Brad Thompson

About Brad Thompson

A thinker of thoughts and do-er of deeds, this high-octane, low-caffeinated, spark-plug energizes and empowers your team with broad knowledge, technical prowess, satirical humor and deep insights. Bringing life to the IT landscape by building the team up, pushing them to be the best they can be, while navigating the superlative ridden, state-of-the-art techno-babble to bring those pet projects in:\"On time, and under budget!\" Because let\'s face it. making the CTO/CIO/CISO look good isn\'t easy, but someone has to do it! Go Team!

Experience

1. Senior Network Engineer

   Community Health Systems

   Jul 2017 — Present · Franklin, TN, US

   Promoted to Data Center Support and Operations, formerly in Field Services. Recently completed Citrix ADC (Netscaler) Traffic Management and Load Balancing boot camp. Working closely with SD-WAN vendors and Engineering on design and implementation of SD-WAN in our environment. Designing, Deploying and Supporting Load Balancing for the Enterprise (F5 and Netscaler). Working closely with Engineering on Cisco ACI deployment and fabric management for Nutanix cluster deployments. List of current and recently completed projects: WAN Circuit Upgrade, ACS to ISE migration, Flexware Managed WAN SD-WAN, Facility/Clinic ASE MetroE Redesign, and Multicast Stability Remediation, Cisco WAE Removal, PAC Phone Deployment (Avaya H.323 and Cisco SIP), QoS Re-engineer, VDI Deployment, Core Replacements, EMC Data-Domain/Avamar Deployment. Automating my life with Python and Ansible, deploying Cisco DNA Center and spinning up nodes in Cisco ACI, while creating network visibility where it\'s never existed before. I delivered an Enterprise wide SSL VPN Lift & Shift to a new platform while Migrating and closing an Enterprise Data-Center. I moved our VIPs from F5 BigIP to Citrix ADC and automated the support process. Working closely with Security on Palo Alto deployments, service-graph stitching and self-managing the Enterprise Cisco ASA infrastructure, I\'ve trained all new team members on our security procedures, while developing policies and procedures to meet compliance. Cleaning my environment with SOAP and REST, leaving the network smelling like Febreze. Other tools of my tidy network include Postman, Runner, Expect and Bash as well.

Education

• Southeastern Illinois College

  Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Information Systems

  1994 — 1997