EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Senior information technology professional uses 15 years of experience, education and professional training to manage programs and projects to a successful completion.
• Primary focus is delivering project scope within budget and schedule.
• Challenges and pressures of large - scale enterprise programs and projects with aggressive timelines are normal working conditions.
• Commitment to continuous professional education maintains knowledge in the latest standards and best practices for information technology and project management used for optimal solution design and efficient project delivery.
• Detailed and results driven manager oversees projects with enterprise and large geographic scopes requiring extensive technical deliverables and management of associated budgets and staff. Successful team leader integrates client employees, vendor personnel, contractors and consultants into a cohesive project team focused on efficient completion of project deliverables. Satisfaction comes from quickly learning and assimilating new technologies to meet evolving business needs.
• Practitioner of the principles of integrated IT project management that aligns IT and project management with business management.
• More than 10 years of experience in Cisco Routers, Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching, Frame Relay, Multi-Homed BGP, MPLS, ATM, TCP/IP, Linux, Sun Solaris, Windows NT, 2000,XP.
• More than 5 Years of experience in VOIP deployment using both H323 and SIP protocols over VSAT, dedicated leased line and through public Internet.
• More than 10 Years of experience in Network and infrastructure security design and deployment using Cisco security devices (FWSM, IDS, IPS, ASA, PIX, VPN Concentrator, ACS) and Nokia check points.
• More than 10 years of experience in installing T1, DS3, OC3, OC48 and OC192. International private lines through Satellite, GEOMAX Gigabit Ethernet over DWDM etc.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential - Staten Island, NY

Sr. Network Solution Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Network and security solution architect.
• I was responsible for providing escalation level 4 supports, design and architect solutions for the projects in hand.
• Responsibility also included to upgrade and consolidation of Confidential data centers.
• I was part of the senior CORE engineering team which is helping Confidential to transition their data center and IT infrastructure services to Confidential .
• I have collaborated with Confidential to design two green field data centers for Confidential .
• I was also part of the vendor selection team to perform technical review of the RFP and responses.
• I was also a technical approver for all Confidential network security related changes.
• I evaluated Confidential data center for service offering, optimization and design for the services offered to Confidential.

Sr. Network Consulting Engineer

Confidential, New York

Responsibilities:

• I was responsible to participate in low level design, configuration and implementation of these equipments.
• Internet access to all of these facilities was also centralized and incoming/outgoing connections were load balances to two different ISPs.
• Two of the brand new data centers were build as part of this effort.
• These data centers were integrated with 5 other existing data center.
• Protocol migration was also completed from EIGRP to OSPF for entire infrastructure.
• There were some extreme network infrastructures which were also replaced with Cisco equipment as part of this effort.
• I also worked on securing the WAN infrastructure of Confidential .

Lead Network Architect

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Led network team that was responsible for building a state of the art data center in Los Angeles, CA.
• Responsible for designing the Cisco based network infrastructure utilizing Application Control Engine for layer4 to layer 7 load balancing and application level security, NAM for traffic analysis, IDSM inline mode and FWSM in multi-context mixed mode (transparent and routed).
• This Data center network has multiple entry point through MPLS connection, Gigabit Metro Ethernet and DS3 connections for various site connections.
• Responsible for implementing WAAS for bandwidth optimization and performance enhancement.

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

Project leader

Responsibilities:

• Supervised and reviewed the VoIP implementation for Confidential ’s another upcoming world class arena.
• The VoIP implementation includes more than 500 IP Phones connected via 30 VG 248 gateways to the Cisco Call Manager.
• Responsible IPCC installation for a call center application.
• The gateways are configured to use H323 as a VoIP protocol.
• Audited the security and routing design and implementation for this network.
• Led the Design and implemented another Confidential project at the Confidential .
• This arena’s network infrastructure consists of Extreme Network Switches (8810 for Core and various other 48 ports gigabit Ethernet switches), redundant Juniper firewalls in multiple virtual system (Context) mode and Foundry wireless LAN controller.
• This arena also consists of Cisco 3750 layer 3 switches, Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls and WAAS technology.

Confidential, Torrance, California

Responsibilities:

• Led a team responsible for maintaining Multi-Site Data Center which consists of more than 1500 servers and provide service to 5000 users.
• The Corporate infrastructure consists of four Data Center sites which are connected via secured network.
• Responsible of daily maintenance of Data Center including but not limited to BGP, OSPF, MPLS, QOS, CAR and VLAN configuration changes etc. FWSM (Layer 2 and Layer3), PIX and Check Points based firewalls, Sniffer traces, MacAfee IDS, Application performance monitoring, trouble ticketing and service requests are also part of day to day operation.
• Participate in installation of Gigabit Ethernet and FC over DWDM, multiple OC48.
• Involved in design of two new data centers, my role as a design engineer includes raised floor planning, capacity planning, Network Infrastructure security design, over all data center design, fiber patch installation, switches and routers configuration and integration with rest of the network.
• Performed several application and partner connectivity migration project and servers migrations to new data center.

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Daily responsibility includes troubleshooting, design and implementation of client’s infrastructure.
• Responsible to provide security solution for the enterprise networks which includes but not limited to writing custom codes and implementation of systems monitoring.
• Cisco based firewall and intrusion detection/ intrusion prevention systems deployment.
• F5 and Cisco CSS based content switching and geographical load balancer (F5 3DNS) design and configurations.
• EZ VPN, Site to Site VPN and DMVPN design is also part of routine work.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for various installations of network equipment in Data Center operation.
• Daily responsibility includes configuring Layer 2 and layer 3 firewalls, checkpoint and Cisco security solutions, Intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems.
• I also worked on F5 BigIP and Cisco CSS based content switching devices.
• Was responsible troubleshooting, design and implementation of client’s infrastructure.
• Deploy and support Voice Over IP and Internet Telephony solutions.
• Provided technical support to the clients.
• Worked on Cisco works and Net cool network monitoring systems.