PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• 8 years of Extensive work experiences on Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, Load Balancers & amp; Cisco Firewalls.
• Proficient experience in configuring Cisco Catalyst 2900,2960, 3560, 3750, 3850, 4500, 4900, Legacy Cat 6500 series and Nexus 7010, 5548 and 2248 switches and deep understanding of architecture.
• Experience working with 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 7200, 7600 series Cisco Routers.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting of inter - VLAN routing and VLAN Trunking using 802.1Q. Implemented gateway redundancy with HSRP and GLBP
• Expertise in configuring and deployment of routing protocols-OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Policy-based routing over Cisco Routers, configuring and troubleshooting route redistribution.
• Extensive knowledge in implementing and configuring F5 Big-IP LTM-3900, and 6900 Load balancers.
• Strong working experience on Cisco Firewalls, ACS, Cisco ASA 5525.
• Intermed8iate level understanding of Juniper JUNOS, M series router and SRX firewalls.
• Comprehensive expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Worked on T1/E1/T3 technologies and different LAN & amp; WAN technologies, FTP, TFTP and DHCP configuration and setup.
• Extensive implementation of firewall rules on Juniper SRX 3400 and NetScreen 5500 on a daily basis, using CLI.
• Performed testing on PoE devices for conformance to the IEEE 802.3 Clause 33 standard.
• Hands on Knowledge/experience on F5 load balancers, its methods, implementation and troubleshooting on LTMs and GTMs.
• Outstanding experience in designing and configuring of Layer 2 / 3 networking features such as VLAN, ISL, STP, VTP, 802.1X, Port Security, L2PT and SPAN.
• Experience with implementation of DNS and DHCP protocols and Configure Protocols MPLS: TDP, LDP, L2VPN, VPLS, AToM, RSVP-TE, QoS.
• Create and manage operational requirements for both VM and operations team to define process for managing storage, compute and network resources from within VMware console and web interface.
• Implementing IP addressing schemes, LAN/WAN protocols, IP Services, to meet network requirements in different environments.
• Build Network architecture with the use of firewall.
• Successfully managed and delivered VPLS/Bridging feature, L2TPv3 features on new platform.
• Experience securing and managing remote access using various VPN technologies like IPSec, SSL and GRE.
• Knowledge of VoIP, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCME), AAA, RADIUS, TACAACS+.
• Working knowledge of network monitoring/management tools like Wireshark, TCP dump, Cisco Prime, Net Flow, PRGT, Solar Winds.
• Expert in configuring Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Cisco APIC.
• Expertise in the configuration and troubleshooting of Routing Protocols like RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, ODR, BGP, MP-BGP, VRF-LITE, Redundancy Protocols like VRRP and HSRP.
• Experience working with virtualization software like Whatsup, VMware.
• Highly motivated with the ability to work independently or as an integral part of a team and committed to highest levels of professionalism.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routers: Cisco 7600, 7200, 3900, 3800,3600, 2900, 2800, 2600,1800,1700

Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP v1/v2, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, and Static Routing.

Switches: Nexus 2K/5K/7K, Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3700,6500, 4500, 3850,3560, 3750, 2960

Switching: LAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi-Layer Switch, Ether channels, Transparent Bridging.

Network Security: ASA (5505, 5510) Firewall Cisco, ACL, NAT/PAT, IPSEC, F5 Load Balancer, Checkpoint

Load Balancer: F5 Networks (Big-IP) LTM 8900 and 6400.

LAN: Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

WAN: PPP, HDLC, Channelized links (T1/T3), Fiber Optic Circuits, Frame Relay, VOIP

Gateway Redundancy: HSRP and GLBP

WAN Optimizer: Riverbed Steelhead Appliance

DHCP and DNS: Infoblox

Various Features & Services: IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, TFTP, FTP.

IP Telephony: VOIP, FXO/FXS/E&M/T1/ISDN/PRI, Call manager Express

Network Management: Wireshark, SNMP, Solarwinds

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Miami, FL

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, Implementation and Maintain control center in Austin TX on CISCO ISR 4300, CISCO 3560, CISCO ASA 5525X AND CISCO SERIES 7000 IPS.
• Responsible for ATL - PCC (PRIMARY CONTROL CNETER) Wan migration to new BCC.
• Configure and maintain Bridge Domain Interface (BDI) on cisco 4330
• Configure and maintain STP under BDI for redundancy
• Responsible for configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF & amp; EIGRP on Cisco Routers 4331, ASR 1000, and 3560, 3850, 3750, Nx 7k.
• Configuring and maintaining DMVPN between data centers and Substaions.
• Creating firewall rules for new networks for EMS (Energy Management system)
• Creating MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, Natting, NAC product sub-netting, also including DNS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP &; Multicasting protocols.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco 3750, 3650, 3560, 3850, 6500, 7000 series switch, GSR, ASR routers with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR and NX.
• Experience on configuring and troubleshooting Cisco nexus 9k/7k/5k/2k datacenter Switches.
• Coordinating with Vendors for creating and modifying firewall and NAT rules and Maintaining Site to Site and SSL VPN tunnels.
• Configure and maintain Route maps, static routes and distribution list on cisco ASA 5525X firewalls
• Configure and Maintain cisco 4G Wireless Routers
• Responsible for creating network configurations for Cisco ASR1k, CRS, Nexus 7000, 7609, 7613, 6509, 4509, 5500, 3550, 2620, 2621, 1720.
• Preformed IOS upgrades on cisco routers and switches and network configuration and troubleshooting (802.3 and 802.11).
• Involved in complete LAN, and WAN development and optimization as per the organization’s requirement plan.
• Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems, and software development tools.
• Monitoring remote servers via WHATS APP GOLD web interface.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco ASR1K, ASR9K series routers and Catalyst 6500, 3500 series switches.
• Implemented Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) by tuning parameters like preemption
• Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.
• Decommissioning and consolidating existing branch networks.
• Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1Q, IPsec and GRE Tunneling, VLAN, Ether Channel, STP RSTP, PVST+,L2TPv3.
• Configured Nexus 5K, 7K, Cisco 3800, ASR 1K routers and 2960, 3750, 6500 switches as part of the day to day activities.
• Experience working with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN cloud, involving VRF, Route Distinguisher (RD), Route Target (RT), Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) & MP-BGP.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on ASA firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Responsible for data center upgrade at LFO and DYT.
• Design and Implement New Network for EMS 3.1 upgrade. (Routing, FW rules and redundancy)
• Design and Implement Lab network for new server’s configuration and testing the network functionality
• Network configuration for new ESX and AIX servers and hosts.
• Analyzed Network design to determine what were the major problems and improvements needed to be made to the network infrastructure. Configured VPN and IPSEC/GRE tunnel on ASR 1K, ISR 4300 AND ASA 5525X Series routers
• Concentrators TCP/IP, NAT and Checkpoint firewall.
• Providing Layer-3 redundancy by implementing HSRP in the network.
• Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP and OSI models.
• Configure the layer 2 and layer 3 on Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 6500, 3850, 3950, ASR and 2960.
• Design and implement networks including physical connections, layer 2 topologies and layer 3 topologies.
• Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS.
• Implementing IPsec and GRE tunnels in VPN technology.
• Create a Lab Network for testing the functionality of Cisco Merkai MR series Wireless Ap’s.
• Experience in Phyton scripting
• Created Visio Dean / Visio Documentation to give complete picture of network design for each building.
• Experience in Configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system.
• Worked with engineering team to resolve tickets and troubleshoot L3/L2 problems efficiently.
• Propose network redesign based on client hardware guidelines, network policies and individual site’s unique characteristics.
• Suncrest substation network design and implementation
• Created a virtual lab environment which replicates the current environment on GNS3 and GNs3vm on ESXI platform

Environment: Cisco ASA 5525x, Cisco ASR, CISCO ISR, MPLS, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, HSRP, LAN, WAN, LSA FilteringF5 Big-IP LTM-6400, DHCP, DNS, DMZ, L2TPv3, VLAN Trunking 802.1Q, Whatsup gold, EMC DMX, AIX AND ESX.

Confidential, Littleton, CO

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for configuration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF & amp; EIGRP (route redistribution, distribute lists, route-maps, offset-lists, prefix lists, route summarization, route-feedback, BGP attributes) on Cisco Routers 7613, 7201, and 3945E.
• Creating frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, Natting, NAC product sub-netting, also including DNS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP &; Multicasting protocols.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 2924, 6509-V- E, 6513, 6504,6503, 6506, 6500 series switch, GSR, ASR routers with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR and NX.
• Installed, configured and managed Cisco routers such as 7200 series, 3800 series, 3700 series, 2800 series and Cisco Catalyst switch series 6500, 4500, 3500, and 2900.
• Experience on configuring and troubleshooting Cisco nexus 9k/7k/5k/2k datacenter Switches.
• Coordinating with Vendors for creating and modifying firewall and NAT rules and Maintaining Site to Site and SSL VPN tunnels.
• Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) as a solution for data centers using a Spine and Leaf architecture.
• Responsible for creating network configurations for Cisco ASR9k, CRS, Nexus 7000, 7609, 7613, 6509, 4509, 5500, 3550, 2620, 2621, 1720, Junipers MX960, M320 and M7i's.
• Building new Verizon branch data networks of various sizes from small to large sites.
• Preformed IOS upgrades on cisco routers and switches and network configuration and troubleshooting (802.3 and 802.11).
• Involved in complete LAN, and WAN development and optimization as per the organization’s requirement plan.
• Involved in a wide range of security issues including architectures, firewalls, electronic data traffic, intrusion detection systems, enterprise anti-virus systems, and software development tools.
• Operate and maintain the VMI VOIP System to include Cisco End Points, CUCM 9.x, Unity 9.x, VMWare Virtual Environment hosting VOIP Servers. Install, maintain, and upgrade VOIP Software and Hardware, including Wireless Access Points and Route/Switch Hardware.
• Monitoring remote servers via solar-winds web interface.
• Experience working Juniper T-Series, M-Series, MX-Series, J-Series Routers.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 7200VXR, ASR1K, ASR9K series routers and Catalyst 6500, 2900 series switches.
• Worked on Cisco Routers, Active /Passive Hubs, Switches, Cisco PIX Firewall, NOKIA Firewalls, Nortel VPN Concentrators TCP/IP, NAT and Checkpoint ESX/GSX firewall.
• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA 3060 to protect Data Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls
• Implemented Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) by tuning parameters like preemption
• Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.
• Provisioning of Vlans and configuration on layer 2 and 3 aggregators like Cinna, Calix, and AFC devices.
• Implementation of Wireless access points to newly opened branches and existing branches.
• Decommissioning and consolidating existing branch networks.
• Connecting network sites to the Internal MPLS cloud.
• Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1Q, IPsec and GRE Tunneling, VLAN, Ether Channel, STP RSTP, PVST+, L2TPv3.
• Participated on VMware, Solar Wind application (ADL) testing team for server consolidation/higher system availability project.
• Configured Nexus 5K, 7K, Cisco 3900, ASR 1K routers and 2960, 3750, 6500 switches as part of the day to day activities.
• Taught H.248 Signaling class to 30+ students at Avaya. Mentored 20+ associates at Avaya, primarily
• Assigned to manage large Avaya Enterprise projects for top accounts. Planned, evaluated, and implemented large complex IT and Telecom Infrastructure projects for global corporate clients.
• Experience working with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN cloud, involving VRF, Route Distinguisher (RD), Route Target (RT), Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) & MP-BGP.
• Worked on migration of existing PIX firewall to ASA firewall, PIX OS upgrade from 6.3 to 7.0.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on ASA firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Implemented Juniper EX2200, EX3200, Ex3300, EX4200 Juniper Wireless 800 series, Junos 11.4R, 12.2R Junos 7.7, Ring.
• Created a graphical application to work with Avaya's Communication Manager debugging terminal to show VoIP source occupancy by location/region and by VoIP type (legacy VoIP card, H.248 Media Gateway, Avaya Media Server).
• Work with Verizon Wireless data network architecture to track IPs, isolate host location, and import data into IPC tool.
• Analyzed Network design to determine what were the major problems and improvements needed to be made to the network infrastructure. Configured VPN and IPSEC/GRE tunnel on VXR 7201, 1841, 2911, and 2811.
• Built a base of commercial customers and market solar products and electrical services to them.
• Direct Sale of solar pool heating arrays to home owners.
• Worked on Cisco Routers, Active /Passive Hubs, Switches, Cisco PIX Firewall, NOKIA Firewalls, Nortel VPN Concentrators TCP/IP, NAT and Checkpoint ESX/GSX firewall.
• Experience with design and implementation of Virtual Switching System (VSS) for both User segment and server segment using 6509-V- E catalyst switches.
• Providing Layer-3 redundancy by implementing HSRP in the network.
• Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP and OSI models.
• Configure the layer 2 and layer 3 on Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 6509, 9710, 5596UP, 4500, 3850, 3950, ASR and 2960.
• Design and implement networks including physical connections, layer 2 topologies and layer 3 topologies.
• Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.
• Implementing IPsec and GRE tunnels in VPN technology.
• Created Visio Dean / Visio Documentation to give complete picture of network design for each building.
• Experience in Configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system.
• Worked with engineering team to resolve tickets and troubleshoot L3/L2 problems efficiently.
• Implemented VoIP solutions using SIP & H.323, also have sound knowledge of Avaya VoIP products.
• Propose network redesign based on client hardware guidelines, network policies and individual site’s unique characteristics.

Environment: Cisco ASA 5505, Cisco ASR, MPLS, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, HSRP, LAN, WAN, LSA Filtering, F5 Big-IP LTM-6400, DHCP, DNS, DMZ, L2TPv3, VLAN Trunking 802.1Q, Solar Wind, EMC DMX-3,5.

Confidential, NYC, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800 routers and 2950, 3700, 6500 switches.
• Maintained and managed networks running OSPF and BGP routing protocols.
• Configured route redistribution between OSPF and EIGRP in a multi-area OSPF network.
• Daily monitoring of network traffic using sniffers (Wireshark) and access logs to troubleshoot and identify network issues.
• Troubleshoot issues related to VLAN, VLAN Trunking, HSRP failovers, related issues.
• Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo Alto Networks.
• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3060 firewalls to protect Data Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls.
• Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo Alto Networks.
• Implemented Zone Based Firewalling and Security Rules on the Palo Alto Firewall.
• Exposure to wild fire feature of Palo Alto.
• Implementing security policy configurations and nodes via Juniper SRX-3400 FW and NetScreen 5500.
• Performed switching technology administration including VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, trunking, port aggregation.
• Modified internal infrastructure by adding switches to support server farms and added servers to existing DMZ environments to support new and existing application platforms.
• Configured site-to-site and remote user access VPN connections. Configuring switch for 802.1x port based authentication.
• Implemented Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure ( ACI ) as a solution for data centers using a Spine and Leaf architecture.
• Worked on T1/E1/T3 technologies and different LAN & amp; WAN technologies, FTP, TFTP and DHCP configuration and setup.
• Developing wrapper application using Cisco (ACI) SDK based on Cisco Nexus 9000 series switches. Componentized key attribute specific and generic objects in Cobra (ACI) SDK to speed up network programmability solutions.
• Network diagram creation using Microsoft Visio. Integration with 3rd party RMM software such as Solar Winds, Level Platforms, Op Manager and Packet Trap.
• Create GRE tunnels to remote Sites for user access and remote support.
• Configure and maintain OSPF, EIGRP and BGP routing for several networks.
• Expert level configuration of Layer 2 technology including VLANS, Trunking, STP, RSTP, PVST, MST, VTP in addition to port-security, Uplink fast, Backbone fast, Port fast, BPDU guard & filter and Ether channel including LACP & PAGP negotiations.
• Responsible for Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
• Generating RCA (Root Cause Analysis) for critical issues of layer1/layer2/layer3 problems.
• Administered the UNIX System for clustered AIX Servers running HACMP and dynamic LPARs with fiber attached SAN storage.
• Installed and configured VIOS servers and related LPARs through HMC.
• Responsible for NIM installation, setting up NIM servers, clients, define the resources, Alternate Disk Migration with NIM.
• Involved in installation, configuration and troubleshooting issues related to JCAPS .
• Responsible to apply patches, fixes and service packs to JCAPS .
• Provided support for other UNIX based applications and servers on an as needed basis.
• Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform cleanup of file systems on UNIX environments using Perl scripting and CRON.
• Assisted other UNIX administrators when help was needed (i.e., creating UNIX accounts, writing scripts to perform system administrator functions, responding to trouble tickets, etc).
• Worked on migration of Sun Solaris UNIX servers to Linux (Novell/SuSe 9.0) on Dell Blade Servers and Windows 2003.
• Extensively worked on TCP/IP networks, Win NT (WINS/DNS/DHCP) UNIX (NIS, NFS, SSH & Samba), LAN/WAN Technology, messaging services and Internet Services (DNS, SMTP, POP3/IMAP4, Send mail, Web, Proxy, Radius).
• Active involvement in monitoring server performance, network traffic to reduce performance bottleneck.
• Created and configured dynamic VIOLPARs on p5-520, p5-550, p5-570 and p5-595.
• Responsible for implementing, engineering & level 2 support of existing network technologies / services & integration of new network technologies / services.
• Extensively debugged of SIP protocols anomalies with tcp-dump/Wireshark analyzer.
• Hands-on experience in using Reporting tools like SAP Query, Report Painter/ Report Writer and Drill Down Reports which used for analysis, performance, accounts history, and day to day business processes.
• I help provide project coordinators with answers concerning *installation of customer services. Including hosted PBX, VOIP, SIP, *MPLS, EIA, and other data services.
• Network design use to assist in performing network evaluation were Solar-Winds engineering toolset, Wireshark, SSH Putty, Solar-Winds Orion.
• Configure, monitor and trouble-shoot Juniper Net-screen firewall.
• Provides IT analytical and technical support to approximately 1, 000 ACC/A5/8/9 information systems users by performing long-term projects as well as reacting to critical, time sensitive issues; manages the NetQDRA Web Console database to create, maintain, and troubleshoot approximately 1,000 local/domain user accounts on unclassified computer systems and classified systems
• Server maintenance, VM Ware, VOIP Cisco Phone Systems, Imaging, Data recovery, OS upgrades, and various other facets of IT Support.
• Planned, designed and executed ground up new multi-domain Active Directory forest including Exchange and migration of employees with zero downtime in the process. This included having a team that executed the migration while business.
• Applied current security principles to the design, development, evaluation, and integration of computer systems and networks to maintain system security through the use of ST.
• Monitoring and tuning the shared pool, Buffer cache, Disk I/O.
• Worked in Primary Environment: SRX220, SRX650, SRX3600 and Checkpoint R77.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 2924, 6509-V- E, 6513, 6504, 6503, 6506, 6500 series switches, GSR, ASR routers with Cisco IOS and IOS-XR.
• Interact directly with the Avaya's IT organization to plan, implement and deploy application updates into our corporate production environment.
• Senior platform engineer for the configuration, deployment and migration of the production VM-ware infrastructure from existing Dell platform to UCS blade center.
• Worked on configuring and managing wireless access points of multiple vendors like Cisco, Avaya and Aruba.
• Install and maintain Network operations involving VOIP and IP . Troubleshooting and repairing communications equipment to include satellites, UHF, and VHF equipment
• Experience Branch Relocation: Connect workstation, servers, etc. Rack and stack Pre-configured new hardware.
• Design and deploy new VM-environment including migration and upgrading VM-ware to version 6.1, V-center server modules including operations manager.
• Introduced new server hardware and consolidated servers from 5 to 4, migrating from Windows . Merged 2 Active Directory Forests into 1.
• Route redistribution and route update manipulation using route-maps; distribute lists and AD manipulation and link negotiation.
• Configuration and maintenance of 3750 stack and 6500 VSS for improved efficiency of the data plane.
• Configuration and management of NEXUS network in the existing network infrastructure.
• Created LAB setup with 7k and 5K NEXUS switches for application testing.

Environment: Nexus 2k/5k/7k, Cisco 6500/7500/7200 Routers, Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches, Juniper SRX100, LAN, WAN, OSPF, RIP, BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, PPP, VPN, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA.

Confidential

Cisco and Linux Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support.
• Supporting EIGRP and BGP based PwC network by resolving level 2 &3 problems of internal teams & external customers of all locations.
• Day to day network troubleshooting at the Alcatel lucent area network.
• Maintained Edge connection on Alcatel lucent 7750 SR - 12.
• Upgrade Cisco Routers, Switches and Firewall (PIX) IOS using TFTP.
• Troubleshoot latency and throughput issues on MPLS and Dedicated Internet Access circuit which is built out of Verizon MPLS with Juniper Cisco 2600/Juniper SSG5 devices.
• Updated the HP open view map to reflect and changes made to any existing node/object.
• Handled SRST and implemented and configured the Gateways, Voice Gateways.
• Configuring HSRP between the 3845 router pairs for Gateway redundancy for the client desktops.
• Configuring STP for switching loop prevention and VLANs for data and voice along with Configuring port security for users connecting to the switches.
• Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex L2/L3 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, STP, RSTP, MPLS and MST.
• Worked on Infoblox for creating the DNS entries, A records and CNAMEs
• Supported Data Center migration and consolidation project.
• Deployed Riverbed WAN optimizers and F5 load balancers.
• Configured VPC, FEX and VDC’s on Nexus 5K, 7K.
• Cisco Switches Nexus 2K, 3K,5K,7K,9K's &Catalyst 6500, 4510, 4500-x, 3800, 3750x, 3550, 2960s Firewalls &Load Balancers Checkpoint, ASA 55xx series.
• Experience in NTP, DNS(BIND), Homedir, LDAP on various UNIX platforms AIX, Linux and Solaris.
• Developed automated processes that run daily to check disk usage and perform clean up of file systems on UNIX environments using shell scripting and CRON .
• Worked on Infoblox appliances grid environment for DNS, DHCP and IP Address Management tools (IPv4), for the State Farm enterprise network.
• Maintained production critical servers running Solaris UNIX , Linux supporting Oracle database and Web services. Providing 24x7 supports.
• Experienced in Installing Firmware Upgrades, kernel patches, systems configuration, performance tuning on UNIX/Linux systems.
• Created Domains, Servers, and Clusters by using WebLogic Administration Console on various Production Servers.
• System level monitoring on Linux and Infoblox Appliances to watch process and service statuses, like Performance Monitoring & Tuning
• Installed and Configured Emulex ( lpfc ) LP10000, Qlogic qlc2300, HBAs on various HP Proliant DL servers.
• Installed and configured Power Path 4.5 on Sun Enterprise Ultra E450, V880, V1280, E2900, E6900 and E25K Domain Boxes.
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting VMware View Composer and View Connection Manager to make Virtual Desktop Infrastructure efficient and to simplify desktop administrative management tasks Responsible for successfully upgrading all hosts and Center servers to vSphere 4.1
• Racking, stacking and dress cabling Data center IT equipment (Network gear , Servers & Disk Frames ).
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches.
• Coordinate with Server, Security, Application teams along with 3rd party vendors to provision and setup third party servers, network devices in Data Center environment.
• Work with 3rd party vendors and application owners to migrate site to site VPN’s to new datacenter on Alcatel Lucent 7750.
• Configure, deploy and troubleshoot 4400 wireless controllers and 1200 LWAPP’s.
• Monitor network health using tools like eHealth, Cisco Prime, Spectrum and recommend optimization solutions.
• Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Wire-Shark, Solar-winds etc.
• Create BOM’s and network implementation plans.
• Experienced in Broadcom ICOS code base.
• Installed and maintained local printer as well as network printers.
• Conduct High Level design (HLD) sessions with Application SME and Engineers.
• Handled installation of Windows NT Server and Windows NT Workstations.
• Handled Tech Support as it relates to LAN & WAN systems.
• Map out existing network and forthcoming changes in Visio as part of the quarterly network audit process.

Environment: Cisco 2950/3500/5000/6500 switches, Cisco 7600/7200/3800 Routers, ACL, LAN, WAN, RIP, OSPF, BGP, IPV4, Solar winds, Juniper SRX, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, TFTP, F5 Load Balancer, Cisco ASA

Confidential

Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• Configured and troubleshooting HSRP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS WAN, QoS and Route Maps.
• Configured and maintaining Cisco 7200, 4400, 5000 and 6500 platforms.
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues involving VLAN’s, OSPF, QoS etc.
• Support, monitor and manage the IP network.
• Performance monitoring of various applications and web servers to maintain quality of service and network stability.
• Maintained core switches, creating VLAN’s and configuring VTP.
• Designed IP Addressing schemes, VLAN tables and Switchport assignments, Trunking and Ether-channel implementation.
• Gained hands on experience with VLSM, STP, VTP, VLAN Trunking.
• Installed and set up Cisco routers and switches according to deployment plans.
• Applied access lists and NAT configurations based on implementation guidelines.
• Managed and developed network projects designed to strengthen network continuity and deploy security elements in an attempt to meet and exceed contract requirements, including system analysis and troubleshooting.
• Change management, monitoring network performance with network tools.
• IP Distribution for existing devices and new devices as they were added.
• Preformed maintenance on equipment as necessary, performing device upgrades, modification of configurations, password changes and diagnostic testing.
• Worked with vendors and Engineering team to test new hardware and procedures.
• Prepared and maintained documentation using MS Visio.