Chris Bowman

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Having 12 years of solid experience in network design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring.

Experienced Solutions Architect, Standards Architect, Configurator and Implementer of Cisco and Arista, Palo Alto Routers, Fortinet/Fortigate, Juniper Routers, Switches, Wireless Access Points, VPN Concentrators, Firewalls, and enterprise WLC'S,

Cisco & PAN firewall configuration, installation, and troubleshooting. Datacenter & spoke FW’s.

Accomplished designer of corporate-wide IP schemas.

Proven success in systems administration, systems analysis and troubleshooting skills.

SDN, SD-Wan and Azure/AWS/Ansible cloud integration support.

Experience in support and administration of e-mail infrastructure and network security tools.

Extensive experience on support and administration of network security policies.

Conscientious, organized problem solver and team player who works well under aggressive deadlines.

Extensive experience in dealing with customers and identifying business needs.

Extensive knowledge of Configuring, Manage identity and access management (IAM) in Azure, AWS, GCP cloud environments

Proven strengths in resolving problems for customers.

Great Intrapersonal skills 

23 Professional Technical Certifications

Networking Certifications: 

CCNP Certified

CCNA Certified

Palo Alto Certified Network Security Engineer

Fortigate Network Security Associate

JNCIA - Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate

Solarwinds Certified Administrator

Cisco DNA Center Certified

Microsoft Vizio Certified 

Cisco Meraki Certified

Cybersecurity Certifications: 

CISSP Certified Information Systems Security Professional 

Certified Ethical Hacker

Mitre Attack Certified

OSINT Certified

Linux Certified Admin 

Cloud and Automation Certifications: 

Azure Certified Administrator

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Splunk Enterprise Certified Administrator

AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified

GCP Google Cloud Professional Architect

VM Certifications: 

VMWare Certified Administrator

Microsoft Hyper-V Powershell Certified

Certified Windows Server 2022

A+ Certification

Objective: 

Network Engineer/Network Cybersecurity Engineer - Seeking a full time position that I 

will be able to utilize my professional skills and experience, people skills knowledge to 

benefit a professional company or organization. 

Vantiv 

Houston, TX

Title: Network Engineer

November 2016 to Dec 2024

Job Description: Resolved network issues on the internal network regarding network problems.

Configure, Manage & Install Cisco Routers and Switches (NAT, ACL, IPsla Tracking, BGP, OSPF, HSRP (Vlan’s & QoS) 

Configure, Manage & Install Palo Alto Routers & Switches

Configure, Manage & Install Fortigate/Fortinet Routers & Switches

Configure Point to Point/Multipoint IPSec VPN’s

Vantiv is a large financial services company providing credit card terminals to different types of businesses. I worked on the internal network configure, troubleshoot, manage install for cisco, palo alto, fortigate/fortinet. 

Configure, Manage AWS and Microsoft Azure 

Configure, Manage AWS Security group deployment using Terraform

Configure, Manage identity and access management (IAM) in cloud environments

Hostcopper.com 

Web Hosting and Web Design

Houston,TX

Title: Owner 

September 2015 to Present 

Job Description: Director of sales business & marketing

Customer relations and product development

Initiated and ran all prospective client meetings

Closed deals on corporations individuals and businesses. 

Closed deals on small to medium sized businesses. 

Gfa Computer Systems 

Houston, TX

Title: System Admin/Onsite IT Support

November 2014 to September 2015

Owner: Carlos Gonzalez

Job Description: On site it support supporting law offices, dentists office to small business customers. Windows Server 2008/2012 

Active Directory

Windows hyper v

Vmware 

Network Cabling

Network printers network troubleshooting and software/hardware on computers. 

I also supported large ships out in the gulf, assisted the ships with server support/network issues and hardware/software support. 

Daily Operations and Experience: 

A typical day working at gfa would be driving site to site all over houston. Fixing whatever the customer wants. If we needed to fix their server or support their computers hardware or software, network printers, or networking issues. We would work on it. At gfa we covered everything related to information technology. We also supported ships out in the gulf. You would be at a customers location and the boss might say you need to go to Galveston and get on a ship fixing the ships computers. We would work on the ship until the job is done. There was some late nights we had to work. 

I ran cabling for a new dentist office setup in sugar land tx. We also setup the server for dental office software. I have also ran cable for a warehouse and setup ip cameras and configured the ip camera system. 

Web Easy Hosting

Houston,TX

Title: Technical Support

August 2013 to January 2014

Supervisor: Jeff Schultz

Job Description: Supported web hosting customers through phone, live chat and email. 

I assisted customers with web hosting questions, web design and outlook trouble. 

Daily Operations and Experience: 

This position I was working from home. I supported customers questions for the web easy website builder software. I answered customers questions for setting up email on outlook. 

Logix Communications

Houston,TX

Title: Network Engineer

June 2009 to June 2013

Supervisor: Caliss Isabelle

Job Description: Support users internet service. Resolved any customer issues regarding network problems. I supported t1 customers. I worked with all the major routers and protocols.

Configure & Manage Cisco Routers (1800,1900,2800,2900,3600,7200 series), Cisco Catalyst Switches, Cisco ASA5500 Series Appliances (NAT, ACL, IPsla Tracking, BGP, HSRP

(Vlan’s & QoS)

DNAC & SDN

Install & Manage Cisco ASA5500 Series Appliances

L2L IPsec VPN, SSL VPN, ACL’s, Advanced NAT)

Install & Manage SonicWall TZ & NSA Series Appliances

Install & Manage Brocade Switches 

Install & Manage Meraki Routers

Install & Manage Fortigate Switches

Configure & Install indoor & outdoor Cisco Aironet AP’s

Configure Point to Point/Multipoint IPSec VPN’s

Netstar Telecommunications 

Houston,TX

Title: Network Engineer

June 2008 to July 2009

Supervisor: Bill Jones

Job Description: Resolved any customer issues regarding network problems. 

Configure & Manage Cisco ASA Appliances (NAT, ACL, IPsla Tracking, BGP, OSPF, HSRP

(Vlan’s & QoS)

Monitor and manage Adtran firewall/router and switches

Terminate Cables to Cisco ASA Appliances in Datacenter 

Yahoo! Web Hosting

Convergys

Houston,TX 

Title: Technical Support

October 2006 to November 2007

Supervisor: Melvin Wilson

Job Description: Resolved any customer issues, or any questions with there

web sites and web hosting, or mail server issues. I supported small business products and services. 

Everyone's Internet Datacenter 

Houston,TX

Title: Network Administrator

November 2005 to April 2006

Supervisor: Aamir 

Job Description: Monitoring and maximizing network performance

Evaluating network performance

Design Network Topology

Order Equipment

Education

Tomball College Tomball, Texas G.E.D.

SPECIAL SKILLS & TRAINING:

CYBER SECURITY

MITRE ATTACK

SPLUNK

SDN / SD-WAN / DMVPN

WLAN

ACS / ISE

DNAC

SDA

23 certifications 

senior network engineer

business professional