SUMMARY:

IT Professional with over 8 years of experience in support, install, configure, implement, maintain,, analyze, and troubleshoot various network technologies that includes proficiency in routing, routing protocols, switching, security, voice, wireless, data center technologies and scripting using SQL.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing/Switching Technologies: Cisco Routers ASRs/ISRs, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus, Juniper, Citrix, H3C and HP Routers & Switches, WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, Cisco IOS, Spanning Tree Protocol, BPDU, CDP, ACL, NAT, PAT, RIP, RIPv2, OSPF, OSPFv3, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, VTP, SNMP, SMTP, ARP, TCP, UDP, Static Routing, Stub Routing, VLAN Trunking, VXLANs, Multicast routing, HSRP, SVI, CEF, Etherchannel, Portfast, VSS, VPC.

Security/Firewalls Technologies: Cisco Security Manager Suite, Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls, Cisco FWSM, Cisco IPS/IDS, Cisco ACS, Advanced Firewall Manager (AFM), Cisco ASA 1000V cloud firewall, Checkpoint Firewall, Juniper SRX series, Palo Alto, AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS, SSH, VPN, IPSec, SSL/IPSec, Data Loss Prevention, Data Management Zone, Pretty Good Protection (PGP), Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Internet Key Exchange Policy, Port Security, MAC Address Filtering.

Wireless/Voice Technologies: Cisco WLC, IEEE 802.1x & 802.11, WLAN, WAP, AP, SSID, LWAPP, Aironet, HP MSM 760 WC, Bluetooth, Avaya, AURA - Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP), VoIP/SIP, CUCM, UCCM, UCCX, MGCP, RSTP, SCCP, STP, Quality of Service (QoS), PoE, MMDS, LMDS, CCK, DSSS.

Monitoring/Data Center Technologies/APPS: Wireshark, Remedy, Cacti, Nagios, Solarwinds, Cisco Security Manager Suite, Server, Sniffer, Ethereal, Orion - VMWare, F5 Big-IP LB (GTM/LTM), Citrix Netscaler, Cisco AnyConnect VPN mtg, Cisco Prime, Cisco IPS/IDS, Meraki Cloud-Based - Splunk, SNMPv2c, SNMPv3, DNS, DHCP, FTP, Telnet, HTTP(S), SMTP, tunneling protocols, PTP, SFTP, RDP.

Other Technologies: SharePoint 2010 RDBMS: MS-SQL Server 2005/2008/R2/2012, R Programming, Windows Server 2003/2008, 7/2010, SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, ER Win.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, CA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of professionals responsible for deployments, implementations, analysis, configurations, and troubleshooting in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment for datacenters, corporate, and branch offices.
• Specific Technologies handled include but not limited to Cisco ISRs/ASRs; Cisco Catalyst/Nexus Switches Cisco ASAs; Juniper EXs; F5 Big-IP Version 11.6.0; Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express Version; Cisco Unity Express Versions; Cisco Wireless LAN Controller; Cisco Aironet 11x Access Points; Palo Alto (PAN) Firewalls, Nagios, Solar Winds Orion, Cacti, Wireshark.
• Experienced configuring Routing protocols (BGP, IP switching and Routing OSPF, EIGRP) Security Technologies like AAA, TACACS+, RADIUS, SSH DNS.
• Performed configurations on F5 v10 and F5 v11, v12 across various platforms.
• Monitoring incoming Service Request Fulfilment queue, including analysis of the incoming request.
• Built designs and implement via AppviewX.
• Performed load balancing and application level redundancy by deploying F5 BIG-IP LTM 3900.
• Worked on Creation and renewal of external and internal certificates in Venafi Adhering to SSL cipher US Bank standards.
• Create DNS request to ensure the naming convention meets US Bank standards as well as verifying VIPs/WIPs are pingable before configuring service request
• Worked on configuring objects such as F5 Load balancer pools, members, SSL profiles for LTM on F5 load balancers.
• Comprehensive elementary configurations on the F5 BIG-IP LTMs load balancer on prevailing network to divide traffic on web-servers.
• Installed high availability BIG-IP F5 LTM 6900 and 7250 and GTM 6400 and 6800 load balancers to provide uninterrupted service to customers.
• Configuring and deploying BIG-IP LTM 8900 for providing application redundancy and load balancing.
• Created and configured LTM and GTM guests on F5 VIPRION 7250 appliances.
• Worked on CISCO Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN).
• Configure the CISCO CRS-1 routing System, back out of configuration changes and restore older versions of a configuration.

Confidential, Dallas, TX

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of professionals responsible for deployments, implementations, administration/service requests, Tier 2/3 escalation support/ticket resolution, configurations, and troubleshooting in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment for datacenters, corporate, WAN links, and branch offices.
• Technologies in network environment include but not limited to routers, switches, security firewalls, voice, wireless and related technologies along with various server/application administration, system reimaging, and remote setup.
• Production and new implementation support in the environment both within the Datacentre and remotely for test, lab and production.
• Configuration of remote syslog with the application owners hosted on the F5 environment in the 3-tier environments.
• Perform product installation and cabling in the datacentre, determining communications.
• Support and troubleshoot with various applications hosted on the F5s and servers on the hardware.
• Installing the F5 TMOS upgrades, Hot-fix installations depending on Business need.
• Prepare test plans for checking the configuration of the CLI, GUI and writing iRules and scripts.
• Configuring of Virtual servers, Pools, Nodes and load balancing methods on F5 LTM.
• SSL Offloading, Cert management and troubleshooting experience on F5 using TCP and SSL dumps and Wireshark analysis.
• Worked on SSL handshake proxied to a BIG-IP VIPRION to do all the hardware SSL work dealing with layer 4 throughput work, to upgrade the SSL licence limits.
• Experience in both command line interface and the GUI access of an F5.
• Security policy configuration including NAT, PAT, VPN, Route maps and Access control lists.
• Configured F5 GTM Wide IP, Pool Load Balancing Methods and Monitors recreating HTTP and HTTPS redirect VIP’s to client from data servers.

Confidential, Denver, CO

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Member of a team of professionals responsible for installations, configurations, ticket resolution, and troubleshooting in an enterprise LAN/WAN environment for datacenters, corporate, WAN links, and branch offices.
• Technologies in network environment include but not limited to routers, switches, security firewalls, voice, wireless and related technologies along with various server/application administration, system reimaging, and remote setup.
• Participated in L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration, creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter-VLAN routing, LAN security and server management.
• Worked on RADIUS, TACACS+ authentication serves and DNS, DHCP servers.
• Modified internal infrastructure by adding switches to support server farms and added servers to existing.
• Completed service requests on IP readdressing, bandwidth upgrades, IOS/platform upgrades.
• Worked on cisco routers series 7200, 6500, 4500, 1700, 2600 and 3500 series to perform bridging, switching, routing, Ethernet, NAT, and DHCP, customer LAN /WAN support.
• Experience with SQL for extracting the data from SQL database, related to network issues.
• Worked extensively on Cisco ASA 5500 (5510/5540) Series.
• Experience working with Active Directory (as a centralized system) to automate network security management and user data.
• Worked with Aruba Access point as a Public Wi-Fi and successfully implemented Wireless Access Point (WAP).
• Experience with deployment and testing of code updates for wireless systems, such as WCS, WiSM, and WLC
• Experienced in working with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), Trunking for voice over IP (VoIP) to facilitate the connection of a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) to the Internet.
• Good Understanding and Knowledge of components and experience with Cisco UCS administration.
• Experience with x86 / x64 Intel, HP, Dell & CISCO UCS hardware like rack-mounted and blade servers.
• Experience in Server building both physical& virtual, troubleshooting, capacity planning, application.