Engineer Manager
Resume:
Christopher S. Ellington
CCIE #****
***********@****.**.***
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Highlights of Qualifications
Exceptional organizational and delegation skills including
Profile a quick learning ability. Equally effective working as a
IT professional with over team lead, self-managed projects, and as a team member.
16 years of diverse Extensive background in handling and prioritizing multiple
experience in Information tasks in a fast-paced environment
Technology. Dedicated Designing, implementing and supporting a diverse set of
employee known for networks, both on the LAN and the global WAN scale
outstanding communicative Catalyst in implementing positive change, improving
and organizational skills internal and external communication, and creating and
with a unique combination improving policies and procedures to improve profitability
of interpersonal, technical and operational efficiency
and analytical abilities. Utilize innovative strategies, methods, and techniques to
Seeking a challenging enhance company processes/procedures and increase customer
opportunity in which I can satisfaction.
utilize my abilities to Active CCIE since 2001; recertified last in October 2008;
influence company growth recertified with Cisco Voice written exam 3 previous times
and maximize profitability.
IP telephony work since 1998 with a focus on Cisco IPT
solutions
Professional Experience
Technical Skills Sr. Network Engineer
Certifications: February 2010 - Present
Cisco CCIE #6814 Technicolor Inc., Indianapolis, IN
21 other Cisco partner Network Support for Global IP Network including Europe,
certifications South America and Asia
Diverse technologies including Cisco, Juniper, Alcatel,
Software: Nortel and Extreme support
Cisco IOS Manage WAN acceleration technologies including WANscalar
Cisco Catalyst OS (Citrix Repeaters) and Riverbed
Cisco PIX OS Manage multiple projects and priorities
Ciscoworks 2000 Led network management replacement project
Solarwinds Orion
Network Instruments Sr. Network Engineer
Observer November 2009 - February 2010
Network Instruments switch At-Net Services Inc, Charlotte, NC
Wireshark Provided support for both internal and external customers
Cisco WAN Manager 11.0 Third level support for helpdesk and ticketing
Microsoft Project Primary duties included customer facing tasks to help
Microsoft sell, design and implement Cisco solutions
Office/Visio/Powerpoint Focus on Cisco telephony
Checkpoint Firewall-1
Alcatel 9700, 9800 and Sr. Network Support Engineer
6850's July 2009 - October 2009
Nortel 8600's Duke Energy Plainfield, IN
Riverbed Accelerators Managed new customer requests
Citrix WANScalars Support all Duke Energy sites within Indiana
(Repeaters) Coordinate with other teams to help support Duke Energy
sites throughout the United States
Hardware: Work within the change control process to implement new
Cisco Routers network policies and procedures
Cisco LAN Switches Optimize the network for best utilization
Cisco Firewalls
Cisco Wireless controllers Sr. Network Support Engineer
Cisco WAN switches April 2007 - December 2008
Cisco Optical switches Interactive Intelligence, Inc. Indianapolis, IN
Network General Sniffer Support customer networks as they pertain to VoIP and SIP
Most Sun hardware from Sun as a third level engineer
3/50's up through Sun Co-teach CCNA class to first level engineers to make them
Ultra/Netra more effective in dealing with network issues
Support all Cisco issues as they occurred such as bug
Languages: tracking, IOS revision issues, "anything Cisco"
SQL Work within the team to support a variety of telephony
C/C++ issues
COBOL
Easytrieve Plus
Pascal
Sr. Network Engineer
Methodologies: March 2001 - March 2007
ITIL Network Solutions, Inc. Carmel, IN
PMI Lead a diverse group of network engineers in standards and
process driven work
Design, implement and support a variety of customer
networks
Education Support sales staff by generating quotes, parts lists,
Bachelor of Science in sales meetings with customers to help sell a solution
Computer Science Embarked on CCIE Voice; I have passed my written 4 times
Minor in Mathematics however not the lab yet
Ball State University, Research new solutions to fit any given customer's needs
Muncie, IN Mentor other engineers to help them further their
knowledge within a given technology
Learn and drive new technology as it evolves
Global Network Team Lead
July 1997 - March 2001
Bertelsmann mediaSystems, Inc. Indianapolis, IN
References Lead a geographically diverse set of 7 network engineers
Available upon request. to support the Bertelsmann network in the western
hemisphere
Led the effort to move from MCI frame relay to Qwest point
to point circuits in the western hemisphere and helped to
Contact Information negotiate a $2M savings over 3 years
Christopher Ellington Designed, implemented and supported the HP Openview
***********@*********.*** implementation for the NOC
317-***-**** Designed, implemented and supported the firewalls in North
2496 Scottsdale Drive America using the Checkpoint Firewall-1 solution
Carmel, IN 46033 Participated in the weekly change control process to get
network changes approved
Branch Technical Manager
March 1996 - July 1997
Paranet, Inc., Indianapolis, IN
Direct reports of 13 consultants
Provided all technical branch sales efforts as well as
resource management and financial reporting
Interviewed and hired consultants
Consultant
March 1995 - March 1996
Computer Horizons, Inc. Indianapolis, IN
Provided Powerbuilder application development for Eli
Lilly
Worked in Marketing Systems
Met with Marketing's internal customers to determine
requirements, develop and test the solution and support
the solutions as required
Helped to support the DB2/Oracle integration with
Powerbuilder
Retail Systems Specialist
August 1993 - March 1995
Marsh Supermarkets, Inc. Indianapolis, IN
Provided support to the Marsh stores in technology
Worked on the integrated scales project to provide data to
corporate
Designed and implemented a UUCP email system for stores to
communicate with one another
Registered and managed the marsh.net domain for Internet
usage
Supported the Bull DPX/2 UNIX machines present in each
store
Coded "Hot Checks" which allowed for integrated check
management across all stores and utilized the UUCP system
for communcations
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