Jonathan W. Topping

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A highly professional and motivated Network Engineer skilled in both design and support of Enterprise-level networks. Expertise ranges from basic router/switching to VPN/firewalls to 802.11 wireless. Also highly experienced in server administration including both Windows and Linux/Unix systems. Several senior-engineer-level job roles have given opportunity to lead and implement several projects, and mentor/train new engineers.

EDUCATION

2005 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Salisbury University, Salisbury, MD

Minor in: Mathematics and Business Administration

Other courses: Cisco Wireless LAN Fundamentals and Site Survey, Cisco WLSE,
Securing Networks with PIX and ASA

CURRENT CERTIFICATIONS

· CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional

· CCWLSS - Cisco Certified Wireless LAN Support Specialist

NETWORK HARDWARE & SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION

· Cisco 1700, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200, 7500 series routers

· Cisco 2950, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500 series Ethernet switches (IOS and CatOS, native and hybrid)

· Cisco Aironet 1200 b/g Access Points

· Cisco WLSE – Wireless LAN Solution Engine

· Cisco Access Control Server Solution Engine v3/v4

· Cisco VPN Concentrator 3030

· Cisco PIX 535/ASA 5540 version 6, 7, 8

o Official Cisco Beta tester for ASA v8

· Cisco CSS 11501 Application Switch

· NetContinuum Web Security Gateway

· Sonicwall PRO 3060/5060

NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES

· WAN networks

o Frame Relay/MPLS

o HDLC/Multilink PPP

o PRI/T1/T3

· Campus Area Networks

o High Availability Networking

o MMF – Multi-Mode Fiber

o SMF – Single-Mode Fiber

o Wireless Bridging

· Local Area Networks

o VLANs/VTP/Trunking

o Spanning Tree

o PaGP/LACP Etherchannels

· WAN Dial Backup

o ISDN PRI/BRI

o Async Modem(Analog)

· Wireless networking

o WEP/WPA-PSK/WPA

o LEAP/PEAP/EAP-FAST

o Cisco WDS/WLSE

o EV-DO/1xRTT

o Site Surveying

· Routing Protocols

o EIGRP/EIGRP Stub

o RIP

o OSPF

o BGPv4

· Firewall/VPN

o IPSec L2L

o IPSec Client

o SSL Client/Clientless

· Cisco NAC

· QoS

· HSRP

· Access Control Lists

· SNMP

· GRE Tunneling

NETWORK MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE

· HP Openview NNM

· Solarwinds Orion

· Solarwinds IPMonitor

· Solarwinds Cirrus

· Lancope Stealthwatch Netflow Analyzer

· Ciscoworks LMS/VMS

· Wavelink Avalanche Servers and Clients

· Prognosis for IP Telephony

OTHER SOFTWARE

· Windows 98, 2000, XP, 2003

· Linux/UNIX (Debian, Solaris, Fedora, RedHat, etc)

· Microsoft Office 2000, 2003

· Visio 2003

· Websense Enterprise

· Tumbleweed Email Firewall

· MoinMoin Wiki for NOC Engineer collaboration

· Apache/IIS

· Ntop

· Ipplan

· Nmap

· Nessus

· Sendmail/Exim

· Majordomo

· WSUS

· BIND/Microsoft DNS

WORKPLACE EXPERIENCE

· Project Management

· Purchasing

· Capital Expenditures Request process

· Network Design Documentation

· SOP Writing

· Presenting new projects and technologies to change control committees and to upper management

WORK EXPERIENCE

2007 – Current

Senior Network Engineer

Company: NuAxis

Location: National Park Service

Department of the Interior

Washington, DC 20005

Responsibilities:

Contracted Cisco Network Engineer and Systems administrator for National Park Service’s Washington DC data center supporting thousands of users across the country. Responsibilities include switches, routers, NetContinuum Web Security Gateways, PIX firewalls, Linux and Windows 2003 servers. Chief design and support engineer responsible for installation, configuration and troubleshooting of large NPS LAN amongst the two main NPS buildings in DC, including data center and the separate DMZ and Extranet networks. Sole DNS Administrator for the NPS.GOV domain.

2003 – 2007

Title: Network Engineer I (2003-2006), Network Engineer II (2006-2007), Network Engineer III (2007)

Company: Perdue Farms

Location: Salisbury, MD 21804

Responsibilities:

Network Engineer I and II (2003-2006):

NOC Associate responsible for maintaining and supporting large enterprise LAN/MAN/WAN consisting of 8000+ users. Sole installer and maintainer of Ciscoworks, Lancope Stealthwatch, Solarwinds Orion, HP Openview NNM, Websense Enterprise, Tumbleweed EMF. Level II position included leadership/mentoring role for new engineers and for network-wide projects.

Network Engineer III (2006-2007):

Network Design Engineer: Lead engineer on several projects, including corporate-wide Cisco Aironet rollout, PIX software upgrade. Project Manager and Lead engineer of $2 Million Network Segmentation Project, included Core/Server Farm Network Redesign, Network Admission Control. Redesigned entire Corporate Campus, Server Farm, WAN Routers, and Network Core.

2001 – 2007

Title: Wireless Installation/Support Consultant

Company: Dimension X Computers

Location: Salisbury, MD 21801

Responsibilities:

Wireless/Wired Networking Specialist hired as needed for specific contracts for local businesses and residences. Wireless Bridging, PIX installation/updates, Cat5 wiring