Curriculum Vitae

Name

Neil Meadows

Job Title Network Engineer

Nationality British

Gender Male

Role Sought Network Engineering /Design/Infrastructure Support,Projects

Location Flexible, Travelling and staying local to job site is considered a part of the job!

Address 7 Theydon Grove, Woodford Green, IG8 7HQ

Telephone 07554 122264

E-mail caliana99@gmail.com

Professional Summary Enthusiastic and flexible with a solid background in

Network/infrastructure engineering management, with expertise in analysing situations, drawing conclusions,

recommending and implementing effective and successful action plans within the current business context.

Technical Skills Overview….. “Hands On” - Cisco/other vendor networking, to CCNP level and above,

including Voice, Firewalls , Riverbed WAN accelerators, Vsat and MPLS networking engineering,

Microsoft Networking, Microsoft SQL Server 2008R2 and Cisco Nexus 5k, 7K, Fex with Citrix, Vmware,

MDS integration.

Soft Skills Overview…..15 years of professional experience in the industry, extended planning,

designing, documenting, and executing, simple and complex, moves, changes, builds and migrations.

Excellent written skills, from technical to customer acquisition documents.

Possess excellent planning and analytical skills

Effective presentation skills

Excellent designing and planning skills

Goal oriented, technically focused, in line with business goals.

Skills Summary

Cisco Networking C.C.I.E R&S (written Only, studying for Lab) CCNA – Datacentre, DCUFI. Cisco

Credential Verification Services (URL:

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MICROSOFT MCITP SQL Server 2008, (M.C.S.E NT4) M.C.P. NT4 Qualification Checker= https://mcp.microsoft.com/authenticate/validatemcp.aspx Transcript ID=974831 Access code= 699699nm

Implementing Cisco Data Center Unified Fabric 642-997 course attended May 2013 Global Knowledge Riverbed (WAN Acceleration) Advanced Application Course Attended at Riverbed (Bracknell) Feb 2013 Prince2 Registered practitioner P2R/349666

CSTP (Penetration Testing)CSTA (Penetration Testing) Certified Security Testing Associate, Bosiet Offshore Safety Certificate Number 041570027071227761 .

Work Experience

2012 May - Present Day

ISN Solutions, Kensington, London

Networks Team Leader of an I.T. managed services provider to the oil and gas industry. Plan, build and support large client networks across diverse infrastructure and network types, including MPLS, Vsat, DMVPN and point to point links across corporate onshore and offshore installations. Services required to operate over the different network types center around:

1. Voice...QOS, CUCME, CUCM, Avaya 2. Video conferencing…Polycom, RMX bridges/H.D. 3. Citrix…Xendesktop, Xenapp 4. Wireless….Cisco WLC, CAPWAP, Flexiconnect, stand alone APs.

5. Network acceleration using Riverbed Steelheads Support/ improvement projects of large MPLS network, connecting global sites and data centers. Projects: Design and build enterprise wide Cisco IPS solution. Design/build/support complex comms links including Vsat, accelerated with Riverbed WAN accelerators. Vsat support, resilient voice and data. Design and plan migration to virtualized data centre model with Cisco Nexus 5Ks/7ks and OTV. Network security centered around IPS and ASA firewalls, with Cisco ACS/ Cisco ISE. Technical documentation for internal and technical proposals to several large oil companies.

2011 Sept - 2012 March

Capita, Holborn, London

Network Infrastructure Engineer Project 1…Sharepoint intranet site provision to 4,500 users across 20 different sites U.K. wide. Across a complicated MPLS network, to new virtualised data centre environment using Nexus 5K, load balanced with an F5 Big IP load balancer. Multiple internal and external firewalls reconfigured, with an overhaul and reconfiguration of DNS, IP routing, proxy servers and Active Directory troubleshooting, across a strict “change controlled” environment. Project 2…Integration of an acquisition into Capita‟s infrastructure. 300 staff requiring large amounts of data, network migration on Dell and HP switches with assorted databases and applications, migrated to Capita‟s security and approved systems and methodology. Project 3…Design and planning of complex local authority bid, tendering for a £7 million contract to provide “estate management” systems as an outsourced solution including SQL databases, management systems, firewalls, routers, Vmware virtualized server environment, to a highly specified security standard.

2011 July - 2011 July

Innovate I.T. Support, Poole, Dorset

Network Roll Out Engineer Fitness First Gymnasiums, Network installation roll-out, using Cisco switches and routers, replacement workstations on Windows 2008R2 server. Configuration of Mission Critical

SQL 2008R2 database application roll-out with database support and query performance tuning

2009 Jan - 2010 June

ProTekks Systems Support

Network Pre-Sales and Post-Sales Support Engineer Varied range of assignments covering Cisco routers and switches and Microsoft

windows 2003, 2008, mainly providing services to customers of Fluke Networks. Supporting Portracker appliance engines. SNMP walks and MIB investigation, on

Cisco, HP and other vendor switches, storing information in SQL database. VMware virtual machine deployment and maintenance on ESX server.

Microsoft 2003/2008 network support with the maintenance and performance of business critical SQL databases as the main provision for the assignment.

Installation and support of network management system, both remotely and on-site.

Cisco Router, Cisco switches 3500 to 6500s and Firewall Pix/ASA configuration (PCI DSS) and troubleshooting, including broadband router support.

Server deployment planning and profiling Cisco, Aphellion and Colubris wireless configuration, support, troubleshooting

and management, online web server mgt and onsite inspections.

May 2008-Dec 2008 Research Machines, Didcot, Oxfordshire

Network/VOIP Engineer Cisco VOIP (CCME 5/6) IPT design and installation for the government‟s “Building

Schools for the Future” project, across the Janet network,including details technical proposals aimed at non technical buyers.

Large multi-site, migration and “green field”, planning, design, implementation, pre-sales requirements gathering and customer consultations.

Cisco switches (6500s), GSR 12000s, Cisco phones, installation, planning, migration and post installaiton support.

Cisco Unified Call Manager 5/6, Mitel and Cisco Call Manger Express, IPFX, Unity

and Unity Express.

June 2007-May 2008 Barclays Bank PLC, Poole, Dorset

Threats And Vulnerability Analyst Responsible for I.T. based security across all of Barclays Africa, in accordance

with network customer demands and expectations, marketing services internally to member countries and departments.

Internal and external network security, data protection, penetration testing, operating system integrity and business continuity, using nessus, Metaspolit and other frameworks/tools.

ASA/Pix installation, configuration, management, troubleshooting, monitoring, VPNs

Payment Card Industry (PCI) planning and compliance. Installation, maintenance and implementation of LANDesk and Symantec

Antivirus V 8,9,10 Assessment of the enterprise‟s vulnerability based on vulnerability scans with

remediation techniques across a 10,000 machine estate. Provision of weekly and monthly management information on the business‟s

technical investment. Provision of third line support from within the Barclays NOC at the IT centre

Poole. Minimising the potential for “loss of reputation” and other risks. Service delivery and sales to businesses under Barclay‟s umbrella but wholly

owned by external companies.

June 2006-June 2007 Barclays Bank PLC , Poole, Dorset

Senior Network Specialist Design, Installation and Support, for Wide Area satellite (Vsat) / terrestrial, and

Local Area networks across 14 countries in Barclays Emerging Markets. Design and implementation of an enterprise Quality Of Service schema delivering

predictable delay across a high cost, high latency, low bandwidth Vsat network, complex application testing pre and post quality of service installation. Ongoing support and maintenance based on VSAT and WAN traversal metrics.

Design and implementation of I.P. based voice solutions, including Cisco Call Manager and Cisco Unity (voicemail)

Provision of third line support from within the Barclays NOC at the IT centre Poole.

Installation of WAN acceleration network, using Juniper (Peribit WXC 500 & 250s compression devices), resulting in 30 to 40% increase in data throughput, without a corresponding increase in bandwidth costs.

Traffic and information security both logical and physical, including Cisco Secure, PIX firewalls, Cyberguard firewalls and Lucent firewalls.

Cisco ASA installation, configuration, management, moves and changes, OSPF, BGP Cisco 6500, 12000, cat 5000 and assorted technologies

Nov 2005-June 2006 NTL/Telewest , Hook, Hampshire

Senior Network Engineer Planning the NTL national rollout of a Voice Over Broadband Product National roll-out of “Allot Deep Packet inspectors” with a complex revenue and

service management back end, providing an effective network traffic management system nationwide, and facilitating a control system for network investment.

Investigate the network bandwidth, customer effects, latency, cost and support implications of all projects on NTL‟s (now Virgin Media‟s), national network.

Cisco 6500s, Juniper M series routers, MPLS planning and testing, Pix and ASA

firewalls.

Sept 2005-Nov 2005 Reuters, Canary Wharf, London

Installation of 10,000 phone VOIP network Planning, procurement of outside contractors and services Installation of Cisco 6500s, Pix firewalls. Installation of Cisco Voip gateways, configuration, troubleshooting of Cisco Call

Manager, Cisco Unity, Witness and a whiteboard and call centre solution. Planning and execution of a stepped migration from an analogue phone system

to a VOIP system.

Jan 2005-Aug 2005 British Telecommunications (B.T. Exact), St Albans Network Designer

May 2004-Jan 2005 NTL (Hook, Hants) Principal network design Team Leader

Jan 2003-May 2004 Barclays Bank Technical Communications Consultant

Nov 2000-Jan 2003 Colt Internet (Colt Telecom) Network Development, Design and Support

May 2000-Nov 2000 Ipcenta/Completel Network Operations Engineer

Education Plymouth College of Further Education

2 „A‟ levels 9 „O‟ levels

Interests Mountain Biking, Running, Judo, and Golf