Daniel A. Lugo

Burlington, MA

631-***-****

ad3hpo@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Network Engineer and Consultant in data networks, responsible of equipment selection, installation, troubleshooting, infrastructure design, and implementation of latest technologies based client’s needs. Experience on project development and procurement of networks at all stages WAN & LAN. Account manager for large corporations both in the private sector as well as governmental and military.

Several years of experience in the field of data networks. Great team worker with excellent social skills and goals achiever. Hands-on experience installing, configuring, operating and troubleshooting routers, switches and distribution multilayer switches including Nexus, Catalyst and industrial based Cisco switches. Experienced with ASR1001x, ASR9k, Nexus 9k, 7k series, Catalyst 6500, 3850 among others. Firewall experience with Cisco ASA 5500x and best practice knowledge in network security. Experienced with protocols: OSPFv3, EIGRP, BGP (eBGP, iBGP) & MP-BGP, RIPng, IGRP, EGRP, SNMPv3, MIB, ICMP, PPP, PPPoE, PPPoA, CIDR, VLSM, NAT, PAT, Route Filtering, Route Redistribution, Route- map, Traffic shaping, Route Optimization, Load Balancing, Policy Based Routing, ACL s, IPv4, IPv6, RFC 1918, DHCP, DNS, TCP Load Distribution, AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS, IPSec, IKE, ISAKMP, QoS, CoS, ToS, DSCP marking, SPAN, VSPAN, RSPAN, VRRP, HSRP, VTP, (802.1q), STP, RSTP (802.1w), MST (802.1s), VRF lite & Cisco VRF EVN, 802.1x, VLAN Tunneling, GRE, PAgP, LACP, CEF, IRDP, GLBP, SLB, IGMP, PVST+, DTP, Inter-VLAN routing, xDSL, Dedicated lines, Site-to-site/Remote access VPN, Frame Relay, DDR, E3, T3, ATM, ISDN, MPLS, Voice-VLAN, PoE, NHRP, DMVPN, MGRE, uRPF, IP-SLA, ARP, MAC, BPDU, TCP/UDP, SBNP.

Cloud services: AWS, Azure, O365 express route and advertise routes via eBGP. EXPERIENCE

Network Architect 01/05/2023 - Current BNY Mellon – Boston, MA (remote) Tasks

-Build, design, new switch block (edge) and implement advanced routing via BGP attributes

(community tagging) and route manipulation.

-Migrate all traffic to new site including routing and modification / update of community tagging.

-Addition of new subnets being advertised into core

-Reduction of BGP advertised prefixes via filtering and summarization of routes.

-Recommendations for redesign core infrastructure NTP services.

-Approve all infrastructure projects and changes.

Network Engineer 24/02/2023 – 30/04/2023 VERIZON – Burlington, MA (hybrid) Tasks

-Build, design, test out new technologies and fulfill operations requirements once testing is complete.

-Produce MOP (method of procedure) for operations to support the new products.

-Support Go Live of implementation and migration projects.

-Build ISE configurations and add all existing and new devices to created TACACS server.

-Build ISE redundancy and fail-over configurations required on both ISE and each device controlled via TACACS+

-Create route-maps on ASR9K for redistribution of subnets from IGP to EBGP and vice-versa.

-Change and delete on ASR9K existing route-maps and rules associations to EBGP.

-Add new MPLS lines and provisioning on ASR9K and advertise existing subnets. Network devices: Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k, Cat 3650, 3850, 3750, 6500, 4500, ASR 9010 ASR9906, ASR9902 VXR7200, ONS15600.

Network Engineer 12/01/2021 - 08/10/2022 PROIT.CA – Capital Markets Venezuela - Remote Tasks

- Remote router and switch configurations, including initial basic accessibility through VTY lines, advanced QoS configurations, DSCP marking and advanced routing using OSPFv3, EIGRP and static routing when needed.

-Actively involved in the design, Business requirements, and Go Live of customer implementation projects.

-Meet with customers team members to consult, configure, implement and support client requirements.

-Perform the necessary analysis and consultation to identify business issues, solution requirements and related benefits.

-Work directly with clients to gather an understanding of their business needs and assists the client in configuration and implementation of the hardware (Cisco).

-Collaborate in a cross-functional team environment and drive projects to conclusion.

- Design both logical and physical topologies and, when necessary, provide recommended steps to redesign existent network infrastructure to avoid any downtime or accessibility to the network.

- Network Analysis tools used SolarWinds, Netscout (Netflow collector), Ciscoworks, Wireshark among others.

- Remote configuration of TACACS to provide different levels of configuration commands to users based on client policies.

Network Service Delivery Lead / Network Engineer 04/19 – 12/20 PRI (UTC - RTX / Raytheon Technologies) Newington, CT - Remote

Tasks

-Work with the cross-functional engineering teams to maximize sales in the given accounts.

-Engage in conference with clients, stakeholders, WAN engineering team, Firewall team, compliance, in order to determine full scope of projects and requirements, debate obstacles, timeline and challenges .

-Contact and meet with customers to discuss all aspects of proposals and close opportunities.

-Develop and cultivate customer relationships by meeting with customers, conducting presentations, and discussing existing projects

-Engage teams (Cyber Security, Architecture and WAN operations and NOC) and confirm tasks with each team based on

project scope and requirements.

-Engage each individual third party vendors for circuit orders, infrastructure and provisioning.

-Quote all network equipment required (FW, Routers, Switches, WAN accelerators, etc).

-Approve all remote site infrastructure projects (WAN only).

-Responsible for ensuring all projects make progress and determine best course of action for each roadblock.

-Periodic reviews of all the project/account level metrics with management team.

-Make critical business decisions to meet customer expectations.

-Evaluate team member’s performance and determine training needs.

-Perform resource allocations and workload assignments according to delivery requirements.

-Ensure compliance with project standards and quality assurance procedures.

-Monthly meetings reports with stakeholders (site owners, Carrier stakeholders, RTX Director Infrastructure, Director of Service Delivery) showing progress on each remote site (add, upgrades, design changes, new MPLS circuits, etc)

-Review project status and project metrics on a weekly/monthly basis with the client.

-Meetings with the organization quality assurance group to provide client feedback on the deliverables.

-Work closely with NOC managers as well as Service Delivery team and clients in order to coordinate each installation.

Principal Lead – Sr Network Engineer 10/2017 – 09/2018 Infosys (BHP Billiton) Houston, TX Tasks - Onsite

- Lead a team of Sr Network Engineers responsible for the monitoring & troubleshooting of the global network operations worldwide.

- Troubleshooting of complex high availability WAN links.

- Manipulation of enterprise wide traffic via BGP prepending, AS Path, MED and Local preference.

- DMVPN support for mobile rigs and drilling facilities.

- Support of industrial Cisco switches IE2000.

- Advanced QoS queuing technologies including WFQ, CBWFQ, WRED, LLQ, FIFO.

- Provide recommendations for standardization and stabilization strategies during and after migration.

- Provide full support for migrations of data center and decommissioning.

- Upgrade and train junior staff members on different networking technologies and the operation of each.

- Responsible for monitoring infrastructure health, security and capacity in network environment.

- Made decisions and adjustments to ensure optimal network performance and organizational productivity.

- Engage with multiple ISPs in effort to reestablish network connectivity

- Elaborate RCA and engage multiple teams in order to provide permanent solutions to L3 incidents and outages

- Improve Jr level engineers skills by providing necessary material and training

- Daily meetings with other NOC leaders to successfully follow up and find resolution to major incidents.

- Accountable for maintaining 100% network up-time by monitoring network 24/7/365

- Engage and lead webx meetings with multiple different teams including security teams, remote technicians, ISPs, remote

site managers in order to successfully drive the necessary tasks required to find solution and bring network up to full operation.

- Work with Azure and AWS teams to create express route (any to any IP VPN) and advertise (routing updates) via BGP to internal organization.

Network devices: Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k, Cat 3650, 3850, 3750, 6500, 4500, ISR 1100, 3900, 2900 Sr. Network Engineer – Capital Projects 08/2015 – 03/2017 Northwell Health (NorthShore LIJ) Melville, NY

Tasks

- Plan, design, configure, install and implementation of high-end, high availability networks.

- Project development, assessment of existing infrastructure, equipment selection, improve performance and reduce

convergence time for smooth operation of high sensitive clinical applications.

- Implementation of security features to secure and protect clients data and to adhere to HIPAA regulations and standards.

- Deploy small remote sites with site-to-site DMVPN and prepare th2em for migration into Metro Ethernet.

- Circuit configuration for Metro Ethernet sites.

Technologies used:

EIGRP, BGP & MP-BGP, SNMPv2, CIDR, NAT, PAT, Route filtering, redistribution, route-maps, traffic shapping, PBR,

Enhanced ACL, DHCP, DNS, AAA, TACACS+ (for wired), RADIUS, IPSec, ISAKMP, QoS, CoS, ToS, DSCP marking,

RSPAN, HSRP, VTP, dot1q, RSTP, GRE, PagP, CEF, DMVPN, NHRP, Metro Ethernet (Lightpath, Verizon). Network devices: Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, Cat 3650, 3850, 3750, 6500, ASR 1002, ISR 1100, 3900, 2900. Freelance Consultant 11/01/2009 12/10/2014 PROIT.CA – Capital Markets Venezuela – Owned office

Tasks

- Remote router and switch configurations, including initial basic accessibility through VTY lines, advanced QoS

configurations, DSCP marking and advanced routing using OSPFv3, EIGRP and static routing when needed.

- Appropriate selection of networking equipment and Cisco OS / image based on the projected growth

and related technologies to be utilized like VOIP, video and high priority / latency sensitive traffic.

- Provide security procedures both physical and logical to access to be followed by the remote IT staff.

- Design both logical and physical topologies and, when necessary, provide recommended steps to redesign existent

network infrastructure to avoid any downtime or accessibility to the network.

- Network Analysis tools used SolarWinds, Netscout (Netflow collector), Ciscoworks, Wireshark among others.

- Remote configuration of TACACS to provide different levels of configuration commands to users based on client policies.

- Optimize, maintain, update, monitor, analyze behavior, performance and capacity of data network.

- Administration and implementation of security policies.

- Design, operation and troubleshooting, project planning development.

- Consulting and recommendations for expansion and reconfiguration.

- Coordination and assistance of cabling (replacement, aggregation).

- Manage and provide technical guidance to network team, providers and other members of the IT department.

- Installation and configuration of routers, switches, access points and hubs.

- Monitoring tools: Ciscoworks2000, Sniffer, Netscout, Netflow, Wireshark and other network analyzers.

- Network requirement evaluation for design and solution implementation.

- Assistance in planning and designing, engineering and definition of proper scalable network architecture to our customers.

- Strategic planning of design for network to meet the requirements of applications in use including implementation of new technologies without having a significant impact in the IT budget.

- Define and develop methodologies to ensure the compatibility of all hardware and software.

Evaluation of provider proposals and recommendations of products and equipment selection.

EDUCATION: IUTIRLA

Associate Computer Science — 1999 – 2001

Computer programming and structures

Universidad Metropolitana

CCNA Academy — 2001 - 2002

Cisco Networking Academy Curriculum and training. (640-811) ICND Passed Colegio Universitario Fermin Toro

Cisco Network Academy CCNP— 2003 - 2005

642-821 BCRAN Passed

642-801 BSCI Passed

642-811 BCMSN Passed 100-101 ICND1 Passed

640-821 INTRO Passed 200-101 ICND2 Passed

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