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Timothy Gaston

Vancouver,WA

Summary

Innovative Network Engineer provides reliable and vital connectivity for multi-site installations. Integrates fixed wireless, terrestrial and satellite-based solutions to create streamlined network infrastructure at enterprise scale. Trusted to develop fast and secure infrastructure plans for facilities and networking hubs.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Network Engineer

CDK Global
07.2021 - Current

Tier 1-3 Support: Responsible for client facing network support. Involved in the development,
configuration, deployment, and troubleshooting of tens of thousands of routers, switches,
firewalls, and wireless devices. Responsible for fault isolation and remediation utilizing
automation, monitoring data, and captured data.

Lead Engineer: Positioned to collaborate with R&D, Arch, Install, Data Center Ops, Support,
and Management to aid in the phases necessary to advance and document across the lifespan
of products and solutions. Tasked with interfacing with vendors from product turnup to bug
isolation. Involved in technical interviews for team expansion. Expected to seek opportunities to
enable and encourage the technical growth of team members.

Network Administrator

C-TRAN
04.2019 - Current
  • Monitored stability of network and wireless services to deliver comprehensive stability
  • Performed day-to-day LAN and WAN administration, maintenance and support
  • Identified and immediately resolved issues with network devices, including firewall (Fortinet)
  • Constructed and maintained Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
  • Experienced in supporting routers, switches, wireless access points and network servers
  • (Allied Telesis, Cisco, Fortinet, HP Aruba, Sierra Wireless)

CNOC Technician II

WINDSTREAM ENTERPRISE
02.2014 - 04.2019
  • Manage numerous multi-site customer networks, utilizing the VeloCloud SD-WAN Orchestrator environment, and ensuring security and QoS is adhered to for PoS, VoIP, and internet traffic
  • Handled and supported various network technologies, systems, and services for enterprise customer host and remote branch locations including but not limited to: BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, DHCP, DNS, VoIP, and QoS
  • Troubleshoot firewall network access issues via the CLI and GUI interface
  • Conducted testing and performed troubleshooting of network equipment to ensure proper functionality of wireless tunnels, BGP, OSPF, PPP, Frame Relay and confirmed the correct state of all interfaces.
  • Assisted customers, vendors, and field technicians to troubleshoot data networks and administered equipment including but not limited to: Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Access Points
  • Applied logical troubleshooting procedures to network services which require the ability to manage through logical fault isolation throughout the network, carrier circuitry, CPE, customer wiring, and customer hardware and software applications
  • Troubleshot Wide Area Network circuit issues (T1, DSL, Ethernet, Cable, etc.), and verified CPE / PE configuration and routing
  • Organized communication to customers by notifying them of outages, providing all circuit vendor outage correspondence and ticket information, and possible estimated time of resolution

Education

Associate of Arts - Cisco Networking Technologies

Clark College
Vancouver, WA
07.2014

Skills

    Cisco IOS/XE/XR/NS-OX/ASA, Cisco DNAC, Viptella vManage/Orch/Bond/Edge, Cisco ACI,
    Cisco CUCM, VNFs, Cisco/Meraki Wireless, Cisco GS Containers, Cisco ISE, Fortinet/Fortimanager, VeloCloud, Silver Peak, Aruba, Linux, vSphere/Center/ESXi,Kubernetes, KVM, VMs/Containers, Solarwinds, PRTG, Wireshark, OpenNMS, Scrutinizer,Python, TCL, JSON, XML, HTML, CSS, NETCONF, RESTCONF, YANG, REST, SOAP,
    GraphQL, Neutron, Ansible, Puppet, Puppet Bolt

Timeline

Lead Network Engineer

CDK Global
07.2021 - Current

Network Administrator

C-TRAN
04.2019 - Current

CNOC Technician II

WINDSTREAM ENTERPRISE
02.2014 - 04.2019

Associate of Arts - Cisco Networking Technologies

Clark College
Timothy Gaston