Casey Halverson

31519 53rd Ave SW

Federal Way, WA 98023

(253) 835-4433

maokhian@hotmail.com

 

Objective

 

Proven engineer and project manager in the networking field seeking new and exciting opportunities.  

 

Technical Proficiencies

 

Networking Hardware

 

Cisco 2600/3600/3800/7200/7600, MSFC/Sup720 routers

Cisco 2900/3500/3700/6500 switches

Cisco 1200 WiFi APs

Cisco Riverhead

Juniper Netscreen 5, 25, 50, 204, 208, and ISG Firewall/VPN devices

Nortel Contivity VPN devices

F5 BigIP and 3DNS load balancers

Checkpoint Firewalls (Nokia platform)

Ixia testing hardware

 

Software

 

MRTG, CiscoWorks, CiscoACS, NSM, TrueControl

CatOS, IOS, IOS Native and Hybrid on MSFC/Sup720 routing modules

Observer, Ethereal, tcpdump for packet capturing and analysis

 

Languages

 

Perl, PHP, REXX, JUML

 

Wireless

 

WiFi, point to point microwave, access point and station hardware, link studies and calculations, captive portals, embedded wireless routers

 

Protocols and Technologies

 

RIP, OSPF, and BGP, switching/trunking, 802.1q, ISL, HSRP, VRRP, NSRP

T1, T3/DS3, OC3

Fast ethernet, copper and fiber gigabit ethernet

Point to point microwave, WiFi, 802.11a/b/g

DNS, DHCP, NTP

 

Professional Experience

 

InfoSpace Bellevue, Washington

Network Engineer (2001-current)

 

Production network infrastructure responsibilities

-          Design and manage three multi-homed production data centers

-          OSPF; Troubleshoot BGP

-          Test and turn-up of T1, T3/DS3, and OC3 circuits

-          Configure and provision BigIP and 3DNS geographic load balancing

-          Network support and provisioning of search and mobile products

-          Coordinate with NT and Unix teams; provide allocations for servers

-          Documentation and diagrams of network infrastructure

Corporate network infrastructure responsibilities

   -    Project management of remote office infrastructure build outs

   -    Design remote office network infrastructure

   -    Write RPP’s and project plans

   -    Deploy and maintain wireless network infrastructure

   -    Deploy and maintain corporate switching, routing;  Firewall policies

 Network security responsibilities

-         Provisioning of all infrastructure firewalls (Nokia Checkpoint, Netscreen)

-         Provisioning of VPN devices (Nortel Contivity, Cisco Concentrators, Netscreen)

-         Intrusion detection and DOS attack mitigation

-         Network monitoring through MRTG, Syslog, and other management tools

-         Maintain network engineering unix hosts and sun systems

 

Seattlewireless.net, Seattle, Washington

Core Contributor, Senior Member (1999-Current)

 

-         Drive various wireless network projects and deployments in Seattle area

-         Develop project plans for network deployments

-         Tap synergies and expertise of other members;  Form specific task groups

-         Design embedded Linux WiFi routers

-         Implement routing protocols (OLSR, BGP, OSPF, RIP)

-         Serve as subject matter expert in networking, RF engineering, and WiFi

-         Design mobile hotspot technology

 

Bazilion.com, Seattle, Washington (No longer operational)

Network Engineer (Oct 2000-Jan 2001)

 

- Maintain an infrastructure of over 20 remote sites

- Test and turn-up of voice and data T1, T3/DS3 circuits

- Maintenance of dial peers of VoIP network, 5300 configurations, gatekeeper configurations, access numbers, and CPE POTS to VoIP equipment

- Implementation and configuration of Out Of Band (OOB) access methods

- MRTG graphing

- Network documentation

 

FreeInternet.com, Federal Way, Washington (business no longer operating)

 Network Engineer (Oct 1999-Oct 2000)

 

-Designed nation-wide infrastructure of over 40 remote POP sites

-Project management of infrastructure build out

-Provisioned, maintained, and monitored switches, routers, access servers

-Test and turn-up of voice and data T1, T3/DS3 circuits

-Designed point to point microwave network between campus buildings

-Trained installers, NOC, and developed related study material

 

 

Education

 

Highline Community College, Des Moines, WA

Business degree in progress

 

Achievements

 

Technician Plus Amateur radio license, KC7IBT

 

 

References

 

Available on request