Candidates About

Summary

Experienced, multidimensional professional with 15+ years designing and deploying IP and storage area networks, while also managing capital and expense budgets; able to efficiently bridge the gap between finance and technology. Specializing in data center build and move projects.

Education

The Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)

·         Corporate Finance Major

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Professional - Routing and Switching (exp: 2013, pending renewal)

Cisco Certified Network Associate – Security (exp: 2007, pending renewal)

Cisco Certified Network Associate – Wireless (exp: 2007, pending renewal)

Professional Experience

IBM - SAN Architect / Lead Network Engineer / IT Capital Coordinator

2006 to Current

General Responsibilities

·         Monitoring of Datacenter IP network and SAN devices

·         All port configurations and network changes

·         All firewall rule filter approvals and changes on Datacenter firewalls

·         Break/fix of network devices and network links

·         Any troubleshooting of performance degradation

·         Code upgrades of all network and SAN equipment

·         Refresh of all end-of-life network equipment

·         Design, configuration, and installation of addition network devices/segments

·         All F5 BigIP load balancing requests

Key Projects

Storage Area Network Buildout and Migration Project (2016-Present)

Inherited control of a Brocade SAN, which suffered from faulty design and implementation, and suffering consistent failures. This SAN consisted of 50+ Node fabric with 1000+ WWNS. I designed and implemented a solution that incorporated a SAN A/SAN B topology for maximum resiliency. This consisted of (2) Cisco 9710 Storage Directors in the core. The cores were running in NPIV mode with 60+ Cisco 9148s running in NPV mode. All storage arrays, mostly IBM XIVs, were connected to both core switches. All servers, using multiple HBAs connected to both 9148s, would have SFP, card, fiber, and core redundancy to achieve maximum resiliency.

Lab Consolidation Project (2013-2015)

Planned and implemented the consolidation of 5 IBM Labs into new Datacenter space in Columbus, Ohio. This consisted of over 800 physical devices that required new facilities and networks set up in Columbus ahead of time. All server port configurations and vlans were documented and reproduced in the new Datacenter space. This initiative also required the relocation of publicly routable network blocks to Columbus during the cut-over.

Datacenter Buildout Project (2011-2012)

Starting with 20K square feet of plain raised floor space, I designed a rack layout for over 150 racks, using a hot/cold isle alignment. I installed (2) Cisco 7009 Nexus routers at the core and utilized (2) Cisco ASA 5585 firewalls as a control point. The access layer consisted of Cisco Nexus 5596 “spine” switches, with Cisco 2248 fabric extenders (FEX) in each rack. Each FEX had (2) 10GB links to each 5596. Virtual Port Channels (vPC) are being used to provide 40GB total uplink bandwidth from each rack. Cut-through proxy with dynamic access-lists were used to provide access control to higher sensitivity networks.

Wireless LAN Redesign and Deployment Project (2010)

The existing wireless system systems was made up off all autonomous Cisco access points, using WEP encryption for authentication and no “seamless” roaming. 

I completed a site survey of our 4 buildings, and designed a comprehensive wireless solution.

The solution included (2) Cisco wireless controllers, 60 Access Points, a guest anchor, and authentication through RADIUS to an ACS server.

Datacenter Migration Project (2006-2009)

I lead the network build-out of a new datacenter at IBM’s Sterling Commerce location in Dublin, OH. The finalized design included a three-tiered network consisting of Cisco ASA 5540 Firewalls and Cisco 6509s with Sup 720s at the core, fully segregated commercial and non-commercial network segments, management network segments, and back office network segments. This effort also included setting up (2) OC12 internet circuits with diverse carriers (Spring and AT&T) for load balanced corporate internet access. We then worked with all application owners to migrate their servers from the “old datacenter” to the new datacenter be and rewriting all firewall rules on the updated ASA firewalls to lock down applications to only ports and protocols needed for the applications to function.

Verizon Business – Lead Technical Engineer

1999 to 2006

General Responsibilities

·         Escalation Point to all engineers on the floor.

·         Troubleshooting LEC/T1/T3 circuit problems using loopback testing

·         Management of all customer premise routers, switches, and VPNs.