DAVID LARSON
acya2m@r.postjobfree.com 661-***-****
SUMMARY
IT professional with over 7 years of experience in administration (service request), monitoring, change
management/documentation, configuration, deploying, and escalation support (ticket resolution) of various network
technologies for medium to corporate environments and proficiency with routing, routing protocols, switching, security,
firewalls, voice, wireless, and data center technologies.
TECHNICAL CERTIFICATIONS & SKILLS
CCNP R & S
Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing & Switching
CWP/CWEA
Certified WAN Professional/Certified WAN Enterprise Administrator
CSA / CDCA
Cisco Security Administrator / Data Center Administrator
CVA / CWT
Cisco Voice Administrator / Wireless Technician
CCNA R & S
Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching
Security
Microsoft MTA Security
A+
Comp TIA A+
TECHNICAL SKILLS DETAIL
Routing/Switching Technologies Cisco Routers (3900, 2900, 1900, 800 Series), Cisco Catalyst Switch (6500, 5500, 4900,
4500, 3750, 3560 X, 3100), Cisco Nexus 1kv, 2k, 5k, Series, Juniper Routers & Switches WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, Cisco IOS,
Spanning Tree Protocol, ACL, NAT, PAT, RIP, RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VTP, SNMP, SMTP, ARP, TCP, UDP,
Static Routing, Stub Routing, VLAN, VLAN Trunking, Multicast routing, HSRP, SVI, PortFast, VSS, VPC.
Security/Firewalls Technologies Cisco Security Manager Suite, Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls, Cisco FWSM, Cisco
IPS/IDS, Cisco ACS, Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM), Cisco ASA 1000V cloud firewall, Checkpoint Firewall, Juniper
SRX series, Palo Alto, Protocols & Standards TACACS+, SSH, VPN, IPSec, SSL/IPSec, Data Management Zone, Pretty
Good Protection (PGP), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Internet Key Exchange Policy, Port Security, MAC Address
Filtering
Wireless/Voice Technologies Cisco Prime, Cisco WLC, IEEE 802.1x & 802.11, WLAN, WAP, AP, SSID, LWAPP,
Aironet, Bluetooth, Avaya, AURA Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), VoIP/SIP, Cisco Call Manager VoIP, CUCM,
UCCM, UCCX, MGCP, RTP, SCCP, SRTP, Quality of Service (QoS)
Monitoring/Data Center Technologies/APPS Wireshark, Remedy, Cacti, Nagios, VMware, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco
Security Manager Suite, Server, Sniffer, Ethereal, Orion VMware, F5 Big IP load balancing (GTM/LTM), Cisco
AnyConnect VPN mtg, Cisco Prime, Meraki cloud.based Splunk Enterprise, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, HTTP(S),
SMTP, tunneling protocols.
Other Skills & Technologies VB 2010, Dreamweaver, MySQL, ASP.NET, Windows, Solaris
SUMMARY OF PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Various Companies Consultant 2002 Present
Sun Microsystems Engineer (STE) 1996 2001
Qualstar Corporation Technician (ST) 1992 1996
EDUCATION
Certified WAN Professional Program LANWAN Professional
Bachelor of Science in Information Technology Columbia Southern University
Associate of Applied Arts Rock Valley Jr. College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE DETAIL
Various Companies Consultant 2002 Present
Company Overview Privately owned companies in the Southern California Region. Responsibilities handled:
Daily responsibilities include but not limited to administration, support, implementation, configuration, upgrades,
vendor/client relations and troubleshooting enterprise environments.
Specific projects include resolving Network/VPN/wireless issues; entering DNS records and DHCP reservations;
configuring/modifying access control lists; and building IPSEC tunnels to remote support locations.
Proficiency in Cisco Router 2621; Cisco 891, 1841, 2801, 2851 Integrated Services Router; Cisco Catalyst Switches
3500, 3550, 4500; Cisco ASA 5505, 5510; Cisco Nexus 1k, 2k, 5k; Juniper EX2200 C Switch; F5 Big IP Version 11.6.0;
Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express Version 8.6; Cisco Unity Express Versions 7.0.6; Cisco 2106 Wireless
LAN Controller; Cisco Aironet 11x Access Point; Palo Alto PA 2020 Firewall, Nagios, Solar Winds Orion, Cacti and
Wireshark.
Additional responsibilities include technical discovery, client staging, technical migration based on SLA and compliance
and post migration, deployment, implementation and validation analysis.
Primary activities included server administration and LAN/WAN infrastructure routers, switches, and firewalls from
company branch and to the datacenter level and developed and integrated critical path schedules and associated cost data
involving multiple sites and managers.
Lead Terms & Conditions negotiations between companies, working to satisfy customer concerns while protecting
Intellectual Property.
Professional responsibilities included documentation, administration, following corporate policies and procedures and
scheduling reports to clients.
Sun Microsystems Systems Test Engineer 1996 2001
Company Overview Sun Microsystems (owned by Oracle Corporation) sells products which include computer
servers and workstations and Intel s Xeon processors; storage systems; and a suite of software product including
the Solaris Operating system, developer tools, Web infrastructure software, and identity management applications.
Responsibilities handled:
Team member to a group of professionals responsible for verification, implementation, installation, configuration,
testing, setup, updates, development, support and troubleshooting for various LAN/WAN technologies.
Technologies handled by the team include but not limited to Solaris operating system, routers, switches, firewalls,
wireless, Intel platforms and Microsoft VoIP systems.
Responsibilities include developing and implementing processes to combining operations of multiple software
applications for seamless Cost/Schedule Integration.
Additional responsibilities included Updating the Hardware Compatibility List with recently tested Servers and
peripherals and provided feedback on new test modules and procedures.
Professional responsibilities included bug reports, documentation, administration, following policies and procedures and
scheduling as needed reports to management.
Qualstar Corporation Support Technician 1992
1996
Company Overview Qualstar Corporation is an American manufacturer of magnetic tape data storage products,
based in Simi Valley, California. Responsibilities handled:
Member of a team of professionals responsible for technical support, maintenance, client/vendor relations, software
version updates and troubleshooting of various network enterprises for tape drive devices.
Technologies handled by the team include but not limited to local area network (LAN) technologies, wide area network
(WAN) technologies, server and enterprise applications and desktop technologies.
Specific responsibilities are technical support to customers using 3rd party software with Qualstar brand hardware.
Responsibilities included administration, documentation and following policies and procedures.