Overview
Work History
Education
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Kossivi Kpomblekou

Saint Louis,MO

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Network Admin Mentoring

Federal Reserve Bank Of Saint Louis
03.2023 - Current

I. Hardware replacement of switches

  • General procedures
  • Marketing of cables
  • Working with National IT to replace switch
  • Notifications send to LEU and other departments before and after scheduled work
  • Documenting devices on switch prior to work and testing these ports after the work

2. Building of LAN switches for the SASTeC lab.

  • Following FRIT procedures to secure switches within compliance standard
  • Cisco Command Line configuration
  • Remote login and building encryption for sash

3. Configuration Settings

  • Time and time format
  • Hostname on switches
  • Spanning tree (loop free topologies)
  • Auto recovery of blackend ports
  • Building ports
  • Access ports
  • Trunk ports
  • Etherchannel ports

3. Building and testing of VTP where the layer 2 vlans are built in the core switches and

4. Password recovery and wiping of switches

  • Clean up the steps for wiping Cat4500 series switches

5. Built scripts to save the time of configuring LAN switches for the lab

6. Building layer two connections.

  • Building zones, zone sets, and members
  • Configurations not made at port level except for remote management.

7. Worked with the NELM system for putting in security exceptions

8. Used Service Now ticket system (Service Now).

  • Regular incident tickets
  • Change requests

9. Procedures for remote login of devices.

  • Use VMware to log into our secured virtual iron core machines (must use Q account tokens)
  • Assists with building PulseSecure tunnels from the iron core machines.
  • Log into the jump servers via these tunnels.
  • Logging into Cisco Prime and the wireless network.
  • Accessing Fire Call account via EPV for high level access
  • Accessing InfoBlox for DNS/DHCP changes

10. Used for the Camera Modernization project to learn how to select, reserve, configure, and patch ports for upcoming projects.

  • Configured the ports after being shown what our responsibilities on configurations are.

11. Reviewed multiple sessions on general layouts, firewalls, ad flows of traffic. Knowing the big picture (on how things work) for troubleshooting in the future.

Senior Mechanic

Federal Reserve Bank Of Saint Louis
07.2018 - Current
  • Electrical
  • Plumbing
  • Light Carpentry
  • Pull and terminate data cables
  • Install and troubleshoot security cables and security badge readers
  • Monitor and operate the Building Automation System (BAS)

Maintenance Technician

Sheraton Hotels
09.2004 - 07.2018
  • Performed preventative maintenance assignments on a scheduled basis including checking the energy power generation system
  • Completed routine and assisted with major repairs of all hotel equipment including small appliances, boilers, HVAC, kitchen, laundry and pool equipment,
  • Painted interior and exterior building
  • Repaired drywall
  • Assembled and refurbished furniture and fixtures.
  • Serviced the hotel's pool including adjusting chemicals and cleaning filters.
  • First responder to the fire alarm system trouble calls
  • Installed and repaired lighting and electrical fixtures and wiring.

Education

Associate of Applied Science - Network Engineering

Saint Louis Community College
Saint Louis

Certificate of Specialization - Cisco Networking Academy CCNA

Saint Louis Community College
St Louis, MO

Certificate of Specialization - Security +

Saint Louis Community College
Saint Louis, MO
12.2021

Skills

  • File format conversion
  • Playback Control Proficiency
  • Emergency Response
  • Hardware Maintenance Knowledge

Timeline

Network Admin Mentoring

Federal Reserve Bank Of Saint Louis
03.2023 - Current

Senior Mechanic

Federal Reserve Bank Of Saint Louis
07.2018 - Current

Maintenance Technician

Sheraton Hotels
09.2004 - 07.2018

Associate of Applied Science - Network Engineering

Saint Louis Community College

Certificate of Specialization - Cisco Networking Academy CCNA

Saint Louis Community College

Certificate of Specialization - Security +

Saint Louis Community College
Kossivi Kpomblekou