Fred Aboge
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Cell: 612-***-**** Home: 763-***-**** E-mail: ******@*****.***
Summary of Qualifications
Five years as Network Engineer (DATA) and four years Network Engineer(VOICE). Three years Senior Network Engineer. Incident response alongside security teams Routing protocols, layer 2 and layer 3 intensive. Cisco IOS switching and routing. Network Management and monitoring tools, HPOV, Entuity. Splunk usage analyzing both security and standard operations data. Manual host isolation through ACL at the perimeters. Heavy vendor and third party interactions. Splunk utilization as a SIEM and troubleshooting .tool. Out of band terminal server SME.
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Objective: Cyber Security Engineer & Process Expert
WAN Infrastructure ~ Routing Technology ~ Network Products ~ Monitoring Tools
EIGRP; BGP
Cisco 355*-****-****, 2900, 6509 switches; ACE Load Balancer ~
HP Open View; Service Now, Entuity, f5, Splunk, IDS/IDP, Network Scanning tools. NIST.
Platforms
Windows 2003; 2008 Servers; Linux; MAC OS
Work Experience
Senior Network Engineer, Target Corporation MN 2015- Present
Network Analyst, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 1999-2007
Network Engineer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2007-Present
Systems Administrator, Dow Jones, Minneapolis, MN 2005- 2011
Troubleshoot and resolve LAN and WAN connectivity and availability issues on a large Cisco voice and data network both public and private sector. Cisco switch, router configuration and deployment.
Collaborated with high profile clients and vendors to guarantee network connectivity to over 1800
Target store networks, working on T1 ckts, configuring and troubleshooting BGP, among other protocols.
Work with Cisco TAC to manage IOS and issues RMA devices open cases and joined Cisco engineers
on ongoing cases.
Worked on Incident response team tasked with monitoring and isolating threats either through FWSM or manually building ACL and blocking threat sources. Gave after hours remote threat isolation when oncall.
Configuration and administration of network and log monitoring and alerting systems.
As part of Network Engineering, worked hand in hand with Network Security in mitigating threat and took action to this effect.
Handle a large ServiceNow ticket volume of LAN/WAN connectivity and threat issues with keen eye on specified SLA with stakeholders. Participated in “war room” on critical bridges regularly as key member of level III Engineer. Moderate SIEM exposure.
Systems Administrator, Dow Jones, remotely from Minneapolis, MN 2005-2011
Investigate and actively resolve high profile server and network connectivity issues remotely and within the network.
Build network servers for groups in Minneapolis, New York and New Jersey.
Administer user and group policies using a Windows 2003, 2008 server environments.
EMC storage and backup exposure. VMWARE builds and configuration.
Performed systems scans, as well as administered virus patches and removed worms.
Trained new Analysts to provide exemplary client support in a team environment.
Maintained ghost imaging across the network, as well as on individual workstations.
Education
B.A., Metropolitan State University, MN. 2004