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Caleb Perez

Miami,FL

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Consulting Engineer

Cisco
04.2024 - Current
  • Provide customer technical support
  • Create Methods of Procedure (MOP) and action plans
  • Assist in driving the initiative to modernize the customer's network architecture to SDA/SDWAN
  • Provide operations consulting
  • Serve as an escalation point for critical issues
  • Support architecture changes and implementations
  • Main protocols and solutions
  • Cisco SDA
  • Cisco Catalyst Center (DNAC)
  • BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, DMVPN, IS-IS VXLAN, LISP, and VRF
  • Network Segmentation, TrustSec, and Dot1x
  • Developed customized engineering strategies for clients, resulting in optimized system performance.

Network Engineer

Philips
09.2022 - 03.2024
  • I have experience designing, building, deploying, troubleshooting, and integrating solutions for diverse business and clinical requirements
  • I complete network implementation tasks, such as writing detailed design documents, constructing the system, adjusting settings, improving network performance, and testing
  • In my role, I analyze unique business, technical, and clinical customer requirements to design, build, and integrate the most appropriate solution
  • As a consultant, I provide technical recommendations that best suit the environment based on customer requirements
  • I am proficient in working with various networking protocols, such as OSPF, EIGRP, and STP
  • I also have extensive knowledge of DNS and DHCP protocols and Multicast
  • I am an expert in working with Windows servers and have worked on many projects involving their configuration, management, and troubleshooting

Consulting Engineer Customer Delivery

Cisco Systems
01.2019 - 09.2022
  • Project Citibank DNA-Center Assurance, EoL device replacement, BOM, HW-NDD, FULL- NDD, Design recommendations, troubleshooting, and network migrations
  • Project Rockwell SD-Access and SDWAN deployment, NDD, MOP, Implementing changes to the network
  • Project Mercy Health, Cisco DNA Center Installation, sites network hierarchy creation, device discovery, ISE integration
  • Project SD-ACCESS solution KPMG, MOP creation, Implementing changes to the network
  • Project Wells Fargo Bank, providing guidance and documented knowledge, running demo labs or proofs-of-concept required by customers
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to develop comprehensive plans for complex projects.

Network Engineer

Consorcio Red Uno, S.A. de C.V
12.2017 - 11.2018
  • Responsible for the router, switching, and wireless issues
  • Deployment of wireless solutions over a new PGR building
  • The architecture used was converged access that had access switches and WLC with IOS XE integration, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), and External identity source, which is the active directory domain of PGR
  • CPE and PE missing routes over BGP, asymmetric routing, ZBF, QOS, the creation of stacks, L2 security, and DHCP snooping
  • Created SSID, changed AP groups, created wireless interfaces, Mac filtering, and resolutions of problems about authentication
  • Developed & executed remediation plans, for example, a GRE tunnel between remote sites and the backup router collocated in the headquarters office
  • Upgraded IOS and IOS XE versions
  • Created documentation and updated diagrams

Subject Matter Expert

ABB MEXICO, S.A DE C.V
08.2017 - 10.2017
  • I verified, approved, or declined any change the provider requested over the ABB network
  • Built technical bridges among different providers (IBM, ATT, BT, WIPRO)
  • Reviewed LLD's take-over and cut-over operations
  • Provided recommendations to the provider about issues with the network
  • Developed strategies to satisfy new requirements of the client
  • Monitored DMVPN connections CWS/ZBF troubleshooting

Network Engineer

SICTEL SOLUCIONES TI
11.2014 - 08.2017
  • Provided support and management of switching infrastructure (Extreme Technology)
  • Analyzed the implementation’s network design, architecture, and protocols
  • I updated network diagrams before the implementation
  • Troubleshoot and analyze the root cause of issues, including application issues and network issues
  • I understood the customer’s organizational structure and became familiar with the customer’s network and support processes and procedures to help support network implementation
  • Provided support for the routing and switching infrastructure (Cisco technology)
  • Responsible for the execution changes in the routers and switches devices
  • Developed and executed an action plan for remediation, depending on the criticality of the issue
  • Shared knowledge and best practices with other team members
  • Worked directly with end-users and other IT teams to troubleshoot incidents

Education

Bachelor of Computer Systems -

Universidad Del Valle De México
Mexico
01.2013

Skills

  • Advanced switching and routing experience
  • Problem-solving
  • Analytical skills
  • Working independently
  • Self-management
  • Self-directed
  • Routing protocols (OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, IS-IS)
  • LAN switching (VLANs, VTP, STP, HSRP, VRRP, VSS, VPC)
  • Cisco WLC (SSID, PEAP, LDAP, RADIUS, autonomous AP, lightweight AP)
  • ISE experience (MAB, BYOD, PEAP, EAP-FAST, SPONSOR PORTAL)
  • SD-Access
  • DNAC
  • SDWAN (vEdge 1k, 2k, vBond, vManage, vSmart)
  • Templates
  • Policies
  • WAN experience with Frame Relay
  • MPLS
  • ACL
  • Tunnel GRE
  • Route-maps
  • DHCP snooping
  • DAI
  • 8021x
  • DMVPN
  • CWS
  • Extreme Equipment experience
  • SolarWinds Engineer’s tool
  • Kiwi cat tools
  • Microsoft Visio
  • Edraw Max
  • TCP/IP protocol
  • Network monitoring
  • MIBs
  • SNMPV2
  • SNMPV3
  • TACACS
  • NOC experiences
  • Capacity planning
  • Firewall technologies
  • Network documentation
  • Software-Defined Networking (SDN)
  • Engineering design

Certification

  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Web Content Security,
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Identity Management Implementation
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise SD-WAN Implementation
  • Cisco Certified Networking Professional -Enterprise
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Design
  • Certified Specialist - Enterprise Wireless Design
  • Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Wireless Implementation
  • VMware Certified Technical Associate - Data Center Virtualization 2021
  • Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer

Languages

English
Spanish

Timeline

Consulting Engineer

Cisco
04.2024 - Current

Network Engineer

Philips
09.2022 - 03.2024

Consulting Engineer Customer Delivery

Cisco Systems
01.2019 - 09.2022

Network Engineer

Consorcio Red Uno, S.A. de C.V
12.2017 - 11.2018

Subject Matter Expert

ABB MEXICO, S.A DE C.V
08.2017 - 10.2017

Network Engineer

SICTEL SOLUCIONES TI
11.2014 - 08.2017

Bachelor of Computer Systems -

Universidad Del Valle De México
Caleb Perez