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Golden 1 Credit UnionManager, IT Network Infrastructure
Jun. 2024 - Jan. 2025Rancho Cordova, California, United States
CobaltixConsultant
Jul. 2022 - Jan. 2024San Francisco, California, United StatesWhite glove consulting service for Bay Area customers
Designed & managed cost & time saving solutions for customers by augmenting or replacing full-time IT professionals with consulting experience, while supporting an extensive variety of environments
E2openManager, Network Operations
Feb. 2017 - Apr. 2022Austin, Texas, United StatesManagement of network operations in over 10 international production data centers and over 30 international corporate offices. • Instituted fault-tolerant 2-factor VPN solutions for all corporate & productions sites
• Created and deployed SDN firewall solutions with VMWare’s NSX solution, resulting in comprehensive lockdown of DB resources
• Directed the build out of a 20-cabinet cage in Denver during the pandemic travel restrictions with no onsite personnel and 100% remote hands
• Converted all corporate offices to a fault-tolerant DMVPN dual-hub solution with OSPF
• Created new inter-campus BGP-based WAN network and configured all cloud connections, acquisition & migration traffic to prevent congestion on production circuits
• Redesigned production firewalls to remove congestion and redundant inspection
• Configured BGP/BFD-based connections for Kubernetes clusters (VMware, Openshift, etc.)
Steelwedge (Now part of E2open)Infrastructure Manager
Jul. 2014 - Feb. 2017Pleasanton, California, United StatesDeveloped operational control of all network design, implementation & management for production, development and corporate data centers, cloud environment and physical campuses Deployed Nexus 10/40G switch fabric for all data center environments
Configured Cisco ASA firewalls in multiple context mode to provide HA isolated environments
Migrated firewall management from third party to an internal configuration management system
Designed and deployed 802.1x wireless for corporate offices
Deem, Inc.Principal Network Engineer
Sep. 2011 - Mar. 2014San Francisco, California, United StatesResponsible for design, implementation and support of network environments for production, disaster recovery, corporate campus and vendor access for travel industry and Commerce-As-A-Service (CAAS) platform leader. • Designed comprehensive L2 & L3 policies & standardized deployments for all campuses and environments
• Deployed fault-tolerant dynamic multi-point VPN tunnels in all corporate offices
• Implemented 3rd party SDWAN service (Aryaka) to aid in application publishing and global office & development activities
• Added AES encryption to all WAN circuits without affecting performance
Deem, Inc.Manager, Network Engineering
Jun. 2008 - Sep. 2011San Francisco, California, United States
The SIMI GroupEnterprise Systems Engineer
Jul. 2005 - May. 2008Sacramento, California, United StatesResponse for onsite deployment and support of secure messaging products designed for health care entities (i.e. state public health organizations). • Created & maintained isolated ecosystems for each environment
• Merged disparate AD systems into a comprehensive AD forest
• Configured HP/Brocade FC storage to accommodate multiple isolated environments
• Set up Hyper-V based virtual pre-production and production environments and quadrupled their computing density and HA profile
• Created PowerShell scripts to prepopulate LDAP objects for application installation and deployment exercises
• Performed installation and deployment of SIMI products in extranet environments
• Designed and installed HIPAA-compliant BizTalk message transport systems
Davidson Technologies Inc.Senior Network Security Engineer
May. 2002 - May. 2003Sunnyvale, California, United StatesPart of a contracted team that designed and implemented a comprehensive security environment for Lockheed Martin, under high-security guidelines issued by the Missile Defense Agency. Built first VPN tunnel across Lockheed Martin MAAN using Checkpoint VPN equipment
Set up VPN-secured extranet to exchange private certificates for secure communications with subcontractors
Configured Outlook clients to use S/MIME encryption and private LDAP address book for secure communications between vendors
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