SUMMARY

• Over 15 year’s professional working experience in Planning/Designing/Project Implementation / Network Engineer / Administrator Position in Cisco Unified Communication (VoIP) as well as Core distribution and Data Center space.
• Certified F5 BIG - IP Administrator ( F5 LTM / GTM)
• Attended Cisco ACI training including Nexus 9K, ACI Fabric and APIC controller
• Router Performance Optimization: Managing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and upgrading for software and hardware for routers and Catalyst ranging Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K, 2800, 2900,, 3800,3900, 4500, 5500, 6000, 7000 and VPN concentrator 3000 series, UCS Blade chassis and Rack mount Servers, MDS Director Fabric 9xxx Switches.
• Network and Systems Planning, Setups, Security (Check point, PIX) and Monitoring, Integration of Internet works involving High-End Sun Enterprise Servers, Cisco and New bridge equipment (Routers, Access servers & Switches), Compaq and IBM Servers. Internet and Intranet Solid understanding in Internet Security, hardware, software, LAN/WAN & OS troubleshooting
• Virtualization: Experience and trained on VMware virtualization, vSphere, vCenter and vMotion technologies, Nexus 1000v switch
• Communication Manager, Unity, Presence, Cisco Emergency Responder, IPCC, Gateway (H323, MGCP, SIP), Gatekeeper, Microsoft Office Communication Server.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network consultant

Responsibilities:

• Designed infrastructure for distribution center WMS database and migration in Oracle Cloud using terraform enterprise as an infrastructure code.
• Working on SDWAN (Cisco Viptela) design and rollout to Loblaw’s and Shopper Drug Mart stores, office and distribution locations. Testing PoC for ISRv deployment on ENCS.
• Designed and deployed Cisco DNA Center for zero touch provision for Loblaw’s store vEdge on Cisco ENCS NFVIS.
• Working on designing and migrating various applications and databases to Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud (GCP). Deploying Load Balancers, Palo Alto firewalls in Oracle/Google and Azure cloud.
• Enabling / working for On-Prem to Cloud connectivity to Oracle/GCP/Azure is via Equinix cloud connect.

Confidential

Data Center Architect - Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked as part of architect and design team in evaluation of SDWAN technology between Cisco Viptela and VMware VeloCloud.
• Set up SDWAN POC Pilot design among Data Center and few Manulife US small branch and campus location as well as with Microsoft Azure off-prem VNETs.
• Worked on architecture and design of VMware networking using NSX(T) version 2.4 architecture including multi-pod design in two Canadian Manulife data centers.
• Other day to day project that includes server farm, extranet, internet and other zones in Data centers
• Software strategy and recommendations for Manulife network.

Confidential

Network Data Center Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working in HP data center migration program for its charlotte data in USA to migrate Air Service account to HP new data center at Tulsa Data center in USA.
• Airline services account consists of all major airlines including United, Delta, COPA and other Airlines
• Source data center Network consists of Cisco switches and firewall, F5 Load balancer, HP tipping point IPS systems migrating to HP network devices, Cisco and Checkpoint firewall, F5 Load balancer and HP IPS/IDS
• Working on HP and customer owned WAN circuit’s migration strategy from source to target data center.
• Migrated airline mainframe system from old to new data center with 175K terminal and 40K printers connected to from around the world.
• Helped Partner Sales team creating high level design for Cisco ACI fabric with multi-fabric design with super and fabric spine and leaf switches, involves Nexus 9K and Cisco Catalyst 9K switches.

Confidential

Senior Data Center Network Consultant/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Working on planning, designing and implementation of TD VXLAN based fabric Next-Generation Data Center project
• Worked with team to evaluate NGDC solutions from different vendors (Cisco Nexus9K switches on ACI and VXLAN mode, Arista 7050SX and 7500E )
• As a lead consultant developed Low Level Design document for BGP-EVPN based VXLAN stretched fabric data center design
• Working on migration plan strategies for TD server farm applications and servers from old data center to new next generation data center.
• Spine/leaf architecture is built with Nexus 9508 as spine, 9396PX and 9332PQ as vPC compute, border and services leaf
• Prepared documentations for rack, power and cabling requirements for the next generation data center.

Confidential

Senior Data Center Consultant/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Lead Data Center Consultant to plan, design, build and migrate one of the Manulife data center location to their new data center.
• Working on refreshing existing data center from 6500 switches server farm to Nexus infrastructure at Manulife secondary data center
• Data Center Migration involves complete Plan/Design/Implementation for their multiple network zones including core and distribution network infrastructure, server farm network zone, extranet partner network zone, trusted partner zone and Internet Public landing zone.
• Working as a Lead for team consists of network consultants responsible in Implement and Migrating from Old data Center to new Data Center for Manulife Insurance company
• Data Center consists of Nexus 7010/5596/2248/3548 architecture using Fabric Path, OTV and vPC technologies in a virtualized VDC environment.
• Worked to build and test new Data Center infrastructure in an offline environment with technologies Fabric Path, OTV, vPC, EIGRP, STP and migration of elements to production data center followed by integration with existing Manulife network.
• Deployed F5 Global Traffic Manager (GTM-1600) and F5 Local Traffic Manager (LTM - Viprion 2400) in two data center for services to migrate from Cisco CSS and GSS.

Confidential

Senior Data Center Consultant/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Work in progress of designing/ implementation of Loblaw’s new data center having 1200+ servers including rack, Blade and virtualized servers based on Nexus vPC, Fabric Path and OTV architecture.
• Migrated Loblaw’s Head Office Core switches from older 6509 pair to 10 gig capable core with VSS architecture having connected to 38 x 3750 stack switches serving 4500+seats complex environment.
• Providing consultancy for Loblaw Core having pair of Nexus 7010 in a vPC environment in their dual data Center environment.
• Migrated President choice bank Head Office location to new building with new design and build of 6509 core in VSS architecture and 3750 stack as access-layer. Also deployed 500 Seat voip solution with Cisco Unified Communication Manager cluster on UCS and Unity connection for voicemail and Voice and Analog Gateways.
• Providing Consultancy for migration of 4500+ phones from Nortel PBX to Cisco Unified Communication cluster at their Head Office location at Brampton.
• It was a multi-cluster environment with running CUCM version 9.x, Unity 9.x
• Evaluated and Implemented Storage Area Network (SAN) using FCoE FCiP, iSCSI in a pre-production environment using Cisco Nexus 5K switches with NetApp storage arrays.