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Neil Black

Technical

Skills

Hardware

● Cisco Routers (2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900, AS5300,

7000, 7200, 7500 series, rsm and msfc ), Pix 506, 515, Cisco Catalyst Switches (2900, 3500, 3700, 4500, 5000, 5500, 6500, VSS) series,

Nexxus platform (2k,5k and 7k), IMA, Itouch, Xyplex and Raritan terminal Servers, Cisco 3030 and 3005 VPN Concentrator, F5 LTM, 3DNS, Cisco IPS, SSM AIP modules, Fluke network analyzer, Cisco

Aironet, Checkpoint Firewall, MacAfee Intrushield IDS, Cisco ASA 5500 security appliance, CSS 11506 content switch, HP ProCurve, Cisco ACE 4700 Load balancers, Cisco VG 248 Gateway. Extreme-

Summit x450, Summit 48s, Alpine 3808 and Black Diamond.

Transport Types

● T1, T3, OC3, FDDI, PRI, Frame Relay, SONET, ATM, FRATM, SMDS, ISDN, X.25, MPLS, MAN, DSL.

Applications

● Visual UpTime, Netcool, Netmetrix, Cisco Works, Cisco IDS, Cisco

Secure, HP Openview, Network General Sniffer, Checkpoint Firewall, Concord, Microsoft Project, Veritas Nerve Center, Remedy, Adobe Acrobat, HPNA (Opsware) Microsoft Front Page, Visio, Microsoft

Office, Whats Up Gold, Tivoli Netview, Wanspy, Track-It, Steel-Belted Radius, QIP, Call Manager, Wireshark (Ethereal), SolarWinds Orion, RSPAN, InfoBlox DNS administration, HP Performance Insight, MS

Sharepoint.

Operating Systems

● Windows 95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista, 2003 server, Vista, Windows 7,8,10 Solaris, Linux, HPUX and BSD Unix.

Protocols

● TCP/IP, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP4, SNMP, STP, MPLS, VPLS, VTP, DHCP, GLBP, HSRP, UDLD, DNS.

Experience

October 2014 – Present

Welch & Forbes LLC, Boston, Mass- Sr Network Architect / Engineer-

Responsible for redesigning corporate and DR site network from legacy equipment to

Cisco including Cisco ASA's, 3750 stack and 2960 switches. Configured all equipment

for complex environment including numerous extranets, VPN connectivity,

virtualization, security and cloud voice solutions . Provided ongoing support for network changes and configuration management.

November 2009 - October 2014

Tennessee Valley Authority - Senior Design Engineer. Responsible for designing

and configuring site conversions from Exreme network gear to Cisco network

equipment at all corporate campuses and hydro, fossil and nuclear plants. Work with

Cisco 3750, 2960, 2811, 6509-E, 4507-E, 3900 series routers/switches, Nexxus 7k, 5k

switch and 2k fabric extenders, Infoblox DNS administration, Symantec Endpoint

protection, Lan Enforcer, Extreme Summit x450, Summit 48s, Alpine 3808, Black

Diamond, QOS, VOIP, multicast, spanning tree, vrf, mpls, bgp, eigrp. Also responsible for data center redesign incorporating multiple VDC’s with Nexxus 7k and

5k platform with 6500 switch platform in VSS configuration with mce and vpc.

Secondary project was NAC rollout utilizing dot1x with Cisco network devices and Symantec enpoint protection which is in hiatus.

June 2009 - October 2009

Intercontinental Hotel Group - Performed PCI remediation for Holiday Inn's

global network. Also, migrated Cisco 3020 vpn concentrator pair to ASA 5520 pair.

Toools used were HP Network Automation (Opsware), Qualysguard and Tracker.

Worked with Cisco 3750, 2960, 7200, 6509, 4506, 2811, 3845, 3745 and Nexxus switch.

January 2009 – June 2009

Bridge2Solutions – Short term security consulting assignment to design,

install and configure pci compliant architecture for migration of financial services customers environment from single ASA firewall to a dual failover pair. The 2 pairs of ASA 5520 series firewalls were set up in stateful, standby

configuration. I was also responsible for setting up multiple context Cisco 4700 ACE load balancers. Internet facing ASA’s also included IPS’s which I upgraded and configured. I also set up 2- 3750 switch stacks to support

virtualized server farm. Migrated site-to-site vpn tunnel to T1 router connection for wan connectivity. 3750, 4710, 5520.

June 2008 - January 2009

EDS – Senior network engineer/ architect supporting EDS customer account. Responsible for planning network changes, documentation, top tier support

and network architecture. Worked with Cisco 6500, 3500, 3700 series switches, 2600, 3600, 7200 routers, Cisco CSS, Checkpoint firewall, Pix 515, F5 LTM, MPLS, BGP, EIGRP.

August 2006 - May 2008

Reliance Trust – Consulted for financial services company. Responsible for

re-design of network, implementing fault tolerance, redundancy, securing configurations, upgrading IOS’s, implementing network management, technical documentation, new circuit turn-ups, implementation of EIGRP, SSH, DS3 to

DR site, shadow pvc’s, configuration mgt, port spanning and partner ISDN backup . Worked with Cisco 2811, 2801, 2621, 3560, 3750, 1720,1841, QOS, VOIP, CSS 11506,

October 2005- June 2006

Home Depot – Senior Network Engineer for Mergers and Acquisitions team.

My position was responsible for network integration of Home Depot Supply acquisitions. Responsible for interfacing companies into Home Depots MPLS network which included OSPF and BGP integration.. Duties included network

design, project management, implementation, configuration and documentation of switch, router, firewall, VPN and DNS changes and documentation for network management. I worked with Cisco 2811, 3725, 3550, 3750, Checkpoint Firewall, QIP, BigIP, 3DNS, FRATM, MPLS and ATM.

June 2005- October 2005

Homebanc – Senior Network Engineer for financial services firm. This was a short term contract and I was responsible for the configuration, installation, upgrading and day-to-day troubleshooting for nationwide network and also

integrated Orion network management platform to monitor and manage their network. I worked with Cisco Catalyst 2950, 3550, 6509, Cisco Aironet, Mcaffee Intrushield IPS, Pix Firewall and VPLS.

May 2005- June 2005

AutoTrader – Senior Network Engineer for Atlanta based car advertising portal. This was a short term contract filling in for engineer on leave. I was

involved in the configuration of Catalyst 2950, 3550, 3560, 3750 switches, F5 3DNS, F5 Big IP and Pix 506 firewall. I also installed and configured Orion network management platform and installed network equipment in data center.

May 2004- February 2005

Graphics Packaging International – Senior Network Engineer for global

paperboard conglomerate. I was responsible for the configuration, installation, upgrade and day-to-day troubleshooting of a nationwide frame-relay network consisting of over 300 network devices. I was involved in the design and

implementation of changes necessary due to a merger of two companies which included the migration from 2 separate networks and routing protocols into a unified EIGRP autonomous system. I was involved in the transition from

outsourced network management to in-house network management. This transition included reconfiguring previously managed equipment including implementation of GLBP, NTP and logging network wide, Visio WAN

and LAN documentation, Visual Uptime WAN monitoring installations, and implementing out-of-band management. I worked with Cisco 3745, 3640, 2610, 2611 routers and 4507, 3500, 2900, 5500 series switches, Pix 515 firewall, Cisco Aironet and 3030 vpn concentrator.

January 2002- May 2004

Valubond Inc. – Senior Network Engineer. Responsible for all facets of network design, implementation, management and security for web based financial services company. Responsibilities include installation, configuration

and ongoing troubleshooting of routers, switches, firewalls and VPN concentrators. Responsible for VPN tunnels, administration of DNS, network design and documentation, creating network monitoring with network

management platform including logging and monitoring of syslog and snmp traps. Configured network equipment for snmp, logging, routing and access lists. Administered F5 BIG IP load balancers, WAN circuits including frame

relay, T-1 and ISDN and performed Sniffer troubleshooting. Responsible for racking, cabling, configuration and documentation of new network equipment. Light administrative duties with Backup Exec , Windows 2000, Solaris and

Linux. Responsible for disaster recovery design. Created network management website with MRTG graphs monitoring cpu and bandwidth utilization graphs for production and corporate WANs.

Worked with Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3750, and 5500 switches and Cisco 2500, 2600, 3600 routers and Cisco Pix 525, 515 firewalls, Cisco 3000 series VPN concentrators, Itouch terminal server and wireless LAN.

September 2001-January 2002-

BlackBox Inc. – WAN Support Engineer on-site at Hewlett Packard. Supported Glaxo-Smith Kline and Hewlett Packards global WAN infrastructure.

Network management tools included HP Openview. Worked with ISDN, Frame Relay, Point to Point, X.25, ATM, Cisco Local Director and Pix firewall.

October 1999- August 2001

E*Trade Senior Network Engineer. Duties included design and implementation of new network additions and support for international and domestic e-

brokerage business WAN and LAN connectivity and ongoing tuning and maintenance of Cisco routers, switches and firewalls. Worked with IPsec, NAT, QOS, HSRP, Etherchannel, VLAN’s, VTP, EIGRP and RIP. Worked with

Cisco 5000 and 6500 series switches and 1700, 3600, 2600, 7000 series routers and PIX Firewall. Designed and implemented TACACS enterprise wide using CiscoSecure.

Network Tools team lead. I was responsible for the design, implementation

and maintenance of the network management infrastructure utilizing Cisco Works, HP Openview and Netcool. I assisted in the design and implementation of SNMP configurations for routers, switches and firewalls. Helped implement Netmetrix and HP LanProbes.

September 1998- October 1999

Hewlett Packard- Network Support Specialist / Operations Service Center - Monitored, configured and troubleshot global and regional wide area networks for Smith-Kline Beecham, UL, 3M, Bemis, Owens Corning, WR Grace,

AutoDesk, and Hewlett Packard. Worked extensively with Frame Relay, Point -to-point, ISDN, X.25, SMDS and ATM. Worked primarily with Cisco 2500, 4000 and 7000 series routers and 5000 series switches. Administered Windows NT network for Alcoa Corp.

Nov 1996- Sept 1998

Attended CTI Technical School, Georgia State University (pursuing Masters in Computer Information Systems) and obtained Microsoft and Cisco Certifications.

Education Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia

BBA / Business

Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia

ASC / Urban Affairs

CTI Technical Institute Marietta, Georgia

MCSE Networking Classes

Georgia State University Atlanta, Georgia

3 semesters

Masters of Science / Computer Information Systems

Licenses

and

Certificatio

ns

● Cisco Certified Network Associate 1998 ● CCNP Testing

● Microsoft Certified Professional 1998 ● Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer 1998 ● Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer + Internet 1998