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John Watt

3 Cheyne Street

Edinburgh

EH41JA
07718 629403

email: john@momentumvr.co.uk

PROFILE

Experienced and versatile Information Technology professional, accustomed to working on own initiative in a variety of disciplines, including project management, installation and support to 3rd level. Possessing excellent communication skills with a positive cheerful approach even when under pressure.



KEY SKILLS/ ACHIEVEMENTS

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)

Checkpoint Certified Security Associate 4.1 NG AI

Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer NT4

Microsoft Certified Professional Windows 2000 Professional and Server


Master Certified Novell Engineer in NT Integration

Certified Novell Engineer 4

Certified Novell Engineer Intranetware

Attended Prince II Foundation Course


Currently studying for CCIE Lab


CAREER BACKGROUND/HISTORY




May 2012 – September 2016 EE

Based at the test facility in Borehamwood, it is my role to test configurations and services prior to going live. Using multiple vendor’s hardware from Cisco, Crossbeam, Huawei, D-Link, Juniper, Checkpoint and Fortinet. On a daily basis I work on high level projects across routing, switching and security. Covering everything from BGP routing to troubleshooting issues with wireless access. Some projects completed are as follows.




  1. Implementation of 4G PAYG for Asda mobile

  2. Migration of corporate firewalls from Nokia Checkpoint to Crossbeam Checkpoint R76

  3. Upgrade of corporate Nexus 7000 data centre switches (link aggregation/Cisco FEX)

  4. Implementation of Cisco ASR 9000 devices

  5. Testing of multiple vendors managed L3 PoE switches from Cisco, D-Link and HP

  6. Site survey and planning for wireless roaming roll outs

  7. Troubleshooting wireless site issues and L2 switching issues

  8. Troubleshooting L3 routing issues and VLAN trunk issues

  9. Microsoft SCCM single site implementation

  10. VMware implementation, monitoring and testing (HP C7000 chassis hardware)

  11. Implementation of Solarwinds NCM/NPM for site backup and monitoring

  12. Emergency Networks Services planning and implementation

  13. Day to Day Infrastructure planned work and incidents (Windows, VMware, Firewalls)

  14. Configuration of VMWare NSX and supporting protocols

The test network at EE in Borehamwood is a self-contained testing facility designed to test services prior to implementation into the “live” network. Day to day I troubleshoot switching, routing and security issues. Implement 3rd party external VPN’s and implement new technologies. Day to day assistance across teams involving DNS, DHCP, VMWare and Storage technologies.



July 2010 – May 2012 Thomson Reuters
I was placed as a project consultant/network engineer in a global deployment team. Dealing daily with 3rd party resources to equip datacentres worldwide with our latest product. There was a large amount of project management type activity leading up to installation engineer activity in this role. The main tasks and hardware are listed below:


  1. IP planning, Data Centre facility planning and 3rd party planning

  2. Cisco 6500 Virtualisation in the core and Nexus distribution layer.

  3. Configuration of 6500 core and 4948 management switches

  4. 3rd party circuit troubleshooting and 3rd party supplier troubleshooting

  5. HP C7000 Enclosure rollout in the Data Centre

  6. Brocade SAN Fibre Channel rollout in Data Centre

  7. Configuration of OSPF, BGP and QOS, WAN/LAN technologies

  8. Day to day fault finding and troubleshooting on a global network

  9. Virtualisation of services into global Points of Presence


November 2008 – June 2010 Hewlett Packard - BP NOC
Working as a 3rd level network engineer in part of the 3rd level network management team at HP looking after the BP global data network. This contract was shift based, in the Aberdeen Network Management Centre. We looked after BP Oil and Gas Data Centres and communications worldwide. The technologies and challenges faced daily included the following WAN/LAN Technologies.


  1. Day to day IP tasks such as IP assignment, moves add and changes

  2. Configuration and fault finding of the following protocols: OSPF, BGP, MPLS, Multicast, Voice, Wireless and QOS config

  3. Load balancing using Cisco ACE and GSS

  4. Cisco FWSM, ASA and Checkpoint firewall configurations

  5. Riverbed Technologies Steelhead Configurations

  6. NETQOS

  7. System reporting tools such as Ciscoworks, Solarwinds and HP Openview


March 2008 – November 2008 Cable & Wireless
As part of the NHS project network team I was involved in the day to day support of the implementation phase of the new NHS email system at the newly built Data Centre in Swindon. Cable & Wireless were tasked with creating and securing the largest Email system in Europe for the NHS. From a network skills and equipment point of view this involved: The following WAN/LAN technologies were involved in this contract.
1. Various VPN configurations

  1. Moving sites onto an MPLS structure

  2. ASA firewall configurations

  3. Day to day networking, OSPF, BGP, Multicast and Data Centre Protocols

  4. Load Balancing (Cisco ACE)

  5. System reporting tools such as Ciscoworks, Solarwinds and HP Openview

  6. Installation of Cisco 6500’s, 6500 VPN service modules, 6500 Network Analysis Modules. 6500 Firewall Services Modules.

  7. Cisco 6500, 3750, 4900, 7200, ASA and FWSM

  8. Troubleshooting of 3rd level fault calls and documentation to resolution.

I was also tasked with monitoring and assisting with multiple operational systems such as VMWare, Windows Infrastructure, Brocade SAN and Cisco Fibre Channel Over Ethernet



July 2007 – Feb 2008 JP Morgan
As part of the project implementations team I was responsible for various projects. Although the project was covered by a main Project Manager the smaller pieces of work underneath were left to be managed by the owner of the smaller project. JP Morgan were closing four sites, and moving necessary 3rd party business to business communications from the ones that were closing to existing data centres or JP Morgan sites that were to situate them. The core network was BGP, the IGP was OSPF with some EIGRP. The firewalls in use were Checkpoint over a variety of solutions including Nokia and Unix operating systems. Some Cisco PIX firewalls were also present within the network. Some of the LAN/WAN technologies I was involved in are listed below:


  1. Closure of 4 JP Morgan sites (Audit, remove and rebuild services)

  2. Business to Business communication implementations (VPN)

  3. OSPF and BGP configuration and troubleshooting

  4. Reuters and Bloombergs

  5. Checkpoint firewall upgrades and configurations

  6. Checkpoint Provider 1

  7. Cisco Pix 6 to Pix 7 Upgrades

  8. Cisco Pix Configurations - ASA, PIX, FWSM

  9. F5 Big IP Load balancing


December 2006 – July 2007 Galiform/MFI

Working as a network engineer, this was a project/support position in a retail environment. The company had over 600 remote sites to support. The routing protocol in use was EIGRP. I was also tasked with looking after MFI’s checkpoint firewalls and carrying out the following projects:





  1. Various circuit installations

  2. Troubleshooting EIGRP, BGP and ISDN dial faults logged with helpdesk

  3. TACACS upgrades

  4. VoIP installation with Call Manager administration

  5. Wireless design and implementations

  6. Cisco 6500 Wireless Services Module Configurations (WiSM)

  7. Cisco Wireless Control System (WCS)

  8. Cisco PIX 515e and FWSM installation and configurations

  9. Day to day LAN/WAN troubleshooting

  10. User MADC – Exchange, Active Directory and Domain

  11. Server 2003 Builds

  12. Backup planning and Anti Virus implementations

  13. Meridian and Siemens PBX configuration

August 2004 – December 2006 ACS – Royal Bank of Scotland
The Royal Bank of Scotland had an ongoing project to change their server infrastructure from a distributed infrastructure to a centralised infrastructure. I was the LAN/WAN technical design architect on the project tasked with the network design, network build and any other project related tasks associated with bringing this piece of work to completion.
I was responsible for junior project management of the projects handed down to me by the main project manager. This included ensuring timely completion of tasks, change management and design and implementation including documentation and diagram handover.

I designed a core consisting of Cisco 6500 Catalyst Switches with Supervisor 720 engines. Whilst integrating this into the existing network, OSPF was the IGP and BGP was the EGP in use. Within the design was also the remit for core security, as this was more a distribution switch design this was mainly achieved with access lists. A small amount of QoS was involved with certain bank system traffic flows requiring higher priority access than standard IP traffic.


The servers were being moved to an IBM SAN environment spread across 2 data centres. The movement of these involved the planning, backup, security and then rebuild of the existing domain servers, active directory servers, exchange servers and SQL servers in the new environment.
Communications links consisted of a mixture of Cellstream ATM, Lightstream and Frame Relay. Another part of the project was to carry out a baseline assessment of all provincial sites with a view to moving them into the new centralised infrastructure. This was carried out with a number of tools including: Ciscoworks, Sniffer Pro and Openview.



  1. Cisco 6500 core with sup 720’s

  2. OSPF and BGP configuration and troubleshooting

  3. Various point to point link ordering and configurations

  4. Documentation and diagrams for project handover

  5. QOS (SNA and Voice traffic)

  6. Windows 2003 Server Builds in new SAN environment

  7. Backup and restore of relevant server (Exchange and SQL) builds


April 2004 – August 2004 Vodafone/Single point

Vodafone recently bought Single point and were in the process of merging their EIGRP networks. I was taken on board as a senior network analyst, to assist in the design of the merge but also to take charge of any 3rd level incidents that occurred due to the re-design. The network is a multi site EIGRP network, with ATM backbone. The network had full redundancy in the design and supports about 4000 users. The core switches in use are catalyst 6500 with MSFC’s, the distribution Switches were catalyst 4507. Day to day duties also involved network management using a combination of CiscoWorks and HP Openview and some other lesser known tools. I was also involved in the day to day administration of the companies Checkpoint firewalls (Nokia) and the companies netscreen firewalls. The implementation of remote access VPN solutions using both checkpoint and cisco VPN clients, and also helped out with a wide variety of server issues and some desktop issues if we were caught without relevant cover.




  1. EIGRP and OSPF configuration and troubleshooting

  2. 6500, 4700, 4500, 7400, 3600 and 2600 Cisco hardware

  3. Nokia IP checkpoint firewall builds and configurations

  4. Ciscoworks and TACACS builds on Server 2003

  5. Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator configurations

June 2003 – April 2004 Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Working as a Senior Network Analyst on 3rd level support for an international investment bank. SMBC were carrying out a series of WAN and LAN improvements to their global network. These included the upgrade of all of the core network hardware to Cisco equipment. The implementation of a new core network using Arcstar global frame relay. The design and implementation of a core switching solution using Cisco 6500 switches with 720 supervisors. A branch switching solution using Cisco 3550 switches. My day to day duties included projects, systems monitoring, configuration changes, security management and troubleshooting of complex 3rd level network issues. These included OSPF, EIGRP, Frame Relay, ATM and Security rule base admin.
Below is a list of some of the key technologies I used during this assignment:
Frame Relay Provisions Cisco router and switch configs

ISDN DDR backup links E1, E3 and LES provisions

ISL and 802.1Q trunking RAS configurations

7500/3600/2600 routers VPN and IPSEC implementation

6500 Core Switches 4500 Distribution Switches

3550 Access Switches 5 Area OSPF configuration

BGP ISS Real Secure Orinoco Wireless point to point CiscoWorks

Cisco Wireless access points Cisco Secure Wireless Suite

Checkpoint 4.1 NG (Alteon) Network monitoring

Checkpoint 4 to 4.1AI migration Checkpoint 4.1 (Nokia)

HP Openview Cisco PIX configuration

Network Associates Sniffer



September 2002 – June 2003 Intergen Ltd
Design and Implementation of a new WAN/Security infrastructure, 3rd level support of the companies EMEA WAN, day to day support of the companies financial trading systems. Intergen were going through a corporate reshaping exercise and needed to create an IT/Communications hub in Edinburgh to serve the European, Asian and Middle East region. A number of changes had to be made to the existing infrastructure, including a new security design involving 3rd party VPN’s and the use of a VPN concentrator for remote access users to access the corporate network.
Some of the work I undertook on this project was as follows:
Frame Relay to ATM upgrades PIX Firewall installs

Nokia 440 and 330 Installs ISDN backup links

Checkpoint Firewall 4.1 (Nokia) Cisco VPN 5015

Cisco ACS 3.1 server (RADIUS) Websense Installation

TCP/IP and IPX Compaq Server builds (Win 2K)

CiscoWorks HP Openview NMM

Solarwinds Network monitoring VPN configurations

Alcatel Voice PABX Voice Over ATM testing

SQL Server Exchange 5.5

Server 2003 builds Day to day network configs



October 2000 – September 2002 BT Ignite
Working as a Senior network systems analyst/project manager for BT Ignite Solutions. This involved the design and implementation of a various number of WAN and LAN projects on the Bank of Scotland network. Core switching equipment included Catalyst 6500, 5500, 4000 and 3500 switches. Core Routing equipment included Cisco 7500 and 7206 routers. Intermediate equipment included Cisco 3640 and 2600 routers. In this role I also had exposure to Bay Network and 3Com switches. This was a 16 area OSPF network with ATM backbone. Various routing protocols were used including OSPF, BGP and EIGRP. Day to day duties involved project management, control and supervision of 3rd parties, design and implementation of medium to large projects. One week in four was 3rd level cover for server support team at BT HQ in Edinburgh, covering day to day duties with Novell and Microsoft servers and face to face interaction with users. Recent projects undertaken include the following


      • Encryption design for Bank of Scotland Infrastructure

      • Departmental and Complete building moves

      • Remote Access solutions implementations for Bank of Scotland

      • Radius and TACAS+ design and implementations (ACS3.1)

      • Novell and Windows 2000 server builds

      • Communications implementations (Megastream/Cellstream)

      • Legacy X25 equipment design and installation

      • SNA traffic flows and QoS

      • Router and Switch upgrade design and implementations

      • GPRS test implementation for Bank of Scotland

      • Network conversions (Token ring to Ethernet 5000 users)

      • WAN data capture and analysis (HP Openview, CiscoWorks, Concord)

      • WAN and LAN link monitoring and upgrades

      • Router and Switch IOS configuration and fault finding

      • Voice over IP test implementation for Bank of Scotland

      • Checkpoint rulebase maintenance and monitoring

      • PIX firewall installations

      • MPLS design and implementation

      • VSAT communications provisions, configurations and monitoring

All projects were owned from initial meetings to final implementation.



June 2000 – September 2000 Bank of New York

Working as a section team leader for the Bank of New York in London. 3rd level network Support on a WAN consisting of cisco routers and various communications links




October 1999 – June 2000 Compaq

Working for Compaq in Dublin as a third level Enterprise Server systems analyst.




July 1999 – October 1999 RBS Trust Bank
Third level support for RBS Trust bank, In a Mixed Novell 4.x and NT Environment.
May 1997 – July 1999 Royal Bank of Scotland

Working as a systems analyst at CIBD London. Supporting the 2nd and 3rd level support of all Royal Bank of Scotland servers and workstations in the London area.



August 1996 – May 1997 Alva Computer Services Ltd
Working as a technical manager in a city centre computer retail outlet. Involved in a field service engineer role in charge of a team of 4 engineers.

September 1985 – August 1996 The Royal Signals

Serving as a Radio telegraphist, serving in various locations and units worldwide. Mainly using mobile telecoms platforms, HF, VHF, RF and Satellite.



PERSONAL DETAILS


Date of Birth 17 January 1969

Marital Status Single

Nationality British

Mobility Car owner, Full clean driving licence

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