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SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Eighteen years of extensive hands-on experience in network engineering, Windows / Linux systems administration,
troubleshooting and repair. Designed, installed, configured and maintained complex routed LAN and WAN networks.
Supervised permanent and contract personnel. Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels.
A team player who also can work well independently.
PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
(Last Position Held)
Member of the final technical escalation team for all for 16 web hosting data centers network events and
post sales customer support
Lead engineer for the management of Navisite?s HotRoute content delivery systems used by Computer
Associates and Oracle for their software download sites.
Member of the customer incident review team
Team lead for the network equipment rationalization project for the West Coast data centers. Reduced
equipment maintenance costs by over 50% through the phased removal of equipment from the San Jose
data center. This was achieved through a series of over 30 planned change windows.
Networking team lead in the migration and integration of all customers from the Scott's Valley, Avasta,
Progress Software and Conxion data centers to Navisite's San Jose data center. This involved moving over
750 servers.
Created the "Socrates" web portal to provide information to disparate network engineering groups, from
multiple acquired companies, with centralized documentation on the various deployed architectures and
subsequent integration projects.
Lead for the "Architecture Desk" which has responsibility for the research, evaluation, approval and
implementation of all equipment additions to our customer topologies with an eye to long term supportability.
Team lead for architecting and implementing Navisite's New Delhi (India) offices established as part of the
company's globalization efforts.
Member of Navisite's team responsible for making the San Jose data center SAS70 compliant in
accordance with the requirements of the Sarbanes Oxley Act.
Team lead for a number of formal training exercises for the Engineering, NOC and Customer Care
organizations. Developed a "Technical Lunch" program to provide technology briefings to "top 30"
customers on the architectures used in their hosting topologies.
Team lead for the annual code upgrading process for all network devices.
Member of the systems compatibility test systems lab responsible for verifying the functionality of various
vendors' equipment, supplied by customers or internally, with Navisite's existing infrastructure.
Acting "Incident Manager" responsible for resolving issues that affect any customers' web site functionality in
the absence of the Director of Networking.
Lab testing to ensure that the Cisco CSS11000 (Arrowpoint) L5/7 switches used were compatible with all
Navisite's supported web server applications. Responsible for identifying a number of bug fixes in versions 3
and 4 code.
Development and introduction of a centralized VPN service to be resold to clients. Implementation of the
infrastructure to create a single super NOC to monitor Navisite's 4 data centers.
Creation of PERL scripts to check the QA of network device configurations via SNMP and configuration file
checks.
EDUCATION
Post Grad. Dip. International Trade
ICADE Spain, 1997 - 1998
MBA
Univ. of Western Ontario, Ontario Canada, 1992 - 1994
Post Grad. Dip. Management (Distinction)
Univ. of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1989 - 1992
BS Electrical Engineering (Honors)
Univ. of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1983 - 1986
ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Checkpoint FW-1
CISCO CS11000 L5 Switches
Building Cisco Remote Access Networks
CISCO LAN Switch Configuration
CISCO Certified Network Associate
Cisco PIX Firewall Bootcamp
Sniffer Pro Network Analyzer (L2 & L3)
Advanced Cisco Router Configuration
Cisco Internetwork Design
Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting
ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE
Network Routing Hardware
Cisco 7513s, Cisco 6500s, Cisco CSS L5/7 content switches, Juniper Load Balancers
F5, Foundry, Cisco
Routing Protocols
BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP
LAN/WAN Technologies
Ethernet, Frame Relay, X.25, VLANs, T1/DS3/OC3
Operating Systems
Linux / UNIX / Solaris, Windows NT / 2000 / XP
Network Management / Other HP OpenView, SNMP, Sniffer, DNS/BIND, PERL, Checkpoint & PIX firewalls, VPNs,
DECnet
Firewalls
PREFERRED LOCATIONS
Permanent positions: San Francisco Bay Area (South Bay & Peninsula) - Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Milpitas,
Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Campbell, Fremont, Santa Clara, San Jose, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Menlo
Park, Cupertino