SUMMARY

• Close to Sixyears of work experience on different verticals and horizontals of industry standards in Networking (Admin & System Testing).
• Has authored a Cisco Patent on TEMPEffective Routing in Wireless Networks as MANETs, which TEMPhas been approved, and filed with USPTO (CPOL#98556)
• Extensive hands - on experience in installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Cisco Routers and Switches
• Experience in Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching- Cisco Catalyst Switches 6500 series, Virtual switches 1000v
• Experience inLayer 3 routing -Cisco Routers 7200 series, GSR, ASR 9K, CRS
• Expertise in OSI layer model/TCP/IP.
• Extensive noledge and experience of routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF,EIGRP, and BGP
• Good noledge in troubleshooting issues on networking features like VLAN, ACL, QOS, L2VPN, L3VPN, DNS, DHCP, NAT.
• Expertise inIPsub nettingand has worked on various designing, allocating various classes of IP address to a network in teh best manner
• Extensive hands-on experience in working with complex routed LAN and WAN networks, and preparing technical documentation.
• Has configured and deployed number of L2/L3 core and edge features on both IOS-XR and IOS platforms
• Has trained teh New Hire Batch of 2013 in teh Core Routing Group with Networking basis, Networking protocols, basic troubleshooting, IOS XR platform and lab
• Worked with virtual datacenter technologies with VMware building complete datacenter with storage, switches, routers, fabric planes, and blade servers.
• Has configured and deployed number of L2/L3 core and edge features on both IOS-XR and IOS platforms.
• Has excellent Communication Skills, quick learner and good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing: EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing scheme, BGP

Switching: VLAN, inter-VLAN routing, Spanning tree, VTP, PAGP, LACP, Trunk, Ether-channel management features.

LAN Topologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring

Various Features & Services: IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, TFTP and FTP Management, CDP, Frame-relay, PPP, Access Control List (ACL).Knowledge of Networking Topologies and TCP/IP Model

Virtualization: VMWare ESX Cos and Visor, Cisco Nexus 1000v, HyperV

Core Profile: MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, Traffic Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Colorado

Network QA Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Has generated different testing scenarios for new features like BFD, BFDv6, and QOS enhancements for teh software and hardware
• Configuredrouting policies in teh core and edge profiles for system testing
• Router as a virtual machine on a virtual environment with SAN storage on cloud
• Designed specific test cases based on product and feature compatibility with different products
• Has worked on estimation of router hardware requirements for a project, designed testing environment, and documented test cases with results in TIMS
• ConfiguredNAT,PAT, QOS, ACLpolicies.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP to facilitate best routing environment
• DesignOSPFareas for reliable Access Distribution and for Core IP Routing.
• Support teh project manager in planning for projects with resource and lab inventory distribution
• Communicate status to teh project manager to provide completion status of assigned tasks using tools and presentations
• Has trained teh new hire batch in teh lab about teh network setup and basic automation framework including tools used
• Worked in teh lab to set up teh test environment with Cisco routers and line cards
• Provided performance for each testing cycle considering teh quality of teh product and development as compared to customer needs

Environment: Cisco Router IOS, NXOS and IOS XR, and VmWare ESX flavours, along with NetApp SAN storage like FAS EX, Cloud ONTAP

Confidential

Network System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a system test engineer for 2 years with teh Core Routing group on CRS - 1, CRS - 3, CRS -X Router, IOS-XR Platform, with software releases of 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 5.1.0, and 5.1.1, and hardware releases of 140Gig Line card and 400 Gig Line card
• Has configured NAT, ACL, and QOS policies on edge and core profiles on CRS routers
• System Testbed was designed, developed very similar to a customer testbed with scale testing and complete feature coverage as priority for all features in a release
• Has worked in teh lab for setting up teh testbed for each release with new software features and enhancements as per requirements
• Worked on core and edge profiles, which will include features deployed in teh core such as MPLS, Bundles, BFD, MPLS Traffic Engineering Tunnels, and also edge features including L2VPN, L3VPN, QOS, ACL Multicast,
• Has worked on IGP protocols like OSPF, IGRP and EGP protocols like BGP and more. Design and deploy test strategies for teh given features
• Was leading Performance Characterization project as part of teh IOS XR Release, for 4.3.1, 4.3.2 and 5.1.1
• Has trained teh New-Hire batch of 2013 for teh Core Routing Group

Environment: Cisco Router IOS, NXOS and IOS XR, and VmWare ESX flavours, along with automation and scripting languages like TCL, PERL, Shell, CDETS, QDDTS, and PRRQ

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Nexus 1000 Virtual Layer 2 Switch operating inside VMware ESX Hypervisor.
• Manual Upgrade Testing with patches and updates from VMware Virtualization software releases and Cisco Nexus1000v releases.
• Understanding of Network Virtualization from teh Datacenter point of view with one point of control of all hardware and networking management
• Worked on various products of VMware like vSphere client, ESX, power shell, vCLI and VMware features like Vmotion, vSphere HA, vSphere DRS, Fault tolerance, vSphere DPM, Cluster, Resource pools
• Assist teh Customer Support Engineer community by providing maintenance solutions for both teh CSE and also teh Customer.
• Also guide new hires and train them on teh job.

Environment: Cisco Router IOS, NXOS and IOS XR, and VmWare ESX flavours