Bill Nafpliotis

**** ********* ***

Seaford, NY *1783

ac33wj@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE: I am seeking an opportunity for a full-time position as a Senior Network/Security Engineer, utilizing my experience and skills in Routing, Switching, Load-Balancing and Security of the Local & Wide Area Networks

CERTIFICATIONS: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certified Novell Administrator (CNA)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) A+ Certified Technician

EDUCATION: C.W. POST – Brookville, NY January 2002 – January 2003

Masters of Science

Major: Information Systems – GPA:3.8

Technological Educational Institution of Athens, Greece September 1992 – July 1996

Bachelors of Science

Major: Biomedical Engineering

Minor: Digital Image Processing with C++

Computer Career Center – Garden City, NY March 2000 – April 2001

Major: WAN Specialist – GPA:4.0

Netcom Information Technology – LIC, NY September 2002 – April 2003

Major: Sun Solaris Network Admin

WORK HISTORY: ALTICE USA (Former CABLEVISION Corporation) – Hicksville, NY April 2006 – Present

Senior Network/Security Engineer

Responsible for the DDoS Internet attacks mitigation via blackhole or off-ramp scrubbing, of all the company’s server farms that provide Internet, Cable TV, video on demand and numerous other applications access to all the company’s cable customers.

Responsible for the support of the company’s enterprise network infrastructure of more than 200 sites which consist of Head Ends, Call Centers, Warehouses, Field Service locations, Optimum Stores, the Madison Square Garden building and the Radio City Music Hall and all the Clearview Movie Theaters.

Support of the company’s WAN inter-connectivity of Frame Relay, T1/T3, Metro Ethernet, Dark Fiber or Cable Modem based circuits.

Work on projects involving new site design and deployments, or existing sites upgrades and maintenance.

Migrate Nokia IPSO firewalls to Checkpoint GAIA.

Configure and support load-balanced server farms with 11500 Cisco Content Switches, Cisco ACE and F5 BIG-IP LTMs, GTMs and AFMs and Viprion appliances as well as virtual edition of local traffic managers.

Work on Wi-Fi projects on remote sites rolling out autonomous or CAPWAP lightweight 3502s or 3702s APs using 4404 or 5508 Wireless Controllers or Controllers integrated in Cisco 3850 switches.

Design, configure and deployed Cablevision’s VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) in the Amazon AWS Cloud.

Deployed and support an enterprise wide Cisco Telepresence solution to integrate existing with new video conferencing systems.

Participate in Cablevision’s annual Disaster Recovery exercise.

Research new technologies and trends of the IT industry and work close with vendors to evaluate their products with POCs.

Troubleshoot and provide solutions of complex network or security issues in cooperation with the Arbor, Cisco, F5 and Checkpoint TAC.

CUSTOM COMPUTER SPECIALISTS–Hauppauge, NY August 2005 – October 2005

Wireless Network Engineer (Contract)

Worked on a project of rolling out Cisco Aironet Wireless for the NYC Schools carrying out the following tasks:

Performed surveys in the school buildings,

Certified the classrooms for signal quality,

Installed and configured Cisco 3550 Wireless and 6509 Catalyst Switches,

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And configured the client software on the school laptops and tested network connectivity.

121COMMUNICATIONS Inc. – New York, NY August 2004 – August 2005

Network Infrastructure Engineer

Provided support for the company’s clients Wide Area Network infrastructure.

Installed and configured the Ipswitch WhatsUpGold application software to provide enterprise monitoring and management of their network topology.

Designed the company’s new Web Hosting Environment providing application load-balancing and fault-tolerance in a multi-tier architecture.

KFORCE Inc. – New York, NY December 2003 – August 2004

WAN Engineer (Contract)

Provided consulting services as a lead tech on a project associated with installations, upgrades and support of the Veterans Administration Medical Centers network infrastructure in multiple locations (Bronx NY, East Orange NJ, Northport NY, Manhattan NY, Castle Point NY and Montrose NY). During that project I:

Disconnected and removed from the production all the old Cisco 5505 and 5509 Catalyst Switches

Configured 208 brand new Cisco 4503 and 4506 Catalyst Switches that replaced the old ones.

Applied a new hierarchical addressing scheme to replace the old flat network design

Carried out the cable management in the wiring closets.

Tested the connectivity between the access and the core layers through the entire Medical Centers.

CITIGROUP – Weehawken, NJ May 2003 – November 2003 Distributed Systems Support Engineer (Contract)

Provided monitoring and support for Citibank’s Distributed Systems, Web servers and Applications (Citibank Online-Home Banking, Diners, MasterCard, Visa, Citiexpert) through Tivoli and HP OpenView Monitoring Tools at Citibank’s Primary Data Center in Weehawken.

IMC Corporation – Garden City, NY June 1999 – May 2003

Network Designer & Administrator (Contract)

Designed and implemented an NT 4.0 LAN environment to support 60+ users.

Responsibilities included day-to-day troubleshooting, desktop support, system backups, hardware/software upgrades and equipment purchasing.

TECHNICAL SKILLS: Monitoring Tools:

SevOne, Splunk, Spectrum, E-Health, Solarwinds Orion

WhatsUpGold 8 & WhatsUp Professional 2005

Computer Associates TNG Unicenter

HP OpenView

Routing Protocols:

EIGRP, OSPF, BGP

Arbor Products:

CP-5500-5, CP-6000 and SP-7000 Peakflow Collectors

TMS 4000 & TMS HD 1000 Threat Management System

Cisco Products:

Catalyst 1900, 2900, 3550, 3560, 4500, 5500 and 6500 and 5010 / 7010 Nexus Switches

700, 800, 1600, 1700, 2600, 2800, 3640, 3745, 3845 and 7000 Routers

PIX 501, 515E, 525 and 535 Firewalls

ASA 5505, 5515 and 5540 Firewalls

11501 and 11503 Content Services Switches

ACE 20 and 4710 load balancers

Cisco Telepresence CUCM 9.1.2, VCSc, VCSE, MCU and TMS for centralized video conferencing.

Cisco Tandberg C40, C60, CTS1000, MX200, SX-20 & SX-80 Telepresence Endpoints

F5 Products:

3600, 3900, 5200, 8900, 10250, 11050, and Viprion 4480 Big IP local traffic managers

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Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM)

Application Security Manager (ASM)

BIG-IP DNS (former GTM)

Big-IQ and Enterprise Manager

Riverbed Products:

Steelhead 1050 & 2050 WAN Accelerators

Checkpoint/Nokia Firewalls:

Checkpoint 2207, 2450, 4807, 12600, 13507, 21600, 21700 and 41K

Nokia IP290, IP330 & IP560

Array Networks Products:

Array 500 TX load balancer

REFERENCES: Furnished upon request

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