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Jeffrey Patterson

Tempe,AZ

Summary

A goal-driven and impactful Senior Network Engineer with over 13 years of experience supporting IT infrastructure and the deployment , implementation and support of various technologies. Graduate of San Jose State University (BSIT) with several relevant industry certifications.

Overview

7
7
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

American Express
04.2024 - Current
  • Participated in the design and architecture of Viptela SD-WAN network infrastructure .
  • Assisted with and led network hardware refresh initiatives, code upgrades, DR exercises, new circuit turnup and migrations
  • Perform testing and validation of global routing infrastructure, BGP, OSPF, redistribution, tagging, communities

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Fidelity Information Services, FIS
02.2021 - 04.2024
  • Led deployment of and configuration of Network Firewalls and IPS/IDS. Fortigate, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto Next generation FW.
  • Design, developed, and maintained complex cloud-based and on-prem security solutions.
  • Deployed and managed Vmware Velocloud SD-WAN for small to medium LAN networks
  • Led migration efforts from legacy MPLS intrastructure to SD-WAN, providing connectivity to core banking services

Senior Network Engineer

Eos
06.2018 - 12.2020
  • Network team lead for 6 network engineers working as part of the Enterprise Network Engineering team
  • Reponsible for leading global network retrofit projects, expansions, and deployment of network infrastructure
  • Team member for Wireless and Remote Access team, providing support with Wi-Fi 6 connectivity, 802.11n , 802.11ac, WEP, WPA, WPA2.
  • OSPFv2, OSPFv3, BGP, Vlan Routing, HSRP, VRRP, Cisco ASA FW, VPN (Ipsec, SSL), DHCP, DHCPrelay, NAT/PAT, Juniper SRX/QFX/EX

Education

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Technology

San Jose State University
San Jose, CA
05-2009

Skills

  • BGP
  • OSPF
  • TCP/IP
  • Static Routing
  • EIGRP
  • DHCP
  • DNS
  • Spanning-tree
  • IPSec Tunneling
  • Fortigate and Cisco ASA Firewalls
  • Juniper QFX/SRX/EX
  • Cisco 8300/8500, 4510, 4431
  • NAT/PAT configuration
  • Vmware Velocloud SDWAN, Cisco Catalyst SDWAN

Certification

  • Cisco Certified CCNA (Routing and Switching) (2012)
  • Cisco Certified CCNA Security (2012)
  • CCNP Routing and Switching (2015)
  • Python Data Structures - Course Certification (2016)
  • Juniper JNCIA-SEC (2020)
  • Juniper Networks Certified Associate Devops (2020)
  • CompTIA Cloud + (2020)
  • Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (2023)
  • Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Associate (2023)
  • Palo Alto Certified Security Administrator (PCNSA) (2024)

Software

Python

SDN

Splunk

AWS

Timeline

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

American Express
04.2024 - Current

Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Fidelity Information Services, FIS
02.2021 - 04.2024

Senior Network Engineer

Eos
06.2018 - 12.2020

Bachelor of Science - Industrial Technology

San Jose State University