Engineer Network

ALECHENU JOHN IDOKO

**** * **** ** #*** Houston TX

*********@*****.*** 917-***-****

SUMMARY

I have over 10 years design, troubleshooting and implementation experience in enterprise size low latency high availability networks with multiple sites/data centers and trading facilities. working with complex multi-vendor high performance devices.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROTOCOL PROFICIENCY

OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, IS-IS, BGP, Multicast, MPLS, VPLS, Fabricpath, OTV, vxlan, Spanning Tree, Rapid Spanning Tree, Ethernet, VDC, VPC, MLAG, HSRP, VRRP, VARP, SNMP, QOS, SDWAN

HARDWARE

Arista 7500, Arista 7050, Cisco Catalyst 1900-6509 switches, Cisco 1600-7500 series routers, ASR 100x,4900M, Cisco ASR9K, Nexus 9000, Nexus 7000, Nexus 6000, Nexus 5000, Nexus 2000, Juniper MX960 series router, Juniper EX3200,EX3400,QFX5100,QFX10000, series switches, Juniper SRX240,SRX650,SRX3400,SRX5800 firewalls, Palo Alto PA-7050, PA-7080,F5 Load Balancers (5050,6900,7050,10800), Citrix Netscaler (SDX22060, SDX,14100, SDX14020), Riverbed WAN Accelerators (Steelhead 1000, 2000, 5050, 6050, 7050), Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewalls, Juniper SSG 5, ISG 1000 -2000, WatchGuard, Cisco VPN3000 VPN concentrators, Velocloud VCE510, VCE520, VCE540,VCE840, VCE2000, Aironet Access Points and Bridges, IBM and HP blade racks. Netscout nGenius sniffer, Niksun NetVCR.

NETWORK MANAGEMENT

Cisco Works, Nagios, HP OpenView, HPNA, SMARTS, Infoblox DNS DHCP and IP management, VitalQIP DNS and IP management, Tufin, Netbrian, Splunk, Junos Space, Velocloud Orchestrator, Palo Alto Panorama

CERTIFICATIONS & CONTINUING EDUCATION

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA) – 2011

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE – written) 2009

Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP): 2008

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP): 2007

Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP): 2007

Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA): 2006

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA): 2006

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Cisco Systems Red Badge Datacenter Consultant: Aug 2017 – Current)

CLIENT:

Senior Datacenter Engineer Bank of America

Remote: USA

Experience creating Scope and Technical Requirement Documentation for Large Datacenter projects.

Experience creating Low Level Designs in the Bank of America Datacenter space.

Experience creating Bill of Material for hardware procurement from Vendors for Datacenter equipment.

Experience reviewing junior engineers Network Designs.

Excellent written/documentation and communication skills.

Extensive operational experience with the enterprise/carrier-class routers and switches.

Created, documented, and implemented standardized configurations for all routers and switches across multiple sites resulting in less downtime as well as simplified troubleshooting.

Large scale implementations of VLAN switching technologies and development of advanced topologies.

Implementation of enterprise network projects

Experience with Cisco and Arista spine and Leaf low latency deployments

Experience with deploying Cisco ACI in Datacenter environment

Experience with standard Bank of America change management, incident management and configuration policies.

Citigroup

New York, NY

Consultant: Senior Network Engineer (November 2010 – August 2017)

Excellent understanding of network Infrastructure design and Integration for High Frequency and Algorithmic trading

plants with emphasis on Multicast in trading environments.

Assisted with IPSEC VPN, GRE VPN, and lease line B2B set up between Citigroup and other banks, third parties and the exchanges using various network protocols (ACLs, Prefix-list, route-maps, redistribution) to restrict what routes Citi receives and advertises to other companies.

Assisted traders and market data team in designing and implementing network solutions using various approaches such as BGP multi-homing, BGP integration, load-balancing, and traffic flow control policy for third party connectivity.

Network design and implementation validation for higher quality of service delivery.

Supported internal application groups by identifying and presenting their requirements and designing solutions to meet business requirements.

Experience with standard network change management and configuration policies.

Developed scalable network designs working in a team of design engineer.

Handled multiple, concurrent, enterprise-level network design projects as well as all areas of design, implementation, documentation and troubleshooting for complex internetworking projects and ancillary service offerings.

Actively participating in Datacenter layer 2 conversion from traditions legacy tiered datacenter network to Spine and Leaf design.

Assisted Citi business units in setting up and troubleshooting Netscaler load balancer VIPs.

Set up NetScaler Global Server Load Balancing across Citigroup North America Datacenters.

Participated in Load balancer migration project from Netscaler to Big-IP.

Worked on Silver Spring MD datacenter closure project. Migrated of all services and applications out of the datacenter prior to Datacenter shutdown.

Consolidated and applications and servers migrated from Silver Spring MD Datacenter shutdown in the Midwest and Georgetown Datacenters. VIP migration from Silver Spring F5 Load balancers to Midwest and Georgetown Load balancers.

Took part in F5 load balancer hardware refresh in all North America Datacenters.

Took part in Firewall migration project from Check Point firewall to Palo Alto firewalls.

Created network designs to facilitate Silver Spring Datacenter Migration.

Coordinated application testing with various application groups to validate each server move during Silver Spring Datacenter migration.

Experience with standard Citigroup change management, incident management and configuration policies.

Bill of Materials creation and submission for hardware procurement per project requirements.

Designed and implemented DMVPN connections between Citigroup US Datacenters and regional locations in Latin America.

Assisted in Cisco Nexus 9k ACI testing for Network as a service implementation in next Gen datacenter.

4000, 4500, 6500 (with different type of SUPs), Nexus 5k, 6k, 7k, 9k switches, Nexus FEX 2248, 2232, Arista 7150, 7280,7508 low latency switches Juniper MX 960.

ICAP SERVICES NORTH AMERICA:

Jersey City, NJ

Senior Network/Operations Engineer: May 2009 – October 2010

Coordinated local loop provisioning, installation, and troubleshooting

Interfaced with Carriers and implemented non-invasive migration scheduled Carrier migration

Worked closely with auxiliary teams on implementing requirements and operational support

Provide 24x7 technical support for network infrastructure and client problem resolution for ICAP LAN and WAN network. Responsibilities includes troubleshooting Frame Relay PVC failures, EIGRP, DECNET, IS-IS, and BGP routing problems in enterprise customer’s networks.

Experience troubleshooting MPLS and routing issues on ICAP low latency WAN FX Trading network.

Deployed ICAP BGP Overlay design to enhance fast BGP convergence over ICAP low latency MPLS cloud.

Experience analyzing network traces and troubleshooting latency issues.

Experience with setup and troubleshooting of site to site vpns across various firewall platforms

Troubleshooting of different LAN/WAN routing problems

In-depth knowledge of network monitoring and other network administrative tools

Participated in “on call” support for FX and Trading Floor outages.

Tested latency between global FX hubs

Worked with tool vendors to strategically align trading floor application monitoring products and managed vendor relationships for installed tools.

Set up and troubleshooting of client site to site IPSEC VPN tunnels

Experience with standard ICAP change management, incident management and configuration policies.

Set up client site to sit vpns on ICAP Cisco ASA.

Troubleshoot day to day routing and switching issues on ICAP core infrastructure which consisted of 6509 Cisco switches.

THRUPOINT: Jun 2007 – May 2009

CLIENTS:

Lehman Brothers

New York, NY/Jersey City, NJ

Consultant: Network Engineer: (June 2007 – Nov 2007)

Network equipment configuration and testing

Cisco 6500 code upgrades and code conversion from CATos to IOS.

Morgan Stanley

New York, NY

Consultant: Network Engineer (November 2007 – May 2009)

Experience working on design and Integration teams that worked on the PDT high frequency algorithmic trading network.

Experience troubleshooting connection issues between Morgan Stanley and exchanges such as OPRA, ARCA, SIAC, CBOT, CME and ICE.

Excellent written/documentation and communication skills.

Extensive operational experience with the enterprise/carrier-class routers and switches.

Created, documented, and implemented standardized configurations for all routers and switches across multiple sites resulting in less downtime as well as simplified troubleshooting.

Solved problems such as stale ARP entries, VLAN mismatches, firmware and IOS upgrades, circuit outages, and equipment failures. Acted as backup or second level troubleshooting.

Large scale implementations of VLAN switching technologies and development of advanced topologies.

Implementation of enterprise network projects

Experience with standard Morgan Stanley change management, incident management and configuration policies.

Executive Technology Group:

New York, NY

Consultant: Network Engineer (June 2006 – June 2007)

VPN technologies including concentrators, hardware clients, software clients utilizing IPSEC, ISAKMP, PPTP

Troubleshooting of different routing problems

TCP/IP architecture and related services including: FTP, HTTP, DNS, NTP, SNMP, SSH, TELNET

Extensive hands-on system configuration and integration on wide range of Cisco network products including and not limited to Cisco routers like 800, 1700, 2600, 3600, 3700, 7200, 7500, 7600, etc. Cisco Switches like 29xx, 35xx, 4000, 4500, 6500 (with different type of SUPs).

PERSONAL

Ability to work unsupervised.

Ability to work effectively on a team.

Thrive in dynamic and challenging environments

Able to assume multiple responsibilities and remain productive within time-sensitive and fast-paced environments.

Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills.

Keen problem-solving ability.

Ability to learn new technology as need be

EDUCATION.

Florida International University: Miami Florida.

B.Sc: Electrical Engineering, December 2005

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