Twain A. McCulley
Saint Jacob Il, 62281
Objective
An experienced professional with years of data and voice networking, platform support, and deployment seeking a challenging position in IT infrastructure.
Professional Experience
Senior Network Engineer - Signature Consultants
8/2016 – 10/2016
Design, implementation and support of data, security, and voice networking, enabling business solutions that support and enable the growth of the organization.
Strategic Account:
Lumeris
Technical Architect – Edward Jones
10/2000 – 3/2016
Infrastructure wide strategic design, an architecture that applies to business needs, research technological developments, analyze business and cost benefits, and provide recommendations for technology direction in multiple infrastructure disciplines.
Design and implement high quality and highly available technology solutions that serve the needs of customers, associates and end users.
Ensure chosen solutions integrate and adhere to broader IT architecture, business needs and objectives.
Delivered as lead Architect for development and deployment of SIP Trunks with ATT and Avaya Session Border Controllers
Ongoing delivery of global E.164 Dial Plan (NA)
Ongoing delivery of IPv4 numbering Plan (Global)
Ongoing delivery of IPv6 numbering Plan (Global)
Delivery of load balancing utilizing F5 LTM and GTM technologies, leading design, architecture and implementation
Delivery of Architecture and Design for greenfield data centers (Cisco)
Delivery of Methodology for in Data Center migration(s) (Cisco,VMware)
VMware, vSphere Operations Management,
oInstallation, configuration and support
oHybrid operations including distinct environments across resource groups
Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS)
oInstallation, configuration, and support of UCS
Lead, research and recommend research, including full RFP, quality testing, performance testing and documentation business benefits of, but not limited to:
oData Center switch replacement design, recommendation and implementation
oWIFI research, design, recommendation and implementation.
oLocal area network redesign, recommendation and implementation
oWide Area Network trends and solutions, including carrier MPLS solutions
oWide Area Optimization design, recommendation and implementation
oMobility solutions for home and remote based associates
Lead Architect for Research, Design, and implementation of dual data center architectures to ensure continuous operational efficiencies.
oFull Bill of Materials (BOM) ordering
oConception to implementation with business signoff.
oRouting and protocol design to ensure continuous operation of data centers.
Delivery of Backbone BGP Design and Implementation
oMPLS and RSVP-TE implementation
Cisco expertise in multiple disciplines including routing, switching, load balancing, OAM, UCS
OSPF Intra data center design and implementation
Encryption technologies including IPSEC VPN tunneling, SSL company portals, SSL tunneling.
Research and implementation of Application Internetworking with Telephony (CTI and alerts)
Telephony application design involving Asterisk, database rules engine
User mobility development and deployment
Continuous lab management with full setup, maintenance and lifecycle responsibilities.
Project Management and leadership abilities to complete complex tasks and business requirements
Complete start to finish project implementation(s) including product selections, BOM, and implementation.
Deliver training to junior personnel on an as needed basis
Development of process and procedures to ensure consistent deployment across all infrastructure technologies
Conform to Edward Jones internal processes and procedures
Network Engineer - World Wide Technology
4/2000 - 10/2000
Engineer and deploy data network solutions that allow the business to achieve strategic business advantages that leverage technology to achieve desired results.
Strategic Accounts:
Edward Jones
Network Engineer - Alternative Resources Company
5/1994 – 4/2000
Engineer and deploy data network solutions that allow the customer to achieve strategic business advantages that leverage technology to achieve desired results.
Strategic Accounts:
Edward Jones
Saint Louis University Hospital
Network Engineer - Meridian Computing
10/1992 – 4/1994
Engineer and provide support services for small businesses for data networking solutions to allow for client/server architectures and Internet communications.
SKILL SET
F5 Systems
oLocal and Global Traffic Management (LTM/GTM)
oApplication Security Module (ASM)
oApplication Policy Manager (APM)
Cisco Systems
oIOS
oNexus, NxOS
oData Center Design and Migration
oACS,ACI,
oWifi Operations
oTroubleshooting
oImplementation
Checkpoint
oFirewall
oIntrusion Protection Systems
oData Loss Prevention
oIPSEC VPN
oURL Filtering
VMware
oVCenter,
oDynamic Resource Scheduling (DRS),
oHigh Availability (HA),
oClusters
oOperations Management
oNSX,Nicira
oData Center Design and Migration
Network Protocols
oIPV4 and IPv6 protocols
oEthernet protocol
oBGP and OSPF protocol
oMPLS label switching
oSIP voice signaling and RTP/RTCP operations
oIPSEC/VPN/GRE/DMVPN technologies on a global scale
Juniper
oJUNOS Routing and ESX Switching platforms
Linux and derivative systems
oSetup, troubleshooting, development
MS Windows System troubleshooting and knowledge
MS Visio extensive experience
Avaya Voice Communications and systems
oASM/SMGR
oSBC
Asterisk Voice Communications
IXIA and Spirent Testing Equipment
oSpirent Avalanche and Test Center
oIxNetwork and IxLoad
EDUCATION
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
1990-1992
Computer Sciences
REFERENCES
References available upon request.