Profile
Senior Network Administrator with 9 years of experience designing, hardening, and optimizing enterprise LAN/WAN environments across healthcare and financial services sectors. Specializes in Cisco infrastructure, zero-trust network segmentation, and SD-WAN migrations. Reduced network downtime by 74% at current employer and cut annual bandwidth costs by $118K through traffic-shaping and ISP renegotiation.
Work Experience
Senior Network AdministratorMar 2019 - Present
Meridian Health Partners, Columbus, OH
- Architected and deployed a Cisco SD-WAN solution across 14 clinic sites, reducing WAN circuit costs by $118K annually and improving application latency by 41%.
- Led a network segmentation initiative using Cisco ISE and VLAN redesign that achieved HIPAA-compliant zero-trust access for 3,200 endpoints, eliminating two audit findings.
- Automated switch provisioning with Ansible playbooks, cutting new-site deployment time from 3 days to 6 hours and reducing configuration errors by 88%.
Network AdministratorJun 2015 - Feb 2019
Fortbridge Financial LLC, Cincinnati, OH
- Managed a 500-node Cisco/Juniper hybrid network supporting 24/7 trading operations, maintaining 99.97% uptime over a 44-month tenure.
- Designed and implemented a redundant BGP failover architecture with two upstream ISPs, reducing unplanned outages from 11 per year to 2.
- Deployed Palo Alto PA-3200 Series firewalls with App-ID policy rules, blocking an average of 14,000 unauthorized connection attempts per day and achieving PCI-DSS compliance ahead of a Q3 audit deadline.
Junior Network TechnicianAug 2013 - May 2015
Crestline Managed Services, Dayton, OH
- Supported network operations for 22 SMB clients, resolving an average of 37 tickets per week with a 94% same-day closure rate.
- Upgraded client switching infrastructure from 100Mbps to 1Gbps across 8 sites, improving throughput by 10x and eliminating bandwidth-related helpdesk complaints.
- Configured and maintained 60+ site-to-site and remote-access VPN tunnels using Cisco ASA and OpenVPN, supporting secure remote workforces for 400 end users.
Education
B.S. in Network and Communications Management2009 - 2013
DeVry University, Columbus, OH
Graduated with Honors; Cisco Networking Academy participant