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Gaspard MBOLE

Certified IT Engineer (Cisco, Sophos,AWS)

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Dynamic Computer IT Engineer bringing more than 20 years experience in Information Technology. Very motivated Customer-oriented, skilled and Detailed-Oriented excelling in many aspects of IT engineering and support, with an emphasis on Systems and Network Administration and Security. Personable team player offering advanced technical knowledge and a can-do attitude.

Expertise And Skills

o Excellent customer relation experience and success driven. o Excellent troubleshooting strategy

o Excellent communication skills (Fluent in English and French) o Strong interpersonal, communication, and collaboration skills. o Diagnosis skills for technical issues.

o Outstanding project management skills

o Strategic and detail oriented

o Valuable technical experience and skills :

Network Switching (LAN, 802.1q VLAN Tagging and Trunking, Q-in-Q, LACP, PAgP, PRP, PVLAN, VxLAN, Switch Stacking)

Network Routing (IPv4, IPv6, LAN, Wireless, WAN, SVIs and IVR, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP)

Network Virtualization (VRF, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP)

Network Security (ACLs, Routes Filtering, 802.1X, VPN, Cisco ISE, MPLS, Radius, TACACS, FHRP and Dynamic Routing authentication, DMZ, ZBFW) Network Design (Visio, Edraw MAX)

Layer 1 management (Fiber Optic, Ethernet, WiFi)

Network management expertise for

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Systems Virtualization and Cloud computing (Azure / VMWARE/Hyper V/ AWS )

Cisco catalysts, routers and firewall (ASA)

Meraki switches and firewall

Palo Alto Firewalls

HP (Aruba) and Dell (Sonicwall) network devices

Some Major Achievements

• Audited MSP clients IT Network infrastructures for optimization, management or troubleshooting

• Created Network design maps and documentation for administration and maintenance

• Managed various Network projects

• Network infrastructure refresh for test and production platforms with less than 5 minutes downtime during migration

o Network infrastructure extension for test and production platforms with less than 5 minutes downtime during integration

o Network re-engineering for existing sensitive platforms (Creation of multi layered DMZ to isolate a zero-trust zone), using firewalls and virtual routing. o Re-design and Re-engineering of sensitive test and production platforms subject to NERC CIP regulations.

o Integration of 4 platforms to merge into a global infrastructure with security compliant NERC CIP

o Engineering and implementation of a multi-zone network packets monitoring platform in a NERC CIP regulated infrastructure. o New IT infrastructures Egnyte, Mimecast, Intermedia, Sophos, LastPass, MFA) IT Glue/Myglue)

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Engineering and implementation with a server farm and a secure network for MSP clients

o IT infrastructure geographical relocation for MSP clients Certifications

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (May 2021)

• AWS Certified Solution Architect (January 2020)

• Sophos Certified Engineer (June 2019)

• Cisco Certified Design Associate (Feb 2018)

• Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (Dec 2017)

• Cisco Certified Network Associate Network Security (Dec 2017) Education

BBA: 2015

Swiss Management Center - Zug, Switzerland

Bachelor of Science: Networking and Internet, 2007 Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Douala, Littoral Region, Cameroon Associate of Science: Computer Sciences, 2001

Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Douala, Littoral Region, Cameroon Work History

Senior Network Engineer, from 12/2021 to current TransBay Cable (NextEra Energy)

• Network Engineering and solution Architect

o Engineered, designed and successfully implemented a new Network infrastructure to upgrade the IT platform with NERC CIP security requirements o Engineered, designed and successfully implemented the Video network between buildings of the campus

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o Re-engineered, re-designed and implemented the existing Network platform by adding a multi layered and secured DMZ to access a zero trust zone with NERC CIP security requirements

o Engineered, designed and successfully implemented a redundant inter-site network to perform a zero downtime failover with NERC CIP security requirements o Engineered, designed and successfully implemented a multi-zone Network packets monitoring platform with NERC CIP security requirements o Engineered, designed and successfully implemented Network security solutions

• Tier 3 technical support for Engineers

Systems and Network Administrator 06/2021 to 11/2021 Finelite Inc (Legrand)

• Network Engineering (Installation and Configuration, Design, Troubleshooting, project implementation, Security, Documentation)

• Physical and Virtual Servers administration (Installation and Configuration, Design, Troubleshooting, project implementation, Security, Documentation)

• Active Directory management (Users, Computers, GPOs, Documentation)

• Server rooms management (Design, Mapping, wiring, Security)

• Tier 3 technical support for users

• Backup management

Field/ Infrastructure Engineer II 07/2020 to 05/2021 Clare Computer Solutions

(MSP)

• Escalation point for support Engineers

• Field Engineer for project implementation, consultancy and/or problem resolution

• Network device configuration, troubleshooting and management

• Project design and implementation

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IT Consultant 07/2018 to 05/2020 Langtech Systems LLC (MSP)

• NOC/Onsite Engineer

• Solutions implementation and management

• Systems administration (Active Directory/ Windows workstation/ MAC)

• Network administration (Design, wiring, consolidation, switching, routing, Firewall configuration)

• Security (Sophos Central, MFA, Email security, Network security mitigation, VPN)

• Infrastructure audit and documentation

• IT consulting

• Systems and Network consolidation

• Email platform administration (Exchange, Office 365, Intermedia) Systems Specialist, 03/2017 to 07/2018 Centrada Solutions, LLC (MSP)

• Implemented new solution as designed.

• Onsite Engineer for San Francisco clients

o Active Directory management

o Lightspeed

o POS

o Networking (Wired and Wireless, Switching, Routing, Security) o MS Office administration

o End user assistance

o Hardware maintenance and configuration

o Printers o End user devices

o Servers (Dell, HP, )

o Networking (Trustwave, Cisco, HP, cables, WiFi, phones) IT Consultant, 11/2016 to 03/2017 Robert Half – San Francisco, CA On CTH for Centrada Solutions LLC

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Systems and Network Manager, 11/2004 to 12/2014 Cameroon Single window for External Trade

• Data Center implementation project (Multi Layer infrastructure with High availability and multi layer protection)

• Web portal implementation project

• Network implementation project (Headquarter and 100+ remote connections)

• Infrastructure management and maintenance( Systems and Network)

• Clients and users training on IT tools and released products

• Participated in special projects, external audits, infrastructure assessment, and processes design

• Provided after-hours support and maintenance for hardware, network, and project efforts when required or scheduled.

• Collaborated with other stakeholders to plan and implement new technology.

• Identified and corrected performance issues.

• Created scripts for the datacenter management

Other Activities

Assistance Music Director at the Golden Gate Symphony

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