Todd Barron

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Elm City, NC 27822

acvb6k@r.postjobfree.com

252-***-****

Senior Network Systems Analyst III

Enterprise Management System Administrator (HP Network Automation)

Award-winning, detail-focused and results-oriented IT professional with over 20+ years of IT Engineering experience at BB&T. Comprehensive system support and upgrading, troubleshooting and effective training experience. Dedicated, organized and self-directed team member with a keen eye on the bottom line and strong relationship-building and communication skills.

Specializing in:

Network Engineering - designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and knowledge transfer of network solutions to meet the business unit needs

Enterprise Management Systems - HP Network Automation Administrator - responsible for compliance of all network device configurations. Deployed all mass network device configuration changes. Daily/Weekly/Monthly reporting to Senior Management.

Project management

Professional Highlights

Lee Motor Group, Wilson, NC Aug 2015 – Jan 16

- Desktop standardization

- Network capacity planning

- Desktop support

BB&T, Wilson, NC March 2011 – August 2014

Network Systems Analyst III/HP Network Automation Administrator in IT Network Automation

-Administrator for one of our 3 global enterprise management systems (HP Network Automation)

-Grew system from under 1000 nodes to over 9000

-Deployed all mass changes to over 9000 Cisco devices. Wrote, tested, and deployed the scripts to accomplish the needs of each specific change. Worked extensively with Change Management to coordinate these efforts.

-Over 20 yrs experience with Change Management. Wrote test/implementation/fallback plans for approval by Change Management team

-Wrote the specific rule sets for all global network configuration compliance

-Worked daily to keep system up to date on number of nodes coming in/being deleted. Pre-staged all merger activity

-Developed compliance reporting for senior management

-Defined all groups (mostly dynamic), Compliance Policies, IOS levels, Remediation Scripts to correct non-compliant devices, and all back end server administration for applying release patches and driver packs

-Worked with our Cisco support team to keep all IOS code levels up to date on all network equipment

-Kept IOS images for all Cisco devices in the NA Device code library.

-Assisted field operations with getting network equipment in compliance after service calls where equipment was changed/replaced

-Extensive work with TACACS configurations. We switched from RADIUS to TACACS. I developed the NA scripts to help accomplish this.

-Provided monthly inventory reports to several business units (Real Estate, Vendor Management, etc) to be sure our support contracts and real estate holdings were up to date.

-Worked extensively with Info Security to manage devices behind various firewalls. Provided a monthly report to Info Sec regarding those devices.

-Acted as a syslog server for certain devices.

-Change Monitoring across entire network.

-ITIL certified

BB&T, Wilson, NC Aug 2004 – March 2011

Network Systems Analyst III in Network Planning/Engineering

-Recommended network design changes or enhancements to improve system availability and performance, including recommendations for performing code upgrades and evaluations of new network system designs

-Helped design the redundant systems including the firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, and application servers for our online banking system

-Worked extensively with the corporate firewalls and load balancers. Checkpoint, Cisco PIX, F5, Alteon configuration verification/correct operation experience. I am a Nortel Certified Systems Engineer focusing on the Alteon Load balancer and I had read access to all corporate firewalls so I could verify proper routes/ports for online applications.

-Provided Tier III level support for network issues that come through the customer support center.

-Generated network monitoring and performance reports for Local Area Network/Wide Area Network (LAN/WAN) infrastructure, providing trend analysis and capacity planning documents.

-Executed system tuning and Disaster Recovery planning to include recommendations for improvements.

-Designed and built over 15 remote data centers

-Performed training of less experienced personnel.

-Provided 24x7 on-call availability for supported infrastructure.

BB&T, Wilson, NC Feb 1997- Aug 2004

Network Systems Analyst in Network Operations

-Assisted in ensuring adherence of wiring, equipment, and code configurations of enterprise network equipment

-Provided Tier III level support for network issues that come through the customer support center

-Developed and maintained documentation for supported infrastructure

-Provided 24x7 on-call availability for supported infrastructure

BB&T, Wilson, NC Feb 1995- Feb 1997

Network Control Help Desk Analyst in the Network Control Help Desk

-Fielded front line calls on all network/ATM related issues. Responsible for the up time of our ATM network. Assisted all branch locations with network/ATM related issues. Dispatched vendors as needed. Worked with RBOM's to assure quality control and quality client experience

Project Management Experience

ATM SNA to IP conversion (DLSw to IP)

600 Remote ATM locations – 2 year project

I led team of C/S Engineers, Raleigh Deployment Center (received and configured all new hardware), field technicians, ATM Management group, all vendor relationship management and our internal senior management

Developed all technical specs, install guides, checklists, turnover to operations, etc to be used at each site

Daily, Weekly, Monthly reporting. Tracked all successful installs, sites with issues, etc.

Project was completed on time and on budget

Branch Mergers – Managed project to convert 12 independent financial institutions to BB&T locations

Led team that completed 12 bank mergers in one calendar year

Teams included client server engineering, network engineering, network operations, ATM management, mainframe programmers for host-to-host connectivity for CICS data transfer, facilities, project office, and all senior management

I developed the process for bringing an acquired institution online in 90 days versus the standard 6 month time frame

Developed all individual team procedures, checklists, quality assurance, turnover documentation, network management, technical documentation, etc

I kept a 4x4” Visio outside my office to track all the activities at a glance

Crash of 2008

I was given the task of leading the effort to satisfy the FED's requirements of insuring all FDIC covered accounts for the failed financial institutions. We were given dozens of failed institutions to pick up imme

Over 30 financial institutions were literally dropped on us to start managing immediately

I had to get the teams prepared to start managing the DDA/Savings accounts guaranteed by the FDIC

No re-branding, no site upgrades to our branch hardware standards, none of the usual branch conversion activities

I built the host-to-host connectivity to each institution and had all CICS data on our mainframe within 90 days

Led team of network engineering, enterprise management, network operations, mainframe programmers to accomplish this effort

Protocols/languages/scripting

•Expert level knowledge in multiple of the following and strong IP knowledge: Design, configuration, IP addressing, solution, firewall request, documentation, Visio, routing, Cisco, LAN protocols, secure networking, load balancers, core, infrastructure, Cisco, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, TCP, UDP, Multicast, Streaming, SNMP, FTP, TFTP, BOOTP, DSCP Code Points, SIP, 802.1Q, MAC Filtering (Access List Creation and management), Ethernet, SSL, AES, 3DES, DES, 10/100/1000 SX / TX, Fiber Optics, MPLS Frame Relay, Service, Interworking, PPP, PAP/CHAP for and authentication, VPN, authentication, RAS, ACE Servers, AAA Servers, PKI Certificates, TACACS, DS1, DS3, Fractional T1, OC3, OC12, OC48, SONET Ring Technologies, Wireless, 802.11A - B – G, Spanning Tree Protocol, SIP, QOS, Opnet, Sniffer, WAAS

Additional detailed accomplishments on request

References:

Dave King, Network Systems Supervisor, BB&T – 252-***-****

Donnie Reason, Reason's Plumbing - 252-***-****

Jason Matthews, IT Enterprise Management Solutions, BB&T - 252-***-****

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