Lonnie Thompson

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Professional Summary

Senior Network Engineer with over 25 years of experience including:

●Design, engineering, troubleshooting, senior administration, monitoring and management of enterprise LAN/WAN, mission critical 24/7 carrier class enterprise equipment for major companys providers.

●Implementation and configuration of Network Monitoring Tools (Cisco Works, HP Openview, and Network Automation). Solarwinds Orion Tools. Mediahouse IpMonitor, Network Node Manager.

●Performed Traffic audits and connectivity issues using Wireshark Packet Analyzer.

●Extensive knowledge of the fundamentals of VMware ESX and related technologies. Excellent communication and collaboration skills. Exceptional analytical and technical aptitude. Great organizational, time management, and problem-solving skills.

●Supported over 10,000 users level 1, 2 and 3 at Disney Worldwide Services and supported over 500 users level 2 and 3 for various locations and remote users at Guidance Software.

Analyzed, planned, configured, and installed network solutions (Cisco Routers (17xx, 26xx, 28xx, 38xx,9x00)

in LAN and WAN Environments for Robust and Redundant Operation while working with

CSC VLAN design, creation and implementation.

●Able to provide basic tools for maintaining and troubleshooting the LAN data communications infrastructure, including RJ45 cable analyzer/tracer, RJ45 crimping tool, screwdriver, etc.

●Possess ability to work independently and as a team member

●Possess excellent customer service skills

●Excellent command of verbal and written communication.

Hardware/Software:

Cisco Routers and Switches (26xx, 35xx, 38xx, 72xx, 96xx series) and (29xx, 40xx 45xx, 65xx and 37xx), VLANs and Routing Protocols (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP), HP Servers and Pro Curve Switches, Internet Connectivity (Bonded T1, MPLS, P2P), Security Analysis and Strategies, Microsoft Exchange and Migration, Microsoft Servers and Migration (NT4, 2000,2003), Citrix Farm (1.8) and Terminal Server (2000, 2003), Backup (Veritas and Netvault), Automated Software Distribution (Group Policies), WebSense (SurfControl) Web and Mail Security, HP Open View, Cisco Works 2000, Checkpoint, Juniper SBR/Netscreen Appliances SSG, Pix Firewall 515,525, Packeteer Packet Shaper, Blue Coat Proxy Servers, FreeBSD (Unix), Linux all versions, Remote Access, DSL/ISDN/Analog, Security Management, VPN/Firewall, SNMP, Group Policies, Active Directory, MS Office, DNS/DHCP, Wireless Connectivity, Microsoft Media Server, Avaya VoIP, Sniffer Pro and view, IpMonitor 6xx, Cisco view, Cisco Works, Big IP F5 load balancers, version 9. Sun Solaris 8, 10, Sun One Web Servers v6 and v7.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

11/7/22-present AES (Beacon Hill Contract)

Senior Network Engineer

Scope of Assignment-remote contract responsible for maintaining the network and assisting with multiple projects. Telecom experience including cabling, fiber optics, and build outs.

Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

Design Configure and Manage Cisco Catalyst 37-38xx Switches /96xx Routers for BGP and OSPF Routing Protocols in a medium Environment.

Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx). Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series

Expertise in Configure, build, implement, and administer ESX/ESXi Servers including

VMware: Vsphere 4.5/5.0/5.5, VMware ESX and ESXi, VCenter server 5.0, orchestrat...

Storage: NetApp FAS series, EMC Clarrion, Vmax, Free NAS

Implement and maintain Routing Protocols and tables (EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP)

Defined and structured cohesive methodology foundation by streamlining company’s systems development, project-management life cycles, procedures, and methodology; hired external auditing staff to identify and eliminate gaps and additional internal staff to maintain day-to-day operations.

Substantially improving/updating internal documentation, resulting in: − Solid foundation for project methodology implemented for combined organization. − Streamlined internal operations and savings in manpower and dollars spent. VLAN design, creation and implementation.

Troubleshoot, support, and maintain the LAN/WAN.

Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, developed IP addressing schema; documented data network diagrams.

03/16/20-11/1/22 Network Data Systems

Senior Network Engineer

Scope of Assignment-remote contract providing network engineering design and deployment services, AT&T (mobility), supporting the roll out of 60 pods by June/July between current core infrastructure and 5G.

IP knowledge call flows, interoperability, aggregate routing, some scripting/coding knowledge, configuration validation and file transformations.

Expertise in Configure, build, implement, and administer ESX/ESXi Servers including

VMware: Vsphere 4.5/5.0/5.5, VMware ESX and ESXi, VCenter server 5.0, orchestrat...

Storage: NetApp FAS series, EMC Clarrion, Vmax, Free NAS

Design Configure and Manage Cisco Catalyst 37-38xx Switches /96xx Routers for BGP and OSPF Routing Protocols in a medium Environment.

Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx). Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series.

01//07/19 Present Hanmi Bank

Senior Network Engineer

●Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

●Design Configure and Manage Cisco Catalyst 37-38xx Switches /96xx Routers for BGP and OSPF Routing Protocols in a medium Environment.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx).

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series

●Implement and maintain Routing Protocols and tables (EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP)

●Defined and structured cohesive methodology foundation by streamlining company’s systems development, project-management life cycles, procedures, and methodology; hired external auditing staff to identify and eliminate gaps and additional internal staff to maintain day-to-day operations.

● Substantially improving/updating internal documentation, resulting in: − Solid foundation for project methodology implemented for combined organization. − Streamlined internal operations and savings in manpower and dollars spent. VLAN design, creation and implementation.

●Troubleshoot, support, and maintain the LAN/WAN.

●Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

●Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

●Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, developed IP addressing schema; documented data network diagrams.

06/06/16 01/07/19 Embraer Airlines

Senior Network Engineer

●Design, Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment PA-5000 series in a medium Environment. PAN-OS.

●Design Configure and Manage Cisco Catalyst 37-38xx Switches /96xx Routers for BGP and OSPF Routing Protocols in a medium Environment.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx).

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series

●Expertise in Configure, build, implement, and administer ESX/ESXi Servers including

●VMware: Vsphere 4.5/5.0/5.5, VMware ESX and ESXi, VCenter server 5.0, orchestrat...

●Storage: NetApp FAS series, EMC Clarrion, Vmax, Free NAS

●Configure and Manage Domino Servers for Lotus Notes operation.

●Implement and maintain Routing Protocols and tables (EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP).

●Vlan design, creation and implementation.

●Desktop support and Printer/Plotter support

●Aruba WiFi Implementation and support

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12/18/14 5/31/16 Ryan Herco Flow Solutions

Senior Network Engineer

●Defined and structured cohesive methodology foundation by streamlining companys systems development, project-management life cycles, procedures, and methodology; hired external auditing staff to identify and eliminate gaps and additional internal staff to maintain day-to-day operations.

● Substantially improving/updating internal documentation, resulting in: − Solid foundation for project methodology implemented for combined organization. − Streamlined internal operations and savings in manpower and dollars spent.

●Design Configure and Manage Cisco Catalyst 37-38xx Switches /96xx Routers for BGP and OSPF Routing Protocols in a medium Environment.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx).

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series

●Sound infrastructure for New Acquisitions and a paradigm for company-wide implementation.

● Organized customers and company to manage Acquisition concerns; as member of Securities Industry Association and/or third-party utility issues both internally and with customers

●Troubleshoot, support, and maintain the LAN/WAN.

●Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

●Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

●Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, developed IP addressing schema; documented data network diagrams.

●Provide assistance to the Voice Engineering team with the planning, design and implementation of VoIP designs based upon High-Level Designs and Plan of Record.

●Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment

●PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

●Design Configure and Manage Infoblox Devices. Control and optimize

DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI)

8/1/12 12/18/14 Network Data Systems - Contractor for ATT Van Nuys

Senior Network Engineer

●Network Implementation Engineer with enterprise or carrier-class implementation.

●Implement new Cisco Nexus routers, Juniper SBR/SRX Series Services.

● Configure a F5 LTM/GTM from phase1 to phase3 and engineered OAM connection for Monitoring using Cisco Works and Vital Suite.

●Reverse engineering for existing LTM/GTM configurations and optimize and provide recommendations on potential changes in a production environment

●Decomposed application process flows to configure load balancing pools via the F5 LB redundancies.

●Expert Root Cause Analysis troubleshooting skills for LTM and GTM existing configurations

●Vlan design, creation and implementation.

●Design Configure and Manage Cisco Catalyst 37-38xx Switches /96xx Routers for BGP and OSPF Routing Protocols in a medium Environment.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx).

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series

●Configured F5 Local Traffic Managers and Global Traffic Managers in Active/Active and Active/Standby scenarios in a production environment.

●Develop and present LAN/WAN/WLAN network engineering design packages.

●Develop low-level LAN/WAN/WLAN design documentation.

●Engineer and Design of NAT, SNAT and development of iRules in a Mobility Network connected to WAN speeds of OC192 and above. Configured and Implemented SSL-Offloading with LTMs.

●Engineered and designed WAN acceleration technologies with Blue Coat Proxy Appliances.

●Configure, deploy server load balancers

● Configure, deploy reverse proxies

●Configure, deploy internal and external DNS services

●Create, Implementation and deploying F5 iRules in a Mobility Production Network.

●Engineered and Configured Blue Coat ProxySG as Reverse Proxies in Enterprise Infrastructure.

●Setup and configure Load balancing between multiple F5 Load Balancer including Creating Monitors and Support Pools, Members, Nodes, iRules and Virtual Servers.

●Maintained support for LTM and GTM Infrastructure.

●Setup Configure and Implement Cisco ASR 5500 Gateways and F5 equipment in a large data center environment.

●Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment

PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

●Design Configure and Manage Infoblox Devices. Control and optimize

DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI)

●Support and Implementation of Juniper SBR/ScreenOS and JunOS commands for system management and routing protocols (BGP and OSPF), JunOS commit and rollback operations.

●Integrating the Data center in Van Nuys from the ground up.

Plan, Design, and Implement Local Area Networks, including development of configurations based upon High-Level Designs.

Plan, Design and Implement Wide Area Networks, including development of configurations based upon High-Level Designs.

Plan, Design and Implement Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), including development of configurations based upon High-Level Designs.

●Engineered routing technologies including OSPF, BGP, GRE Tunnel and IPSEC VPNs and design and troubleshooting complex enterprise Network and Application Issues.

●Configure and assist with implementation of network hardware, including routers, switches, VoIP equipment, WLAN equipment, security appliances, etc.

1/12 - 7/9/12 Contractor for Wells Fargo Dealer Services

Senior Network Engineer

● IT contract involving patch IOS upgrades and inventory verification and documentation.

Setup and configuration of SNMP monitoring applications: HPNA 9.0 and CiscoWorks 4.1 and diagnosing any latencies or bandwidth issues.

●Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, Readdressing using CIDR and VSM, documented data network diagrams using Visio.

●Daily activities required TCP/IP network protocol, Data transport technologies, such as Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g, Cisco IOS. Setup Policies and remediations to pass compliance using HPNA. Over 1000 devices including Cisco Switches and Routers. F5 Load Balancers, Cisco Blade Switches, Nexus Switches. Cisco Pix and ASA 55xx. This was accomplished on site and remotely from home via VPN secure RSA token.

●Installed, configured, and maintained (hands-on) Cisco ACS, FWSM, and PIX; CiscoWorks, Security Manager, HP Network Automation and APC Management.

●Utilized protocol analyzers, using Fluke and Wireshark, Sniffer, Netscout and Packet shaper by Blue Proxy

●Vlan design, creation and implementation.

●Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment

PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

●Design Configure and Manage Infoblox Devices. Control and optimize

DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI)

●Troubleshoot, support, and maintain the LAN/WAN.

●Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

●Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx).

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series ·

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed Cisco ASA, FWSM

●Performed Traffic audits and connectivity issues using Wireshark Packet Analyzer.

●Implemented SNMP Monitored Network Servers and setup Reports and Alerts using HPNA

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6/11 12-11 Rydek - Contractor for County of Los Angeles

Senior Network Engineer

● IT contract for County Of LA involving patch IOS upgrades and inventory verification and documentation.

● Setup and configuration of SNMP monitoring applications: Solarwinds Orion 10.1.3 and CiscoWorks 4.1and diagnosing any latencies or bandwidth issues.

●Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, Readdressing using CIDR and VSM, documented data network diagrams using Visio.

●Daily activities required TCP/IP network protocol, Data transport technologies, such as Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g, Cisco IOS

●VLAN design, creation and implementation.

●Installed, configured, and maintained (hands-on) Cisco ACS, FWSM, and PIX; CiscoWorks, Security Manager, ORION Solarwinds, and APC Management.

●Utilized protocol analyzers, such as Fluke and Wireshark, Sniffer.

●Troubleshoot, support, and maintain the LAN.

●Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

●Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 3750, 3560, 6509 and 6513)

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed Cisco ASA, FWSM

●Performed Traffic audits and connectivity issues using Wireshark Packet Analyzer.

Implemented SNMP Monitored Network Servers and setup Reports and Alerts using Solarwinds Orion.

12/10 - 6/11 Modis Contractor for UCLA

Senior Network Engineer

● IT contract for UCLA involving MOC upgrades and inventory verification and documentation.

Setup and configuration of SNMP monitoring applications and diagnosing any latencies or bandwidth issues.

●Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, developed IP addressing schema; documented data network diagrams.

●Provide assistance to the Voice Engineering team with the planning, design and implementation of VoIP designs based upon High-Level Designs and Plan of Record.

●Vlan design, creation and implementation.

●Daily activities required TCP/IP network protocol, Data transport technologies, such as Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g, Cisco IOS, VLAN, Firewall, proxy, DHCP Servers.

●Installed, configured, and maintained (hands-on) Cisco ACS and Steel-belted RADIUS, FWSM, and PIX; CiscoWorks, Security Manager, ORION Solarwinds, and APC Management.

●Utilized protocol analyzers, such as Fluke and Wireshark, Sniffer.

●Troubleshot, supported, and maintain the LAN.

●Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

●Implemented security measures to eliminate vulnerabilities, prevent, and defend against network intrusions.

●Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

●Design, Configure and Manage Infoblox Devices. Control and optimize

DNS, DHCP, IPAM (DDI)

●Configured, maintained, and troubleshot NIDS, such as Bluecoat Proxy, McAfee, Checkpoint, Nokia, IDS, IPS, and Ironport.

●Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

●Implemented and managed network connectivity T1, MPLS, DS3, and VPN.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed Cisco routers 2600, 3500, 3800, 7200 series (hands-on).

●Implemented and maintained Routing Protocols and tables (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP).

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 4006 4500, 6509 and 6513)

●Performed Traffic audits and connectivity issues using Wireshark Packet Analyzer.

● Implemented SNMP Monitored Network Servers and setup Reports and Alerts using Solarwinds Orion and CiscoWorks

1/10 12-10 Independent Contractor

Business Partner

●Business consulting for rack and stack, migrations, upgrades, installations and diagnostics of windows servers, UPS, LAN/WAN and SQL Servers.

●Performed hardware and software repair, troubleshooting, and isolation of problems.

10/09 12/09 Foxhunt Staffing - Contractor for Digital Insight

Senior Security Engineer

●Contract for PCI Compliance consisting of Monitoring and Configuring of IPTables, Rootkits, Implementation of Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewalls with existing Infrastructure.

●Management of firewall rules using Access Control Lists and IP Tables. Operating Systems used Linux, Windows and UNIX.

●Verifying temp firewalls and remove after expiration date.

07/07 - 10/09 Guidance Software

Senior Network Engineer

●Support of over 500 users level 2 and 3 for different locations and remote users.

●Provided system analysis, troubleshooting, and, developed IP addressing schema; documented data network diagrams.

●Daily activities required TCP/IP network protocol, Data transport technologies, such as Ethernet, 802.11a/b/g, Cisco IOS, VLAN, Firewall, proxy, DHCP Servers.

●Installed, configured, and maintained (hands-on) Cisco ACS and Steel-belted RADIUS, FWSM, and PIX; CiscoWorks, Security Manager, ORION Solarwinds, and APC Management.

●Utilized protocol analyzers, Fluke and Wireshark, Sniffer.

●Diagnose, support, and maintain the LAN.

●Identified network vulnerabilities and intrusions.

●Implemented security measures to eliminate vulnerabilities, prevent, and defend against network intrusions.

●Design Configure and Manage Palo Alto Network equipment

PA-5000 series in a medium Environment, PAN-OS

●Configured, maintained, and troubleshot NIDS, such as Bluecoat Proxy, McAfee, Checkpoint, Nokia, IDS, IPS, and Ironport.

●Developed and documented project plans for network infrastructure and network security implementations.

●Implemented and managed network connectivity T1, MPLS, DS3, and VPN.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed Cisco routers 2600, 3xxx, 7200 series)

●Vlan design, creation and implementation.

●Implemented and maintained Routing Protocols and tables (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP).

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed switches and bridges (29xx, 37xx, 35xx, 65xx).

Cisco Nexus 3000 Series, 7000 Series 9000 Series.

●Installed, configured, maintained, and managed Cisco ASA, Checkpoint Firewall and VPN security, including VPN concentrators.

●Implemented and maintained SSL certificates for Firewall.

●Performed Traffic audits and connectivity issues using Wireshark Packet Analyzer.

●Implemented SNMP Monitored Network Servers and setup Reports and Alerts using Solarwinds Orion.

●Troubleshoot various system issues at main location and remote locations.

●Implemented and Managed Exchange servers and Filtered with WebSense (SurfControl).

●Maintained and configured Windows 2000 and 2003 Operating Systems.

●Implemented backup local and offsite data using Veritas NetBackup.

●Setup and configured Load balancing between multiple F5 Load Balancer including Creating Monitors and Support Pools, Members, Nodes, iRules and Virtual Servers

02/01 - 07/07 Computer Science Corporation - Contractor for HR Textron

Senior Network Engineer

●Monitor and support of Windows Enterprise 4.0 and Windows 2000 Advanced Servers.

●Tools used consisted of: Mediahouse IpMonitor, HP Openview, CiscoWorks, Network Node Manager,

●3rd tier technical support for escalated Infrastructure and Server problems.

●Network equipment: Cisco Routers (17xx, 26xx, 28xx and 38xx). Analyzed, planned, configured, and installed network solutions in LAN and WAN Environments for Robust and Redundant Operation.

●Setup, support and managed of multiple Blue Coat Proxy Servers Local and Remote Sites.

●Managed Switches and Bridges (29xx, 4006, and 6509), LAN/WAN Analyzers (Network General Sniffer).

●Setup and configured Load balancing between multiple F5 Load Balancer including Creating Monitors and Support Pools, Members, Nodes, iRules and Virtual Servers.

●Worked with many ISP vendors like: AT&T, MCI, Qwest, Global Crossing and others.

●My primary role was to determine the root cause and work with vendor to resolve problem

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Education

Cisco Academy, College of the Canyons - (IP Telephony, CCNA 1-4) Completed

Strayer University, Online - BSIT in Process (1 semester)

University of Phoenix, Online - BSIT Transferred to Strayer University

Ventura College, Ventura, CA - A.S. Electronics

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate - Certification Renewed

Cisco Certified Network Associate & Cisco Certified Network Professional - Pending Re certification /Testing

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer - Pending Re certification (MCSE 2000/2003)

HP Openview Network Node Manager- Pending Re certification (Windows)

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