Michael F. Bell
New Hampshire | Email ccie.mike@hotmail.com
Accomplishments
CCSA – Checkpoint Certified Systems Administrator
CCDP - Cisco Certified Design Professional
CCVP - Cisco Certified Voice Professional
CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional
MCSE – Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Experience
HP Enterprise Services - Framingham, MA.
Senior WAN Network Engineer 12/2007 - 7/2008
Contract employee of HP Enterprise Services performing work onsite for Genzyme Corporation. Key contributor in the WAN group supporting over 100 globally remote locations WAN monitoring, troubleshooting and implementation. Cisco 3800 /2800 /1800 series routers, 6500 /3550 /3560 /3750 switches, Cisco ASA 5520, Nokia IP 350, Checkpoint NG. Multiple Nortel Contivity VPN devices allowing client access and remote site-site tunneling. OC3, T1, Fractional T1. Routing protocols including EIGRP, OSPF and BGP. Switching technologies including Spanning Tree, Gig-E, VTP, VLAN, ISL and Dot1q trunking.
AMG, Inc.
Principal Network Architect /Owner 5 /2005 – 12/2007
High level architecture /design /implementation and administration services performed for multiple clients. Majority of client base involved data center design and implementation /administration of web operation servers, routers, firewalls, Voip installation, global vpn installations and network operation monitoring. Several medium /large office migrations from Windows NT 4.0 /2000 to Windows 2003 Active Directory. Implemented Microsoft Exchange 2003 into several locations existing network. Blackberry Enterprise Server /MS Exchange integration.
Projects of importance:
- Re-architected and implemented disaster recovery for over 120 point to point VPN tunnels to two separate NOC monitoring locations utilizing Checkpoint NG /Nokia and Netscreen 100 series vpn firewalls and Cisco ASA 5505 /5510 appliances. Castlerock SNMP event monitoring and redundant network paths for optimal uptime. Front End Exchange 2003 Server farm redesign.
- Complete redesign and implementation of a ten location Credit Union's point to point frame relay network. (15) router reconfiguration for primary /secondary frame pvc with ISDN dial tertiary backup path. EIGRP for core network dynamic routing. IP Addressing and VLAN reconfigurations.
- Redesigned and implemented a metropolitan area network fiber network for over 800 users ulitilizing the Cisco network design approach of a core, distribution and access model. This network consisted of Cisco L2 and L3 switching, gigabit trunking, STP, VTP and HSRP at the core, BGP on the edge. External internet access to multiple providers utilizing Netscreen failover path selection.
- Installation of Cisco wireless networking technology for several clients in both a large environment spanning several hundred users as well as long reach, point to point AP network extensions.
- Multiple VOIP implementations involving Cisco Call Manager and Call Manager Express. Total of 500+ phones configured /installed in a typical single site architecture utilizing PSTN Gateway integration with CCM/E 4.1 call management to the company internal data network.
AEP Networks, Inc. - Somerset, NJ.
Sales Engineering Architect 11/2004 – 5/2005
100% travel to client sites for network system analysis, architecture design, installation /configuration and post installation support related to the AEP Networks Secure SSL VPN product. Client site sizes ranged from 10 – 10000 end users. Technologies involved included heavy Windows 2K /2K3 Active Directory and Terminal Server integration /re-design, Microsoft Exchange 2K/ 2K3 integration /configuration, LDAP authentication, Radius authentication and Citrix Metaframe Access Suite remote interop. These technologies were used in conjunction with the AEP Network device to provide a secure, policy based means of remote access to client side applications and internal network resources. Extensive travel within the Continental US.
Town of North Reading - North Reading, MA.
Principle Network Engineer 9/1998 – 11/2004
Responsible for the network security, connectivity, design and architecture of the town of North Reading's WAN network consisting of over 1000+ end users, six remote locations utilizing Windows 2003 and Exchange 2003 in a district wide Active Directory enabled domain. This system utilizes RIS system imaging, group policy lockdown and custom application distribution in a multi-domain Active Directory configuration. Manage all locations Windows 2003 /Exchange 2003 AD Domain configuration, network configuration, maintenance, security and client-server compliance. Summer of 2004 upgraded all 10 domain controllers to Windows 2003 and all client machines to Windows XP Pro. Managed and maintained all locations high level networking equipment (firewalls, VPN, routers, switches, IDS), backup /archival solutions for all servers and admin staff machines on a nightly /weekly basis utilizing Veritas and in charge of all externally accessible machines (web, email, DNS). Other technologies involved include Cisco switches /routers /WAP's, 3COM switches, HP switches, Watchguard. Sonicwall, Windows 2K /2K3 AD, Group Policy, IIS, RIS, SysPrep, Ghost, VBScript, WSH, WMI, MSI, Lancity Datacom, Retina, Iris, NMAP, Snort and ISS.
LoadSpring Solutions, Inc. - Lawrence, MA.
Principle Technical Operations Engineer 5/2002 - 7/2003
Senior technical support for (500+) customers running on a (30+) machine data center, (50+) machine office network and (15) machine development environment. At any given time, was ultimately in charge of over 6000 end users computing experience with the hosted environment. Developed and maintained an automated system imaging /installation infrastructure to efficiently update servers, perform new OS installations /upgrades and application installs for both the data center and office. Managed a hosted Exchange Server 2000 farm consisting of (6) E2K machines configured in a front – backend design for over (2000) users. Security management of all equipment, compliance of customer SLA contracts, high availability firewall /switching management, enterprise database administration, enterprise storage management and system level patching compliance. In charge of the backup and archival of over 750GB of customer data and internal operations servers on a daily /weekly basis utilizing Veritas software and various SDLT hardware tape libraries. In addition to the above, my duties also were heavily focused on the growth of technology within the company. This was performed by quarterly projects that were coordinated with my group and the product development group.
Front End Solutions - Beverly, MA.
Implementation /Migration Engineer 10/2001 - 8/2002
Independent, outsourced contractor for Front End Solutions, Inc. Architecture /design /implementation of over (10) large Windows NT to Windows 2000 Domain migrations (over 4000 users), Exchange Server 5.x /2K architecture /design /implementation for global remote sites as well as domestic and re-architecture of clients network topologies and security posture.
Technology involved:
Windows 2000 Active Directory, SQL 7.x /2K, Windows 2000 Backend Services (DHCP, DNS, IIS, IAS, RAS, Radius, Services for Mac) RIS, SysPrep, Ghost, VBScript, WSH, WMI, MSI, Wise Installer, Microsoft Exchange 2000, NAV Enterprise Server, Live Update Server, Veritas Backup Exec, Sonicwall Firewall & VPN, Cisco PIX, Checkpoint /Nokia, Cisco /3COM /HP Switching, Cisco 1600 /1700 /2500 series routers, Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005, Cisco Secure VPN Client rollouts, Citrix Meta-frame XP and a slew of client side desktop applications.
CTC Communications, Inc. - Waltham, MA.
Senior Systems Engineer 10/2001 - 5/2002
Senior engineer in charge of the second shift operations for all shared web hosting and dedicated server customers within the CTC Advanced Data Center. Responsibilities encompassed configuration /installation of web servers (IIS & Apache), web site performance tuning, database connectivity, SAN backup connectivity, and high level Windows /Linux system administration. In addition to the above duties, I was also the adjunct security engineer for the corporate security group. I assisted with second shift coverage of IDS sensor monitoring (ISS) and customer firewall installation /configuration and monitoring (NetScreen 100 /Nokia IP 330 /Checkpoint 4.1 -NG).
Netilla Networks, Inc. - Somerset, NJ.
North Eastern Network Architect Engineer 4/2001 - 10/2001
Responsible for the re-architecture analysis of North Eastern region customer network(s) to facilitate the recommended secure environment for the Netilla Firewall /VPN product. Analyzed client networking, authentication services (LDAP /Radius /Samba), firewall policy management and VPN configuration. Technologies involved included heavy Windows 2000 Terminal Server integration, Microsoft Exchange 2000, Tarantella and Citrix Meta-Frame 1.8. These technologies were used in conjunction with the Netilla Service Box to provide a secure means of remote access to client side applications and internal network resources.
iConverse, Inc. - Waltham, MA.
Principle Security /Network Engineer 1/2001 - 4/2001
Responsible for the complete re-architecture of the company’s internal /external network security design with multiple Checkpoint Firewall's running on the Nokia IP Appliance platform. Implemented remote access for the corporate network using a Cisco VPN Concentrator 3005 tying into a third party Radius server for high level account management. Re worked administration /configuration of Active Directory utilizing group policies. Administration of Windows domain and Front /Backend Multiple Exchange 2000 Servers, Linux systems and network equipment.
Navisite, Inc. - Andover, MA.
Senior Customer Support /Architecture Engineer 6/1999 - 1/2001
High-level participant in the customer web-farm architecture, design, implementation, troubleshooting and 3rd tier problem resolution for all local and remote data centers.
Sun Microsystems - Burlington, MA
QA Subject Matter Expert Windows NT 2/1999 - 6/1999
Testing of Advanced Server for Unix integration with Microsoft Windows NT 4.0. I was hired on as the resident NT Expert to give an un-biased view on the product integration testing effort. Logged several high priority bugs with product during my assignment.
GTE Internetworking - Cambridge, MA.
Network Engineer 5/1998 - 2/1999
Web Hosting Engineering Group network engineer. Maintained internal IT infrastructure as well as supporting the engineering group lab needs.
Technology involved include Windows NT, Cisco, IIS, System Prep Tool, Security Policy, Linux, Samba, Tivoli, SQL 6.x, SMS, Ghost and Win Install.
Allaire, Inc. - Cambridge, MA.
IT Administrator 9/1997 - 5/1998
Responsible for supporting Allaire's computing infrastructure and including the web servers (IIS 3.0), Cold Fusion servers, file /print servers, 100Mb switched network, Cisco routers and administration of the corporate Microsoft Exchange 5.0 server.
Various Short Contracts - Various Locations. MA.
Fidelity Investments - Financial Services IT Admin 6/1997 - 9/1997
Raidinc - NT Network Administrator 4/1997 - 6/1997
Digital - Lab Support Engineer 11/1996 - 4/1997
Unisys - Field Support Technician 9/1996 - 11/1996
Education
Boston University
Corporate Education Center Certificate Program10/96 - 10/97
Computer Learning Center
Network Administration /Support Program /95 - 9/96
Northern Essex Community College
Computer Information Science Program9/94 - Present
Training
Pinnacle Cisco Training Center
Cisco Interconnecting Network Devices (ICND)
Salinas Group
Checkpoint Firewall-1 CCSA /CCSE /VPN-1 - Nokia Security
Pinnacle Microsoft Training Center
Microsoft SQL 7.0 - Site Server 3.0 - Windows 2000
Right Source IBM Training Center
Tivoli Management Framework 3.6