This document is a resume for Richard E. Athie summarizing his experience and qualifications. He has over 10 years of experience as a senior network engineer and system administrator working with Fortune 500 companies. His areas of expertise include Cisco, Juniper, and Aruba networking technologies as well as Windows and Linux administration. He has led complex IT projects involving network infrastructure design, implementation, and compliance.

1. R I C H A R D E . A T H I E
rik.athie@gmail.com
PROFILE SUMMARY
Accomplished IT Network Engineer with an ideal blend of academic background, training, and real-world career
development; proven leadership candidate engaging directly with Fortune 500 enterprises and small
business clients, leading the day to day execution of Network Technologies in compliance with standard
controls.
♦ Effective communication ability and noteworthy analytical skills; consistently meets deadlines with superior results.
♦ Brings exemplary organizational & budgetary aptitude; lifelong learner.
ADDITIONAL STRENGTHS
Cisco Switching and Routing /
ASA Security
Junos EX, SRX & ScreenOS /
Blue Coat Packet Shaper. /
Aruba Wireless
Windows and Linux Server Administration /
VmWare / EMC2 / Websense
ISO 27001, 2700, SSAE16
Compliance / ITSM Remedy
Fully Bilingual (Spanish & English)
RECENT EXPERIENCE
ACCENTURE LLC. San Antonio, TX
Senior Multi Regional Network Engineer 10/2010 – Present
•Regional Network Engineer Lead, responsible for local and regional Network infrastructures, EMC2 Legato and
Avamar Backup Systems, Domain Controllers, Websense content filtering, ASA Firewall, Juniper Firewall,
Juniper SA SSL VPN, Cisco Routers and Switches, Blue Coat Packet Shapers, Qualys Scanners, VMware
ESXi 4.1, SCCM, SCOM. Rsyslog and Zenoss SNMP Monitoring Tools, Tacacs ACS server integration,
McAfee IDS system, Junos EX & SRX, RBAC Radius Deployments, Aruba Wireless deployments, Fortinet
IDS integrations.
Projects:
•Regional Network - Coordinating with remote sites with up to 1200 user infrastructures to ensure proper day to
day services are running, updates, patches are performed on routers, Firewalls, servers, & switches. SME to
assist sites with technical implementation and leading Network teams with in the US, Canada and Mexico.
New Site Design and Build outs implementing the Network Topology and Infrastructure, including T1, Frame
Relay clouds, DS3 / Fiber MPLS Circuit. Vlan segmentation for clients and internal projects.
Remote support for infrastructures, respond to network change requests and troubleshooting issues.
Design and Documentation of Network Diagrams and Client Connectivity requirements and implementations.
Responsible for the strategic design, vision, and implementation of office-wide Information Technology of
mission critical complex projects /operations.
Maintain Data Center quarterly maintenance schedules for UPS and Network Infrastructure, run quarterly high
resiliency network testing.
Compliance with ISO 27001, 2700, SSAE16 and ITAR Controls for multi-client BPO facilities on an
International fortune 500 enterprise level.
•AD Consolidation Data Service Engineering Team - Consolidation project to bring multiple domain units under
one domain all across North America. Maintain a single identity across all environments, improve security
authentication method, centralize workstation and server monitoring across domain seamlessly.
•Austin TX, Cincinnati OH and Knoxville TN, Delivery Center Build outs – Designing Network Diagrams describing
the connectivity for the infrastructure and client connectivity for High Resilient site build outs. Implementing the
Network infrastructure including ISP BGP peering over Ethernet, Implementing external and Internal Firewalls,
LAN infrastructure, Client Connectivity over MPLS DS3 Circuits and GRE over IPSEC tunneling, SSL VPN for

2. remote users, Implementing MAN infrastructures for multiple building facilities, Compliance control with
Accenture Standards under ISO, Ernest and Young and ITAR Controls.
•Site Lead for Network Transition Project (NTP) - Retiring old Cisco and Juniper network devices replaced with
new Junos devices to support advanced security and performance. Retired legacy PBX phone system
replaced with new Cisco IP Phone Gateways and Call Manager and Skype Ip Phones. Implemented Aruba
Wireless Infrastructures across 14 different locations.
RI C H A R D E. AT H I E P a ge T wo
ACCENTURE FEDERAL SERVICES San Antonio, TX
Senior System Administrator / Network Analyst 4 / 2010 – 10 / 2010
•Monitor/Perform LAN/WAN responsibilities to ensure proper day to day services are running, update necessary
patches performed on routers, servers, & switches, manage incidents through their life-cycle with the
emphasis on increasing end-user uptime and issue prevention.
ACCENTURE LLC. San Antonio, TX
System Administrator / Network Analyst 11 / 2007 – 4 / 2010
•Monitor/Perform LAN/WAN responsibilities to ensure proper day to day services are running, update necessary
patches performed on routers, servers, & switches, manage incidents through their life-cycle with the
emphasis on increasing end-user uptime and issue prevention.
PREVIOUS HISTORY UPON REQUEST
EDUCATION / TRAINING / SKILLS
COLUMBIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
Master’s Degree in Business Specialized in Project Management. (2012)
DEVRY UNIVERSITY
Bachelor’s Degree in Technical Management Specialized in Computer Science. (2008)
HALLMARK COLLEGE
Associate of Applied Science in Computer Network Systems Technology. (2006)
Areas of Knowledge & Skills
Hardware Cisco Catalyst switch series 4500, 6500, 3700, 2900. Supervisory, modules, blades and
Junos EX 2200 and 4300 series.
Juniper SA VPN
Cisco Router: 3900, 2900, 4300
Firewall: ASA 5500, Juniper SSG-500, Junos SRX 240, 550.
Aruba Wireless controllers 7000, 7200 Series and IAP technologies.
Server Hardware Dell PowerEdge R710, R300, R610, 2850, 2900, 1950, and later series

3. Software Microsoft Office 2003, 2007, 2010 Product, Legato, Backup/Restore, Remote Desktop, Anti-
virus software. SCCM, SCOM, Rsyslog, Solarwinds Cat Tools / Syslog.
MS DOS v. 5.x-7.0,
Windows XP, Vista, Windows 2003 Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Websense, EMC2
Legato, VmWare, ITSM Remedy.
Linux – Redhat Enterprise, Ubuntu, Debian, Open Suse.