- Hands on knowledge of several major router and switch vendors including over 10 years of Cisco IOS experience, 10+ years of Foundry router & switch experience and 9 years of Juniper JUNOS experience - Cisco 2500-12416, GSR, OSR (7600) - Juniper M5-M160, T640 & MX routers, EX switches - ARBOR Peakflow and TMS for DDoS Threat Mitigation - Brocade/Foundry BigIron/NetIron/ServerIron/FESX/Super-X Devices - Citrix NetScaler Certified Adminstrator (NSCA) - F5 BigIP Layer-4 Load Balancers / Application Optimization - Proficient with BGP4, OSPF dynamic routing protocols. - Understanding of TCP/IP structure, sequencing, routing and subnetting. - Fluent with UNIX (Linux, BSD) - Programming: Perl, PHP, TCL - Use of Wireshark for packet analysis

Technical Marketing Engineer @ From December 2012 to Present (2 years 11 months) Herndon, VirginiaDeployment Engineer @ From April 2011 to December 2012 (1 year 9 months) Reston, VirginiaSenior Network Engineer @ From January 2010 to April 2011 (1 year 4 months) Sterling, VirginiaSenior Network Engineer @ -Senior network engineer primarily responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of the production with the datacenter. - Team lead on implementation of AOL's Generic Edge network. - Redesigned AOL's datacenter networks, reducing ~40 routers to 12. New design facilitates the reduction of cost and time to bring new products to market. - As Senior Network Engineer, provide guidance and expertise to other engineers on current network installations and maintenance. - Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of Cisco 7600 series, Cisco GSR12000 series, Foundry Fastiron/BigIron/NetIron/ServerIron/FESX/Super-X products, Juniper M, T and MX series routers - Daily utilization analysis and capacity planning - Design L4-7 server load balancing complexes, providing advanced services such as URL and cookie switching to internal customers. - New product evaluations - Increased group productivity by writing Perl scripts to automate tasks From November 1999 to January 2010 (10 years 3 months) Dulles, VirginiaEngineering Staff @ - Domain Name Server (BIND) setup and administration. - CGI programming. - User and domain management on NT based systems. - Unix systems administration. - Network utilization analysis. - MS Access Database Development. - MS SQL Server Administration. - End user support technician. From 1997 to 1999 (2 years) Upper Marlboro, Maryland

Alex Blauvelt is skilled in: BGP, Juniper, OSPF, Network Architecture, Data Center, Network Engineering, Cisco Technologies, MPLS, Load Balancing, Routing, Network Design, TCP/IP, Network Security, Cloud Computing, Perl, Linux, VPN, Security, IP, Routers, DNS, Integration, Unix, Cisco IOS, Routing Protocols, Troubleshooting, Networking, Computer Network..., System Administration, Firewalls, F5 BigIP, JUNOS, SNMP, Switches, Juniper Technologies