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Aaron Nettleton

Gibson City,IL

Summary

I enjoy network related type work which is now a passion and career I hope to continue doing. I enjoy troubleshooting and working with equipment. I started my career with State Farm Insurance in year 2000 as a electronics technician. but eventually worked into a role maintaining Cisco hardware and then I began to work on the State Farm network for 17 of my 22 years of service to the company. In March of 2023, the network department was outsourced to my current employer, HCL technology, where I do the same work I did for State Farm but as a service now. All my experience and skills learned are from on the job itself and ability to self teach.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Technical Lead - Network Diagnostics

HCL Technologies
03.2023 - Current

Network Diagnostics is a team within suite of HCL network teams servicing State Farm Insurance that:

  • Handle escalations from 1st and 2nd line network support teams where network traces are needed as well as packet analysis to assist in troubleshooting suspected network and applications issues.
  • Use tools such as NetScout Infinistream packet engines, Wireshark, Broadcom Netflow Analyzer and Arista hardware in my everyday work for a variety of diagnostics purposes.
  • Owns these tools which means I update them, keep them maintained, secured and mange the relationship with the tool's vendor

Enterprise Technology Infrastructure - Network

State Farm Insurance
04.2017 - 03.2023

Worked on Network Diagnostics team within suite of network teams at State Farm Insurance that:

  • Handled escalations from 1st and 2nd line network support teams where network traces were needed as well as packet analysis to assist in troubleshooting suspected network and applications issues.
  • Used tools such as NetScout Infinistream packet engines, Wireshark, Broadcom Netflow Analyzer and Arista hardware in my everyday work for a variety of diagnostics purposes.
  • Owns these tools which means we updated them, kept them maintained, secured and managed the relationships with the tool's vendor.

Incident Specialist Analyst - Network

State Farm Insurance
04.2005 - 04.2017

Worked within State Farm command center where I:

  • Did everyday network monitoring and troubleshooting across a variety of network technologies
  • Troubleshoot small office LAN such as agencies to much larger hubs and data centers
  • Used Cisco CLI to troubleshoot possible faulty network routers and switches
  • Worked with technicians over phone at sites to get to the root of problems within office infrastructure
  • Spot checked bandwidth and network traffic surges
  • Loadbalancing
  • Network packet tracing and analysis

Education

Bachelor of Science - Business Information Systems

Illinois State University
Normal, IL
05.2013

Skills

Small and large office Cisco LAN troubleshooting
Cisco router CLI experience
Cisco switch CLI experience
Network packet capturing
Wireshark packet analysis
Broadcom Netflow Analysis tool experience
Netscout Infinistream Packet Engine experience
NetScout NGeniousOne experience
Riverbed Capture Agent and Analysis Center experience
F5 Loadbalancing minimal experience

Timeline

Senior Technical Lead - Network Diagnostics

HCL Technologies
03.2023 - Current

Enterprise Technology Infrastructure - Network

State Farm Insurance
04.2017 - 03.2023

Incident Specialist Analyst - Network

State Farm Insurance
04.2005 - 04.2017

Bachelor of Science - Business Information Systems

Illinois State University
Aaron Nettleton