Network Engineer Technician

Andy Ayisobsah

Minneapolis, MN, United States Email: *******@*****.***

EXPERIENCE CENTURY-LINK St. paul

Sr. NOC Engineer – Century-Link, St. Paul, MN - Remote St. Paul, MN

Configure and troubleshoot MPLS customers WAN circuits and provide Tier 3 support Monitor and track network devices/circuits health status and recommend improvements Configured and shipped DMVPN SOHO routers

Provided customers updates on circuit outage and ETA of recovery Configured minimal network parameters on Juniper and Nokia WAN devices to be shipped out to customers

On boarded customer CPE devices into the MPLS network Monitored MPLS core, PE and CPE devices and upgraded IOS software Extensible knowledge in the design of datacenter L2/L3 network and operations Provided managers with accurate problems found as well as, updates on root cause analysis of issues being investigated

06/2018 –

06/2021

KOCH INDUSTRIES Remote

Sr. Network Engineer

Designed and installed SD-WAN/LAN (VIPTELA) solution for KOCH branch sites Worked with stake holders (circuit providers, customers) to activate services and ensure a successful activation

In depth knowledge of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS protocols as well as,, VPN, IPSEC, underlay and over lay technology

Worked with circuit providers to activate circuit and perform failover test over the MPLS, Internet and 3-4G wireless

Cisco Call manager

02/2017 –

06/2017

– LAND O LAKES, INC, Roseville. St. Paul

Network Security Engineer - Remote

Deployed Imperva DDOS protection for websites, networks, application and DNS services Configure and change F5 DNS server pools, irules and network devices Configured VLANs and VxLAN (Data plane/flood and learn) DMVPN and QOS

Monitored several Cisco devices ( Switches, routers, ASAs, etc,) and upgrade IOS as needed and updated VISIO

09/2016 –

01/2017

BAILIWICK Chaska, MN

Viptela SD-WAN - Network Engineer - Remote

SD-WAN hardware (VIPTELA) initial provisioning.

Onboarded Viptela vManage, vSmart and vBond

Activate circuit and perform failover test over the MPLS, Internet and 3-4G wireless Provide support and monitor newly installed SD-WAN solution AMERIPRISE FINANCIAL Minneapolis, MN

NOC engineer

Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco network devices Routing, Switching, Firewall, ASA, F5, WAN, LAN, Wireless Resolved tier 2-3 network problems and escalate complex connectivity problems to vendor Maintain Cisco IOS software current through upgrades Configured and shipped DMVPN SOHO routers

Diagnose and troubleshoot hardware and network issues related to connectivity, performance, 05/2022 –

05/2022

equipment failures

Replace faulty network devices

QOS

CARGIL Hopkins, MN

Network Engineer

Managed F5 LTM / GTM appliances

Configured customers remote routers

Network management, VPN, DMVPN, ASA, Wireless

Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco devices DMVPN spoke devices for home offices.

Cisco UCS, Data center Nexus switching and firewalls Maintained reports of hardware/software changes

05/2013 –

05/2014

DELUXE CORPORATION Shoreview, St. Paul

Network Technician / Jr. engineer

Maintained inventory of all Cisco devices for LAN refresh projects Cabled, racked, and provisioned network devices in the MDF/NDF Configuration and troubleshooting of network devices Managed customers circuits orders and authorized intrusive testing via AT&T business direct Provided on-call service and Update knowledge base and VISIO network diagrams 05/2008 –

05/2014

NETWORK

PLATFORMS

Cisco Nexus switches: 4000,5000, 7000

Cisco catalyst: 6500, 4500, 3750,3560, 2960

Cisco Routers: ASR, ISR 1100, 7200, 2800, XRv 9000 Cisco Firewalls: ASA 5500

Juniper: MX480 and Alcatel 7700 routers

Cisco WLAN: 5508, AIRONET APs

Network management: Cisco Prime 4x/ Cisco works, DNA center Network Monitoring: Scrutinizer, Orion, Netflow, PRTG, Solarwinds VMWARE: Microsoft Hyper VESX / EXSi, virtual box, workstation Software: Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS, IOS-XE

CERTIFICATIONS Cisco Certified Network Associate - CCNA Cisco Certified Network Professional - CCNP

EDUCATION School: University of Phoenix

Degree: Bachelor's

Field of study: Information Technology - Computer Networking Year : 2011 - 2015

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