Engineer Network

Victor Sorokin ********@*****.***

New York, NY **458 +1-718-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Looking for Sr. Network Enginer/Architect position which applies my broad experience, innovative thinking and self- motivation. Can work with minimal supervision. Open to frequent travel, challenging work and risk taking. SUMMARY

Extensive experience working in financial, publishing, software localization, and telecommunication industries. Experience of working for clients as an independent IT consultant as well as through IT service agencies. Able to deploy datacenter infrastructure and maintain large- scale enterprise network. Strong analytical and long-term planning abilities. Knowledge of kanji software and Japanese language (technical written and conversational) and business culture.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

Master of Science in Physics from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, 1983 - 1990 Department of Theoretical Physics

TCY Technologies, CCIE Routing/Switching and Cisco VoIP courses 2001 - 2005 Japan Society, New York City, Conversational Japanese language 2002 - 2004 Art school diploma 1978 - 1982

CERTIFICATIONS

A+ (Computing Technology Industry Association) 1998 CCNA (Cisco Cerified Network Associates) 1999

CCDA (Cisco Certified Design Associate) 2000

CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) 2000

Candidate for CCIE (written test only) 2000

WORK AUTHORIZATION

USA/Russia (dual citizenship)

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

Russian (native), Japanese

COMPUTER SKILLS

Routing protocols

BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP

Networking technologies

TCP/IP networks; load balancing, Multicast routing, Access Lists, traffic engineering, Multigroup HSRP, VRRP, Spanning Tree, NAT, trunking, performance optimization using QoS, NetFlow, LDAP, Active Directory, distirbuted DNS and server load balancing for deploying high-availabily application across multiple sites, FabricPath, OTV, VPC

Victor Sorokin ********@*****.***

New York, NY 10458 +1-718-***-****

Wireless equipment

Cisco Aironet, Aruba Networks

Firewall/Security

Palo Alto, Checkpoint, ASA appliances, Juniper IDP, IPSec/SSL VPN IP telephony

Cisco CallManager, SIP based PBX, Grandstream, Polycom IP-phones, IPC trader's turrets SNMP Management tools

CA Spectrum, Solarwinds

IP addresses management tools

Lucent QIP, Infoblox

Proxy servers/WAN accelerators

BlueCoat ProxySG, basic knowledge of Juniper WXC and Riverbed Steelhead appliances Storage network (SAN)

Basic knowledge of Fibre Channel, FcoE, Convergent Ethernet and iSCSI. Smart phones/Tablets

BlackBerry, iPhone/iPad, Nokia,

Hardware skills

Routers: Cisco Catalyst, 7200/7500 series, Nexus 7K/5K/2K, ASR9K routers, Juniper MX960/MX480/MX240 Level 2/3 switches: Nexus 7000/3000/5500/2000, Catalyst 6500, Juniper EX4200, Arista 7150, BNT, HP, Simena/NetScout

Load balancers: F5 BIG-IP 8900/6900/3900, A10

Firewalls: Palo Alto PA-5000, PA-3000, PA-2000, SSG320/SSG140/SSG5, Cisco ASA, CheckPoint IPSO Servers : IBM BladeCenter, Cisco UCS, HP, Apple Xserve Fiber channel storage: ActiveStorage, Promise

Network testers/analyzers: Fluke Network, Wireshark Operating systems

Windows XP/2008/2012, Mac OS X server and desktop editions, Linux, VMWare ESXi E-mail server and mobile synchonization

Kerio, Microsoft Exchange, Blackberry Enterprise server Translation management/software localization tools SDL Trados, Passolo

Other software

Visio, Excel, Acronis, Retrospect

Victor Sorokin ********@*****.***

New York, NY 10458 +1-718-***-****

EMPLOYMENT RECORD

Sr. Network Engineer 07/13–06/17

Infocrossing/Wipro Leonia, NJ

• Installing and building firewall policy of Palo Alto firewalls PA-5000, PA-300 and PA-2000 series

• Documenting and optimizing policy of sixty Palo Alto firewalls installed across datacenters using Panorama appliance

• Designing and new datacenter infrastracture based on Nexus datacenter switching fabric

• Responsible for building new infrastracture of customer’s PCI complined firewall infrastracture

• Participating in projects of data centers migration and embarking new customer

• Participating in building new datacenter in Asia. Implementing Cisco FabricPath as core layer switching technology

• Participationg in project of redesigning datacenter interconnections (IS-IS, MPLS, BGP, L3VPN)

• Participating in project of designing and implementating mobile solution for multination store chain based on Oracle Exalogic elastic cloud

Network Engineer 03/11–03/13

Morgan Stanley New York, NY

• Deploying datacenter switching infrastructure for blade server racks

• Participated in deploying low latency infrastructure based on Arista ToR switches

• Participated in projects of upgrading and hardening Juniper core routers MX960

• Maintaining F5 load balancers

• Accommodating deployment of servers/security appliances and relocation between offices

• Decommissioning legacy datacenter infrastructure

• Deployed Cisco Nexus 7000/5500/3000 switches for testing Next Generation datacenter design

• Participated in Telco/Market data circuit inventory for decommissioning Brooklyn datacenter Network Engineer 01/09–02/11

KDDI America New York, NY

• Participating in IT support for Japanese companies in Tri-State area

• Maintaining customers’ telecommunication equipment in Telehouse datacenters

• Participating in deployment Riverbed Steelhead WAN accelerators

• Participating in designed and deployment of Cisco WAAS services

• Creating weekly security reports

IT Consultant 12/05–12/08

Mizuho Corporate Bank New York, NY

• Participated in datacenter relocation project from New Jersey to Connecticut

• Responsible for support for LAN/WAN area and all network systems related to the network engineering

(200 network devices, 3000 end user's nodes, two datacenters, disaster recovery site, trading floor)

• Responsible for configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 6500 and 3700 switches and 7200 series routers in multilayer backbone environment

• Responsible for management of Checkpoint/Juniper firewalls and Bluecoat proxy devices in cluster environment

• Assisted in managing projects on network platforms and technologies

• Assisted in managing vendors and contracts

Victor Sorokin ********@*****.***

New York, NY 10458 +1-718-***-****

• Assisted with the maintenance of redundant environments and facilities for the network engineering team to ensure compliance with the corporate business continuity plan business continuity IT conctactor/freelancer 06/03–11/05

Various companies New York, NY

• Participated in IT support of small/medium size companies on part-time/contract base Network Engineer/Administrator 05/02–05/03

KMOC/Marathon Oil New York, NY

• Was responsible for day-to-day operation and IT for New York headquarters of an oil company

• Set-up and maintainence of Wireless network

• Maintained BlackBerry Enterprise server and wireless Internet

• Performed and monitored daily backups (Veritas Media Server) on Windows 2000

• Configured and monitored RAID5 arrays on Compaq Proliant servers

• Maintained company anti-virus strategy, using Symantec System Center and Norton Anti-virus

• Was responsible for minimizing roaming costs of international travels

• Maintained Microsoft Exchange/Outlook 98-2000 environment and Active Directory structure Network Engineer 10/00–12/01

Invisible Hand Networks New York, NY

• Designed and implemented a company test lab on the basis of Cisco Systems career-class routers

• Tested bandwidth traiding software in conditions of multiple ISPs, different routing protocols, and traffic exchange policies

• Registered company network with InterNIC as autonomous system

• Was responsible for evaluating the latest QoS and queueing features of routers and switches used withbandwidth traiding software

• Deployed and maintained routers in New York, New Jersey, and California data centers

• Was responsible for ordering Cisco Systems equipment and upgrading IOS

• Implemented security policies and fault-tolerance Internet connection in New York office

• Reviewed new routing requests

Desktop Publishing Technology Specialist 05/00–10/00 TransPerfect Translations New York, NY

• Responsible for localization projects for Motorola, Telcordia Technologies and other information technology clients

• Developed strategy for Framemaker related projects DTP Support/On-line Publishing Specialist 03/97–04/00 Berlitz GlobalNET New York, NY

• Performed troubleshooting for multilingual software, printing problems, and Macintosh-PC cross-platform compatibility

• Provided technical support for software localization into Japanese and Russian languages

• Working on localization project in Framemaker, Acrobat, Lotus Notes, QuarkXPress, and Pagemaker Engineer 04/90–12/96

Victor Sorokin ********@*****.***

New York, NY 10458 +1-718-***-****

Laboratory of Computer Technologies, Dubna, Moscow region, Russia Joint Institute for Nuclear Research

• Participated in a variety of computing projects needed for support of physics research Federal Department of Patents and Trade Marks 03/89–06/95 Part-time translator Moscow, Russia

• Translated Japanese patent documents

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