Network Consultant - Remote

Joshua Nichols

***********@*****.*** 703-***-****

Summary

IT Professional with over 15 years of experience in consulting, Senior administration /change management, proactive analysis, implementation, deployments, and troubleshooting various network technologies that includes proficiency in routing, routing protocols, switching, security, firewalls, voice, wireless and data center technologies.

Experience/Accomplishments Highlights

Proven background and experience in reviewing design documents and implementing/deploying technologies including provisioning, deploying, configuration, validation and documentation in a timely and proficient manner based on following internal policies and procedures and mandated compliances.

Extensive background and experience in consulting including conducting proactive network analysis, business needs assessment, network design (RFP, BOM), logical/physical diagrams, statements of works (SOW), contract negotiations, vendor management, technology standards, licenses, product lifecycle management and handling SLA.

Work well independently and in a team management environment including verbal and written communications with technical and non-technical professionals, third party vendors/service providers and clients.

Proven skills as subject matter expert (SME) to both technical and non-technical professionals including acting as advisor/mentor for various technical, professional and operational activities.

Technical Certifications & Skills

Cisco Certified Network Professional – Routing CCNP - Route

Certified WAN Professional / Certified WAN Enterprise Administrator CWP / CWEA

Cisco Voice Administrator / Wireless Technician CVA / CWT

Firewall Security Administrator / Data Center Administrator FSA / DCA

Cisco Certified Network Associate – Routing & Switching CCNA - R&S

Secret Security Clearance (Inactive) SSC

Technical Skills Detail

Routing/Switching Technologies - Cisco Routers ASRs/ISRs, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Juniper, HP Routers & Switches, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, Spanning Tree Protocol, BPDU, CDP, ACL, NAT, PAT, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, SNMP, SMTP, ARP, TCP, UDP, Static Routing, Stub Routing, VLAN Trunking, Multicast routing, Etherchannel, Portfast, VSS, VPC.

Security/Firewalls Technologies - Cisco ISE, Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls, Cisco ASA 1000V cloud firewall, AAA - TACACS+/RADIUS, Cisco Security Manager Suite, Cisco FWSM, Cisco IPS/IDS, Checkpoint Firewall, Juniper SRX series, Palo Alto, SSH, VPN, IPSec, SSL/IPSec, Port Security, MAC Address Filtering.

Wireless/Voice Technologies - Cisco WLC, IEEE 802.1x & 802.11, WLAN, WAP, AP, SSID, LWAPP, Aironet - Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), VoIP/SIP, CUCM, UCCX, RSTP, STP, Quality of Service (QoS), PoE.

Monitoring/Data Center/Servers/APPS - Wireshark, Cacti, Nagios, SolarWinds, Cisco Security Manager Suite, Remedy, VMWare, F5, Citrix NetScaler, Cisco Prime, Meraki, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, SMTP, PTP, SFTP, RDP, AWS.

Summary of Professional Experience

NCR Remote Network Engineering Consultant 2019 – 2020

AT&T Remote Cisco Design Engineer 2018 – 2019

SES Networks Sr Network Engineer (SE/TL) 2013 – 2018

Inmarsat Sr Network Engineer (OS) 2005 – 2013

Taylor - McKenzie Network Consultant (CP) 2002 – 2005

E.Spire Communications Sr Network Engineer (SFR/APM) 2000 – 2002

Sprint Corporation Sr International Network Manager (SIPM) 1991 – 1999

Education

Bachelors of Philosophy Lycee Baudimont

Associates in Electronics Technology University of Chicago

Professional Experience

NCR Remote Network Consultant September 2019 – September 2020

Company Overview – NCR is an American software, managed and professional services, consulting and technology company headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Member of a consulting team responsible for the upgrade of over 1800 North American Lowe’s retail stores from legacy Cisco 5500 firewalls to newly designed Ciena 3900 hybrid switches/firewalls.

Additionally assigned responsibilities of modifying network configurations, application and staging for all Ciena devices in support of both the Lowe’s and LAUSD projects.

AT&T Remote Cisco Design Engineer October 2018 – June 2019

Company Overview – AT&T is an American multinational conglomerate holding company headquartered at Dallas, Texas. It is the world's largest telecommunications company, the second largest provider of mobile telephone services, and the largest provider of fixed telephone services in the United States.

Member of an enterprise global engineering team, responsible for the design, engineering and implementation of enterprise network solutions to an acquired, client corporate LAN/WAN network.

Additional responsibilities include oversight of client network migrations, incident & change request management and resolution and Tier 2/3 escalation support.

Technologies include but not limited to routing, switching, security and wireless throughout a global enterprise network.

SES Networks/LWP Sr Network Engineer (SE/TL) May 2013 – October 2018 Company Overview – SES Networks is a communications satellite owner and operator providing video and data connectivity worldwide to broadcasters, ISP, mobile and fixed network operators, governments and institutions. With 66 satellites in operations, this global company maintains a complex high-availability worldwide infrastructure to its multi-national clients.

Lead member of an enterprise global engineering team responsible for the overall management, support of a 24/7, mission critical enterprise LAN/WAN environment that includes the corporate headquarters, data centers, and over 100 globally diverse clients.

Additional responsibilities include providing proactive monitoring and analysis to identify future network changes based on business operational needs in consideration of mandated compliances, policies and procedures and change management processes.

Technical operations responsibilities including acting as technical lead for network implementation/deployments, handling high level change requests and tier 2/3 escalation support with focus on providing root cause analysis.

Technologies include but not limited to routing, switching, security, wireless and voice throughout an enterprise network of corporations from data center, corporate, WAN links to regional and branch offices.

Inmarsat Sr Network Engineer (OS) June 2005 – March 2013

Company Overview – Inmarsat is a British satellite telecommunications company offering global mobile services to US and global government agencies, Maritime & Aviation industries along with global enterprises. With 13 current satellites in use, Inmarsat specializes in Mobile and Broadband Solutions for use in mission critical environments that traditional telecom networks cannot reach.

Member of a team of professionals responsible for administration/service requests and escalation support/ticket, installations, site-surveys, configurations, maintenance, management, and troubleshooting resolution and analysis in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment for primarily DoD Satellite sites based in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Additional responsibilities include device commissioning and activations, network monitoring, fault detection, isolation, resolution, central problem escalation and problem tracking and reporting.

Technologies in network environment include but not limited to routers, switches, security firewalls, voice, video, wireless and related technologies along with RF satellite hardware and services.

Taylor - McKenzie Network Consultant (CP) 2002 – 2005

Company Overview – Taylor–McKenzie is a multi-national Professional Services Firm providing infrastructure services to over 100 clients in 10 countries, specializing in Cloud Platform, Network integration and Data Center infrastructure.

Member of a team of professionals responsible for end to end management of an enterprise level mission critical LAN/WAN backbone infrastructure with focus on high availability and optimal performance.

Specific team responsibilities include implementation, installation, configuration, administration, documentation, escalation support and monitoring/analysis following the required policies and procedures for its national telecom client partners.

Additional responsibilities including conducting needs analysis, whitepaper development and designing IT infrastructure solutions to meet specific client requirements including performance, time constraints and budget.

E.Spire Communications Network Engineer (SFR/APM) 2000 – 2002

Company Overview – E.Spire Communications is a regional telecommunications and ISP organization services markets in the southern and eastern United States. The company was at the forefront of providing advance integrated communications including VOIP & Internet.

Senior member of a team responsible for enterprise level, mission critical technical projects in highly regulated, compliance driven industries with extensive SOP/change management processes, strict timelines and mandated budget/appropriations.

Specific technical responsibilities also include the marketing and management of Cisco- and Sun-based Networks.

Additional responsibilities include vertical financial forecasts, vendor & partner management and support of all client pre & post sales support initiatives and issues.

Sprint Corporation Sr International Network Manager (SIPM) 1991 – 1999

Company Overview – Sprint is currently the 4th largest American telecommunications company providing wireless and internet services to 54 million customers. Sprints network encompasses a 24/7 mission critical LAN/WAN infrastructure and IT services at both corporate, data center, regional and branch locations to maintain its strict SLA requirements to its employees as well as clients.

Lead member of a team of professionals responsible for design, administration/service requests, escalation support/ticket resolution and analysis in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment for datacenters, corporate, WAN links, and branch offices specializing in the Global network infrastructure for a multi-national deployment project.

Additional Responsibilities handled included creating RFP’s, proactive analysis, developing best practices, policies and procedures, reviewing analyzing Runbooks, MOP, network schematics including logical and physical diagrams.

Technologies in network environment include but not limited to routers, switches, security firewalls, voice, wireless technologies.

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