The Value of Mike Carson
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Welcome! I provide all the tools, guidance, and support my employers need to succeed in their respective markets by using technology. Take a look around and explore the various experiences I have in this industry.
Bio
Since 2006, I’ve been growing and applying my knowledge in the field of technology specifically with an emphasis in networking. I am Cisco CCNA Certified and working on CCNP-ENCOR. At this time, I have had the opportunity to grow and stay passionate in the technology sector to gather experience with...and this is displayed in further detail in below section : Networking - Campus, Data Center, WAN, No Cloud Networking but Cloud Connectors, Enterprise Wireless - Security - NAC/Port Police, AAA, Palo Alto - Panorama, PAN-OS, PCCET - Application Delivery Controllers - F5, Citrix - Automation - BIGIQ, DNAC, CPI, ADM - Scripting - VSCode, Azure DEVOPS, PostMan, GitHub - SAAS Application Performance - and End User Experience - Thousand Eyes. I use logic, rationality, syslogs and packet captures to guide my decisions.
Technologies
I have gained experience with the following technologies below.
Foundations
TCP/IP, OSI, Logic, Rationality, Syslogs, TCP Dumps, Decrypted Packet Captures/
Wireshark. Visio and OmniGraffle Documentation and Diagrams
Network - Route/Switch
Layer1 - Layer 3. GRT/VRF, Routing - Null, Static, Dynamic. No IS-IS. IPSec/GRE/DMVPN/
VXLAN.
802.11 - Proficient in Infrastructure but not performance testing. QOS, Netflow, AVC, NBar
Load Balancing - Application and DNS
F5 LTM VEs- Application Delivery Controller - Viprion Chassis Administration
Citrix Netscaler - Netscaler VEs
SSL-Offloading, Reverse Proxy Enterprise Experience
GTM/BIGIPDNS authoritative of ADC presented Virtual Servers Host A Records in two disperate data centers.
Network Management/ Automation, Scripting and Monitoring
BIGIQ, DNAC, CPI, ADM, DCNM. Python, VSCode, GitHub, Azure DevOps. TCL. Data Formats - XML, Json, YaML. SaaS App-Performance Monitoring. - Thousand Eyes. Testing: Web, Page Load, Transaction, DNS Response Time, Wait Time
Future Pursuits
Too Many : CCNP - ENCOR, PCCET, PCNSA, Ansible, Docker, Rancher , Proxmox, Meraki, SD-Access, ACI, SD-WAN, NSX, KERI, Let's Encrypt, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Kali, Pineapple, MetaSploit. OpenAI/ChatGPT. EICAR. MS Co-Pilot
