SUMMARY:

• Six years hands - on experience in designing & implementing inter-networks using Cisco Products and Design schemes for IP addressing & Subnetting. Experience in IP Routing with BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIPv1 & v2.
• Installed Configured:
• Cisco Routers: GSR 12000, 7600, 7500, 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800, 1700, 800 series
• Nexus 7K,, 5K, 2K
• Catalyst Switches: 6500, 4000, 3550, 2900 series
• Excellent working knowledge of SAN Cabling, CAT 5, CAT 5e, CAT 6, CAT 6a technologies, Punchdowns - 66, 110
• Good working knowledge of Cisco Works, What’s up glod
• Experience using Network management equipments such as IXIA, Packet Analyzer OPNET and Wireshark and Wan Optimization tools Like Riverbed
• Proficient in designing networks with MS Visio
• Proficient in configuring, troubleshooting ACLs (Standard, Extended, and Named), Layer 2 protocols including VTP, STP, RSTP, PVRSTP+, VLANs
• Good working knowledge of autantication protocols including PAP, CHAP, WPA, TACACS+, and IPSec
• Good working knowledge of TCP/IP, 802.x protocols, VLSM, DS0, DS1, DS3, SONET/SDH, ISDN, BGP, IPV6, NAT, VPN, Frame-relay and ATM technologies

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco Routers: Cisco GSR 12000, 7600, 7500, 7200 VXR, 3800, 3700,2800, 2600, 2500, 1800, 1700, 800 series

Cisco Catalyst Switches: Catalyst 6500, 4000, 3550, 3700, 2900

IP Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP v1 & v2

Redundancy: HSRP, VRRP

MPLS: LDP, MPLS VPN, MPLS QOS

Load Balancing: Cisco ACE 4700 series, F5

Firewalls: Cisco ASA 5500, Cisco PIX 500, checkpoint R60, checkpoint r65 LAN Switching: STP, Trunking, VTP, and VLAN & INTER-VLAN Routing, QOS

WAN/core: ATM, Frame-Relay, ISDN, PPP, and HDLC

Optical infrastructure: SONET OC3-OC192, SDH, POS, PDH

IP Telephony: SIP, H.323, RTP, Voice Gateways, CCM, QoS Quality of service: CBWFQ, RED/WRED

Ticketing software: BMC REMEDY

Management software: Cisco works, Solar winds, QIP DNS, Infoblox, Netdata, Statseeker, Alterpoint, Infoblox NetMRI

VOIP Devices: Cisco IP phones, Avaya.

IPSEC/VPN Configuration: PIX to Router, Router to Router, PIX to VPN Wildcard client, Router to VPN wildcard client, PIX to PIX, fully meshed configurations

Cabling: CAT 5, CAT 5e, CAT 6, CAT 6a

Scripting Languages: TCL/TK, Expect

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/NT/00/98, Linux, Unix, CATOS NEXUS OS

Office applications: MS Word, Excel, Project, Power Point, Visio, Active Directory

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured 4300, 4400 and LTE 1900 routers at all filed sites.
• Installed Cisco Meraki MX devices and Cisco Meraki Switches at all fileld sites and configured them using the Meraki dashboard.
• Experience with layer 2 and 3 protocols while configuring Cisco Meraki 4500 Switches
• Experience with DMVPN or MPLS while configuring the 4300 and 4400 routers at all sites.
• Installed Seck9 licences and upgraded IOS images on all the 4300 and 4400 routers.
• Good Knowledge of Switching and routing protocols.

Environment: cisco meraki devices, cisco meraki 4500 switches, cisco 4300, 4400 router, cisco MX 60, MX 80, Cisco meraki access switches.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed Nexus 7K core switches and Nexus 5K and 2K server access switches. Configured 7K’s with multiple distribution VDC’s running ospf redistribution between them. Installed dual router running BGP.
• Troubleshoot CISCO Router series 2900, 3500, 6k and 7k series routers and switches
• Installing, configuring Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP, BGP with Access Control lists implemented as per Network Design.
• Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN routing on Catalyst 6500 switches.
• Implemented, configured redundancy protocols HSRP, VRRP, GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
• Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, routing and switching.
• Providing Network Support in the design and implementation of P2P over T1s Frame Relay, IP over Frame Relay, MPLS over Frame Relay and DSL over ATM, Gigabit Ethernet and VRF.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting Layer 2 / 3 networking features such as VLANs, PVLANs, Inter-VLAN routing, STP, VTP, ISL, 802.1Q, 802.1X Port Security, PoE issues, Ether-Channels using LACP and pAgp, VSS, VPC, HSRP, VRRP,GLBP, Multicast, QoS, SPAN and RSPAN on various Cisco switches and routers.
• Solid hands on experience with packet sniffing and traffic generating tools such as IXIA, Wireshark, and Opnet.
• Develop documentation set for each site using Microsoft Office Suite and Visio.

Environment: Nexus 7K, 5k, 2kCisco routers 7200, 3800, 3700 and 2600, Cisco catalyst series switches 6500, 4500, 3750 and 2950T, OSPF, BGP, Cisco PIX and ASA, VLANs, STP, 802.1q trunking, Frame Relay,NAT, MPLS, Site to site VPN, Solarwinds.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, and standby protocols like HSRP and VRRP application in the routers.
• Involved in HSRP standby troubleshooting and load balancing protocol GLBP, Port channel management of the network.
• Designed VLAN’s, access lists (ACL), troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images and other hardware installations.
• Experience in troubleshooting VLAN, STP (Spanning tree protocol), & Switch Trunk and IP subnet issues.
• Dealt with NAT configuration and troubleshooting issues related to access lists and DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on checkpoint firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Provisioning and troubleshooting Ethernet services, Gigabit networks and Connectivity issues with WAN types (T1, E1, DS3, and Frame relay) data circuit debugging.
• Experience MPLS connectivity using VRF id and have broad knowledge on multi-protocol label switching for (MPLS-VPN) and traffic engineering (MPLS-TE).

  Configured firewall filters, routing instances, policy options, on Juniper m320 an d T640.

• Dealt with the escalation problems from Level1, Level 2 & Level 3 for routing, switching and WAN connectivity issues using ticketing system Remedy.

Environment: Cisco routers 3700, 3800, 7200, 7604,Cisco catalyst series Switches 2960, 37503560, 6500, MPLS, Frame Relay, VRF, DSLAM, RIPv2, OSPF, BGP, IPSEC, VLANSTP, VTP, HSRP.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided support for global network including T1/T3, ATM connections using HDLC and Frame Relay on 2600, 4000 series Routers.
• Responsible for SNMP Monitoring and Performance Tuning software.
• Designed WAN structure to prevent single point of failure in case of link failure.
• Experience in Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using PING, Traceroute.
• Planning and Implementation of Subnetting, VLSM to conserve IP addresses.

  Experience in configuring STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.

• Performing the Configuration and troubleshooting of EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP
• Dealt with the configuration of Standard and Extended ACLs for Security.
• Been involved in providing technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and complex customer issues.
• Provided support for troubleshooting and resolving Customer reported issues.

  Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 3550, 2950, 1900 switches, and 3600, 2600 and 2500 routers.

• Implemented and configured routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
• Experience in troubleshooting the issues related to routing protocols.
• Managing, troubleshooting and monitoring the network using Network Monitoring tool.
• Implementing Network Security with Cisco IOS Feature Set, NAT, and Simple Network Management Protocol.
• Involved in installing and configuring PIX 515E firewall.
• Dealt with DNS, DHCP trouble shooting and other IP conflict problems.
• Implementation of name resolution using WINS & DNS in TCP/IP environment.

Environment: Cisco routers 2500, 1800, Cisco 1900 series and Cisco switches. RIP, OSPF, NATVLANS, VTP, PVST, STP, DNS, DHCP

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed, configured and managed WAN network to connect with other branch office servers using BGP.
• Implemented regional branch offices upgrade to increase bandwidth on frame-relay, point-to-point links including T1and T3s. Migrate RIP and IGRP to OSPF.
• Managed and maintained user and group account on Windows NT domain servers.
• Implemented security on the Cisco routers and catalyst switches used.
• Implemented TCP/IP and related services - DHCP/DNS.

Equipment used: Cisco 3600, Cisco 2600, Cisco 2500, Catalyst 5000, Catalyst 4000, Catalyst 2960, Catalyst 2500

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured Cisco 871router and test in the lab environment using RIP and OSPF.
• IXIA, RADCOM was configured and performance was graphed with the life cycle. Etheiral, Packet Analyzer, Packet Sniffer software was used.
• Experienced creating IP subnets and VLSM. Also learned creating VLAN, STP, VTP, ISL VLAN Trunking on 2900 series switches.