Layne Frederiksen is seeking an IT Network Engineer position and has over 15 years of experience in network infrastructure design, administration, and support. They currently work as an IT Operations Manager and Senior Systems/Network Engineer at Dorado Software, where they are responsible for operations management, production and development infrastructure architecture and support, and leading DevOps automation initiatives. They have extensive experience working with technologies such as VMware, Hyper-V, OpenStack, Cisco, Juniper, Dell, and Fortinet networking equipment.

1. Layne Frederiksen 916.761.7394
layn321@gmail.com 404 Whyte Ave Roseville, CA 95661
Objective IT Network Engineer
Qualifications
• Highly motivated and organized professional that learns quickly on the job and has a proven track record of
problem solving and prioritizing to achieve goals and meet deadlines in rapidly changing environments and
workloads.
• Over fifteen years network infrastructure design, installation, administration, and support from desktop to
server, user productivity applications to high availability hosting services.
• Highly skilled as both a team leader and contributor with a customer oriented mindset and excellent verbal
and written communication skills possessing the confidence to foster solid working relationships and a
mutual desire for excellence.
Experience
12/08 - Present Dorado Software Inc., 4805 Golden Foothill Parkway, CA 95762
IT Operations Manager / Senior Systems/Network Engineer
Principle Roles and Responsibilities
§ Operations Management: align IT initiatives with corporate strategic objectives ensuring operational
strategies, project plans, team member skillsets, and quality assurance processes yield IT capabilities
exceeding projected operational requirements.
§ Acting interim Information Security Officer (ISO)
§ Production Infrastructure: architect, procure, implement, monitor, define and enforce corporate policy,
and identify risk and improvement areas for all system and network infrastructure from WAN to private
cloud to desktop leveraging a continuous improvement philosophy and PDCAS processes.
§ Dev/Test Infrastructure: architect, implement, monitor, and improve the private cloud and multivendor
network device infrastructure ensuring continuous direct productivity increases.
§ DevOps Initiative: automate dev/test infrastructure and service configuration to expedite reproducible
staging and regression states providing targeted dynamic scalability.
§ Development: acting primary system and network platform engineer for NFV Orchestration and cloud
automation initiatives (MANO spec, OpenNFV).
§ POC/Customer Support: gather requirements, define project scope, establish implementation strategy,
deploy environment, and provide operational support.
Production Infrastructure Highlights
• WAN/VPN/Remote Access/Firewall: Cisco PIX/ASA, Juniper Netscreen and SRX, Dell Sonicwall, Palo
Alto Networks, Brocade vRouter 5400, Fortinet Fortigate, WatchGuard Firebox, Silverpeak multisite,
multi-access technology connectivity including DMVPN, IPSEC/GRE VPN (including AWS VPC), SSL
VPN, and Windows Direct Access over redundant multi-ISP links.
• Private Cloud: design, implement, and monitor a MS Windows Hyper-V 2012 R2 Cluster and a VMware
vSphere 5.5 virtualization platform using System Center and vCenter. Notable technologies: NPAR, SR-
IOV, MLAG, VRRP, LACP, Port Channel, DCB, iSCSI, SMB Multichannel, VMDq.
Hardware platform: Leaf-Spline architecture leveraging Dell Force10 S4810, S50, PowerConnect 81xx,
70xx, Dell PowerEdge R710/R620, Dell Equallogic, Dell PowerVault, HP StoreVirtual VSA, EMC.
• Windows Domain: multisite Windows 2012 R2/2008 R2/Windows 7 domain infrastructure with integrated
Ubuntu, CentOS/Redhat Linux application servers (Centrify). All production workloads are virtualized.
Sample list of services include Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP, DFS/DFS-R, FSRM,
RADIUS, IIS, Apache, JIRA Bug Tracking, Confluence Wiki, Git, Perforce, Maven, TeamCity, Print
Services, Dorado Synergy NMS, MySQL.
• Base Windows 7 image(s) installation, configuration, updates, and deployment for end user workstation
application software relative to evolving end user job requirements and developer tool chain requirements:
MS Office 2010, McAfee/TrendMicro antivirus, Eclipse, Maven, JRebel, QuickBooks, etc.

2. • BC/DR/Backup: research and recommend cloud and offsite DR services and strategies, design, implement,
test, and validate RPOs/RTOs and associated backup and recoverability procedures and documentation.
Procedures include SAN based snapshots, D2D nightly onsite backups, remote replication to DR site, and
weekly offsite, secure archiving.
• VOIP: 802.3af Polycom IP phone endpoints. Migration from on-premise to cloud-hosted SaaS platform
with QOS policy prioritization.
• Data Center: act as primary point of contact for greenfield data center build out responsible for
requirements, design validation, vendor coordination, and relocation of primary IT data center and dev/test
lab infrastructure.
• Wireless: 802.11n/ac wireless infrastructure installation, configuration, and support with Active Directory
integrated authentication on Dell Aruba WAP/IAP and SonicPoint ACi POE endpoints.
• Security: corporate IDS implementation and intrusion and penetration validation testing NMAP,
BackTrack, Kali Linux, Wireshark.
• Heterogeneous HP, Dell, Lexmark, Canon, and Konica/Minolta printing infrastructure.
Dev/Test infrastructure Highlights
• Dev/test cloud: infrastructure includes VMware and OpenStack.
• VMware: PXE boot dynamic allocation and rebuild of ESXi 5.5 nodes and light touch rebuild of VCSA.
• OpenStack: deploy and maintain multiple OpenStack environments supporting NFV Orchestration
development initiatives. Mirantis Fuel and Rackspace deployments being exercised.
• Dev/Test Lab: install, configure, and maintain heterogeneous network infrastructure in a multivendor
routing and switching environment supporting Dorado Synergy NMS platform third party device
manageability and service/protocol feature set. Provide well-defined, real world configurations around
protocol and device capabilities enabling development and validation against product features and/or
customer specific configuration.
• Devices: include an extensive variety of models: Cisco, Juniper, Dell, Netgear, Force10, Brocade, Foundry,
Aruba, Riverstone, 3COM, NEC, Enterasys, F5, Arista, Cumulus Linux, HAProxy, Dell M1000e, EMC
• Networking protocols: include IPv4, IPv6, L3 (Routing, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), L2 (Bridging,
VLANs, VTP, GVRP, STP, MSTP, RSTP, HSRP, VRRP, NHRP, LACP, MLAG, VACL, 802.1q, 802.3ad,
CDP, ISDP), L2/L3 MPLS VPN, Routed Protocol (TCP/IP), Multicast Routing Protocols (PIM, IGMP),
DHCP, DNS, NAT, ACLs , FTP, TFTP , VPN, IPSec, 802.11, SNMP, netFlow, IPFIX, sFlow, jFlow, NTP,
iSCSI.
DevOps Initiative Highlights
• Build/QA process enhancements to support Agile development processes leveraging Vagrant and YAML
to validate deployment scripts (Bash, Perl, Chef, Puppet) allowing quick and automated installation and
regression testing against Standalone, Distributed, and Clustered deployment models. Additional
enhancements are focusing on leveraging Packer to produce deployable build artifacts as VMware,
OpenStack, and Docker container building blocks for SaaS offering models on vCloud Air, OpenStack, and
AWS.
• Provide Chef and Puppet translations for Dorado Synergy NMS native Bash and Perl script automation of
Windows and Linux platform configuration requirements for Dorado Synergy NMS automated installation
and deployment as initial VNF deployment modeling and DevOps extension integration.
• Automation scripting (VMware/OpenStack): Bash, Perl, Python, PowerShell, Batch, Chef, Puppet, Heat
Templates
POC/Customer Support Highlights
• Responsible for researching, recommending, cost and performance requirements analysis, and vendor
relationship management for all internal IT infrastructure as well as POC and customer system
configuration and deployment recommendations for physical and virtualized workloads.
• Provide Tier 3 implementation and support for Dorado Synergy 24/7 contract customers with cluster
deployments on Oracle/Oracle RAC/MySQL.
• QA testing, test plan generation, and Dorado Synergy cluster platform configuration support. Hybrid cloud
deployment validation and performance baseline: AWS <--> VMware/OpenStack/Physical on premise.

3. 04/05 – 12/08 First National Mortgage Sources: Net Branch, 2485 Natomas Park Dr. #335 Sacramento, CA 95833
IT Operations Manager/Systems Engineer
• Design, implement, and support all IT infrastructure: VMWare ESX, MS Exchange 2003 email system,
Encompass LOS SQL database, IIS web servers for customer portal, local and remote processing team
transaction management, internal and mobile CSR workstation/laptop security policy design and
enforcement.
• HP, Sharp, Brother scanner/printer/copiers/fax installation and support.
• Full life cycle and patch management of corporate images: Windows XP SP2, Office 2003, Encompass,
McAfee antivirus, Adobe Acrobat, etc.
• Wireless 802.11b with corporate network segmentation for customer/lender reps Guest network.
• Design, implement, support, enforce, and document operational policies, processes and technologies
conforming to Federal and corporate regulations specifying security, customer privacy, and documentation
delivery for on-demand validation and auditing.
• Implement messaging archival, complete digital imaging of all transactional documentation, and backup
strategies meeting and exceeding regulatory requirements.
• VOIP/fax/Outlook integration for call recording facilitating regulatory requirements compliance.
05/02 – 04/05 Equity Financial, Inc. 3814 Auburn Blvd. Suite #63 Sacramento, CA 95821
Systems Engineer
• Design, procure, implement, and maintain MS Windows 2000/2003 Standard multi-server network
infrastructure.
• MS Exchange 2003 mail system implementation and maintenance.
• Calyx Point Loan Management software client/server implementation and maintenance.
• Develop process milestone tracking and reporting and process automation software. Data updates and
triggers from Calyx Point; Automation (Point data manipulation) and enhancement functionality via ASP,
SQL 2000.
04/01 – 05/02 Lighthouse Systems, Inc.: Systems Engineer
10/98 – 04/01 Contract Consultant: Web Design/Software Engineer
6/98 - 9/98 Intel Corporation: Intel Platform Support Lab (IPSL): Validation Test Engineer
6/97 - 9/97 Intel Corporation: Service Engineering; Service Engineer
EDUCATION
BS Computer Science: National University (Cum Laude)
Total Quality Management (TQM) certification: American River College
Cisco CCNA/CCNP (ID# CSCO11896442)
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE NT4)
References
Bill Acevedo
Dorado Software: Director of IT and Support
Work: (916) 673-1113 / Cell: (916) 397-0593
Virah Parikh
Nuage Network: Engineer
Cell: (980) 333-7731
Additional References Available