Experience


2021-03 to

Present

Longmont, CO / NextLight

Systems Administrator II

  • Deployed distributed infrastructure monitoring/alerting

  • Coordination of documentation for all network/system elements

  • Designed and built out redundant DNS environment utilizing database replication and custom backend logic

  • Stood up subscriber bandwidth monitoring/reporting using 3rd-party and in-house applications

  • Deployed and maintained DDOS detection/mitigation system utilizing Netscout/Arbor ecosystem

  • Coordinated and configured internal and external BGP peering

  • Installation, configuration, and maintenance of ROADM based transport networks

  • Participated in a two week on-call rotation

  • Designed and wired electrical plant for data center and CO environments

2018-05 to

2021-03

Sterling, CO / Kentec Communications, Inc.

Network Engineer / Systems Administrator

  • Provisioning, deployment and upkeep of virtual environments – Host and Client

  • Upkeep on daily services such as DNS, DHCP, Monitoring

  • Maintain/update documentation and device configuration servers

  • Firewall configuration/hardening at service provider and end-user levels

  • Responsible for core routing management/monitoring

  • Design/Implementation of fiber optic networks, path selection, as well as equipment selection, including passive MUX and Active Ethernet Switches

  • Provided tier 2-3 support for commercial/enterprise customers

Skills


  • Distributed DNS systems

  • DHCP

  • SNMP monitoring

  • DDOS Mitigation Systems

  • Postfix, Dovecot email serivces

  • TCP/IP Routing (BGP/OSPF) and Switching

  • pfSense environment

  • Cisco, Juniper, Brocade Networking

  • Active/Passive Transport Networking

  • PON/AE

  • Proxmox, ESXi, XCP-ng virtualization environments

  • NGINX/Apache HTTP services

  • PHP, Python, JavaScript, HTML

  • git

  • NOC AV Monitoring Design

  • Linux (Debian/RHEL like)

  • OS X

  • MS Windows (AD, NPS, DNS)

  • Fiber Optic Fusion/Mechanical Splicing

  • AC/DC electrical