Rron Kaleci
Tampa,FL
Summary
Results-driven Network Engineer with 15+ years of expertise deploying and maintaining LAN and WAN infrastructure, experience with Cisco, F5, Juniper, Palo Alto, HP, Aruba, Fortinet and other networking and security vendors. Dedicated technology professional with strong track record of accurately conducting system repairs and troubleshooting. Offering exemplary planning, project management and communication talents.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Network Team Lead
Zayo
06.2023 - Current
- Manage a team of 6 members, 4 Network Engineers and 2 Wireless Engineers
- Interviewed and selected potential new team members from the list of candidates recommended by the recruitment team
- Define and implement Service and Operational Level Agreements (SLA/OLAs) for Hillsborough County Public Schools (HCPS) internal teams – including: responsibilities, processes and timeframes – in support of service delivery
- Develop reference architectures and set standards for network services globally
- Meet with stakeholders (HCPS IT Staff) to ensure services are met and continue to develop
- Led project of upgrading WAN across more than 260 HCPS sites across the county
- Designed and implemented OSPF solution for redundancy across all HCPS sites and 2 data centers
- Manage Cisco Routers and Switches, Meraki Switches, Juniper Switches, Aruba Switches, HP Switches and Fortinet Firewall totaling over 8,000 network devices
- Conduct regular Network Security assessments and made recommendations and improvement and network hardening
- Work with national security team to increase the levels of LAN/WAN security and increasing the security in the barrier systems that prevent unauthorized access i.e
- VPN
Network Engineer
Geographic Solutions
10.2019 - 06.2023
- Configure and define parameters for installation or testing of local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), routers, switches, load balancers or related networking equipment
- Led the network project recovery from Crypto Encryption of the infrastructure by doing a dull rebuild of 2 data centers
- Evaluate local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN) performance data to ensure sufficient availability or speed, to identify network problems, or for disaster recovery purposes
- Install new hardware or software systems or components, ensuring integration with existing network systems
- Maintain and administer computer networks and related computing environments including computer hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations
- Diagnose, troubleshoot, and resolve hardware, software, or other network and system problems, and replace defective components when necessary
- Plan, coordinate, and implement network security measures to protect data, software, and hardware
- Recommend changes to improve systems and network configurations and determine hardware or software requirements related to such changes
- Gather data pertaining to customer needs, and use the information to identify, predict, interpret, and evaluate system and network requirements
- Analyze network data to determine network usage, disk space availability, or server function
- Identify the causes of networking problems, using diagnostic testing software and equipment
Sr. Network Engineer
Acacia Networks
10.2016 - 10.2019
- Lead Network Engineer in a 5-member team
- Designed and installed the successful network infrastructure upgrade at over 160 Acacia Network locations across 5 States
- Oversaw the implementation of Avaya phone system and Scopia Video Conferencing systems, Palo Alto Firewall deployment and Camera Surveillance system
- Troubleshoot and maintained network equipment, Switches, Routers, Wireless and Firewalls (Cisco Switches, Cisco AP, Meraki AP, Cisco ASA, Dell SonicWALL, Palo Alto, Peplink and Peplink proprietary VPN solution-SpeedFusion.)
- Management and monitoring of VMware VSphere and Nutanix solutions, including VM creation and VM management
- Manage Health Care industry applications NextGen, Smart and Avatar
- Manage Active Directory and Exchange 2003, 2007, 2012
Network Engineer
Micro Strategies
08.2015 - 09.2016
- Worked with over 180 Managed Service Provider (MSP) customers, ranging from small SMB to very large SMB level firms
- Design and install Network infrastructures including servers, network equipment, computers and software at the client locations
- Troubleshot and maintained network equipment, Switches, Routers, Wireless and Firewalls
- Majority of Cisco Switches, Cisco AP, Meraki Switches, Meraki AP, Cisco ASA, Dell SonicWALL, Cisco IPS, Advances Malware Protection, URL Filtering, Cisco VPN
- Analyzing, troubleshooting and resolving system hardware, software and networking issues
- Implementing network security policies and procedures for clients and internal network
Network Engineer
GlobalLogic
05.2014 - 08.2015
- Successfully led the project in installing panic button system for hotel staff which was integrated in Internal Hotel Wi-Fi
- Internal IT infrastructure surveying through Ekahau software in NYC Hotels
- Troubleshot and maintained network equipment
- Updated server databases daily and performed necessary backups
IT Consultant
SWAT Group INC (Solutions for WAN Automation and Telecommunication Inc.)
03.2010 - 01.2014
- Worked closely with clients to analyze IT system requirements, client’s information technology needs and their resources to plan IT projects and fulfill client’s expectations
- Solved client’s IT issues, determined changes, recommended quality software, projected modifications of software, hardware and networking
- Internal IT infrastructure maintenance and upgrading
- Experienced in working with Cisco Routing and Switching equipment, Cisco PIX and ASA Firewall, Load- Balancers and Firewalls, FS load balancers
Account Executive
Max International
09.2007 - 06.2010
- Attained Brokerage Licenses, Series 7 & 63
- Ability to acquire long term and instant goals and meet operation deadlines
- Worked in configuring the company network, IP telephony, Routers and Switches
- Managed over 50 portfolios simultaneously by providing accurate and timely market information and assisting with buying and selling activities
Education
BS -
Fordham University
05.2007
Skills
- Networking and routing protocol expertise
- Network architecture understanding
- Security architecture and technologies
- Firewall management
- F5 load balancer expertise
- Virtual private networks
- Network Troubleshooting
- Datacenter network implementations
- Network troubleshooting
- Network security
- Network architecture design
Certification
- CCNA
- JNCIA MIST AI
- JNCIA JUNOS
- Fortinet FCA (NSE 3)
TRAINING
- F5 - Administering BIG-IP (LTM)
- F5 - Configuring BIG-IP (LTM)
- F5 - Troubleshooting BIG-IP (LTM)
Languages
Albanian
Native or Bilingual
English
Native or Bilingual
Croatian
Native or Bilingual
Turkish
Full Professional
Spanish
Professional Working
Serbian
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Network Team Lead
Zayo
06.2023 - Current
Network Engineer
Geographic Solutions
10.2019 - 06.2023
Sr. Network Engineer
Acacia Networks
10.2016 - 10.2019
Network Engineer
Micro Strategies
08.2015 - 09.2016
Network Engineer
GlobalLogic
05.2014 - 08.2015
IT Consultant
SWAT Group INC (Solutions for WAN Automation and Telecommunication Inc.)
03.2010 - 01.2014
Account Executive
Max International
09.2007 - 06.2010
- CCNA
- JNCIA MIST AI
- JNCIA JUNOS
- Fortinet FCA (NSE 3)
TRAINING
- F5 - Administering BIG-IP (LTM)
- F5 - Configuring BIG-IP (LTM)
- F5 - Troubleshooting BIG-IP (LTM)
BS -
Fordham University
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