Robert Drummond
Senior Network Engineer | Enterprise Routing Architect | Cisco & Nokia Infrastructure | BGP, EIGRP, IS-IS | Security-Focused Network Design
- Role
- Network Engineer Iii (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) at Comcast
- Location
- Philadelphia, PA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Robert Drummond
I’m a senior network engineer with over 15 years of experience designing, implementing…
Experience
Network Engineer Iii (Cisco, Juniper, Arista)
May 2024 — Present · Mt. Laurel, NJ, US
Spearheaded a network architecture overhaul using EIGRP and BGP by configuring optimized composite metrics on Cisco ASR and Nokia routers, enhancing route convergence and reducing instability across distributed WAN links.• Deployed and managed BGP route reflector clusters and engineered policy-based traffic paths using LOCAL_PREF and MED attributes to enforce traffic engineering standards across peered networks.• Automated deployment and provisioning of Nokia 7750 SR and 7250 IXR routers using scripting tools, accelerating rollout timelines and ensuring configuration consistency across deployments.• Developed network blueprints and coordinated phased rollouts with minimal service interruption, integrating new routers into geographically distributed topologies.• Enhanced mobile backhaul efficiency by implementing EIGRP-BGP redistribution, prioritizing low-latency paths to support high-throughput cellular data workloads.• Authored and maintained configuration standards, protocol tuning documentation, and escalation procedures to streamline knowledge transfer and support Tier II teams.
Education
University of Phoenix
Bachelor of Science
2000 — 2003
Montgomery County Community College
Associates in Applied Science
1995 — 1998
Skills
- Ips
- Pci Dss
- Penetration Testing
- Computer Security
- Vulnerability Management
- Information Security
- Ccna
- Firewalls
- Cloud Computing
- Network Security
- Identity Management
- Information Security Management
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Disaster Recovery
- Cissp
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