Network Engineer Senior

MATT A. WALTERS

*** ******* ***.

Cincinnati, OH. 45246

Phone: 513-***-**** ******@****.***

OBJECTIVE

Seeking a Senior Technical or Management Position

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Accomplished Senior Level Network Engineer with extensive problem-solving experience that ranges from small projects to enterprise-wide solutions. Effective communicator and leader who uses superb analytical and interpersonal skills to lead team members to successful completion of objectives.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Centracomm 12/2021-Present

Sr Network Engineer

Supervisor in charge of directing and mentoring junior engineers and NOC techs.

Senior Network Engineer Responsible for level 3 escalations for customers and internal issues.

Responsible for network engineering projects for multiple customer environments and internal work on Junipers, Palo Altos, Fortinet, Splunk, and Pulse devices.

RMSource 8/2020-10/2021

Senior Network Engineer

On staff consultant responsible for setup, maintenance of troubleshooting of customer environments.

Worked on hosted managed Azure solutions of Checkpoint firewalls and smart servers.

Also responsible for Checkpoint solutions and installations.

Oncall Senior Network Engineer for multiple customer environments.

TribuneMedia (now Nexstar) 1/2015-2/2020

Senior Network Engineer

Responsible for the Aruba wireless and Clearpass rollout to all locations, and daily authentication and wireless troubleshooting.

Part of the team that separated TribuneMedia from the Tribune publishing network, including using Juniper MX5’s, EX4300’s and QFX switches, and Infoblox to build a new BGP MPLS network including a DNS infrastructure and LAN OSPF networks.

Part of the team that rolled out Palo Altos and internet VPN back up to all sites including Panorama management, and security and OS updates.

Primary person in charge of Pulse Secure remote VPN for several hundred uses.

Helped with building datacenter networks with Juniper technology connected to VMware servers.

Maintained current networks with Cisco hardware including Nexus, Juniper, F5 load balancers and Palo Alto equipment.

Responsible for Linux based Splunk servers

Responsible for daily updates to Infoblox, including creating DHCP scopes, and DNS updates for internal and Public IP spaces, and administration Infoblox hardware and software issues.

Part of team responsible for installing and beginning moves to Cisco ISE and Cisco Firepower.

LocalTV (Cincinnati, OH) 9/2011-1/2015

Network Manager

Manager in charge of the personnel, routers, switches, and firewalls for a sixteen television station enterprise network across the country, including the main data center, capacity management and network budget, which involved day to day monitoring for outages and any network troubleshooting.

Mentored and trained station reports in entry level network troubleshooting and switch configurations.

Project manager for separating LocalTV from another media company’s MPLS network to a Sprint MPLS network, including coordinating with carriers and remote locations, and purchasing and configuring required equipment.

Part of two-man IT team that built and maintained datacenter Exchange, Terminal Servers, FTP, file servers and other corporate server platforms when needed.

The Bon-Ton stores (Dayton, OH) 4/2002-9/2011

Sr Network Technologies Analyst

Part of the network technologies team in charge of 800 to 900 Cisco devices that includes routers, switches, and

multi-context datacenter firewalls and connected via 250 BGP over MPLS circuits in 17 states to local and remote locations using EIGRP for LAN’s.

Worked with the network team in managing Cisco Unified Call Manager and IPCC servers for the Bon-Ton network helpdesk call center.

Project lead for the integration of the The Bon-Ton Stores and NDSG of Saks Inc. using the Verizon MPLS network which included the merger of our 120 locations with another 130 locations.

Lead network engineer in charge of design and architecture for the successful integration of the Bon-Ton and Elder-Beerman stores.

Trained helpdesk and NOC employees in tier 1 and 2 troubleshooting for better communication and faster problem solving.

Lead network engineer in charge of design and architecture for internal and external communications for multiple corporate headquarters and distribution centers.

Created and maintained Linux based Radius server for Motorola wireless systems at all locations.

Network Administrator and project lead for engineering a Citrix farm and the role out of 350 HP thin clients for over 2000 users.

Part of a team that worked outages, trouble tickets, and maintained Cisco ACS including 802.1X and Solarwinds for monitoring and inventory.

Rapid Design Service (Dayton, OH) 5/97 – 6/01

System Technician

Administered Windows NT and HP UNIX production servers.

Managed the hardware and software configurations of Windows and Unix production workstations including purchasing of needed hardware and software.

Built and configured Windows NT servers and clients at company site in Juarez Mexico.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware

Operating Systems

Software

Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, Juniper routers and switches and Palo Alto and ASA firewalls

Windows Desktop and Server

Citirx, Exchange Server, Terminal Server

IP telephony systems

Novell Netware, Mac OS

SQL, IIS, Active Directory, ISA, Windows Clustering

Symbol, Motorola, Aruba and Ruckus Wireless

SCO, HPUX, AIX

Aruba Clearpass, TACACS

AAA

Compaq/HP, thin clients, HP Blade Servers, Dell

BSD, Ubuntu, Redhat and other Linux versions

Infoblox

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

JNCIA

ITIL Foundation Certified

CLARK STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1992

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