Craig R. Brown 242 Ichabod Lane, McDonough GA 30252Cell: 404-218-8201Email: craigrb62@gmail.com

Objective Challenging position where my skills and experience in Network Security and Engineering can contribute to accomplishing corporate goals and offers opportunity for professional growth.

Experience 2007 - Present Cincinnati Bell/GE Corporate Atlanta, GA

Sr. Network Engineer (L3) Responsible for updating security policies on Cisco ASA firewalls—served

as escalation point for troubleshooting firewall tickets that could not be resolved by junior engineers

Support of GE’s “Third-Party VPN” network—resolved issues with crypto security on connections for high-profile business partners—timely resolution contributed to GE business finalizing a multi-million dollar contract with third-party vendor a head of schedule

Installed security policies on Checkpoint policy servers—identified firewall rules that were not properly implemented—coordinated with change advisory board to implement new security policy—resulted in timely completion of new project

Isolated problem with application “SSL errors” on a F5 load balancer—found SSL certificates that had expired—correction of problem enabled help desk personnel to access records needed for a critical contract review

Performed operational checks of Cisco 6509 switches that were being transitioned to Network Operations staff for support—ensured switches were configured properly and complied with company security policies--verified the system logs did not show any hardware failures for switch modules

Identified improper configurations in routers for MPLS circuits supporting business offices—optimized the use of a high-speed circuit—business transactions are now processed 25 percent faster

2000 - 2007 Cingular Wireless (At&t) Alpharetta, GA

Network Engineer (Tier-3) Helped off-site engineers troubleshoot Cisco Firewall that was preventing

business-critical servers from processing service orders—greatly minimized the duration of the system outage—praised by co-workers for ability to clearly explain troubleshooting steps over the phone

Support of data center core switches and routers—assisted with implementation of route-map statements on core routers to prevent the spread of an “Internet worm” throughout the network—averted a network catastrophe—praised by management for protecting revenue-generating applications

Helped isolate a spanning-tree loop within the company’s largest data center—quick troubleshooting minimized outage time

Network support of multiple retail store locations—minimized network down time due to telco circuit failures—ensured lan switches and routers were configured properly

Experience 1996 - 2000 US Air Force Hanscom AFB MA

Network Operations Manager Managed Air Force Network Operations center—provided maintenance support

of Unix network management platforms—Conducted security audits of network systems using the Air Force’s proprietary auditing software

Professional summary

A retired Air Force Non Commissioned Officer with proven success in network security, management and leadership. Experienced in maintaining the following network devices, routing protocols and software:

Cisco Routers (7200, ASR1000,3945) ( 2600, 1841,1700)

Cisco/Nexus Switches ( 6509, 5500) (3750, 3560, 2960)

F5 Load Balancer Bluecoat Proxy servers

Cisco ASA Firewalls Juniper Netscreen Firewalls

Checkpoint Firewall (NGX R55, R65,R75)

HP Procurve switches

RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP T1, DS3, OC3, OC12 Frame-relay, ATM MPLS, DMVPN

Cisco Wireless LAN Debian/Red Hat Linux Backtrack/Kali Linux Wireshark/tcpdump

Education 1999 Western New England College Springfield MA

Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (Magna Cum Laude)

1997 Community College of the Air Force

Hanscom AFB MA

Associates Degree, Electronic Systems Technoloy

1989 US Air Force Leadership Academy

Norton AFB CA