Michael No
San Francisco,CA
Summary
Experienced Network Architect with a strong background in global IT finance, network architecture, and security. Proven ability to establish greenfield offices and data centers worldwide, negotiate vendor contracts, and develop NOC & SOC policies. Skilled at defining and implementing global IT standards, driving continuous improvement initiatives, and identifying innovative technology solutions. Demonstrated expertise in deploying ARIN, BGP, switching, monitoring, routing, and wireless technologies. Proficient in AWS, GCP, and circuit management. Recognized for optimizing network performance and security while reducing costs. Adept at coordinating global IT teams and sharing best practices to ensure alignment and maintenance of standards.
Overview
28
28
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Network Engineer
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS
04.2023 - Current
- In-depth knowledge and experience with Layer-2/3 protocols (e.g., VLANs, VRRP, OSPF, BGP, ISIS, IPv4/6, ARP, RIP, NAT) and Layer-4 protocols (TCP, UDP)
- Design and implement scalable, reliable, and secure network architectures to meet organizational needs
- Plan and configure network hardware, including routers, switches, firewalls, and wireless access points
- Implement network changes and upgrades to support business growth, including data centers, branch offices, and remote locations
- Monitor and troubleshoot network performance, ensuring optimal uptime and availability
- Perform regular network maintenance tasks such as patching, firmware upgrades, and hardware replacement
- Manage network protocols such as TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, and BGP/OSPF routing protocols
Principal Network Architect
VENN BIOSCIENCES
09.2020 - 03.2023
- Responsible for overall global IT finances including budgeting, forecasting, procurement submissions to propose cost savings and efficiencies
- Building our offices and datacenters globally in a greenfield environment: Palo Alto Firewall, Arista, Netapp, VmWare, Opengear, Intel/SMC Compute/GPU
- Develop NOC & SOC policies, procedures, hiring, and training of personnel
- Define global IT standards and processes while striving for secure continuous improvement
- Coordinate and facilitate regular meetings with IT leadership to build a strong global team that is aligned and maintaining standards across the globe
- Identify and recommend new global technology solutions
- Share knowledge and best practices with others while leading by example at all times
- Negotiate vendor/consultant contracts or portions of larger contracts, adhering to financial guidelines and optimizing the terms for Venn Bioscience
- Hands On Deployment: ARIN, BGP, SWITCHING, MONITORING, LOGGING, ROUTING, FIREWALL, WIRELESS, COMPUTE, STORAGE/NAS, AWS, GCP, CIRCUITS
Senior Network Engineer
CRUISE AUTOMATION
04.2018 - 09.2020
- Maintain standards-based network designs for company’s office and backbone infrastructure
- Help maintain our switches, routers, and vehicle wireless access equipment
- Deploy and maintain our software defined cloud networking, primarily in GCP and AWS
- Document all infrastructure and maintain correctness
- Proactively identify capacity bottleneck and plan/execute solutions
- Manage and resolve issues with ISPs, transit providers, and peering interconnects
- Participate in Network Operations on-call rotation
- Maintain and automate the Cruise global network
Senior Network Security Engineer
CREDIT KARMA
08.2016 - 04.2018
- Highly proficient Network Engineer building and supporting Enterprise DataCenter, Cloud, Corp networking technologies supporting 100 million users
- Responsibilities include designing and supporting the Credit Karma network infrastructure for high-availability and security, planning and executing multiple projects, and supporting 24/7/365 site operations
- Thrives in fast-paced environments, able to work independently or as part of a project team, provide research, recommendations and solutions for redundancy, availability, scalability, and performance improvement
Senior Security Network Engineer
SABA SOFTWARE
02.2014 - 07.2016
- Design, implement, operation, and maintenance of the company’s Corporate network & security infrastructure @ Saba
- Provide day-to-day network and security management of multiple
- Provide 24x7x365 network and security support for production infrastructure and perform troubleshooting to resolve problems
- Designate metrics and approaches for monitoring performance, availability, and resource usage of our network and security infrastructure
- Document and update network and security policies, procedures and processes
- Perform security assessments of anything from a physical security system to a complex web application
- Perform network capacity planning
- Develop plans, schedules and requirements for installation and maintenance of new network and security infrastructure and solutions
Senior Network Engineer
BLACKARROW, INC
08.2013 - 01.2014
- In charge of design, implementation, operations and maintenance of the company’s network & security infrastructure @ Blackarrow
- Provide day-to-day network and security management of multiple environments such as: production, customer Labs, staging, and development
- Provide 24x7x365 network and security support for production infrastructure and perform troubleshooting to resolve problems
- Designate metrics and approaches for monitoring performance, availability, and resource usage of our network and security infrastructure
- Document and update network and security policies, procedures and processes
- Perform security assessments of anything from a physical security system to a complex web application
- Perform network capacity planning
- Develop plans, schedules and requirements for installation and maintenance of new network and security infrastructure and solutions for major cable, telecom, and television programming companies
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
SERVICESOURCE, INTL
07.2010 - 07.2013
- In charge of planning, building, installing, configuring, and maintaining network services and equipment for a global network
- Implement a global MLPS/VPLS build-out for the ServiceSource Global Network which includes a fault-tolerant routing
- Transformation to SaaS offering from current platform
- Provided a solution and implementation of a global standard of networking topology, that saved the company 70% in expensive
- Identifying and managing risks and issues as senior subject matter expert for daily operational support and projects
- Identifying and proactively resolving core infrastructure/systems issues
- Define and manage the overall support process
- Implemented UCS network portion, as well support Cisco MDS9100 Switches
- Riverbed Refresh, Cascade, Juniper MAG4610 SSLVPN, Palo Alto Network 3050 Firewall
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
LYRIS.COM
06.2008 - 07.2010
- Designed, configured, and implemented multiple Datacenter deployments replacing legacy network Infrastructure
- In charge of everything and anything network related in the Corporate office + Datacenter daily operations
- Implemented Cisco Call manager Business Edition + re-architecture of all Lyris Offices spanning US, Canada, and UK
- Provided and implemented a remote vpn solution, meshed intra office vpn, and a dynamic VPLS, MPLS connecting all office for Lyris network
- Built a Datacenter in 5 days which provided; redundancy, availability, security, and scalability with a low budget
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
ORGANIC.COM
09.2003 - 05.2008
- In charge of all LAN/MAN/WAN security, administration, design, and deployment of Organic’s Global high-availability network infrastructure; San Francisco, New York, Detroit, Toronto and Los Angeles that are mission critical
- Conduct complex testing and analysis of all components of network facilities
- Identify diagnose difficult and complex problems affecting network performance
- Hands on Linux administration
- Design and implemented multi-homed BGP (HSRP, VRRP) network; Video QoS; firewall & VPN infrastructure
- Responsible for all network security and intrusion detection
- Increased bandwidth capacity for all office
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
QIVA.COM
08.2001 - 08.2003
- Providing systems architectural support to the company and its clients (existing/new)
- Perform analysis of technology trends, and consolidation of customer requirements and industry standards into product specifications
- Work with development Architects regarding its communication and connectivity needs ie, Telecommunication Networks ie ATM, T1, DS-3, Frame Relay, LAN/WAN technologies, TCP/IP, Internet/Intranet, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection System, Virtual Private Networking, and multiple computer platforms including UNIX and Microsoft 2000
- Consulted, designed, and transformed legacy networks into a modern network that has spanned across Europe, Asia, and multiple satellite offices in the US
Senior Network Engineer
Excite@Home
10.1998 - 12.2001
- Provide surveillance support for the @Home Network
- @Home WAN Troubleshoot; OSPF, eBGP, iBGP, deployed using contiguous IGP architect, and split IGP architect
- Diagnose and resolve network failures on the @Home Network
- Work with high speed circuit providers to resolve circuit outages ie OC-48, OC-12, OC-3, DS-3,T1, IMUX, MLPPP, DV6K, ATM
- Monitor the @Home suite of Internet services including; E-mail, Usenet News, Member Webpages, DHCP, DNS, Modem Provisioning, and Netmail
- Provide system administration support on UNIX servers
- Document and track all network failures
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
CAPSTAN SYSTEMS
01.2001 - 08.2001
- In charge of routing, switching, and firewall infrastructure for Capstan (ASP Supply Chain)
- Responsibilities include support for both production and internal infrastructure, designing, deploying, and maintaining a secure, scalable, redundant network utilizing Local Director/BigIP, Cisco 6506/msfc, VPN(s), vlans, HSRP, VRRP, PIX, Arrow Point, Cisco 3000 Concentrator, and various switching techniques
- Provided in-depth documentations, comments, using Visio diagram(s)
- Designed/implemented a global VPN and network infrastructure between US, Europe, and Asia
- Designed/implemented multiple redundant network @ Qwest and Exodus
- Design and implement routing protocols using EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP
- Experience setting up BIND, Redhat, and Solaris
Lead Instructor
Intercultural Institute of California/Cisco Network Academy
04.1997 - 09.1998
- Providing instructions on the principles and practice of designing, building, and maintaining networks capable of supporting national and global organizations
Education
Lead Instructor - designing, building, and maintaining networks capable of supporting national and global organizations
Intercultural Institute of California/Cisco Network Academy
09.1998
Skills
- Firewall Management
- Wireless Network Design
- Performance Monitoring and Analysis
- Routing protocols expertise
- Linux
- Data center networking
- Network Security Implementation
- Cloud networking Solutions
- Automation
Certification
- 06/01/97, Cisco Certified Networking Instructor, 100828
- 06/01/97, Cisco Networking Academy, 5060
References
- Randy Barr, CIO/CSO Venn Biosciense, rbarr@venn.bio, 4083103507
- Jeremy Franzen, Sr. Director at ShutterFly, Jeremy.franzen@shutterfly.com, 4087264363
- Val Girshfeld, IBM Director, val.girshfeld@ibm.com, 9166276798
Timeline
Senior Network Engineer
ROCHE DIAGNOSTICS
04.2023 - Current
Principal Network Architect
VENN BIOSCIENCES
09.2020 - 03.2023
Senior Network Engineer
CRUISE AUTOMATION
04.2018 - 09.2020
Senior Network Security Engineer
CREDIT KARMA
08.2016 - 04.2018
Senior Security Network Engineer
SABA SOFTWARE
02.2014 - 07.2016
Senior Network Engineer
BLACKARROW, INC
08.2013 - 01.2014
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
SERVICESOURCE, INTL
07.2010 - 07.2013
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
LYRIS.COM
06.2008 - 07.2010
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
ORGANIC.COM
09.2003 - 05.2008
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
QIVA.COM
08.2001 - 08.2003
Senior Network Engineer / Network Architect
CAPSTAN SYSTEMS
01.2001 - 08.2001
Senior Network Engineer
Excite@Home
10.1998 - 12.2001
Lead Instructor
Intercultural Institute of California/Cisco Network Academy
04.1997 - 09.1998
- 06/01/97, Cisco Certified Networking Instructor, 100828
- 06/01/97, Cisco Networking Academy, 5060
Lead Instructor - designing, building, and maintaining networks capable of supporting national and global organizations
Intercultural Institute of California/Cisco Network Academy
Similar Profiles
Pablo Rodriguez-AlmendarizPablo Rodriguez-Almendariz
Supply Chain Technician at Roche DiagnosticsSupply Chain Technician at Roche Diagnostics
Catalina LopezCatalina Lopez
Marketing, Strategy and Transformation Director at Roche DiagnosticsMarketing, Strategy and Transformation Director at Roche Diagnostics
Victor InglimaVictor Inglima
Field Engineering Specialist at Roche DiagnosticsField Engineering Specialist at Roche Diagnostics