Marc Simcox
Sr. Network Security Engineer
About
IT professional with excellent troubleshooting skills, seeking a challenging remote position as a Senior Network Engineer that will allow me to apply my IT experience towards the design, implementation, and administration of advanced network topologies.
Work Experience
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Culver City, CA
October 2015 – Present
Sr. Systems Engineer, Network Security
Approached to become full time employee after working for several months on restoration project
Highlights
- Team lead
Cisco Systems
Culver City, CA
January 2015 – October 2015
Sr. Systems Engineer, Network Security
Placed at SPE through Cisco Emergency Services to perform firewall remediation duties during company IT infrastructure restoration.
Highlights
- Responsible for creating thousands of firewall rules during infrastructure restoration process
- Made team lead after demonstrating leadership abilities and reliability during time of need
- Monitored network security hardware to ensure availability and licensing compliance.
- Worked with other IT teams to ensure that network security requests were accurate and within compliance policies.
Health Management Associates, Inc., later Community Health Systems
Naples, FL
October 2013 – December 2014
Sr. Network Engineer - Contractor
Hired in during company takeover to replace leaving network engineers, stepped into role and quickly took over responsibilities as members of the team left for other opportunities.
Highlights
- Key member of 3-person enterprise network team supporting 76 hospital facilities 300+ clinics with over 3000 network devices in 4 Data centers located in Naples, FL, Smyrna, GA, Atlanta, GA, and Jackson MS
- Responsibilities include network engineering team lead, network department point of contact for HMA/CHS14, and CHS legacy teams including systems infrastructure, systems administration, HMA/CHS merger, NOC, Data Center Migration.
- Cisco ONS equipment connecting the GA data centers
- Route and Switch support for Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, ASA 5520, 5525x, 6509, 4506, wireless controllers
- Placed in administration role for ACS, Solarwinds, Websense, Cisco Prime, WhatsUp Gold
Owner/SEO Consultant/Internet Marketing Manager
Performed market research, competitive analysis and site optimization for multiple companies in various industries.
Highlights
- Perform consulting for local and national clients to achieve first page listings in major search engines, resulting in increased traffic and sales.
- Design Keyword research for diverse business industries including restaurants and consumer service organizations.
- Created over 90 eCommerce websites in various niches, built traffic and sales, then sold them individually for a profit.
- Built internal optimization systems that ensured content optimization across all platforms and user experiences.
- Designed and supervised training documentation creation for use by internal and outsourced employees.
- Created process to determine the top competitors for client keywords, analyzed top competitor sites to identify target keywords. Applied checking optimization techniques, analyzed back, outbound links and strategies used to gain traffic.
Strom Aviation
Waconia, MN
June 2007 – November 2011
IS Manager & Network/Systems Administrator
Successfully performed multiple roles simultaneously. Responsible for the planning, organization, and execution of the company operation for a 24/7 network infrastructure. Additionally, responsible for producing online marketing materials, website redesign, and the integration of an applicant tracking system.
Highlights
- Coordinated and maintained the corporate office expansion, network upgrade and WAN connection for four branch offices and five home office setups with 60+ employees, while continuing to provide systems support for end users.
- Designed and implemented a hardware consolidation that allowed company expansion without incurring additional office space leasing costs.
- Reduced hardware and software costs by performing budget analysis and evaluating and renegotiating contracts.
- Established the company offsite network disaster recovery system.
- Provided enhancements to the applicant tracking system used by employees in all departments of the organization.
- Redesigned the company website using various SEO techniques. Resulted in successfully raising the website standings in the three major search engines to first page rankings for identified keywords.
Rhinotek Computer Products Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
October 2006 – September 2003
Network/Systems Administrator
Responsible for maintaining maximum availability of desktop services for the user community. Built, configured and troubleshot server and desktop hardware. Produced operational, system and user procedures documentation. Designed, implemented and managed Active Directory. Processed nightly backup procedures.
Highlights
- Managed company wide telecommunications and networking infrastructure
- Responsible for the administration of 20 HP and Compaq Servers configured with Windows NT4, Server 2000, and 2003 operating systems, as well as Exchange 2003, SQL 2000 and Great Plains Solomon.
- Streamlined the nightly procedures through a series of scripting, scheduling, and server consolidations, resulting in the reduction of 3.5 hours of nightly processing time, allowing night time operator to be available during peak support times.
- Solved a long standing issue with the MS Exchange system by upgrading to MS Exchange 2003 Enterprise, implementing HP Storageworks SAN, and setting size limits on incoming/outgoing mail and mailbox quotas.
Pioneer Electronics, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
November 2000 – August 2003
PC Technician
Became a full time employee after exceeding company expectations for a laptop migration project installation. Increased production to upgrade 30 laptops per day instead of the initially budgeted 20 per day rate, resulting in project completion ahead of schedule and under budget. Solely responsible for the entire corporate office migration to new computers.
Highlights
- Upgraded 3 office sites and 2000+ users from Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 9x to Windows 2000.
- Migrations consisted of replacing Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 9x workstations with Windows 2000 workstations. Installed and configured Windows 2000 to connect to Pioneer network; migrated user and Pioneer data assets from NT 4.0 and Windows 9x to 2000; SMS file-transfer; verifying all data transfers/conversion integrity.
- Upgraded user workstations by either replacing existing workstations with newer workstations with Windows 2000 or by re-imaging existing workstation with Windows 2000 Ghost image from server. Workstations consisted of Dell Optiplex and Latitude series. Number of workstations per site ranging from 50-1200+.
- Phone and desktop support via Microsoft SMS for over 2500+ users ranging within 3 main departments. Opening, updating, and closing support tickets using Frontrange Heat. Collaborating with other Pioneer IT departments for additional technical support.
- Additional tasks include hardware installation of CPU, memory, fans, hard drives and power supply. BIOS revision/upgrades and reconfiguration for all workstations. Continuous hardware and software quality assurance throughout every incremental phase of the project. Workstation packing; Site surveying and inventorying of company IT assets.
- Assisted with Tape backup support and troubleshooting for Veritas, BackupExec 8.6.
PC Technician
Highlights
- Pioneer Electronics, Inc. - Migration Technician – Long Beach, CA. Upgraded and Migrated user information on 500 Dell laptops and workstations, working on turnaround times of 1 day upgraded 15 laptops per day for 3 weeks, and 6 workstations per day for 8 weeks.
- California State University System - PC Technician – Orange, CA. Delivered and installed desktop workstation and configured for network. Configured a branch router for additional computers.
- Hard Rock Café - PC Technician – Beverly Hills, CA. Installed six desktop and laptop workstations. Configured connection to corporate network via Citrix and performed software upgrades as necessary.
Computer Education Institute
Carson, CA
June 2000 – November 2000
Support Tech/Teachers Aide
Highlights
- Provide computer and network assistance for students during class.
- Work with trainer during the class to help answer any questions the students have.
- Maintain classroom network, replacing computers and parts as necessary
PC Technician
Clients Included - Entex - Relocation Technician – Los Angeles, CA
Highlights
- Coordinated the removal of 500 off lease desktops and reinstallation of new Dell desktops for Medicare Facility.
Manpower Inc.
Santa Fe Springs, CA
March 2000 – June 2000
PC Technician - Contractor
Clients Included - Unisys – Installation Technician – Santa Fe Springs, CA
Highlights
- Setup and maintained computers for the Los Angeles County Welfare division. Re-imaged and installed computers in Unisys training facility. Break/fix and troubleshot Unisys maintained computers during downtime from Los Angeles County welfare project.
Commercial Programming Services, Inc
Los Angeles, CA
February 2000 – March 2000
Inventory Technician - Contractor
Clients Included - Sony Pictures Entertainment - Inventory Technician – Culver City, CA
Highlights
- Inventory and asset tagging of all desktops, laptops, monitors, and printers on Sony Pictures Entertainment’s back-lot studio, Sony Pictures Plaza, and offsite locations.
Contact
Newport Beach, California CA, 92662 US
(952)465-1989
Education
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2000 2001
Computer Education Institute, later Kaplan University
Certificate
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineering Program
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1996 1997
CAD Institute, later University of Advancing Technology
Bachelors
Multimedia and Virtual Reality Program (incomplete)
Skills
Network Engineering
Network Administration
Cisco Technologies
Palo Alto
Network Security
Routing
Switching
Network Architecture
Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
TCP/IP
DNS
Cisco IOS
Palo Alto PanOS
Network Engineering
Routing Protocols
Router Configuration
Systems Engineering
Windows Administration
Linux Administration
Active Directory
Servers
Data Center
Storage
Hybrid Workloads
Cloud Computing
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Security
Cloud Administration
Cloud Storage
Cloud Management
Configuration Management
Automation
Ansible
Docker
Programming/DevOps
Python
Golang
HTML
Bash
YAML
Git/Github/Gitlab
Netmiko
Paramiko
VSCode
Information Technology
Microsoft 365
Data Center
Computer Forensics
Scripting
Soft Skills
Teamwork
Leadership
Troubleshooting
Strategic Thinking
Decision Making
Problem Solving
Time Management
Communication
Documentation
Organization
Critical Thinking
Project Management
Vendor Products
Cisco
Palo Alto
Splunk
Tufin SecureTrack
Tufin SecureChange
Microsoft Visio
ServiceNow (SNOW)
References
Marc was a great contract resource for us at CHS. He was dedicated to the success of our organization, the functionality of our network and went above and beyond for us multiple projects and efforts. Marc is good with dealing with customers and their needs, as well as interpreting what they are asking for. I'd have Marc back in a heartbeat.
Marc has great technical acuity =)
A true measure of how well we regarded Marc is we would rehire him in a heartbeat. He is a dedicated, focused individual who continues to work on improving his environment. I know we were well served with Marc on the job.