About Me
With over 5 years of experience in enterprise networking, I specialize in multi-vendor infrastructure, firewalls, SD-WAN, cloud security, and automation. I enjoy designing resilient architectures and solving performance challenges at scale.
Professional Experience
- Verizon: Deployed Cisco ACI, SD-WAN (Viptela, Versa, Silver Peak), Palo Alto PA-7K firewalls, Fortinet 6000, Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Akamai CDN, and Cisco ISE with extensive automation using Ansible and Terraform.
- UHG: Migrated firewalls (Check Point to ASA), deployed A10 TPS & Akamai WAF, configured SD-WAN with Versa & Silver Peak, implemented AWS Direct Connect, and maintained Aruba wireless infrastructure.
- Capgemini: Network support, IOS upgrades, routing protocol deployment (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP), firewall setup (ASA), and monitoring with SolarWinds, Wireshark.
Skills
- Routing & Switching (BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, EVPN)
- Firewalls: Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA
- Cloud Networking: AWS, Azure, Zscaler
- Load Balancing: F5, NetScaler, A10
- Automation: Ansible, Terraform, Python
- Monitoring: Grafana, SNMP, SolarWinds, Splunk
Certifications
- CCNP Enterprise
- PCNSE (Palo Alto)
- AWS Solutions Architect – Associate
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