1. Jason Bliss
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710 West 7th
Street #1423
Tulsa, Ok. 74119
(918)770-8767 Home
(918)770-8635 Work
Jaso1118@gmail.com
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Network Devices: Cisco 2500 , Cisco 2600, Cisco 2800, Cisco 3800, Cisco 3700, Cisco 7200, Cisco 7500 series
routers, Cisco 4500/4700, Cisco 5000 & 6500 switches, 6509 Layer III Routers ,Cisco 8540
switches/routers, Cisco PIX/ASA Firewall appliances, F5 load balancers, Gigamon
Gigavue, VSS port-aggregators.
Protocols and
Communications: IP,DSL T1, T3, OC3C, Packet over SONET, RIP, OSPF, HSRP, BGP v.4, 802.1q VLANS,
PPP, SNMP, IP V4,DNS, DHCP, Radius, SMTP, MPLS, Dial-Backup Solutions.
Network Monitors: HP Openview, Sun Network Manager, What’s Up Gold, Orion, PRTG, Riverbed, Gigamon
and Gigastor.
Firewalls: Checkpoint Firewall, Cisco Pix Firewall/Cisco ASA
Network Tools: Network Associates Sniffers (Pro and DSS), Concord Health, Netscout NGenius, Fluke
Networks Test Meters, Solarwinds Engineering Toolset, Riverbed Network MGMT Tools,
Gigamon.
WORK HISTORY:
Hewlett-Packard 10/2009- Current
Tulsa, Okla.
Data Center Network Engineering
• Support and Engineering of Tulsa Data Center Networks (Sabre Account)
• Administrator of Riverbed, Gigamon, VSS toolset and management environment
• Design and Engineering of US Airways Networks
• On-call engineering support for level 3 Network Team
• Engineering and deployment of new tools infrastructure networks
Commtech Industries 9/2007- 6/2009
New Orleans, La
Sr. Network Engineer
• Design, implementation and support of Client Data and VOIP systems
• Documentation of Client Networks
• Evaluation of Client Networks
• Mentor of Junior engineers
• Technical Sales assistance on Voice and Data Networks+

2. Whitney Bank 3/2006-9/2007
New Orleans, LA
Contractor Sr. Network Engineer/ Technical Project Lead Network Management Tools
• Responsible for design, deployment and configuration of QOS service for VOIP systems
• Design, evaluation, of Network Management tools for enterprise system
• Development of Network Operations Center
• Design of IP Address (RFC 1918) Scheme
• Evaluation of Hardware Requirements for Network Migration
• Peer review on Network Topology design
MyTek Network 5/2005 – 3/2006
Dallas, TX
Sr. Network Engineer/Technical Project Lead
Responsible for evaluation, design, installation, configuration and support of multiple client networks
• Perform Evaluation and design for Clients specific network requirements
• Responsible for installation and configuration of Cisco routers, switches, Pix firewalls and F5 load balancers
on Client sites
• Provide Vendor management for Wireless site surveys and structured cabling
• Provide support of internal network
• As technical project lead, responsible for assessing technical skills of potential employees/contractors
• Provide Configuration management of Web Hosting Client using F5 load balancers.
• Responsible for management of Network projects during outsourcing transition
JPMorgan Chase Bank 9/2000 - 5/2005
Dallas, TX
Contractor - Sr. Network Engineer/Manager, Field Service
• Responsible for the support, configuration, and installation of Cisco routers and switches
• Installation of Cisco routers, switches and Pix firewalls at new Data Center
• Responsible for the installation and maintenance of Management Network
• Providing network support using Network Associates Sniffer Pro and Distributed Sniffer Network tools
• Responsible for network impact analysis of sites using Concord Health
• Deployment of Retail Bank ATM and Branch upgrades from Token Ring to Ethernet
• Lead Field Service Engineer for the Dallas/Ft Worth Metroplex
• Provided on-call support for JPMorgan Chase Bank locations
Infospace.com 2/1999- 9/2000
Dallas, TX
Sr. Network Engineer, Networking Services
• Provided day to day support of WAN/LAN Cisco debugging tools
• Responsible for configuration of firewall rules on Check Point and PIX systems
• Designed and implemented IP and IPX networks for the Dallas Texas, San Mateo California, Ottawa
Canada, and Papendrecht, Holland offices
• Configured and installed VPN Internet site-to-site tunnels

3. • Reviewed and purchased appropriate of Network Support contracts
MCI Systemhouse 9/1997- 2/1999
Dallas, TX
Network Engineer
Moore Router/Hub Group
• Provided day-to-day support of Moore Business Form’s Wide and Local Area Network
• Implementation team member of SAP infrastructure upgrades
• Documentation and performance evaluation of network performance using Visio
Moore Transition Team
• Evaluated Novell Servers and office sites for Contract Transition.
• Assisting with infrastructure problems, routers and switches (Nortel/Cisco products)
• Analyzed network performance using Sniffer Pro
• Installed patches and configured Novell 4.x Servers
• Designed and prepared for the migration of Token Ring to Ethernet
Andersen Consulting 7/1995 – 9/1997
Dallas, TX
Network Analyst Level II/III Internal Operations
LAN/WAN Group
• Designed and prepared floor migrations and consolidations of site moves
• Supervised the infrastructure moving of floors and cleaning up IDF/MDF closets and floors of major cities
• Managed and arranged for contractors help on cabling jobs
• Configured Cisco routers, Bay Networks hubs and switches
• Analyzed and performed trouble-shooting using Network General Sniffer
• Team lead of North America and South America deployment of DHCP and BIND
• Manager of IP database
Distributed Systems
• Tested and implemented NLMs for Global Netware 4.1 Project
• Created automated installation CDROM for Netware 4.1Server installations
• Trained regional representatives for deployment of 3.12 to 4.1 migrations
• Provided support for regional representatives. (Canada and Northeast)
Network Analyst
• WAN support on Lotus Notes and Netware 4.02 servers
• Served as mentor and leader for Networking Solutions and College Interns

4. • WAN support on HUBS, Routers, and Switches (Nortel/Cisco products)
• Provided 2nd level support on Microsoft Office Suites
EDUCATION:
University of North Texas
Study towards Bachelors Degree in Liberal Arts
CERTIFICATIONS:
CCNA*
CCNP*
CCDA*
*Currently working on re-certification of Cisco Credentials
Special Certifications, Training:
Bay Networks Hub Connectivity, Bay Networks Introduction to Accelar Switches, CISCO Introduction to Cisco
Routers, CISCO CCNA, CCDA ,CCNP (former) , Grahm School of Management, HP CZ Hardware Technician,
Network Associates hands-on Sniffer training, Novell CNE 3x/4x, Networld+Interop Tutorial series on DNS and
Directory Services