Senior Network Engineer with fourteen years networking experience, in ISP, Carrier and Enterprise environments. Ten years of consulting experience in multi-vendor and monoculture vendor environments designing, selling, planning, and executing complex services and solutions for services customers of Alcatel-Lucent on numerous network element product lines. Holds numerous industry certifications and has managed as team lead (non personnel-management) for specialized groups. Extensive knowledge of Frame Relay, ATM, TCP/IP, UNIX, IP Routing, SNMP, and Sybase databases. Expertise in HP OV NNM, Alcatel-Lucent NavisCore/NavisEMS-CBGX and NavisXtend product suites, Solaris, generic UNIX (including Linux and BSD), Sun server hardware, Lucent core switching hardware, IP routing and network design (Core, EMS, Optical, LAN, and WAN), network troubleshooting, network management design and implementation. Limited experience with Juniper and Riverstone equipment and Dorado EMS. Thorough experience in travel, both domestic and international. Large amounts of experience dealing with carrier-class and enterprise-class customers in unusual and volatile (usually outage-related) situations and environments, including CO, MTSO, and MAE/NAP/Peering sites. Particular expertise in network management system automation and integration of Lucent Navis products with third party systems. Developing expertise in Alcatel EMS systems and 7x50 IPD product lines. Personal goals are professional advancement within the Telecommunications industry, flawless execution on customer projects in complex situations, and the continual increase of the level of responsibility and control given within projects- functioning as a hybrid tech lead and project manager is a particularly valuable capability. Further platform-specific integration knowledge advancement and exposure to/experience with numerous other network devices, as well as different job roles and responsibility subsets is another key interest.