Network Architect

OBJECTIVE: Providing senior network architecture services in data center implementations that address Data Center Migrations, Transitions and Transformation that are on time and on budget.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE: Develop and drive network architecture, design, implementation, and satisfaction to provide clients with the following successful outcomes:

Cost Reduction – To meet the business needs as well as the technological challenges

Scalability – To address future growth of the client’s business needs

Security – To protect the client’s business critical environment and data

High Availability – To provide a network environment that will continue to perform transparently, without degradation, during an outage

Performance – To meet or exceed business critical end-end data flows and transmissions

Strategic Planning – To meet the client’s target state and growth projections over time

Tactical Planning – To resolve immediate issues and pain points that recover the client’s business

SLAs – To meet the client’s business needs of 99.999% network availability

Migration Analysis – To identify the path from their current state to the new target state

Gap Analysis – To identify gaps of the solution and provide steps required to eliminate the exposure to the business

Time to Market – To meet deliverable milestones that are on time and on budget

Disaster Recovery – To identify the critical steps of a disaster scenario to keep the business online

Quality Assurance - To provide a well tested network implementation and results that earn trust

Effective communications – Ability to communicate technical content in an understandable manner to manage expectations

Problem Determination – To efficiently and effectively resolve connectivity, latency and performance issues

EXPERIENCE:

12/2011 – 05/2017 IBM (Contractor) RTP, NC

Senior Network Integration Architect – Data Center Migration

$1.6 Billion of IBM revenue generated from successfully deployed, migrated or green field build of clients’ data centers that included DuPont, State Street Bank, Fannie Mae, Sikorsky, Citizens Bank, ACE/CHUBB Insurance

Lead IBM network integration architecture services for Data Center Migrations between IBM/Customer and AT&T

Lead network architecture requirements gathering for Data Center Migrations including: Business requirements to technical solution, architectural decision documentation, review of technology, physical data center space planning, power requirements, rack and stacking, high availability

Lead Disaster Recovery (DR) requirements and end-end data flow identification for steady state, test state and failed state to address business contingency services across the industry DR scenarios (active-active, active-passive, geographically diverse, dual DR sites)

Network Architecture auditing for F5 load balancers, Checkpoint / Cisco ASA firewalls, routers, switches, physical and logical server activation, network and application data flows, WAN compression, Proxy servers, network intrusion and detection, performance and scalability

Provide input to Chief Architects, Transition leaders in the development of risk management procedure and disaster recovery plans

Lead transition Problem determination efforts to identify and resolve application and network connectivity issues for F5 load balancers, Checkpoint / Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco routers and switches, Wintel, Unix, Midrange, Citrix, Proxy, SSL VPN

Create custom UNIX based tools to aid in the data center network transition. Examples would be data manipulation of existing switch, load balancer or firewall configurations extracted to reverse engineer implementation to technical migration requirements and/or new OS platforms.

8/2011- 12/2011 Cisco Systems (Contractor) RTP, NC

IPV6 Global Government Solutions Group Test Engineer (GGSG)

GGSG provides global certifications that address the unique needs of governments. GGSG works with existing Cisco commercial products to expertly modify and validate them to meet government requirements and certifications

IPV6 Certification for ReadyLogo and USGv6 certification of Cisco routers and switches

oRFCs to test against are as follows:

RFC 2460 – IPV6 Specification

RFC 4861 – Neighbor Discovery

RFC 4862 – IPV6 Stateless Address Auto configuration (SLAAC)

RFC 1981 – Path MTU Discovery for IPV6

RFC 4443 – ICMPv6

oOSPFv3 and BGP IPV6 functionality conformance testing.

8/2010- 8/2011 Brocade Communications RTP, NC

LAN SE (System Engineer)

Technical lead specializing in pre-sales/post-sales activities of the Brocade LAN product line

Design/Implement Traditional IP Network and Virtual Ethernet Fabrics

oSubject matter expert for Brocade’s Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS) technology for the South Atlantic Region

oImplemented first South East VCS deployment for Brocade

oProvided “white glove” service during the initial release of VCS

Pre-sales activities would include solution scoping, delivering in-depth technical presentations, RFP and proposal writing in addition to direct customer engagement in support of the sales team's objectives

Post-sales activities would include install, commission and support the products. Key to an individual's success in this role is strong communication skills both written and verbal

Foster and develop OEM relationships, Channel sales, end-user sales in the development of IP based network solutions.

Develop and deliver customer training as required

Pro-actively managed customer base to keep customers informed of issues or areas of focus

2/2008- 8/2010 AT&T Global Managed Services RTP, NC

E-BUSINESS NETWORK ARCHITECT AND DESIGN

Lead network architect for VF Corporation global architecture supporting over 3000 network devices including Cisco routers, switches and wireless access points utilizing TCP/IP, EIGRP, BGP, VPN and MPLS technology

Lead network architect for the VF Corporation Payment Card industry (PCI) architecture

Multiple Network automation tools: For example:

oGlobal Service Delivery (GSD331) Health Checking automation for audits with customer for Cisco Routers, Switches, VPN devices.

oConfiguration standards, templates and policing of production network

oConfiguration migration of 600+ devices from their existing production network to the new PCI network

oNetwork Access Control (NAC)

oPro-active monitoring of problem areas with email and page alerts

Level 4 Customer Support

Provided presentations to Customers and Executive management for root cause analysis (RCA) and gap analysis as necessary

4/2001- 2/2008 IBM Corporation RTP, NC

E-BUSINESS NETWORK ARCHITECT AND DESIGN

Lead network architect for VF Corporation global architecture supporting over 3000 network devices including Cisco routers, switches and wireless access points utilizing TCP/IP, EIGRP, BGP, VPN and MPLS technology

oLead network architect for the VF Corporation Payment Card industry (PCI) architecture

IBM Certified Senior Network Architect – Network Discipline

I/T Open Group Certified Master I/T Architect

Level 4 Customer Support

Provided presentations to Customers and Executive management during root cause analysis (RCA)

Lead network architect for Shared Internet Access Utility (SIAU) architecture deployed over 2 diverse sites saving over $50K/month

Lead network architect for the SIAU architecture for the replacement of its WAN technology. This saved IBM $800K in Capital Cost in 2006

Lead Network Architect for Several IBM Strategic Outsourcing customers to address business requirements in bandwidth, performance, capacity, utilization, network management, and scalability

Provided network presentations and Q&A sessions to customers

Lead Network Architect for e-business Hosting USF V3, USF V5 and Bandwidth Usage Billing utilizing a Layer 2/3 infrastructure

Lead Network Architect for e-business Virtualized Infrastructure to provide dynamic auto-provisioning for a network

1/97 – 4/2001 AT&T/IBM/ADVANTIS CORPORATION (Contractor) White Plains, NY / Raleigh, NC

LAYER 3 NETWORK DESIGN

Global Layer 3 Design Architecture and Policy Leader for USA to design an OSPF/BGP Global Management Network to manage 30,000+ routers in USA, EMEA and Asia Pacific

Lead Layer 3 Network Designer for an IP/RIP/OSPF country wide Frame Relay network to support 100,000+ PVCs to Frame Aware Layer 2 devices, 16,000 ASYNC devices and field operations support

Created shell scripts to do the following:

oAutomatically debug Layer 1, 2 or 3 based upon install issues of the Layer 2 devices executed via incoming emails

oVarious tools to monitor & control the infrastructure and verify implementation are according to design

oAutomated the configuration of the 1000+ routers needed for the design

Co-designer in 5000+ router EBGP/IBGP redesign

Identified/Implemented OSPF and BGP policy standards

Created shell scripts to implement design by identifying the current OSPF environment and producing an identical IBGP/EBGP environment for the entire network

Created shell scripts to monitor implementation and validate configurations according to design

7/91 - 12/96 IBM CORPORATION (Contractor) Research Triangle Park, NC

SYSTEMS QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Lead Functional/Systems test plan for the following protocols: (BGP, OSPF, RIP, HELLO), TCP/IP

Implemented shell scripts (ksh) included TCP/IP functional / stress testing and interoperability

9/87 - 7/91 BBN COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION Cambridge, MA

NETWORK OPERATIONS / SYSTEMS QUALITY ASSURANCE ENGINEER

Review Design Specification from Development on new functionality of products

Write test plans for new functionality of products

Verbal presentation of test plans to Development, Product Marketing, SQA and Tech Support for acceptance of test plans

Call and hold critical bug reviews between Development, Product Marketing and Tech Support

Write UNIX (Bourne) shell scripts to automate testing

EDUCATION: UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

BS: Applied Mathematics Minor: Computer Science

PROTOCOLS: BGP4, OSPF, TCP/IP, BGP, RIP, EIGRP, HELLO, IPX, PPP

HARDWARE: Cisco: 6500, 4500, 4000, 3750X, 3550, 2980, 2960, 800, ASR9k, Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k

Brocade: FWX, FCX, SX800, SX1600, MLX, VDX6720-24, VDX6720-60

CERTIFICATIONS: IBM Certified Senior Network Architect, Open Group Master I/T Architect, VSP, VTSP, BCNE

SCRIPT EXPERIENCE: UNIX, AIX, LINUX, KSH, BSH, CSH, Bash

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