​Network Experience

Bruce has been both formally trained and self-taught on many Cisco systems.  He researched and installed company-wide infrastructure for a business with up to 46 branches nationwide.
 
Multiple company acquisitions meant merging multiple networking and hardware platforms together.
 
He has a wide range of knowledge about many aspects of networking, from wiring to WLAN, dedicated circuits to WAN and SONET.
Network Management
  • Manage network projects for facility additions, upgrades and shutdowns
  • Analyze sites to determine network, phone, cooling, electrical requirements and other physical planning (site surveys)
  • Establish budget for network hardware requirements
  • Negotiate prices with all hardware, service and circuit vendors
  • Manage SMART NET maintenance contracts and service calls
  • Analyze proposed new applications or traffic volumes to determine the effect
  • on network resources and make recommendations
  • Coordinate with team members to complete projects and resolve issues
  • Propose network changes for future improvements
  • Report status on current projects to management

Network Administration
  • Configure ASA firewall (ASDM or IOS), IronPort Proxy server, routers and switches
  • Manage IP address assignment and documentation
  • Create subnets, assign static IP addresses, set DHCP ranges and DHCP reserved IPs
  • Create VISIO diagrams of networks and floor plans of facilities for documentation
  • Document all wiring closets and demarcs with photos and use them for remote troubleshooting
  • Update IOS in Cisco routers and switches
  • Administer DHCP, BOOTP, DNS services
  • Troubleshoot and resolve network issues
  • Provide user assistance using LogMeIn, RDP, UltraVNC or VNC

Wide Area Network (WAN) Administration
  • Manage WAN connections, including CenturyLink PRN, Frame relay and point-to-point T1
  • Manage leased line specifications and provisioning from LEC or CLEC
  • Make channel assignments on SONET ring for customer provided access, if required (see SONET below)
  • Manage point-to-point T1 and wireless connections to provide network access to nearby facilities
  • Configure routers for MPLS, Frame relay, PPP, HDLC, DSL connections
  • Troubleshoot, place service calls and expedite resolution of all circuit issues with status reports to affected users
  • Manage migration from one WAN vendor to another

Wireless LAN (WLAN)
  • Perform site survey to assure proper wireless coverage
  • Order, configure, install Cisco Aironet AIR-AP1242AG-A-K9 Autonomous Access Points with 802.11A/B/G radios
  • Wireless security including WPA2, WPA, WEP
  • Wireless encryption including AES-CCMP (WPA2) or TKIP (WPA) encryption
  • Guest Wireless LAN accomplished using VLANs, Access Control Lists, Subnetting

Physical Network
  • Do site surveys to determining network, phone, cooling, electrical and space requirements
  • Select, purchase and install network cabinets
  • Manage installation of copper and fiber basic cabling plants for network and phone systems
  • Coordinate project tasks with electricians, fiber technicians, hardware vendors and local personnel
  • Pull wiring, punch down patch panels and jacks and make custom patch cables
  • Operate boom lifts and scissor lifts to install overhead wiring and devices
  • Troubleshoot using tone and trace, continuity testers

Physical Security
  • Administer Keyscan Access Control System
  • Install and administer video surveillance systems
  • Administer intercom and door release systems, stand-alone or with phone system interface
  • Provide circuits for fire and security alarms

SONET
  • Manage Synchronous Optical NETworking (SONET) ring project
  • Order SONET from the LEC to provide high-speed access to CLECs
  • Ensure high availability by planning route diversity (separate building entrances and physical inside routes)
  • Oversee physical planning, hardware installation and configuration
  • Oversee separation of OC-3 circuit into DS3 and DS3 into DS1 circuits
  • Assign channels for PRI and T1 circuits and place orders for circuit cross-connect on the customer provided access
  • Write Letter of Agency/Facility Release Authorization (LOA) for customer provided access and facility assignment

Network Technologies
  • Multilink PPP connections for additional capacity and failover
  • GRE (Generic Routing Encapsulation) tunnels to remote sites, bypassing WAN vendor routing
  • Static routing and routing protocols (EIGRP)
  • VPN using Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client, or open source OpenVPN implemented on Linux
  • Remote configuration using VanDyke SecureCRT, SSH, Telnet and TFTPD32VLAN, WLAN, Guest Wireless LAN, Subnetting, VTP
  • Network monitoring using open source Nagios software for ping and SNMP uptime and status monitoring
  • Internet Service Provider (ISP) interfaces, Public IP address management
  • Ethernet 10/100/1000 over TIA/EIA-568-B UTP structured cabling
  • IEEE 802.3af Power over Ethernet (PoE)
  • TCP/IP, NetBIOS, switching, spanning tree

Network Hardware
  • Cisco 3845-V/K9, 2801, 1760-V, 3640, 2600, 1605 Routers Cisco 3560, 3750, 3548, 2950T, 2950G, 2924, 1900 Switches
  • Cisco ASA 5520 Firewall
  • Cisco 1242AG, 1231G Wireless Access Points
  • Cisco GLC-SX-MM SFP and G5484-CX GBIC Fiber Modules
  • Cisco WIC-1DSU-T1, VWIC-2MFT-T1, NM-1T3/E3 WAN Interface Modules
  • Cisco AIR-PWRINJ3 Power Injectors
  • IronPort S160 Proxy Server
  • ADTRAN ATLAS 550 Integrated Access Device Linksys Wireless Routers
  • Intermec 0110 and 0111 Wireless Access Points
  • Proxim RangeLAN2 Wireless Access Points
  • Orinoco WaveLAN Wireless Routers
  • LanOptics StackNet Pro Routers
  • AT&T Paradyne Comsphere 3160, 3165, 3610, 3611 DSU/CSU
  • Transition Networks Ethernet to Fiber Media Converters