I am the technical consultant for a large health care provider in the Philadelphia, PA area. I’ve been involved in technology since my high school days. My first real technology job was as a System Operator for Manhattan College (Riverdale, NY) where I was responsible for managing two VAX VMS hosts, 30 IBM/RS6000s and 5 Novell NetWare v4.1 servers. I also graduated from Manhattan College with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science.

In my current job I’m a jack of all trades. I’m primarily responsible for the data and voice infrastructure but I also support all the other areas of technology including the Windows Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Windows 2003 & 2008, VMware, FC SAN, etc.

I started this blog with the idea of trying to share the documentation that I’ve developed over the years working with Avaya/Nortel, Cisco, Juniper, Blue Coat, HP Open View, Websense, etc. I’ve focused specifically on Avaya/Nortel since there’s a void of information available on the net with respect to Avaya/Nortel products.

Here’s a list of the gear that I currently work with;

• Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 8800, 8600. 1600, 5500, 4500 Series
• Cisco Nexus 7010, 5010, 2148, 1000V Switches
• Cisco Catalyst 6500, 3700, 3600 Series Switches
• Cisco 3800, 2800 Series Routers
• Cisco ASA 5550
• Cisco ACE 4710
• Nortel Ethernet Switch 470, 460, 450
• Nortel VPN Router 1700
• Nortel Call Servers 1000 v5.5, v6.0, v7.5
• Lucent VitalQIP
• Check Point Firewall NX
• IBM ISS Site Protector IDS/IPS
• RSA Authentication Manager (SecurID)
• CipherTrust IronMail Anti-Spam
• Blue Coat Proxy Cache Appliance (ProxySG)
• Blue Coat Proxy Anti-Virus Appliance (ProxyAV)
• Motorola Wireless LAN Switches 7000, 5100
• Motorola Wireless Intrusion Prevention System (WIPS)
• Juniper Steel-Belted Radius
• Juniper Secure Access SSL VPN Appliance
• Websense Enterprise Security
• HP Open View Network Node Manager
• WildPackets OmniPeek Sniffer

I’m happy to say that the majority of our systems are problem free and run 24x7x365. We currently maintain an average of 99.99% up time or greater for the entire network, including scheduled maintenance. As of June 30, 2011 there were approximately 35,000 ports in the network.

Personal Notes

I’m the proud father of three beautiful girls. They are the highlight of my life and bring me more joy and love than anything else even with being the only man of the house. I keep joking with the neighbors that I’ll need a shotgun and a shovel over the fireplace when they start dating, god only help me!

I enjoy playing ice hockey in the winter and watching the grass grow in the summer.

Disclaimers

The views and opinions stated on my blog are mine personally. They do not represent any prior, current or future employer. The advice and statements that I make are provided as-is with no warranty or guarantee of any kind.

Contact Information

If you have questions or issues with any of the code, scripts, or commands I’ve posted here or any of the subject mater please feel free post your questions on the discussions forums. Register (free) an account and post your question in the appropriate board by creating a new topic.

• http://forums.networkinfrastructure.info/

Hopefully you didn’t just miss that statement above, please DO NOT contact me directly with questions or issues unless you are interested in retaining my services as a consultant on an hourly rate. You can’t image the amount of communications I get on this contact form and 95% of it should be funneled through the discussion forums where I answer EVERY post. Unfortunately, I will no longer respond to messages that don’t heed the guidance/warning I’ve provided above.

Cheers!

Update August 22, 2009: sed ‘s/356/365′ – Thanks John!