Senior Network Architect with Cloud and AI Expertise

Michael Anderson

Mailing Address: ** Hawthorne Drive Bedford, NH 03110

Email: ********@*****.***

Phone: 802-***-****

Education:

UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - Burlington, Vermont

Degree: Bachelor of Arts-May 1991 : Major: Economics : Minor: Philosophy

Designations:

CCIE (written) – R/S

CCDP (Cisco Certified Design Professional)

CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)

JNCIA (Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate)

RCDD (Registered Communication Distribution Designer-BICSI)

MSCE (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer)

Palo Alto Certified

Six Sigma – Yellow Belt

AI: Google Certificates

-Google AI Prompt Essential

-Google AI Professional

-Google Generative AI Leader Professional

-AI for Brainstorming and Planning

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

October 2021 – Present

Senior Technical/Network Architect – EA-lead

Ascension Technologies, St. Louis, MO (virtual office)

Responsibilities:

• Provided network oversight, management and direction for 4 data centers, 12 hospitals and 100s of remote offices within the Ascension Illinois region

• Supervised a team of 8 engineers and architects and performed vendor management

• Developed and implemented a wide variety of network based designs and solutions for the Ascension Health System, including cloud and on-premise/hybrid

• Provided recommendations for hardware, software, process improvement, and operational analysis.

• Developed and deployed ML and AI based automation models

• Designed and deployed AWS and Azure cloud based architectures v-net peering and cloud based firewalls.

• Created network security designs, rules creations and general physical and logical security recommendations

• Teamed with executive management to develop infrastructure and architecture roadmaps

• Provided next gen data center designs and migration strategies as well as BC/DR design and testing including network automation and zero-touch provisioning.

• Performed network project transition functions in terms of ensuring all project architecture and technical requirements are met and implemented correctly.

• Worked directly with Project managers in terms of outlining project time frames, scheduling, ordering and execution

• Established overall strategic network standards and priorities

• Planned large-scale projects through vendor comparison and cost studies

• Provided technical guidance and direction for transport network designs, network routing protocols, and advanced virtual networking technologies

• Analyzed the optimization of network system performance

• Oversaw the strategic interface of network systems configuration

• Designed, implemented, and maintained hybrid cloud integration with multiple public cloud service providers

• Identified security requirements for the networks and platforms

February 2008 – September 2021

Senior Network/Solutions Architect

AT&T, Dallas, TX (virtual office)

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented a wide variety of network based designs and solutions for IBM and their customers.

• Performed network project transition functions in terms of ensuring all project architecture and technical requirements are met and implemented correctly.

• Worked directly with Project managers in terms of outlining project time frames, scheduling, ordering and execution.

• Worked with the LAB to test and certify LAN/WAN products and services.

• VPN/VRF/GRE secure designs over BGP/OSPF enabled MPLS and dedicated WANs.

• Traffic shaping, network engineering and problem determination functions, advanced troubleshooting (Tier-2), installation and configuration support

• Configured and installed layer 2/3 network devices, firewalls, load balancers and WAN optimization devices.

• Configured security policies and created firewall/security network designs and DDoS mitigation methods and designs

• Provided recommendations for hardware, software, process improvement, and operational analysis.

• Designed and implemented Cisco DNA Center and ISE

• Designed micro-segmented IoT networks

• Provided data center design and migration strategies as well as BC/DR design and testing.

• Provided technical engineering and design work in the areas of LAN/WAN/Call Center, Carrier, Video, Wireless and IPT(VoIP-Avaya and CUCM), including QoS/CoS, MPLS/VPN design.

• Provided PCI (Payment Card Industry) network security analysis, planning and remediation to comply with standards and attended meetings with compliance auditors

• Provided and assisted with Vendor and Life Cycle Management

• Implemented various cloud computing platforms and supporting network architectures (SDWAN) and EXT hosts (VMs) Arista, Palo Alto, F5

• Worked with the LAB and Vendors to test and certify LAN/WAN products and services.

• Provided DDI management using PHPIPAM and Infoblox.

• Designed and implemented anti-DDoS services.

• Designed OOB/CDI/4G-LTE back-up and failover networks

June 2000 – February 2008

Senior Network Architect - Advanced Business Services

IBM Global Services - Somers, NY (virtual office)

• Provided recommendations for hardware, software, process improvement, and operational analysis.

• Worked with the CoC (AT&Ts LAB used to test and certify IBM LAN/WAN products and services.

• Created and supported specialized multicasting network designs that supported secure, high availability, low latency applications for numerous financial services companies, including trading floor architecture

• Created and supervised multiple enterprise data center re-designs, for large 24x7 semi-conductor manufacturing plants in East Fishkill, NY and Burlington VT.

• Created Statements of Work (SOW), Bill of Materials(BOM), and Technical Solutions Documents

• Provided Tier-2 engineering and problem determination and hands-on advanced troubleshooting, installation and configuration support.

• Provided pre and post sales support and functions to the sales group in the areas of LAN/WAN/Call Center, Carrier, Video, Wireless and IPT(VoIP-Avaya and CUCM) driving over $31.4 million in sales, including QoS/CoS, MPLS/VPN design.

• Provided IOS upgrade testing and recommendations

• Created network security designs rules creations and general physical and logical security recommendations

• Teamed with executive management to develop infrastructure and architecture roadmaps

• Managed multiple projects, including customer SAT targets, SLAs and other KPIs.

• Provided IPT/Data capacity planning, developed testing plans and life cycle management, including incident, problem management, service desk operations, NOC activities (network management, monitoring) SAN/Storage systems/operations and capacity planning

• Developed and testing business continuity and disaster recovery plans.

• Developed network security and compliance policies and processes

• Configured ASA Firewalls and other security and load balancing appliances.

• Responsible for overseeing IT governance, network/security standards, best practices and repeatable processes and models. (Lead Member in Network Architecture Review Board)

Technologies/Skills:

LAN Technologies: Ethernet, ATM, Token Ring, FDDI

Network Hardware: Hubs/Bridges, Switches, Routers, Remote Access Servers, Load balancers, Riverbed WAN accelerators, Blue Coat traffic shapers, Cisco/ Nexus platforms (7k5k2k)/Spine-Leaf, VM and Citrix Virtualization technologies, Fortinet, Arista, Meraki

Security: Firewalls (PAN/Cisco (ASA/Firepower), Fortinet, IDS/IPS, VPNs, VRFs, GDOI (ISAKMP/IKE), Cert Management, IP SEC

WAN: DSx/Tx/OCx, ISDN, Frame Relay, ATM, SONET, MPLS, Ethernet Private Line, DMVPN/GRE

LAN: TCP/IP, VLANs, Ethernet, STP, VXLAN,NBase-T

Wireless: 802.11a/b/c/n/g +, EVDO, 802.1x

Routing Protocols: RIP, OSPF,ISIS, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP,

Voice Protocols: H.323, SIP, MGCP

IPT: IVRs, ACDs, IP PBXs, CoS and Qos design

IPv4 Multicast: PIM, Sparse and Dense Mode

Protocols: IPv4, IPv6, TCP/UDP

DDI/DNS: BIND,Infoblox

Load Balancing: Big IP/F5

Cloud: AWS, Azure

SDWAN: Velocloud, Viptella, Juniper SSR/128T

Network Virtualization: ESX hosts/Linux, VMs (Arista vSwich/vRouter), PAN vFW

Business Tools: Clarity, Visio, Remedy/Service Now, Lotus Notes/Outlook, Citrix,Solar Winds, Wireshark, Netview, Thin Client virtualization, IP SLA responder, Arista Cloud Vision, Netbrain, Thousand Eyes, Nlyte

IT Methodologies: ITIL, TOGAF, LEAN IT AGILE/SCRUM, PCI Compliance and remediation (network)

AI: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and a host of tools

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