Proven experience and success with planning, installing and managing networks including LAN, MAN, WAN, Optical Networking, Silverpeak SDWAN Optimizers, F5 Load Balancers, iRules, F5 Global Traffic Manager, Infoblox/BloxOne, Illumio, Checkpoint firewalls, Checkpoint Identity Collector, VPN, DMZ, IDS/IPS, Zscaler Web Proxy, content filter, NAC and Cisco ISE, Ciena DWDM, 100 Gig optics, DNS Traffic Control, Cisco ACI & NXOS, SDN, network segmentation, Cisco Catalyst center, Cisco CLI, ACL management, SNMP MIB’s, Aruba wireless controllers and AP’s, SSL certificate creation and management, DNS Domain registration, Citrix Netscaler, VMware NSX, network taps, Extrahop. Strong hands-on knowledge of LAN/WAN/MAN protocols and technologies including Carrier Ethernet, T1, DS3, optical, DWDM, NTP, Spanning Tree, VLAN’s, 802.1q, VFR, LFA, , SNMP v1-v3, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VPLS, SIP, H.323, QoS, Multicast, Anycast, 802.1x, Radius, TACACS+, SSH, NAC, DHCP, DNS, F5 Wide-IP, VRRP, HSRP, GLBP, PBR, VPC, LACP, SGT, SGACL, SXP, VxLAN, OTP, LISP, SPAN, WCCP, PfR, IPSLA, iWAN, VPN, SIP, IPSec, WiFi 6, 6E, 7.