SUMMARY

• 3 years of experience in designing, deploying firewalls and troubleshooting Networks and Security infrastructure on routers and firewalls on various vendors’ equipment.
• Started in network switching and routing and then moved on to network security and firewalls.
• Experience in handling tickets opened for network related issues and resolving as per SLA.
• Proficiently implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access - lists, Distribute-Lists, Route Maps and route manipulation using Offset-list.
• Basic F5 load balancer configurations and general troubleshooting.
• Efficient at use of Microsoft VISIO / Office as technical documentation and presentation tools.
• In-depth knowledge of WAN technologies.
• Experience securing and managing remote access using various VPN technologies like IPSec and GRE.
• Reviewing all changes to network configuration for technical accuracy and provide solutions to Multi-Protocol Network problems.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Experience in installation, configuration, troubleshooting of CISCO routers such as ISR, 3750, 2900, 7301, 7600, 12410, ASR1k.
• Catalyst 6509, 4507 and Data center switches like 7k, 5k and 2k of nexus.
• Network Services: NAT, DNS, DHCP, DHP snooping and subnetting, HSRP
• Proficient in Cisco IOS for configuration and troubleshooting of routing protocols
• Background in network design, including Wide Area Networking (WAN), Local Area Networking (LAN), Multiple Protocol Labeling Switching (MPLS).
• Experience wif TCP / IP, LAN / WAN and DNS / DHCP.
• Experience in configuring and supporting VPN on Cisco VPN concentrators and 2811 routers.
• Experience wif RF Design, RF implementation and RF troubleshooting.
• Expertise in L3 Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, CEF, MPLS, MPLS Layer 3 VPN's.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Shrewsbury, MA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration of VLAN setup on Cisco switches 6500, 4900, 3750, 4500 Cisco routers 7200, 3700, 3600, 2691.
• Experience wif converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS.
• Experience working wif Nexus 7010 and 5648 devices.
• Configured Nexus 5648 switches wif VLANs, HSRP and OSPF to support teh relocation of servers.
• Worked on LAN technologies like Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, 802.1Q and troubleshooting Wi-Fi / Bluetooth Networks and STP.
• Troubleshooting critical network links by coordinating wif teh vendor and various LAN/WAN technologies issues for internal and external clients. Technical assistance for building and maintenance of Cisco Wireless and ISE systems.
• Extensive experience in wireless networks development and LTE/IMS, UMTS, CDMA, GSM and TDMA.
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, PPP, ISDN and performing multiple debugs on teh routers to analyze teh problems wif teh configurations.
• Experience wif wireless technology 802.11x and knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, STP, RSTP.
• Involved in designing and implementing QOS and policy map to 4400 series routers. Configures QOS for data prioritization.
• Responsible for performing troubleshooting, configuration, testing and problem resolution of CMTS / DOCSIS devices.
• Knowledge of IPV4/IPV6, implementation of Sub-netting and troubleshooting of DNS and DHCP IP conflict problems.
• Maintaining and updating inventory of all network hardware of devices wif SNMP and expertise in L3 Protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, STP, BGP, RIPv2 Layer 3 VPN's and STP.
• Proficiently implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute- Lists and route manipulation using Offset-list.
• Worked wif Cisco ASA 5500 Series and Cisco FirePOWER Services.
• Palo Alto firewall installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat bar, information Filtering)
• Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs exploitation of varied tools.
• Trained in packet capturing, troubleshooting on network problems wif Wireshark, identifying and fixing problems.

Confidential

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and deploying Cisco catalyst 6506, 4948E, 4510 switches and Cisco 3660, 3845, and 7609 series Routers.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500.
• Experience in migration of VLANS.
• Involved in teh troubleshooting aspects of complex network infrastructure using teh routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
• Implementation of Access Lists for allowing/blocking desired traffic.
• Configuring VLANs / routing / NATing wif teh firewalls as per teh network design.
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification.
• Configuration and maintenance of PIX and ASA firewall systems.
• Good knowledge in systems integration, software hardware emulation experience.
• Worked on change management documentation of Network infrastructure design using Microsoft Visio.
• Performed setup of test scenarios, both hardware and software components, and perform troubleshooting.
• Managed project task to migrate from Cisco ASA firewalls to Check Point firewalls.
• Configured and performed troubleshooting on link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.
• Configured and supported Private BGP Peering wif transit providers.
• Configured iBGP and eBGP peering between L3 routers and core routers.