Work Experience

• Arbinet, September 2010 - Present
  • Lead IP Engineer
    • Lead Engineer for the Arbinet Exchange
    • Design and Deployment of New Products, Services, and Locations
    • Software Support for Custom Routing Platform
    • Tier IV support for Operations and Sales
• Independent Contractor, November 2006 - Present
  • Projects include:
    • System administration
    • Web pages and scripting for e-commerce, internal communications, scheduling, and system integration
    • Network layout design
    • Miscellaneous network engineering and troubleshooting
• University System of Maryland, College Park, November 2006 - September 2010
  • Senior IP Network Engineer
    • Engineering and maintenance of statewide optical network
    • Maintenance of routing, switching, and DWDM equipment from core to edge
    • Engineering and deployment of videoconferencing infrastructure for Distance Education
    • Developing and deploying internal monitoring and videoconferencing tools and web applications
    • Disaster recovery and procedural documentation
    • Various customer support and repair roles
• XO Communications, June 2004 - October 2006
  • Network Engineer
    • Tier III and IV support for IP and VoIP network
    • Development of future network architectures
    • Established procedures for network maintenance, upgrades, and new deployment
    • Programming support for configuration automation and network status
    • Built web tools for hardware tracking and product testing
    • Ongoing support for legacy systems
• Allegiance Telecommunications, December 2001 - June 2004
  • April 2003 - June 24: Director, Data Engineering
    • Provide direction for backbone evolution
    • Design and implementation of New Network Features
    • Management of LAN, WAN, and PSTN projects and personnel
    • Manage testing, acceptance, and vendor relations for new products and hardware
    • Liaison to Operations, Sales/Marketing, and other Engineering groups
    • Negotiate peering agreements with other providers
    • Final escalation point for network issues
  • December 2001 - April 2003: Senior Manager, Data Network Engineering/Sustaining Engineering
    • Design and implementation of new backbone architecture
    • Managed merger of multiple nationwide backbones
    • Manage projects for new engineering support software
    • Hands-on support for operations and development staff
    • Final technical escalation point for network issues
• Intermedia Communications, April 2000 - December 2001
  • Senior Manager, IP Backbone
    • Maintenance of backbone routing
    • Design and deployment of new products and network features
    • Design and implementation of network architecture
    • Simplified backbone for increased bandwidth while lowering costs
    • Deployment of MPLS on IP backbone
    • Tier V support for Engineering, Operations, Sales, and Marketing
• ONYX Networks, August 1999 - April 2000
  • Infrastructure Engineer
    • Design for backbone routing protocols
    • Design and development of web-based administrative and network monitoring tools
• DIGEX / Intermedia Communications, July 1995 - August 1999
  • July 1998 to August 1999: IP Design and Development Engineer
    • Design and testing of new IP-based products
    • Development and documentation of network policies
    • Testing and certification of new hardware
    • Developed software for task automation and statistical analysis
    • Web development for internal knowledge base and Training
    • Tier IV support for routers and network services
  • November 1996 to July 1998: Manager, IP Routing
    • Manage IP routing engineers
    • Define policy and procedures for IP operations
    • Interface between Routing and other groups
    • Develop tools for Routing, Customer Service, NOC, and Installations
    • Provide training for IP Engineers, Customer Service, and Network Operations.
    • Define IP allocation policy, and approve large allocations
  • September 1995 to November 1996: IP Routing Engineer
    • Install and configure Backbone Routers
    • Customer turn-up
    • Tier III support for customer issues
    • Layer 1-4 protocol troubleshooting
    • Scripting of common tasks
  • July 1995 to September 1995: Network Operations
    • Design and implementation of Network Operations' internal metwork
    • Implementation of monitoring tools
    • Monitoring of customer and backbone line status
    • Troubleshoot circuit problems

Skills

• Design and deployment of large networks (including one with over 600 routers in over 70 locations nationwide.)
• IP routing protocols such as MP-BGP, ISIS, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, LDP, and ,ulticast.
• VPN at Layer 2 and Layer 3 using MPLS, IPSec, and L2TP.
• Optical networking technologies, including CWDM and DWDM
• Hardware installation, network engineering, and administration of Cisco, Juniper, Foundry, Force10, and Extreme routers and switches,
• Layer 1-2 protocols, hardware and troubleshooting for DS0-DS3, 10/100/1000/10Gig Ethernet, and SONET OC3-OC48 using HDLC, PPP, Frame Relay, Packet over Sonet, MPLS, and ATM.
• Knowledge of multiple flavors of UNIX, such as Linux (Debian and Redhat), NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Solaris
• System administration for Web, Mail, DNS, database, and other services
• Programming in C, Perl, Java, and others including database applications, client/server network software, and video conferencing and transcoding.
• Web design and programming, including CGI and JavaScript applications
• Extensive experience in making different systems interoperate
• Excellent technical writing skills

Education

• University of Maryland, 1991-1995, 2009. BA in English (Writing.)