NETWORK ENGINEER
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
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Author of the Linux Quick Fix Notebook ISBN: 0131861506
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) #8710
MBA, BS electrical and computer engineering
Complete bilingual Spanish and English fluency
Fourteen years post university work experience in North America, Latin America and
Europe
Strong general management, negotiation, inter-personal, communication and team
building skills
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)
Netflix Inc., Los Gatos, California, 2005 - Present
Network Manager
Voice and data communications technical lead for the company's 38 DVD distribution centers
and three corporate offices. Involvement in a number of initiatives related to improved
centralized and automated network management systems to meet corporate goals with minimum
capital expenditure. Lead for the network re-architecture efforts to facilitate better product
delivery to customers. Team of 5.
Navisite Inc., Andover Massachusetts, 2000 - 2005
Director Network Engineering, San Jose California
Managed a team of up to 15 engineers, 200+ Cisco 6509 layer 3 switches / routers serving over
600 customers and 3,000 web servers. Hands on familiarity with products from Cisco, Nortel /
Altheon, Juniper, Netscreen, Nokia, F5, Blue Coat, Foundry and Avaya.
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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.
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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.
Projects have included:
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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.
eFinity Management Consultants, Northbrook IL, 1999 - 2000
Networking / IT Consultant
Main client, United Airlines SFO. Member of the team that managed the systems and associated
network devices used to control the maintenance of all North American aircraft. LAN/WAN
network of 1,100 TCP/IP based data collection devices controlled by over 20 high speed servers
and 20 Cisco routers. Team member for replacing legacy Cabletron Layer 2 switching equipment
with Cisco 6509 Layer 3 switches to act as a campus backbone. Pre-sales work to migrate from
OpenVMS to UNIX / Solaris. Project manager for migrating all aircraft maintenance systems
from legacy disk storage to RAID arrays. Resulting annual maintenance contract savings of
$400,000. Experience with Cisco Routers, network security, Multinet TCP/IP, Compaq Alpha
systems, Storageworks.
Trinidad & Tobago Trading Co., Colon Panama, 1998 - 1999
Chief Executive Officer
Established the first overseas based trade facilitation company created by the government of
Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). The primary focus was to increase non-oil manufactured exports
from T&T to Latin America via the Colon Free Trade Zone (CFTZ) in Panama. Staff, 6.
Dr. Ian Sangster & Co., Kingston Jamaica, 1996 - 1997
Sales & Export Manager, Kingston Jamaica
Full responsibility for annual rum & liqueur sales and marketing of over US$2.0 million in nine
Caribbean nations. 1996 sales climbed 26% over 1995 with exports rising 67% during the same
period. Staff of 20.
Eli Lilly (Export) S.A., Puerto Rico, 1994 - 1996
Marketing/Sales Representative, Kingston Jamaica
Project leader for the team that created the highly successful Diabetes Educator Program for all
Jamaican government pharmacists and endocrine nurses. Territory including Jamaica, the
Cayman Islands & Bermuda with combined US$1.0 million annual sales. Sales up 50%, 1995 vs.
94, in an economy growing less than 1% during the same period. Staff 3
Island Microsystems Ltd., Kingston Jamaica, 1990 - 1992
Deputy General Manager
Managed for the group that prepared contracts, terms of reference and provided software
consultants/programmers for the National Insurance Scheme Computerization Project for the
Ministry of Labor Welfare and Sports. (400,000 records) Also contracted and managed the
performance of the software personnel assigned to the Ministry's Food Stamp project. (300,000
records). Experience additional to that below included Windows NT and UNIX systems
management, OpenVMS, Informix, SQL & Novell Netware. Staff, 25.
Fiscal Services Ltd., Kingston Jamaica, 1986 - 1990
Network Manager
Managed 400 user VAX/VMS computer network for the Government of Jamaica's (GOJ)
revenue collection departments. Experience in network & systems management, client server
distributed computing, facilities management, capacity planning, performance tuning, systems
security, workload analysis and more. Experience with the preparation and administration of
RFP/RFQ tenders for the Government of Jamaica. Staff, 12.
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
Netscreen, PIX, and Checkpoint Firewalls
PREFERRED LOCATIONS
Willing to accept short term international assignments.
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