Engineer Project Manager

Network and Security Professional

Network Professional with over 20 years of experience in designing and supporting mission critical, highly available IT and Telecom products and services; thorough understanding of providing and maintaining a holistic, end-to-end network security posture; extensive experience in troubleshooting large, multi-vendor networks, delivering secure Layer 3 and Layer 2 services; knowledgeable in business impact analysis, business continuity strategy and planning, incident response investigation and management, and development of policies, guidelines and procedures; extensive experience in client management and business development.

Core Competencies

Security Audit

Data Integrity

Systems Availability

Business Continuity

Security and Data Governance

Integration Testing

Pen Testing

Network Design

Systems Engineering

Vendor Management

Team Development

Lifecycle Planning

Project Mgmt.

Process Mapping

Agile/Waterfall SDLC

SCRUM Master

Troubleshooting

Virtualization

24/7 Global Support

Professional Experience

Network Security Consultant: ATANAS CORP OAKBROOK TERRACE, IL

2/16-Present

Information Technology, Network Engineering and Telecommunications consulting company with a focus on new technologies and the security of everything.

Develop company services and execution frameworks for engagements with customers; maintain services roadmap; define tools and develop training materials; services include business impact assessment and continuity framework, network audit and penetration testing per NIST 800-53 and EC-Council guidelines, incidence response and security awareness training.

Lead consulting opportunities, and work with customers’ stakeholders to develop key customer objectives and priorities, define Scope of Work (SOW), and present project engagement model, strategy and high-level plan.

Develop project and supporting plans and schedules per SOW agreed upon objectives, map current environments and develop detailed design and test documentation.

Work with partners to identify, source, and coordinate resource on-boarding.

Technical Project Manager, Agile/SCRUM master and feature owner on projects and lead Network Engineer.

Communicate project status to all stakeholders and responsible for all project artifacts and deliverables; provide guidance, mentor teams, and build team skills for project execution.

Projects include: Network and web application breach investigation, Cisco IOS Firewall configuration evaluation, penetration testing and report with recommendations for security enhancements; framework for an end-to-end Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) execution plan with a secure network design and communications, and back-end analytics; secure telemetry design of IoT life-sciences end-device; comparison of a public, private, or hybrid cloud solution on Amazon Web Services and VMware VSphere 6.0; technical lead in assisting several dental and medical practices to establish business continuity plans, conduct security audits, and monitor compliance with HIPAA and PCI DSS regulations.

Test Chief Design Engineer: CORIANT (Formerly Tellabs Operations) NAPERVILLE, IL

6/10-12/15

Responsible for the 8602/8609/8611 product family of Smart Routers global validation programs; these are new intelligent platforms designed to be highly available and secure platforms for intelligent zero-touch configuration and self-organizing networks (SON) via DHCP, and run on generic hardware for software defined networks (SDN) and provide network function virtualization (NFV) services.

Assembled and mentored a global validation team of engineers and lab technicians; teams and lab resources resided in four locations on three continents.

Developed a project continuity plan that would mitigate project delays due to unforeseen events that may impact each location including natural disasters and connectivity issues.

Developed the test strategy, test plans and network architectures, and defined tools and procedures for the testing of features for each program.

Managed the product’s lifecycle through each executive management review board gateway as the validation cross-functional team leader.

Within the Agile SDLC, monitored team velocities, investigated and resolved impediments to teams’ productivity, and provided regular reports to management on project progress, dependencies, risks, and mitigation plans.

Exceeded expectations for test program execution, product quality and risk mitigation.

Test strategy resulted in the launch of two v.1 platforms (8609 and 8611) in two years with $2.3M savings by implementing DevOps: virtualizing test environments, maximizing test equipment utilization through automation, dynamic configuration and remote access, implementing statistical testing, and promoting team collaboration.

Initiated predictive analytics project and gathered data over a five year period to glean knowledge of when and how components fail.

Used Value Stream Mapping methodology to document current state to future state and introduce change management to more efficient processes.

Provided Tier 3 support to the Technical Assistance Center on an on-call basis.

Analyzed requirements and assisted sales engineering in response to RFI/RFP requests.

Contributed to the documentation and review of all product deliverables and artifacts: including test cases, automation scripts, code reviews, and all commercial documentation including, product manuals, data sheets, configuration/management guides, and release notes.

Developed, maintained and enforced quality procedures for ISO 9001 quality management audits and responsible for passing all audits during my tenure.

Managed and negotiated contracts, scope of work and service level agreements for Tier 3 support and off-shore/on-shore engineering service providers.

Global Release Manager for 8800 Multi-Service Router.

Lead, Network Technical Support Engineer: TELLABS OPERATIONS, NAPERVILLE, IL

8/08-6/10

Managing lead for the TAC Advanced Network Management group that supported AT&T Mobility’s 2G, 3G, and LTE production networks.

Incident response lead for the discovery, isolation, investigation and recovery of network nodes and services.

Assisted in monitoring security events,

Investigated and reproduced issues in lab environments to isolate defect/vulnerability, document issue characteristics and assist in its resolution.

Interfaced and provided updates to stakeholders while managing an incident to closure.

Developed technical documentation for maintenance procedures, defect description, defect work-arounds, final analysis and customer product notifications: method of procedure (MOP), field defect analysis (FDA), and product performance notifications (PPN).

Implemented VMWare datacenter shared environment among technical support and development groups that substantially increased productivity.

Consultant (Multiple Clients/Projects): COLLIDATECH, INC./RAPIDAPP, INC CHICAGO, IL

2/03 -8/08

Provided clients with professional services on information systems and telecommunications as a project manager, network and telecom engineer, systems engineer, domain administrator.

Created and managed project schedules, critical path analysis, resource allocation plans, and conducted knowledge transfer training.

Resident Engineer for several carriers for the migration of VoIP/Data/Video services to Sonus GSX/SGX/PSX media, signaling, and services gateway and interoperability with Cisco and Juniper core routers equipment.

Trained and mentored Network Operations Center (NOC) personnel for AT&T Tier 1 markets.

Migrated several customers from Nortel PBX phone systems to Cisco and Avaya SIP phones with PBX services provided by a third party carrier.

Director of Information Services/Consultant: BEACON MEDICAL SERVICES, LLC AURORA, CO

6/04-3/06

Designed, planned and managed the migration of business critical systems from a hosted Application Service Provider (ASP), Trizetto, to a virtual data center with VMWare ESX 2.1 servers, hosting over 30 VMs, including Epic application servers, Exchange email, MS Dynamics and several SQL databases in a 1:1 protection configuration; migrated PBX based phone systems to Cisco Call Manager and 9600 SIP phones with integration to unified messaging services.

Mentored staff and developed goals and performance metrics for the department and team members.

Developed short-term and long-term IT strategies aligned with the business; developed new policies and procedures pertaining to the new environment.

Senior Staff Network Engineer: VALIANT NETWORKS, INC./WAYNET, INC/DVBLINK, INC SAN JOSE, CA

2/00-2/03

Founding employee (employee #3) of Valiant Networks, Inc.

Responsible for the design and configuration of the voice and data infrastructure and systems.

Managing lead engineer for the Next Generation Voice, Data, and Video Network Integration Testing and Professional Services Group.

Supported network operations of major news channel provider.

Senior Network Engineer-Research and Development: TERABRIDGE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION GURNEE, IL

3/98-2/00

Specify system requirements and lead integration testing for soft switches, gateways and routers.

Planned and executed network roll-outs and upgrades for customers.

Tier2/3 24/7 support of network operations and NOC.

Mentor and train junior level engineers.

Project Engineer: FLUOR DANIEL CHICAGO, IL

9/95-3/98

Managed several subsystem integration projects for the City of Chicago’s OEMC Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), including mobile and data terminal integration, GPS location services testing, CAD user interface testing, fire workstation installations and MAN connectivity, and fire pull-box integration testing.

Responsible in capturing all outstanding design requests from City officials, documenting the requirements in the final Memorandum of Understanding, and managing City acceptance testing. This exercise assisted in stopping scope creep.

Systems engineer, developer and tester of an industrial Continuous Emissions Monitoring System for a national utilities company.

Education

Masters of Business Administration - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Certifications and training

CISSP

Metro Ethernet Forum Professional

VMWare Certified Professional (ESX2.1), vSpere 6.5 in progress

Cisco Certified Network Associate

Microsoft Certified Professional

Sonus Networks GSX, PSX, SGX

Tekelec Eagle STP Certification

Multiple Tellabs Certifications

Kepnor-Tregoe Troubleshooting Methodology

Lean – Value Stream Mapping Methodology

Global Knowledge Training - BGP

Global Knowledge Training - MPLS

Waterfall and Agile development frameworks/SCRUM Master

Business and Financial Modeling Certification

NetQoS Level I and Level II

Google Analytics

Adobe Analytics

ISC2 Member

OWASP Member

DRII Member

Proficiencies:

Certified Ethical Hacking tools, network routing protocols, services and transport technologies; Information Technology and Telecommunications architectures, products, virtualization, and cloud services (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, VMWare), network engineering and data centers; PKI and Enterprise security and data governance, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery; breach investigation, security audit, penetration and application vulnerability testing.

Experience with:

Operating Systems: All Microsoft Windows desktop and server, Linux, Unix

Routing and Label Switching: BGP4, OSPFv2, IS-IS, LDP, RSTP, MPLS, MPLS-TP

Network Services: DHCP, DNS, Active Directory, Carrier Ethernet (E-Line, E-LAN, E-TREE), EOAM, PWE3, L3VPN, L2VPN, PPTP, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN PRI, ISDN BRI

Security: IPSec VPN, encryption, data integrity with hashing, Kali Linux, Python, nmap, Metasploit, Pix Firewalls, Sonicwall, AAA, Cisco ASA, TACACS+/RADIUS Server, Access Control Lists, Juniper Netscreen, Juniper SRX

PSTN: SS7, MTP3, Media/Signaling Gateways

Applications: Visio, PowerPoint, MS Project, Excel, SQL, Access

Programming:

Script Automation with TCL and Expect, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, C++, FORTRAN, Pascal, COBOL.

Student of Cisco Security, R, data science and analytics.

Active Visas for: China

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