Professional Summary

Experienced network and systems engineer with over a decade of field and operational experience across passive and active network elements. Practiced in planning, deploying and maintaining CAT3-to-CAT7/structured cabling, fiber optic networks (splicing, repair and doing various measurements), wireless installations and enterprise routing/switching. Operates and troubleshoots enterprise security appliances (NGFWs, SD‑WAN), ISE/LAN access services, virtualization platforms (Proxmox, VMware), storage and backup solutions. Extensive experience with enterprise PBX, SIP/SBCs, TLS/SRTP, PKI and deep packet-level debugging. Comfortable scripting and automation (bash, PHP, Ansible) and using monitoring, configuration backup and reverse proxy solutions.

Experience Highlights

Field & Infrastructure Engineering — 10+ years

Design, implement and maintain copper, fiber and wireless networks. Fiber splicing/repair and structured cabling expertise. On-site installations and troubleshooting.

Routing & Switching Operations

CCNP/MCIE level experience with Cisco, Juniper and MikroTik platforms; EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, BFD, VLANs, STP, LAGs, MPLS, SD‑WAN.

Security & Access

NGFW operation (URL filtering, IPS, advanced ACLs, GeoIP filtering), Cisco ISE, RADIUS/LDAP integration and secure VPN architectures (IPsec, Wireguard, S2S VPN).

Virtualization, Storage & Backup

Proxmox VE, Proxmox Backup Server, VMware ESXi/vCenter; experience with DELL/HP servers, EMC/IBM storage and tape libraries.

VoIP & Real-time Communications

Enterprise PBX (Mitel OpenScape 4000), SBCs, softswitches, deep SIP/RTP/SRTP debugging and TLS transport knowledge.

Selected Projects & Responsibilities

  • End-to-end fiber network rollout with splicing, testing and cutover coordination.
  • Design and operation of enterprise MPLS & SD‑WAN overlays and private WANs.
  • Deployment of NGFWs with advanced access policies and IDS/IPS tuning.
  • Implementing centralized authentication and accounting with ISE/RADIUS/LDAP.
  • Building virtualization clusters and backup strategies with Proxmox/VMware.
  • Large-scale SIP migration and SBC integration projects with packet-level troubleshooting.

Education & Certifications

Practical, on-the-job experience and continuous professional development. Working knowledge at CCNP/MCIE level (hands-on) — certifications not held.