SUMMARY

• Highly motivated, dynamic, and hands - on network infrastructure consultant and leader with more than 15 + years of experience with a proven track record of improving productivity and profitability.
• Extensive experience coordinating, integrating and directing complex, multi-site projects, efforts and initiatives supporting thousands of users across a full-range of IT and telecommunications-related disciplines within a variety of data-intensive, high-transaction, fast-growth industries for Fortune 500 enterprises and SMB organizations.
• History of assuming increasing levels of responsibility and a strong record of enhancing operational processes/procedures and contributing vision and thought leadership to technology solutions development.
• Ability to analyze complex technical and administrative information, and lead large and complex projects.
• Experienced leading all facets of technology integration, project management, strategic and tactical business planning.
• Proven ability to integrate sound strategies and technologies to produce measurable business results.
• Ability to make timely decisions under challenging circumstances.
• Strong organizational skills and great attention to details.
• Bilingual: English and Hindi

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Time Management
• Leadership
• Strategic Technology Planning
• Project Management/Direction
• Program Creation/Deployment
• Security/Reliability/Operability
• Resource/Budgetary Oversight
• Quality Assurance/Control
• Customer Service/Support
• Staff Development/Training
• Bilateral/Team Collaboration
• Executive-Level Advisement
• Organizational Integrity/Sustainability
• Technical Data Analysis/Development
• System Implementation/Maintenance
• Information Coordination/Integration
• Process/Performance Improvement

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Cloud Computing
• Cyber Security
• Network Security
• Identity Access Management
• Security compliance
• Cloud security
• Amazon Web Services EC2
• Some Microsoft Azure
• Penetration Testing
• Cisco Networking Solutions
• OWASP & Application security
• Vulnerability scanning tools

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

PriNetwork/ Cyber Security/AWS cloud Specialist

Confidential, San Francisco

Responsibilities:

• Led teh transformation on engineering a customer network to single globally managed network with total operating budget close to $5M annually by collaborating with practice CTOs, architects and network regional managers.
• Hands on configuration, troubleshooting and deployment of F5 load balancers (setting up VIP’s, NAT, server pools etc )
• Hand’s on configuration, deployment and support of Cisco network devices and solutions including: Catalyst 2900/3500/4500/6500 IOS, Cisco Nexus 2k/5k/7k NX-OS, Cisco ISR 2900/3900/4k, Cisco ASA 55xx firewalls, IPS/IDS systems
• Extensive design and operational experience with common routing/switching technologies including: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, VLAN’s, HSRP, VRRP, subnetting, MPLS, ethernet/DWDM technologies.
• Led teams focused on research and development in emerging technologies to create solutions and methodologies for teh improvement of IT professional services revenue models
• Cut maintenance downtime 35% through teh integration method of procedures for implementation turn up, testing and network operations standardization
• Recommended and implemented policies and procedures for customer IT departments
• Recommended varying IT software and hardware platforms to improve technology functions and improve workforce productivity
• Implemented tools and management methodologies to streamline desktop, network and server issues.
• Identified errors and issues in systems/processes and LAN/WAN/data center technologies, provided remediation strategies as such.
• Improved efficiency of network by planning and project managing teh implementation of a new WAN, Coordinated in-house and vendor personnel.
• Reduced installation time by 75% by initiated and holding network meetings with customers to determine future and pro-active action.
• Translated business objectives and requirements into technical specifications and solutions.
• Developed comprehensive strategies for enhancing network/systems/storage platforms
• Implemented cyber security risk mitigation strategies
• Provisioned and supported servers and machines with Amazon EC2 cloud network
• Managed and engineered Amazon VPC instances, turn up and configuration deployment.
• Implemented organizations on adoption and implementation of threat mitigation strategies
• Implemented and developed programs for network operations standards development initiatives.
• Worked on program development for IT security compliance initiatives
• Partnered with customers to help them understand teh development of information security plans, policies and procedures.
• Provided recommendations for enhancing and improving network device configurations
• Deployed and configured Cisco networking solutions and technologies
• Conducted evaluations and assessments of network/security devices, provided reports to management
• Advising on IT network and security architecture development in alignment with identity management, access privileges, access controls and network filtering.
• Managed IT Standards and Best Practices for this global firm of existing and proposed global IT Standards
• Developed new remote access solution for all international locations, resulting in increased worker productivity and improvement in infrastructure SLA times
• Ensured on going production by implementing teh network structure to allow data centers to back each other up.
• Tier 3 network engineering escalation support for 50 offices and multiple data centers domestic and internationally
• Implemented network access control solutions to improve security across enterprise and data center network devices
• Designed and implemented ISP failover solution across enterprise sites improving scalability and high availability
• Provisioned and supported servers and machines with Amazon EC2 cloud network
• Managed and engineered Amazon VPC instances, turn up and configuration deployment.
• Designed, architected and provided technical leadership to multiple data center migration projects.
• Provided input and recommendations for solutions/product selection; designed qualifying evaluation criteria for product selection including RFP/POC implementation and enterprise technology roadmaps and negotiated and implemented standards and frameworks to streamline and automate technology systems deployments.
• Provided senior network operations support all network infrastructure devices for HQ sites and data center resource
• Led change management processes and procedures
• Managed Cisco ASA firewalls and Cisco network devices
• Help to resolve critical TCP/IP application issues and help software developers meet product releases
• Worked closely with IT director on developing strategies to improve threat mitigation landscape
• Responsible for configuration, deployment and support of Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco ISR routers, Cisco catalyst and Nexus switches.
• Provided planning and network engineering for multi-million technology network infrastructure upgrade/migration project to brand new building to support multiple agencies of 2,000 users.
• Defined and documented technical requirements for network security/privacy/regulatory requirements alignment with security compliance initiatives.
• Defined and presented to C level executives best practices for network technology standards implementation
• Defined and developed technical specifications, implementation plans and network operations procedures for teh migration of 2,000 desktop/ PC’s + 500 network/systems devices to new environment.
• Developed network security design/ architecture specifications and implementation for office expansion efforts.
• Maintained operations network +security design/architecture for all offices + 2 data centers in support of high availability improvement projects. internet to MPLS carrier failover: BGP to OSPF integration, DMVPN for WAN backup
• Translating business requirements into sound technical solutions for networking/ network ecurity focused initiatives
• Providing technical leadership during teh design and implementation phases of medium-to-large projects in teh areas of core networking, data center and network security initiatives
• Researched and evaluated emerging network and security solutions to advance and enable business functionality