Senior Network Solutions Architect

Designed and delivered security solutions for SMB and mid-market clients, including Sophos firewalls, EDR, and security management and alerting platforms. Balanced security, performance, and maintainability against customer requirements.

Deployed and operated Pentera for continuous automated security validation across network, endpoint, and Active Directory environments. Led remediation of identified weaknesses, greenfield deployments of Datto RMM, IT Glue, and Autotask PSA, and created Autotask workflows and integrations for managed services.

Architected Meraki switching and wireless environments with segmentation, optimization, cloud monitoring, and alerting. Administered Azure, Microsoft 365, identity, collaboration, cloud integrations, 10ZiG thin clients, and VDI environments.

Installed and cabled servers, storage, networking equipment, and GPU systems according to deployment runbooks. Maintained accurate asset tracking and deployment documentation in internal systems.

Collaborated with data center engineers and network teams on infrastructure deployments and migrations. Followed ESD, safety, and security protocols throughout data center operations.

Performed daily drone inspections and delivered findings and reports to operations staff. Produced imagery, maps, and reports supporting ranch marketing and sales using Pix4D, QGIS, and DroneDeploy.

Managed FAA airspace authorizations, Remote ID compliance, fleet registration, insurance, and incident reporting. Built, programmed, and maintained a custom drone fleet.

Produced SOWs for large-scale customer cloud-network migrations and integrations, including IP and analog system integration. Served as an escalation point for network issues and coordinated with VMware, Cisco, and Fortinet vendors to maintain customer-facing services.

Administered unified communications networks across 10 international data centers and supervised incident resolution using ITIL ITSM guidelines. Performed weekly security audits of privileged infrastructure access and implemented security systems and protocols.

Automated on-call schedules through PagerDuty and scripting, while using Jira and Confluence daily for service coordination and documentation.

Provided direct enterprise customer support, including network documentation, disaster recovery planning, and WAN migrations to new service providers. Analyzed growing customer network topologies and recommended infrastructure improvements.

Administered a VeloCloud SD-WAN orchestrator supporting 450 site routers for 310 customers and a Vidyo video portal serving 26,000 endpoints. Managed firewalls, LAN protection, Internet-facing VPNs, and BGP edge devices.

Worked with multifunctional teams to integrate Cisco, HP, Meraki, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and SonicWall products into multiservice voice, video, and data networks.

Worked as a contractor through TEKsystems during 2015 and 2016.

Specific client assignment responsibilities are not provided in the resume.

Directed Vesnic LLC, an independently owned consulting business, during 2015 and 2016.

Specific consulting engagements and responsibilities are not provided in the resume.

Provided Tier 2 technical support at Alorica from 2014 to 2015.

Specific products, systems, and responsibilities are not provided in the resume.

Completed an IT internship with Grant County, Washington, in 2014.

Specific internship responsibilities are not provided in the resume.

Associate's Degree in Computer and Information Sciences.

Completed Cisco NetAcademy coursework toward CCENT certification.