SUMMARY:

• Senior Networking Engineer professional with 12+ years of IT experience including Big 4 consulting background plus a strong expertise in Finance Banking, Telecom etc..,
• Strong hands - on team leadership style that fosters commitment and Extensive hands on experience in Information Technology Infrastructure deployment, implementation and Operational support systems and Network Management.
• Extensive hands on experience on Cisco ASR,3945 Routers, Cisco 6509,6504,4506 series,3750/3560, Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k switches, PIX, ASA 5500, Juniper Net screen and SRX Firewalls.
• Good knowledge in ITIL frame work like release management, change management, configuration management, problem management and availability management
• Good in production of Network Visio drawings and documentation skills
• Extensive hands on experience in responding to RFP’s, Effort estimation and Strong Pre Sales experience in Cisco.
• In-depth Cisco technology experience/knowledge in design, implementation, administration and support
• Experience in implementing Open stack components (Nova, swift, cinder, Horizon, Neutron)
• Skilled in designing enterprise class LAN (Campus LAN, Data Center LAN), WAN (VPN, MPLS etc), IP telephony deployment and network security (IPS, IDS, Firewalls, DMZ) and awareness of information security.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

OS/ IOS: Linux, Unix, Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, Cisco IOS 12.X

Management: Cisco works LMS, Solar Winds, Cranog, Nagios, MRTG Traffic Analyzer, Net-flow Analyzer, Sniffer tools.

Networking: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, STP, HSRP,VRRP,FHRP, IP Sec, RTP, SIP, H.323, MGCP, SS7, TCP/IP, UDP, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, FTP, DNS, LDAP, VPN, VOIP,QOS,Multicast, NAT, ISDN BRI/PRI, T1/E1

Hardware: Routers Cisco 3800, 3500, 2800, 2900 Cisco Switches (65xx, 45xx, 37xx, 35xx, 29xx, 19xx), Nexus 7k,5k,2k, Cisco VPN concentrators, Net screen firewalls, F5 Load Balancers(LTM, GTM) TANDBERG Video Conferencing Products, Linksys DSL Routers.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Associate Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Preparing Change implementation plan.
• Build designs for Cloud Gateway projects.
• Preparing firewall configurations on Cisco ASA, Juniper net-screen and SRX.
• Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls
• Configuring Cisco Nexus7k, 5k and 2k ( VPC, Fabric path and OTV)
• Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010.
• Configuring Cisco MDS switches
• Configuring UCS.
• Build the design for Avamar Grid requirements.
• Build the design for UCS POD requirements.
• Preparing CIPs ( Change Implementation Plan)
• Preparing Test case documents and configurations for new Confidential sites.
• Working on Firewall requests.
• Working on Cisco ASR routers, Nexus7k, 5k and 2k switches.
• Working on F5 Load balancers.(LTM, GTM)
• Configured and implemented Nexus 5K and 2K in lab environment
• Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 7000.

Confidential

Network Designer

Responsibilities:

• Site Surveys of client sites.
• Recommended Hardware and preparing BOM
• Site Remediation requirements.
• Site designing HLD, LLDS.
• Preparing Network Drawings.
• Site deployment of Network Data Infrastructure includes (Cisco ASR and 3945 routers, Cisco 6509, 6504, 4506 and 3750 Switches.)
• Key contributions include troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include
• Routing protocols OSPF& BGP
• Configured BGP for CE to PE route advertisement and Spearheaded meetings & discussions with team members regarding network optimization and regarding BGP issues.
• Implemented the concept of Route Redistribution between different routing protocols
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS, VTP, STP and configuring on Fast Ethernet.

Confidential

Network Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Handle and Implement multiple technologies based on project requirements as part of the architecture design
• Detailed development of solutions documentation specifically client proposals & Designs.
• Costing including hardware and software costs, estimating implementation cost and support costs
• Work with internal and external clients located in different time zones namely in Europe, North America and Asia
• Engage with on-site / local vendors on a need basis and Preparation of bill of materials for solutions developed
• Current Infrastructure analysis
• Understanding the current IT infrastructure and Operations Teams concerns & expectations.
• Testing of applications in Network environment and going forward
• Meeting with the Service providers and metrics on application testing.
• DR plan design and implementation

Confidential

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked in company’s operations in UAE and managed networking and systems integration projects for customers.
• Daily monitoring firewall and Network logs for any security related issues
• Documentation, Database of Inventory.
• Configuration and Maintenance of Cisco routers and switches
• Responsible to understand network requirements of the customers and design network solutions
• Skilled in preparing RFP response, SOW, Network design documents for networks.
• Providing technical support to customers, field engineers and project managers.
• Successfully implemented network projects by managing installations, configuration of network devices at site.
• Configure Cisco routers from 2600 to 7500 series, vpn, frame-relay, eigrp, rip v2, static route and configure new firewalls.
• Troubleshoot firewall connectivity problems, external, and internal (DMZ) users, VPN, and multi-Tier network.
• Analysis of MRTG and generation of monthly bandwidth utilization report

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining leased lines
• Maintaining Wireless Links.
• Configured OSPF routing protocol on the distribution routers (Cisco 3662, 4500, 2600) which will be used to provide internet connectivity to customers.
• Maintaining DNS and Mail servers On Linux.
• Configuring Band width Management tools in Linux
• Remote Management of Devices from the Network Operations Center.
• Technical Support for escalated customer problems.
• IP address planning and distribution among the customers using VLSM
• Configuring and administering Cisco routers ranging from 1600 to 7500 series.
• Debugging and troubleshooting routing problems
• Responsible for the web servers owned by company and maintaining all the web servers, proxy server.
• Configuration of VLANs, Access-lists depending upon the requirement.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setting up Linux firewall using Ipchains and Iptables.
• Setting up mail server using Qmail, on Linux
• Setting up Apache web server, creating Virtual Domains
• Setting up PDNS & SDNS servers
• Installing and configuring Squid Caching Server
• Installing and configuring Radius Authentication & Accounting server
• Implementing Raid5 on Linux
• Automating backup process using shell scripts
• Installing and configuring MRTG.
• Installing & configuring Cisco 2500, Intel 1900 Routers
• Implementing access control lists on Cisco Routers