SUMMARY:

• 16+ years experience in Infrastructure Network and Security Architect in Enterprise Network. Engineering and implementing state of the art information solutions facilitating corporate growth. Diversified and progressive experience in Information Technology in Various industry experiences Telecom, Financial, and Manufacturing

  Technical experts in design and deployment of high - performance Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing environment. Tremendous amount of hands on technical project management knowledge. Experienced, versatile senior technical asset with a broad range of highly evolved skills from team building to high-level technology solution implementations.

  Architected and helped implement wide and local area networks for voice/data networks, wireless networks and content delivery networks. Project managed global data center setups and infrastructure enhancements, design and support large web hosting infrastructures, performed capacity planning, provisioning and product assessments. Demonstrated ability to deliver complex projects on time and on budget.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Security: Cisco - Cisco ASA firewalls and LNS using IPSEC and L2TP protocols, Out of Band Management. NTP (Network Time Protocol). Central Authentication. Cisco PIX, ASA firewall, Cisco ACLs, Radius/TACAS Server (Cisco Secure Access Server)Nokia - Checkpoint Firewall R75 and R76.IPSEC Tunnel - L2-VPNs(IPsec, GRE over IPsec, Route Based IPsec, Policy Based IPsec)

Network Monitoring/ Analyzing Tools: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIPv2, MPLS (LDP, RSVP), QOS, Multicast((PIM SM/DM/SSM), ipv4 and ipv6 (Subnetting, Supernetting)(RPVST+, RSTP, PVSTP+)FC, FCoE, NPV, NPIV, FSPF, iSCSI.Network Sniffer from Network General, LAN, WAN and Protocol Analyzer, Smartbits 6000, Web Avalanche, Gigamon, OPNET, Ethernet 10/100/1000 and Fiber

Network Devices: Cisco UCS(Unified Computing Services) - 6296UP, 6248UP, MDS 9500 Cisco Routers and SwitchesArista - 7050T, 7150S Load Balancer- F5 (4000s, 2000s, 8900, 6900, 6400, and 3600), Brocade (1000), Foundry (GLE/GTE) and Cisco ACE-30 module. Nortel Routers- ASN, ARN, BLN, BCN Routers. Nortel 8600 L3 Switches, Nortel Baystack (425,450) L2 Switches. Juniper Routers- and Switches- ESX 4500, M40e, T320, M20, M10 and M5. EMC/NetApp - VNX/NFS.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Technical Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Cisco UCS - Managed private cloud design/testing completed, Working on customer deployment in the IDC.
• Working as a Sr. Technical Architect for series of projects and providing end to end technical solution for hosting customers as a service.
• Subject matter expertise (SME) for any issues related to Routing, Switching, Firewall, L4-7 Load balancing (F5 Big IP LTM & GTM, Cisco CSS and Cisco ACE Blade), Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS 6200 Series), Virtualization, VMware (ESX), VMotion and Cloud Computing.
• Manage Technical Implementation for Vendor Products and Managed Technical Infrastructure teams to support these functions.
• Acting as single point of contact for multiple vendors, business units, and Information Technology partners, executing different program management processes and disciplines in the areas of Escalation Management, Change Management.
• Leading a team of 5+ SME’s and Technical Architects and support engineers (Both Offshore and Onsite).Hired, trained, and supervised team of technical support personnel, and business analysts on AT&T quality process.
• Design and support high availability, secure, fully scalable, network infrastructures. Support for Virtualized End-to-End Network Infrastructure
• Designing, Configuring and Troubleshooting Network Gears, firewalls, Load Balancer, Routing protocols, L2-VPNs.
• Managing Technical Implementation for Vendor Products and managed Technical Infrastructure teams to support these functions.
• Project Management experience with proven ability to identify, analyze and solve problems.
• Creating Project Plans from high level perspective and participated in work breakdown structure (WBS) sessions to achieve milestones of Infrastructure project, Application development projects and Ongoing Hosting Operations projects.
• Managed disaster recovery planning documents (BIA: Business Impact Analysis) for all Servers/Applications in a hosting environment.
• Strong understandings of DCI (Data Center Interconnect) using Flexlink.
• Good understandings of SAN Technologies (FC, FCoE, NPV, NPIV, iSCSI).
• Managing multi-phase, multi-track projects spanning 3 to 9 months in duration. Responsible for defining project scope; identify, manage and control changes to scope, reviewing project risks and establishing procedures to mitigate risks.
• Achieved high degree of client satisfaction by connecting with customers; helped customers attain achievable development plans, schedules, and project outcomes, ensuring success with complex IT hosting projects for Virtualization, Windows and UNIX server hosting.
• Configuring Cisco UCS 6296UP and 6248UP FI's and providing a private cloud infrastructure for the clients. Currently working on the Cisco’s Network implementation in VMWare environment such as VM-FEX, Nexus 1000v, ASA1000v.
• Configuring Native Fiber Channel (FCoE) for Storage devices connectivity.
• Network Architectrole to design and support high availability, secure, fully scalable, network infrastructures. Tier-3 support for Virtualized End-to-End Network Infrastructure for Hosting and Cloud Computing.
• Design and implementation of the MPLS VPN, Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) for Content Networking Services, IPSEC/GRE Multi Site VPN. Involved in design of state of art Low latency trading infrastructure design architecture support.
• Production Tier-3/4 support, did customization based on applications and Signatures. Tier-3 support for SSL VPN, Acceleration and s installation.
• Re-engineering of the web-hosting infrastructure for the migration of the infrastructure to a new datacenter. All the Internet infrastructure and Web servers are configured with High Availability and Load balancing.
• Design and of Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000 Series configured in VPC providing 10Gig connectivity to ESX host and Storage devices (SAN,NAS,VNX).
• Design and support for Catalyst 6500 Switch architecture to provide high performance, availability, security, and scalability to allow companies to deliver content to their customers efficiently and effectively. Provide L2 Switching, L3 Routing, load balancing (Cisco ACE), FWSM solution in single chassis architecture.
• Knowledge of various Virtualized server platforms: SUN Solaris, UNIX, LINUX, Windows, VMware, and IBM Blade Centers.

Network Analyst (Network Operation Center)

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco routers 7500,6500,4500,3500 and 2600 Series and also working with Multilayer switches (6500) using Cat IOS.
• Experienced in network design and implementation. In-depth knowledge of Enterprise core IP routing protocols including RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of Nortel routers - ASN, ARN and BLN/BCN series connected on wan topology using frame relay using 2Mbps pipe with ISDN as a backup.
• Providing Network connectivity around 1500 nodes on WAN and IBM Blade Center servers on switched LAN consisting of Catalyst 6509 with dual redundancy used for Trading for end users.
• IOS upgrades of Cisco routers, switches using TFTP Server and Sun Solar wind Server.
• Responsible for the management and implementation of the technical infrastructure and relocation of affected employees to Disaster Recovery site.
• Involved in the design for the Disaster Recovery site, installation and configuration of Cisco 7500, Catalyst 6500, 4000 routers and 2900 switches.
• Configuration of VLAN for security purpose and apply Trunking and Intervlan routing for Layer 2 and Layer 3 devices.
• Installation, configuration, operations and management of Cisco pix firewalls 5.15 and 5.25 using Cisco pix device manager.
• Presently working on the EMS Management System Software Netcool and Remedy Trouble tickets System.
• Configuration and troubleshooting with VC1000 (Telenex), CSU/DSU, Adtran and coordinating with different vendor (MCI, AT&T and Sprint) for troubleshooting the frame relay and the point-to-point circuit.
• Involved in troubleshooting the hardware of Cisco and Nortel routers and also coordinating with Cisco and the Nortel vendor to troubleshoot the problem.
• Configuration of NT/DOS sniffers for troubleshooting the network and tuning the bandwidth utilization, slowness for end users on WAN and LAN, also for any DOS attacks.
• Configuration and troubleshooting with Cisco Cabletron (8600) used for connectivity of IBM trading Servers.
• Configuration and troubleshooting with Nortel Accelar 1200 used for connectivity of Main Frame servers, AS400 servers and the UNIX servers.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and maintenance of Cisco routers 7200, 6513, using different routing protocol, defining policies using ACL, route summarization. IOS upgrades of Cisco routers, switches using TFTP Server and Sun Solar wind Server. Configuration of VLAN for security purpose and apply Trunking and Intervlan routing for Layer 2 and Layer 3 devices.Interacted with customers on day-to-day basis to understand new requirements and problems and to provide on-site network design consultation.
• Involved in operation and maintenance of WAN also responsible for defining the security policies for the enterprise wide network. Planning, installation, configuration, optimization and support for Microsoft Windows NT / 2000 Networks. Migration of large-scale Windows NT servers in the domain architecture to Windows 2000 Active Directory Services. Responsible for the security of all web servers in DMZ and the Intranet, providing web services to intranet users and external users. Involved in the study of WAN links bandwidth requirement depending upon the number of users at each location and finalizing the hardware requirements for the servers at each location.
• Installation, configuration, operations and management of Checkpoint Firewall 2000 in failover mode. Hardening of the Operating Systems security for all Windows 2000 and Solaris Servers in the DMZ and the Intranet LAN. Analyzing network traffic and performing Network Audit using LAN Sniffer tools and MRTG. Configuring Access Lists on router for security and troubleshooting internal and external Routing issues.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed a network for Internal clients using Cisco routers, running routing protocols OSPF, RIP and ISIS for controlling out of band traffic for management of all the Transport Devices (Nortel Devices) and the EC1 servers, OMPFX terminals, mate clients for Switches. Designed a network for external clients using Juniper technology providing services like L2 and L3 VPN (Kompella and Martini methods), Leased Lines, provisioning E1 on channelized STM cards.
• Traffic engineering in the network using RSVP and LDP protocols for signaling and reservation of bandwidth and MPLS protocols for security using constraint routing.
• Involved in studying and analyzing the purpose of network and the applications to be used and regarding application growth in future and effect on the bandwidth requirements.
• Responsible for backups and restoring of data on periodical basis and planning the redundancy for different environments.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco AS5300 range of access servers, for providing dial-in access for the dial-up customers connected back to back with Cisco 7206 VXR as a VPN termination router.
• Designed the complete sizing document, denoting the estimated bandwidth requirements.
• Involved in technical network requirement for the WAN setup and propose campus network design. Recommend appropriate network technologies (Leased line, Frame-relay etc.) and also take care of contingencies, future expansion and suggest backup network solution using alternate technologies (ISDN etc.)
• Responsible for IP Address allocation for effective route summarization to save bandwidth.
• Implemented Reliance’s Data Telemetry Network based on Cisco Routers where in all the Transport Equipment, Switches- Wireless and Wireline, STP, Access Devices management traffic carried on the same network upto the centralized NOC wherein the respective DATA gets distributed to the various team for management.
• Installed and configured Juniper Routers acting as a Backbone Network for Reliance Enterprise carrying the Customer Traffics for different Services
• Installed and configured Cisco VXR-7404 and 5400 Series as an ISP setup for Internet services and VPDN Solution for security.
• Involved in implementation, testing and maintenance of VoIP and VoATM for Reliance ILD (International long Distance) projects.
• Involved in ATP (Acceptance test Planning), Physical Installation and LAN cabling. Worked with Cisco in implementing Cisco VoIP and VoATM solution.
• Configured SLT (Cisco 2621), Gatekeeper (7206 VXR), Gateway (AS 5400).
• Involved in maintenance activities including upkeep of PSTN and Internet E1 Links. Testing with VoIP Carriers.
• Monitored health of networking devices like SLT (Cisco 2621), Gatekeeper (7206 VXR), Gateway (AS 5400), Firewall (PIX), Catalyst Switches (Cisco 4003), Provisioning in MGC (PGW220)
• Involved in operations and maintenance activities including upkeep of E1 links to PSTN testing Voice. Fax calls over the ATM network using various codec classes.
• Worked with Transport team for telecommunication Devices DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) and SDH and Sonnet.

System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Dealt with other 3rd party vendors for various Infrastructures needs, responsible for Implementation and troubleshooting of Cisco products like 1800 Routers, 2900 Switches, D - Link Switches for internal LAN connectivity with VLANS.VPN configured for various Clients, e-commerce, Financial, Purchase and

  Share dealing clients. IP-Sec implemented on these links with NAT overloading feature, to also permit encrypted VPN client connections into central site, with wildcard pre-shared keys. Routers configured with access-list for Internet traffic. Local Directors were configured for load balancing the web serversResponsible for maintaining and configuration of Internet Servers and Mail Server on Windows 2000 Server.