SUMMARY:

I am a hands - on Network Engineer/Manager with 16 years of experience, a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering,and multiple technical certifications.

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

ROUTING: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IP/MPLS(layer 3 VPNs), GRE tunnels for VPN,Cisco ASR 1004,7200,7500,3945,3925,2921,2951,2821,2811, 1800,series routers

SWITCHING: Cisco NEXUS 7K,5K,2K,Cisco 6509 - VSS,Cisco 3750(stackable),3650,3550,500 xl series switches,Brocade Foundry Super X family,FastIron,VTP,STP,Extreme BD 8810,450a,450e

WAN: Frame Relay, ISDN, OC3c,T1(full/fractional/multilink), DS3(full/fractional), DSL, SNA, DLSW+CSU / DSU

SECURITY: ASA 5520,5510,5545-X,5585-X,PIX 525,535, IPS 4200, RADIUS, TACACS+, VPNIPsec, SSL, RSA Secured, digital certificates, Juniper SSG-550,SSG-20, SonicWALL PRO 4060,6500,e7500,Checkpoint 4200,4600,4800 series appliances,Cisco ACS,Juniper Radius

LOAD BALANCERS: BIG-IP F5 1600,4000,2200,3600,6900,8900 series

SYSTEM ADMIN: Windows Server 2000,2003,2007 Windows 7,Vista,XP

WIRELESS NETWORKING: Cisco WLC 4400,5500 Aruba WLC-200,Aruba AirwaveCisco AP 1130,1230,1240 series,Cisco Prime Infrastructure

NETWORK MANAGEMENT: CiscoWorks 2000 LMS 3.0, syslog, SNMP, packet analyzer, LDAPVisio, Solar winds Orion NPM,NCM,Wireshark,Ethereal,Net QoS,eHealth

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plymouth, MN

Sr. Voice/Data Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Tech Refresh for over 200 large site offices consisting of users ranging from 200 - 5000 users per site.
• Upgrading Cisco Core, Stackable Switches Cisco 3750,Cisco 6504 Cisco 2900,Cisco 3900 series routers - Cisco 6500 VSS Implementation using Sup 720 and 10G ISL between the Chasis.
• Implementation,Administration of F5 BIG IP 4000 series,8900 series,1600 series platform LTM Version 10.x Creating WAN Circuit Orders and Circuit Provision.
• Implementation of VIP s,Pools,Members,SSL offloading for Application Servers and use of built in application templates
• Configuration,Installation,Deployment,troubleshooting of a wireless Lan comprised of Cisco Wireless Controller 4400 series, Cisco AP's 1130Ag,1240Ag
• Configuration,Installation,Deployment,troubleshooting of a wireless Lan comprised of Aruba Wireless Controller 200,3000 series and Aruba AP's AP-70
• Configuration,Installation,Deployment,troubleshooting of Cisco Switches 3750,3560,3550,2950,500G in a Vlan, VTP environment.
• Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPN setup using Cisco PIX 535,Cisco 2800 Series Routers, Cisco 1841 Series, VPN concentrators, Cisco 2600&3600 VPN bundles
• Microsoft IAS setup, Microsoft CA setup Cisco ACS v 3.0 setup for different EAP types.
• Cisco ACS setup,configuration,implementation
• BIG-IP F5 deployment using 3600 series appliance for load balancing Microsoft Exchange 2007 servers
• Juniper Steel Belted RADIUS server setup,configuration,implementation.
• Use of Venafi Enterprise Director for SSL/TLS Cert Management off of F5 s LTM s.
• Upgrading ASA Software 7.2 to 7.4 to 8.0 to 8.2 to 8.4 to 8.6
• Manual Modification for I/O ports,Configuration for Migration to ASA 5585-X
• Hardware Migration from ASA 5540 to ASA 5585-X Series Appliances.
• Feature License Acquisition for new ASA 5585-X series Appliances.
• ASA FirePower Deployment,Configuration using ASDM.
• Deployment, configuration of F5 BIG IP load balancer using local traffic manager
• (LTM) 3600 series, 6900 series and 8900 series appliances
• Implementation/Troubleshooting of OSPF,EIGRP,iBGP for LAN routing
• Implementation/Troubleshooting eBGP on CE-PE IP/MPLS Links
• BGP Peering with Verizon and ATT for IP/MPLS connectivity.
• Work Involved Hands-On Actual Configurations,Designing,Implementation and Troubleshooting
• Day to Day administration and maintenance of ASA 5500 Series
• Firewalls,Upgrades,Support.
• Site-to-Site IPSec VPN Tunnels and Remote Site VPN Tunnel Implementation and
• Support on Juniper SSG Series Firewalls using Pre-Shared Key.
• Zone Based Implementation of Rules on SSG Series Juniper Firewalls.
• Segmentation of Logical Network Boundaries, Zones for Systems, Applications for PCI .
• Cisco/Aruba WLC Controllers Configuration-Design Heat Maps
• Cisco NCS Central Management of Wireless Environment
• Cisco/Aruba Flex Connect Implementation.
• Implementation of Network level Designs using third party vendors
• Implementation of Nexus 5k,2k & 7k Solutions
• Implementation of Fabric Path
• Implementation of VRF -LITE using BGP,EIGRP,OSPF
• Implementation of DVMVPN in a HUB and Spokes Topology
• Wi-Fi EAP Security Implementation - Design & Configuration
• Assessment,Remediation and Reporting of IT Assets for PCI Compliance.
• Worked on Firewalls ASA,SonicWalls for PCI Compliance Audits.
• IOS upgrade on Cisco Switches 3750,3650.Routers 3825,3845
• Configuration,Installation,testing of Cisco 2921,2951,3925,3945 series routers for the rollout for over 120 sites on Confidential & Confidential MPLS using fractional/full DS-3 s,full/fractional/bonded T1 s .
• Layer1/Layer2/Layer3 Troubleshooting in Enterprise LAN/WAN/MAN environment
• Implementation/Upgrade of Cisco 2560 s with Cisco 3560 s series switches on over 200 Remote Site offices
• Implementation/ Troubleshooting of VLAN s, VTP and STP on Cisco Switches
• Configuration, Installation, troubleshooting of Foundry Brocade SuperX, Fast IronFamily Core Switches
• Configuration, Installation, troubleshooting of Cisco ASA 5520,5510,5505 in redundant mode using both ASDM as well as CLI.
• Wi-Fi-Design and Implementation and Wi-Fi-Refresh and implementation for remote site offices.
• Monitoring of the Cisco 2800, 3845 Series Routers for the MPLS connectivity with the service provider with DS3, T1, bonded T1 s terminations on ATT and Verizon network.
• Configuration, Installation of Cisco ASR 1004 series router as the head end MPLS router with OC3C termination on ATT network .
• Network Migration from Core Foundry SuperX Switches to Cisco 6509-E VSS configuration
• Configuration, Installation, Implementation Cisco 3750, 3560 using Cisco Stackwise technology
• Analysis, design, testing, documentation, implementation/configuration and support of
• WAN / LAN / MAN and converged network technologies
• Recently Worked on Network Infrastructure Development using Pair of Cisco Nexus
• 5548,Cisco Nexus 2k,Cisco Nexus 4K in IBM Blade Center H Series, BIG-IP 4000 Series,2 pairs of
• Checkpoint Appliances, Raritan for Remote Management,EMC Data Domain and Cisco 3000 Series
• Data Center Interconnect Using Cisco Nexus 7K and OTV over IP/MPLS.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Aministration,Configuration of Extreme Switches
• Adminstration,Configuration of SonicWALL s 6500,3500,7500 tz 170 s etc.
• Technical Support of PCI compliance requirements
• Implementation plan for OSPF
• Redundant QMOE connections implementation.
• Running Vendor escalations for WAN outages with Verizon.
• Troubleshooting Network related trouble tickets .
• Configuration of content filtering on corporate firewalls.
• Implementing First Hop Routing Protocols such as HSRP, VRRP and GLBP.
• Cisco IOS code upgrades on Routers, Switches.
• Implementation, Configuration of ORION Solar winds Network Performance Monitor
• Configuration of PRTG Network Performance Monitor
• Implementation of HP Intelligent Center Performance Monitor.
• Site - to-Site VPN Setup, Support using SonicWALL GMS
• Support for DNS using SunGard Web Portal.
• Cisco Router Configuration for IP/MPLS over 400 sites.

Confidential, Eden Prairie, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Active involvement in the Deployment of Cisco VOIP project for the company comprising redundant Cisco Call Managers (7.1.X), Cisco Unity etc. in a centralized call processing model connecting over 50 branch offices using cisco routers in SRST mode with the Head Office .
• Network Health monitoring using Orion Solar winds Network Performance Monitor and Network Configuration Manager
• Orion Solar winds Net flow Traffic Monitor, Configuration, Implementation.
• Implementation of Dynamic Routing using EIGRP
• Site - to-Site IPsec VPN setup, configurations.
• Installation, Configuration, Implementation of SonicWALL Firewall/VPN Pro 4060
• Installation and configuration of Wireshark, Ethereal for network traffic monitoring.
• Wireless lan setup, configuration with Cisco Wireless Lan Controller 5508 series and AP s in
• HREAP mode for wireless VoIP Telephony support
• Configuration, Installation of Zyxel Hayes compatible modems for out of band console access to the routers using pots lines.
• Implementation of QoS on Cisco Switches 6500 & Cisco Routers 2921,2951,3825,3925,3945

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Field Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Represented Confidential & Confidential on behalf of Von technologies for their client Confidential
• Performed as Network Engineer for installation and upgrade of network for medical imaging systems Confidential 3 clinical sites; in Minneapolis, Owatonna, and Eau Claire.
• Replaced Cisco 1841 Router & SonicWALL Device with new Cisco 1841 router and 8 - port D-link
• Switched old Circuit to Confidential & Confidential MPLS Circuit
• Switched all the cables from old devices to new ones.
• Installation, Configuration, Implementation of Cisco 1841 Series router & US Robotics Modem
• Pinnacle Technical Resources- (Senior Network Engineer) July 2009 - Aug 2009 Minneapolis, MN
• Represented Pinnacle for their client Game informer in twin cities Minnesota
• Racking &Stacking of Cisco Switches 3750,3560
• Replacement of Cisco 2600 router to Cisco 2800 series router
• Moving corporate VLAN physically onto a single Cisco 3750 Switch
• Installation, Configuration, Implementation of Cisco 3750,3560 and Cisco 2800, 1841 Series router
• Stacking two Cisco 3750 series switches
• Fiber cable up linking of switches

Confidential

Senior Engineer Data Network

Responsibilities:

• Designing, Deployment, Commissioning, Installation, Implementation and migration of an ATM based

Confidential

Officer Network & Systems

Responsibilities:

• Conducting initial inventories and assessments to evaluate and document the company s technology
• Communicating objectives, schedule, and types of service covered under the agreement with the vendors.
• Performing scheduled support visits to stabilize networked computer environments by providing routine preventative maintenance, coaching, and troubleshooting
• Providing ongoing assessment of the company's technology infrastructure and assists the company with network maintenance and upgrade planning
• Providing comprehensive documentation for all site visits
• Following up project opportunities that fall outside of scheduled support parameters
• Working with other consultants on larger engagements, providing project leadership as appropriate
• Configuration, Installation and troubleshooting of Cisco Works LAN Management Solution 3.0 for network management.
• Configuration, Installation and troubleshooting of Cisco 2900,3750,3560,600,6500 series switches3800,2800,2600, 1841 series Routers, PIX 525,515 and SSG - 550 Juniper Firewalls
• Wireless LAN surveys using tools like Nets tumbler for Cisco Aironet Series 1130 AG
• Helpdesk Support for over 1500 LAN users using Windows XP & Vista.
• Proficient in the use of MS Office 2000,2003,XP
• Managing and Troubleshooting of DSL, E1 (2Mbps), Wireless Radio Links, ISDN, Dial up Services
• Desktop Support for over 5000 computers, laptops.
• Experience in network configurations using methods such as VRRP, HSRP
• Configured network load balancers such as F5 BIG-IP for DNS load balancing.
• Supervising a team of 25 IT technicians and managing a portfolio of 50 clients
• Designed Infrastructure Cabling, LAN cabling, MDFs, IDFs, components orders, cable, racks, patch panels, wall IO s
• Worked with SONET networks, SPF s, OC - 1,OC-3
• Transport systems
• Fiber systems Different connector types ST,SC,FC,LC,MU, fiber patch cords
• Experience in DACs, Channel Banks, DSUs, CSU. ISDN
• Experience in X.25, Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS, Point to Point, Point to multipoint legacy analog circuits .F5 Load balancers.
• Done CAT5,CAT 5e,CAT 6,CAT6e cabling
• LAN cabling terminating equipment patch panels of different vendors
• Rack designing and layout using Visio.
• Integrating systems, network administration functions, managing system resources and tracking response times to maintain operating efficiency.
• Initiating comprehensive network re-engineering including network infrastructure, installationimplementation and troubleshooting in a Windows 2000 and Server 2003 environment
• Planning client networks, managing concerned resources, overseeing proxy and firewall application n Microsoft ISA in addition to maintaining Exchange 2003 and 2007 email systems and troubleshooting client mailboxes.
• Participating in disaster recovery testing, maintaining system documentation logs and assisting in troubleshooting and diagnosis of system problems.
• Executing email administration, backup, data recovery, and preventive maintenance in addition to routine software installation and troubleshooting functions.
• Configuring the Cisco VPN tunnel between different sites, maintaining inter site linkage
• Working with routing, switching, security designs and configurations, designing network architecture and performing connectivity troubleshooting.
• Rendering expertise in network infrastructure & TCP/IP, network documentation, architecture diagrams Formulation and desktop support.
• Planned, tested and evaluated various equipment, software, IOSs and procedures for use within the network / security infrastructure.
• Configured and Maintained Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine
• Configured and Maintained Cisco 1700s, 2500s,2600,3600s,3700, 7600,7200,AS5800,etc
• Configured and Maintained the Cisco 6500, 4500s, 4006s, 3500s, 2900s etc.

Confidential

Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Served in computer maintenance, performed all types of hardware, software maintenance and engineering in addition to systems selection, backup and technical support.
• Carried out cabling and established both wired and wireless networks, implemented network securitybuilt firewalls, managed host security and secured various permissions.
• Anticipated utilization patterns, their effect on system availability and performed maintenance programs following company and vendor standards.
• Cooperated on network design initiatives and implementation of network solutions such as DHCPDNS and WINS servers.
• Investigated user problems, determined possible solutions, oversaw software, application development, installation and upgrades.
• Executed systems administration activities, installed, configured, performed operations, maintenance of software and networked servers.
• Conducted systems diagnostics, troubleshooting, analyzed network performance, system slowdowns and ascertained reasons for bottlenecks encountered.
• Maintained computers, installed operating systems and programs on the computers and reassembled computer hardware devices. Specialized in maintaining servers and clients, resolving all security problems, hackers spams and Trojans Monitored networks, uploading and downloading of data, programmed proxy on server and configured firewall for computers