Professional Summary:
Network Planner/Circuit Designer/Broadband Engineer/Network Engineer
Experience in Transport Design, Network Optimization and Traffic Analysis/Network Planning both in wire line and wireless world. Design and optimization experience with different bandwidths from DS0 level to OC192 including various technologies of GSM, UMTS, TDMA, PSTN circuits; provisioned RDT cabinets/ONUs using Marconi DISC’s platform including universal links TR-303s/GR303s, alarms as well as various bandwidths across Sonet networks; track capacity of network elements, place orders for equipment as necessary, maintain network topology maps defining connectivity and capacity; designed circuits in Telcordia Granite Xng system; equipment engineer as well as transport engineer.
Solution-driven, proactive engineer with a consistent history of exceeding goals and a mentor to other engineers.
Professional Experience:
Senior Network Engineer February 2008 - Present
Time Warner Cable, Austin, TX
• Design and implement physical and logical attributes of an Alcatel 7750 MPLS 10GigE core network providing Circuit Emulation, E-Pipes, and VPLS service, including IP addressing for interfaces
• Design and engineer equipment for installation of the following types of nodes: Cisco 15310, 2911, 7210, Alcatel 7750’s, 7705-SAR F/SAR 8, Adva 825, GE114, GE 206 and other types of equipment
• Design and engineer management circuits
• Design and engineer ethernet, ethernet over SONET (EoS), SONET, DWDM, CWDM and various TDM based transport and service level circuits using Telcordia Granite Xng
• Design and engineer optical mobile switching handoffs which include equipment, paths, and channelization supporting CTBH using 1+1 OC12 handoffs, Carrier Ethernet NNIs GigE, 10Gig including Link Aggregation (LAG)
• Create, Define, Implement and update Telcordia Granite Xng network and circuit modeling standards including equipment templates, traffic engineering definitions and naming standards for West Region
• Define report requirements for supporting network build outs. This includes capacity planning reports, network utilization, equipment, and other various circuits reports including Carrier Facility Access (CFA), Design Layout Records (DLR) and Circuit Layout Records (CLR).
• Equipment modeling representing the logical connections it makes both internally and externally.
• Network modeling end to end ownership (architecture/design/scare) of current and new developing networks, ensuring accurate representation of physical and virtual connections.
• Drive the scaling of our current network designs to meet the demand of our customers
• Perform change management (CM) role on all network devices, including documentation, verification and implementation of changes on a live production network.
• Provide LOA/CFA for customer related orders
• Design and engineer wholesale circuits, Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) orders, Ethernet orders,
• Design and engineer equipment upgrades example – Juniper MX480 to MX960, Alcatel 7750 SR7 to SR12 upgrade
• Maintain network topologies (VISIO) including rack facials
• Physical and logical capacity planning of CTBH network both SONET and Alcatel 7750 MPLS core
• Perform site surveys, collect customer requirements for stand up of facility
• Create bill of materials (BOMs) for core network equipment based upon sales forecast and ASR
• Responsible for ordering and deploying of core transport equipment
• Create design packages for core equipment and special projects deployment for field ops
• Assign IP’s in IPControl, IPMT,
• Use tools such as RANCID, Salesforce, SharePoint, and other internal workflow tools
• Manage multiple projects at one time
• Expert in circuit migrations and network rolls
• Use of SASI (Simple Automated Services Interface) for bulk uploading using SASI Loader and SASI Reader
• Submit space and power requests to critical infrastructure team for deployment of new equipment
Senior Transport Engineer August 2006 – February 2008
WFI/LCC International - Ericsson/T-Mobile California Redesign Project
• Responsible for technical advisory of Ericsson/T-Mobile Southern California redesign including collapse of 29 MSCs and various BSCs optimization of T-Mobile backhaul design in Granite/Xng
• Responsible for 1631/5500 DCS, migrations of all exiting switch locations
Cingular Los Angeles – Cell Site Audit Project (approximately 2280 cell sites)
• Verified cell site T1’s; included GSM, UMTS and TDMA circuits
• Listed discrepancies for T1’s on Circuit Differential Tracker for XNG as well as NTD
• Upload daily audit results in Granite (XNG)
• Reported weekly to Project Manager and Coordinator discrepancies found in addition to solution/recommendation
Transport Engineer December 2005 - August 2006
T-Mobile, Austin, TX
• Audited DS3’s for accuracy and correct discrepancies
• Saved $0.5 million dollars by disconnecting underutilized OCxs; identified additional $0.75million dollars of underutilized circuits to be disconnected
• Developed and coordinated engineering documentation and work orders for Transport Engineering team
• Designed all DS1, DS3, OCX, and trunk paths requested; responsible for providing CFA assignments, Dacs assignments and MSC/BSC ports
• Designed all DS1’s for new cell site turn up (equipment assignments), including BSC rehomes
• Maintained day-to-day enginee...
Login or Register to view the full resume.
