SUMMARY:

• Over 10+ years of experience in IT field and strongly providing technical and security functions to Multi - tasking companies and organizations.
• Developed and maintains system security plans and contingency plans with the major applications.
• Ensured that system security plans and contingency plans are developed and maintained for each system and applications, and ensured systems personnel are properly designated, and trained.
• Created Plans, administered and oversees network design, implements, organizes, and troubleshoots problems on network; monitors underlying communication protocols and supports network hardware and software; maintains application data integrity and availability.
• Lead the network engineering team of six for about five years in different projects, which include system support and or integration.
• Assisted end users’ inquiries regarding the use of specific software such as data base, printing, programming languages, electronic mail, and operating systems in tech support areas.
• Participate in risk assessments to periodically, re-evaluate sensitivity of the system, risks, and mitigation strategies.
• Ensure adequate confidentiality integrity, and availability of data and applications software residing on the system.
• Lead security engineers to incorporating application firewall/s that limits the execution of files in the network to rigorously define enterprise assets, identifying what each application does; and prioritizing potential threats and documenting adverse events and the actions taken in each case.
• Work closely with IMO/ISO/System Administrator to ensure all security related functions and activities are erformed. Good technical knowledge of network/security network designs. Knowledge of DMZ, Honey-pot, IDS, IPS, Cisco Firewalls, VPN security, etc
• Security Architecture for mapping out how security system should be followed and maintained in order to maintain the system’s quality attributes such as confidentiality, integrity and availability
• LADP for a directory listing and SSO for privileged staff to gain access to the systems as needed. Use of Access Management to provide a specialized roadway system, limit the number of conflict points, and promote intersection hierarchy etc
• Play a leading role in introducing an appropriate methodology to help identify, evaluate, and minimize risks to all IT systems.
• Plan, administers and oversees network design; implements, organizes, and troubleshoots problems on network.
• Maintain communications, such as Internet and Intranet systems, local-area networks (LAN) and wide-area networks (WAN). Utilization of Cisco Load Balancing for VPN server, IDS, IPS and Fire Walls for security of information passing through networks
• Experience of Microsoft CA (PKI), VeriSign Cert, Token Administration, and Symantec SEP
• Utilization of Firewall ACL Bypass feature that allows a packet to avoid redundant access control list (ACL) checks, by allowing the firewall to permit the packet on the basis of existing inspection sessions instead of dynamic ACLs. As a result, input and output dynamic ACLs searches are eliminated, thereby improving the overall throughput performance of the base engine
• Experience with BIG IP-F5 LTM/GTM load balancing that adds flexibility, adaptability, and security to your network, so users always have access to applications and data—even if service to your primary data center is interrupted due to outage or DNS DDoS attacks.
• Utilizing Nessus5/Impervas in scanning and detecting a wild variety malware that render security systems vulnerable eg routers switches servers and workstations. With the help of Impervas, database is scanned for detection of high-risk vulnerabilities that may be undermining the security of your business.
• Experience with Check Point firewall and Virtual firewall; Checkpoint VE on VMWare; Blue Coat proxy ( Confidential, and Blue coat Director), experience with F5 Firepass SSLVPN; experience with Radware Load Balancer, Cisco WAAS, Cisco ASA Firewall, and Juniper SRX110 and SSLVPN-Crypto-Server 6.x Firewall.
• Experience with 7450/7750 Lucent/Alcatel switches, MX 480/960 Juniper routers.
• Experience in Perimeter firewall designing to checks incoming IP packets and blocks those it believes are intrusive.
• Knowledge of Cisco ACE, DNS \ DHCP appliance, TCP dump and Wireshark for troubleshooting Network problems/analysis
• Maintained maintenance and trouble shooting of MPLS Frame Relay WAN networks and Cisco Switches and Load balancers utilizing Cisco Works, NetQos & Vital Net. Performed sniffer analysis using Network General & Wire shark.
• Ability to diagnosis, isolate and solve software integration issues; have experience relating to database connectivity with respect to application specifications; installation and configurations of RPM software. Knowledge of requirement specifications/software development
• VoIP engineer, design schematics for new hardware, such as analog-to-digital adapters and standalone VoIP telephones. Also create software applications that allow users to easily make calls directly from their computers. We set up programs that help to decode speech and audible noises into digital signals called codecs which decodes back immediately into audible signals by the receiver's phone.
• Provisioning, and testing Voice Response and set-up; Confidential -1, IBR, DSOs, T45, OCX, ATM, JDSU, and T1.5 products. Able to implement Cisco IP Telephony applications, Cisco Unified Communication applications including Cisco Call Manager, Cisco GSR, and Voice Mail. Knowledge of Cisco IOS voice gateway, ICM, UC, QOS, COS, TCP/IP, MPLS/IP, RTP, VoIP, SIP, UMTS, RTCP, RTP, IPDR, CPE, and TDM etc. Some/light experience with Lucent Naviscore .
• Experience in Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) that enhances/optimizes TCP base application performances which operate in Wide Area Network (WAN) environment.
• BIG IP F5 LTM appliances, Experience with F5 ASM Web Application Firewall, White Hat Security, F5 Enterprise Manager,, and/or IBM Rational AppScan E/D.
• Knowledge of Aruba Remote Access Point (RAP) Networks for WIFI/Wireless/Airwave
• Experience implementing Aruba Wireless network with 4 Aruba 1000 controllers and about 450 APs
• Management of all 802.11 parameters for Network Wide AP Management via CLI, WEB GUI and SNMPv3
• Maintaining and checking Aruba AP and Mobility Controller Encryption for 40bit, 64bit, 128bit, and 152bit WEP, TKIP, AES etc.
• Able to assist customers and provide Aruba multi-language document that contains country-specific restrictions, and additional safety and regulatory information for all Aruba hardware products.
• Knowledge of Infoblox for management of IPv4 and IPv6 for easy DNS utilization
• Work with Customer Care Technical Support, MNRC, Outage Management, ATS, Vendors, Enterprise Administrators, NCC, 3rd party vendors and as needed ECC, NRCs and other LECs to resolve customer Voice Feature and especially E911 issues.
• Experience with Nexus 3560, 5010, 5020 and 6500. Utilization of Cisco Nexus 3064 for Layer 2 and 3 switching; multicasting and ultra-low latency protection
• Able to use Nexus 3064 for Layer 3 unicast and multicast routing protocol suites which is supported, including TCP/IP, SIP, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF),and Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol ( Confidential )
• The Cisco Nexus 5020 Switch, part of the ASA Cisco Nexus family of data center-class switches, delivers an innovative architecture to simplify data center transformation by enabling a high-performance, standards-based Ethernet unified fabric.
• Installation of Centrex-IP phones, configuration, maintenance, and operations.
• Support the Service Delivery or Service Assurance processes; receive, analyze, monitor and resolve network problems in a timely manner.
• Responsible for the investigations and resolutions of computer software/ hardware problems reported by end users
• Requirement Engineering/Software Development
• Part time Information Technology Instructor Confidential Atlanta Technical College for five years

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows 95, 2000, 2003, 2007, (Perl, Shell etc), Window 7, Unix/Linux, & Office Suite including VISIO, Utilized Citrix Xenapps, along with Desktop for user profile management and design. Installed and Configured Citrix Metaframe/Presentation Server for Remote off site access Administered Citrix XenAPP server, Able to utilize Citrix Receiver suite that allows client device/s to connect to various desktop virtualization services. This suite helps us take care of our Password Control service by allowing customers to create strong passwords according to their retailer s information technology services and policies. Authentication is facilitated and clients can make use of their selected question to remember their passwords.

Database & Reporting tools: Web Based Apps, Access, SharePoint

Skills: Communication Skills, Project Management Methodologies, Business Process Methodologies / Change Management, Managing Network architecture/infrastructure by checking the security, performance and reliability of the network systems utilizing thin client to monitor the activities of IDS/IPS, VPN and content/spam filter. Making sure the security policy is maintained and users goes against the set protocols

ID Management: making sure that ids and passwords are maintained regularly, data encryption is in orderly functioning, security lock and others are maintained etc. Managing Cyber-Ark Security that offers any enterprise a wide range of services and support options to making digital vault solution a success; these services include, Ability to design network Infrastructures and Topologies., Utilizing Nessus5/Impervas in scanning and detecting a wild variety malware that render security systems vulnerable eg routers switches servers and workstations. With the help of Impervas, database is scanned for detection of high-risk vulnerabilities that may be undermining the security of your business, Implementation, consulting, training, maintenance, online support and vault.

Active Directory: maintained the DNS, Confidential in order to manage customers account properly and provide secured, structured data storage in hierarchy order.

Network Architecture: designing computer networks that aims Confidential allowing many type of systems; hardware, software, protocols, and devices to communicate with one another.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Cyber Ark Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Building CyberArk safes and adding different applications/portfolios in the safes.
• Active Directory group/user authentication and maintenances.
• Authentication and Authorization of Privilege user working with Cyber Ark and Access Management.
• General managing of Cyber-Ark Security that offers any enterprise a wide range of services and support options to making digital vault solution a success; these services include implementation, consulting, training, maintenance, online support and vault scripting, SIEM, and Digital Certification supporting.
• Decommissioning servers as need be or as requested by server Engineers.

Confidential, Richmond, VA

Cyber Ark Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Cyber Ark Vault Maintenances, 2FA troubleshooting, accesses and authentications, SAPM troubleshooting & repairs, SUPM users authentications and maintenances.
• General managing of Cyber-Ark Security that offers any enterprise a wide range of services and support options to making digital vault solution a success; these services include implementation, consulting, training, maintenance, online support and vault scripting, SIEM, and Digital Certification supporting.
• Perform Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment to improve application security. Working knowledge of SOC
• Utilization of Active Directory, Confidential and different servers for troubleshooting customer’s problems;
• Utilization of Opsware (Server Automation) product for server/s maintenance. Many of services and/or duties performed, utilizes Cisco products like firewalls, IDS/IPS, routers, ACS, and servers.

Confidential, Colombia, SC

Switch Technician

Responsibilities:

• Duties includes installing switched, cable, signaling systems; multiplexors, completing switch translations, routing and circuit turn-ups, equipment testing, alarms, line and trunk maintenance. Installation of equipment used in operating a variety of equipment and devices associated with telephone switching.
• Analyze and troubleshoot problems that occur with the equipment technician uses in servicing. Getting instructions sometimes from the client where switching equipment is to be installed.
• Interacting with field technicians to make sure all the switches outside the Central Office is performing accordingly.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Network Control Specialist / Voice Engineer / Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Utilizing Nessus5/Impervas in scanning and detecting a wild variety malware that render security systems vulnerable eg routers switches servers and workstations. With the help of Impervas, database is scanned for detection of high-risk vulnerabilities that may be undermining the security of your business
• Act as a mentor to Network Control Engineers to resolve more complex issues related to supported mobility services. Train junior engineer, and knows when to take over complex issues. Able to run NSS outage bridges as needed. Able to provide high-level and detailed technical write-ups for sniffer trace analysis to be delivered to executive leadership. Utilization of well configured Cisco Nexus Routers 1 and 2 to determine which router is the priority router while the other is a backup for good usage of MAC Addresses/ VLAN vise- visa. Maintained maintenance and trouble shooting of MPLS Frame Relay WAN networks and Cisco Switches and Load balancers utilizing Cisco Works, NetQos & VitalNet.
• Performed sniffer analysis using Network General & Wireshark.
• VoIP engineer, design schematics for new hardware, such as analog-to-digital adapters and standalone VoIP telephones.
• Also create software applications that allow users to easily make calls directly from their computers. We set up programs that help to decode speech and audible noises into digital signals called codecs which decodes back immediately into audible signals by the receiver's phone.
• Managing Network architecture/infrastructure by checking the security, performance and reliability of the network systems utilizing thin client to monitor the activities of IDS/IPS, VPN, SIEM, and content/spam filter. Making sure the security policy is maintained and users goes against the set protocols. Perform Penetration testing and vulnerability assessment to improve application security
• Experience in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) that enhances/optimizes TCP base application performances which operates in Wide Area Network (WAN) environment.
• Provisioning,and testing Voice Response and set-up; Confidential -1, IBR, DSOs, T45, OCX, ATM and T1.5 products. Able to implement Cisco IP Telephony applications, Cisco Unified Communication applications including Cisco Call Manager, Aruba 5.X, and Voice Mail.
• Knowledge of Cisco IOS voice gateway, ICM, UC, QOS, COS, VoIP, and TDM etc

Confidential, DC

Security Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Advice the clients on security matters digitally/physically using SAN maintenance systems which includes but not limited to Id Management, IDS and IPS maintenance, Firewalls, Honey pot and Confidential . Intrusion detection and 24/7 systems monitoring.
• Ensure adequate confidentiality integrity, and availability of data and applications software residing on the system.
• Able to in corporate countermeasures in software security lifecycle firewalls development to guide against any type of vulnerability.
• Lead security engineers to incorporating application firewall/s that limits the execution of files in the network to rigorously define enterprise assets, identifying what each application does; and prioritizing potential threats and documenting adverse events and the actions taken in each case.
• Recommend to my organization the best security software & hardware to purchase and use. Perform security testing/penetration test to avoid vulnerabilities in the network.
• Perform vulnerability assessments of Systems/Network device. Working knowledge of some Security tools like Cyber Ark, IDS/IPS, SIEM, PIM, Cisco ASA Firewalls, ACS, NMAP, Nessus and Wire shark etc. Performed sniffer analysis using Network General & Wireshark, Port Security, and Cisco Nexus 2K - 7K.
• Managing Cyber-Ark Security that offers any enterprise a wide range of services and support options to making digital vault solution a success; these services include implementation, consulting, training, maintenance, online support and vault.
• Utilizing Nessus5/Impervas in scanning and detecting a wild variety malware that render security systems vulnerable eg routers switches servers and workstations. . With the help of Impervas, database is scanned for detection of high-risk vulnerabilities that may be undermining the security of your business
• Experience in Perimeter firewall designing to checks incoming IP packets and blocks those it believes are intrusive. WAF application firewall that controls, input, output and access to http security network.
• Able to design and maintain internal security that includes Honey-Pot for employees security checks/pattern.
• Knowledge of Confidential security systems, video surveillance systems, and Confidential equipment (Closed Circuit Television), for home business and government. Surveillance cameras and DVR systems with remote Internet viewing

Atlanta Technical College, GA

Network Administrator

• Teaching Data Communications, Networking, System Analysis & Design, Introduction to Micro-Computer, MS Windows 2000 Server and Active Directory.
• Other duties include: Plan, administers and oversees network design; implements, organizes, and troubleshoots problems on network; monitors underlying communication protocols and supports network hardware and software; maintains application data integrity and availability.
• Administers and oversees network design; implements, organizes, and troubleshoots problems on network; monitors underlying communication protocols and supports network hardware and software; maintains application data integrity and availability.
• Oversees administration of networks. Provides system support. Identify and recommend computer system needs. Perform additional duties as needed. Test the transportation of Data, Voice and Video from equipment to another in the school lab.
• Clear the voice hung ups, routers malfunctioning and other maintenance duties like VOIP. Troubleshoot school voice, data and video if problem occurred and resolve the problem/s. Maintain the smooth running of the school day to day activities.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Data Communication Technician

Responsibilities:

• Provisioning and testing Confidential -1, IBR, DSOs, T45, OCX, ATM VOIP, and T1.5 products and Frame Relay. Extensively trained on how to utilized BCS, TIRKS, WORD, SOTS, SARTS and DACS-OSS software for the provisioning and testing circuit to LEC or customer point.

Confidential, Atlanta, GA

Network Engineer/ Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Installation of Centrex-IP to Nortel Confidential customer for IP phones.
• Configuration, Maintenance, Operations of IP Gateway cards, Gatekeeper, LTCI. Setting up and provisioning of Nortel DMS 100/250/500 series switch.
• Experienced in setting, provisioning of Classical IP, VOIP, ATM, and IVD on the backbone network devices e.g. Nortel Passport 700, Shasta, Cisco, and Bay routers; Configuration of voices switches using servord commands.
• Experience with SIP tunneling for customer’s account pricing information.
• Setting up SIP phone for business customers and end users phone calls.
• Knowledge of SIP responses specifying three digit integer response codes.
• Knowledge of SIP user agents… Confidential and Confidential
• Configuration &Utilization of Cisco Nexus Routers 1 and 2 to determine which router is the priority router while the other is a backup for good usage of MAC Addresses/ VLAN vise- visa.
• Experience in Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) that enhances/optimizes TCP base application performances which operate in Wide Area Network (WAN) environment.
• Confidential Trace Analysis for application performance management.

Confidential, Atlanta, Georgia

Network Operations Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Support the Service Delivery or Service Assurance processes.
• Receive, analyze, monitor, and resolve network problems in a timely fashion with minimal guidance from higher-level technicians or supervisor. Maintain and managed trouble ticket system for Voice & Data, Telephony, ATM, Frame Relay, VOIP, and Residential DSL networks. Some/light experience with Lucent Naviscore.
• Experience with SIP tunneling for customer’s account pricing information.
• Setting up SIP phone for business customers and end users phone calls.
• Knowledge of SIP responses specifying three digit integer response codes.
• Knowledge of SIP user agents… Confidential and Confidential .
• Utilize remote test applications for physical and logical layer testing. Work with customers on premises equipment configuration issues.