Design Engineer Network

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JOE BRASWELL

*** **** ****** *****, *******, GEORGIA 30102 · CELL 470-***-**** SUMMARY

Results-oriented network professional with 20+ years as a Senior Network Engineer seeks employment to apply my knowledge and expertise to any organization. I have also acquired an understanding of budgetary constraints as it relates to various projects. I have written policies as to how to design a network based on customers’ requirements and producing a LAB environment which simulated the customers network. This also includes traffic steering based on prioritization through IP subnetting, NAT, MPLS, IPSEC VPN, IPv6, OSPF, EIRGP, and BGP with various Cisco and Juniper routers, switches, & firewall devices. EXPERIENCE

FROM 04/2020 TO PRESENT

CONTRACT NETWORK IRSH ENGINEER, INSIGHT GLOBAL FOR OPTUM HEALTH

• Optum Network has been in a state of transition

o Assigned to Internet, routing, switching, hosting team (IRSH). o Worked with Service-now system for Ticket submissions. o Platforms: Mixed environment of Cisco IOS, IOS-xe, Nexos, Arista. Worked with old cisco 6500s and newer Nx-os platforms.

o Migrating Internet access through newer ASR1001x. o Developed Method of Procedure (MOP) for operations with various tasks within the network and their elements.

o Worked with other groups to achieve maintenance window goals. FROM 06/2019 TO 12/2019

CONTRACT NETWORK IMPLEMENTATION ENGINEER, WOW! (REPEAT CONSULTANTS)

• DATA CENTER EXPANSION:

o Platforms: Juniper: EX2400, 4200, MX240, 480, PTX3000, SRX o JUNOS, LAG, VPLS, MPLS, BGP, OSPF

o Developed Method of Procedure (MOP) for operations surrounding data center capacity augmentation.

FROM 06/1998 TO 03/2018

SR. NETWORK ENGINEER, AT&T

• PROJECTS MANAGED:

o FLORIDA ROUTED TRANSPORT SERVICE.

Part of the design team in which I was a design member set on the path of migrating 7500s to

o GEORGIA TECHNOLOGY AUTHORITY (GTA).

Part of the design team in which I was a lead design engineer set on the path of providing an MPLS network resource to GTA.

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• Our MPLS network was not ready for primetime and I went with a design of VRF-lite which satisfied the customer until the full MPLS service could be made available.

This customer in turn provided network services to various Georgia Agencies. o FLORIDA INFORMATION RESOURCE NETWORK (FIRN). VLANs, MPLS, BGP, CONTENT FILTERING.

Part of the design team in which I was a lead design engineer set on the path of providing an MPLS network resource to GTA

o CINGULAR.

Migration Plan for moving 7500 router equivalent configurations to 7600 platforms. This group of 7500s supported public safety agencies which required that I work with the business group to gather all players to the change window. Also, this required involving Cisco support staff, internal operations, Data center staff during the change. Used standard develop template to write the document for all internal participating members.

• ENGINEERING:

o AT&T CORE NETWORK, MPLS Lab mockup. MPLS VPN Lab TESTING. VLANs, SVIs, EtherChannel, MPLS, OSPF, BGP.

AT&T required extensive LABS before any project was released. The LAB consisted of various hardware from Cisco, Juniper, Servers, & Firewalls filling the engineers’ needs.

Had Cisco CNC and CSPC data collectors (Cisco owned) installed. Since it was not AT&T’s equipment, I had to launch a myriad of work orders to get devices installed in AT&T data centers.

QOS and COS technology.

• Anticipating VOIP coming to the network the router configurations had to be changed to allow diff-code serve-point as a reasonable way to allow traffic engineering.

Lab configured cisco routers (Cisco 10000, 7600, 7300, 7200, 3800, 3700, 2800, 2600, 1800, 903, and 901), switches (Cisco 2900, 3600, 4500, 5500, 6500), VPN concentrators and firewalls (Cisco PIX, Palo Alto, and Cisco ASA), Load Balancers

(Cisco CSS & 7600 with some F5). Juniper MX240, MX480, and PTX3000. Worked closely with the Security, Operations, and Compliance teams in applying standards necessary to keep the network safe from interruption.

Conducted presentations to both internal and external technical groups to include VP level corporate officers. Collaborate across different functional teams to disseminate new project information and coordinate roll-out strategy at regularly scheduled meetings. Wrote documentation with explanation of network topologies which included diagram of existing networks and plan for growth. o CINGULAR: GRX and Gn migration (SGSN and GRX network elements).

GRX/Gn was a roaming clearing house, they routed traffic between dissimilar GSM networks.

This was an effort to bring a design team together and determine a method of traffic steering using BGP community. This required participation from the GRX network providers.

Traffic leaving the Cingular network would leave a particular BGP exit point and use of communities and other BGP steering methods, the traffic would return to the network via the same BGP it exited.

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Developed Cisco 7600, Juniper Netscreen Firewalls, and Juniper MX480 Labs which included providing cost estimates, creating documentation and producing schedules for LAB infrastructure installations.

Conducted presentations to both internal and external technical groups to include VP level corporate officers.

• TRAINING

o CCNA, CCNP

o Software Defined Networking

o SD-LAN, SD-WAN, PYTHON, VMWARE – HYPERVISOR

• DISASTER RECOVERY

o Worked with Disaster Recovery scenarios within AT&T.

Six active Data Centers that are virtually mirrors of each other.

Designed circuit layouts for new data centers being added.

BGP Local Prefix, MED, Community used to steer traffic. FROM 05/2005 TO 08/2018 (PART TIME)

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, KENNESAW, GA

CCNA INSTRUCTOR: (Part Time Saturdays): Apr 2006 - Aug 2018

• Class-room training. Provided design documentation to the school as to which Cisco Routers and Switches as well as cabinets needed to constitute the Lab.

• Managed student IDs and passwords and managed their activities

• Observed behavior of Routing protocols and conducted exercises with switch trunks and spanning tree.

• Demonstrated behavior of a firewall to perform stateful inspection of packets in and out of a network.

• Students had to demonstrate that they understood the IOS programming features.

• Effectively controlled the release of proprietary and confidential information for general client lists.

• Built Cisco VIRL and EVE Linux platforms for VMware users to use in executing virtual labs. EDUCATION

06/1986, BSEE, UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH SKILLS

• Cisco IOS, IOS-xe, Nexus

• Juniper JunOS, MX480, PTX3000

• Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)

• Backbone Networks (MPLS)

• Switching Technologies

• Network Design

• LAB Design

• Implementation Data Center

• Performance Management

• Project management

• Change management

• Assembly, Basic, Fortran, Perl, Python

• Windows, Mac OSx, Linux, BSD

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CREDENTIALS AND LICENSES

• CCNA (ex April 2018)

• CERTIFIED CISCO ACADEMY INSTRUCTOR (CCENT & CCNA) o Certificate Number: 4640862 CCNA - Issue Date: 10/27/2005 REFERENCES

• GARDNER SMITH, AT&T, FORMER ASSOCIATE, ***************@*****.*** o 404-***-****

• DALE KING, AT&T, FORMER MANAGER, ****.******@*****.*** o 770-***-****

• ROB PENNINGTON, WOW!, DESIGN ENGINEER, ****.*****@*****.*** o 706-***-****

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