Noemi Berry Doudna Sunnyvale, CA email: [firstinitial][middleinitial][lastinitial][last name] @ n e b c o m "dot" c o m Objective: A contract position in IP/ATM WAN network engineering, Unix shell tools development and/or technical writing Summary 8 years network engineering (IP/ATM/FR WAN; some LAN) 4 years software engineering (UNIX/C/C++) 4 years (concurrent) scripted tools development (sh/Perl/expect/make/HTML) Protocols: ATM, Frame Relay, TCP/IP, OSPF, some BGP Experience: November 2002 - December 2002 (contract) NETWORK ENGINEER, Covad Communications, Santa Clara, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Certified functionality and performance of Cisco 7500 software release. September 1997 - January 2002 NETWORK OPERATIONS ENGINEER, Covad Communications, Santa Clara, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Network engineer involved all aspects of building and supporting the core and management networks for a national DSL provider. Primary early role was to construct technical operational details to deploy, integrate and manage core network elements (Cisco BPX/MGX ATM/FR switches). Designed first round of ATM & FR connections, PVC numbering schemes, switch configurations, deployment/integration methods for new ATM/FR switches, initial provisioning process. Developed operational processes and supporting documents, training material, scripts, and spreadsheets for support personnel to perform on a routine basis (element and circuit integration, new site and customer turnups, firmware upgrades, daily router backups, obtaining element status). Developed and documented troubleshooting procedures, trained NOC techs, provided top-level support. Worked closely with vendors and software and network engineering departments to introduce new hardware, software and services (e.g. provider VPs to replace point-to-point DS-3 circuits) into the network. Stated requirements; fielded, flushed out and reported problems. Developed process and wrote supporting documentation and scripts to perform network-wide upgrades with minimal impact. Architected out-of-band management network to reach craft/Ethernet management ports on network elements. Developed and scripted autoconfigure process to field-configure and auto-integrate new Cisco 2610 leaf routers by NOC personnel with no engineer intervention. Designed routing (OSPF over NBMA with totally stubby areas), core and leaf router configurations, long-term IP address plan, scalable naming scheme, detail documented design and architecture. Chose equipment, implemented and maintained DNS records, designed early cables, maintained diagrams, wrote detailed installation specs. Wrote Powerpoint training material and tested all procedures before releasing to NOC. Oversaw conversion of links from T1 circuits to Qwest and Covad FR links. Worked with Network Engineering to deploy Covad's DSL+IP service. Designed out-of-band management network, wrote scripts to integrate new PoPs, support BGP turnup, automatically route-register IP blocks with upstream IP service providers. Wrote early tools for NOC and customer support departments. In later stages, role evolved into working with Engineering to incorporate new services or equipment into the network, "operationalizing" by testing, extracting and synthesizing procedures; documenting, scripting, training and turning over to the NOC. Wrote tools (sh/perl) to configure, integrate and upgrade new equipment, or to perform automated processes. Wrote numerous crucial daily reports containing capacity data collected from ATM switches. September 1996 - July 1997 NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER, AT&T Government Markets, Herndon VA (consultant) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Architecture team member designing and implementing 300-site IP/ATM network service for the DoD's Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN) InterSite Services Contract (DISC), offering IP and ATM services to DoD research and engineering sites. Primary designer/investigator for ATM service using AT&T's InterSpan ATM WAN backbone and Fore switches for access. Worked closely with team to specify and verify NSAP (AESA) addressing and routing, traffic management policies (EPD, tag/drop), VBR capacity and buffer overbooking factors, UNI 3.0/3.1 translation, signalling channel QoS, public UNI features (address validation, E.164 support, ILMI address registration), call setup time optimization and measurement. Worked with Fore to engineer switch configuration and test software releases. Co-designed NSAP addressing scheme and PVC numbering scheme, specified static NSAP routing method. Coordinated with InterSpan ATM engineers to determine and verify QoS performance objectives; engineered port and UPC parameters. Addressed IP/ATM issues including IP-to-ATM address translation over PVCs and SVCs (NHRP, RFC1577), operating OSPF over a nonbroadcast medium, use of inverse ARP vs. static IP-to-VC mapping for PVCs, PVCs v. SVCs for external BGP connection. Worked with Cisco on testing NHRP implementation and router performance; specified enhancement requests. Researched and tested UBR v. VBR QoS for PVCs carrying routing updates. Worked with Government on defining acceptance tests to demonstrate conformance to contract requirements. Designed detailed ATM tests using AdTech AX4000 testsets, wrote step-by-step procedures, trained technicians, presented customer demos; orchestrated first critical acceptance tests between 3 DoD research sites. Provided extensive support to network deployment team; debugged staging and training network. Wrote customer configuration guide detailing ATM PVC and SVC service interface. May 1994 - September 1996 NETWORK SYSTEMS ENGINEER, MRJ Inc., NAS Facility NASA/Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Engineer on team to research, build and maintain high and medium performance LANs to interconnect supercomputers and desktop workstations at NASA/Ames Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation (NAS) Facility. Designed, implemented, procured, documented ATM LAN testbed using SGI hosts, Fore ATM switches and Cisco routers. Developed IP test suite, organized beta tests of new ATM software and hardware, worked closely with vendors to provide feedback and suggest changes. Network contact for cluster of nine SGI Power Challenges equipped with HIPPI, FDDI, ATM and Ipsilon, consultant on network configuration and performance issues. Designed preliminary ATM LAN/WAN interconnect architecture to provide remote access to HIPPI-connected supercomputing resources. Specified equipment, location, maintenance, procurement, point of contacts, research topics, target diagrams. Procured and configured NetStar GigaRouter, tested routing between ATM and HIPPI interfaces. Developed host benchmark Web site to generate TTCP tests between arbitrary pairs of supercomputer hosts across any network available, and present tabulated output as a matrix (CGI, Perl). Wrote white papers on IP packet size testing and TCP window size testing, investigated ATM performance aspects, including host architecture and TCP/IP issues. Presented NAS technical forum describing ATM in the LAN and applicability to NAS. Wrote ATM technology survey paper describing and comparing ATM switch features, published as NAS technical report. Nov. 1992 - Mar. 1994 SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Synoptics Communications, Santa Clara, CA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sustained and developed software module for LattisCell ATM switches that sets up, tears down and routes ATM calls, allocates bandwidth and VPI/VCIs, calculates shortest path. Added alternate path routing, designed call recovery scheme to reroute existing calls. Summer 1991 (during graduate work 1990-1992) CONTRACT ENGINEER, Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City, CA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Developed embedded controller task on IDNX T1/T3 nodes to structure NVRAM into primitive filesystem. Developed and implemented reliable connection-oriented protocol for data transfer between storage tasks on remode nodes. Mar. 1988 - Sep. 1990 SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Network Equipment Technologies, Redwood City, CA ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Developed software tasks and protocols to collect asynchronous alarm and topology data from remote T1/T3 multiplexors. Dec. 1985 - Jan. 1988 SOFTWARE ENGINEER, Moscom Corporation, East Rochester, NY ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Designed, implemented, maintained, ported call accounting applications. Education: B.A. Cognitive Science, U. of Rochester, Rochester NY, May 1985 M.S. Computer Science, UCLA, Los Angeles CA, September 1992 Current as of January 2005