Robert Borders - *** W Johnson St. Collinsville. Il 62234 – 618-***-****

Summary

Information Technology Professional with over 27 year experience encompassing the Managing of wide range of the IT process. Project Management and Support for building, installation and troubleshooting of Network Hardware.

Experienced in the design and development of LAN & WAN environments as well as support Data Center network environments, Sidewinder Firewalls, SSL-VPN, Firewalls and several different load balancing devices. Have managed and supported the USTRANSCOM & Air Mobility Command, VMware server farms, network & firewall Infrastructure.

I have a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology / Information Security

Professional Experience

Charter Communications – St. Louis, Mo 12/2011 – 2/8/2024

Sr Network Engineer

Manage and maintain Charters Traditional LAN, WAN and Security

Responsible for Backbone network Bandwidth.

Weekly reports and augments to network where needed.

Work to investigate trends and weekly bandwidth shifts

Manage projects to enhance and alleviate network congestion

Manage outages and work with vendors to get root cause analysis

Manage COLO’s, Data Centers and 3 party vendor connectivity

Responsible for day-to-day nationwide network operations.

Design and support of all of Charter Corporate Offices, Data Centers.

Re-route traffic around outage area’s

BGP Peering with other ISP’s and customers

ISIS routing issues, ASR9K, and all other Cisco Gear

Help Turn-up engineers with customer connectivity and traffic issues.

Support Rdm, Sonet, Infinera and work with Third Party vendors to correct OC192, OC48,OC3 issues

Cisco firewall connectivity for Vendors and employees

We take all escalations from Video and Voice Group

Manage and maintain Charters Traditional LAN, WAN and Security of the Network.

Manager Secured Systems- Firewall Anheuser-Busch

SSD Support

design and development of LAN & WAN environments as well as support Data Center network environments, Sidewinder Firewalls, SSL-VPN, Firewalls and several different load balancing devices Managed a Team of 10 Firewall Admin’s, 157 Firewalls, 2 Data Centers

Responsible for day-to-day Management of a large international Network

Support for Domestic and international Firewall infrastructure

Add and removing access rules

Configuring and deploying Cisco ASA devices

Configuring and deploying Sidewinder G2 firewalls

Configuring and deploying Snap gear Firewalls

Responsible for the coordination and execution of the quarterly Firewall patches and bug fixes

Build and test New Firewalls

Help design and implement new technologies – PCI Compliance

NCI Information Systems, Fairview Heights, IL

on assignment at Scott AFB, USTranscom

Secret Security Clearance

Manager Network Engineering

Responsible for day-to-day Management of a DOD Secure and non-secure Network

Support for Domestic and international Network, Checkpoint Firewalls

Add and removing access rules

Configuring and deploying Cisco ASA,ACS devices

Responsible for the coordination and execution of the quarterly Unix patches and bug fixes

Build and test New Tandberg Expressways & Controllers

Upgraded Tendberg Total Management System (TMS)

Help design and implement new technologies – DISA STIG Complacence

Ajilon Consulting - St. Louis, Missouri 07/95 – 05/09

Staff Manager – St. Louis Office

Managed 12 Consultants

Responsible for performance reviews, Client interaction for all my staff.

Hardware

Cisco, Nortel, Xyplex, Sun, G2 Sidewinders, Fireproof AS1,AS3

Operating Systems

Sun Solaris 8,9,10, FreeBSD, Linux, MS Server 2000-2008, CAT OS, Native IOS, Sidewinder 6.0, 7.0, Cisco Call Manager, VMware

Communications

Cisco Rdm,Sonet, Infinera, Fluke Optiview Network Analyzer, Cisco Catalyst Switches & Routers, G2 Sidewinder Firewalls Juniper, Tandberg Expressways & Contorllers, Network Associate Sniffers, DATACOMsystems,Datasmart CSU/DSU/TSU

Software

Sun Solaris 8,9,10, FreeBSD, Linux, MS Server 2000-2003, MS-Office 2000,2003, Netscout, Microsoft TechNet,, HP Open View Node Manager, Checkpoint, Sidewinder 6.0 . 7.0

Education:

University Of Phoenix

BSIT/ISS 2007 - 2010

Sanford Brown College

Computer Science 1987 - 1989

Thompson’s Netg,

CCNA Expired 2005

Thompson’s Netg, CCNP - Building Cisco© Multilayer Switched Networks (BCMSN)

CCNP - Building Scalable Cisco Internetwork (BSCI)

Secure Computing - Sidewinder 7.0 Certified - 2008

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