Matthew Beach

• Designed Data Center fabrics on Arista and Cisco platforms including stitching into MPLS backbones for Datacenter Interconnections. Including L2VPN and L3VPN SP architectures (RSTP, MST, VPWS, EVPN-VPWS, EVPN-IRB, EVPN-ELAN, EVPN + VXLAN Fabrics)
• Designed hybrid IT connectivity product called CloudFabric, which allows on-premises or Flexential Cloud customers to connect to popular CSPs, including AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle.
• Converted company Dual Stack IGP OSPF backbone into ISIS and converted LDP into SR prefer without user impact.
• Designed, developed, tested and implemented regional distributed MP-BGP Route Reflector design for national backbone supporting BGP Free Core, L2VPN, L3VPN, and EVPN address families.
• Lead engineer to upgrade backbone from 100G to 400G to support higher bandwidth customers
• Lead engineer on project to optimize IS-IS, OSPF, OSPFv3, BGPv4 and MP-BGP (including v6, EVPN & L3VPN address-family) BFD failure detection for over 260 routers across 50+ datacenters without user impact.
• Designed documentation that outlines infrastructure of internet backbone spanning across 50+ datacenters internationally.

• Design Cloud Connect implementations to connect Hybrid Data Centers to AWS/Azure/Google/Oracle
• Designed reference documentation that outlines Cloud Fabric process
• Architect Deterministic routing solutions to hyperscaler clouds
• Lead engineer on Firewall migrations (Intra Vendor and Inter Vendor)
• Firewall Management and product lifecycle
• Lead engineer on EIGRP to OSPF migration project
• Implement Mutual route redistribution designs while remaining loop-free
• Lead engineer on static to dynamic ingress and egress migrations
• Implement vPC, and spanning-tree data center networks
• Apply Traffic Engineering concepts to meet application requirements
• Act as an escalation point across multiple departments
• Highly engaged with customer lifecycles
• Proficient in ServiceNow and following the ITIL methodology

• Network Engineer in a Service Provider cloud providing consulting for tenants and implementation of best practices
• Implement and design Cloud Connect solutions between Flexential and hyperscalers including AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
• Implement eBGP route policies for traffic engineering for in/out advertisements to optimize redundancy.
• 802.1Q, Q-in-Q implementation to support requirements for connectivity to AWS, Azure and Google
• Provision and Manage ASA and Fortigate Firewalls to meet complex network requirements.
• Standardized internal documentation to simplify processes to ensure optimal experiences for our customers.
• Worked inter-departmental to educate and provide mentorship to my peers.
• Proficient in Layer 2, Layer 3, IPsec, MPLS, L2 and L3 VPN address families.
• IOS, IOS-XE, NS-OS, XR, ASA, Fortigate experience.

• Identified process gaps, determined solutions and recommended updates to drive efficiency improvements.
• Became an escalation point for Incident Response Analysts and quickly gained exposure by offering to take harder tickets and taking on additional challenges.
• Focal escalation point for network related situations, for the Incident Response Team, Critical Response Team and Service Support leadership during any major incident.
• Working inter-departmental on projects, while facilitating night shift training to better improve the technical acumen of my peers.
• Completed frequent assessments of new hire training materials, structure and success rates in order to enhance onboarding.
• Delivered exemplary customer service and support by remaining poised in the most stressful situations.

• During my time as an Incident Response Analyst, I followed ITIL best practices to provide high quality ServiceNow ticket documentation and high-level customer service.
• Followed company policy to meet certain SLA requirements and to stay up to date with company processes and procedure.
• Started at Flexential during an integration, and got presented with the opportunity to work and understand diverse technologies and platforms.
  

This includes the following platforms and vendors
- Data Protection (In house, Avamar, Rubrik and Commvault)
- Networking and Security (Fortinet Firewalls, Cisco ASA, switches and routers)
- Device and OS Management (Red Hat and Windows Server)
- Single and Multi Tenant Cloud (VMware offerings such as vSphere, vCloud)
- Load Balancing (Kemp, Brocade, A10 and F5)
- Disaster Recovery (Zerto offerings such as ZVM, VPG, VRA etc)

• Lifted Cabinetry into nice neighborhoods

• Retrieved carts from docking areas in retail parking lots.
• Customer service experience
• Carried out heavy merchandise to customer's cars