Engineer Network

Angel Enrique Villasana Figueira

CCNP-Voice / CCNP R&S

Phone: 787-***-****. Other: 939-***-****

Email: ******@*****.***

Summary.

Networking professional with more than 25 year experience in Fortune 500 and middle/large companies. Planning, Design and Implementation of over $1M projects. Cisco Certified Network Professional in Routing and Switching, Collaboration, Voice and TelePresence. Geographical coverage: South America and the Caribbean, including Puerto Rico. Languages Spanish & English. Citizenship: Venezuelan, European Union, USA permanent resident.

Professional Experience

OpenLink PR A Cisco Gold partner company with offices in Venezuela, Dominican Republic Colombia and Puerto Rico. Feb 2012 - Present

Senior Internetwork Solution Engineer

Senior lead engineer for planning, design and implementation of Cisco Collaboration projects, with around 1000 end points/users, including webex solutions.

Generated U.S$ 250K+/year P.Os in small-market customers for Presales Engineer designing of Cisco’s network/security and Unified Communication solutions, as well as Fortinet's security/mail solutions.

Support on customers voice network, including platform administration, troubleshooting and leading transparent pilot migrations, saving tens of thousands US $ yearly on prevented services outages.

Leadership of security solution projects based on Fortigate's Firewalls/Fortimail servers, increasing business productivity by reducing up to 100% impact of blocked security threats.

Designing and implementation of Openlink's NOC platform (Solarwinds NPM based), reducing client's operative impact of network services outages by preventive monitoring.

Helvetia del Caribe,Inc (HDC). A software developer company established in Puerto Rico since 1986, which focuses on financial market, serving as IT provider for many SMEs 2003 - 2012

Network and System Administrator

As responsible of AIX-based core servers (RISC 6000) of 100+ clients, conducted infrastructure system conversions/upgrades on several clients, providing continuity of financial operations of credit unions valued at billions of dollars.

Responsible of network security infrastructure of HDC’s clients (credit unions), providing secure access to Internet and ATH/ATM networks, for customers' core financial services worth millions of U.S $ yearly.

Manage of LAN/WAN operation of Helvetia's client networks (100+ customer sites) based on Cisco SMB routers & switches series, saving more than 600K U.S $ yearly on customer network support fees.

Support for a consolidated network/security infrastructure for interbanking and internet-banking services over HDC’s clients, assuring web based financial services to hundreds thousands clients of credit unions.

INTESA A subsidiary of SAIC based in Venezuela, as joint venture with (PDVSA). INTESA provided IT and outsourcing services to PDVSA, as well as other companies in Latin American region. SAIC is a Fortune 500 company, now ranks as the largest employee-owned research and engineering firm in the US with over $6Bilions in revenue 1997 - 2003

Network Project Engineer.

Lead engineer implementing a U.S$ 1.2M network upgrade project for INTEVEP (3100-user PDVSA branch), replacing an old ATM/Hub based network with minimal impact.

Conducted "Capacity Planning" project over a 14,000-user network, promoting technological upgrades work orders above U.S $1.6M.

Managed 5-engineer team developing "IP address optimization project" on 11,000-customer network, which reduced 75% of operative IP address domains with no impact on end users.

Team leader that implemented data network infrastructure of the "2nd OPEC summit" in Caracas-Venezuela (August 2000), saving tens thousands U.S$ on outsourcing costs.

Person in charge of operations for a Cisco based network platform (5500 series), conformed by 30+ switches and 2,700 users, at PDVSA-Caracas.

PDVSA (Petroleos de Venezuela S.A). One of the largest oil companies in the world. 1991 - 1996

Project /Network System Engineer

Support on implementation of network based on Cabletron solution at 3,300-user site. This project exceeded U.S $1,4M in equipment, replacing a hub based network, and reached 155 installed switches.

Responsible for operation of a 10,000+ PCs platform, which included: customer support, handling of labs, user-moving coordination and assets management, saving tens thousands U.S$ yearly on outsourcing fees.

Education

BS. EE. Major in Electronics. Universidad Simon Bolivar, Caracas, Venezuela.

Qualifications and professional skills.

üCisco Certified Network Professional-Voice (CCNP-Voice) certification.

üCisco Certified Network Professional-Routing & Switching (CCNP-R&S) certification.

üCisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), CCNA-voice, Telepresence ATP certifications

üCUCM / CME / UnityCx / Presence (ver 8.x /9.x / 10.x) platform implementations.

üAdvanced expertice on Cisco Voice Gateways, including MGCP, H323, CUBE, VOIP/POTs dial peers, as well as PRI, FXO/FXS, SIP trunks connectivity and SRST configuration.

üDesign/setup of Webex on Premise solution, as well as IVR, Jabber video and Attendant Console implementations.

üLead engineer for design, implementation and support of Cisco UC projects, including CUCM/BE6000, UnityCx, IM & Presence, Webex on Premise, voice gateways and Telepresence solutions on multisite networks with High Availability schemas.

üExperience with Cisco telepresence solutions including VCS, and EX90, EX60, SX20 TP EP.

üConfiguration / implementation of Cisco switches (up to series 4006, 6500, 2960, 3750X, 3850), and Cisco wireless technology. PIX 515/ASA55XX Cisco firewalls configuration/operation.

üFortinet's Fortigate firewalls, FortiMail servers and FortiAP configuration/operation experience.

üConfiguration / implementation of Cisco routers up to 7500/3900/2900/1900 series. Knowledge of RIP. RIP (v2), IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.

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