WELCOME TO MY NEW SITE
My name is Mark David Barrera from Phoenix, and I am a Cisco Certified Network Engineer who started in networking back in 2004 (LinkedIn with photo).
I have also earned an Electrical Engineering degree from the Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University.
SPEEDY NETWORKS
I have worked with hundreds of engineers over the past 20 plus years, and befriended more than a few. I am now following their advice and have started my
own network business, Speedy Networks. My website is hosted on my business web domain at speedynets.com.
Please take a look at my Speedy Networks website and click the email link in the footer to make suggestions or correct errors. Thank you in advance.
CCNA AND CCNP COURSES
I attended two CCNA and three CCNP courses for $15,200. Four were with renowned instructor Jeremy Cioara. Click the course links in the left menu for
details.
Interesting college course comparison. Colleges meet 2 hours per week for 16 weeks for a total of 32 hours. Cisco classes meet 8 hours for 5 days for a
total of 40 hours.
- CCNA - 2676 pages - 10 days
- CCNP - 3814 pages - 15 days
- Total of 6490 pages - 25 days
VETERAN ASSISTANCE
I am a US Army veteran and a member of American Legion Post 2 in Tempe, Arizona. I meet veterans
from time to time that express an interest in using their veteran educational benefits to become Network Engineers.
If you are a veteran who would like to speak with someone who is a Network Engineer (and an Electrical Engineer) about engineering careers, please leave me
a message at (602) 788-1338. Thank You for Serving !
CISCO CERTIFICATIONS
My current Cisco certifications that expire in 2016:
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LINKEDIN MONTHLY MEETING
I own several LinkedIn groups with over 400 members that are dedicated to Cisco and F5 networking. Engineers and recruiters associated with the Phoenix
Cisco community are welcome to attend our monthly meetings at Rula Bula on Mill in Tempe.
Click the LinkedIn Phoenix Cisco link in the left menu or here to go to my Phoenix LinkedIn Groups page
for further group and meeting information..
LINKEDIN JOB POSTINGS
Recruiters - post your Cisco related jobs to my Phoenix Cisco Job Search group. Click here for my easy
to follow instructions.
AMEX DATA CENTER
AMEX Data Center Contract Completed
I have completed the project that I began with HP in April of 2011 to create the 509,000 sq foot Cisco Nexus-based $1 billon DC2015 data center for AMEX in
Greensboro.
Lead Engineer, manager, and technical resource for the Nexus infrastructure for the Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Greensboro AMEX data center server
environments.
- Configured Nexus devices - over 600 devices
- Configured Catalyst / F5 / Appliances - 50 devices
- HP design engineers - 20 original network engineers
- HP design engineers average - 4 months to exit
- My HP engineer contract - 18 months (AMEX record)
- My days per week average - 7 days per week
- 800 overtime hours - equivalent to 20 normal weeks
LIMELIGHT NETWORKS
Content Delivery Contract Completed
Completed my contract. Worked seven days a week for 21 months to document and verify the configuration and operation of the Limelight Networks global Content Delivery Network (CDN).
I am very grateful for having had the opportunity to work on the production and development global infrastructure.
It has been quite an adventure as I have now seen far past routers and switches. Global content delivery is quite involved, and the
technologies are very complex.
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