Network Engineer, CISCO Routers and Switches

Chequita Robinson

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Antioch TN, 37013

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NETWORK EXPERIENCE

Configuration and implementation of Cisco Routers, Switches including cisco access servers

Provide assistance to Network security team for installation and configuration of Cisco Firewall appliances

Participate in the planning, testing and Design of High Availability Data Network infrastructure, based on Cisco Hierarchical Design

IBM/AT&T/Altria-US Smokeless Tobacco Nashville, TN

February 2016 - Present

On-site (Contractor) Altria - Data Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Configure and implement network infrastructure, IOS, NX-OS and perform code upgrades.

Plan Rack elevations and space for power and network hardware by RU’s

Pre-Stage and test hardware for connectivity and functionality of routing protocols and VLANs.

Provide Network support for all troubles related to network and LAN/WAN connectivity

Coordinate with electricians and cabling venders

perform site walk throughs to verify network infrastructure build outs for new areas and existing area renovations covering 8 buildings

Provide onsite support for LAN, WAN, Voice, Video and WIFI at the Access Layer

Provide hands and feet support for Firewalls, Riverbed and IBM Storage and as Net App, NAC, High-Availability Clusters for QRadar.

Perform site decommissions outside of primary location, facilitate test migrations to new vender

Other duties as required to meet the needs of the business

Tools

AT&T Management Tools - Cisco Prime, Voyance, Netbrain, Vital Suite and Action

Altria Management Tools – SolarWinds, Cisco DNA Center and Cisco ACI

AT&T Service Now – LMAC and PMAC Device inventory, Adds, Moves and Changes

Altria Service Now – Change Control including submission of Business and Technical Assessment

Write up of change plans, Test Plans specific to RFS and/or Project

Automation

Netbrain Network Management Tool

Tenant Admin – Responsibilities include:

oassignment of user privileges to the platform

oprovide first level support for application usage

odrawing network site maps

oidentifying network issues specifically fiber transceiver issues

owriting QAPPs based on Python scripting language

Hardware

Cisco catalyst switches: 9400, 9300, 9500, 3800, 3650, 2960 and 6800 series switches

Cisco ISR4451 routers and Cisco 4221 access servers

Notable Projects

Managed and implemented Cisco Device EOL Refresh of over 100 network devices in Nashville and Various Wineries

Write documented processes for enterprise team for LAN Hardening Documentation

Notable Projects continued:

Write enterprise documentation of process and procedure to perform device adds and removes from the Network

Coordination of resources to implement and upgrade manufacturing devices such as HMI’s, PLC’s, and Stratix switches

Coordination with Vendor Trane for HVAC upgrades and expansions

Provide documentation including drawing of HVAC system to Nashville plant Maintenance Department

SMWE winery – conversion from extreme networks to cisco

NAC enforcement on certain switches as directed by Altria management

Conversion from AT&T AVPN to EVPL for WAN redundancy

Administration

Customer Altria - Service Now for ticketing and change management

AT&T Service Now –

Provide updates to Global Provisioning System (GPS)

Perform HOIP testing and for device corporate compliance standards

Including adding/removing devices from inventory and monitoring platforms

Notable Protocols and technologies

BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, telnet, ssh, route-maps

Broadband:

Frame-relay, MPLS, Point-to-Point, T1, AVPN and EVPL

HSBC / Capital One January 2012 –– March 2014

TekSystems – Contractor Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities: Network operations, trouble-shoot routing protocols including BGP, EIGRP and OSPF. Monitor Global Services Ticketing System report circuit outages including, DS3, T1, ISDN, and Cellular. Coordinate and dispatch service provider technicians to HSBC remote offices and Data Centers in NewYork, Canada, Hong Kong and other location. Attend conference bridges, update knowledge of Network changes. Use Unix servers to provide out of band management of all managed network hardware devices.

Keystone Aniline Corporation December 2011 – January 2012

Network Consultant Part Time Project based

Managed the implementation of AT&T MPLS circuit upgrade of internet service from T1 to 3Meg, Installation and configuration of Cisco ASA 5510 Security Appliance, Configured access-list and security policy, configured site-to-site vpn between Chicago and UK

Chicago Career Tech Training September 2009 – May 2010

Provided community service in IT to South Shore Community center, and Blackwell Consulting

Responsible for contributing from my skill set in any way that would assist the organization in their IT Departments. At South Shore Community Center I implemented Guest wireless network so that visitors could have internet access while on site At Blackwell Consulting I identified a backdoor into the network and was able to mitigate intrusion and I provided New documentation and drawings of their LAN switching environment

Completed Certification in Technical Sales at Illinois Institute of Technology which also included Green IT, Business Innovations.

TekMark Global Solutions

ABN AMRO

Contractor Network Engineer August 2007 – April 2009

Responsibilities: Work with a team of Verizon Business Network Engineers to build out new Data Center infrastructure for the separation of Legacy LaSalle Bank, and RBS. Responsible for the day to day maintenance of ABN AMRO, Bank of America network, and RBS / LAN switching environments in Chicago.

Participated in the installation of a new high availability network infrastructure for Bank of America in Chicago. including but not limited to the installation and configuration of new network hardware to support a transparent separation of Legacy LaSalle network hardware out of ABN AMRO’s network infrastructure. Participated in the planning, staging and implementation of three new data centers for RBS/Citizens Bank.

Millward Brown

Network Engineer Dec 2006 – April 2007

Responsible for the Design and implementation network connectivity for Global external clients building site-to-site VPN’s to corporate network. Provide Tier III, technical support at headquarters in Naperville, IL.

Formally Ameritech Advanced Data Services / SBC Data COM – The New AT&T

Field Engineer May 1997 – Oct 2006

Responsible for the installation, configuration of Cisco routers, switches, pix firewalls, VPN concentrators, and other customer premise equipment. Responsible for the maintenance of customer networks including but not limited to the implementation of Wide Area Network solutions, LAN Switching solutions, Testing of broadband circuits with long distance and local service providers. The installation of cisco network hardware such as routers, switches and security appliances. Resolving customer network troubles engaging escalating troubles to various stake holders. Coordinating vendor meets as well as internal stake holders to address specific customer concerns. Work with project manager as technical lead when engaged.

MTI Vacations

Senior Network Administrator Feb 1996 – May 1997

Supported Local Area Network for call center. Upgraded File Servers OS2, Netware, NT 4.0. Installed and automated installation of IBM OS2, desktop cloning and 250 PC's. Ordered new PC's, provided budget projections, high level support to help desk, organized help desk to resolve common desktop problems. Develop trouble shooting documentation of help desk personnel. Serve as single point of contact for all data communications services to the corporate users.

MCI / World Com Jun 1994 – Feb 1996

LAN Administrator

LAN Administrator supporting Midwest Region Access Provisioning circuit engineering using servers and workstations running IBM OS/2 LAN Server. Writing scripts in Rexx, generating data base reports using SQL, provide support for PC hardware and applications, recommending and ordering of software and hardware.

Chicago State University Sep 1987 – Jun 1994

Telecommunications Network Specialist

Provide support to students in computer lab, Install Novell Networks in computer lab, and other campus departments. Write programs in C language, basic and COBOL to support student programming applications. Build PC workstations for computer lab. Set up training for campus personnel to improve computer literacy and Office Application usage such as word perfect, lotus 1-2-3, MS Access, MS Word. Assisted Board of Governors with the implementation of Fiber back bone for the inter-connection of the 5 Board of Governors Universities in the state of Illinois. Assisted scientists from all over the world by writing code in C language to transfer files from one X-Windows system to another and calculate the time it takes for the file transfer to complete done at Fermi-LAB in Batavia Illinois the City of Energy.

CERTIFICATIONS & EDUCATION

CISCO U. - Currently Preparing for Cisco CCNP and CCIE Encore 350-401

Master Certificate Technical Sales

Illinois Institute of Technology- College of Applied Technology – April 2011

Chicago, IL

CEH/CHFI Boot Camp Netcom Las Vegas – May 2009

Test Passed: Cisco Secure 640-502 - Securing Networks with Cisco Routers and Switches Jan 2006

CCNA, CCNP (Renewed Jan 2006)

CISCO AVVID Boot Camp - Company Provided Feb 2003

Bachelor of Science – Computer Science / Data Processing June - 1989

Chicago State University Chicago, IL

PROFESSIONAL REFERENCES Available upon Request

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