Mark Schoening
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NETWORK CONSULTANT - IT PROFESSIONAL - FIREWALL ENGINEER
Highly qualified professional with over 10 years’ experience engineering network security solutions. Superb decision-making skills, judgment, and outstanding initiative. Extremely focused and motivated to achieve in a fast-paced, demanding environment that promotes teamwork but can identify and resolve issues independently.
PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
CCNA
Cisco PIX and ASA appliances
CheckPoint firewalls
Network troubleshooting
Cisco IOS switching and routing
NetScout, Wireshark, CA Spectrum network monitoring tools
Team leadership
Project management
VPN tunnel and client access configuration
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/7/10 and server
UNIX/Linux (Solaris, AIX, Ubuntu, Kali)
Coding (UNIX shell scripting, HTML, Python)
Microsoft Office Suite, OpenOffice Suite
DNS, TCP/IP, SMTP, FTP, VOIP
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Intel August 2016 to Present
Network Engineer/Administrator – Switch and router installation and configuration. Network troubleshooting and problem resolution. Maintaining Cisco, Extreme Network switches and routers.
Already chosen as lead for new network support team and trainer for new team members.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise 2005 to 2016
Leveraged Network Consultant – Firewall engineer and network consultant providing design, implementation and troubleshooting expertise in support of HPE clients and internal teams. Provided datacenter, call-center and IT outsourcing services to government agencies, banks, and commercial customers world-wide. Held multiple leadership roles
Hired team of 12 engineers and firewall administrators to develop and implement Life Cycle Management program for firewall devices within the Americas region for all HPE clients. Replaced more than 200 firewall appliances identified as End-of-Life, replacing with current, vendor supported equipment and virtualizing over 70 firewalls to eliminate physical equipment expenses for end customers.
Led team of 10 senior engineers working on complex firewall projects including datacenter migrations, datacenter consolidation projects and new client integrations. Acted as liaison for complex projects team interacting with, supporting and directing network engineering, firewall administration and client delivery teams to ensure projects were completed per customer requirements. Personally managed datacenter consolidations and new client integrations for Kraft Foods, Towers Perrin, Bimbo Bakeries and many others.
Recognized as “ITO Hero” in January 2011 for network and firewall support during migration of all US Medicare/Medicaid clients to new interactive voice response system. This required more than 200 coordinated firewall updates across multiple datacenters.
Mark Schoening
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration
California State University East Bay, Hayward, California
CCNA #CSCO12953083
AFFILIATIONS
Boy Scouts as Assistant Scoutmaster and Treasurer
Cub Scouts as Committee Chairperson and Den Leader