Sr. Network Architect -- just laid-off -- loking for a new job

I hope that this is ok, to announce my availability here.

So here I am:
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             Przemyslaw R. Karwasiecki, CCIE #9958 - Resume


Contact Information:

Przemyslaw R. Karwasiecki, CCIE #9958
150 SE 25th Road
Apt. #8B
Miami, FL 33129

Home Phone: +1 (305) 856-9433
Home Fax: +1 (305) 856-9434
Email: [email protected]


Professional Objective:

    A position that will utilize my skills and give my employer and
    myself mutual satisfaction and fulfillment from my work.
    

Professional Profile:

    * Expert networking professional.
    * Solid progression of computer experience.
    * Thorough knowledge of Internet Routing in a Network Service
      Provider environment.
    * Professional experience in academic and commercial vertical
      markets.
    * 8 years experience with Cisco. 2+ years experience with Juniper
      and Nortel.
    * More than 10 years of programming and scripting experience in C,
      Perl, Pascal, and dBase.
    * Excellent knowledge of different flavors of UNIX operating systems
      including Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
    * Very good interpersonal and communication skills.
    * Willing and able to learn and teach new technologies.
    

Education:

    Master of Science in Computer Science, July 1998. Master Thesis:
    "Remote monitoring and management of UniTree Hierarchical Storage
    Management system utilizing SNMP"
    Stanislaw Staszic University (Cracow, Poland)
    

Professional Certifications:

    * Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert, CCIE #9958, August 2002
    * Cisco Certified Networking Professional, CCNP (CSCO10062826),
      April 2000
    * Cisco Certified Network Associate, CCNA (CSCO10062826), February
      2000
    * Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, MCSE (MCP 1128800), February
      1999
    * Microsoft Certified Professional, MCP+Internet (MCP 1128800),
      August 1998
    * Several Hewlett Packard Authorizations, HP VAR (SC7088), May 1998
    * Certified NetWare Engineer, CNE 4 (CNE 6472064), March 1997
    * Certified NetWare Engineer, CNE 3, September 1994
    * Certified NetWare 3.1x Administrator, CNA, July 1994
    

Professional Skills:

    Networking Technologies: TCP/IP, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, QoS,
    DiffServ, MPLS, LDP, RFC2547 L3 VPNs, SNMP, IPX, VoIP.
  
    Telecommunication Technologies: ATM, ATM CES, SONET/SDH, DS3/T1.
  
    Equipment Vendors: Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Hewlett-Packard, Sun
    Microsystems, 3COM/USR.
  
    Programing Languages: C/C++, Perl, Pascal, Intel 80x86 Assembly.
  
    Programing Techniques: Socket Programming, IPC, Parallel
    Programming.
  
    Operating System: Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, AIX, Windows 2000,
    Windows NT 4.0, Windows.
  

Employment History:

    Sr. Network Architect
    IFX Networks
    April 2000-August2002
    
    Projects:
    * Technical Lead of Network Architecture Working Group
    * Technical Lead of Network Performance Monitoring Working Group
    * Sr. Level Involvement in Network Deployment and Operations
    * Corporate VoIP
    
    Achievements:
    * Designed and implemented large scale BGP system spanning several
      countries in Latin and Central America. Implementation based on
      Juniper M20 routers and Cisco 7200 series.
    * Designed and implemented routing policy system controlled via
      usage of BGP communities allowing control over several thousands
      prefixes from multiple sources (IFX originated, customers,
      multiple NAP peers, private peers, transit providers).
    * Designed and tested system allowing differentiation of QoS
      policies based on BGP communities. It allows IFX to offer
      differentiated bandwidth pricing for national vs. international
      bandwidth. Cisco CEF forwarding table was augmented with use of
      QPPB.
    * Designed and implemented NetFlow data collection system gathering
      statistics from multiple Cisco and Juniper boxes. Analyzed
      collected data for peering suitability. Used NetFlow data for
      multiple Denial of Service attack identification and prevention.
      Implementation included fine tuning of Linux kernel to run the
      caida.org cflow deamon optimally.
    * Designed and implemented multilayered network based on ATM
      transport and MPLS switching capable to deliver services ranging
      from TDM (CES) up to IP MPLS L2 VPNs. ATM switches used for this
      solution were mixture of Nortel Passport 15K, Nortel Passport
      7480, and cisco Lightstream 1010.
    * Implemented QoS on selected circuits of IFX core and edge.
      Designed and programmed verification tools for testing QoS
      conformance. In order to save resources, programmed Linux traffic
      generator and receiver, mimicking functionality of Smartbit tool.
    * Designed and implemented IFX Datacenter distribution network
      implemented on L2/L3 Nortel 8610 GigE/100BaseT switches. Migrated
      legacy firewalls to Cisco PIX redundant firewalls. Assisted in
      implementation of IPSec tunnels between different company
      locations, and VPN termination on Cisco PIX.
    * Evaluated several traffic shaping products/technologies. Designed
      and performed experiments evaluating performance differences
      between Packeteer, Cisco IOS, Alteon, and Free BSD traffic shaping
      techniques.
    * Designed and implemented specialized Network Performance
      Monitoring system, based on SNMP protocol. Implementation included
      Perl programming (~10000 Lines), utilizing UCD SNMP asynchronous
      libraries as a front end, and RRD libraries as a CGI presentation
      layer.
    * Deployed first stage of IFX VoIP network utilizing Cisco IOS VoIP
      technologies. In later stages of the project, Open H.323 protocol
      stack and applications were tested and used.
    * Trained and lead international team of engineers during
      implementation phases of above projects.
    
      IT Manager
    Town and Country Industries
    September 1998-April 2000
    
    Projects:
    * Turnkey deployment of Lawson Financial Application Suite
    * Installation and maintenance of Sun Enterprise 3500 server
    * Deployment and maintenance of multi-location Windows NT network
    
    Achievements:
    * Analyzed and migrated data from legacy system into Lawson.
      Approximately 8000 lines of Perl code written to accomplish this
      task.
    * Installed and tuned Lawson Financial suite. Also developed several
      customized reporting CGI Perl scripts giving users better access
      to inventory data.
    * Assessed company needs, purchased and installed computers
      (workstations and servers) and networking equipment in company
      headquarter and branches.
    * Installed several Windows NT servers, designed methodology to
      deploy automated installation of Windows NT workstation on all
      desktop computers.
    * Installed and maintained Sun Enterprise 3500 server with attached
      storage. Installed several Linux servers for company Intranet.
    * Installed and configured networking equipment in LANs and WAN.
      Deployed network management platform monitoring all aspects of
      network and Intranet operation.
    * Designed security policy for company network and implemented
      firewall protecting company network from Internet.
    * Designed and implemented several Remote Access Servers allowing
      users to access company network remotely either via dial-up lines
      or via PPTP over Internet.
    * Hired and trained 2 persons responsible for post-implementation
      maintenance of IT systems.
    
    
    Consultant
    University of Miami / RSMAS-MGG Seismic Lab
    March 1999-May 1999
    
    Projects:
    * Integration of computer system at Seismic Lab
    
    Achievements:
    * Installed additional storage in Sun workstations. Set up
      automounter to provide transparent access to new storage.
    * Upgraded operating system to Solaris 7 and installed Seismic Data
      Processing System Landmark-ProMAX 7.0
    * Integrated existing Windows NT domain with new Sun workstations
      running SAMBA and NIS.
    
    
    System Administrator
    University of Mining and Metallurgy, Cracow, Poland
    1995-1997
    
    Projects:
    * Computer Lab set up
    
    Achievements:
    * Set up computer lab based on Novel NetWare server integrated with
      on-campus TCP/IP backbone.
    * Organized and performed training for university faculties.
    * Managed on-site team responsible for maintenance of whole
      department network consisting of various Unix servers (SunOS,
      Solaris, Linux, HP-UX) and diversified network hardware (3COM, Bay
      Networks, Cisco, Kalpana).
    
    
     Consultant
    DTK Computer, Ltd., Krakow, Poland
    1996-1996
    
    Projects:
    * Dedicated Internet Connection
    
    Achievements:
    * Designed and deployed Internet connection based on Cisco routers
      and secured by proxy server.
    * Set up DNS, FTP and other services on Windows NT 4.0 Server.
    
    
    Network Engineer
    Solidex, Ltd., Cisco Certified Golden Partner, Warsaw, Poland
    1994-1995
    
    Projects:
    * Customer installations and post-sale support
    
    Achievements:
    * Installed several Cisco routers in multiple locations of PKO BP
      S.A.
    * Responsible for Cisco IOS configuration and TCP/IP over X.25 and
      others WAN links network troubleshooting with use of various tools
      like protocol analyzers.
    * Developed various tools under Sun OS based on snoop used for
      network troubleshooting on packet analyzing level.
    * Performed in-house SunOS Unix administration and Internet
      connectivity.
    
    
    Owner/Manager
    P.I.S. SoftKar, Ltd.; Krakow, Poland
    1990-1993
    
    Achievements:
    * Delivered and connected to University of Mining and Metallurgy
      campus network several computer system.
    * Designed, led team, wrote several modules and maintained in-house
      accounting application coded in Microsoft Access/C++ utilizing
      Microsoft/SyBase SQL server.
    
    
    Computer Specialist
    Applied Computer Science Company FX, Krakow, Poland
    1989-1990
    
    Achievements:
    * Installed several SCO Unix Servers and configured different serial
      terminal servers for various local government agencies.
    * Installed several Novell NetWare servers.
    * Installed several Xerox Ventura Publisher Systems and PC based
      Raster Image Processors for Agfa and Hyphen Laser Image-setters.
    * Wrote Ventura loaders for Polish word processors in C and Intel
      x86 assembly language.
    
    
    Freelance Programmer
    Polish Geological Institute; Sosnowiec, Poland
    1987-1988
    
    Achievements:
    * Wrote geological data acquisition system in Nantucket Clipper
      (dBase compiler) and C programming language.
    

Professional Societies:

    Association for Computing Machinery
    

References:

    Daniel Salama
    Chief Technology Officer, IFX Networks
    Phone: (305) 512-1117
    Email: [email protected]
    
    Nivaldo Custodio
    Chief Technology Officer, IFX Networks, Brasil
    Phone: +55 (11) 33 65 59 90
    Email: [email protected]
    
    Juan Pablo Redard
    Chief Technology Officer, IFX Networks, Chile
    Email: [email protected]
    
    Kurt Lackore
    Managing Director, Town and Country Industries
    Email: [email protected]
    

Last modified August 2002.