Resume to Salary Assistance for Texas relocation.

PhildoBaggins

I'm looking to relocate to Texas, somewhere between Dallas, Austin and Houston. The My interviews are going very well however does anyone have any insight into ball park what I should consider a viable offer.

My resume is way to alphabet soup. I'm gonna restructure it this weekend and make it more "what have I accomplished with my time" instead of "i know this and this and this and that and this and uh." Although this junky resume gets me calls from 75% of the jobs I apply for or more, which is probably more due to the CCNP.

Shortly I will have a couple more VOIP mini certs and I'm hoping to take an F5 cert soon. F5 has been my break from CCIE studies



Certifications

ü Cisco Certified Network Professional - CCNP
ü Cisco Certified Design Associate - CCDA
ü Cisco Certified Network Associate Security - CCNA:Security
ü Cisco Certified Network Associate Vocie - CCNA:Voice
ü Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA
ü Cisco Certified Entry Networking Technician - CCENT
ü Cisco IP Telephony Design Specialist - CIPTDS
ü Network+
ü A+
ü Microsoft Certified Professional – MCP
ü Linux Certified Professional - LCP
ü National Security Agency 4011

Technology Summary

Monitoring
ü Kaseya - VSA, MRTG, Cacti, Pandora FMS
ü Sonicwall Viewpoint, Solarwinds

Software
ü Windows and Linux (Ubuntu) Desktop/Server, VeriCentre, ConnectWise,
ü Symantec Backup Exec, FileExpress
ü Virtualbox, Kiwi Syslog, Bomgar, Ahsay
ü VM Workstation, ESXi

Switches
ü Cisco (1900, 2900XL, 2950, 2960, 3550, 3560)
ü HP Procurve (2524, 2510, 2626, 2610, 2650, 2810, 2848, 2910, 5400 modular)
ü Adtran NetVanta
ü Dell PowerConnect
ü 3Com

Routers
ü Cisco 2511, 2900 Gen2, 1841 Gen1, 3801
ü 2610, 2611, 2620, 2621, 1721, 831, 851, 3640, 7200
Firewalls
ü Cisco (ASA 5505, ASA 5510, ASA 5520, ASA 5540 and ISR Firewalling)
ü Sonicwall (TZ 170, 180, 190, 210, Pro 2040, 3060, 4060, NSA 240, 2400, 3500, 4500)
ü Juniper Netscreen NS-5GT
ü ASG Linux Appliance

Other
ü Cisco 4400 Wireless Controller
ü Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrators
ü Packeteer Packet Shaper
ü Sonicwall SSL VPN 200
ü Sonicwall CSM
ü Sonicwall Sonicpoint AP (Standalone and Managed)
ü HP and Dell LTO Auto Loaders
ü F5 BIG IP LTM (Physical and Virtual)

Education

UNIVERSITY1
January 2007 – December 2010
BS Information Technology – Unfinished


TECH SCHOOL1
August 2001 – March 2002
Network and PC Repair – Honors Graduate

Experience

Senior Network Engineer
JOB (CITY)
January 2011 – Current
ü Provide MSP Tier 3 Support for 300 Medium Sized Networks
ü Design Medium Sized Networks $10k to $500k
ü Manage Monitoring Tunnels via Cisco VPN Concentrator
ü Manage Customer Switches, Routers, Firewalls, VPN Equipment
ü Configure and Deploy Network Hardware and Software
ü Provide Network Audits and Analysis of Customer Networks
ü On-Call Network and Problem Management
ü Member of Technical Steering Committee and Change Board
ü Provide Cisco CCENT, CCNA and ASA Training
ü Provide Sonicwall Firewall and HP Procurve Training
ü Implement MPLS, Point to Point, Internet, VPN Solutions
ü Manage F5 BIG IP Load Balancers
ü Manage Colocation and Office Moves
ü Provide Consulting as Needed to Internal and External Clients

Tier 2 NOC Lead
JOB (CITY)
June 2006 – December 2010
ü Manage, Coach and Develop up to 15 Direct Reports
ü Manage Helpdesk Workflow and Monitor Inbound Requests for 100 Agents
ü Monitor Network and Mainframe Traffic
ü Provide Tier 2 Support for Point of Sale Systems
ü Provide Problem Management for 300 Network Outages per Year
ü Research and Troubleshoot Escalated Break/Fix Cases
ü Support Wan Technologies (Dial, Frame-Relay, Echosat Satellite, Hughes Satellite)
ü Provide Training and Documentation to Tier 1 Agents

Senior Tier 2 Data Specialist
JOB (CITY)
March 2002 – December 2005
ü Monitor HFC Network Using Solar Winds for 1,000,000 Subscribers
ü Provide Business to Business Tier 2 Support for Cable Internet
ü Provision / De-Provision Cable Modems
ü Beta Test Industry Technologies
ü Assist With Training Tier 1 Technician
ü Support SOHO Wireless Routers (Linksys, Dlink, Zyxel)

Assistant Network Administrator
JOB (CITY)
August 2001 – March 2002
ü Provide Support to 300+ End Users
ü Provide Active Directory Support
ü Support Windows 2000 Pro and Server Support
ü Build and Repair Student Computers
ü Interim A+ and Net+ Instructor

MiikeB

I prefer a structure more along the lines of

Certifications:

Cisco CCNA, CCDA, CCNP etc etc etc.
CompTIA A+, Network
Microsoft Certified Professional
Linux Certified Professional

Experience:
Job Title, Place, Dates
Summary of duties blah, blah, blah
Worked with various technologies including xxxx,xxxx and xxxx switches as well as this software, that software, this program

Next job

Next job

I would probably leave off the tech school because the name sounds corny and it doesnt really add anything. Going more towards commas and paragraphs makes the resume shorter and forces reading more than just skimming your lists.

m3zilla

I don't like the section where you listed out individual switches and routers. It just seems to me that if you're a Senior Network Engineer, it's implied that you've worked with those platform.

Do you have any projects that you've completed that you can list under the experience section? Actually, I'm curious to get TE's opinion on this. Do you guys list projects completed or day-to-day responsibilities? For the most part, I list projects I've completed (firewall upgrades/migration, network upgrade/migration, etc) rather than day-to-day responsibilities since if I were to list what I'm responsible for every day, at every job, my resume would be 4 pages long! Plus, "Designed and built out the network infrastructure for DR site" sounds so much better than "Maintained and troubleshoot L2/L3 issue"!!

nhpr

Slightly off your question, but (if you're set on Texas) you might want to look at San Antonio, too. It's pretty large and has plenty of tech jobs.

matt333

on my resume I put my responsibilities and then a few bullets about the accomplishments ive been at each job. always steers up a good conversation about them in an interview.