SUMMARY

Seasoned network engineering professional with many years of experience in engineering, architectual and leadership/management roles. Experience in a variety of industries including Banking, Government, Healthcare, Insurance, Manufacturing & Retail.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Principal Network Engineer August 2019 - Present

Virtual Radiologic LLC. Eden Prairie, MN

• Manage, direct, and supervise the activities of a team of four network engineers.

• Conducted annual performance reviews and coached and mentored the network staff.

• Managed and configured Palo Alto firewalls.

• Collaborated with peers from other disciplines within the IT department, providing thought and technical leadership relative to network and security initiatives defined by the Chief Information Officer.

• Responsible for defining the network architecture, engineering, and security standards for the entire network Infrastructure.

• Responsible for ensuring a five nines network uptime for all clinical and mission critical applications.

• Conducted a thorough review and documented the data center and corporate HQ networks. Designed, planned, and oversaw the implementation of a series of changes to improve the network performance, stability, and remedy network element configuration issues.

• Introduced policies, procedures, and standards to move the network team to a process driven approach to their work and to maintain a high standard of engineering best practices.

• Designed and planned a major upgrade for two production data centers. Moving the incumbent architecture from a chassis-based collapsed core environment to a Cisco VXLAN Spine/Leaf data center infrastructure.

• Created and implemented a new comprehensive IP addressing and VLAN name and numbering schema.

• Designed, planned, and implemented a wireless overlay based on the Aruba product suite.

• Created a three-year roadmap to retire and replace Cisco network hardware and appliances that were beyond their vendor support lifecycle.

• Implemented new technology, hardware and centralized monitoring and management tools into the environment to improve meantime to repair, manage assets, and integrate into existing tools such as Splunk, SolarWinds and Service now.

Technical Lead July 2012 – August 2019

CDW Inc. Brooklyn Park, MN

• Leading member CDW’s mid-West network infrastructure and data center engineering team, working primarily with Cisco Systems portfolio of networking products.

• Managed and directed team of senior to mid-level network engineers based in the Madison and Minneapolis branch offices.

• Provide technical direction, mentoring, and career development to the team. Managed the team’s work assignments, ensuring optimal utilization and revenue targets.

• Responsible for leading medium to large professional services engagements for CDW’s customers nationwide but primarily within the upper mid-West region.

• Key contributor the CDW’s associate training program. Participated in program development, developed technical content to the curriculum and taught soft skills to consulting staff from associate consulting engineers to team leads and principal consultants.

• Participated in CDW’s pre-sales activities, augmenting the sales team’s technical skill set. Responded to customer issued RFPs and assisted in scoping professional services engagements and writing SoWs.

EDUCATION

City & Guilds (level 6) Electronic & Telecommunication Engineering August 1980

City & Guilds Institute London, United Kingdom

• Batchelor’s degree equivalent in conjunction with Imperial College London through the Royal Navy School of Electrical Engineering.

• Course work and instruction given in person at The RN School of Electrical Engineering together with on-the-job experience and structured learning modules.

• Required to demonstrate technical acumen with hands-on workshops, publishing technical articles and documents and passing in-module exams.

SKILLS

• Large scale network design, engineering, and implementation

• Enterprise network standards and best practices development

• Enterprise network performance assessment and analysis

• Multi-protocol LAN & WAN Environments (MPLS, Leased Line, Hybrid, Internet)

• Data center networks

• Wireless Networks

• Troubleshooting complex issues

• Routing Protocols (eBGP, iBGP, OSPF, EIGRP IS-IS, PBR)

• Voice over networks

• Automation (scripting, Python, etc.)

• Internet edge networks

• Software defined networks (SDN)

• Technical Leadership/Management

• Compliance (HIPPA, SOCs & PCI)

• Virtual Private Networks (VPN)

• SD-WAN

• Coaching & mentoring

• Enterprise security

CERTIFICATIONS

• Cisco CCIE (Emeritus) Route/Switch

• Cisco Channel Interface Processor

• Cisco Advanced Wireless Field Specialist

• Cisco Routing and Switching Field Specialist

• Cisco Data Center CCNP (in progress)

• SilverPeaks SD-WAN Certification

MILITARY SERVICE

Royal Navy Nine Years

Petty Officer 1st Class Weapons Electrical Engineer

ACTIVITIES

• Motivational Speaker, Coach and Mentor

• Avid Fly Fisherman and Cyclist

• Certified Scuba Diver

• Licensed Sky Diver

• Competitive PRS Shooter and Firearms Instructor

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