OBJECTIVE

• To seek a career in an Organization that offers professional growth and learning opportunities.

SUMMARY

• A versatile and accomplished Network Consultant in Infrastructure Services with 13 Years and 7 months of experience in the field of Networking with rich experience in Network Design, Implementation and Operations support.
• Possess good technical and management skills and worked in many large Infrastructure transformation and transition projects.
• Thorough going experience in Network infrastructure lifecycle to design, implement, migrate, operate and optimize complex network infrastructure and services of BPO’s, Retail, Mining, Manufacturing, Semiconductor industries and financial sector.
• Having good international work experience, at various geographical locations USA, UK for many international customers.
• Expertise in designing and implementation of Networking Projects with hands - on experience in Routers, Switches Nexus platform, Firewall, Load balancers, WAN optimizer, SDN (software defined networking) and Cloud solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Switches: Cisco Nexus Datacenter switches Nexus 9K(9504,9372), 7K (7010,7009), 5K (5010,5548), 2K (2232, 2248) Cisco Switches (2950,2960, 3548, 3650X, 3750X, 4000, 4500, 6500)

Routers: Cisco Routers ISR G1 and G2 (2800, 2900,3600, 3800, 3900,7200)

Load balancer: Cisco ACE 4710, ACE module F5 BIGIP 3600,5250V LTM Radware Alteon, Link proof Citrix Netscaler

Wan optimizer: Riverbed - steelhead 3020,7050

Wireless: Cisco (WISM, WCS, WLC 4400, Light weight AP)

Firewall: Cisco ASA 5520 (ASDM), Checkpoint R65 (Basic level)

Terminal server (out of band): Cisco Terminal server, Open gear console

Monitoring Tools: HP NNM Solarwinds Netflow analyzer

SDN (software defined networking): Redhat Openstack

Knowledge in Network Protocols/ Technologies : BGP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, VRF, GRE, MGRE MPLS, DMVPN, Access-list, Prefix-list, NAT, PAT, STP, PVST, RPVST, VPC, VDC, FABRIC PATH, OTV, L2TPV3,Fibre channel, Fabric Extender (FEX), Leased Line, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS, VPN, DNS, DHCP, VXLAN

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter and site office design and implementation
• Prepare high level and low level designs for the proposed solution.
• Subject matter expert for troubleshooting data networking issue in routing, switching and load balancer technologies
• Provide network operations support for escalated network issues
• Propose and Validate Billing of material for Network Infrastructure solutions.
• Perform network audit and provide service improvement plan
• Provide solutions to achieve high availability assurance and optimization of network services
• Technical reviewer for change requests.
• Well exposed to ITIL concepts and practices

Confidential

Manager

Responsibilities:

• Subject matter expert for troubleshooting data networking issue in routing, switching, and load balancer. · Single point of contact at client location to provide solution for all critical network issues. · Perform network audit and provide recommendation to achieve high availability of network service · Perform root cause analysis of network issues and provide corrective actions
• Understand the project requirement from the client and allocate task to the team members. · Datacenter and site office design and implementation · Prepare high level and low level design for the proposed solution. · Propose and validate billing of material for the network infrastructure build · Perform effort estimation for the various tasks in the project. · Track the progress of the project tasks.
• Support and guide team members to resolve technical issues. · Provide knowledge transfer of client network environment to the team · Identify team members technical skill capabilities and provide trainings· Mentor and coach team members to upscale for the future technology needs.
• Maintain checklist of all network changes and ensure the documentation is kept updated. · Audit network changes to ensure change management process is followed. · Maintain risk register to record the risk and highlight the risk and impact to the client · Perform technical review of network change request and provide feedback. · Ensure client compliance policy are followed · Prepare standard operating procedure document for the team to perform network activities
• Prepare and present network operations weekly/monthly/quaterly status reports to the client · Track aging tickets and work to close the tickets within SLA · Identify end of support devices and recommend suitable product for replacement. · Prepare and present capacity planning for future scalability · Prepare Plan for disaster recovery testing, execute the plan and publish report on the findings.

Confidential

Architect

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter and site office design and implementation
• Prepare high level and low level designs for the proposed solution.
• Subject matter expert for troubleshooting data networking issue in routing, switching and load balancer technologies
• Provide network operations support for escalated network issues
• Propose and Validate Billing of material for Network Infrastructure solutions.
• Perform network audit and provide service improvement plan
• Provide solutions to achieve high availability assurance and optimization of network services
• Technical reviewer for change requests.
• Well exposed to ITIL concepts and practices