Jan 2017 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, CA

• Analyze traffic to find improvements in peering, user latency, and planning for future locations.
• Develop and implement automation framework for all frequent tasks to minimize time to resolution and human errors.
• Manage and optimize network routing based on performance and cost.
• QA and deploy next generation routers to replace legacy infrastructure with a focus on automation and price.
• Lead technical decisions and discussions within all of infrastructure to create solutions all teams are on board with.

Nov 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Global Content Distribution Network specializing in DDoS mitigation and web security
• Manage and improve enterprise data center, fixing redundancy issues and improving standardization.
• Design, install, and manage global corporate office network with a focus on scalability and price sensitive solutions.
• Monitor and fix bandwidth limitations throughout the production locations working with hardware and logistics teams to replace legacy hardware.
• Design and installation of Cisco Unified Communications manager.
• Automation of global configuration changes and firmware updates, utilizing python, paramiko, and Jinja2.

Aug 2011 – Aug 2015 · 4 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

• Lead architect of global infrastructure for corporate offices domestic and international, moving from 2 offices of under 400 total employees, to 40 current offices with over 4000 employees
• Design, install, and support the global sales conference temporary wireless infrastructure for over 1000 users
• Support backbone, datacenter, and security teams for rollouts, troubleshooting, and design assistance
• Extensive design and testing of wireless in extreme density environments
• Work closely with partnering departments to collaborate on solutions to enhance end user experience and productivity, including Bonjour/mDNS/airplay on a layer 3 segmented network, low loss wireless roaming, and high throughput video streaming

Sep 2008 – Aug 2011 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• The leading web hosting control panel software provider supplying hosting automation tools to data centers and customers around the
• world. Headquartered in Houston with data centers in New York and Los Angeles
• · Ensure performance and reliability of corporate infrastructure in a 24/7/365 environment
• · Migrated data center network to a Layer 3 switched environment, resulting in a 20x increase in capacity
• · Corrected and optimized routing to improve fail-over and WAN performance
• · Achieved high availability through active monitoring and automated fail-over mechanisms
• · Successfully enabled dual-stack networking with IPv6 for recent World IPv6 Day project
• · Designed, configured and implemented corporate LAN for a new building with workstation access, wireless, VoIP, access
• control system and IP security video
• · Created scripts to automate frequent sysadmin tasks and Nagios checks using Perl and Shell scripts

Jun 2007 – Aug 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Telecommunications company headquartered in Minneapolis that focuses on providing reliable, cost-effective telephony and converged
• services to medium-sized businesses
• · Designed and implemented corporate and government networks to client specifications and requirements
• · Built networks with a wide variety of equipment including Cisco, HP, ADTRAN, Extreme and SonicWALL
• · Created and installed VoIP-enabled networks with an emphasis on voice quality
• · Resolved network problems before, during and after implementation, including issues with ISPs

Mar 2007 – May 2008 · 1 yr 2 mos

• Nation's largest single-location private greenhouse with $32.6 million in sales. Corporate network consists of more than 100
• workstations and 12 servers.
• Ensured full function of point-of-sale terminals, workstations and associated infrastructure services
• Designed, implemented and maintained Unix, Linux and Windows servers with VMware virtualization
• Migrated entire campus from local log-in to SME server domain log-ins
• Transitioned users from external mail server and DNS to local qmail server and internally managed DNS