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Anthony Timmins

Anthony Timmins

Lead Systems Engineer

36 years old
Driving License
Monroe (06468) United States (Connecticut)
Employed Available
Experienced network engineering manager seeking to expand skill sets and deliver results in a competitive environment. Highly motivated with excellent managerial, interpersonal, technical and troubleshooting skills. Remains calm and professional in high stress and fast paced environments.
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  • Author complex and high risk change change controls
  • Review and authorize change controls authored by other engineers
  • Plan and approve the schedule and implementation of network changes
  • Design corporate network build outs and data center expansions
  • Compose bill of materials and order network equipment for planned projects and capacity increases
  • Participate in an on-call rotation and serve as an escalation contact for other engineers during their on-call
  • Author documentation and procedures for network support and network engineering teams
  • Author configuration and change control templates for network devices
  • Automate network configuration and monitoring, administrative and managerial tasks
  • Troubleshoot network events, implement break/fix changes
  • Manage WAN infrastructure deployment to customers. Provide a project plan and regular status updates. Facilitate circuit installations. Configure, ship, and activate network equipment remotely. Collaborate with client engineering to enable, test and verify the installation
  • Utilize monitoring tools and charting data for bandwidth, errors, discards and all network device health and features
  • Monitor and respond to SNMP trap, WhatsUp Gold, and inhouse alerts including baseline deviations and threshold exceeded
  • Manage a team of engineers since November 2016
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  • Maintain onsite laboratory equipment and cabling
  • Answer questions and provide guidance to students working on networking laboratory assignments
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  • Customer Advocacy Laboratory Operations
  • Maintained lab environment consisting of hundreds of network devices and servers
  • Completed cabling, IOS changes, and bare bones configuration to handoff to TAC engineers
  • Audited equipment inventory and cataloged new devices and components
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Cisco Certifications

Cisco Network Academy

Since November 2008
CCNP, CCDP, CCNA Voice, CCNA Security

Dual Major Bachelor of Science

RPI

September 2006 to May 2010
Computer Science
Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication
Cisco Networking Academy student and teaching assistant
  • Cisco IOS
    Routers: 2900,ISR4000,7000,ASR1000
    Switches: 2960,3500,3600,6500
    Dynamic Routing Protocols: Proficiency in BGP and EIGRP
    Expert
  • Cisco MDS
    9100 & 9300 series SAN architecture and zoning configuration on NX-OS
    Advanced
  • Arista EOS
    Arista 7000 series: MLAG, port-channel, SVI, VLAN, BGP configuration
    Advanced
  • Juniper JunOS
    MX5 series utilizing BGP & VRRP for internet connectivity and redundancy
    Good
  • Multicast
    Configure and troubleshoot a multicast environment leveraging diverse network paths consisting of point-to-point circuits as well as GRE tunnels. Configuration of rendezvous points, mroutes, and multicast service reflection
    Advanced
  • Load-Balancers
    A10 AX3030 and F5 BIGIP LTM: configuration of monitors, service-groups, virtual-servers, templates, iRules, etc.
    F5 BIGIP GTM: configuration of GSLB to service wide-IP deployment. Manage external DNS entries
    Advanced
  • Wireless
    Cisco WLC and Cisco Prime: Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot a network of over 300 wireless access points across the globe
    Advanced
  • DNS/DHCP
    Infoblox: Create, update and delete DNS and DHCP entries. Provision new DNS zones. Delegate zone access.
    Advanced
  • Firewall
    Cisco ASR: Create and maintain access-control lists between environments
    Cisco ASA: View configurations and help diagnose issues
    Palo Alto: Configure BGP and advanced routing features
    VPN/VTI: Configure IPSEC tunnels to connect remote locations
    Good
  • Ansible
    Author and run playbooks to deploy network configurations to multiple devices
    Advanced
  • QuickTemplate
    Author and maintain jinja2 templates for network device configurations and network change controls
    Advanced
  • Python
    Write scripts to assist with support ticket assignment, network maintenance, and configuration conversion between competing vendor hardware
    Good
  • Microsoft Visio
    Create and maintain network diagrams for client, corporate and data center design
    Advanced
  • Planning
    Author project books containing scope of work, action plan, network diagram, and test procedure for external client consumption
    Expert
  • Communication
    Initiate requests for circuit upgrades and migrations with external clients. Explain detailed requirements and set expectations. Guide client projects from start to finish, conducting regular meetings and serving as a direct contact.
    Expert
  • Organization
    Utilize JIRA to track ongoing projects. Manage various views and schedules for internal support ticket systems. Efficiently filter hundreds of e-mails and system alerts for rapid response on a daily basis
    Expert
  • Change Control Review
    Review network change controls written by team members for quality, accuracy, and to perform risk assessment.
    Authorize change control execution and schedule changes based on risk assessment and engineer availability
    Advanced
  • Personnel Manager
    Manage the team calendar to ensure adequate resources are always available considering requests for vacation and personal leave.
    Conduct weekly one-on-one meetings with direct reports to review performance and discuss project work.
    Conduct weekly team meetings to discuss changes in the network environment as well as organizational/company level changes
    Serve as a 24/7 escalation contact for direct reports
    Advanced
  • Spending time with friends
  • Action/Adventure
  • Comedy
  • Thrillers
  • Rock & Roll
  • Hip-Hop
  • Dubstep
  • Exploring new places