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IP Network Architect helping the Sky IP Net Dev (ISP)

2021 - Sky Mobile F5 changes; changes to make the F5s fully authoritative for Gn and add introduce zone views for roaming and local devices.

2020 - Broadband network refresh. Responsible for one of the new network elements (multi-service edge), working with the project team to ensure consistent and vetted designs are documented, approved and implemented. Quality control of vendor-provided designs.

2020 - Nationwide Cisco 7600 PE refresh, with ASR-9906 and ASR-9901. The secondary scope was a service inventory and creation of configuration standards for connected services. This project was shelved; but I managed to get the HLD and LLD approved for use in some ad-hoc work, providing partial delivery of new hardware.

2020 - Some smaller client and internal connectivity projects.

2019/2020 - Cloud Exchange project cleaned up after the previous two resources made a mess, provided closer alignment to client-standards, effective documentation structure, and successful sign-off of project documentation.

2019 - Network design for CDN infrastructure based on ASR-9910. For high-speed distributed storage to bring VoD Video storage in-house

Deloitte provide audit, consulting, financial advisory, risk management, and tax services to selected clients around the world.
As a technical consultant, I provide expertise to the Deloitte Security Operations team in the network space. This includes the design and implementation of security solutions utilising network technologies such as Blue Coat (Symantec) / Cisco / F5 / Palo Alto and Checkpoint. Projects include firewall refreshes, new service deployment and 3rd party connectivity.

Documentation, PoC, testing, and deployment of F5 load-balancers as part of the green field DNS Service deployment for Sky Mobile. Involving eBGP, MPLS, Cisco ASR9k, and Nexus 2k/5k/9k.

F5 BIG-IP LTM & GTM integrated iApp authored for service automation.

* Senior Architect, part of the Dimension Data Professional Services Team.

* Supported global Telepresence installation on a non-compliant network.

* Delivered global QoS switching design for global LAN/WAN and vetted Data Centre Nexus low level design based on QoS HLD. Successfully deployed QoS to three sites.

* Successfully provided LAN support for a large scale (PBX) voice migration from E1 to VoIP.

* Designed and delivered new office LAN which included a high density Aruba wireless infrastructure for 400 end points. This included providing new standardised switch templates for the new standard switching platform (Cisco 3850) and an interim solution for guest wireless access. #1

* Successfully migrated Cisco CSM load-balanced services to F5 BigIP LTM.

* Various smaller projects dealing with F5 and LAN/WAN routing and switching.

* Project team; responsible for a large number of projects covering LAN/WAN technologies, security (Palo Alto, Check Point, VPN etc.), wireless (Aerohive), load-balancing (F5) and caching (Bluecoat). Work included new deployments, upgrades and UAT testing. LAN refresh, DC refresh, WAN redesign and best practice architecture updates.

* Maintained position despite increasing level of outsourcing, 5 peers failed their interviews for this position. Praised for successful completion of several highly sensitive projects.

* Automated the LAN port inventory for the London Campus LAN refresh using Python scripting. Which tracked and calculated port utilisation, to aid the procurement process. Saved the customer money by reliably procuring the right amount of switches, lowering the project cost considerably from the initial estimate.

* As part of new service deployments (F5), found several other services which weren’t load-balancing effectively or where the redundant design was broken. The resulting cleaned F5 BigIP LTM configuration reduced risk and potential public embarrassment.

* Designed and installed a bespoke secured and segregated network infrastructure, to support live feed broadcasting for news reports and corporate web casts.

* Responsible for assessment of network & security policy compliance of new networked AV and digital office equipment.

* Implemented transparent proxy service with SSL interception. This involved troubleshooting many standards uncompliant sites, services like Skype and business critical 3rd party applications.

* 2 individual consulting projects, covering knowledge/ability gaps in customer’s operational department.

* Received praise for the successful PoC and handover of Cisco ASA Phone Proxy - ensured cross-departmental and security compliance.

* Successful completion of corporate policy & PCI enforcement of 97 retail stores throughout EMEA. Using local FE resources (mostly non English speaking).

* IP Designer on O2’s UK IP network infrastructure; scoped new work (fixed deliverable), detailed requirements gathering, authoring and obtaining sign-off of designs and implementation plans, liaise with 3rd parties for changes on O2's behalf.

* Several TDAs favoured me above peers for quality of completed work and technical ability.

* On schedule replacement and migration of 3rd party payment infrastructure, with projected business risk of £3M/day. Heavy reliance on BGP and network security. This work included 3rd party liaison, documentation and implementation.

* Blackberry uplink upgrade/migration completed without downtime while introducing new BGP filtering and resilience. This work included 3rd party liaison, documentation and implementation.

* Praised for successfully stepping into the performance testing (Ixia) of a new (Alcatel) broadband network after a peer was forced to abruptly abandon the project.

* IP Designer; Impartial tester during multi-vendor proof of concept (PoC) project, authoring and obtaining sign-off of designs, plan/write/submit implementation plans to Operations for implementation and active support of Operations during important out-of-hours work.

* Praised for migration of a national (28 site) MPLS network without any service interruptions. Automated the tracking of changes of the 9000+ LAN ports during the project.

* Praised for completion of multi-site & multi 10Gbps capable mobile broadband transparent proxy service implementation design where operations was kept knowledgeable and fully in control throughout the project.

* Praised for outstanding impartiality by customer and three vendors during the PoC / RFP testing of vendor proposed mobile broadband solutions (using Spirent).

* R&D Engineer responsible for: Architecture of new B2B solutions and services, by utilizing existing and seeking out new vendor relationships. Peer reviews of network upgrades to ensure they were service and future proof. Training of operational and pre-sales departments on new products and services. Evaluating vendor and Marketing proposed new products.

* The only Dutch member of an international team working on global portfolio unification. As part of this I designed the global access-QoS model, vetted the global core-QoS design and provided service/QoS SLA guidelines to Marketing.

* Played an instrumental role in developing career development plans & training/certification contracts with HR for easynet Netherlands.

* Motivated and obtained funding for $1M list-price worth of test equipment. This benefited our TTM and regularly gave us the upper hand in vendor relationships. I was able to guarantee selected equipment was fit for purpose (SLA), which improved customer retention.

* Worked with procurement in negotiating deals with discounts of up to 70% where the norm was around the 43% mark.

* Responsibilities: Remote and on-site customer support, resolving issues and providing consultancy for improvements. LAN/WAN upgrades for SME, banking and Telco customers. Out of hours support. Carried long term responsibility for one customer’s EMEA network architecture and support.

* Gained CCNP and other vendor accreditations, broadened my technical expertise. Cisco PIX, Netscreen, Nokia Check Point, Bluecoat caching (Cacheflow at the time), Radius and strong authentication. Main focus remained Routing & Switching.