SUMMARY:

• 3 plus years of experience in routing, switching, system design, implementation and troubleshooting of complex network systems.
• Strong hands on experience in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Juniper M320, T640, MX960, Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500 and 1800 series Routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 2950, 3500XL series switches, Cisco CSR1000v, Aruba and Meraki.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting of routing protocols RIP v1/v2, EIGRP, OSPF, BFD and BGP.
• Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, Token ring, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs and Switches.
• Good knowledge with the technologies VPN, WLAN and Multicast.
• Well Experienced in configuring protocols HSRP, GLBP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, PAP, CHAP, and SNMP.
• Experience in installing and configuring DNS, DHCP server.
• Experience in configuring Site - to-site and remote access VPN solutions.
• Experience working with Cisco CSR1000v and VMware on HP BladeCenter.
• Extensive Experience in WAN Technologies, Switching Technologies along with Failover Mechanisms & Inter Vlan Routing types.
• Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing and Switching
• Design, Implement & troubleshooting of Juniper switches, routers and Firewalls
• Understanding the JUNOS platform and worked with IOS upgrade of Juniper devices
• Involved in design and deploying various network security & High availability products like Cisco ASA and other security products.
• Configured Security policies including route-maps, prefix lists and Access Control Lists.
• Excellent communication skills, Enthusiastic, motivated and a team player
• Experience with Change management process and Project documentation tools like Excel and VISIO
• Played various customer interaction roles in various capacities, across projects in different areas.
• A highly organized individual who adopts a systematic approach to problem solving, effectively analyzes results and implements solutions
• Highly motivated with the ability to work independently or as an integral part of a team and Committed to highest levels of professional.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LAN: Ethernet, FastEthernet, GigabitEthernet, Ten Gigabit Ethernet, LAN Emulation

WAN: Leased lines (PPP / HDLC), channelized links (E1/T1/E3/T3/DS1/DS3)Fiber Optic Circuits (OC3, OC12), Frame Relay, ISDN, Load Balancing.

Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, BFD, LISP, Route Filtering, RedistributionSummarization, Static Routing.

Switching: VLANs, VTP, STP, RSTP Inter VLAN routing & Multi Layer SwitchingLayer 3 Switches, Ether channels, Dot1Q, HSRP, GLBP, CEF, DCEF, Port Security

Features & Services: IOS and IOS XE, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDPDNS, TFTP and FTP Management

AAA Architecture: TACACS+, RADIUS, Cisco ACS. Monitoring: Wireshark, PRTG

Operating System: Windows Server 2007/2008, Unix, Linux, Mac OSX.

Juniper: M Series, T Series, MX Series

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MIDDLETOWN, NJ

NETWORK PLATFORMS CERTIFICATION ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Perform regression testing on JunOS 12.3 release M320.
• Perform various testing including BGP, BFD, LISP, static load balance, load balancing using eBGP muli-path, iBGP multi-path load balance, OSPF uplink, CoS4/CoS6, MTU, routing-instance, VPN end-to-end data traffic testing, failure testing, IP dual-Stack testing.
• Worked extensively to find software bugs to file and track with vendor.
• Perform testing on various interfaces including channelized and full E1, T1, E3, T3, nxDS0, DS3, STM1, STM4, Sonet and Gigabit Ethernet with Frame-relay, PPP and Flexible-Ethernet encapsulation.
• Configure different end-to-end testbeds for testing purposes.
• Maintain internal bug tracking system.
• Test interfaces including framing, FCS, hold-timers, sub-rate and full-rate on STM1 and STM4.
• Configuration and extension of VLAN from one network segment to other segment between Different vendor switches (Cisco, Juniper)
• Test ingress and egress packet classification via DSCP and Traffic-class values.
• Test ingress remarking, and egress priority queuing, bandwidth management, data queue oversubscription and congestion control.
• Analyze network problems using wireshark.
• Compile document guide for LISP NNI which included pre/post upgrade checks, upgrade/downgrade procedure, basic troubleshooting commands.
• Perform software upgrade on Juniper M320, T640, and Cisco CSR1000v.
• Work with Ixia to generate traffic for testing.
• Experience working on Network design and support, implementation related internal projects for establishing connectivity in various field offices and Datacenters
• Ensure Network, system and data availability and integrity through preventive maintenance and upgrade.
• Design and implementation of Networks using TCP/IP.
• Worked on a broad range of topics such as routing and switching, planning and implementation, proactive monitoring and maintenance, disaster recovery exercises, and core network repairs.
• Involved in L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, InterVlan routing, LAN security.
• Worked on the security levels with RADIUS, TACACS+.
• Developed configuration templates for project deployment.
• Implement ae bundle to prevent network congestion.
• Experience working with Cisco 2900 and 3900 routers in LISP architecture.

Confidential, MOUNT LAUREL, NJ

NETWORK ENGINEER

Responsibilities:

• Experience in troubleshooting LAN & WAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network of 200 hosts.
• Studied and analyzed client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration, and security.
• Worked with Cisco 2800, 2600 and 3800 routers to implement BGP and OSPF.
• Troubleshoot problems on a day to day basis & provide solutions that would fix the problems within their Network.
• Support customer with the configuration and maintenance of ASA firewall systems.
• Assisted with various duties that will arise including: implementation, configuration, management, rules definition, problem solving, design advice, troubleshooting, updating, maintenance, etc.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of LAN connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.
• Managed the IP address space using subnets and variable length subnet masks (VLSM).
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Worked along with the team in ticketing issues.
• Worked with PRTG to effectively monitor the network.
• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.
• Worked with Citrix Xenserver to manage and setup virtual servers as per customer requirements.
• Interacted with support services to reduce the downtime on leased lines.
• Dealt with creating VIP (virtual servers), pools, nodes and applying Irules for virtual servers like cookie persistency, redirection of the URL.
• Daily responsibilities included monitoring remote site using network management tools, assisted in design guidance for infrastructure upgrade & help LAN administrator with backbone connection and connectivity issues.
• Worked with Autodesk to effectively solve tickets.

Confidential, NEW CASTLE, DE

IT SPECIALIST

Responsibilities:

• Maintain website and database, software, hardware and network inventory.
• Troubleshoot company network and perform software/hardware upgrades as per customer requirement.
• Remodel and redesign company website using PHP, MySQL, and HTML front/back end application architecture.
• Performed software and hardware upgrades.