Yifan (Eric) Wang

423 Horizon Dr. Edison, NJ 08817
Tel: (732) 287-4942 E-mail: yifanwang@yahoo.com

Systems engineer with a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering, Cisco CCNP certificate, and 6-year of hands-on experience in system testing, network engineering, deployment, support, troubleshooting and documentation of complex IP networking systems for Cisco, Lucent, AT&T, and Bellcore.

eSpeed, New York, NY Feb, 2002 to Present

Network Manager

Cisco Systems, Wall, New Jersey March, 2000 to June, 2001

Project Engineer, Customer Advocacy

• Designed, built, documented, and lab-tested a high-availability network architecture to meet a customer's critical content delivery requirement. The architecture included redundant Cisco CSS 11000 content switches (Arrowpoint), Catalyst 6500s, Metro 1500 optical multiplexer and 7200 routers running VRRP and HSRP protocols.

• Participated in the development of a TransPath turnkey solution for Cisco BPX & MGX switches to enable consistent field deployment for Cisco partners. Authored the Field Implementation Plan, the Staging Plan, the Acceptance Test Plan, and the Provisioning Guide, which became deployment guidelines for field engineers. (Documentation was published on http://www.cisco.com/.) Performed all verification tasks in the lab. Received two company awards.
  
• Reviewed proposed design of AT&T Latin America Ethernet over ATM network. Identified design limitations and open issues, which were captured in a Risk Analysis and presented to the Cisco account team.

• Provided technical consulting services to PathNet during its deployment of the SS7 soft-switch VSC3000 and gateways. Conducted Operation Readiness Audit and helped PathNet engineers develop a provisioning process to reduce the time and errors during service activation.

Lucent Technologies, Iselin, New Jersey November, 1999 to February, 2000

Project Engineer, NetCare Professional Services (formerly INS)

• Provided in development of the Citibank data center which included various BGP design alternatives and load-balancing using CEF switching.

• Participated in Lucent Wavestar DWDM optical system installation services for Qwest Communication.

• Provided Tier Three support for the Lucent PSAX ATM concentrator and the Copper Mountain DSL concentrator.

AT&T, Middletown, New Jersey November, 1996 to October, 1999

Senior Network Engineer, IP Network Engineering and Support, WorldNet Internet Backbone

• Provided Tier Three 24x7 technical support for network infrastructure and customer problem resolution for an IP network of 200 routers covering 15 U.S. cities. Responsibilities included trouble-shooting of ATM & Frame Relay PVCs failure; EIGRP, OSPF & BGP routing problems in enterprise customers' networks; security incident response such as SYN Attack; router hardware failure; and BGP policy routing problems.

• Assisted enterprise customers in designing and implementing their Internet routing strategies using various approaches such as BGP multi-homing, EIGRP, OSPF & BGP integration, load-balancing, IP address allocation issues, and traffic flow control policy.

• Serving as Network Administrator, managed, installed, and configured a Backbone Integration testbed that included seven 12000 GSR routers, twenty 7500 routers, Catalyst 6500 & 5500 switches, PIX firewalls, Lucent CBX500 ATM switches, Smartbits & IXIA traffic generators, and CSU/DSUs.

• Functioned as project leader of Cisco IOS Upgrade Testing, which included validation of new IOS features based on current production requirement, and fixes for severe software bugs inherent in the previously deployed IOS. Authored a test plan and executed tests for 7500 and 12000 GSR routers. Test cases included RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP4 routing; policy filtering; new BGP features; CEF switching; and VIP2-50 and various Port Adapters.

• Developed technical guidelines for operation and field engineers, such as IOS software deployment, new hardware upgrade, and the 12000 router’s migration procedure. Developed and monitored project time-lines.

• Participated in the IP QoS testing and trial support, which lead to the new "Enhanced IP service" offering.

Bellcore (Bell Communications Research), Red Bank, New Jersey June, 1995 to September, 1996

Engineer, Professional Services

• Developed the Design Requirements and the Configuration Guide for the BellSouth Internet dial-up Service Network.

• Aided Pacific Bell in understanding the issues regarding the transition from IPv4 to IPv6. Analyzed and documented the new features of IPv6, its impact on the Internet and adoption strategy.

• Candidate of CCIE (Routing & Switching), CCNP and CCNA

• My discovery of a mistake in the implementation of the "BGP Dampening" feature in Cisco IOS software was cited by the RIPE (Reseaux IP Europeens) publication in Europe in 1999.
• Recipient of "AT&T Class A" award in 1998 and 1999.

1996-1998 Columbia University New York, New York
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering

1990-1995 City College of New York New York, New York
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (Magna Cum Laude)