Experience

VAE, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• TBD

  • Sep 2023 - Present



Awakened Technologies

• Network Automation Developer

  • Feb 2011 - Present



Dynecon LLC

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Network Automation Engineer

  • Apr 2021 - Sep 2023



PayPal

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Backbone Network Engineer

  • May 2019 - Jan 2021

  Scottsdale, AZ Network Engineer supporting the Paypal backbone and Internet POPs.



FIS

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programmer Analyst Specialist, Network Automation

  • Jun 2018 - May 2019

  Phoenix, Arizona Area Developing automation solutions in complex networking environment.

• Network Analyst Specialist, MPLS Engineer

  • May 2012 - Jun 2018

  Phoenix, Arizona Area • Maintain critical MPLS infrastructure • Configure and troubleshoot Cisco and Juniper devices (routers, firewalls, and switches) • Migrated various critical networks to MPLS carrier grade network • Managed complex, carrier grade network supporting thousands of customers globally • Designed and configured critical network for voice services • Created tools allowing greater knowledge into the networks we work with • Take part in on call rotation



Modis

• Switzerland
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Network Engineer II

  • May 2012 - Dec 2012

  Phoenix, Arizona Area Contracted for Fidelity National Information Services • Took part in migrating a Data Center to new network equipment utilizing a VRF-lite topology • Migrated firewall rules on Cisco FWSM and ASA devices • Managed and configured Cisco ACE load balancing modules.



Enterprise Networks Solutions

• Sr. Network Architect

  • Oct 2011 - Mar 2012

  Mesa, Arizona Pre-sales engineer position • Became certified on the Citrix NetScaler • Put together large proposal for forklifting the core of a city-wide network, including Internet egress and cloud services • Presented the NetScaler product line to potential customers



22nd Century Technologies Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Network Engineer

  • Nov 2009 - Aug 2011

  Contracted for the City of Phoenix Aviation Division



City of Phoenix

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Network Engineer

  • Mar 2009 - Aug 2011

  • Maintained MPLS infrastructure. • Maintained secure business to business connections to vendors for a variety of purposes utilizing a Cisco ASA5540 pair. • Implemented Snort IDS system running on Linux to protect PCI compliant networks. • Implemented LDAP database with ACS integration. • Identified key vulnerabilities in network.



NEC Unified Solutions

• Telecommunications
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Network Engineer

  • May 2009 - Oct 2009

  Contracted for the City of Phoenix Aviation Division



Abrazo Health Care

• Sr. Network Engineer

  • Aug 2003 - May 2009



Vanguard Health Systems

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Sr. Network Engineer

  • Aug 2003 - May 2009

  • Designed and implemented enterprise network from the ground up. • Designed a secure, highly available Data Center utilizing Catalyst 6500E/720 switching, ASA/FWSM firewalls, IDS/IPS, MARS, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF. • Migrated production Data Center to new location in a phased migration utilizing a L2VPN for sustained network access between two diverse sites. • Designed and implemented LWAP deployment, providing complete wireless coverage throughout 5 hospitals for voice services. … Show more • Designed and implemented enterprise network from the ground up. • Designed a secure, highly available Data Center utilizing Catalyst 6500E/720 switching, ASA/FWSM firewalls, IDS/IPS, MARS, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF. • Migrated production Data Center to new location in a phased migration utilizing a L2VPN for sustained network access between two diverse sites. • Designed and implemented LWAP deployment, providing complete wireless coverage throughout 5 hospitals for voice services. • Designed and implemented QoS policies for voice services and critical applications utilizing custom DSCP values, traffic shaping, WFQ, WRED, and MLS COS. • Maintained secure business to business connections to vendors for a variety of purposes utilizing Cisco PIX515E pairs, ASA5520s, 3030 Concentrators, and point to point circuits. • Migrated Inter-market Wide Area Network from Frame to MPLS. • Implemented open source monitoring suite providing pager notifications and configuration backups. • Developed Python scripts for networking tasks, as well as a web application to manage IP address space, SmartNet, and inventory. • Created company network standards and documentation. Show less



ABS School Services

• Network Engineer

  • May 2002 - Jun 2003



Touchscape

• Network Engineer

  • Sep 2000 - Oct 2001

  • Designed, installed, and maintained a secure high availability Cisco networking environment connecting users from a two building campus to a collocated Data Center using a minimal budget. • Implementation of Cisco PIX 520UR and Content Smart Switch (CSS). • Planned and took part in a four hour migration of the production Data Center from one collocation to another; responsible for colocation selection. • Implementation of SSL offloading, involving identifying code changes to… Show more • Designed, installed, and maintained a secure high availability Cisco networking environment connecting users from a two building campus to a collocated Data Center using a minimal budget. • Implementation of Cisco PIX 520UR and Content Smart Switch (CSS). • Planned and took part in a four hour migration of the production Data Center from one collocation to another; responsible for colocation selection. • Implementation of SSL offloading, involving identifying code changes to support SSL, as well as load testing. Show less



Integrated Information Systems

• IT Consultant

  • May 2000 - Aug 2000