SUMMARY

• A highly accomplished and business - focused, IT Operations leader with more than 18 years of hand-on management experience in data center, wireless and security architect in multiple technologies with budget planning and management, as well as a wide array of expertise.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• In-depth understanding of L1 to L7 Protocols (VTP, VLAN, Spline and STP (PVST, RSTP, MSTP,),Trunking/Tagging, Port-channel, VPC, Peer-link, MLAG, Routing Protocol ( RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, VRRP, HSRP, DNS, MPLS, SD-WAN), others SSL, HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, NAT, and QoS (DiffServ, RSVP).
• Experience in Server Load Balancing (Netsclar and F5).
• Network Data traffic Monitoring experience by using Gigamon and Opnet ACE LIVE devices (4000 and 5000 series product lines), Manage engine(Op-Manager), Solar winds, Spice works, NetBrian, HP IMC, Cisco DNA Center ( design, provision, enable policy, and assure network performance from one place), and splunk .
• Network Hardware (Cisco Catalyst, Nexus (9k,7k, 5k and 2K), ACI, Juniper, HP, Arista, Aerohive, Aruba, Dell, Talari, Silver peak, Netscaler, F5, Confidential and Routers (ISR,ASR, 7200,3600,2800)
• QoS implementation and troubleshooting experience in LAN and WAN environment.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Solution Architect / Lead Network Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Data Center and Infrastructure/enterprise design, build, migration of network, Security and wireless in a high growth, high availability disaster recovery architecture environment.
• Multi-certified and well-rounded technology professional with experience managing enterprise implementations of network, wireless and security solutions
• Performed Network Management and Network assessments relating to IT Operations, System Integration and Acquisitions.
• Technical team growth and best in class enterprise skills development, Vendor Relationships, Negotiation and Wide Understanding of upcoming technologies roadmap aligned with corporate goals. IT best practices and compliance program that support process and development.
• Network/ Infrastructure design include on-perm, branch offices and cloud deployment that include following vendors equipment’s Cisco Nexus 9k, 7K, 5K and 2K, Cisco ACI, Cisco ASA Cisco ISE, Arista, HP (networking & wireless Aruba & Clearpass), Juniper( QFX, EX, SRX), Silver peak (SD-WAN), AWS, Azure, Palo Alto Networks Firewall and endpoint protection Palo Alto Trap, Check Point Firewall, Fortinet Fortigate, EPP/EDR Cylance, CrowStrike and various other Security vendors.
• Working experience with single sign on / MFA / two factors on Okta, Duo and networking monitoring LogRhythom, Splunk, Juno Space, Solar winds, Spice works, NetBrian, HP IMC, Cisco DNA Center.
• Architect and Deployment of Datacenter environments focusing on Networking, Security and Virtualization of servers with VMware and Hyper-V.
• Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into product requirements.
• Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.
• Interacts directly with business leaders to design and implement a technology solution to a business challenge. Provide technical pre-sales/post-sales consulting support to the direct Sales team to determine the scope and type of networking activity in potential customer engagements.
• Create and present technical presentations to customers with white board explanations. Develop technical collateral to highlight best practices.
• Deliver professional services such as network configuration, migration, integration and troubleshooting as described in a statement-of-work.
• Help customers, and system engineers with product related questions and hands-on technical training.
• Collaborate with the other members of the architecture team to design, develop, and implement end-to-end integrated systems
• Write SOW, technical bulletins, test plans, and deployment planning documents as needed to support

  customer engagements.

• Generated design guidelines and recommended improvements to customer’s networks
• Managed team and related projects

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented Cisco network solutions that accurately reflect the customer stated objectives
• Developed comprehensive and detailed Statements of Work, Bill of Materials, and level of effort for Cisco network deployments.
• Worked with users and with project teams to identify business and technical requirements.
• Implemented and supported route/switch/security solutions for users based on best practices.
• Performed network readiness and current state assessments.
• Provided quality assurance documentation review and peer review on projects.
• Efficiently deliver high-quality Cisco-focused services to customers.
• Applied expert knowledge of Cisco technologies to designs and implementation of Data center networks.
• Met customer and internal deadlines for deliverables.
• Created and implemented troubleshooting and problem resolution plans as needed.
• Studied and learned new products, protocols, and networking technology.
• Mentor other engineers.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Worked on Juniper SRX 5800, Nexus 7000, 5000 & 2K, ASA Firewall 5585, Cat6500, IBM 4k Blade server
• Mostly Protocol involved OSPF, BGP. HSRP, LCAP, etc…

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Providing network engineering & security support to a customer base of approximately 1400 companies across a wide range of industries.
• Supporting NaviCloud enterprise-class infrastructure based on Cisco Nexus 7/5/2k series switches and VMware products.
• Consulting and implementing network routing/switching and security solutions based on the customer infrastructure requirements and needs.
• Planning and implementing networking projects, configuration, installations and support for all sites worldwide.
• Implemented and troubleshooting of networking
• Involved in troubleshooting of VPN and firewall issues (Fortigate, ASA, Palo Alto Firewall, etc.).
• Designing and managing security solutions such as SRX Juniper 3600 SSL VPN, RSA Secure ID appliances, Site-to-Site VPNs, MPLS VPN and ASA firewalls.
• Dealing with different load-balancing devices (MPX/VPX Netscaler, F5 (BIG-IP ), Alteon, and CSS).
• Configured advance ACL for FW and other routers devices for traffic control.
• Day-to-day data center maintenance.

Sr. QA Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Working as Sr. Network Engineer and leading multiple projects.
• Designed and deployed Cisco wireless solution on the campus.
• Designed and Deployed VPN solution using Cisco and Palo Alto product lines.
• Designed and implemented Network/application monitoring system, using Gigamon 10G aggregators’ switches and OPNET ACE LIVE products.
• Working on campus deployment and expansion. Using Cisco 6500, 4500, 3750, 2600, 3800 and Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000 series switches.
• Worked on multiple devices to secure network infrastructure.
• Data center design and implementation experience.

Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• I have lead numerous Enterprise level projects including a wide range of technologies including VoIP, Video, MPLS, Frame-Replay, Security, and Wireless.
• Experience dealing with routing protocols (RIP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS) and Switching (VLAN, Trunking, and EtherChannel ).
• Working knowledge of Polycom “Telepresence” networking experience.
• Experience on network assessment for VoIP and Video deployment.
• Working as pre/post sales engineer to show some technologies demo to the customers.
• Design and working experience of SIP / H323 protocol with MCS5100 and Asterisk.
• Working experience of Nortel, Cisco, Confidential VoIP Unified Communication products CS1K, BCM, MC5100 using SCCP (Skinny), Unified Networks IP Stimulus

  (UNISTIM) protocol, SIP, H323. QoS Implementation on VoIP network.

Sr. Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting different customers’ issues related to networking (hardware/software).
• Dealing with a variety of protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP, ISIS, MPLS, Frame-relay, ATM, Multicasting, VVRP, HSRP, GLSB, ARP, DNS, HTTP, FTP, Telnet, DHCP, NAT, etc.).
• Certified in Confidential /Foundry product lines.

Solution Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Managed customer’s projects with different vendor’s products, and resolved complex technical issues related to VoIP, Video, and Routing protocols.
• Managed projects related to customers Network Audit and Performance used varieties of testing tools like NetIQ Chariot, Vivinet, etc.
• Experience in using different Firewall products like NetScreen, Cisco ASA, PIX and Checkpoint.
• The experience of security audit using different tools like Nessus, snort and etc.
• The experience of Real-Time Streaming along with Multicast routing.
• Troubleshooting experience of Alteon L4 to L7 Products features like SLB, GSLB, WAN load balancer, Web Cache Redirector, SSL and Cookie persistence.
• Resolved escalated customer issues with minimum service disruption.
• Experienced in 802.11i wireless/wire security standard like 802.1x, PKI, CA (certificate Authority) WPA-TKIP, WPA-AES, EAP-TLS, PEAP, and EAP-TLS. Configured and tested Nortel and 3rd party Radius Servers like Free Radius and IAS. ACS.
• Lead and mentored offshore team, reviewed Functional Design Specs, testing, and signed-off on the Docs before executing the projects.
• Design/Implementation/ Troubleshooting experience on VoIP solution on wired and wireless products.
• Reproduced customer reported problems in the lab and helped developers to resolve the issues.
• Deployed different techniques of QoS in voice and data networks with multiple vendors’ environment (mainly Cisco, Nortel, and Foundry).
• WLAN testing experience.
• Networks Routers (BCN, ASN, ARN)/Cisco Routers/Switches (70XX, Cat6500, cat3750, Cat2950, Cat3000), WAN Switches, ATM, DSU, CSU, Modem.
• Proficient in IPSec VPN, Internet Security, and encryption.
• Experienced in software testing processes including Unit, Functional, Regression, Performance, Stress, Automation and System-level testing of Networking Products.
• Writing and executing Scaling Test Plan for different Protocols and Features including RIP, OSPF, VRRP, VLANs, PIM (Multicast), STGs, MLTs, L4-L7 SLB, GSLB, QoS, etc.
• Validated application switch features such as Server load-balancing, web-cache redirection, SSL and Persistence.
• Coordinated the sustaining release work with offshore teams in parallel with working on the production release.
• Designed network to scale different protocols using Passport 8600/8300/1600 , Smartbits, Ixia, FTP Server, Sun machines, and PCs .
• Automated test plans with TCL/Expect; Created scripts for scaling test cases.
• Reported and documented Software & Hardware bugs/defects to the Development team.
• Created test plans for the wireless switch and 802.11a/b/g/n Access Points.
• Created and executed test plans on WMM, Call Admission Control, VoWLAN and security using IXIA Chariot and Veriwave.
• Tested VoIP phones with different call servers, including Nortel CS1k and Asterisk.
• Configured Windows 2000/2003 Servers to provide services like RADIUS, IAS, Active Directory, DNS, FTP, and DHCP.
• Use packet decoders like Wireshark, Etherpeek, Omnipeek and Ethereal to sniff and decode wired/wireless packets.

Sr. Design Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented a redundant L3 switching design.
• Installed and configured PIX Firewall with AAA and Radius servers.
• Dealt with a variety of protocols: RIP, OSPF, and BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, RSVP.
• Implemented Gatekeeper functionality in an internal environment.
• Installed and configured network monitoring systems.
• Used different types of compression techniques, protocols and products in our AVVID network, such as G.711, G729a, G.723, SIP, H.323, MGCP, Skinny protocols, IP Phone/Softphone, VG200, Call Manager and IVR.
• Used Voice over IP Gateways with different encryption methods IPSec, VPN.
• Designed and implemented data/multicast video networks.
• Network design and installation of Routers, switches and VPN products in Cisco networks (Routers 2500, 2600, 3600, 7200, Cat 6000, 4000, 5000, VPN 3000, AS5300, LS1010 ATM).
• Responsible for installing and configuring Cisco routers, Bay network routers, Bay L3 Accelar switches, and Verilink DSU/CSU.
• Built test labs for SNA to Host Connectivity for the backup site in case of disaster recovery, as well as improve network performance.
• Built a technical website for network department.
• Involved with redesigning of existing network with OSPF point of view, which will improve the convergence time of routing.

Sr. Manager Data-Center System Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• In a team of 10, responsible for the central systems in a time-sensitive financial information provider environment.
• Integration of different network vendors’ products.
• Day-to-day as a network administrator job.
• Upgrading old networks with new technology.
• Installed and administered NetWare 4.0 and hundred are of Windows NT 4.0 servers with full backup procedures.
• Mapped and documented complex TCP/IP LAN/WAN after integration of Knight Ridder with Confidential information system with Reuter network. Dealt with a variety of network protocols, such as XNS, PPTP, RAS, IPX, NetBIOS, NetBIOS, etc.
• Installed and configured Wellfleet (Bay network) & Cisco Routers 40xx, 3-Corn Multi-port repeaters, X.25 PADs, Muxes, DSU, CSU and ISDN modems.
• Designed and implemented a disaster recovery procedure using ISDN links as Dial-on-demand routing when primary T1 or 64k circuits failed.
• Designed and implemented satellite links to Asian and European customers via Pan Am and INTELSAT satellites using ComStream hardware.
• Built and maintained many OS/2 communications servers which were connected with remote sites.
• Installed and maintained 3 Novell file servers with ArcServe backup, print services, and multiple network connections.
• Built a multiple domain Windows NT network and integrated this into the Confidential worldwide network.
• Installed and maintained a variety of equipment including Bay Networks routers, terminal servers, SynOptics concentrators, Access servers, Hubs and Cisco Catalyst switches.