Scott Pilkinton – Resume

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Jeffrey Scott Pilkinton

2889 Iroquois Drive, Thompsons Station, TN  37179 · (615) 714-0100 · scott@scottp.net

• Experience managing large infrastructure projects
  • Project definitions, scope, budgets, justifications, ROI calculation
  • Ability to lead internal and external resources throughout projects
• Produce annual budgets plus project related cost estimates
• Translation of PCI, SOX, and HIPPA compliance to infrastructure requirements
• IT governance using ITIL practices

• Cisco enterprise class network hardware
  • Catalyst 2900,3500,3550,3560,3750,4500,6500 Switches
  • 1700,1800,2600,2800,3600,3700,7200 Routers
  • AS5300 Remote Access Server
  • AP 350,1100, and 1200 WAP and Bridges
• F5
  • Local Traffic Manager (LTM)
  • Global Traffic Manager (GTM)
• Technologies
  • 10Mb – 10 Gb Ethernet
  • WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n
  • T1, T3, ISDN PRI/BRI, PSTN
  • HDLC, Frame Relay, MPLS, PPP
  • RIP, OSPF, EIGRP,BGP

• Checkpoint Firewall R55, R62, R65, R70 running on Nokia IPSO
• Cisco VPN 3000 series concentrators
• Cisco PIX, ASA, FWSM
• Cisco IDS
• RSA Authentication Manager  6 & 7
• Cisco ACS 4.x
• BlueCoat ProxySG
• Juniper NS Series Devices running ScreenOS

• IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
• CiscoWorks LMS
• SolarWinds Orion
• Cacti,NMIS,MRTG,Nagios,Zenoss

• Responsible for all networking, security, and Microsoft server infrastructure for the company.
• Responsible for company SAAS offering to customers, which included Microsoft IIS and SQL servers.
• Responsible for the build and maintenance of all internal Microsoft Server Infrastructure, which included:
• Microsoft Server 2008 R2 Core and Enterprise Editions
• Microsoft Hyper-V
• Server consolidation by virtualizing physical machines (P to V)
• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange

• Position required Public Trust Clearance which required a ADP II background check
• Architected and implemented a three site air gapped system to separate Emdeon’s DoD operations from its commercial business.
  • Components I designed and implemented were:
  • Created Out of Band (OOB) network, separate from the production network, in order to separate management traffic from production traffic
  • Established provider based MPLS wan to connect multiple locations.  Had separate WAN connections for production and OOB.
  • Implemented CheckPoint firewalls on Nokia platform
  • Created two factor authentication infrastructure using Cisco ACS and RSA Authentication manager for network and security device management logins used by administrators and also used by all employees for VPN access.  Both soft and hard (keyfob) tokens were used
  • Implemented Juniper Netscreen devices for both Site-Site B2B connections and others for remote access VPN access.
  • Implemented ZENOSS platform for monitoring the entire system
• Worked with various divisions of the Armed forces, DISA, and other government contractors on B2B NIPRNET connectivity with Emdeon
• Exhaustive focus on maintaining a secure network which included regular audits by JMIS to verify network is stable and secure. Very familiar with using STIG to harden/secure all networking and security devices.

• Worked on the Network Design Team, which worked solely on enterprise network and security architecture design.  This group also responsible for all project related work.
• Myself and a co-worker designed the network and security components in a 14,000 square foot tier 4 data center facility.  Also personally performed most of the initial network implementation of core, distribution, and access layers while leading other implementation members to install remaining components.
• The design of this data center included the implementation of an internal MPLS network that transported multiple VRF’s across multiple datacenters and office locations.  Each of the datacenters was connected with private 1Gig and 10Gig long reach Ethernet connections using multiple providers.  The internal MPLS was integrated into two other provider based MPLS networks, which supplies connectivity to the customers.  This scenario allowed the most diversity and performance available in a multiple datacenter network.
• Led network and security portions of the projects for moving 500 servers, 200 Frame Relay PVC’s, and 200 VPN connections out of datacenter being vacated and into the newly built facility.  Most of this work was done transparently to Emdeon’s customers and was successfully completed.
• Implemented Cisco Unified Communications Manager for 1500 corporate users along with Unity that fully integrated into existing corporate Microsoft exchange environment.  Several smaller remote offices were later activated using local voice gateways and centralized call manager infrastructure.   PSTN connectivity included both the use of PRI and SIP trunking with telco provider.
• Worked on several projects that included implementing F5 LTM devices to load balance mutli-tier applications:
  • Siebel 7.8
  • Applications built on top of IBM Webshere Application Server (WAS)
  • Some applications were housed in multiple datacenters for High Availability, which used the  F5 GTM product for Global Site Load Balancing (GSLB)

• Served in the lead role for designing/integrating and managing implementation of all new major networking projects
• Served as 3rd level support for the existing networks in the entire company. This included the LAN, WLAN, WAN, VPN, and dial access.
• Overall Project manager for a company wide security remediation project.  All managed resources were completely outside of my normal area of responsibility.  The project started with contracting for a companywide multiple site security audit.  The main component of the project consisted of the implementation of a new patch management solution (Patchlink) across the enterprise.
• Designed, Planned, and managed configuration/installation of multiple networks in two new large 1400+ room Convention Hotels. Each hotel has a total of 15,000 Ethernet ports for various uses.
  • Created 100% of RFP used to solicit hardware and implementation of network
  • Led vendor implementation team for entire network that consisted of two separate networks.  One used for administrative/staff and the other used for guest internet access.
• Designed, configured, and implemented two new networks for and the existing 2800 room Opryland hotel, which included a replacement network for administrative/staff use and a brand new wired network for 2800 guest rooms and wireless in the convention centers.
• Designed, Tested, and implemented a new company wide wireless authentication mechanism using 802.1x/EAP-TLS.  This included converting 400+ wireless clients from a previously used static WEP authentication.
• Implemented the first company VPN using existing hardware/software as a proof of concept. Later purchased and implemented appropriate equipment after a successful POC and the business case was made.  This environment now supports 1000+ remote access clients and multiple site-to-site VPN tunnels.

• Administer all Corporate NT Servers including all Intranet and Mail servers for the organization
• Implement and Support both the Local Area Network and also all Wide Area Networks.
• Responsible for Testing, Deployment automation, Documentation, and providing top tier support for all PC and Server Systems Software.
• Designed, planned, and implemented a 2000 node Intranet for both the Home Office and 120 remote offices via a VSAT Network. This including introducing TCP/IP to a previous SNA only network.
• Later integrated a new wide area network into the existing VSAT Network, which eventually replaced all 120 sites with Frame Relay.
• Implemented Web, Mail, and Proxy Servers to allow employees new email capabilities and Intranet/Internet access through the corporate network

Certifications or Technical Training
All certifications were obtained via self study and every exam was passed on first attempt.  Note: All certifications listed are in an expired status.

• CCNA and CCNP obtained
• CCIE Written passed
• Microsoft MCSE 4.0

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