Professional Experience
Network Consulting Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.
Member of the Southern California
enterprise consulting team, supporting government and financial sector
customers. Primary responsibility is to
lead Network
Optimization Service (NOS) consulting engagements aimed at improving the
reliability and security of enterprise-class networks. This includes Cisco IOS software strategy
recommendations, Cisco Best Practice analysis and remediation planning,
technology and device refreshment planning, planned network change support, and
critical outage support. (March, 2007 –
present)
Systems Engineer, Cisco
Systems, Inc.
Member of the Northern California
Verticals regional team, supporting the Kaiser account in the Healthcare vertical organization. Focus areas include security and datacenter technologies. Principal author of the Enterprise Security
Architecture for one of the nation’s largest Health Maintenance
Organizations, a roadmap for enterprise-wide security architectural evolution
for an infrastructure with over 14,000 Cisco devices, 900 sites (including 40
hospitals and 400 medical office buildings), 180,000 campus users and 55,000
remote access users. (August, 2005 –
March, 2007)
Network Architect / System Engineer / Technical Group
Leader, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) Deep Space
Member of the senior Information Systems and Computer
Science staff (grade Senior A, X603A).
Responsibilities include designing the architectural evolution in the
medium and long term for the DSMS ground network (as the DSMS Network
Architect), providing leadership and direction for all partner and remote
extensions of the DSMS ground network (as the Ground Network Implementations
Lead), and providing system engineering (functional requirements, high-level
design, performance analysis and reliability engineering) for the AMMOS and DSN
ground networks, ground network services (such as NTP and DNS), and ground
network monitoring subsystems (as Ground Communications Network System
Engineer). (March, 2002 – August, 2005)
Principal Consultant, Netigy Corp. / ThruPoint, Inc.
Subject Matter Expert for the Infrastructure Performance
Practice in the Southern California District.
Responsibilities included practice development, presales efforts,
service delivery, and consultant training and mentoring. Participated in
Network Baselining and PeopleSoft Application
Profiling efforts for a major higher educational system, and led the ATM backbone
Capacity Planning effort for the same client.
Participated in capacity planning efforts for a major nationwide
insurance carrier, an industrial products manufacturer, and a global
construction corporation. (September, 2000 – September, 2001)
Sr. Consultant, Enterprise Networking Systems, Inc.
Led a Network Application Performance (NAP) engagement at Kaiser Permanente to study the effect of Lotus
Notes server consolidation on WAN circuits within and between metro areas
across the nation. Completed a discovery
of Undocumented Hubs in Kaiser’s Southern California area using Unix shell scripts, Perl scripts, and
SNMP. Responsibilities also included
supporting the global Multi-Services (MS) and NAP practice development teams,
and presales efforts at the district level for the MS, NAP and Security practices.
(September, 1999 – September, 2000)
Network Consultant,
Enterprise Networking Systems, Inc.
Participated in various consulting engagements performing
audits, health checks, baselines and assessments focusing on the network as
well as enterprise applications such as PeopleSoft. Supported sales staff by
attending pre-sales meetings and developing scopes of work. (November, 1998 –
September 1999)
Sr. Network Engineer, Cogent
Software, Inc. (now PCNalert.com)
Responsible for all networking needs of a regional ISP. Responsibilities included corporate network
design, management and technical support, client network design, installation,
management and support. Served as single
point of contact for sales, installation and support for the following
services: point to point, frame relay, dial-up and dedicated ISDN Internet access,
store and forward email, server collocation, and electronic commerce. Shared system administration duties for HTTP,
HTTPS, DNS, email, dialup services, commerce servers and firewall. Authored, supported and used an in-house
network management system, as well as an availability monitoring system.
(November, 1995 – November, 1998)
Task Leader, JPL
Led the development effort for the ATMnet project, culminating in a live demonstration of ATM
technology utilizing WAN circuits from the Canberra
DSCC in Australia and NASA/Goddard Space
Flight Center (GSFC) to JPL carrying voice, video and high and low priority
data, controlled from a centralized network management station. (April, 1994 –
October, 1995)
Network Engineer, JPL
Worked on numerous networking
research tasks related to upgrading the Deep Space Network (DSN) system
using industry standard protocols such as TCP/IP. Research efforts included:
testing the effect of combining multiple paths using IGRP routing, testing
electronic mail and voice communications over a narrow-band satellite network,
bandwidth on demand networking using ISDN dial-up circuits for handling traffic
bursts and emergency backup (presented at SPACEOPS '94), and firewall design
for the connection of the DSN to the science community. (May, 1992 – March,
1994)
Member of the Technical Staff, JPL
Responsible for maintaining and
extending the Concurrent Extensible Distributed Database for the Alpha
(formerly Hypercube) project. Worked as part of a programming team, developing
a distributed discrete event simulation environment using C++ under UNIX.
(June, 1991 – May, 1992)
Senior Software Engineer, Sparta, Inc.
Designed data analysis and archiving
software for a distributed real-time data reduction system on an offshore
natural gas platform. (October, 1990 – June, 1991)
Senior Systems Engineer, ST Systems Company (now a
subsidiary of Raytheon Systems Company)
Worked at NASA’s Goddard Space
Flight Center as a member of the Engineering Test Bed team, developing a
force-reflecting master/slave manipulation system for Flight Telerobotic Servicer research. Developed a MACSYMA to
Engineer, Fairchild Space Company (FSC, now a subsidiary of Orbital
Sciences Corporation)
Worked in the Robotics and Servicing
Systems department. Wrote networking software in C language to pass messages
from a VMS-based robot planning system to a UNIX-based graphical simulation
system using DECnet and TCP/IP protocols. Contributed
to and edited the department's NASA studies. Developed and began implementation
of the FSC Robotics Laboratory Facility plan. Assisted in IR&D projects and
assisted in planning the department's research agenda. (August, 1988 – October,
1989)
Engineer, FSC
Worked in the Attitude Control
Systems department, designing flight software and performing analyses for the
Explorer Platform, Ocean Topography Experiment, FTS and Instrumented Target
Spacecraft programs. (June, 1986 – July, 1988)
Associate Engineer, FSC
Worked in the Integration and Test
Department, designing procedures for testing timing system flight hardware for
the Gamma Ray Observatory Communications and Data Handling Module. (June, 1985
– June, 1986)
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