Aldo Calcagni

About Aldo Calcagni

Highly accomplished network professional with a strong background in systems engineering and network architectures. Senior-level expertise with a firm understanding of the selling/engineering relationship, engineering mentoring, management and technical leadership for several successful projects and prototyping efforts across a 25+ year engineering career.Technical Skills• Networking: Campus and Datacenter routing, switching, fabrics, NFV, SDN, SD-WAN; multicast/unicast implementations; TCP/IP, HTTPS, SNMP, VLAN, DHCP, NTP, Firewalls, IPSec, PKI, TCP Proxies, ACL’s, 802.1x, RADIUS Cisco, Juniper and Brocade• Virtualization: vServers, App delivery and VDI; VMware, Citrix, Red Hat, Microsoft• Tools: Wireshark, tcpdump, mtputty, Spirent, STIG Viewer, SCAP, Zenoss, Expand/Riverbed• Wireless/Mobility: LTE 4G (infrastructure and handhelds), Wi-Fi MIMO (mesh, bridging, and access), SATCOM transport (L, X, Ku, Ka bands)• Computing: x86, x64, cPCI, PCIe, VPX, active backplane, proprietary• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows 7/10, Windows Server, ESXi, Cisco IOS, Juniper JUNOS• VoIP & Video: SIP, H323, ISDN, PSTN, TDM, T1, E1, SS7; Cisco CUCM, REDCOM, Avaya, Microsoft Lync, Polycom, Tandberg

Experience

1. Senior Principal Systems Engineer

   General Dynamics Mission Systems

   Jun 2008 — Present · Taunton, MA, US

   Technical expert, network integration lead for GDMS cyber security, electronic warfare and NC3 products pertaining to DoD networks. Leveraged for second tier customer technical discussions in support of new DoD network approaches and identification of customer gaps. Liaison between the customer, GDMS product development teams and senior leadership to help expand the product portfolio, grow revenue and generate new product ideas.Key Achievements:• Part of a team that designed and developed the US Army Tactical Network• Part of a team that designed and developed NC2 and NC3 weapon systems for Nuclear Triad• Design/implement/test network security compliant architectures for various US Army and Air Force programs• Participate in RMF and DIACAP review process and provide STIG compliance reporting for various network platforms• Developed private cloud solutions using a VMware hypervisor with various SAN/NAS vendors, and various compute vendor platforms.• Assist in development of NFV solutions to enhance datacenter lifecycle.• Assist in the development of integrated solutions using various NSA certified cryptographic products.• Participate in installation and upgrade of various datacenters within the US Army and Air Force space, including sites that required minimal downtime

Education

• Northeastern University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering

  1989 — 1992

Skills

• Tcp/Ip
• Information Assurance
• Routing Protocols
• System Architecture
• Configuration Management
• Diacap
• Intrusion Detection
• Clearcase
• Perl
• Firewalls
• Cisco Systems Products
• Junos
• Cmmi
• Dod
• Unix
• Information Security
• Cisco Technologies
• Snmp
• Red Hat Linux
• Software Engineering
• Vulnerability Assessment
• Testing
• Network Engineering
• Pki
• Security Clearance
• Network Security
• Systems Engineering
• Sip
• Systems Design
• Requirements Management
• U.s. Department of Defense
• Earned Value Management
• Engineering Management
• Ip Multicast
• Linux
• Ospf
• Cissp
• Integration
• Computer Security
• Security