airport Mar 2010 – Apr 2011

www.ServiceTec.com

As a part of ServiceTec support team at RDU I was responsible for supporting all airlines workstations/servers at terminal two

Supporting IBM HC10 Blades and their thin clients, monitoring LAN through Solarwinds.

Updating servers with latest service packs and hot fixes.

Active Directory users and groups management.

Built and maintained kiosk Manger v4 server which managed all the self-check-in machines (kiosk) at terminal two.

Designed and maintained the internal share point web site.

Designed a many VMWARE labs to test virtual machines using ESXI 4, VSPHERE server and VMware VIEW server through both PCOIP and RDP.

Built and maintained a Ubuntu based FOG server to distribute network images to the Kiosks and Workstations

Daily network tasks including • Configure a switch with Data and Voice VLANS, Customize a switch configuration to meet specified network requirements, Subnetting, VTP, Port Security, implement access lists.

Perform an initial configuration on a routers.

Troubleshoot routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF,) for Catalyst 6500, 3700 series.

Troubleshoot network connectivity problems, Cisco IOS upgrade.

Network Engineer/ Systems Administrator Aug 2005 – Aug 2009

Murray & Roberts International Limited - EGYPT Branch (Alexandria, Egypt)

www.murrob.com

Performed full Active Directory Administration tasks, Backups, managed resources and security policies.

Installed and monitored Antivirus server, clients and upgrades.

Built MS-Exchange 2003 Enterprise Edition servers, setup MS-Outlook 2003, 2007 clients and provided technical support.

Deployed GFI MailEssentials anti-spam. Created and managed mail policies, public folders as well as scheduled backups for Exchange databases.

Designed and implemented TCP/IP environment including DHCP and DNS Servers.

Built and maintained Linux based Nagios server to monitor the network activity

Designed ISA server access rules and VPN configuration including site to site.

Installation & maintenance of different Network Operating Systems of servers (Windows 2000 – windows 2003) Managing network printers.

Maintained Network Load Balancing. Cisco PIX Firewall, Layer three support (RIP – OSPF)

Supported Windows Cluster, Network Load Balance and Majority node set.

Help Desk Support / Senior Technical Engineer (Alexandria, Egypt). Aug 2004 – Aug 2005

X-lab IT solutions Alexandria - Egypt (IT consulting)

Help-Desk Support for users through the phone and daily interaction.

Worked as a network Help-Desk for Windows and Linux “Nagios” servers

Supported a wide range of companies (Banks- Hospitals- Factories

Computer instructor 2001- 2004

Worked as a freelancer instructor for Windows, Microsoft Office and MCSE Program in different academies and institutions.

REFERENCES: Available upon request.

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