George Tachie-Mensah
Derwood
Summary
Passionate, Agile and Skilled Network Engineer seasoned in working with global enterprise networks. 6+ years of deploying projects, maintaining, and fixing Cisco and Juniper enabled networks.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Network Engineer
Department of State
Washington DC
08.2022 - Current
- I lead a team of network engineers in a network refresh project.
- I adhered to standards and commissioning procedures.
- I provided remote troubleshooting and assistance of switches, firewalls, routers, and HDSVS to end users.
- I analyzed and followed project designs/schematics.
- I developed Ansible playbooks to mitigate daily redundant tasks.
- I integrated network devices with servers, workstations, and ancillaries.
Tier 2 Operations/ Network Engineer
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Washington, DC
10.2020 - 08.2022
- Monitored a wide variety of information and network systems that included, but not limited to telecommunications circuits, LAN/WAN systems, routers, switches, firewalls, VoIP systems, servers, storage, backup, operating systems, and core applications
- Extended the on-premise network to AWS through a VPN gateway connection
- Deployed, configured and managed Centos and Windows Servers
- Used tools like ansible and GitLab for server and network administration
- Automated some parts of the network and servers with Ansible
- Documented all actions in accordance with standard company policies and procedures
- Performed systems testing and operational tasks (installed patches network connectivity testing, and upgrades
- Adhered to policies, procedures, and controls especially regarding safety considerations, customer service, outage and change management, information protection.
Network/System Admin
Department of Veterans Department of Veterans Affairs.
02.2018 - 03.2020
- I performed server/workstation security and maintenance updates.
- I created and maintained images for workstations and laptops within MDT.
- I manage Active Directory, DHCP, and DNS.
- I provided installation support for network systems applications.
- I monitored and maintained What’s Up Gold network monitoring software.
Education
Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security Technology -
University of Maryland
College Park12-2024
Skills
- SNMP
- Routing Protocols - OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS, MPLS etc
- Amazon Web Services
- IPsec VPN
- Palo Alto & Checkpoint Firewalls
- Ansible
- DNS / DHCP/ NTP / DUO/ QOS / SNMP
- Layer 2/ Layer 3 Switching
- ESXI
- Dell MD1400
- F5 Load Balancer
- Wireshark
- Juniper
- SDWAN
- Cisco
- Aruba
Certification
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
- CompTIA Security +
- CompTIA Linux +
- JNCIA (2024)
Security Clearance
- Secret Clearance
- Public Trust
Timeline
Network Engineer
Department of State
08.2022 - Current
Tier 2 Operations/ Network Engineer
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
10.2020 - 08.2022
Network/System Admin
Department of Veterans Department of Veterans Affairs.
02.2018 - 03.2020
Bachelor of Science in Cyber Security Technology -
University of Maryland
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