Catherine Reilly

Accomplished Infrastructure Leader with over 20 years of experience designing, securing, and modernizing complex enterprise networks. Technical expert specializing in vendor-agnostic routing, switching, and security engineering across Cisco, Meraki, Fortinet, and HPE platforms. Acts as a decisive technical anchor with a proven track record of executing NGFW migrations, stabilizing multisite wireless environments, and mentoring high-performance engineering teams.

Network & Infrastructure Specialist - Westfield Bank - Westfield, MA

(2025-01 - 2026-01)

• Architected and deployed an enterprise Wi-Fi infrastructure redesign, eliminating legacy roaming gaps and stabilizing remote connectivity across 27 branch locations.
• Hardened the bank's vulnerability management lifecycle by validating exposures, coordinating cross-layer remediation, and reducing surface risks across network, server, and application tiers.
• Spearheaded deep root-cause analysis on systemic network outages, refactoring infrastructure misconfigurations to stabilize core routing operations and eliminate chronic downtime.
• Engineered Fortinet firewall, VPN, and granular access policy updates to transition the edge infrastructure toward a strict, least-privileged access framework.

Senior Network Engineer - Peckham Industries - Westfield, MA

(2024-01 - 2025-01)

• Designed and executed a corporate security segmentation strategy across 30+ sites to minimize lateral threat vectors.
• Reengineered FortiManager cloud infrastructure to deliver standardized, templatized firewall deployment baselines across all corporate operating entities.
• Mitigated critical security liabilities by migrating end-of-life legacy firewalls to a centralized, cloud-managed NGFW platform.
• Implemented robust security isolation and OT/PLC network segmentation to defend manufacturing and industrial automation systems against external threats.

Senior Network & Voice Engineer - Total Communications - East Hartford, CT

(2019-01 - 2024-01)

• Formulated and troubleshot custom multi-vendor routing, switching, and security designs for diverse client profiles, resolving multi-layered interoperability challenges.
• Deployed highly available VPN, multi-factor authentication (MFA), and secure remote access platforms to support a reliable distributed workforce.
• Governed comprehensive lifecycle upgrades and technical modernizations that elevated client security postures and guaranteed regulatory alignment.

Network & Security Engineer - Presidio - Windsor, CT

(2019-01 - 2019-12)

• Spearheaded security infrastructure design and secure B2B partner connectivity for Talcott Resolution, building resilient multi-vendor routing and core firewall topologies.

Senior Network Engineer - Lane Construction - Cheshire, CT

(2017-01 - 2018-01)

• Orchestrated design modernizations across hybrid Cisco, Meraki, F5, and CradlePoint topologies to boost throughput and expand capacities via DMVPN and MPLS upgrade initiatives

Senior Network Engineer - JKS Systems - South Windsor, CT

(2016-01 - 2017-01)

• Served as Technical Lead for multi-tenant network designs, deploying high-availability Cisco routing, switching, and ASA firewall solutions to harden client perimeter defense.

Senior Network Engineer II - TicketNetwork - South Windsor, CT

(2016-01 - 2016-12)

• Resolved critical throughput bottlenecks by designing high-availability B2B VPN topologies and diagnosing deep-layer network architecture failures to drive long-term stability.

Network Security Engineer - Center for Human Development - Springfield, MA

(2015-01 - 2016-01)

• Engineered perimeter security enhancements and deployed an enterprise PRTG monitoring matrix to increase visibility and alerting accuracy across core infrastructure.

Network Performance Analyst - Farm Credit Financial Partners - Agawam, MA

(2015-01 - 2015-12)

• Executed deep-layer data packet analysis and telemetry reporting to isolate network bottlenecks and drive proactive capacity planning.

Infrastructure Engineer Sr. Specialist - Cigna - Windsor, CT

(2013-01 - 2015-01)

• Led daily NOC operations monitoring 6,000+ enterprise network devices and 3,000+ circuits to maintain routing protocol stability and maximum uptime.