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.
Senior Network Engineer
FactSet Research Systems
Since June 2010
Full-time
Norwalk
United States - Connecticut
- 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
Cisco Networking Teaching Assistant
RPI
September 2009
to May 2010
Apprenticeship
Troy
United States - New York
- Maintain onsite laboratory equipment and cabling
- Answer questions and provide guidance to students working on networking laboratory assignments
CALO Operator
Cisco Systems
January 2009
to July 2009
Cooperative Education Work
Boxborough
United States
- 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
CCNP, CCDP, CCNA Voice, CCNA Security
Computer Science
Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication
Cisco Networking Academy student and teaching assistant
Electronic Media, Arts, and Communication
Cisco Networking Academy student and teaching assistant
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Cisco IOS
Routers: 2900,ISR4000,7000,ASR1000
Switches: 2960,3500,3600,6500
Dynamic Routing Protocols: Proficiency in BGP and EIGRPExpert -
Cisco MDS
9100 & 9300 series SAN architecture and zoning configuration on NX-OSAdvanced
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Arista EOS
Arista 7000 series: MLAG, port-channel, SVI, VLAN, BGP configurationAdvanced
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Juniper JunOS
MX5 series utilizing BGP & VRRP for internet connectivity and redundancyGood
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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 reflectionAdvanced
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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 entriesAdvanced -
Wireless
Cisco WLC and Cisco Prime: Deploy, maintain and troubleshoot a network of over 300 wireless access points across the globeAdvanced
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DNS/DHCP
Infoblox: Create, update and delete DNS and DHCP entries. Provision new DNS zones. Delegate zone access.Advanced
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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 locationsGood -
Ansible
Author and run playbooks to deploy network configurations to multiple devicesAdvanced
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QuickTemplate
Author and maintain jinja2 templates for network device configurations and network change controlsAdvanced
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Python
Write scripts to assist with support ticket assignment, network maintenance, and configuration conversion between competing vendor hardwareGood
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Microsoft Visio
Create and maintain network diagrams for client, corporate and data center designAdvanced
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Planning
Author project books containing scope of work, action plan, network diagram, and test procedure for external client consumptionExpert
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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
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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 basisExpert
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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 availabilityAdvanced -
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 reportsAdvanced
