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, switches etc. working with elements such as ethernet, private line, frame-relay, eVPN, 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.
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
Employment:
Company: URS is a Fortune 1000 company with an
annual gross revenue of over 3.3 billion dollars and is at the top of its field
as an engineering design and construction management firm. It is also one of the top 30 defense
contractors and provides other government services.
Position: Network Administrator. Responsible for North American Network and
interconnections to Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Responsible for planning, design, implementation, and administration of
network.
Company: IDT is a telecommunications firm
dealing primarily with long distance, calling cards and other interests. From 1994 to 2000 it also had an Internet
division providing national and international dial-up and dedicated Internet
services. Between 1994 and 2000, IDT
had grown from a staff of 30 to 1200 employees and at its peak serviced up to
200,000 Internet accounts.
Various Positions:
Dedicated
Internet Access Sales.
Manager of
Dial-up Sales.
Manger of Dial-up Technical Support with a staff of up to 80 call center support technicians.
Director of Internet Services--organized and work with teams devoted to special projects in addition to overseeing the regular support services. These projects included the development and management of various teams to support pilot programs for Internet telephony, integration of acquisitions into the mainline corporate operations and development of various network and customer applications.
Manager of Network Operations, managed the Network Operations Center (NOC) and the Network Engineering staff in developing, servicing and monitoring a national IP based network, which provided Dedicated T1, DSL and Dial-up Internet access.
L & M
Construction, Inc. Long Island, New York.
1980 -1993: Owner/operator in family business which focused on operations as general contractor of noteworthy residential projects centering mostly on the east end of Long Island, New York., and the development of residential real estate properties.
Education:
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York
Polytechnic University of New York, Farmingdale, New York