Experience

  1. Senior Network Engineer

    Megawire Inc.

    Accomplishments include:

    • designed and implemented an isp core network powered by cisco mpls connecting multiple geo diverse datacenters
    • established and maintained autonomous system number 33044 and all bgp peering operations
    • developed several income streams while finding cost savings for the company ie network monitoring service, multitenant sase service, various backup services and disaster recovery as a service
    • designed a seamless multi site DR solution leveraging vpls network technology
    • maintained constant software upgrade cycles on microsoft and linux servers over 18 years
    • developed several custom web applications with laravel (employee onboarding, router failover manager, dr failover manager)
    • developed many custom integrations between internal applications to cut workload and costs
    • countless migrations of vm workloads with all major cloud platforms and all onprem virtualization platforms
    • designed and built out 1000 sq km wireless broadband network using various microwave frequencies (wisp)

  2. Professional Services

    Foxnet Services (a Megawire Partnership)

    Responsibilities include:

    • migrated infrastructure to a new data center for defence industry client
    • rebuilt vsphere environment in our dc after customers building fire

  3. Field Technician

    Raytech (under contract to Rogers)

    Responsibilities include:

    • replace and repair coax network infrastructure underground and ariel
    • troubleshoot with tdr machine

Education

  1. Computer Programmer Analyst

    Conestoga College
    • built erp system in visual basic

  2. Electronics Engineering

    Radio College of Canada
    • built computer controlled entertainment system with optical relays
    • installed linux for the first time, never looked back
Skills & Hobbies
Technical Skills
Cisco

20 yrs with cisco networks as service provider
Linux

20 yrs with linux daily driver, debian and ubuntu preferred
SQL

20 yrs mysql, mssql, postgres, oracle
Infrastucture

20 yrs dc builds, fiber termination
AI

2 yrs ollama and various integrations
Hobbies
Fly Fishing

steelheading in winter, carp on fly in summer
Dogs

two dogs, Finn and Ollie
Boating

kayaking and paddleboarding
Hiking

trails along the river
all of the ☝️ w/ My Fam

Mak,Aub,Graybles n Wyfe
Certifications
Veeam Certified Engineer (VMCE 9.5)
Veeam ∙ November 2017
The VMCE certification is documented proof that an administrator or engineer has the necessary level of expertise to protect an organization’s data with the Veeam Data Platform.
HPE ASE - Compute Solutions
HP ∙ July 2017
This certification validates that you know how to plan, monitor, manage, maintain, and design HPE compute solutions based on industry standard computing technologies and workloads and demonstrate implementation expertise of HPE compute solutions within a customer environment.
IPv6 Sage
Hurricane Electric ∙ January 2015
Learned and implemented IPv6 networking from the edge with public peering, to the servers and desktop.
See certificate
Languages
100%
English
25%
French
10%
Spanish