Network Manager / Engineer
  Network professional interested in working with people, and in developing, optimizing and maintaining the IT networking infrastructure of a large distributed organization.

Areas of Expertise or General Experience
 
  • Network design to provide proper and cost effective connectivity for various user communities and applications.
  • Manage large scale projects such as network migrations, network consolidations and network integrations due to organizational mergers and acquisitions.
  • Network analysis and administration.
  • Developing professional and supportive relationships with staff and peers.
  • Developing strong vendor relationships.
  • Design, develop and optimize LAN segments to support server and end-user requirements.
  • Cisco IOS on routers and switches. Comfortable with Command Line Interface on various platforms.
  • Working knowledge and experience with networking concepts such as TCP/IP, Ethernet, private line, frame-relay, MPLS, VPN, RIP, EIGRP, BGP and more in LAN and WAN environments.
  • Linux, Unix (Solaris) and Windows server environments.
  • Strong background in Internet related concepts and technologies(Mail, DNS, web, ftp, LAMP etc.).
  • Providing support services for the user community.

Recent Achievements
 
  • Migrated 160 branch offices and 4 data centers in North American and Europe from a Frame-Relay based Wide Area Network to an eVPN solution saving $1,200,000.00 per year and enabling a future VOIP roll-out.
  • Performed regular audits and validations of network related billing, which resulted in ongoing savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars.
  • Designed, planned and implemented multiple network integrations to support various acquisitions and mergers which involved over 200 individual sites and an increase in the user base from 6,000 to 27,000 employees.
  • Planned, supported and implemented numerous facilities consolidations to unify multiple regional branch offices.
  • Planned and coordinated migrating disparate IP address allocation schemes to a unified format.
  • Installed standardized procedures for monitoring WAN links, utilization and performance via SNMP and other polling processes.
  • Appraise and implement (if warranted) various network monitoring and optimization devices and applications. [ Solarwinds Orion, Ciscoworks 2000, Riverbed Steelhead, Swanlabs NetCelra and more]
  • Completing CCNA Certification Process

  IDT Corporation, Hackensack, NJ; 1994 - April, 2000     L & M Construction, Inc. Long Island, New York; 1980-1993

Education
  C.W Post, Long Island University, Brookville, New York
  • B.S. Computer Programming (1988)
  • Minor in Business
 
  Additional Course Work at the following Institutions:
  • Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
  • State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
  • Polytechnic University of New York, Farmingdale, New York