Peter Harrison
San Jose, California
e-mail, home

 

  

NETWORK ENGINEER

 

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

  • Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) #8710

  • MBA, BS electrical and computer engineering

  • Complete bilingual Spanish and English fluency

  • Fourteen years post university work experience in North America, Latin America and Europe

  • Strong general management, negotiation, inter-personal, communication and team building skills

Eighteen years of extensive hands-on experience in network engineering, Windows / Linux systems administration, troubleshooting and repair.  Designed, installed, configured and maintained complex routed LAN and WAN networks.  Supervised permanent and contract personnel.  Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels.  A team player who also can work well independently.

 

Author of the eBook: Linux Home Networking: Grief Relief For The Home And Small Office

(ISBN 0-9729355-0-9) currently sold on Amazon.com and www.linuxhomenetworking.com

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

 

 

Navisite Inc., Andover Massachusetts, 2000 - Present

 

Principal Network Engineer, San Jose California

 

Lead for the design, implementation and troubleshooting for West Coast web hosting data centers including 100+ Cisco 6509 layer 3 switches / routers serving over 150 customers and 1500 web servers. Managed a team of up to 10.

  • Final technical escalation level for all West Coast network events & post sales customer support

  • Member of the customer incident review team

  • Architecture Desk approval and implementation of multi-vendor additions to the network infrastructure

  • NOC / Customer training

  • Inter-data center connectivity

  • Event monitoring

  • Topology diagramming

  • Billing configuration

  • Data circuit provisioning (T1 to OC3)

  • Interfacing with other functional groups such as Sales, Customer Care and Core Infrastructure.

 Recent projects have included:

  • Lab testing to ensure that the Cisco CSS11000 (Arrowpoint) L5/7 switches used were compatible with all Navisite’s supported web server applications.

  • Development and introduction of a centralized VPN service to be resold to clients. Implementation of the infrastructure to create a single super NOC to monitor Navisite’s 4 data centers.

  • Phased migration of the Scott’s Valley data center to the newer, more accessible San Jose data center.

  • Creation of PERL scripts to check the QA of network device configurations via SNMP and configuration file checks.

 

eFinity Management Consultants, Northbrook IL, 1999 – 2000

 

Networking / IT Consultant

 

Main client, United Airlines SFO. Member of the team that managed the systems and associated network devices used to control the maintenance of all North American aircraft. LAN/WAN network of 1,100 TCP/IP based data collection devices controlled by over 20 high speed servers and 20 Cisco routers. Team member for replacing legacy Cabletron Layer 2 switching equipment with Cisco 6509 Layer 3 switches to act as a campus backbone. Pre-sales work to migrate from OpenVMS to UNIX / Solaris. Project manager for migrating all aircraft maintenance systems from legacy disk storage to RAID arrays. Resulting annual maintenance contract savings of $400,000. Experience with Cisco Routers, network security, Multinet TCP/IP, Compaq Alpha systems, Storageworks.

 

 

Trinidad & Tobago Trading Co., Colon Panama, 1998 - 1999

 

Chief Executive Officer

 

Established the first overseas based trade facilitation company created by the government of Trinidad and Tobago (T&T). The primary focus was to increase non-oil manufactured exports from T&T to Latin America via the Colon Free Trade Zone (CFTZ) in Panama. Staff, 6.

 

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Dr. Ian Sangster & Co., Kingston Jamaica, 1996 – 1997

 

Sales & Export Manager, Kingston Jamaica

 

Full responsibility for annual rum & liqueur sales and marketing of over US$2.0 million in nine Caribbean nations. 1996 sales climbed 26% over 1995 with exports rising 67% during the same period. Staff of 20.

 

 

Eli Lilly (Export) S.A., Puerto Rico, 1994 – 1996

 

Marketing/Sales Representative, Kingston Jamaica

 

Project leader for the team that created the highly successful Diabetes Educator Program for all Jamaican government pharmacists and endocrine nurses. Territory including Jamaica, the Cayman Islands & Bermuda with combined US$1.0 million annual sales. Sales up 50%, 1995 vs. 94, in an economy growing less than 1% during the same period. Staff 3

 

 

Island Microsystems Ltd., Kingston Jamaica, 1990 – 1992

 

Deputy General Manager

 

Managed for the group that prepared contracts, terms of reference and provided software consultants/programmers for the National Insurance Scheme Computerization Project for the Ministry of Labor Welfare and Sports. (400,000 records) Also contracted and managed the performance of the software personnel assigned to the Ministry’s Food Stamp project. (300,000 records). Experience additional to that below included Windows NT and UNIX systems management, OpenVMS, Informix, SQL & Novell Netware. Staff, 25.

 

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Fiscal Services Ltd., Kingston Jamaica, 1986 – 1990

 

Network Manager

 

Managed 400 user VAX/VMS computer network for the Government of Jamaica’s (GOJ) revenue collection departments. Experience in network & systems management, client server distributed computing, facilities management, capacity planning, performance tuning, systems security, workload analysis and more. Experience with the preparation and administration of RFP/RFQ tenders for the Government of Jamaica. Staff, 12.

 

EDUCATION

 

Post Grad. Dip. International Trade

ICADE Spain, 1997 – 1998


MBA

Univ. of Western Ontario, Ontario Canada, 1992 – 1994


Post Grad. Dip. Management (Distinction)

Univ. of the West Indies, Jamaica, 1989 – 1992


BS Electrical Engineering (Honors)

Univ. of the West Indies, Trinidad, 1983 – 1986

 


ADDITIONAL TRAINING
 

Checkpoint FW-1

CISCO CS11000 L5 Switches

Building Cisco Remote Access Networks

CISCO LAN Switch Configuration

CISCO Certified Network Associate

Cisco PIX Firewall Bootcamp

Sniffer Pro Network Analyzer (L2 & L3)
Advanced Cisco Router Configuration
 Cisco Internetwork Design

Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting

 

ADDITIONAL KNOWLEDGE / EXPERIENCE
 

Network Hardware
 

Cisco 7513s, Cisco 6500s, Cisco CSS L5/7 content switches
 

Routing Protocols
 

BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP
 

LAN/WAN Technologies
 

Ethernet, Frame Relay, X.25, VLANs, T1/DS3/OC3

Operating Systems
 

UNIX / Solaris, Windows NT / 2000 / XP
 

 

Network Management / Other
 

HP OpenView, SNMP, Sniffer, DNS/BIND, PERL, Checkpoint & PIX firewalls, VPNs, DECnet

 

PREFERRED LOCATIONS

Willing to accept short term international assignments.

Permanent positions: San Francisco Bay Area (South Bay & Peninsula) - Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, Milpitas, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Sunnyvale, Campbell, Fremont, Santa Clara, San Jose, Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Menlo Park, Cupertino