SUMMARY

• Strong assessment/analytical, troubleshooting, & problem resolving skills.
• Team player/leader; Capable of integrating with and developing effective workgroups.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Able to relate well with people
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work efficiently in a fast - paced environment.
• Experienced in supporting, and providing lead skills, in the integration, testing and implementation of projects from inception to completion.
• Excellent Knowledge of troubleshooting and documentations.
• Good oral, telephone, written, and presentation communication skills
• Ability to learn quickly in a fast-paced environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing Protocols: Advanced OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, BGP

Network Devices: Cisco 2800, 2900, 3600, 3800, 3500,4000, 4500, 6500, 7200, 7600, 7500, 12K,10K, CRS; Juniper ERX 1440, ERX 320, Juniper M40 and T620 series; Cisco CSS 11000, Alteon 180 and 184 web switches, Cisco ASA, Firepower, Juniper MX 960, Cisco ASR 1002 -1006, ASR 9K Nexus 5K, 7K and 9K, Juniper SRX, Cisco WLC 5500 and more

Network Technology: MPLS Traffic Engineering, Any Transport over MPLS (AToM), GRE, MPLS VPN, IPSec, PPPoE, QoS, HSRP, L2TP, PPP, GLBP, Multicast, IPSLA, SNMP, SDN etc.

Load Balancers: Alteon web switches, Cisco CSS, Foundry (Brocade), F5

TCP Acceleration/WAN compression: UDcast UDGateway, Xiplink, Stampede, Fortinet Fortigate, Riverbed, Expand, Juniper WXC, F5 GTM/LTM

Protocols/Technologies: Multicast, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, IP SLATransport Protocol: SONET/SDH, Metro Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet.

IPv6 Technologies: Dual stack, Dual stack lite, 6to4, Stateless auto configuration, ISATPet, 6PE etc.

Cloud service support and design: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed, troubleshot and administered the NSW LAN / WAN environment including Cisco Router, Cisco Switch, Carrier/Circuit, HP etc.
• Designed a secure network that focused on providing robust and high-performance fabric using Cisco Nexus 7000 and 9000 as well as Cisco ASR 1006, UCS and F5 platforms
• Responsible for LAN, WAN and Network Management, managing users’ accounts, troubleshooting network connectivity problems. System administration, network security, backup and disaster recovery.
• Implemented routing solutions for LAN, WANs and VPN, as well as Internet firewall security.
• Managed capacity and performance on a day-to-day basis and proactively analyze and determines long-term needs. Review circuit engineering and participate in network upgrade planning sessions.
• Proactively monitored network alarms to take corrective action using SNMP.
• Experience in DMZ implementation/design (LLD’s and HLD’s)
• Provided segregation of data networks with MPLS VPN and VRF
• Provided technical network interface with customers and various fix agencies. Interacted with various technology disciplines and franchise like Data Center Operations, Enterprise Help Desk, Strategic Development, and Engineering.
• Reviewed tickets and updated customers and different interface of status of ticket. Created and managed notification, escalation processes.
• Troubleshot latency issues to rule out malicious activities such as viruses and worms, bandwidth utilization and participating in capacity planning.
• Performed Reason for Outage Analysis (RFO) on network.
• Worked with ISPs to turn up Dual Internet circuits and implemented BGP best practices
• Designed and implemented site to site and Remote access IPsec connectivity

Confidential

Operations / Support

Responsibilities:

• Identifying, troubleshooting, resolving network problems and monitoring systems in a network management center
• Implementing LAN/WAN connections: IP Routing, Multi-Layer Switching, WAN equipment’s.
• Escalated problems to the internal Network engineering and external vendors as required.
• Created and managed Local VLANs based on department function, and configure ports with static VLAN assignment, static 802.1Q trunks, and dynamic ISL trucking using PAgP for layer 2 forwarding. Utilized VLAN Spanning-Tree in conjunction with PVST+ for compatibility between Cisco and Juniper switches and for root bridge assignment.
• Development and implementation of best practices and procedures for networking and security.
• Designed Cisco ACI in Spine/leaf infrastructure in multi-tenant environment
• Defined and maintained ACI policies VRF, Bridge domain, EPG and contracts
• Designed DCI and stretch of Layer 2 domains using OTV (Overlay Transport Virtualization)
• Project meeting attendance, project management and documentation.
• Hands On experience Cisco IOS/IOS-XR/NX-OS, Juniper JUNOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: STATIC ROUTING, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, and BGP v4.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Tier II ISP Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP-Subnetting, EtherChannel, VLSM, TCP/IP, ACL, NAT, DHCP, DNS, FHRP, SNMPv1-3 and IP-SLA
• Provided segregation of data networks with MPLS VPN and VRF.
• Implemented Load Balancing solutions on F5 BIG-IP LTM, and GTM

Confidential

Network Eng.

Responsibilities:

• Responsibilities included identifying, troubleshooting, resolving network problems and monitoring systems. As well as problems with other managed devices and services such as firewalls, routers, switches, DNS, mail relay, frame relay, VPN etc.
• Troubleshooting Layer1, Layer2 issue with field engineer
• Changing and configuring VLAN’s by means of strong knowledge of L2 element
• Managed network equipment, both national and international. This involved putting sniffers on servers to sniff applications. It also involved using network management application to capture outage alarms for all managed network devices
• Provided technical network interface with customers and various fix agencies
• Performed network configuration changes in response to client issues. Perform non-intrusive testing and intrusive testing.
• Performed Reason for Outage Analysis (RFO) on network.
• Troubleshoot latency issues.
• New device deployments as upgrades or replacements
• Research and development of new technologies for networks and security
• Development and implementation of best practices and procedures for networking and security
• Project meeting attendance, project management and documentation
• Product and Internet traffic analysis