| TOM AMMON | 2348 Parley's
Way Apt. 5 Salt Lake City, UT 84109 Mobile: 801.674.9273 tom@tomsbox.net |
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| OBJECTIVE | Network Engineering Position | |
| EDUCATION | Weber
State University - December 2008 B.S., Telecommunications Administration |
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| CERTIFICATIONS | Cisco
CCNP Cisco CCNA CompTIA A+ |
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| TRAINING |
RMv6TF - Advanced IPv6 Configuration and Testing - April 2012 Cisco - Configuring BGP - Chicago, IL - March 2010 Cisco - Implementing Cisco MPLS - Morristown, NJ - May 2009 Cisco - Implementing Fiberchannel SANs - Seattle, WA - May 2008 Foundry - Fundamental Routing & Switching - Irvine, CA - August 2006 |
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| EXPERIENCE | Network Engineering and Operations | |
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* Responsible for network architecture and design for all datacenter, storage, and high-performance networks at the Center for High Performance Computing. * Supervised day-to-day operations for CHPC's production research network at the University of Utah, which includes 3 datacenters, about 80 switches and routers, and about 1500 servers. * Provided consulting expertise for high-performance network designs at other departments at the University of Utah. * Designed, deployed, and maintained fibrechannel SAN infrastructure to support central storage resources. * Designed, deployed, and maintained 10GbE iSCSI SAN infrastructure to support central storage resources. * Designed, deployed, and maintained Infiniband networks for various compute cluster I/O fabrics. * Designed CHPC's most recent HPC Infiniband fabric, which includes IB-to-ethernet bridging technology. * Worked on the SCinet team designing and building the show floor infiniband network for the SC 2009 conference. * Worked on the SCinet team building and supporting the show floor's multi-vendor ethernet and routed infrastructure for the SC 2011 conference. * Deployed multi-vendor (HP and Cisco) OSPF and OSPFv3 to replace a large static routing infrastructure at CHPC. * Deployed Cisco ASA VPN in both LAN-to-LAN and Remote Access roles. * Designed, deployed, and maintained network security systems (including router ACLs) to protect HIPAA-compliant storage, virtualization and compute resources. * Deployed RHEL4 and RHEL5 linux servers for various high-performance benchmarking projects. * Currently working on an organization-wide IPv6 deployment, including linux routers to supplement network gear that doesn't currently support IPv6. * Currently working on an Ethernet/IP Routing and Infiniband design for a new datacenter. * Currently working on a Cisco UCS deployment to test the viability of using UCS blade servers for low-latency / high-performance computational problems. * Currently working on a proof-of-concept for using Linux routers (running Quagga) to handle routing IPoIB traffic for a large Infiniband fabric. |
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| Project Management | ||
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* Supervised the design and implementation of a lab network and server environment for testing and proof-of-concept work. * Designed operational processes to streamline network and datacenter operations at CHPC. * Managed the implementation of several network monitoring system projects. * Managed a successful Infiniband-over-Ethernet technology demonstration at SC09 that involved organizing engineers from six different national and regional networks, including Ames Laboratory and Internet2. |
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| Communication and Presentation | ||
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Proficient in
communicating technical processes and concepts to non-technical
audiences. * Experience instructing technical subjects. * Experience speaking to large and small audiences in a variety of formats. |
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| WORK HISTORY | Network Engineer | |
| The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Campus and Field Network Engineering May 2012 - Present Salt Lake City, Utah http://www.lds.org | ||
| Network / Datacenter Operations Team Lead | ||
| Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah November 2010 - May 2012 Salt Lake City, Utah http://www.chpc.utah.edu | ||
| Network Engineer | ||
| Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah July 2006 - November 2010 Salt Lake City, Utah http://www.chpc.utah.edu |
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| Photo Archives and Technical Assistant | ||
| University Communications, Weber State University 2004 - 2006 Ogden, Utah |
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| Technical Media Assistant | ||
| Salt Lake Community College 2003 - 2004 Salt Lake City, Utah |
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| For more details on any of the projects listed above, including topology diagrams, slide decks, recorded presentations, and a PDF version of this document, visit http://tomsbox.net/resume.html . | ||
