SUMMARY:

Double CCIE (Written & Lab) Cisco certified Network Architect with 7 years of hands on experience in Design, Support, Operations, integration and deployment of Data, voice and video platforms in multi - vendor environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• TCP/IP, IP addressing, LAN/WAN troubleshooting.
• Routing protocols IGP (RIP, IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, SIP, H.323).
• HSRP, VRRP, LACP, MLPPP, VSS, VDC, CFS, vPC etc.
• Frame-relay, ATM, Layer 2/3VPN & LAN switching experience.
• MPLS, MPLS-VPNs, MPLS TE, RSVP, LDP hands on configuration experience.
• BGP, MP-BGP, VRF and Inter/Inter AS VPN implementation,
• Multicast routing, Multicast-VPNs, MSDP & GRE tunneling.
• QoS, Network management and Security experience.
• Cisco CRS1, CRS3, ASR9010, ASR9006, ASR903, 7609,7200, 2941MWR, 2600, 2511, 3640 routers
• 6500 series, 4500E+R Series, 4500x series, 3550-EMI switches rack and stack.
• Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k and Nexus 2k
• Cisco ASA5500 series Firewalls
• Dell SonicWall NS240
• Install and Upgrade new IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR and JunOS.
• Nortel VoIP implementation and trouble shooting experience.
• Cisco Unified Communication Manager 6.0 management.
• Cisco Unity Implementation and troubleshooting.
• Cisco Meeting place management experience.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, East Brunswick, NJ

Network Infrastructure Architect

Responsibilities:

• Maintain solid understanding of the industry’s standards, technology architectures and platforms, integration strategies, methodologies, design and modeling tools, development and deployment utilities, testing tools, trends and best practices.
• Support the development and fostering of relationships with the industry’s leading vendors and organizations such as Cisco/ALU/Juniper.
• Lead the end-to-end design of a proposed solution, including the preparation of presentations, configurations and detailed diagrams.
• Participate and assist in managing vendor-led and curriculums as directed.
• Leverage experience to provide mentoring to other members of the technical team as appropriate.
• Leading a team engineers and delivering full product for Confidential & Confidential Mobility IP Cell Site Backhaul design.
• Install, configure, test and troubleshoot Cisco 7609, ASR9010, ASR9006, ASR9000v, ASR901, ASR903, Nexus 7k, Nexus 5k and Nexus 2k FEX.
• Configure and troubleshoot VSS, vPC and Multi-chassis ether-channels in LAN environment on switches including Nexus 7010 and Nexus 5596UP and (65xx/4500x) and Cisco4510R.
• Configure L3VPNs and L2VPN for Confidential & Confidential AVPN customers.
• Providing multicast-routing support for Confidential & Confidential CSBH design (PIM Spares-mode with Anycast-RP for inter-domain multicast routing between different Autonomous systems).
• Provide technical site specific MOPs and General MOPs for customer sites.
• Upgrade IOS, IOS-XE and IOS-XR on daily and weekly basis.
• Create deployment procedures and guidelines for mass deployment for all tested network elements.
• Create BOM using cisco’s CCW and other homegrown tools for ordering and tracking equipment.

Confidential, Campbell, CA

Senior Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Write engineering Deployment guidelines for Confidential & Confidential Mobility IP Edge Deployment or (Cell - Site Backhaul) with detailed implementation steps and back out procedures.
• Produce detailed Layer2/Layer3 documentation based on architectural standards, including physical and logical designs and configurations and implementation of these configurations.
• Work with Mobility Fundamental Network Planning (FNP), design and internal groups to ensure accuracy of designs and standards compliance.
• Work with Confidential & Confidential project management teams to ensure that project deliverables are understood and timescales are committed to and met.
• Responsible for technical review and provide approval for change requests coming from Tier-3 and also assist in implementation of these complex changes in production environment.
• Work with other technical groups to help delivery of business critical projects and technical First Field Applications (FFA).
• Provide project and technical implementation support during business and occasionally off business hours.
• Create and update network infrastructure documentation.
• Provide technical input to the Managers/Directors of Provisioning teams/ATS team to define / refine group practices to meet team's objectives.
• Reproduce production network issues in the lab environment using IXIA and Spirent test centers.
• Installed, configured and tested Cisco ASR9010, ASR901, ASR903, Cisco7609, Cisco2491, Cisco6500, JuniperM320, Cisco CRS-1.

Confidential, Westbury, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing Cisco Unified Communication manager 6.0,Unity Voice-mail system and built VM.
• Managing Unified Contact Center Express UCCX 5.0.
• Deployed Cisco Unified Management Applications, such as Cisco Unified Service Monitor, Cisco Unified Operation Manager. Cisco 1040 RTP sensors.
• Configure new Cisco 2960 switches and 2800 routers for B&N remote stores with Layer 2 and Layer 3 configurations.
• Configured new 6500 switches to upgrade /6509 and upgrade from Sup-32 to Sup-720.
• Implementing security policies on PIX firewalls as per operational/Implementation requirements.
• Managing and maintaining upstream BGP/IP connections for B&N Internet routing and capacity planning.
• Part of design team building new IPT solution for various B&N offices.
• Providing tier 2 & 3 support for the network troubles and outages.

Confidential, New York, NY

Enterprise Integration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented TCP/IP addressing schemes for the voice/data products. Turn up T1/E1, SIP Trunks and Tie Trunks.
• Configure Nortel routers and switches for voice deployment.
• Nortel Call Pilot Voice Massaging configuration experience.
• Unified Communication and Microsoft OCS Integration experience.
• Software Communication Server 500 SIP-PBX deployment experience.
• Managed Covergence SBC Installation and Configurations.
• Dial Plan / Dial Peers / Hunt Groups configurations experience.
• Audio-Codes SIP Gateways Install, Configure and Troubleshoot.
• Ingate Siprator (Firewall) Install, commission and troubleshoot.
• Trouble shooting Managed Media Gateway Controllers.
• POTS, DIDS and DOIDs management.
• Perform Site survey and data center equipment deployment.
• Documented network procedures and SOWs.

Confidential, New York

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and install Cisco 3550s and 6500 switches with hardware and IOS upgrades.
• Worked with ISPs for IP Wan links and BGP related issues.
• TCP/IP IP addressing, DHCP and DNS Troubleshooting.
• Managed and configured VLANS and Trunks on Cisco switches with dot1Q configurations.
• Windows XP, 2000, Citrix applications support and troubleshooting.
• MS office suite, Outlook configuration and troubleshooting.
• Manage user accounts in windows active directory.
• Manage network printers, local printers includes installations and troubleshooting.
• Provided desktop support for more than 300 users.
• Inventory updates, ticket creation using Touch paper application.
• Daily backup File and Printer server. PC hardware troubleshooting. Symantec Ghost, Imaging windows XP / 2000.
• Map network drives for the local users and remote users.