Damian Alfonso Robaina

Engineer with over 20 years of continue experience in designing and supporting network services covering different industries from Internet Service Providers, telecommunication, software/hardware, media, credit card/banking, and government. A proactive and forward-thinking individual with high energy and a motivating personality used to work without any kind of vendor support. • Advanced knowledge of Cisco routing/switching and security architectures. (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP, VXLAN, ASAs) • Selection, acquisition, and support of all kind of Cisco devices. • Extensive experience with data center networks (design and implementation), established and emerging technologies (DCB, DCI, Unified Fabrics/FC zoning, VXLAN/EVPN, Cisco ACI, Flexpod), virtualization (VMware, NPV/NPIV, vPC, VDC), Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco UCS and Dell blade server architectures. • Working knowledge of network overlays and CLOS fabrics on multi-pod environments (OTV, ACI, VXLAN/EVPN, NVGRE). • Comfortable with F5 Big-IP Application Delivery Controllers. • Solid experience configuring and troubleshooting several LAN/WAN/WLAN/VPN technologies with several vendors. • Knowledge of overall network security aspects and firewalling using packet filtering techniques, DMZ’s, and encrypted communication with IPSec/SSL. • VoIP and IP telephony solutions using H.323 and SIP. • Proactive, forward thinking individual with high energy and a motivating personality. Specialties: Cisco ACI, Routing & Switching architectures, Network fabrics, VxLAN and network overlays, Network Design, Firewalls, Telecommunications, VoIP