Dr. Xxxxxx Xxxxxxx

Consultant Cisco(TM) Networks
Xxxxxxxx-Xxxxx-Xxx. xx, 41239 Moenchengladbach
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www.kutchin.com



Summary of Resume

I have been working in the IT since 1997, and since 2000 doing mainly networking, particularly, the planning, installation und maintenance of Cisco equipment. I became a consultant in November 2003, during which I was involved in various project roles in NOC and at Datacenters, as a field engineer and as an On-site trainer. I am CCIE #23809 (RS).



Categories

My qualifications could fit any of the following job positions at your company:
Consultant or Contractor
Project Manager/Assistant Project Manager
User and System Support
Network Architect
VoIP Specialist
Cisco Security-Specialist or VPN-MPLS Systems Engineer
Network Systems Engineer
Network Administrator
Wireless-LAN Specialist or WLAN-Site-Survey Specialist
Network Roll-Outs and Migrations Support Engineer
Network Operations and Monitoring
Specialist for Network Audits and Security Reviews.




Project Summary

Consultant Jul 2008 - Oct 2008 MPLS, T-Systems, Duesseldorf
Consultant Aug 2007 - Jun 2008 Global VPN Project, Schott-Zeiss, Jena
Consultant Sep 2006 - Mar 2007 Global Outsourcing Project, USA
Consultant Apr 2006 - Aug 2006 Infrastructure Support, NMC Belgium
Consultant Jan 2006 - Apr 2006 Global Network Op. Center, Frankfurt
Consultant Jan 2005 - Aug 2005 VPN/MPLS at IBM MS Meerbusch
Consultant Nov 2003 - Dec 2004 7 projects - LAN, VoIP, WLAN, MPLS
Network Specialist Jan 2000 - Nov 2003 Over 70 Cisco projects at Siemens AG
System Administrator Sep 1997 - Dec 1999 Novell and MS-Windows projects









Project Details


July 2008 to Oct 2008 (4 Mon): MPLS/WAN Migration at T-Systems Düsseldorf

MPLS/WAN Migration Processing Customer Deployment Orders for assignment of VRFs, as well as to migrate IP-traffic to exclusive IPLS zones at Datacenters throughout Germany.
Equipment used: Cisco C7600, C6500 C3800 and C3800
Technologies: MPLS, QOS, X.25, X.31, BGPv4 and OSPF.

Aug 2007 to Jun 2008 (11 Mon): Global VPN Migration to Cisco at Schott-Zeiss in Jena

Global VPN Migration Planning and deployment of a global VPN-Migration at Carl-Zeiss/Schott Glass in Jena, from Watchguard/Nortel to Cisco IOS:
Equipment used: Cisco C2811, C1812 and C871.
Technologies used: High-Availability (involving MPLS, HSRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IP SLA and ISDN Dialer-Watch), PPTP-Dialin, QOS, Splitt-Tunnelling, PPPoE and PPPoA.
A total of 150 connections - basically a Hub-and-Spoke topology with the Hub at Jena; but cross-connects as well.
Documentation: The assignment and administration of IP addresses and DNS Names was done on a QIP Server; Network documentation was prepared and handed over to the monitoring team.

April 2007 to Jul 2007 (4 Mon): CCIE Lab preps; Projects in Belgium and City of Troisdorf

CCIE Lab Prep; Small Projects I was preparing for my a 3rd CCIE Lab attempt in Brüssels. I did also carry out the following activities during the period:
CCIE Written status was successfully renewed in June 2007.
Deployment of a Wireless LAN for the company NMC Raeren in Belgium, using Aironet AIR-AP1242AG Access Points.
Writing a project proposal for the City Council of Troisdorf, about upgrading the LAN and WAN Network.

September 2006 to March 2007 (7 Months): Computacenter AG, Cognis Corporation, USA

Global Network Migration Member of the Cognis GOP (Global Outsourcing Project) team, assigned to migrate the Cognis network in the Americas, to the Computacenter Network Operations Center
Activities include Migration planning, Network Architecture review and the writing of transition documents
As well as travel to the USA, to implement the pilot phase of the migration.
The migration invloves upgrading the infrastructure for high-availability and applying uniform network security standards throughout the Cognis Global Network.


April 2006 to August 2006 (5 Months): NMC Raeren, Belgium

Infrastructure Support Troubleshooting, Monitoring and Expansion of the existing Network Installation.
Re-assessing and configuring high availability at the distribution/core layer by optimising L1-L3 Redundancy - SSO, RSTP and HSRP
Auditing security and network performance; Software updates.
Remote access via VPN and ISDN.
Monitoring performance, Hotline support, and monthly SLA reports

January 2006 to April 2006 (4 Months): Global Network Op. Centre, Accenture Frankfurt

Monitoring/Maintenance Operational support of Data/Voice related network infrastructure devices in a Global Network Operation Centre, based out of Frankfurt, Germany. Further, customer request management relating to LAN/WAN devices such as Router, Switches, DNS/DHCP, packtshapers, Loadbalancers, Cisco Call Managers, Voice Gateways, and IPCC devices.
Additionally, training of Local GNOC team to strengthen their Cisco LAN Switching, Routing and MPLS skills.


January 2005 to August 2005 (8 Months): IBM Mittelstandsysteme Meerbusch

VPN/MPLS
The existing frame-relay WAN Hub-and-Spoke Topology was migrated into VRFs for each Customer accessing resources at the central site via WAN. This is to improve security for Customers by isolating them.

The LAN Topology at the Central site was likewise separated into Extended Premises - where Customers can access their own resources exclusively, and Shared Premises - where Customers can access shared Services.

The Business requirement for minimum interruption of the Customers Production Traffiic was observed throughout the Planning and Deployment phases of the migration.


December 2004 (5 days): On-Site Coaching at Linde KT GmbH Mainz

Coaching (2nd time) On-Site training and coaching of Staff, charged with the management and monitoring of the Layer-2 und Layer-3 Network.
The training objective was, to convey the skills and knowledge necessary to select and configure the available Cisco equipment as well as to independently carry out troubleshooting.
Cisco IOS and switching fundamentals, configuration and operation of Catalyst switches und Cisco IOS equipment.
VLANs (Trunking, VTP and Spanning Tree).
TCP/IP-Addressing and -Routing.
Access Lists.
The use of 'show' und 'debug' commands when troubleshooting.
The use of CiscoWorks 2000 to manage the network.


November 2004 (2 weeks): Testing the SIP VoIP Software and Hardware products for T-Online Germany in Darmstadt

SIP VoIP Lab Test Testing the SIP VoIP Software - including Hardware Products - for T-Online, an Internet Service Provider.
Carrying out the testing in a Lab, using and adapting the Test Script.
Error tracking und Documentation of Test activity.
The following Hardware components were tested: Fritz!Box Fon, Analog Telephones, DSL Modems and Routers from T-Com.

September to November 2004 (3 Months): Worked for T-Systems International (TSI) in the Role as Rollout Specialist at KarstadtQuelle AG Essen

Migration to MPLS Participated in migrating an enterprise frame-relay network of 368 sites to an MPLS-based VPN Network.
All routers at the customer sites were migrated to the ISP's MPLS-based backbone network with the minimum disruption to production traffic.
OSPF, DLSW, and BGP Protocols were reconfigured accordingly.
Other tasks included Hardware planning, Organisation and Documentation.

August to September 2004 (2 Months): Carried out a rollout for Hewlett-Packard at General Electric Medical Care Clinics in Germany and Austria

LAN Rollout Carried out a Rollout to expand the existing LANs in 10 clinics in Germany (9 sites) and in Austria (1 site), using Cisco 3550 Switches.


July 2004 (5 days): On-Site Coaching at Linde KT GmbH Cologne

Coaching On-Site training and coaching of Staff, charged with the management and monitoring of the Layer-2 und Layer-3 Network.
The training objective was, to convey the skills and knowledge necessary to select and configure the available Cisco equipment as well as to independently carry out troubleshooting.
Cisco IOS and switching fundamentals, configuration and operation of Catalyst switches und Cisco IOS equipment.
VLANs (Trunking, VTP and Spanning Tree).
TCP/IP-Addressing and -Routing.
Access lists.
The use of 'show' und 'debug' commands when troubleshooting.
The use of CiscoWorks 2000 to manage the network.


June 2004 (1 month):  SIP VoIP Testing for Nikotel GmbH Hamburg

SIP VoIP Lab Test Testing and optimising Cisco VoIP products for Nikotel, a SIP telephone provider in Germany:
Configuring the Cisco SIP Proxy Server 2.1 installed on a Red Hat Linux Server.
Using Cisco VoIP products, namely,  Cisco 2950 QOS-switches, Cisco 3700 Routers, Cisco IP Phone 7900, Cisco SIP Soft phones und Cisco ATA 186/286 Analog Telephone Adaptors.
Adapting Cisco Pix 501 firewalls und Cisco IOS Software for use as SIP client gateways.
Implementation, Analysis, testing and documentation.

April to May 2004 (2 Months):  Linde KT GmbH Cologne

LAN-Migration Consulting, planning and implementing a LAN migration due to a change of office location:
Converting a flat IP Network into a VLAN -based Network using Cisco 3500 und 4500 Catalyst switches.
Implementing DHCP, HSRP, NAT-on-a-Stick and callback for Remote Clients on 2xCisco 3640A routers. The software was IOS v12.2 (8) T5.
Configuring IPSec connections on Cisco 1700 routers for the leased lines.

November 2003 to March 2004 (4 months):  Linde KT GmbH Cologne

Wireless-LAN Wireless-LAN Site Survey und consulting on the installation of Cisco ACS for IEEE 802.1 x authentications.
Site-Survey to determine the needs for Access-Points, the locations and sizes of wireless cells.
Advised on the choice of the security option of using IEEE 802.1x with Cisco Secure ACS Solution Engine 3.2.



January 2000 to November 2003: Was a Network Engineer with Siemens AG in Cologne during which I participated in about 70 Projects

Project descriptions (demonstrative examples):
LAN Remote Access Remote sites were connected to the head office over leased-lines and dial-in connections. Access-Servers were configured to enable remote staff to dial in using ISDN, modems or cell phones.
Cisco 3620, 2620, 4500, and 7200 Router were used.
The dynamic routing protocol, EIGRP, was chosen to ensure scalability.
Hot Standby Routing Protocol (RFC 2281) was applied, to guarantee high availability and redundancy.
Making provisions for callback DDR connections.

Voice over IP Gateway The call centre application, ASPECT, was integrated into the existing Siemens HICOM voice network using Cisco Access Server AS5300 as a gateway.
Installation of a gateway to connect the 2 voice protocols, H.323 and Q.SIG.
Setting up a VoIP gatekeeper to cater for the pure IP clients.

Multi-layer Switching As a result of a company take-over, 2 LAN networks were to be restructured and made compatible to each other. A uniform  IP-address standard was conceived and implemented.
Technical support.
Migrating the LANs from flat networks to a VLAN-based network.
Deployment of Cisco 6500, C4000, C3500 catalyst switches with Layer-2 und Layer-3 functionality.
Deployment of routing with security (TACACS+, SSH).
Additional features were also implemented (Terminal Server, Port channelling, Cisco Works und SNMP, Switch Fabric Module, NAM, Gigabit Cluster, SYSLOG-Server, Multicasting, Port mirroring).

ATM and Frame-Relay Building up an ATM and a Frame-Relay backbone.
34 MB und 155MB ATM
Point-to-Point und Point-to-Multipoint connections
The OSPF routing protocol was also implemented.

Security Setting up a secure dial-in connection over a public network, for the transport of sensitive company data.
Setting up a RADIUS server und implementing AAA.
IPSec (3-DES for the encryption of data and the exchange of keys; RSA for Authentication).
VPN/VPDN (especially, to enable users with dynamically assigned IP addresses to connect)

Quality of Service Normal data packets and time-sensitive voice packets were being transported together over a common medium. To prioritise the speech packets, the following methods were used:
Deployment and configuration of QOS switches.
Bandwidth reservation and the optimisation of voice transport over routers und switches.
The Class Based Weighted Fair Queuing (CBWFQ) method was implemented, taking care not to create a hold-up as a result.

Content Switch Server Connecting web servers with the internet, at the same time ensuring security, and load balancing.
Use of Cisco CSS11000 servers
Layer-5 Routing, Caching, VIP, Sorry Server, LDAP


September 1997 to December 1999 was working for Adecco, Persona Service and Ajilon and various companies

Activities 2nd-Level Hotline Support, Administrator for Novell and Microsoft NT Server Systems und Programmer
Planning and migrating Novell Netware Server 4.11 to an NT Server
2nd Level Hotline Support und monitoring the Network facility
Installation und maintenance of a Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 and RAS Server.
Visual dBase 4.0 programming for calculating stock returns at an investment company.



Training und Certificates

Cisco Training CCIE (Routing and Switching) Bootcamp (06.2005)
AMPLS - Advanced MPLS (07.2005)
ICND - Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices
BCSN - Building Cisco Switched Networks
BCMSN - Building Cisco Multilayer Switched Networks
BCRAN - Building Cisco Remote Access Networks  
CIT- Cisco Internetwork Troubleshooting
CSVPN - Cisco Secure VPN
CWFUN - CiscoWorks2000 Fundamentals
VPNRA - Remote Access with VPNs.
CVOICE - Cisco Voice over Frame Relay, ATM and IP
Wireless - Aironet Wireless LAN Fundamentals and Site Survey
WLAN-Sec - Building Secure Wireless LANs
IGX - Cisco WAN Switching using IGX, MGX

Cisco Certificates CCIE #23809 (RS) Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (03.2009)
CCDP - Cisco Certified Design Professional (09.2002)
CCDA - Cisco Certified Design Associate (07.2002)
CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional (07.2001)
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate (07.2000)

Microsoft Certificates MCP - Microsoft Certified Professional, NT4.0 (03.2000)

Other certificates Ph.D. (1996) at the University of Bonn. Major: Nuclear Physics, Minors: Computer Science and Mathematics.
B.Sc. (1983) and M.Sc (1986) Physics at the Ahmadu Bello Univ. Zaria Nigeria.





IT Skills

Expert Level Skills
Minimum of 12 Months of practical experience and deep theoretical understanding
Advanced Skills
Good or very good practical and theoretical ability
Basic Skills
Basic theoretical and practical knowledge

Networks Systems
The readily available Cisco components: Catalyst, Router, ASA v7.0, PIX firewall 6.4, IGX, Content Switch Server, VoIP Phones, ATA, Wireless, VPN Concentrator, Access-Server; IOS v12.4T
Layer-2 components of Extreme, Enterasys, Nortel, and HP Procurve
Layer-3 components von Extreme, Enterasys, HP, Sun (Load balancer, SSL-accelerator)

Routing und Switching protocols
TCP, UDP, IPv4, IPX (Novell), OSPF, RIPv1&2, IGRP, EIGRP, DLSW, Bridging, Source Routing VLANS, VTPv3, MLS, Trunking, NAM II
AppleTalk, SNA, Decnet, BGP, MP-BGP, DLSW, IS-IS
IPv6

Network services and features
Multicasting, MPLS, HSRP/VRRP, NAT, NTP, DNS, SNMPv3, PPPoE, VPDN, FTP, TFTP, RAS (Dial, Dial Backup, call back),



Security
AAA (Radius, Tacacs+), VPN IPsec, Firewall implementations (Paketfilter and stateful) on Cisco ASA/PIX/IOS, VPDN, SSHv2.0,
Catalyst Security
VPN Concentrator 3000
Astaro ASG 220 v5.0
GRE, L2F/L2TP

Voice/QOS
H.323, SIP Proxy-Server 2.1, Codecs, Access Gateway AS5300, Cisco VoIP 7900 Telephones, QoS (MQC and Legacy)
QoS (IntServ/RSVP, DiffServ/DSCP), VOFR, VOATM
Q.SIG, MGCP, Cisco  Callmanager v3.0, Express Callmanager v3.0  

Wireless
Aironet 1100/1200 Access-Points, Linkysys,
Site-Survey, Security (WEP, IEEE802.1x mit Cisco ACS Server 3.0), WLC, WCS
Enterasys Roamabout R2


Network Management
Installation/configuration CiscoWorks for Windows on a Windows Server 2000 platform, NAI and Ethereal Packetsniffer, Syslog Server (Winsyslog, Kiwi, Micro Tik).

HPOpenview

LAN Topologies
Ethernet (E, FE, GE, 10GE), ATM
Token Ring, Wireless
FDDI

WAN Technologies
ISDN, Frame-Relay SVC, X.25, xDSL
G.703/G.704, ATM
T1, SONET/SDH

Server/Host Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows NT/2000 Server,
Active Directory
Novell Netware 3.x/4.x, Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5, IIS 4.0
Microsoft Windows XP,
Novell Netware 5.0,
RedHat Linux Server

Client/Workstation Operating Systems
Microsoft NT/2000/XP Professional
Microsoft DOS, MS Windows 9x/ME/XP Home

Unix on Solaris, Linux, IBM VAX VMS/MVS

Programming
FORTRAN 77
Visual dBase 4.0, Turbo Pascal 6.0
Perl, XML, Windows Scripting Host, C, C++

Applications/Tools/Methods

Windows Scripting Host 4.0, Microsoft Office XP, MSDN Universal 7.0 (particularly Microsoft Project 2000, Microsoft Visio Enterprise)


Office Hardware and Software
The normally available Hardware -
IBM-based PCs/Notebooks, Printer, Print Server, Scanner, Fax und modems
Cheyenne Backup Server


Database


Microsoft Access, Visual dBase 4.0, SQL

Language Skills
English
German
French


Soft Skills

Service Project Manager at a mobile telephone company (April-October 2003)

Coordinating a team of 22 members - in Munich, Berlin, Düsseldorf and Ratingen - assigned to develop and commission the application "eWallet"(payment using a cell phone). Was charged with the responsiblity to:
oversee the daily to-do lists.
be answerable to management and the client.
oversee the server farm.
oversee the team.
document the Project.
configure the Cisco equipment in the server farm.
oversee the redundant connection of database servers, web servers, firewalls, SSL-accelerators, backup servers and load balancers in the server farm.
review and beef-up firewall security.

Caring for trainees (2001 - 2003)

Cared for 2 trainees in 2001 and 3 trainees in 2002-2003 - including an internist from Spain.
Supervising their projects and assisting them write their projects.
Coaching them to attain the Cisco CCNA certificate.

Doctoral position at the Institute of Nuclear Physics, Jülich Research Center (1990-1996)

Development of the FORTRAN based Monte-Carlo-Simulation program GEANT and doing simulation calculations on CRAY- and IBM VAX computers, used in optimising the performance of the high-resolution gamma-ray detector EUROBALL.
Computer-assisted search for super-deformed AU-189,190 nuclei at the spinning energy of 13,4MeV.
Programming in FORTRAN 77, C, C++, Turbo Pascal 6.0, Perl und HTML 3.0.
Gained useful knowledge in the use of many operating systems, including Unix on Solaris and AIX, IBM VAX/MVS, CRAY, Novell Server and DEC. Also used the TCP/IP protocol.
Published scientific findings, and held Seminars and Lectures.

Lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria (1983-89, 1996-97)

Participated in Research, Lectures and seminars in Physics.
Member of the examination committee of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.



Additional Information

Date and place of birth: 6.7.1962, Nigeria
Nationality: Nigeria
German Visa Status Unlimited Residency and Business Permit
Marital Status: Single, have no child - therefore can readily travel
Mobility: Drivers' License class III, own a car
Earliest entry date: Immediately
Salary: Asking price: negotiable
VAT-Nr.: DE 236 333 106


Moenchengladbach, this day 2009-04-01