SUMMARY:

• Seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure
• Experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and offshore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables.
• Effectively training, motivating and mentoring onsite and offshore junior managers, engineers and technicians.
• Superior coordination of user acceptance testing of final IT infrastructure and application development deliverables through iterative evolutions.
• Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives. Solution - focused with an ability to develop procedures and exert team leadership in directing and implementing effective initiatives to meet business objectives.
• Dedicated Solutions lead and effective leader who excels at using proven methods and cutting-edge technology to successfully cut costs streamline operations and increase productivity. Assertive and enthusiastic with extensive knowledge of process optimization and an unsurpassed worth ethic.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Protocols: RIP,OSPF,EIGRP, Confidential, IPSEC,ATM,Framerelay,MPLS/VRFs/LDP/TDP/ICMP,IGMP,CGMP SNMP, FTP, DNS, DHCP,TFTP, HTTP, PAP, GLBP, CHAP,PPP,802.11a/b/g/n,8 02.11i, EAP, TTLS, TKIP, VOIP,H.323,SIP,IPv4, MPLS, VPN,VRFs,QOS,, CEF,NetFlow,PIM

Product EXPERTISE: Cisco 1600, 2500, 3600, 7204 VXR, 7507,ASR9000,Nexus 7010,5000,2000 series, Native/Hybrid 6500,5000, CAT 4000,CAT 3550/3560,CAT 2900XL/3500XL, HP 12000, 7500, 5900, 5800 Switches and 6600, MSR series routers C7000 enclosure, Superdome, Converged systems - CS 500, 700, 900, Cloud Computing & Virtualization

Software defined Networking: SDN, IaaS, PaaS, Openstack, AWS, Matrix, vCloud

Security Expertise: Checkpoint 70.30 75.40, 77.20 VPN VPN Concentrator-3030,3015

Firewalls PIX-515, 535,ASA 5200,Juniper SRX5800.: Enterprise Monitoring Tools iMC-intelligent management center 5.2 and 7.1,Concord-Ehealth-5.7, CiscoWorks-2000,CA-Unicenter,MRTG,HP-Openview, HP-Service Desk

Traffic Shaping: Netreality 5.0,5.2;Packetshaper 5200, WAAS 4.1.2,4.2, WAE-512,WAE-7341, WAE-7371

VOIP: Cisco Call manager, Cisco Unity Express, Cisco Unified Communications Manager Express

Load Balancing: Big Ip- F5 -LTM and GTM, ACE 4700 Series server load balancing

Wireless: Cisco Wireless LAN Controller; Wireless Services Module WiSM ;Cisco Access points 1200 Series, WCS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MI

Network & Security Engineering Lead

Responsibilities:

• Recruited to lead and analyze the turmoil that Enterprise services Labs has gone through and handle the crisis management of Network Security and Server operations. Lead a team of 10 under three IT verticals to revamp the current standards and processes, implement statistical process control and identify deficits and flaws.
• Determined the gaps in the current traditional architecture and transitioned it to secure MPLS architecture(Cisco to HPN hardware) and developed plan to migrate the customers projects to desired architecture in less than 9 months.(4 datacenters across the globe)
• Improve the enterprise-level systems to support business processes and utilize emerging technologies such as Software defined networks, compartmentalization of 350 projects/customers
• Built a Cloud Infrastructure model to support public- sector clients using cloud computing technologies(IaaS and PaaS)
• Responsible for defining, managing, and communicating network and security engineering and operations for the Elabs Infrastructure businesses.
• Working with various customers and internal teams including: Identifying business needs and use them to drive strategy and processes, also responsible for defining network and security configuration/hardware standards, establishing CAPEX, OPEX budgets, function as the ES Lab routing/switching/security SME, assist in defining global support processes and operational tools.
• Define technology roadmaps, lead resolution of critical Datacenter issues, and review all major changes.
• Design and implement networks to support the general hosting service and projects with specific network requirements, design and implement network solutions hosted in the Internet DMZ, develop deployment/operations guides, logical/physical network diagrams

Confidential

Network Architect

Responsibilities:

• Network Architect for designing the MPLS & VRF Lite with Confidential backbone fiber rings and converting about 320 DC Government Agencies from Frame relay cloud to MPLS backbone.
• Building new data-center and relocations of services from obsolete datacenter Attended Nexus training at Cisco’s Herndon VA office

Lead Network Architect

Confidential, Washington, DC

Protocols Used :L2:802.1q,VTP, HSRP L3: Confidential over MPLS VRF-lite, Hardware: 6509-E with SUP 7203BXLs, 4506E/7E for user switches.

Responsibilities:

• Designed the Wireless network for the State Government agencies using the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers, Wireless Service Modules-WiSM and WCS
• Provided Wireless solutions for the Mayor Initiated Confidential free Wifi Hotspots project.
• Perform Site surveys and assessments, provide the hardware estimates, design and implement the networks for DCGOV/ Confidential agencies
• Pre-Sales, implementation, support, trouble shooting, consulting, SOWs, Work Orders, documentation and full delivery of technology.
• Responsible for defining and designing technical requirements and recommending appropriate technical solutions that support the achievement of sales goals.
• Helping sales teams by making technical presentations, answering technical questions and managing customer trial through e-mail, phone and on-site visits.
• Working with customers to develop Cisco Solutions, Present technical white board demonstrations to clients.
• Function as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer technical staff regarding proposed solution and its design, configuration, implementation, and testing specifics
• Complete and author technical sections for RFP/RFI/RFQ responses

Confidential

Services IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Providing B2B network solutions to vendors of CitiFinancial, which would involve in technologies like MPLS/VPN, Confidential and OSPF, Frame-Relay, wireless and preparation of migration and implementation plans.
• Provided leadership and direction to project teams by understanding business processes, gathering requirements, identifying potential usability issues, managing scope, and ensuring that an appropriate level of application quality was maintained at all times
• Capacity requirements planning, Technical presentations & Reporting
• Perform various test case scenarios in the LAB and implement them in the production network, which involves 2500 US CitiFinancial Network branches upon the successful result of the Lab.

Confidential

IT Portfolio Manager

Responsibilities:

• Built a Team of 50+ under Portfolio Infrastructure Software provisioning, User ID provisioning, Network Engineering and Support, Enterprise Service monitoring, Applications support and Service desk .
• Spearheaded the Citrix Engineering team to certify, package and publish 75+ IT and BPO applications into production in a span of 120 days and received appreciations from Director of IT services for clearing the backlogs and driving the team efficiently.
• Designed and developed the project plan, process flows and decision trees to achieve the Application hosting.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implement and evaluate data network (using 7206VXR, 6509-E with SUP 720 and security solutions (6509-E FWSM, VPN module, etc) and routing protocols like OSPF and Confidential
• Generating test plans/scenarios and set-up test beds to verify functionality of new design/solution or change to current process.
• Perform data transfer testing across separate switches on different VLANs.
• Configuration of ACLs, Maintenance and configuration of FWSM, Designing the IPS Solutions to protect the threats to the network and MARS for monitoring and managing the Firewalls
• Configuration and maintenance LTM 3400 series to achieve server high availability.
• Working on Load balancing and load sharing technologies at application level using F5 load balancers.
• Separation of the Confidential Motor Sales and Confidential Financial Services networks which involves in working of over more than 150 Cisco network devices.

Confidential

Team Leader

Responsibilities:

• Establish the VPN tunnels from Southfield-POP to Central NOC.
• Trouble shooting and Maintenance of Confidential protocol with the IR routers, load sharing Internet traffic. Working with regular expressions, route tagging, multihoming.
• Network Design, Analysis & Troubleshooting of existing and upcoming sites of Confidential .
• Load balancing the intra-office (server Vlans-production servers) traffic using the BIG IP F5 load balancers.
• Maintenance of Net screen 500 & 5200,creating the Security policies based on the clients requirements. Implementing the virtual firewall (contexts)
• Testing ATM traffic ATM-Frame Relay Analyzer.

Confidential

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Configured Virtual private Networks (VPN) between peer locations, Secure Remote client.
• Implemented Mail and URL Filtering software web sense, AAA using Cisco Access Control Servers, Configuring PIX Firewall Fail over.
• Modeling and Simulation of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Configuring Java Applet Blocking and URL filtering, Configuring SNMP, Configuring FTP and Url logging.