SUMMARY:

• I am a Network Engineer with Systems Administration and Cloud experience and am seeking a position in a related field.
• SAN FC switching configuration & troubleshooting of Confidential MDS 9000, Nexus N5K switches
• Design and configuration of LAN, WAN, Voice, VPN, Network Security, Monitoring & management; Layer L 1 through L3 level troubleshooting
• Configuration/troubleshooting of Confidential, HP, Juniper routers, switches, & Palo Alto Firewalls
• Complete System Administration of Microsoft & Linux networks; F5, H4 Load Balancers
• Configuration and troubleshooting of servers, workstations, and applications
• IT Support for Network Operation Center (NOC), Data Centers, Cloud support in AWS & Azure
• Backup of Data, and preparation of plans & extensive documentation for Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Plan (BCP), for Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), & SOX, & PCI Audits
• Strong engineering, analytical, managerial, problem solving and communication skills.
• 15 years’ experience in Network & Systems, including Confidential, Juniper, Avaya, Nortel products
• Designed, built, and troubleshot networks, security and Data Center server/network support and provided a resourceful technical support
• Provided Helpdesk support & Provided Helpdesk support
• Maintained and implemented security on network sytems; Load balanced by F5
• Made extensive documentation of network administration, DR, BCP and backup procedures
• Designed and maintained backup system and helped save the company $24,000 per year in cost
• Managed employees while working as a Project Manager, as well as, as a Team Leader

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Hand - on experience in configuring Routers & Switches for LAN, WAN, Voice, & AWS networks
• Confidential MDS 9000, Nexus N5K, N7K Series Switching, Confidential UCS, Confidential ACI, EMC/NetApp Storage
• Networking OSI Model, TCP/IP Protocols, Network Isolation, Risk Domains, Tiered Domains
• Routing protocols: IP, IPX, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF & HSRP
• Sub-netting and IP addressing (CIDR, VLSM)
• 802.1x, Designing & Troubleshooting LAN, WAN, WiFi, Voice, UC, VLAN Switching; GRE
• IPsec & SSL VPN, Network Security, ASA, Palo Alto, & Sonic Firewalls, F 5 Load Balancing
• Configuration of Confidential, Ruckus, Aruba Wireless systems
• Wireshark & other Monitoring including Microsoft System Center 2007
• Confidential / HPE VoIP with call management system, 24x7; Avaya/HPE Voice system
• Hands-on experience designing, Configuring & updating, & troubleshooting Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Server Networks, Linux servers & LAMP, Windows Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, ADFS, Exchange 2007-2013, Office 365 & Configuration with ExpressRoute
• AWS, Azure, Google Cloud & DevOps
• Migration from Novell to Microsoft
• Filtering Spam through Barracuda Spam Filter
• Configured and administering McAfee Anti-virus, SCCM
• Backup done using Symantec Backup Exec & DataDomain,
• Configuring IIS, HTTP, MySQL, Proxy, SharePoint
• Configuring & maintain VMware & Hyper V servers, Citrix Support
• Configuration of SQL Server and database
• Imaging of Windows XP & 7, Linux (Red Hat, Ubuntu, Solaris), Linux LAMP stack & Mac OS
• Automated administration using PowerShell, Perl, & Python scripting
• Shell, Bash, Python Scripting
• C++, HTML, SQL, FORTRAN, & Oracle
• Auditing Network and develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
• HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) Certified
• Preparing Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Plan (BCP), PCI
• QA Testing: Manual & Automated Testing Too (Silk). ISO 9000
• Maintain high professional ethics, am flexible, adaptable, and a team player

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Berkeley, California

IT Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Provides design and troubleshooting consultancy services
• Upgrade of networks, Firewalls, and servers
• Transition in-house networks into Cloud networks: AWS & Azure

Confidential, San Jose, California

Technical Consultant Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided SAN (Storage Area Networking) switching support to worldwide Confidential customers
• Provided live support via WebEx to troubleshoot SAN Fiber Channel switching for Confidential MDS 9000, Nexus N5K series switches, & UCS Servers in conjunction with EMC VNX/NetApp SAN Storages, Coordinated with ACI applications
• Helped install NOS on SAN MDS & N5K switches, DCNM on hosts
• Provided design support for SAN switching
• Configured Confidential Routers, some LAN switches, and hardened LAN/WAN security with ACLs
• Received a large number of High Customer Satisfaction rating scores

Confidential, Kentfield, California

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided Network design, support, and security for the two campuses of Confidential
• Designed, maintained, and troubleshot fiber optics network, HPE Voice System, HPE network equipment, Palo Alto Firewall, Ruckus Wireless Network
• Maintained California State college security standard, etc.

Confidential, California

Network/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Replaced and configured new network equipment, servers, and firewalls.
• Worked with AWS for data migration and reconfiguration of servers

Confidential, San Francisco, California

Senior Windows Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered and maintained Windows 2008 & 2012 servers, SharePoint 2010,
• Managed Veritas backup and storage using Backup Exec and DataDomain
• Monitored & managed L1, L2, and L3 layers troubleshooting through SCCM
• Provided desktop support according to ITIL standards
• Worked with HP & Dell VMWare Windows Servers 2008/2012 for about 500 users
• Scripting done through PowerShell

Confidential, Petaluma, California

Senior Systems & Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Managed seven medical/dental clinics’ network and systems and built up rack systems
• Set up and upgrade Confidential network equipment (LAN & Wireless), VPN & Firewalls ( Confidential, Sonic)
• Build servers on VMware (5.x)
• Designed, configure & migrated about 50 Windows 2003 & 2008 servers for about 100 users
• Designed migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010
• Managed and troubleshot Linux server; Upgraded and troubleshot SW: Dentrix, eCw etc.

Confidential, Berkeley, California

Senior Network & Systems Administration Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Set up Confidential routers & switches (LAN & Wireless), Call Manager, VPN & Firewalls (Sonic, Confidential ASA, Palo Alto), F5 & H4 Load Balancing; built racks with servers/network equipment for Data Centers and also provisioned for AWS Cloud Computing
• Designed, configured & migrated Windows 2003 & 2008, Exchange 2007 servers, Office 365, & Linux (Red Hat & Ubuntu) OS
• Set up Backup system & worked with EMC VNX
• Developed auditing based on SOX & PCI auditing laws

Confidential, San Francisco, California

Network & Systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, configured, and troubleshot Confidential routers, Dell switches, Sonic Firewall, IPsec for the network and configured/upgraded both LAN & WAN, Patch Panel, and Avaya Voice networks
• Monitored network using OP Manage (SNMP) and troubleshot VPN failures, and created ACLs
• Maintained 99.95% uptime network and critical servers
• Designed and maintained backup system and helped save the company $24,000 per year in cost
• Designed, built, and troubleshot, updated Windows 2003/2008 Server Network including AD, Exchange 2007, SQL 2005, File, Print, & other application servers in other Hyper V, Imaged computers
• Backed up & restored data through Symantec/Veritas Backup Exec systems
• Configured & managed Ubuntu Linux servers for web development using LAMP stack, IIS Server
• Provided Desktop support for Windows XP/Linux and network printers: IIS troubleshooting
• Made plans for Disaster Recovery (DR), Business Continuity Plan (BCP)
• Extensive documentation for DR, BCP, & detailed Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for audits

Confidential, Alameda, California

Network Consultant & Systems Administration

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Confidential 5900 & 7600 and Juniper routers, switches, & PIX firewall
• Designed, built and troubleshot windows 2000 & 2003 systems & networks, including migration from NT to 2000 /2003 & Exchange 5.5/2003 to Exchange 2007 for small and large offices
• Provided Desktop and NOC support

Confidential, Mill Valley, California

Network Auditor & Support

Responsibilities:

• Configured Network equipment and computers
• Audited network, documented for Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)and for SOX & PCI

Confidential, Novato, California

Server Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Administered, troubleshot Windows and Citrix based servers for 300 servers.
• Built servers through VMware. Migrated Data using Windows and Linux servers
• Provided 24 x 7 Desktop Supports & Troubleshooting through Confidential ’s Problem Manage software
• Provided Active Directory support & Backed up Data through VERITAS Backup Exec system
• Rebuilt Data Center racks, servers, cables and documented Inventories