Network Engineering (NOC)

Anthony A. Iyoha

**** ******* ******,

Lithia Springs, Ga 30122

acz2me@r.postjobfree.com Cellular Phone: 404-***-****

KEY STRENGTHS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS: A diverse and fulfilling career of acquiring invaluable skills and expertise in Telecom and Integration Engineering for over 19 years. Duties encompassing feasibility studies, detailed and strategic planning and management of short/long term lifecycle projects. Possess excellent written, verbal and detailed communication skills, accustomed to reporting to Senior/Executive level management. Experienced in extensive network installation projects involving multi-level phases from construction to completion. Developed and implementation of comprehensive training systems. A consummate professional accustomed to consistently meeting timelines, maintaining system performance and production with precision. Demonstrated leadership ability while managing diverse/integrated technical projects. Ability to motivate, mentor and manage key personnel, an exceptional team member.

SKILLS:

Cisco Routers 2500, 3000, 4000, 7000, 7500, 12000 (GSR)

Cisco Catalyst 1900, 2820, 5000, 5500, 6500, Nexus 2000, 5000 Series

Alcatel-Lucent 7x50 Router, 7330 Switches, Juniper Network SRX320

PCM, CTS, SCG, PCM, Ieccf, ISC, 7510 BGW, 8650SDM, 1360 COM, 5900MRF

Ethernet medium, 10baseT, 10base2, 10base5, Fiber Optic Cabling

Ether Channel, InterVLAN routing, IGMP, DNS, DHCP, CDP, FTTP, FTP, SNMP

VPI, VCI, MIB, SNMP, ISL, FDDI, IPSec, VPN, QoS

Frame-Relay, ATM, ISDN, SONET, MPLS

DS-1, T-1, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, Gigabit-Ethernet

AS 390, AS 400, Compaq ProLiant, F5 Load Balancer

Windows NT Workstation installation and Configuration

Windows 2000, TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP v4

HSRP, Spanning-Tree 802.1Q VLAN trunking, VTP

HP OpenView Spectrum Alarm manager

Net X-Ray, Shomiti, Cisco Works

NetView and Netcool Network Monitoring System

Tivoli Enterprise Console

Pix Firewall installation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

2010 to Present Nokia (Alcatel-Lucent) Plano, Tx

Software Integration Engineer - IMS

SKILLS & EXPERTISE: As a senior member of the Software Integration Engineering team, my role involves expert software development and information systems skills, excellent communication and demonstration of competent leadership ability. Responsible for maintaining daily, weekly, and monthly audits to ensure the team is adhering to quality & test KPI.

Participation during technical review calls to discuss project readiness, status and delivery. Documenting each instance observed during software test plan development to testing cycles, logged by severity level. Serve as managing mentor of new personnel, assisting with technical issues during on boarding and training, conduct weekly follow up sessions to address issues and concerns.

Perform integration and system testing on IMS Infrastructure networks, CloudBand servers, installing and configuring IMS element physical and virtual networks. Install, configure Physical and Virtual Servers using OpenStack Dashboard, OpenStack Client Servers, Web Server GUIs, IMS Virtual Network Elements, LCMA clients, Security Hardening testing and applications for Wireless Mobile Network for AT&T, Verizon and Time Warner Cable.

Ability to perform configuration execution via LCMA server to instantiate virtual Network Elements (vNE) such as vCTS, vCCF, and vCOM in AT&T virtual IMS Network Environment. Monitored software upgrades of vNEs via the Openstack Dashboard. Apply security hardening to all network element nodes.

Execution to grow in additional non-pilot VM into existing vCTS-UDR proxy OAM groups. Also executed mop to manage 5420 virtual converged telephony server (vCTS) with new release on all nodes utilizing active virtual communication operations manager (vCOM) in specified ATT vIMS environments.

Troubleshooting Software issues with customers in Lab testing environment to resolve installation issues. Work with customers to resolve hardware installation and configuration.

Excellent testing skills and experienced with software Quality Assurance test for IMS network, client/server application and user oriented applications on Linux and Window Server platforms, Virtual Clients.

Knowledgeable in deploying Infrastructure networks. Good understanding of 3GPP IMS standards. Good understanding of SIP/H.248 call setup procedures and messaging.

Engaged in software development lifecycle from Product Development, Research Development, Test Planning, Lab Validation, and Quality Assurance Review.

Create and modify test plans, to certify the stability and instability of IMS software. Executed System unit testing to validate Software Upgrades, Network Interoperability and software Feature Activations. Initiated Load testing via subsystem call flows to test Geographic Redundancy, capacity and performance.

Performed Quality Assurance validation of Gold Standard configuration data with customer lab and productions sites. Certified Security Hardening compliance with NSA regulations.

Support AR/CR activities while resolving software issues through careful, thoroughly documented testing. Defect management tracking and reporting bugs and fixes. Work under pressure and tight deadlines while maintaining KPI metrics.

Daily duties include providing ongoing support troubleshooting IP multicast addresses, optimized many-to-many multicast applications using PIM-SM and meetings with Engineering/Architecture team to discuss scope of QoS for various traffic engineering to meet customer level of agreement.

2007 to 2010 Alcatel-Lucent, Plano, TX

IPTV Field Deployment Engineer

SKILLS & EXPERTISE: As Field Deployment Engineer, successfully commissioned 13 Video Hub Office (VHO) builds integrating hardware, software and information systems nationally (80% travel), for AT&T Project Lightspeed/Uverse. Responsible for inventory, installation, and delivery for all locations. Took ownership and responsibility for organizational success and on site support. All jobs completed on or before light date and within budget. Achieved 100% on customer acceptance test plans on all VHO end-to-end commissioning.

Documented results while maintaining project status, and report regular updates to Project Managers, Leadership and key Stakeholders.

Validated physical layer connectivity of Servers, Encoders and Receivers. Performed Software installation, configuration, and fault diagnostics on Alcatel 7440, 7750, and 7330 located in VHO’s. Deployed Triple Play (Voice, Video, Data), configuration in VHO which include OSPF, QOS, Multicast, VLAN, MPLS, and BGP peering.

Executed end to end video testing from Super Hub Office (SHO) to Central Office (CO), verified by logically backhauling video to the Video Hub Office (VHO) for testing purposes. Validate FTTX connectivity from CO to prem.

Debug complex product installations. Resolved issues by applying both established procedures and creative alternatives.

2002 to 2007 Electronic Data System, Plano, TX

Project Implementation Engineer

SKILLS & EXPERTISE: Main priority was handling second level escalations for customer outage tickets within timelines. Troubleshooting Telco outages with data circuits. Addressed router and switch configurations, and faulty hardware, and managing Customer Premise Equipment (CPE).

Assists Area Managers in the preparation of weekly reports outlining open cases, resolution plans, and support metrics. Escalation point for Tier I & II engineers, and Key Account teams. Participation in a rotating on-call schedule. Weekly staff meeting with Area Managers and Directors to discuss chronic/extended outages, review monthly trend analysis for high profile customers.

Coached and supervised Tier I & II engineers. Provide training as a subject matter expert on vendor equipment, and WAN protocols

Developed documentation and procedure for contractor and technicians. Supervise team of contractor and onsite technicians through routers and switches de-install and install process. Manage and monitor all network traffic using SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor tool and wireshark.

Created monthly trend analysis for multiple customers detailing network health, and performance. Analyzed issues and perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA). Translated RCA to training/lesson learned procedures.

2000 to 2002 NetEffect Corporation, Atlanta, GA

Network Engineer

SKILLS & EXPERTISE:

As Network Engineer responsibilities included management and high profile accountability of critical functions, maintaining network availability for data circuits and Customer Precise Equipment for Nextel. A demanding position requiring 24/7, 365 days of network availability, production and consistent daily performance due to the critical nature of the job. A high level of accountability and functionality of technical systems was maintained for 2 years.

Member of Level 2 Design and Support Team.

Implement and maintain bridged networks with ATM core utilizing Cisco 7500 routers, catalyst 5509 and LightStream 1010.

Provide route redistribution of routing protocols, frame relay configuration, troubleshoot and resolve network performance problem.

Member of SSA/MCI design and implementation team, configuring and installing routers through out the country.

Member of NEXTEL 2000K project team, configuring and installing Cisco routers at various locations in the country.

Implementation Engineer for BellSouth VoIP customers in Florida and South Carolina.

Provide technical support to 1800 LAN/WAN users.

Implement configuration changes and troubleshoot VLAN problems in switched network.

Configure and install Cisco routers, using RIP, EIGRP and OSPF routing protocols.

Upgrade Cisco IOS software for routers and switches.

Customize and implement Access-List configuration as applied to Cisco routers.

Provide initial support of transitioned locations with smooth handoff to Telecommunication Team.

Monitored Network performance utilizing HP OpenView, Spectrum Alarm Manager, CiscoWorks 2000 and Tivoli service desk.

CERTIFICATIONS

CCDA - CISCO Certified Design Associate

CCNA – CISCO Certified Network Associate

Alcatel-Lucent SRC – Service Routing Certification 2010-2012

Alcatel-Lucent People@ - Integration Professional Certificate 2015

Structured Network Institute, Jersey City, New Jersey

Willing to Relocate on my own

Travel 50%.

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