SUMMARY

• Senior Network Engineer with 10 years of hands - on experience in the Information Technology Field Local Area Network(LAN) and Wide-Area Network(WAN). Motivated Network Engineer with a focus in Cisco OSI, NX-OS and SDN Application Centric Infrastructure(ACI) Solutions. TCP/IP, Routing ( OSPF, EIGRP, BGP. worked on multiple IP bundle Projects), Switching (Nexus/ Catalyst.), and Cisco ASA Firepower Next-Generation Firewall and Citrix netscaler load balancer
• Encompass extensive experience with design implementation and management of global, high bandwidth wide area networks. Adept experience troubleshooting, issues solving and documenting, I can make significant contributions towards a company s immediate goals
• I excel in fast paced, time sensitive environments that take advantage of good communication, leadership, and learning skills. To have a competitive advantage, I m aggressively studying emerging technologies.

Confidential

Senior network engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of LAN, WAN.Comprehensive understanding of OSI Model, TCP/IP protocol suite (IP, ARP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, SNMP, FTP, TFTP)
• Configured Fabric path and connectivity between Confidential 1K, 5K and Confidential 7k. Having vast experience in designing and configuring switches for VLANS and inter-switch communications. Hands-on expertise with routers 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 7200, 7600, ASR-901, ASR-903,, ASR 5500, ASR-9010
• Netscaler Citrix Loadbalancer XenApp/XenDesktop, Web Interface(VIP, VServer Service group, GSLB and SNIP) Network configuration, troubleshooting, Design, documentation and implementation
• Upgrading Core Wan Switches( Cisco Nexus9000 and N1K, N2k and N5K) located in 3 main data centers. Migrated more than 150 Wan connections in each location. Maintained, configured cisco Tacacs Administrated checkpoint firewall. Configured and tuned WAN Link load balancing, priority and failover
• Configured and troubleshooted OSP, EIGRP, BGP and IPSEC
• Strong experience in configuring and upgrading Cisco routers, switches 37xx, 38xx, 45xx, 68xx, VPN gateways, & ASA Checkpoint firewalls 4k & 5k. Strong Cisco routing and switching experience (LAN, WAN, VLAN, VTP, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, IPSEC)

Confidential

Operational and Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Highly available, scalable, and secure cisco Datacenter (LAN/WAN) infrastructure that meets the business and connectivity requirements standards. Worked with multiple users worldwide on both local- and enterprise-level trouble tickets. Provided enterprise-wide support for both local- and enterprise-level changes
• Implemented and deployed multi-Project IPBundle new NetApp | UCS servers deploy network connectivity to both Traditional and SDN Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI). Maintained local network and data center infrastructure along with providing insight into modernization and standardization of the network to best utilize existing equipment to full functionality
• Served as primary point-of-contact for local data-center network operations. Provided peer guidance on various server and network deployments. Planned, coordinated, and implemented various logical & physical redesigns of the network infrastructure retrofits to better support current and future business needs. Wrote and applied ACLs on Cisco and Checkpoint firewalls and Cisco routers Configured Netscaler load balancer Policy Frontend VIP/Service Group/Backend server/Monitors port/GSLB. Configured and deployed 1000+ Out-of-band management OOBM Console devices
• Troubleshooted, Identified and resolved L2, 3 DNS, DHCP, VTP Vlan Access, Trunking, Port-channels VPC, MTU size mismatch issues with switches Confidential 1k, 2k, 3k, 5k, 7k, routers Eigrp neighbor, Bgp static route configuration, Network Project device Decommission and Firewall to filter network access. Assisted remote engineers with troubleshooting network issues in remote offices. ScienceLogic to manage and monitor network devices. Splunk Enterprise real time data syslog server

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network servicing redesigning and upgrading the Data Center in the headquarters. Maintaining state - wide MPLS interfacing with Network and DMVPN wide area network Serve as a senior Network engineer on a crack networking crew to establish and maintain operational network and Managing Cisco switches and routing using IP protocols OSPF, BGP. Using Cisco ASA 5500-x FirePower series
• Provides technical expertise in configuration and troubleshooting of various IP routing protocols including OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP. SolarWinds Orion Confidential /NPM Add, change, and remove devices from SolarWinds inventory add or change alert, add or change maps in Orion Network Atlas, review incoming traps and syslog, and convert into alerts, create standard reports using the report tool
• Create custom reports update node, interface and volume details in the custom property tools. Coordinated new circuit installations implemented two network monitoring systems to monitor their entire real-time mission critical applications, local area network, and wide area network. Configured ASA 5500 series Firewalls for perimeter network security, site-to-site IPSec VPNs
• Mastered the fundamentals of the OSI layers model and use this knowledge to keep LANS and WANS operating efficiently. Designed IP addressing schemes for all new networks, redesign IP addressing scheme for legacy subnets. Documented and published on intranet wiki standard operating procedures and disaster recovery procedures and multi-vlan HSRP EIGRP and static routing to replace legacy Cisco 7200's
• Configured Citrix Load balancer Frontend Virtual servers, Servicegroup, Backend Server and bind them to specific ports TCP/UDP: (HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, UDP and 389) with persistence methods to allow data communication and performed a quarterly HA failover from primary to standby Netscaler instances.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provide operational support for maintaining data networks.Monitor, maintain, and design networks used to support all operations of the National Center for Environmental Prediction. Built site to site VPN's for FAA and other outside agencies. Support all reachability and availability issues for users throughout the United States over 200 routers and over 200 switches, Hundreds of servers
• Designing a backup data center for the national weather service, I replicated the configurations for our Confidential 7000 core routers in the data center responsible for network operations in College Park, MD in Boulder CO. College Park, MD is the main operational center for Confidential
• The Campus included Confidential 5K and 3K leaves supporting our VMWare farms. Architect a backup center that will replicate and improve upon in some cases our national Experienced with Citrix Netscaler Load Balancer Front-end VIP’s, ServiceGroup, Back-end server and Probe monitoring config settings headquarters for operations using MPLS/BGP/OSPF, load balancing, web proxies
• Cisco ASA's. Assist junior network engineers with trouble tickets and tasks.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Prepared technical documentation processes, procedures, systems and Locations. Maintained, upgraded, configured, and installed Cisco routers, Cisco Catalyst Switches.Provides technical expertise in configuration and troubleshooting of various IP routing protocols including OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP. SolarWinds Orion Confidential /NPM Add, change, and remove devices from SolarWinds inventory add or change alert, add or change maps in Orion Network Atlas, review incoming traps and syslog, and convert into alerts
• Create standard reports using the report tool Create custom reports update node, interface and volume details in the custom property tools
• Coordinated new circuit installations implemented two network monitoring systems to monitor their entire real-time mission critical applications, local area network, and wide area network. Configured ASA 5500 series Firewalls for perimeter network security, site-to-site IPSec VPNs anyConnect. Mastered the fundamentals for the bottom three layers of the OSI model and use this knowledge to keep LANS and WANS operating efficiently.
• Designed IP addressing schemes for all new networks, redesign IP addressing scheme for legacy subnets. Documented and published on intranet wiki standard operating procedures and disaster recovery procedures and communications systems. Installed and configured 2 Cisco 2811 routers with multi-network multi-vlan HSRP EIGRP and static routing to replace legacy Cisco 7200's. Installed and configured 2 Cisco 2901 routers with multi-network multi-vlan HSRP EIGRP and routing
• Installed and configured OpenVPN on Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 to replace public IP addresses and remove un-scalable NAT access-lists. SNMP to monitor network faults, and performance. Diagnose Ethernet routing and switching issues using WireShark, tcpdump. Prepared plans for an MPLS VLAN for cellular cloud interfacing with our seismological equipment. Redesigned the campus Local area network to take full advantage of Cisco Spanning-Tree, VTP, and VLAN flexibility. Installed, configured and maintained 11 Cisco 3650 layer 3 switches with dot1q trunking. Installed and configured Cisco 3560's with HSRP and EIGRP, OSPF routing.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Lead the network installation and configuration of corporate wide rollout of the Cisco Catalyst 3500,3750, 4500, 6509 and 720 switches including VLAN Monitored the Frame Relay network and coordinated new circuit installations Provides technical expertise in configuration and troubleshooting of various IP routing protocols including OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and RIP, cisco Firewall 5540 and SonicWALL Firewall
• Managed network IP access via Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Maintained, upgraded, configured, and installed from the CLI and ASDM Monitored LAN/WAN and device activities utilizing Cisco Works, SNMP Assisted in troubleshooting complex layer 1, 2 and 3 connectivity using Wireshark protocol analyzer and recommended solution for better performance
• Prepared technical documentation of configurations, processes, procedures, systems and locations. Coordinated all end-user projects as assigned.Develop standard operating procedure (SOP) documentation
• Trained/cross trained fellow employees on network operations and Usage.
• Secure Access Control ISE for policy management platform that automates and enforces secure access to network resources. (ISE). Isolated complex network problems and initiated solutions for corrective action for multi-vendor LAN/WAN communication platforms 24/7 on call support provided on a bi-weekly rotational basis