About

I am a graduate of Marist College. I work in Computer Networks & Software Development.

I like tech.

Education

Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Masters of Science - Information Systems: Computer Networks and Security May 2020
Bachelor of Science - Information Systems & TechnologyMay 2019
   Minors - Computer Science, Cybersecurity

Seton Hall Prep, West Orange, NJClass of 2015
High School

Experience

National Basketball Association, Secaucus, NJJanuary 2024 - Present
Senior Network Engineer

  • Day to day network operations of the enterprise network.
  • Cisco Catalyst & Meraki Wireless. Juniper Mist.
  • Deployed site-on-wheels for marquee events to transform hotels and arenas into remote offices.
  • Automated provisioning of arena firewalls and switches.
  • Cisco & Arista campus switching.

IBM, Poughkeepsie, NYJune 2018 - January 2024
Network Automation Engineer
  • Day to day network operations. Deployment, management, & support of network switches, routers, firewalls, and servers in seven datacenters around the US
  • Worked with VXLAN and EVPN fabrics on Juniper & Arista switches
  • Assisted in the design and transition from a three-tier data center to a spine/leaf architecture
  • Configured large scale network monitors & alerts such as Zabbix & Nagios
  • Worked with Junos Space SDN controller, Jinja templating, and zero-touch provisioning
  • Built backend scripts for a home-brewed SDN controller for Spine/Leaf zero-touch deployment and management using PyEZ
  • Heavy Netbox automation
  • Started the Systems Group - Global Network Operation Center

Long Beach Township Beach Patrol, LBI, NJJune 2012 – September 2018
Lieutenant, Jetski Operator, Instructor
  • Certified in CPR, Emergency Medical Response, and as a USLA lifeguard
  • Management of day-to-day operations on two-miles of beach with 200,000+ beach patrons annually, 30+ personnel, and operations in emergency situations
  • American Red Cross Emergency Medical Response & CPR Instructor

Marist | IBM Joint Study, Poughkeepsie, NYSeptember 2017 – May 2018
System Administrator, Research Assistant
  • Research PTP (Precision Time Protocol)
    • Baseline research, stress & performance testing
    • Presented at Enterprise Computing Community Conference (June 2018)
    • Published in IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (May 2019)
  • Contributed to NSF grant CC*DNI: 1541384 (SecureCloud).
  • Maintained 80+ servers used for student/faculty research, including ethernet & SAN networks, iSCSI, ESXi clusters, and storage clusters.
  • Overhauled datacenter with multiple x86 servers and storage clusters installation.
  • Implemented a DCIM system and IP management System.
  • Redesigned datacenter ethernet network.

Publications

DeCusatis, C., Lynch, R.M., Kluge, W., Houston, J., Wojciak, P., Guendert, S. (2019). "Impact of Cyberattacks on Precision Time Protocol" IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2019.2918597

Patents

Multi-modal monitoring of links between multiple points. US Patent 12,308,878 B2. Granted May 20, 2025.
Separable, intelligible, single channel voice communication. US Patent 12,255,671 B2, WIPO Patent PCT/EP2024/054509. Granted March 18, 2025.
Verifying a communication channel being open and usable. US Patent 18/126,710. Filed March 27, 2023. Patent pending.
Dynamic time-of-use network address translation (NAT). US Patent 18/205,956. Filed June 5, 2023. Patent pending.

Relevant Classes

  • Advanced Junos Service Provider Routing - AJSPR-V-17.a
  • Junos Service Provider Switching - JSPX-V-18.a



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