Network Engineer
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Having 12 years of solid experience in network design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring.
Experienced Solutions Architect, Standards Architect, Configurator and Implementer of Cisco and Arista, Palo Alto Routers, Fortinet/Fortigate, Juniper Routers, Switches, Wireless Access Points, VPN Concentrators, Firewalls, and enterprise WLC'S,
Cisco & PAN firewall configuration, installation, and troubleshooting. Datacenter & spoke FW’s.
Accomplished designer of corporate-wide IP schemas.
Proven success in systems administration, systems analysis and troubleshooting skills.
SDN, SD-Wan and Azure/AWS/Ansible cloud integration support.
Experience in support and administration of e-mail infrastructure and network security tools.
Extensive experience on support and administration of network security policies.
Conscientious, organized problem solver and team player who works well under aggressive deadlines.
Extensive experience in dealing with customers and identifying business needs.
Extensive knowledge of Configuring, Manage identity and access management (IAM) in Azure, AWS, GCP cloud environments
Proven strengths in resolving problems for customers.
23 Professional Technical Certifications
Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer
JNCIA - Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional
Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator
GCP Google Cloud Professional Architect
Microsoft Hyper-V Powershell Certified
Network Engineer/Network Cybersecurity Engineer - Seeking a full time position that I will be able to utilize my professional skills and experience, people skills knowledge to benefit a professional company or organization.
Houston, TX
November 2016 to Dec 2024
Job Description: Resolved network issues on the internal network regarding network problems.
Configure, Manage & Install Cisco Routers and Switches (NAT, ACL, IPsla Tracking, BGP, OSPF, HSRP (Vlan’s & QoS)
Configure, Manage & Install Palo Alto Routers & Switches
Configure, Manage & Install Fortigate/Fortinet Routers & Switches
Configure Point to Point/Multipoint IPSec VPN’s
Vantiv is a large financial services company providing credit card terminals to different types of businesses. I worked on the internal network configure, troubleshoot, manage install for cisco, palo alto, fortigate/fortinet.
Configure, Manage AWS and Microsoft Azure
Configure, Manage AWS Security group deployment using Terraform
Configure, Manage identity and access management (IAM) in cloud environments
Hostcopper.com
Web Hosting and Web Design
Houston,TX
Job Description: Director of sales business & marketing
Customer relations and product development
Initiated and ran all prospective client meetings
Closed deals on corporations individuals and businesses.
Closed deals on small to medium sized businesses.
Houston, TX
Title: System Admin/Onsite IT Support
November 2014 to September 2015
Job Description: On site it support supporting law offices, dentists office to small business customers. Windows Server 2008/2012
Network printers network troubleshooting and software/hardware on computers.
I also supported large ships out in the gulf, assisted the ships with server support/network issues and hardware/software support.
A typical day working at gfa would be driving site to site all over houston. Fixing whatever the customer wants. If we needed to fix their server or support their computers hardware or software, network printers, or networking issues. We would work on it. At gfa we covered everything related to information technology. We also supported ships out in the gulf. You would be at a customers location and the boss might say you need to go to Galveston and get on a ship fixing the ships computers. We would work on the ship until the job is done. There was some late nights we had to work.
I ran cabling for a new dentist office setup in sugar land tx. We also setup the server for dental office software. I have also ran cable for a warehouse and setup ip cameras and configured the ip camera system.
Houston,TX
August 2013 to January 2014
Job Description: Supported web hosting customers through phone, live chat and email.
I assisted customers with web hosting questions, web design and outlook trouble.
This position I was working from home. I supported customers questions for the web easy website builder software. I answered customers questions for setting up email on outlook.
Houston,TX
June 2009 to June 2013
Job Description: Support users internet service. Resolved any customer issues regarding network problems. I supported t1 customers. I worked with all the major routers and protocols.
Configure & Manage Cisco Routers (1800,1900,2800,2900,3600,7200 series), Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco ASA5500 Series Appliances (NAT, ACL, IPsla Tracking, BGP, HSRP
(Vlan’s & QoS)
DNAC & SDN
Install & Manage Cisco ASA5500 Series Appliances
L2L IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, ACL’s, Advanced NAT)
Install & Manage SonicWall TZ & NSA Series Appliances
Install & Manage Brocade Switches
Install & Manage Meraki Routers
Install & Manage Fortigate Switches
Configure & Install indoor & outdoor Cisco Aironet AP’s
Configure Point to Point/Multipoint IPSec VPN’s
Houston,TX
June 2008 to July 2009
Job Description: Resolved any customer issues regarding network problems.
Configure & Manage Cisco ASA Appliances (NAT, ACL, IPsla Tracking, BGP, OSPF, HSRP
(Vlan’s & QoS)
Monitor and manage Adtran firewall/router and switches
Terminate Cables to Cisco ASA Appliances in Datacenter
Yahoo! Web Hosting
Houston,TX
October 2006 to November 2007
Job Description: Resolved any customer issues, or any questions with there web sites and web hosting, or mail server issues. I supported small business products and services.
Houston,TX
November 2005 to April 2006
Job Description: Monitoring and maximizing network performance
Tomball College Tomball, Texas G.E.D.
SPECIAL SKILLS & TRAINING:
SDN / SD-WAN / DMVPN
23 certifications senior network engineer business professional
