Kenneth Drewen
Belmont,North Carolina
Summary
Hardworking and reliable Network Engineer with 27 years of broad experience in data networking. Highly organized, proactive and punctual with team-oriented mentality.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Network Engineer / Senior / Lead
Ciena
Linthicum Heights, MD
06.1996 - 04.2024
- Instrumental in technologically enabling Ciena's growth from a one building private company to a global corporation with locations around the world.
- Designed, implemented, configured and supported all network routers and switches for a Global corporation of - at one time - over 33 locations using a combination of Cisco, Juniper and Ciena switching and routing equipment.
- Maintained Firewall policy per the requirements of the Cyber Security team on Palo Alto, Fortigate and to a lesser degree Checkpoint.
- Instrumental in the roll out of Infoblox DDI.
- Instrumental in the roll out of Zscaler Internet Access and Private Access.
- Supported Ivanti SSLVPN, remote access appliances.
- Performed in-depth syslog analysis and reporting using Splunk.
- Managed all Changes, Incident tracking and requests through Service Now.
Education
High School Diploma -
Perry Hall High School
Baltimore, MDHarford Community College
Bel Air, MDUniversity of Maryland - University College
Hyattsville, MDSkills
- Attention To Detail
- Verbal And Written Communication
- Switches And Routers
- Troubleshooting And Analysis
- Firewall Management
- Teamwork Mindset
Affiliations
- Play guitar and have performed both in church and elsewhere in a successful band and later an acoustic duo.
- Avid snow skier for many years, having skied several places in the United States and a few places in Europe.
- Volunteered at a local food pantry.
Accomplishments
- Received 33 'applause' awards from my peers, coworkers and management since the platform became available approximately 10 years ago.
Certification
- CCNA - Long Expired
- CISM - Expired last year
Timeline
Network Engineer / Senior / Lead
Ciena
06.1996 - 04.2024
High School Diploma -
Perry Hall High School
Harford Community College
University of Maryland - University College