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Skills

  • Cloud-based network solutions architecture
  • Cybersecurity integration in networks
  • Bandwidth capacity planning and optimization
  • IPv6 network configuration
  • Capacity planning for enterprise networks
  • Budget Management for Network Projects
  • Routing protocol expertise
  • SNMP monitoring
  • Network performance benchmarking and improvement
  • Data center network architecture

Work Experiences

  • Achieved a 65% reduction in recovery time.
  • Checked client and vendor technical specifications for adequacy, accuracy, and functionality.
  • Accelerated troubleshooting timelines by 17%.
  • Was in charge of network performance, making adjustments to improve overall efficiency and power.
  • Collaborated with Principal Network Engineers in disaster planning, network backup, and recovery process monitoring.
  • Helped with data analysis and workflow optimization, as well as security incident triage and response.
  • Configured category and metric routing and switching protocols, as well as performed troubleshooting.
  • Was in charge of analyzing, identifying, and resolving complex network hardware and method issues.
  • Achieved 37% increase in server connectivity speeds.
  • Architected a cloud-based network solution.

Summaries

  • Boosted operational uptime across 16 international offices.
  • Supports employee knowledge base by creating support and training documentation.
  • Provides IT systems with supplemental and total management support, including the setup and maintenance of networks and servers.
  • Analytical Network Engineer with 6 years of infrastructure device administration and troubleshooting experience.
  • Collaborative network leader.
  • Principal Network Engineer is a multi-talented Principal Network Engineer who is consistently rewarded for planning and operational improvements.
  • Dedicated technology expert with a proven track record of performing accurate system repairs and troubleshooting.
  • Boosted network performance across 4 sites.
  • Proven leadership, operational excellence, and organizational development skills, as well as a thorough understanding of the standard business.
  • Aligned technology and operational goals.

Accomplishments

  • Developed and implemented traffic segmentation policies to improve network security by isolating sensitive traffic and reducing risk by 33%.
  • Led cross-departmental change management processes during a full infrastructure upgrade, leading to minimal disruption during a 2015-long project.
  • Implemented BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) with policy-based routing to optimize traffic flow, improving external partner connectivity by 56%.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to architect a scalable global MPLS network, improving latency by 35% and opening future expansion options.
  • Designed and deployed multi-cloud VPN solutions linking offices across 18 regions, maintaining secure and stable connections.
  • Provided Tier 3 support for resolving complex outages, personally reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 2 hours.
  • Engineered and deployed high-performance data center networking to support cloud services expansion, increasing capacity by 32%.
  • Overhauled an outdated IPv4 network infrastructure to IPv6 in 2018, ensuring future scalability and eliminating address conflicts.
  • Achieved a PMP to maintain industry-leading knowledge and methodologies for improving global network performance.
  • Centralized network management using Power BI, reducing administration efforts by 36% and improving overall network security visibility.

Affiliations

  • Active volunteer with IEEE Communications Society, Chapter framework
  • Affiliation with the VMware Users Group (Seattle/Global)
  • Participation in SANS Institute trainings and webinars 2019
  • American Marketing Association
  • Affiliate with National Institute for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS)
  • Affiliated with Network Professional Association (category)
  • Lions Club
  • Completed network virtualization courses through the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) - 2019
  • Association for Computing Machinery
  • Project Management Institute

Certifications

  • SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP)
  • Aruba Certified Mobility Expert (ACMX)
  • Cloud Security Alliance, Certificate of Cloud Security Knowledge (CCSK)
  • Certified Ethical Hacker (CEH)
  • ITIL Foundation Certification
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
  • VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
  • Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
  • Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA)
  • Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP)

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