PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Having around 5+ years of experience as Network Engineer in Routing, and Switching, including hands - on experience in providing network support, installation and analysis for a broad range of LAN / WAN communication systems.
• Install and support LANs, WANs, and wireless network segments, Internet, and internet systems.
• Configure, install and maintain network hardware and software.
• Specialist on MS Operating Systems installations, configurations, and troubleshoot issues.
• Firewall/Router Implementation and Management, System repair / Service / OS installation / Support.
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco Switches (2960, 3560X, 3750X, 4500-X, 4948, 4510, 6509).
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (ASR1000, ASR6500, ISR3900, 3800, 3600, 2900, 2800, 1800, 800 series).
• Excellent in troubleshooting connectivity and hardware issues on Cisco Switches, Routers, and firewalls.
• Maintains routing and switching equipment by upgrading to teh most up-to-date firmware.
• Extensive work experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Load Balancers and Firewalls.
• Expertise in establishing and maintaining networks, servers, and systems by designing, proactively managing, and troubleshooting network problems.
• Experience in configuring Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), spanning tree protocol (STP), VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP), Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP), Per VLAN spanning Tree (PVST) and 802.1 x autantications in access layer switches.
• Proficient in configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Site-to-site and Remote Access VPN (Cisco AnyConnect VPN 4.2) solutions on Cisco ASA firewalls 5520, 5550, 5585.
• Extensive knowledge of deploying and troubleshooting L2/L3, TCP/IP, Multilayer Switches.
• Experienced working and configuring Cisco routers and L2/L3 Switches and good understanding of IP Sub netting.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Solid understanding of TCP,UDP transport protocols and RIP, OSPF and BGP routing protocols.
• Good knowledge and academic experience on Ethernet, ARP, GARP, VLANS, DHCP, DNS, IP Subnettingand different versions of Spanning tree protocols (STP, RSTP, PVST, MSTP).
• Basic knowledge on networking concepts such asNAT, Access Lists, IPSec VPN.
• Scripting experience in C, Python, Linux Shell, HTML, SQL, PL/SQL.
• Working experience in Oracle Apps, Oracle Web Commerce Technologies.
• Networking tools: Wireshark, Tcpdump, GNS3, Putty and Cisco Packet tracer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, WA

Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed network engineering, design, planning (WAN & LAN) & implementation. Studied single point failures & designed WAN structure in such a way that there are no failures in network in case of any device or link failure.
• Configured and designed LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches.
• Setting up VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between Switches.
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP routers.
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches.
• Installation, configuration and maintenance of Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ASA firewalls.
• Designed and implemented security policies using ACL, firewall.
• Demonstrate teh features and benefits of Varonis software to teh staff and documented teh operations.
• Troubleshooting on network problems with Wire shark, identify problem and fix.
• Configured and designed LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches.
• Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve teh uptime of collocation customers, in teh event a core router became unreachable.
• Implementing, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Convergence in Frame-Mode MPLS inside teh core.
• Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series
• Configured routing policy for BGP. Switching related tasks included implementing VLANs and configuring ISL trunk and 802.1Q on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.
• Implemented Cisco IOS Firewall IDS using 2600 series router.
• Redistribution of routing protocols and Frame-Relay configurations.
• Performed teh maintenance of Active Directory and replication scheme, DNS/DHCP services and time services; wrote step-by-step procedures for implementing upgrades.
• Dealt with creating VIP (virtual servers), pools, nodes and applying iRules for teh virtual servers like cookie persistency, redirection of teh URL.
• Configured VLANs on a switch for inter-VLAN communication. Configured VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) on Core Switches. Configured various LAN switches such as CISCO CAT 2900, 3550, 4500, 6509 switches for STP, VTP Domain, VLAN, Trunking, Fast Ether Channel configuration.

Environment: Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Nexus 2k/5k/7k, NAT, VPN, RADIUS server, AAA, L2/L3 switches, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, ACL, Wireshark, Cisco Firewall ASA 500, TACACS sever, Juniper devices, ISL Trunk, TFTP server.

Confidential

Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Cisco 2800, 2900, 3800 routers and Cisco 3750, 4900, 4500 & 6500 series switches.
• Implemented OSPFas teh IGP in TCS office networks.
• Configured PVST for loop prevention and inter-VLAN routing.
• Implemented port aggregation and link negotiation using LACP protocols.
• Configured access switches for port security.
• Simulated teh network designs using GNS3 before implementing it in real-time.
• Created, updated and resolved tickets using teh Solar Winds Web Help Desk application.
• Analyzing traffic behaviors using Wireshark and Solar winds.
• Provided technical assistance for LAN/WAN management & troubleshooting and complex customer issues using Network monitoring tools such as Solar winds.
• Updating teh SNMP string for various Routers and Switches in Solar winds for monitoring purpose.
• Firewall policy administration and support on Checkpoint as well as Cisco ASA Firewalls.
• Configuration and support of Juniper Net screen firewalls.
• Troubleshooting connectivity issues on teh firewall using smart view tracker, monitor health of teh appliance using SmartView monitor etc.
• Updated teh network layout using Microsoft Visio and prepared teh technical specifications.
• Acted as aTier-1 supportforallsystemandnetworkrelatedissuestothestaffengineers.
• Provided support for troubleshooting Layer-2 and Layer-3 issues on daily basis.

Confidential

Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on Oracle Apps R12 SCM, Inventory and Finance Modules.
• Worked as an Analyst and developer for Oracle Web Commerce project and provided new solutions for teh Customer.
• Developed and debugged PL/SQL code for a major change which involved 20 + legacy systems.
• Extensively Performed back end database development tasks such as PL/SQL, Trigger, SQL Queries, Functions and Packages.
• Involved in performance tuning and monitoring, tuned SQL queries using Explain plan.
• Added hints, indexes and parallel processing techniques for teh queries.
• Created SQL to delete teh duplicate values from teh datable table.
• Extensively used UNIX commands as per requirement.
• Worked as SCM and Functional analyst for a project where a complete new Oracle application TEMPhas been built.
• Received customer appreciations for a project in providing new solution.
• Have been teh first point of contact on teh customer’s facing side.
• Underwent training at WIPRO which included details about Software Engineering, Web Technologies and Soft skills.
• Involved in developing teh UI pages using HTML, DHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Developed web pages with functionalities like login, register, forget password, Email, Filters using Java Script, jQuery and HTML.
• Used JavaScript to update a portion of a web page thus reducing bandwidth usage and load time in web pages to get user input and requests.
• Developed ‘University Portal Management’ application with HTML and SQL Database.