Asante Simmons 763-656-9308

About ME

I am an experienced engineer in the design, implementation, and support of large enterprise networks. I am a highly dependable and flexible engineer with excellent verbal and written communication skills. I am currently seeking to expand my technical skills by learning to program in Javascript and Python.

Northstar-tek - (Austin, TX) -Remote Network Engineer/Security April 2019 to 2020

Network Security Engineer

• Created new site models utilizing SD WAN solutions such as Meraki and Viptela and more cost effective solutions to dual MPLS
• Installed SSL VPN licenses on the Cisco 5500 ASA redundant pair enabling numerous SSL VPN clients to access the network
• Produced documentation and deliverables in Visio/Word/Excel for CRD, HLD, LLD, Cutover Strategy, UAT, As-Built, Best Practices,Troubleshooting, FAQ for ASA to Palo Alto migration
• Configured BGP full routes to redundant ISP’s with route-maps to control path selection
• Designed OSPF implementation utilizing Stub and NSSA areas
• Implementation of Zone Based Fire-walling using trusted, untrusted, and DMZ zones. Configuration of SSL Encryption and Decryption
• Redesign of customer mixed EIGRP/OSPF routing infrastructure to uniform OSPF configuration leveraging stubby and totally stubby area types
• Migrated from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto Pan-OS with multiple routing protocols including EIGRP, OSPF and BGP in a dual

Hay Group - (Raleigh, NC) - Remote Network Engineer October 2017 to October 2018

Network Engineer

• Configuration of Cisco ASA 5555-X for enterprise SSL VPN for AnyConnect and 3rd party clients
• Design and migration of VPN Headend from ASA HA Pair to utilize three ASA 5585-X configured for VPN load balancing
• eploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 1K, Nexus 7K, 5K and its downstream devices.
• Provisioning and configuration of Virtual Servers, Pools, and Nodes on F5 BigIP LTM to conform to network standards
• Conducted a bakeoff between Cisco’s and Aruba’s wireless solutions to determine the best, most scalable solution
• Performed various BGP NLRI manipulation including AS-Path prepending, Local-Preference and BGP standard/extended communities

WNS Global Services - (Manchester, NH) - Remote Network Engineer October 2016 to September 2017

NOC/Network Engineer

• Tasked with creating new network documentation on local site and regional scales using Microsoft Visio
• Utilized BFD in conjunction with a Data Center ECMP BGP deployment on Nexus 9000 hardware for sub-second BGP convergence across the fabric
• Architected multicast protocols and strategies for source redundancy, network topologies that provide path redundancies, and route processor redundancy in each node to ensure that the multicast network can immediately and Visio
• Explain complex policies and procedures to a wide range of audiences