Principal network infrastructure engineer with over ten years of experience designing and implementing scalable global systems infrastructure.
Seeking to use proven skills to make a meaningful impact at a mission-driven organization.
Well-versed in Routing, switching, firewall management, and network design experience.
Multiple cloud (AWS/OCI/Azure) cloud competency.
Proven ability to automate infrastructure deployment with config management tools.
• Provide Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) network expertise to new potential customers with solution design and technical discussions. Leading to over $10 million of new recurring revenue annually.
• Deliver high-impact presentations, demos, and POCs showing the capability of OCI network architecture to over 100 large enterprise customers. Audience members include key technical SMEs and decision-makers in executive management.
• Partner with customers to design highly scalable, resilient, and secure cloud network architectures in OCI.
• Trusted advisor for OCI customers. Leading working sessions to build new OCI infrastructure or critical support for network issues blocking new customer commitments or go-lives.
• Evangelist for new OCI network features and solution architectures. Providing over a dozen pieces of Oracle branded content including blogs, videos, and interactive labs.
• Developed strategic partnerships with OCI technology partners. Driving joint initiatives that expanded OCI's network vendor marketplace presence.
• Redesigned Azure tenant to use hierarchal layout for ease of administration with Management Groups and Subscriptions. Removed unused or under-utilized resources, reducing monthly Azure spend by 30%.
• Transferred Azure accounts to least-privilege along with configuring best-practice security frameworks on Azure VM’s. Created monitoring and alerting plans for critical resources. Setup detailed logging to Azure Sentinal for InfoSec team.
• Engineered and performed migration from VPN to ExpressRoutes with high availability design. Increased front-end web server uptime availability from 99% to 99.99%.
• Operational lead for converting applications from basic authentication to modern authentication (OAuth) via Azure Active Directory.
• Innovating and improving software development process by working closely with developers and DevOps team utilizing Azure DevOps tools.
• Managed Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) along with supporting Nexus switching hardware. Migrated customer-facing DMZ networks from legacy Catalyst switch infrastructure to ACI environment.
• Automated wide-scale router and switch configuration changes via custom Python scripts. Reducing engineering time required by all team members to implement changes.
• Technical lead for regional VoIP migration from aging Avaya PBX to Cisco Unified Collaboration environment. Implemented N+1 redundancy along with a full disaster recovery site for all collaboration services. Lowered monthly voice costs by 80% by leveraging two redundant SIP circuits and decommissioning 14 PRI circuits.
• Provide monthly technical training to junior IT staff members. Along with creating network and telephony SOPs for the helpdesk team. Allowing the network engineering team to focus on designing and deploying new services.
• Team lead for Amazon Web Services (AWS) integration with on-premise network. Deployed VPC networks for business partners and engineering environments.
• A primary resource for America region LAN/WAN Refresh which includes replacement of aging switches, routers, and firewalls. Introducing edge and core layers to existing flat layer 2 environments. Implementing Juniper core switches, edge routers, and edge switches. Along with replacing competition firewalls with our own Forcepoint’s NGFW (Next-Gen Firewalls).
• Installed multiple virtual F5 Load Balancers with local and global load balancing capabilities. Configured load balancing VIPs and assisted with managing Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB).
• Increased WAN efficiency by deploying a dynamic routing protocol (BGP) to replace static routing. Taking advantage of multihoming with differing ISP’s by using edge routers and receiving complete internet routing tables to perform policy-based routing.
• Provide Tier III network support to Tier II Operations teams along with knowledge transfers and supporting documentation. ITIL incident, change, and knowledge methodology process followed.
• Successfully migrated seven global business unit acquisitions to Laird's network, wireless, and VoIP standards.
• Increased Global WAN bandwidth by 100% along with reducing latency and increasing reliability. With over 99% up-time measured by monthly KPI reports. Accomplished by implementing Cisco DMVPN solution globally within an 18-month timeframe.
• Planned and provisioned multiple Cisco call center sites which included assisting with project plans, technical on-site installation, and vendor management.
• Proactively reduced internal telephony costs along with decreasing overhead and outages by implementing High Availability, reviewing vendor accounts, and implementing major upgrades when necessary.
• Provide consultative advice and design for the Gateway Church network environment. Attend bi-weekly meetings and assist with network troubleshooting and implementation.
BS degree, Business Management; March 2024 - Current
AAS degree, Computer Networking Systems — Graduated: August 2006
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
OCI Certified Networking Professional
OCI Certified Architect Professional
Azure Administrator - AssociateCisco Certified DevNet Associate
Cisco Certified Network Associate & Professional (CCNA/CCNP)
Cisco Certified Design Associate & Professional (CCDA/CCDP)
Juniper Networks Certified Associate Junos (JNCIA-Junos)
Juniper Networks Certified Specialist Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIS-ENT)
Cisco ID No. (CSCO11593294)
Juniper CertManager ID No. (JPR00256976)
Amazon AWS Validation No. (56522GQ1DB1EQ4G5)
Microsoft MCID (991069058)