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Cisco•
6 years experience
Steven Lee
System Administrator → Senior Network Engineer
LandedCisco•Senior Network Engineer•$175,000 + $35,000 bonus
68 → 89
Resume Score
2 → 6
Interviews
75 minutes
Time to Improve
Background
Industry
Networking / Infrastructure
Experience
6 years
Location
San Jose, CA
The Challenge
Before Resume Scorer
Applications20
Interviews2
Interview Rate10%
Timeline4 months
Main Pain Points
- Resume showed network administration, not engineering
- Missing cloud networking and software-defined infrastructure
- No network automation and programmability examples
- Positioned as admin, not engineer
The Solution
1
Modern Networking
Before
Configured switches, routers, firewalls
After
Software-defined networking: Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, network virtualization, cloud networking (AWS VPC, GCP Anthos)
Impact
Modernized from physical networking to SDN
2
Network Automation
Before
Manual configuration and troubleshooting
After
Automated network provisioning: Ansible, Python, Netconf, reduced config time from days to minutes
Impact
Showed network automation and programmability
3
Architecture & Scale
Before
Managed network for 500 employees
After
Designed global network: 50+ sites, 100K+ endpoints, WAN optimization, 99.999% uptime
Impact
Demonstrated enterprise network architecture
The Results
After Resume Scorer
Applications15
Interviews6
Interview Rate40%
Timeframe3 weeks
Interview Rate Increase
+300%
Increased from 10% to 40%
Landed Job
Cisco•Senior Network Engineer•$175,000 + $35,000 bonus
"I was a sysadmin who happened to manage networks. Resume Scorer helped me show I'm a network engineer who architects and automates infrastructure—that's what Cisco hired me for."
— Steven Lee, Senior Network Engineer at Cisco
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