My career has been mainly focused on supporting large, complex global networks (Cisco, Juniper based) for major corporate, blue chip companies throughout Europe as below.
Munich, Germany – Amadeus GmbH
Amsterdam, The Netherlands – AT&T, British Telecom, KPN Qwest, SWIFT, UPC, Chello, Versatel / Tele2
Brussels, Belgium – IBM, AT&T, Getronics, ING Bank
Vienna, Austria – IMMOFINANZ AG
As well as technical activities I also have experience in areas including following ITIL processes, maintaining standards and change control procedures, supplier liaison and management, Invitation to Tenders (ITTs), service delivery, bid processes, quality control, people management, production of technical and functional specifications, network design, project leading small development / implementation teams, training staff and evaluation / acquisition of hardware/software.
Currently working as an Analyst for Nomad Digital at their HQ in Newcastle supporting the DACH region.
Nomad Digital is an Internet Protocol Connectivity provider to the transport sector. It deploys wireless broadband connections for trains, metros, trams and buses, including passenger Wi-Fi services and remote condition monitoring for on-board rail components.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Management, design and installation of company wide LAN, WAN, network segmentation and internet connectivity.
- Optimising network performance and reliability by maintaining hardware and software, analysing technical issues and ensuring availability to system users.
- Implementation of effective security measures to protect data, software, and hardware
- Execution of maintenance window changes for multiple locations, performing troubleshooting of routing and switching issues
- Application of routing changes (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, etc.) to improve network and system performance.
- Design, configuration and installation of various Data Centre Network Devices to support business requirements.
- Effectively resolve routing issues within multiple contexts of the Cisco ASA firewall
- Optimisation of weekly and monthly network performance statistics and reports for Management teams using Splunk>.
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Cisco, Juniper Routing & Switching |
Cisco ASA Firewall devices |
Cisco ISE |
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Site to Site VPNs |
Splunk SIEM |
Cacti, MRTG, Nagios |
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AlgoSec Firewall Analyser |
AlgoSec Fireflow |
IronPort ESA & WSA |
internet Services
data security
network services
free cloud storagE
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