John Walsh

About John Walsh

Extensive experience with network design, installation, and troubleshooting for data center and enterprise customers. Experience working with mixed-vendor environments including Juniper, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Aruba, HPE, AWS Cloud, VMWare, Avaya, Windows, MacOS, and Unix/Linux with a passion for solving problems and learning new technology. Emphasis on creating networks with high availability and redundancy while planning for disaster recovery scenarios.Experience implementing and supporting Palo Alto Networks PA Series Firewalls, Juniper SRX firewalls, QFX/EX switches, WXC Wan Acceleration, STRM, IDP, SA and MAG SSL VPN, MAG UAC, Palo Alto Networks SASE product line (Prisma Access), SecureW2 PKI, Citrix Netscaler Load Balancer, RADIUS, 802.1x, Cisco switches, routers, and security appliances, Aruba Wireless, HP ProCurve, VMWare ESXi, SNMP monitoring, Observium, Rancid, SmokePing, WireShark Packet analysis, and Visio Documentation.Excellent communication skills, able to explain technical material to a nontechnical audience. Strong disciple in documenting client networks and sharing knowledge with networking and systems teams. Able to work in both pre-sales and post-sales roles. Love to work with awesome people and collaborate with others. Certified Salesforce Srum Master.Currently practicing DevOps methodologies with Python, Ansible, and other automation tools, as well as learning AWS cloud architectures. Managed a startup nonprofit in Southeast Asia for nearly three years before resuming technology career. Love of traveling internationally.Specialties: Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks Design and Deployments

Experience

1. Network & Communications Manager

   County of Sonoma

   Apr 2024 — Present · Santa Rosa, CA, US

   Leading talented team of network, security, and communication engineers who maintain a complex and dynamic Network and Unified Communications environment for over County of Sonoma employees. Our team is responsible for supporting core technology operations and infrastructure across the County, including Network Infrastructure, VoIP and Collaboration Services, Network Security, Cloud Networking, Telecommunications Services, Internet Services, and Disaster Recovery.

Education

• University of California, Davis

  BA, Political Science, Latin, History

Skills

• Wan
• Managed Services
• Brazilian Portuguese
• Troubleshooting
• Juniper
• Cisco Technologies
• Wireless
• Telecommunications
• Voip
• Data Center
• Avaya
• Telephony
• Firewalls
• Cabling
• Sip Trunking
• Network Architecture
• Sip
• Unified Communications
• Tcp/Ip
• Network Security
• Ccna
• Unified Messaging
• Mpls