Michael F. Bell
Email ccie.mike@hotmail.com
Accomplishments
CCNP - Cisco Certified
Network Professional
CCVP - Cisco
Certified Voice Professional
CCDP - Cisco Certified Design
Professional
CCSA - Checkpoint Certified Systems Administrator
MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Experience
AMG, Inc.
Principal Network
Architect /Owner 5 /2005 – Present
High level
architecture /design /implementation and administration for various sized
clients over the past 36 months.
Majority of client base involved multi-region VOIP implementations, data
center design and implementation /administration of web operation servers,
routers, firewalls, 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.
Projects of importance:
- Over 40 medium
to large scale VOIP implementations while working for Verizon Business services
as an independent contractor involving Cisco Call Manager 4 /5 /6.x, Cisco
Unity 4 /5, SRST, and Call Manager /Unity Express. Deployment models including Single Site and
Multi-site WAN with centralized call processing. Dial plan design, Call Admission Control,
QOS, batch deployment, voice mail integration, Active Directory integration,
Unity Call Handlers, Cisco Auto Attendant Pilot Points, SIP trunk integration,
multi-codec region design (G711, G729), FAX integration, video conferencing
(Polycom, VT Advantage), VG224 /248
analog phone gateway configuration /integration, T1 PRI router /gateway
config. E911 design using Cisco EEM TCL
triggered event monitoring.
- Re-architect ed 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 - 1000 series firewalls. Castlerock
SNMP event monitoring and redundant network paths for optimal up time.
- Redesigned and
implemented a metropolitan area network fiber network for over 800 users
utilizing the Cisco network design approach of a core, distribution and access
model. Prior to my involvement, this
network was designed in a "flat" manner with each site having a
single subnet for both corporate, production and distribution. Each remote site network now consists of
segmented subnets via Cisco L3 switching devices, gigabit trunking, STP, VTP
and HSRP at the core. External internet
access to multiple providers utilizing Netscreen fail over path selection.
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 remote locations WAN monitoring, troubleshooting and
implementation. Cisco 3800, 2800, 1800
series routers, 6500 /3550 /3560 /3750 switches, Cisco ASA 5520, Nokia IP350,
Checkpoint NG. Upgraded multiple locations from Nortel routing equipment to
Cisco routing equipment. Administration
of Nortel Contivity VPN devices allowing remote client access and site-site
tunneling. OC3, T1, fractional T1
connectivity. Routing protocols
including EIGRP, OSPF and BGP. Switching
technologies including Spanning Tree, Gig-E, VTP, VLAN, ISL and Dot1q
trunking.
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
lock down 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, 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
– back-end 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
/Back-end 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.
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 12/95 - 9/96
Northern Essex Community College
Computer Information Science Program9/94 - 6/95
Training
Global
Knowledge
Cisco Call
Manager 6.x Advanced Administration with Unity 5.x
GlobalNet
Training
Cisco Call
Manager 4.x Advanced Administration
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