Nick Ellson
Network Engineer IV at Columbia Sportswear
Tigard, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolNick Ellson is a seasoned network engineer with 11+ years in enterprise networking, currently serving as Network Engineer IV at Columbia Sportswear. He holds CCIE #20018-Emeritus, CWNA, and Azure Fundamentals certifications, and specializes in firewalls, routing and switching, and wireless administration. His career spans public and private sectors, including long tenures at Portland General Electric and hands-on network work for the Bureau of Land Management where he progressed from Novell administration to advanced Cisco credentials. He also taught CCNA/CCNP courses at Portland Community College, demonstrating a knack for translating complex networking concepts into practical skills. Based in Tigard, Oregon, Nick blends deep technical expertise with instructional experience and a history of evolving legacy systems into modern Cisco-based infrastructures. Colleagues value his steady, certification-backed approach to resilient, secure network design and operations.
11 years of coding experience
BAS, Automated Manufacturing, BAS, Automated Manufacturing at ITT Technical Institute
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Github Skills (73)
automation9
docker9
simplify8
home-assistant8
iot8
connections8
netmiko7
napalm7
esp326
ssh6
firmware6
surveillance6
python6
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debugging6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
42Firehawk/Arduino-Knowledge-Bowl
Jan 2017 - Sep 2018
Contributions:7 commits, 8 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 8 months
nickolas1969/python-play
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
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