Resume

JOSEPH L WILSON
PILOTJOE @ GMAIL (dot) COM

Summary

Senior Network Engineer with 13+ years of experience in design, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN infrastructure, web load balancing systems and security systems.  I have worked for various Dot-Coms, Online Internet Companies, Manufacturing, Software development, as well as State and Federal Government.

NETWORK EXPERIENCE

Routers: Cisco 3945, 3845, 7206VXR, 3600, 2800 ISR, 1841 ISR

Switches: Cisco Catalyst 6500 series, Catalyst 4500 series, 3750, 3560.  Older Cisco models include 5505, 4006, 3560, 3550, 2750, 2980, 2950, 1900, Foundry FastIron, Extreme Summit 48, HP ProCurve

Security: ASA/PIX 5580, 5540, 5520, Cisco VPN Concentrator, Nortel VPN, SonicWall Firewall, IPTables, IPsec

Load Balancers: F5 LTM/Big-IP, Citrix Netscaler, Foundry ServerIron, Cisco CSS,

WAN/Internet Optimization:  Riverbed Steelhead 6020, BlueCoat Proxy, Squid Proxy

Wireless: Bluesocket, Aironet 1200, 802.11g/b, 802.11a, EAP, PEAP, TKIP

Layer 2: 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Ether-Channel, Frame Relay, T-1, E-1, DS3, DSL, ISDN, ATM, 802.1q and ISL vlans, 802.1x, Spanning Tree, VTP

Routing Protocols:  EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, RIP

 

SYSTEMS EXPERIENCE

O/S: Linux, Windows NT, Server 2003, XP, Vista, Windows 7

Network Security/Monitoring Tools: Nagios, Cacti, Kiwi Cattools, Solarwinds Orion, Whatsup Gold

Daemons/Apps: httpd, httpsd, bind/named, sftp, sshd, xinetd, dhcpd, tcpdump, vi/vim, nfs, kickstart, samba

Scripting: Very knowledgeable of PHP, HTML and CSS.  Light experience with perl, shell, and javascript.

Protocols: TCP/IP, PPP, NetBEUI, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, SMTP/POP3/IMAP/LDAP, SNMP, RMON, WINS, DHCP, DNS

 

 

CHRONOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE

July 2009 to May 2011

Jabil Circuit

Senior Network Engineer

Jabil Circuit is one of the leading manufacturers of electronic equipment in the world.

 

Roles and Responsibilities:

  • Created detailed engineering designs and standards for global hardware refresh for 65 offices in 21 countries
  • Team lead for proof of concept testing project for routed access design.
  • Team Lead on pilot rollout project in St. Petersburg.
  • Team lead on final detail design and testing for flagship manufacturing site in Guadalajara.
  • Assist training and supervision of contracted implementation team
  • Create Visio design templates for LAN infrastructure as well as designs for new routed access design
  • Followed Cisco PPDIOO best practices.
  • Update documentation for all existing network designs.
  • Created standard configuration templates and device configurations.
  • Create migration plans, work instructions and implementation guides for project rollout
  • §  Assist in day-to-day operational tasks.

 

Nov 2007 to July 2009

Activant Solutions

SENIOR NETWORK ANALYST

  • Performed network engineering and operations of 22 office locations in North America and Europe.
  • Ongoing maintenance and monitoring of the VPN, MPLS, and LAN network architectures.
  • Design and Implement new systems to improve availability and ease of administration.
  • Complete upgrade of company DNS to improve security, redundancy, and ease administration of DNS.
  • Research and Implement WAN acceleration (Riverbed) to facilitate a large data center moves.
  • Participate in on-call to ensure 24×7 operations of network and systems.
  • Train junior network engineers and NOC technicians.

 

 

April 2007 to Nov 2007

MessageOne, Inc

NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEER

  • Maintained day to day network operations of five data centers globally.
  • Create optimized network designs to improve network performance.
  • Performed Linux systems administration.

 

 

April 2002 to Nov 2006

Match.com

SENIOR SYSTEMS ENGINEER – Networks

  • Worked in both Online Network Engineer/Operations and  Corporate I.T.
  • Designed and supported all online network, security and load balancing architectures.
  • Researched new technologies to optimize the existing network and improve online web site performance
  • Designed the corporate International office VPN
  • Implemented Cisco ASA firewalls to improve network security.
  • Designed and Implemented EIGRP as an internal standard routing protocol.
  • Improved capacity from 150Mb/s to +800Mb/s of bandwidth required for growth of Match.com.
  • Responsible for configuration and installation of all F5 and Citrix Netscaler load balancers.
  • Configured and installed Cisco Routers and Switches, Cisco VPN concentrators, and PIX/ASA firewalls.
  • Implemented BGP for outbound multi-home peering connections to upstream providers.
  • Implemented globally load balance architecture for multi-data center redundancy.
  • Worked with software developers for new application launches.
  • Configured Windows Server 2003 with IIS 7, Postfix email and BIND DNS running on RedHat EL Linux.
  • Setup network monitoring systems using Nagios, Cacti, MRTG, PRTG, Netflow and What’s Up Gold.
  • Research and test new scalability technologies for all web properties as well as corporate LAN/WAN.
  • Created Visio diagrams and documentation of systems architecture.

 

November 2001 to April 2002

Verizon (contract)

NETWORK ENGINEER

  • Worked within the Verizon E-business to configure Cisco CSS load balancer rules for Verizon.com.
  • Install, maintain and configure Cisco CSS-11150, CSS-11500 and CSS-11800 Load Balancers.

 

November 1999 to April 2001

epicRealm, Inc

SENIOR NETWORK DESIGN ENGINEER

  • Architected the World’s first content delivery network (CDN) for dynamic http and https content.
  • Designed and implemented a globally load balanced network of reverse proxy/cache servers.
  • Co-designed the network topology and global connectivity architecture for the network.
  • Performed research, evaluation and testing of network equipment
  • Responsible for capacity planning and scalability of layer 4 load balancing
  • Set up pre-production testing environments for the staging of new network equipment and software.
  • Worked with software developers to help create prototypes of patent pending global load balancing technology and dynamic content caching services.

 

November 1997 to November 1999

Allied Riser Communications

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

  • Worked in the Network Operations Center to install and maintain logical and physical wide area networks.
  • Provided tier 3 technical support and provide custom connectivity solutions for customers.
  • Established the company I.T. department.

 

July 1996 to November 1997

OpenConnect Systems

Dallas, Texas

ELECTRONIC MARKETING MANAGER

  • Webmaster and Manager of web development team to design award winning corporate Internet website.
  • Web server administration of Netscape Enterprise web servers and Apache web servers.
  • Increased website traffic by 450% through proper search engine optimization.

 

 

August 1989 to July 1996

Office of the Attorney General

Austin, Texas

NETWORK MANAGER/TELECOMMUNICATIONS SPECIALIST

  • Managed Novell 3.12 and 4.1 Local Area Networks.
  • Installed, Configured and Maintained Integrated Voice Response (IVR) Units.
  • Installed and maintained regional office PBX and Voice mail equipment.
  • Installed, maintained and troubleshot the statewide Child Support SDLC Mainframe SNA network.
  • Installed 3174 cluster controllers and 3270 display terminals.
  • Maintain and configure IBM 3725 and 3745 Front End Processors

 

 

June 1982 to June 1989

United States Air Force

Bergstrom AFB, TX –  Patrick AFB, FL

TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS CONTROL SPECIALIST

  • Worked in the Tech Control Center to troubleshoot, analog and digital voice and data circuits over satellite, LOS microwave, troposcatter, HF, and landlines.

 

EDUCATION / TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

 

CCIE Written

Certified Cisco Network Professional (recertify)

Certified Cisco Design Associate (recertify)

Certified Cisco Network Associate (CCNA)

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE – NT 4.0)

Certified Novell Administrator (CNA)

Community College of the Air Force – Advanced Communications Systems

Austin Community College – General Studies