OJEVWE KOLOKO
Towson,Maryland
Summary
Professional, self-driven, and disciplined individual seeking advancement in the Information Technology sector, while developing myself to be relevant in a fast-changing world.
OBJECTIVES: Seeking a position as a Network Security Administrator/LAN/WAN Analyst Engineer, IT Support Specialist. Enthusiastic individual experienced in analyzing issues on service calls and finding effective solutions. Offering engaging and pleasant personality with expertise building customer relationships. Outstanding diagnostics skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
IT OPS Technician II
THE E.W. SCRIPPS
05.2023 - Current
- Monitoring server health and performance
- Performing routine maintenance tasks like updates, patches, and backups
- Troubleshooting server issues and address them promptly to minimize downtime
- Ensuring the stability and security of the network infrastructure
- Setting up and configured network equipment, including routers, switches, and firewalls
- Monitoring network traffic and troubleshoot connectivity issues
- Assisting employees with IT-related issues, including hardware and software problems
- Provide technical support for multimedia equipment used in production
- Installation, configuring, and updating software applications used by the media house
- Ensure that software licenses are up to date and compliant with legal requirements
- Implementing and enforcing security policies and procedures
- Monitoring and responding to security threats, such as malware and unauthorized access attempts
- Conducting regular security audits and assessments
- Ensure that IT systems and practices comply with relevant industry regulations and standards, such as copyright laws and media licensing agreements.
- Optimized system performance through thorough testing, analysis, and adjustments as needed.
Warehouse IT Technician
APEX SYSTEMS
01.2023 - 03.2023
- Maintained databases of IT wares and peripherals using excel spreadsheets
- Maintained inventory for all equipment stored or discarded and allocated software and hardware to specific departments to ensure accuracy
- Inventoried management of warehouse
- Used ServiceNow to create and complete ticketing
- Performed hardware installation
- Laptops and CPU hard drive flashing and degaussing
- Supported Tier 2 in Laptop reimaging.
PC Technician
KOHL’S E-FULFILLMENT CENTER
11.2022 - 01.2023
- Installed and troubleshooting of handheld Mobile devices
- Printer maintenance
- Hardware and software installation and troubleshooting
- Serviced warehouse IT Media and Peripherals
Equipment Operator
Kohls EFC
10.2022 - 11.2022
- Operated and maintained warehouse machinery
- Printed off shipping labels for customer orders
- Inventoried maintenance
- Maximized productivity with efficient scheduling and allocation of equipment resources.
Network Engineer
Allergan/AbbVie
05.2020 - 10.2021
- Experience in working on Network inventories, processes, policies, and procedures
- Performed inventory/data gathering using Telnet/ssh session to obtain Router configuration information such as interface address/subnet mask, OSPF Area, Circuit ID, Model, Serial Number, IOS Version, Flash Memory, DRAM, Status of the interface and the next hop of the WAN interface
- Analyzed BBB Network and made recommendations to meet Cisco Best Practice
- Involved in LAN Remediation and Branch Offices Router and Switch remediation to new Cisco c4300 Routers and c3850 Switches
- Documented and created Network diagrams for effective engineering projects and support
- Analyzed Network hardware/software and made recommendations for upgrade where necessary
- Experience in troubleshooting & administration of L2 and L3 Routing and switching environment
- Supported routing protocols (EIGRP & BGP) and all other general network issues & troubleshooting
- Developed process and procedures (configuration templates) used to standardize and maintain configuration consistency
- Involved in Data Center Design to deploy many Nexus 2000s as top-of-rack (ToR) switches and connect them back to Nexus 5000s
- Redeployed EIGRP, OSPF and BGP as part of the redesign
- Prepared and designed network drawing using Microsoft PowerPoint & Visio
- Managed site-to-site IPSec VPNs network
- Possesses strong understanding of TCP/IP, Subnetting, Routing, Access Control Lists, Firewalls, IPSec VPN, NAT and network traffic analysis
- Designed and implemented TCP/IP networks
- Prepared and designed network drawing using PowerPoint and Visio
- Holds knowledge in configuration and troubleshooting of Switches such as Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K, and Stack Switches
- Interfaced with the Customer, Account Team and Project Managers to decide and develop best options to support, maintain and manage BBB Network
- Coordinate with ISP/WAN Service provider for circuit failure, performance issues, and other provisioning of new circuit related activities
- Understand Nexus platform architecture, deployment and operations including Virtual Device Contexts (VDCs), Layer 2 and Layer 3 features, Virtual Port Channels (vPC), Enhanced vPC+, Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), Cisco FabricPath, Cisco FEX-Link.
NOC Network Engineer
Morgan Associates
02.2015 - 06.2017
- Racked/Stacked network devices and network cabling
- Analyze business requirements in order to design and implement an infrastructural solution using the following Cisco technologies: LAN/WAN Routing Protocols & Switching, Wireless, VPN, Firewall, WAN Circuits, SNMP, Syslog, AAA Services (TACACS), OSPF, BGP, HSRP, Multicast, IP CEF, QoS, VLANs, Port Channeling and ACS
- Utilize monitoring applications like CiscoWorks2000, HP OpenView, and Optivity for monitoring and data gathering
- Verify bandwidth utilization for Frame Relay Circuit through Concord Network Health System
- Design and document configuration information using PowerPoint and Visio.
Education
CompTIA A+ - EUD Support Tech
PER SCHOLARS
Baltimore, MD06.2022
Network Security/ Automation Engineer - CISCO CCNA
UGOCOM LLC
Union, NJ06.2021
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY
ABRAKA, NIGERIA10.2013
Skills
- TECHNICAL SKILLS:
- LAN: Cables/Cabling, NIC Card, SFP/SFP/QSFP, MTP Cables, Cisco Switches 6500, 4500, WSC3750X, Cisco Catalyst 3650/2960-X, Cisco Catalyst 9300, 10-GigabitEthernet, Nexus 2K/5K/7KNokia service switch 7210,Dell DS-6505B Connectrix, S5248F-ON,DS-6620B
- WAN: RS232, V35, Modems, DSU/CSU, Cisco Routers ISR 1921/1941, ISR 4331/4431, ASR 1001-X, ASR 1002-HX,Nokia service Router 7750
- WLAN: Cisco Wireless Access Point (1100 and 1200 Series), Cisco Wireless Client Adapter (80211a/b/g, Wireless Controllers (55xx), Wireless Site Survey and Wireless Security, IEEE 8021x, WEP, EAP, MD5, CHAP, PAP, & AES
- Firewall Security: Cisco ASA Firewall, Cisco SourceFire IDS/IPS, Palo Alto PA-5060 System, PA 7050 System (Threat Prevention, WildFire, URL Filtering), FireEye, & Checkpoint/PIX Firewall
- Terminal Server: Cisco Terminal Server, DiGi Server, Raritan Terminal Server
- Software/Images: Windows OS, VMware, Cisco CatOS, Cisco IOS, & Cisco NX-OS, iMAC OS
- Protocols: RADIUS or TACACS, VoIP, Video, TCP/IP, DHCP, TFTP, DNS, IP, Frame Relay, SNMP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VRF, MPLS, VPN, IPSec
- Applications: ProComm Plus, Microsoft Office 356, REDI System, Remedy System, ServiceNow, Active Directory, PrintLogic JAMF, SCCM
- Monitoring Tools (NOC): SolarWinds, Concord Network Health System, Netcool, Spectrum, Remedy, SevOne, Rapid7 Insight
- Designs & Drawing Tools: Microsoft PowerPoint, Visio
- Risk Mitigation
References
References will be gladly furnished upon request.
Timeline
IT OPS Technician II
THE E.W. SCRIPPS
05.2023 - Current
Warehouse IT Technician
APEX SYSTEMS
01.2023 - 03.2023
PC Technician
KOHL’S E-FULFILLMENT CENTER
11.2022 - 01.2023
Equipment Operator
Kohls EFC
10.2022 - 11.2022
Network Engineer
Allergan/AbbVie
05.2020 - 10.2021
NOC Network Engineer
Morgan Associates
02.2015 - 06.2017
CompTIA A+ - EUD Support Tech
PER SCHOLARS
Network Security/ Automation Engineer - CISCO CCNA
UGOCOM LLC
Bachelor of Science - Business Administration
DELTA STATE UNIVERSITY
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