About me    |    My wife Heather    |    The Job    |    The Computer    |    My Resume    |    Friends        New House          (September 1, 1999) After about 6 months doing network operations type stuff, I moved over to network engineering and get to do a whole bunch of fun network engineering stuff. Primarily my job focuses on doing design and implemenation of LAN/WAN designs with Nortel Networks and Cisco equipment. It involves mostly frame relay for WAN connections but does include some point-to-point T1's. As for the LAN side of things, it is primarily Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet utilizing Cisco 4000s, Cisco 5500s, and Cisco 65000's as well as their smaller switches. Althought I usually do networking type stuff, lately, more corporate data center type stuff has come up including designing, implementing, and moving a corporate data center. I also have been busy designing and implementing a broadband VPN solution for a corporation. Even more recently I have begun working on DNS solutions for the corporate I do the network for to provide a corporate wide DNS standard. As you can see, we will do just about anything that has anything to do with networks. One of the other projects I have been working on is a system to replace the Concord trending server that monitors our network. We have identified specific things we care about and I have been working on writing a web and script based network bandwidth monitoring system. This is loosely based upon MRTG/RRDTOOL and others with quite a bit of custom work. (February 1, 1999) I changed jobs and I am now working at AT&T Solutions doing network operations primarily and a little bit of network engineering. Not a lot of network engineering work but I hope that this will change in the future to get back to doing the engineering side of things.     You are probably wondering what I spend my time doing at work Monitoring the network with HP Openview, HP ITO, Worklist, and Remedy Troubleshooting network outages (ethernet,T1s,routers,switches) Network exception reports (what is wrong with the network, proactive reporting) Task orders (simple and sometimes complex networking changes on the network) Network profiling with Concord (most of the time fighting Concord :) )     The only thing that has a little bit to be desired is the shift work. Working shifts takes a little bit to get use to but isn't too bad if there are enough people in the shift so that those midnight-8am shifts and the weekend 12 hours shifts don't occur too often.