Alfred Garcia
Covina,CA
Summary
Driven Senior Network Systems Administrator with a proven track record at Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services, adept at leading complex IT projects to enhance infrastructure and security. Excelled in collaborating across teams to innovate unique solutions, significantly improving network efficiency. Skilled in LAN/WAN management and team building, demonstrating strategic analysis and a six sigma approach to problem-solving.
Overview
30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Network Systems Administrator
Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services
Norwalk, USA
05.2009 - Current
- Project Lead = Cisco Refresh Project to replace existing Infrastructure with New Cisco 9400 & 9300 Switches
- Re-cable CAT6A entire MCR and IDF closets with Panduit Ladders & Cable Mgmt
- Project involves Procurement, Design, Document Scope of work, Implementation, Test and Approval for Production
- Project Lead = Work with ISD Engineering to move from Enterprise ISD Routers to SD WAN routers
- Work with various Engineers to move Primary circuits and Backup circuits over
- Provide ISO (isolate) Testing to those Spectrum, AT&T and Frontier circuits
- Move Sheriffs ASA firewall over to the SD WAN Port and performing Testing involves working with ISD Engineering checking bandwidth speed, milli-second response time and Approval for Production after verifying Performance, Optimization, Reliability
- Team Lead = Public Internet Access (PIA) Project reporting directly to Program Director, oversee Pilot Program working with Information Security Officer & County CISO to Go Live in a Production environment
- Project Involvement is in Planning Technical specs (MPLS over OPT-E-MAN), Organizing with local IT personnel and outside vendors AT&T Engineers all aspect from timeline, Intelligence, teamwork, and status update to Top Management
- Team Lead = Cost saving Project to the County by Analyzing, Investigation of WAN Circuits charges by ISD
- Complex projects involving reorganizing the wide area network circuits with due diligence while meeting objectives
- Work with ISD personnel & WAN vendors in coordinating proper identification of all circuits to determine which can be cancelled for cost saving
- Team Lead = Provide day to day Campus Wide support of operations on all Cisco devices (Router, Switches, Wi-Fi AP) mentoring /guidance to Local IT personnel and NSA providing technical expertise in troubleshooting
- Work with Cisco for all RMA for parts
- Work on Yearly TESMA Cisco Support Contract Procurement
- Team member = EDMS Project to create a paperless environment for all DPSS Districts involving Subnetting thru IPARMS, Firewall ACL with Extranet Engineering, for Campus Wide Implementation
- Team Leader = Perform Network Analyzer on LAN/WAN/MAN by Sniffing data packets (Performance monitoring & Protocol Analysis) utilizing Wild Packet/Etherpeek and provide solutions for streaming and bandwidth problems
Senior Network Systems Administrator
Los Angeles County Community Development Commission
Monterey Park, USA
11.2005 - 05.2009
- Team Leader = Responsible for EMC Clarion CX500 SAN & NAS adds, moves and change to LUNS and additional Storage
- Project Member = Implementation of first VMware ESX Server 3.0.2 in Cluster environment
- Manage deployment virtualization platforms for production and development environments
- Cisco 9216i Fiber Switches
- Work with Device Manager and Fiber Fabrics in EMC
- Setup LUNS, RAID on Navisphere 6; configure HBA's on VMware Cluster and SP on EMC with Redundancy
- Team Leader = Enterprise Systems, Storage, Security Management for all Server in multiple platforms (Windows 2003, R2, Windows 2008, Linux)
- Team Leader = Exchange 2003 Administrator for 500GB Database broken down to 5 Storage Groups
- Team Leader = WSUS Server for all Microsoft Updates for every client and server
- Manage the Group Policies and deploy new one
- Team member = Create VLAN's with Cisco Catalyst Level 2 switches CAT 6500
- Level 2 & 3 Desktop support and assist techs in resolved complex issues
Network Administrator
Valley Power Systems
City of Industry, USA
10.2002 - 11.2005
Systems Administrator
IPC Communications
Foothill Ranch, USA
05.2001 - 08.2002
Network Administrator
Dependable Highway Express
Los Angeles, USA
11.1999 - 05.2001
Information Systems Coordinator
Omni Plastics
Santa Fe Springs, USA
07.1995 - 11.1999
Education
Bachelor of Science Degree - Telecommunication Management
DeVry University
Pomona, CaliforniaMCSE Certification Program -
California State University of Long Beach
Long Beach, CaliforniaCISSP - Certified Information System Security Professional (in process)
ISC2
Skills
- Technology, Infrastructure, Security
- Collaborate on projects
- LAN/WAN
- Network Management Tools
- Strategic Analysis
- Internal consulting
- Unique solutions to complex IT problems
- Team Building
- Six sigma tools expert
Certification
- CISSP, in process
- Palo Alto via UDEMY.com
- Cisco Courses via LACO
- MSCE
- MCP
Technologysummary
Cisco (switch)IOS, Cisco Meraki, Thousand Eyes, NetBrain, Cisco ISE, Cisco Wireless Controller, Secure CRT, Cisco Prime, VMware 3.5, EMC Clarion CX 500, 2003/R2, 2008XP, Cisco Switches 9400, 4510, 9300, 3850, 3750, Cisco PIX Firewall 500 Series & ASA 5500 Series, Avocent 100R, HP Storageworks MSL 6000, DEC Alpha 4000, Dell Powervault, SAN Storage, Dell PowerEdge Servers, HP ProLiant Servers, SQL 6.5, 7.0, 2000, 2005, Exchange 5.0, 5.5, 2000, 2003, IIS, VMware, Citrix XP, ISA 2000, SMS 2003, SharePoint 3.0, Active Directory 2000, 2003, DNS, DHCP, SMTP, Visio, Project, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
Timeline
Senior Network Systems Administrator
Los Angeles County Department of Public Social Services
05.2009 - Current
Senior Network Systems Administrator
Los Angeles County Community Development Commission
11.2005 - 05.2009
Network Administrator
Valley Power Systems
10.2002 - 11.2005
Systems Administrator
IPC Communications
05.2001 - 08.2002
Network Administrator
Dependable Highway Express
11.1999 - 05.2001
Information Systems Coordinator
Omni Plastics
07.1995 - 11.1999
- CISSP, in process
- Palo Alto via UDEMY.com
- Cisco Courses via LACO
- MSCE
- MCP
Bachelor of Science Degree - Telecommunication Management
DeVry University
MCSE Certification Program -
California State University of Long Beach
CISSP - Certified Information System Security Professional (in process)
ISC2
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