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Greg Wight

Greg Wight

Denver, CO

gregwight@gmailcom

+1-(720)-515-6707

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Professional Qualifications

JNCIS-SP Jul 2012
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist - Service Provider
JNCIA Jun 2012
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
CCIP Apr 2009
Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional
CCNA Oct 2007
Cisco Certified Network Associate

Education

University of Oxford - St. Anne's College

Oct 2000 - Jun 2004

MEng in Engineering Science - Class 2:1

Principal Network Engineer

A passionate engineer with a deep understanding of IT infrastructure and an innate ability to grasp complex topics quickly.

An eloquent communicator and critical thinker capable of enthusing both technologists and business leaders alike.

Equally at home resolving high-visibility operational issues or architecting solutions to meet business challenges.

Adaptable, approachable, confident and influential.  A highly valuable asset to any team.

Key Skills

  • Proficient Python and Go developer with an excellent knowledge of automation and orchestration tools such as Ansible and Rundeck, along with infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform and Cloudformation.
  • Expert knowledge of Cisco, F5, Fortinet, Checkpoint, McAfee, and Juniper hardware platforms, VMWare virtualisation technologies, and all major public cloud platforms : AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Expert knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), VPN technologies (DMVPN, IPSEC, GRE), firewalling, load-balancing, and switching (spanning-tree, Nexus VPC).
  • Solid systems administration skills with a focus on Red Hat / CentOS based OS architectures, along with an acute understanding of various monitoring and management tools such as Solarwinds.

Career History

Pearson Education Logo
Nov 2012
  
Nov 2024
  • Principal Engineer - Infrastructure, Hosting, & Network Operations
    Jul 2016Nov 2024
    • Primary architect of Pearson's strategic hybrid-cloud platform, providing fully automated overlay connectivity between all major public cloud providers and Pearson's global data-centres & campus networks.
    • Core member of the network technical change approval board, and strong proponent of DevOps methodologies, agile working practices, automation, and orchestration.
    • Founding member of Pearson's Technical Design Authority group, networking technical lead, and routing & switching subject-matter expert.
    • Responsible for day-to-day incident recovery, proactive service improvement, and ultimate point of contact for all network related escalations.
  • Senior Engineer - Global Network Services Design
    Jan 2013Jul 2016
    • Chair of the Global Network Services Technical Design Authority group, responsible for providing oversight and guidance on all network standards, policies, designs and strategy.
    • Lead engineer for Pearson's global deployment of Prolexic/Akamai DDoS mitigation solution and McAfee IPS platform to all strategic data-centres.
    • Designed and implemented connectivity for Pearson's China offices and data-centres, utilising a ZeroTrust campus topology and DMVPN overlay, coupled with an MPLS backhaul to Hong Kong in order to mitigate in-country Internet restrictions of common global business applications.
  • Senior Engineer - Communications Technology Operations
    Nov 2012Jan 2013
    • Planned and implemented network changes to fulfil network service requests from Pearson's business units.
    • Provided operational support for Pearson's campus networks and data-centre estate.
CACI Logo
May 2012
 
Nov 2012
  • Network Specialist - Vodafone UK
    May 2012Nov 2012
    • Worked as part of a fixed-price project team on site at Vodafone UK, providing a design and consultancy function for the Network Services Unit of Vodafone Group.
    • Responsible for ensuring all designs and implementation plans met with the approval of the appropriate project stakeholders and key solution owners within the Vodafone Group.
    • Liaised with teams in multiple European countries during design scoping and change implementation phases to ensure a global consistency across all Vodafone core IP networks.
    • Worked unsociable hours to implement project changes to Vodafone's core MPLS network, ensuring minimal disruption to mobile subscribers.
RM Education Logo
Apr 2006
 
May 2012
  • Senior Systems Engineer - ISP Operations
    Mar 2008May 2012
    • Worked as part of a team of 3 engineers to provide 24x7, 4th line support and operational development of RM's ISP network and Linux based Internet application hosting environments.
    • Managed RM's presence at the London Internet Exchanges LINX and LONAP, along with negotiating and maintaining private peering arrangements with companies such as Google, Akamai and the BBC.
    • Designed and implemented an Internet services platform based on Cisco 6500, VSS and MLPLS technology to aggregate connectivity for over 2,500 connected establishments supporting over 1,000,000 users.
    • Worked as lead engineer within a project team responsible for the remote rebuild of RM's RedHat Linux web-proxy server estate.
    • Developed tools to migrate legacy IOS firewalls to Cisco ASA appliances, which were subsequently used to convert, reconcile and optimise a 4,000 line IOS configuration to ASA format that was deployed without issue to a production hosting environment.
  • Systems Engineer - IHG Operations
    Aug 2007Mar 2008
    • Worked as part of a team of 10 engineers in a 24x7, 3rd line support environment.
    • Responsible for maintaining Internet connectivity and services to over 8,000 educational establishments.
    • Winner of a company-wide Customer Satisfaction award for “Going the Extra Mile”.
  • Engineer - IfL Deliver UK
    Aug 2006Aug 2007
    • Responsible for delivering Internet products, such as ADSL/ISDN/Broadband connectivity, DNS hosting, web hosting, Email and web filtering.
ESP Systex
Oct 2005
 
Apr 2006
Senior Bureau Operator
RM Education
Sep 2004
 
Sep 2005
Project Coordinator