SUMMARY:

• A result - driven IT professional with extensive more than 15+ years of experience in the engineering, administration and support of information systems in depth expertise in the implementation, analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN network systems.
• Strong “hands on” technical knowledge with CCNA, CCNP, CCIE and MCSE certifications.
• Proven ability to lead and motivation projects terms to ensure success.
• Track records for diagnosing complex problems and consistently delivering effective solutions.

EXPERTISE:

• Network Engineering Troubleshooting Routing, Switching
• Network Project Management
• Network Designing & Deployment

PROFICIENCIES:

PROTOCOLS / STANDARDS: TCP/IP Routing, IPV4, IPV6, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet, Bridging Protocols, VLAN, CISCO IOS, IPSEC, VPN, NAT, Spanning Tree, HDLC, PPP, MPLS, ISDN BRI/PRI, RS232, SNMP, ARP, RARP, ICMP, Redistribution AND UDP. Understanding of Network QOS reqs to support VOIP

HARDWARE: Cisco 1600, 1700, 2500, 2600, 3600, 7500, 7600, 12000 Series Routers, Cisco 1900, 2900, 3550, 4500, 6500 catalyst Series Switches. Juniper SSG 140 series, MX and EX Series. (Frame Relay, T1, E1, ISDN PRI & BRI Lines); Cisco IOS, IOS XR, IOS XE and Nexus OS.

NETWORK OPERATIONS: Knowledge of Cisco Products, TCP/IP Networking Protocols, RFC Standards, and Wireless Protocols Standards. Work Experience in Configuration Static Route, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP, NAT, HSRP, VLAN, Gateway, QOS for VOIP, switching 3550, 4500, 6500, ISDN, Configured Dedicated line and Frame Relay, Firm theory knowledge of QOS. In Security implemented access-list & SSL.

SYSTEMS Web Servers: Internet Information Server, Apache

Mail Servers: MS Exchange 5.5, 2000, Send mail (Red Hat Linux).

Backup: ARC serves Backup Solutions, Tivoli Storage Manager, NT Backup

Antivirus: Trend Micro Enterprise suite, MacAfee Orchestrate 2.5

Monitoring: MRTG, Ethereal, HP/Compaq Insight Manager, stealth watch, CACTI, Netprofiler(Riverbed), Netshark (Riverbed)

Proxy Server: Squid (Linux), Win Proxy, Wingate, Analog Proxy, Windows 2000 NAT.

Operating Systems: Windows 2K Server/Professional, Windows 2003Linux 6.2/7.0/9.0, Windows 95/98/NT/200, Novell Netware 6.0 and 6.5.

Databases: MS-SQL7.0/2000, Oracle 8.1.7.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Houston, TX

Responsibilities:

• Supporting and troubleshooting of Confidential infrastructure network
• Attending SWAT calls for troubleshooting the network issues
• Attending the Knowledge transfer sessions to understand the Confidential network
• Troubleshooting Network devices including Cisco routers (4900 & ASR1K)/switches (6509 & 6748)
• Involved in handling of customer incident tickets for troubleshooting the Confidential network.
• Involved in troubleshooting of Juniper routers (MX80 & MX960)
• Designing recommendation, Supporting & troubleshooting the network infrastructure.
• Having own lab at home including Cisco ASA with Firepower and also FTD.
• Involved in Supporting of Nexus switches (N2k,N5K & 7k)
• Involved in troubleshooting of DMVPN issues
• Involved in troubleshooting of Wireless issues
• Using nGenius and Open NMS tools to monitor the network
• Involved in troubleshooting of protocols like OSPF, EIGRP & BGP/MPLS.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Responsibilities:

• Configuring& troubleshooting issues in ASR1K/9k, Cisco 4500 switches, Nexus 5K & 7k environment.
• Supporting and configuration of Verizon LTE on Cisco 2921& 3900 series of routers
• Involved in Implementing, Supporting and troubleshooting of LAN & WAN.
• Involved in supporting Checkpoint Firewalls.
• Involved in configuring & troubleshooting of Cisco ASA firewalls including 5506X firepower services.
• Strong understanding of Cisco Meraki Cloud including SDWAN, MX 600, MX84 and MS220-24/48 switches.
• Achieved CMNO from Cisco Meraki

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Configuration and troubleshooting of F5.
• Involved in Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco ASA firewalls.
• Involved in customer meetings and try to solve the load balancing Issues in the network.
• Involved in configuring& troubleshooting the issues in Nexus 5K & 7k environment.
• Involved in designing, Implementing, Supporting and troubleshooting of LAN & WAN.
• Good understanding of Nexus ACI

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of Nexus 7009.
• Building a new site from scratch including the routers (ASR1K) and switches (4500e,3850 & 2960) in data center & campus network
• Involved in Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco WLC 5508& WAP 3702i.
• Involved in migration from Cisco 6509 to Nexus 7009
• Configuring and troubleshooting of DMVPN on ASR1K
• Involved in configuring and troubleshooting of OSPF, EIGRP & BGP
• Involved in configuring and troubleshooting of STP,PVSTP,RSTP
• Turning up new circuit with Level 3 & AT&T providers
• Troubleshooting all kind of network issues

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Austin, TX

Responsibilities:

• Installation, Configuration and troubleshooting of ASR9000. Migration MPLS cloud from 6509 to ASR 9000
• Worked on protocols- RIP, EIGRP, OSP, BGP, EIGRP, GRE, HSRP/VRRP and MPLS L2/L3 VPNS and VPLS
• Upgrading WAN bandwidth on multiple sites like migrating from T1’S to Ethernet and adding multiple T1’S to the existing router if Ethernet service is not available from the ATT.
• Worked on Cisco ASA and Palo Alto Firewalls. Building site to site VPNS and cisco Any connect VPNS.
• Involved in supporting and troubleshooting of Cisco IPS Sourcefire
• Involved in designing, Implementing, Supporting and troubleshooting of LAN & WAN.
• Involved migration from Cisco WAAS device to Riverbeds.
• Configuring and Supporting of Riverbed devices (CX25570L/M & EX160), Adding new sites, pushing polices through CMC. And also Upgrading RIOS from 8.6.1b to 9.1.1.
• Worked on Riverbed Net profiler and Net shark to capture the traffic and Analyze.
• Building and configuring DMVPN between Core routers to the Sites and installing and configuring LTE Modems at site as primary connection and T1 as a backup connection
• Troubleshooting Customer tickets when they open tickets like LTE modem is not working and Internet is slow and other kind of issues.
• Used stealth watch, CACTI, Netprofiler(Riverbed), Netshark(Riverbed) for monitoring/troubleshoot network.
• Also worked with ITS and replacing Cisco routers (From 1700 routers to 2900 routers& 7206 routers) and switches (From 3550 switches to 2960X Series)
• Configuring and troubleshooting of Nexus 2K & Nexus 5K
• Configuring and supporting of VPCc & VDCs and very good understanding of Fabric Path and OTV.
• Involved Implementing and configuring of Cisco ISE devices and also configured ISE compatible devices (Switches: 2960 X)
• Involved in Configuring and managing Cisco Ace load balancer.
• Configuring and supporting Cisco wireless (WLC & AP’S) network and also involved in migration from Aruba Wireless Network Cisco WLC.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Plano, TX

Responsibilities:

• Setup a Cisco MSN lab including configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco MSN 7609 and SIAD 2941, Lab configuration includes Configuring and OSPF routing protocols and creating VLANS and VTP.
• IP Knowledge sharing to senior WCDMA Engineers on Routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, MPLS and LAN protocols like Spanning tree, VLANS, HSRP, VRRP.
• Involved in Configuring RIP,EIGRP,OSPF,BGP,MPLS And QOS.
• Configuring QOS for VOLTE on Cisco ME3400 and Cisco 7609.
• Involved in configuring of redistribution of protocols like OSPF, EIGRP and BGP.
• Configuring MPLS Layer 3 VPNS to the customer. Implementing Spanning tree protocols like MST,STP,BPDUGaurd,and STPportfast.
• Configuring Multicast (PIMV2, MLD,IGMPV3 and SSM) on IPV4 and IPV6 Network.
• Implementing Standard Ether channels and Cisco proprietary Ether channels.
• Configuring and Supporting the Nexus 2K, Nexus 5k &Nexus 7K.
• Strong understanding of Fabric Path, VPCs, VDCs.
• Configuring and making network changes to Cisco ASR 9K (9010)& 5000.
• Almost worked on all protocols and involved in troubleshooting customer (ATT) problems.
• Worked with Cisco 10K including the turn up the T1S and working with DACS.
• Worked Confidential (Red Back) Smart edge SE1200 routers and also CSR'S(SP210 & SP310).This is specially for Sprint Customer.
• Worked with AAV Service providers like ATT, TWC, CoStreet, Dukenet, Comcast, PhonoScope, FPL, Cox, CenturyLink, Brighthouse, Charter, Zayo and Fiber light to bring up the Circuits between MTSCO (SE1200) and to the CSR'S (SP210 & SP310)

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Monroe, LA

Responsibilities:

• Creating and Implementing network planning for Cisco routers and switches - 4000, 4500, 6500 series switches.
• Implementing network design including juniper routers (M10 and M20) and Cisco routers and switches.
• Involved in designing and implementing LAN Architecture and Extranet like WAN.
• Involved in troubleshooting Network problems like application servers and LAN problems and WAN problems.
• Involved designing medium sized projects for our branch offices in USA.
• Installation and configuration of Smart Edge 100 & SE600
• Configuring routing protocols like OPSF, BGP, MPLS on SE 100 and SE600.
• Involved in troubleshooting network problems by co-coordinating with CO techs.
• Replacing the current Catalyst 4000 switches with Cisco IOS 4507R-E switches.
• Involved in converting Catos configuration to native IOS configuration.
• Configuring VLANs and Implementing Inter VLAN routing
• Involved in Configuring RIP,EIGRP,OSPF,BGP,MPLS,FrameRelay And QOS
• Installation and configuration and Rack mounting the switches.
• Installation and configuration Foundry switches.
• Installation, configuration, designing and troubleshooting of Cisco routers and switches.
• Involved in configuring STP, ACLS, Redistribution and trunking protocols.
• Implementing project planning and documentation.
• Conducting meetings with application team to discuss impact on servers while replacing the current switches to New switches.
• Installation, Configuring and Supporting of Nexus 2K, Nexus 5k & Nexus 7K.
• Preparing a plan(MOP) for replacing the existing catalyst 4000 series switches with new Cisco 4500, 6500 series switches.
• Replacing the existing Sup engine1A to latest Sup engine720 in Cisco 6500 series switches.
• Replacing the existing Cisco router 2600 series with Cisco 2800 series of routers.
• Involved in configuring T1, T3 on new Cisco 2800 routers.
• Involved in configuring IPsec over GRE tunnels.
• Involved in configuring HSRP, VRRP on switches.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential, Tampa, FL

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Administration of Cisco Routers and Switches.
• Involved in configuring and designing a network architecture like LAN and WAN.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF, EIGRP BGP, MPLS (LDP/RSVP), L3VPNs,QOS, ATM and Frame Relay.
• Administration and diagnostics of LAN and WAN with in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, NAT, PPP, ISDN and associates network protocols and services.
• Implementation of HSRP, IPsec, Static Route, IPSEC over GRE, Dynamic routing, DHCP,DNS,FTP.TFTP,RAS
• Involved in setting up Lab environment including configuring routers & switches and implemented in real time scenarios to the customers.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco VOIP devices.
• Involved installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 7500 and 12000 series routers
• Involved in Disaster recovery, like diverting data from one Center to other centers when disaster occurs.
• Configuring IPSLA monitor to track the different IP route when disaster occurs.
• Used F5 and Cisco products to load balance the network.
• Involved in configuring Cisco ACE Load balancers, Content Switches and Cisco ACE XML Gateways.
• Involved in Implementing, planning and preparing disaster recovery.
• Having meetings with the application group and gathering requirements for disaster recovery.
• Preparing and writing technical documentation of each device (Routers and switches) configurations and doing validations in the network.
• Configuring Juniper SSG 140 and M and E series routers.
• Involved in configuring ciscopix firewall.
• Troubleshooting hardware and network related problems.
• Involved in configuring Cisco VPN3000 concentrator.