Constantine
Vulakh
CCNP,
CCDP, CCNA, CCDA, MSCE, CNE, ASE, CCA, Master’s Degree in C.S.
Phone:
859-312-6945
E-mail:
cv@vulakh.us
Objective A challenging and rewarding IT career that fully
leverages my educational background and industry experience and provides
continuing professional growth.
Summary
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A seasoned
professional with 15 years of diverse multiplatform experience in computer
networking field, multiple industry certifications and a Master’s Degree in
Computer Science
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Highly adaptable, disciplined,
punctual and result-oriented
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Experienced in both staff engineer
and consulting roles
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Comfortable working as part of a
team or individually
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Quick learner and self-starter
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No-nonsense communicator
Education M.S.
in Computer Science,
Certifications
Cisco: CCNP, 2005; CCDP,
2005; CCDA, 2005; CCNA, 2000
Microsoft:
Win2K MCSE, 2001; NT4 MCSE, 2000
Novell: CNE6,
2002; CNE5, 2000
Citrix: CCA, 2001
HP/Compaq:
ASE, 2001
BrainBench:
MVP on Internet Security (top 2% score), 2002; WAN Technologies (Master), 2005;
Cisco Network
Career history
March,
2004 – Xerox Corporation (acquired
ACS, Inc. in February 2010),
Present Principal WAN
Engineer – June 2005 - present
Senior WAN
Engineer – July 2004 - June 2005
WAN Engineer
– March 2004 - July 2004
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Work as a part of the team
responsible for design, deployment, securing, ongoing monitoring, support and
troubleshooting for the Wide Area Network spanning hundreds of domestic and
international locations
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Involved technologies include IPSec
VPNs, MPLS, VRF, GRE, DMVPN, MPPP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ATM & Frame-Relay on
Cisco 2600/2800/3600/3700/3800/7200 series routers, PIX 506/515/525 series
firewalls, ASA Security Appliances, Catalyst 2950/3750/4500 and Foundry Layer 3
switches
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Managed
and supported Active Directory infrastructure supporting WAN functions (DNS, DHCP,
WINS, ISA, IIS, MS Exchange)
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Tier 3 WAN support, including participation
in after hours on-call rotation
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Provide guidance and mentoring for
domestic and international sites’ network managers in deploying, securing and
troubleshooting their networking infrastructure
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Maintain and update network
documentation, policies and procedures
Key achievements:
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Served as a primary WAN engineer
for various domestic and international ACS locations, including
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Deployed Solar Winds Orion as a
network management system for corporate Wide Area Network, facilitating
increasing Core WAN availability to 99.9%.
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Implemented configuration
management, backup, change management and versioning system based on Kiwi
CatTools.
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Performed core network
infrastructure design/installation/upgrade at various domestic and
international ACS sites, including
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Integrated several
recently acquired companies into ACS wide area network.
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Acted as a principal member of the
team responsible for design and implementation activities involved in migrating
ACS WAN from ATM into MPLS backbone.
February,
2000 – IntraSource, Inc.,
(www.intrasource.com)
March,
2004 Network Systems
Engineer
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Provided network consulting, design,
implementation and on-going support services to numerous business, government
and educational clients in
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Cisco WAN/LAN solutions design,
implementation, performance and security assessment, tuning, and
troubleshooting
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Windows NT/2000/2003, Novell
Netware 5&6, Linux & Citrix MetaFrame based networks design,
deployment, support, and troubleshooting
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Messaging and collaboration
services deployments and support (Microsoft Exchange Server & GroupWise)
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Performed IT security audits and
best industry practices compliance analysis
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Mentored clients’ IT personnel on
various aspects of network maintenance and troubleshooting
Key achievements:
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Upgraded the Wide Area Network for
Delta Natural Gas Company (www.deltagas.com)
to converge real-time gas pipe valves monitoring via proprietary solution based
on asynchronous data transmission into the industry standard Cisco based
architecture, thus achieving significant cost savings and improved
supportability.
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Developed and implemented redundant
WAN infrastructure for Kentucky League of Cities (www.klc.org)
to support business continuity and disaster recovery.
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Completed transparent network
migration for Kentucky American Water Company (www.kawc.com)
from Novell NetWare to Microsoft Windows 2000 environment without affecting
production.
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Worked with Republic Bank and Trust
Company (www.republicbank.com) to
plan network capacity and grow their WAN as they added new branches or expanded
existing ones. Implemented a secure Citrix MetaFrame NFuse portal with RSA
SecurID two-factor authentication to allow secure access to applications via
the Internet.
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Redesigned the outside perimeter
for City of
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Worked on a multitude of projects
for a variety of company’s other key clients, including Central Bank &
Trust of Kentucky (www.centralbank.com),
Kentucky Bank (www.kybank.com), EchoSat
Communications Group (www.echosat.com), Whitaker
Bank (www.whitakerbank.com),
King & Schickli, PLLC (www.iplaw1.net), and others, and acted as a
primary Network Engineer for many of them.
March,
1997 –
February,
2000 Senior Systems Administrator
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Led a team responsible for design,
deployment and support of a campus computer network with 3000+ users in
multiple locations
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Performed Windows NT, MS Exchange
Server and Citrix MetaFrame deployment and support in multi-domain multi-site
environment
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Ongoing system administration tasks
(managing users & network security, backups, server hardware/software
upgrades, applying patches, etc.)
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Managed UNIBEL educational
network’s (www.unibel.by)
Key achievements:
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Managed a team effort that resulted
in building a state of the art campus computer network ground up
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World class service delivery with
practically non-existent budget
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Underlying design principles and platform
choices proved solid many years down the road
September,
1995 – Prominform Ltd.,
February, 2000 System
Administrator, part-time
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Design, implementation and support
of the local area Windows NT-based network
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Workstations roll-out and
applications deployment
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Desktop support
Technical Skills
Cisco;
Windows NT/2000/2003; Novell Netware 4, 5 and 6; Linux; Citrix MetaFrame and
NFuse; ArcServe; Backup Exec; Network Protocol Analyzers; MRTG; Wiring and
Cabling Standards; WINS; DNS; DHCP; LDAP; IPX/SPX/NetBIOS; HTTP; FTP; OSI; IOS
11.3 - latest; CatOS; DOS; Frame Relay; T-1; T-3; DS3; Ethernet; L2/L3
Switching; Routing protocols, including RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP; ICMP; TCP; UDP;
HSRP; VRRP; VTP; Spanning Tree; VLAN Trunking; 802.1q; ARP; Proxy ARP; IP; PPP;
SMTP; SNMP; Cisco Routers 1700, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800 and 7200
series; Catalyst switches 2950, 3500, 3750, 4500, 6500 series; PIX firewalls;
ASA security appliances; Gigabit Ethernet; ATM; LAN; WAN; MPLS; TCP/IP; TELNET;
Intranet; Broadband; Bridges; Concentrators; DSL; Technical Writing; Documentation;
QoS; Network Security; Aironet wireless; Cisco VPN concentrators; Cisco IDS;
Cisco PIX; AAA; Cisco ACS; TACACS +;
RADIUS; NAT/PAT; ACL; DMZ; wireless security; wireless networking including
802.11 a, b, g; 802.11x; WEP; SSH; IPSec; SSL; VPN; VRF; DMVPN; Private Line;
CSU/DSU’s; SolarWinds; firewall policies; network management applications;
LAN/WAN networking technologies and extensive experience with large-scale Cisco
deployments; large enterprise network architecture; analysis and engineering
design.
References Available
upon request.