Jesse Molina

Network Engineering, Linux Sysadmin, Windows Sysadmin

Network Engineering


Cisco IOS/NX/XE Routers and Switches Juniper JUNOS Routers and EX Switches Cisco ASA Firewalls: ACLs, NAT, DMZs, VPNs 802.11 Wireless Networks: Cisco, Ubiquiti, Ruckus Cisco CSS/Arrowpoint and Nortel Alteon Load Balancers Packet Filters/ACLs: iptables, ipfw, Cisco IOS, PIX/ASA NetScreen, Checkpoint, Watchguard and other Firewalls Change Management, ITIL Practices and Processes Infiniband Networking, HPC Clusters, Rocks, LustreFS Ubiquiti EdgeMax and EdgeSwitch Product lines

LAN/WAN networking in complex multi-site environments Routing Proto's: OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, ISIS, BGP IPSec(StrongSwan), OpenVPN, L2TP and PPTP VPNs Queuing and QoS: Rate-Limiting, Priority Queuing MPLS/Tag Switching Networks, Frame Relay and ATM 802.3 Ethernet and 802.1d/w/s MST Spanning Tree 802.1q VLANs, Cisco VTP, Trunking and Pruning DS1, DS3, and SONET WAN Circuit Troubleshooting Cisco UC and Avaya IPT VOIP Phone Systems Structured Cabling and Data Center Structured Systems

Systems Administration


BASH / Python / PERL automation development Debian, Ubuntu, Red Hat, and CentOS Linux Solaris 7 - 10, AIX 4.3 - 5.3, Mac OS/OSX Apache httpd Web Server, vhosting, IIS NFS/NIS Troubleshooting and Optimizations OpenSSL/TLS CAs and x.509 certs Fiber Channel SANs, iSCSI networks Isilon / NetApp / Dell-EMC Storage Systems SNMP, Cacti, MRTG/rrdtool, RANCID, syslog, Icinga/Nagios

Windows Server and Active Directory 2000-2016 Exchange Server, CourierMTA/IMAP, and exim mail systems WSUS Updates Server, LANDesk Samba Windows/UNIX Integratio BIND DNS 4,8,9, ISC DHCPd, DDNS, MS-DNS/DHCP Oracle / MySQL / Postgres / MS-SQL RDBMSs Mcafee ePO with 3000+ Clients, Symantec AV OpenWRT/LEDE embedded Linux development KVM / Xen / VMWare Virtualization

Certification and Education

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Juniper Networks Training

Associate Degree in Computer / Electronic Technology and Business Systems: High-Tech Institute, Phoenix Arizona CompTIA A+ Certification CompTIA Server+ Certification

Employment History

06/10 - Present
Senior Network Systems Engineer
The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen)
Phoenix Arizona
Large multi-site non-profit genomics research organization consisting of office, wetlab, and clinical environments. HPC environment: infiniband, lustre, petabytes of storage. Responsible for LAN, WAN, wireless, network security, Avaya and Cisco phone systems, multiple data centers (power, HVAC, fire suppression, structured cabling). Cisco, Juniper, Avaya, Apple, Isilon, Microsoft products, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS).
09/04 - 06/06
Senior Systems Administrator
Ajilon Consulting
Scottsdale Arizona
Client projects including statistics monitoring and alerting development (Cacti+Nagios), SoX security and audit projects, inter-state WAN network redesign. AIX, Red Hat, NetApp storage filers and large LVM storage arrays, fiber channel SANs. Exchange/qmail/SpamAssassin mail upgrades, McAfee EPO deployment. Windows Server/Active Directory upgrades.
09/03 - 02/04
Systems Administrator
Artifact Entertainment
Mesa Arizona
Online entertainment/MMO gaming publisher. Hundreds of servers in US and EU, Cisco 6500-3550 switches, Alteon load balancers, PIX firewalls, IPSec VPNs, capacity planning and provisioning for product roll-outs. Security, backup, and disaster recovery for online production services. Designed automated statistics, monitoring, and alarms systems. SQL DB optimization/query tuning. Redesign of clusters to increase scalability and reduce hardware equipment costs. Provided leadership and oversight to customer support staff.
04/03 - 09/03
Technology Lead
Electronic Arts - Tiburon
Maitland Florida
Systems/network administration and complex troubleshooting for development and QA departments. Direct supervisory of two employees, industry research and reporting, test case authoring, technical document writing, inventory management of 1500+ trackable items used by 170+ employees, hardware and software support for Microsoft operating systems, NGC, GBA, XBox, PS1, PS2, debug, and development systems.
03/03 - 04/03
Consultant
North American Risk Services
Maitland Florida
30-day Cisco network deployment contract involving multi-site client. Unboxing and installation of structured cabling, cabinets, firewalls, routers, and switches. HSRP, BGP(full tables), DS1 and DS3 circuits, direct ARIN ASN/SWIP assignment, troubleshooting and RMA of DoA/failed Cisco equipment, implemented VLANs and VLAN trunking/pruning, configured PIX and IOS access lists, implement site-to-site IPSec VPN, DMZs, network security audit and report, implement DHCP and DNS services, and provided documentation for all work completed.
05/01 - 03/02
Network Engineer
Maximum Charisma Studios Inc.
Arvada Colorado
Hired to design and implement Maximum Charisma's production services network. $1M project launch budget. Design, acquisition, and implementation of server and network infrastructure. Linux and Windows Server production environments. Apache web servers. Oracle DBs. Internal IT services: Desktop administration for staff of 35. Phones(Avaya), Windows AD, mail server, file servers, etc-cetera.
08/99 - 04/01
Access Engineer
Global Crossing, Frontier Communications, GlobalCenter
Phoenix Arizona
HProduction network engineering on a tier-1 international ISP. New customer service activation and installations: DS1, DS3, and SONET circuit work. BGP peering, OSPF and ISIS route troubleshooting. Carrier-class routing and switching: Cisco, Juniper, Nortel, Livingston, Lucent, Unisphere. Colocation customer services. Configuration and shipment of customer equipment. LEC/ILEC loop provisioning and circuit validations.
02/99 - 01/00
Independent Consulting
Self Employed
Southern California, Arizona
LAN/WAN networking for clients in San Diego and Phoenix areas. UNIX and Microsoft sysadmin tasks. Desktop rollouts. programming/automation projects.
04/97 - 02/99
Systems Administrator
Acoustic Imaging Technologies Corporation
Tempe Arizona
Network and systems administration in an electronics/bio-med manufacturing environment. Rolling desktop software and hardware upgrades from DOS/Win3.11 to NT4/95. Solaris on Sun SPARC Stations, Netware 3/4. Mixed IP/IPX-SPX network. Coax(thin-net) networks. Email and other business suite (CAD) server management.