Daniel Ash

About Daniel Ash

Systems ConsultantThrough experience, self-study, and Instructor led training, my objective is to obtain a growing knowledge of networking.Former Key system / PBX service and installation technician. Nortel, Toshiba, Comdial, Fujitsu, Rohlm, Panasonic, NEC, Iwatsu, Cisco, and several others.Haivision video streaming IPTV, digital signage, Video On Demand, and recorded content via enterprise multicast. Experience with Tandberg VCS-C and VCS-E using TMS also. Working with servers, domains, ACL\'s, TCP/UDP ports, and troubleshooting the TCP stack from layer 7 to layer 1. Strong experience with F5 and Foundry (now Brocade) Big Iron load balancers. Experience with Linux networking using IP Tables for load balancing layer 3-4 and Shorewall firewall as well (true love for Linux).30+ years of networking experience, deploying a wide variety of services from security firewalls, wireless AP\'s / Bridges, switches, routers, Call Managers (2.4 - 11.5), Customer Response Applications (UCCX), little scripting experience, Unity Voicemail / Unity Connection, etc.Successful installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting for every level of a network from the core, distribution, access, server farm, ISP edge, etc.Data center technologies such as Cisco ACI & NX-OS (9k, 7k, 5k, 2k), Cisco UCS B and C series chassis including fabric interconnects, Meraki, F5, ACE, and VM Ware ESXi 4-6. Cisco FMC (Firepower Management Center) and NGFW(s) running Firepower Threat Defense & FXOS. Cumulus networks experience leveraging white box switching with various chipsets from Broadcom, Nvidia/Melanox, etc. Extensive experience with Arista networks, both wired and wireless. Experience deploying CVP clusters for both data center, private cloud, and campus environments.Automation experience with APIC-EM, DMVPN, iWAN, PnP, Active Advisor, Easy QoS, Integrity Verification Beta, Remote Troubleshooter, etc. Recent DNA Center deployment using policy to push QOS to local/remote sites. Ansible and Ansible Tower experience also. Extensive use of API(s) for leveraging database driven automation in private clouds.Excellent people skills, written/oral communication, and a real team player.Specialties: Security, Wireless, Collaboration, Routing and Switching.•Expired Certs: JNCIA, CCNA, CCNA Voice, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CMNA, F5-CA. Working towards Arista L1-L7 certification.

Experience

1. Lead Engineer

   SS&C Technologies

   May 2020 — Present

Education

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  Information Technology

  2019

• University of Central Missouri

  Criminal Justice

  1993 — 1994

• Park University

  Criminal Justice

  1992

• Colorado Technical University

  BSIT, Network Management

  2017 — 2020

• University of Missouri-Columbia

  Information Technology

  2019 — 2019

Skills

• Voip
• Data Center
• Troubleshooting
• Asa
• Cisco Nexus
• Routers
• Networking
• Ccnp
• Cisco Technologies
• Security
• Cisco Ios
• Cisco Call Manager
• Active Directory
• Ccna
• F5 Bigip
• Wan
• Servers
• Cisco Asa
• Juniper
• Routing
• Vmware
• Virtual Private Network (Vpn)
• Firewalls
• Sonicwall
• Routing Protocols
• Cisco Systems Products
• Switches
• Vpn
• Juniper Technologies