Carla Dunagan

Experience

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  Creative Storage Systems, Inc.

  Aug 1995 - Dec 1997

  CAD Draftsman/IT Coordinator

  Created drawings in AutoCAD used for pre-sales, assembly, and marketing materials. Partnered with marketing manager to create new drawings and verbiage for company newsletters and trade show marketing materials.Maintained company server and workstations; troubleshot workstation issues and phone system issues.

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  Computer Business Solutions

  Sept 1998 - Jun 1999

  Systems Engineer

  Installed hardware and software in Windows NT and Novell NetWare systems, troubleshot workstation issues at multiple sites around Metro-Atlanta, delivered and set up rental workstations, administered and maintained servers and workstations at a mail order retail site.

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  Compaq/Hewlett-Packard

  Nov 2000 - Dec 2005

  Network Engineer

  Lead a team of four people designing, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Microsoft lab networks including VPN tunnels, GRE tunnels, OSPF, BGP, and ACLs. Decommissioned old networks and devices and migrated over 2,000 hosts to new Private network IP block.Lead engineer for updating naming convention for over 300 lab devices when Microsoft’s Corporate online services and MSN divisions merged. Updated all OSPF configurations across Microsoft Campus labs in order to bring them in line with new standards.Team Lead for five network engineers in Microsoft corporate Data Centers (online services). Installed new network configurations/devices and troubleshot all switch and router issues within the data centers. Show less

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  Microsoft

  Jan 2006 - May 2010

  Senior Network Engineer

  Managed all Public and RFC1918 IP space for Microsoft's Internet division. In this role, I coordinated a shrinking supply of IPv4 Public space with a rapidly growing demand. I made the determination of which projects were a priority in order to arrange availability of space accordingly. I maintained documentation of current space and future space planning.Authored the detailed IP Best Practices Guide for engineers, Project Managers, and managers. Created documentation for training new engineers and PMs for IP recovery projects. Maintained a SharePoint site for all IP allocation and IP recovery documentation.Designed and implemented new networks for multiple product groups under the MSN umbrella. Created designs for new networks in Visio, presented designs in front of a peer review panel, implemented networks, and troubleshot issues with newly implemented networks. Created detailed Visio drawings to map individual lab networks and the campus-wide lab network. Show less

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  The Evening Mews

  Mar 2011 - now

  Owner

  Blogging at http://eveningmews.blogspot.com

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  AOL

  Aug 2012 - Mar 2014

  Network Security Engineer

  Management and clean-up of ACLs, creating tooling to manage future cleanup of ACLs, updating and troubleshooting Juniper firewalls, Administration of Riverbed Cascade system

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  CSE Consulting/Tribune Media

  Apr 2014 - Dec 2014

  Senior Network Analyst

  Troubleshooting network issues, updating Cisco network devices with standard SNMP, NTP, syslog, Radius, and ACL configurations. Managing group membership in Active Directory to allow access to tools and devices. Adding devices to Windows 2012 Network Policy Server (Radius Server). Creating new ACLs to protect WAN routers. Analyzing data from Splunk, Riverbed Cascade, OpNet VNE Server, and OpNet AppSensor Xpert. Keeping internal Wiki up to date with hundreds devices for 42 TV stations and 7 other locations. Show less

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  Purchasing Power

  Jan 2018 - Oct 2020

  Network Security Engineer