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Short portfolio:
Highly trained network engineer with more than 8 years of work experience in the area.

Experienced in products of Extreme Networks (L2, L3 switches), Cisco (L2, L3 switches), Nortel Networks (L2, L3 switches, VPN routers), D-Link (L2, L3 switches),   Virtualization technologies (VmWare, Hyper-V), Windows 2008, Linux (mail/DNS servers)
Keen in the following areas: VPN, Firewalls, IDS/IPS, Content filters, BGP, OSPF, Spanning tree, VRRP, QoS, sniffers, penetration testing, ISO17799, Ethernet, 802.11abg, shell scripting (bash, perl).
Smart and fast learner, I have CIW (Security Analyst) and Microsoft certifications (MCSA), speak English, Russian, Latvian.


Short description of my current position:
2008.04present      Bank of Latvia
Position
      Senior Systems Administrator
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2006.022008.04      A/S Balticom, one of the leading internet service providers in Latvia (approx. 25000 customers)
Position
  Network Engineer
Responsibilities
"      Develop and support fast growing network infrastructure
"      Support corporate customers
"      Create and maintain interconnections  with different ISPs for traffic exchange
"      Support BGP routers
"      Provide help to the customer support team to troubleshoot complicated problems within network
"      Implement and maintain monitoring system
"      Improve network security and mitigate network attacks
"      Support network servers (mail, dns, shapers)
"      Report directly to the IT director
"      Server room supervising and monitoring
Deeds
"      Designed requirements for fast growing network infrastructure and participated in trial solution deployment
"      Delivered notable improvement in overall network security and fault tolerance
"      Optimized network core to achieve better performance
"      Introduced efficient ways of solving problems like fighting malwares and bottlenecks within network
"      Designed cost effective solution for 10Gbps network backbone
"      Participated in 10Gbps ring topology backbone implementation
"      Updated fine monitoring system so that the reaction interval was significantly reduced
"      Organized server room for collocation services
"      Deployed Microsoft Windows SBS solution within company.


you can e-mail me at from.expert on gmail but please don't ask me about solutions via e-mail.