Engineer Network

William Lawrence Simons lll

Phone: 210-***-**** E-mail: **************@*******.***

Summary

I am a lead f5 systems engineer who has participated in the design, development, and implementation of complex system engineering activities involving cross-functional technical support. My responsibilities have included establishing input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility, coordination of subsystem design and integration of total systems. Viewed as a subject matter able to provide and communicate complex technology solutions across differing audiences.

F5 Senior Engineer; Technology Manager

Bank of America November 2016 – Present

Plan, manage and maintain infrastructure projects for new environments while communicating with application owners.

Design, deploy and build LTMs, GTMs, ASM, AFM for customer environments

Configuration of VIPs, WIPs, custom HTTP/SSL profiles, Persistence, iRules, and advance configurations based off application requirements.

Tier 3 technical support for incidents, audits, and escalations and provide troubleshooting analysis with packet captures.

POC for major data center migration effort

Lead engineer for Loadbalancer virtual migrations from 9.x code to 11.x code versions

Application Architect

SkillStorm, Contractor at Bank of America August 2016 – November 2016

Design and build infrastructure with F5 devices

Configuration of Virtual Servers, custom profiles, iRules, and Wide IP domains

Senior Network Engineer

Rackspace, the managed cloud company August 2013 – July 2016

Troubleshoot and diagnose complex network and software issues involving switches, load-balancers, and firewalls for a customer base of 100,000+

Hand-picked as lead build engineer for Fortune 500 companies, performing base and advance level configurations.

Configuration of Virtual Servers, iRules, SSL certificates, monitors, Route Domains, and custom load-balancing profiles on F5 LTM and GTM.

Configuration and troubleshooting of Site-to-Site, Client-to-Site VPNs, access rules on Cisco ASAs, F5 APM and AFM.

Create, script and perform, step-by-step maintenance plans for complex device and data center migrations.

Configuration, troubleshooting, and maintenance of routing and switching at access and distribution layers.

Develop and document training for my peers while acting as an escalation point.

Certifications

F5 Big-IP Certified Administrator

CCNA

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