SUMMARY

• Cisco Certified Network Engineer with 6+ years of professional experience in Network engineering, performing Network analysis, design, Implementing, capacity planning with focus on performance tuning and support of large Networks.
• Experienced Wireless Network Engineer in Enterprise and Public Indoor & Outdoor - planning, design, survey, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, management, and reporting.
• Experience with performing predictive and post wireless surveys with AirMagnet.
• Responsible for the delivery of Wireless Planning, Design, Implementation & Optimization Services for organizations.
• Evaluating coverage problems and capacity planning using Radio network planning tools.
• Strong working knowledge of Cisco wireless controllers (WLCs), Cisco 1500, 3702, 3602 and 2600 APs, 4400 and 5508 WLCs, Cisco PI.
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing the load balancing of network traffic using Wireshark.
• Experience in Physical cabling, IP addressing, configuring and supporting TCP/IP.
• Efficient at use of Confidential VISIO/Office as technical documentation and presentation tools.
• Experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching.
• Strong hands on experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Cisco 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 3900, 2500 and 1800.
• Good knowledge of OSI Model and TCP/IP networking standards with protocols such as SNMP, FTP, ICMP.
• Well Experienced in configuring protocols, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, IGMP, PPP, SNMP, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF and tunnel Installing.
• Hands on experience on L2/L3 Protocols like VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST, 802.1q, GRE Tunneling, VLANs, HSRP, Ether Channel, Trunking and Port Security.
• Experience with EIGRP, OSPF and BGP routing protocols.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LAN Technologies: VLAN, VTP, Inter-Vlan routing, STP, RSTP, PVST, 802.1xVLAN, VTP, STP, Inter VLAN routing, Multi-Layer Switching, Multicast operations, Layer 3 Switches and Ether channels.

Routing Protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, HSRP, IPv6

Infrastructure Services: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, TFTP

Network Managements: SNMP, SSH, Telnet, ICMP

Wireless: Cisco 5508, 4400 and 2504 Wireless LAN Controllers. 3700, 3600 and 3500 AccessPoints, AirMagnet survey.

Monitoring tools: Wireshark and Solar winds.

AAA Architecture: TACACS+, RADIUS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, VA

Wireless Network Engineer

Environment: Cisco 4507, 3850, 3750X and 3560 switches. Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers: 5508 and 4404. Cisco Access Points: 3702, 3602, 2602, 1552 and 1242. BGP, OSFP, EIGRP and HSRP. L2 technologies include RSTP, VLAN’s and Trunking etc., AirMagnet Predictive and Post Wireless Site Surveys.

Responsibilities:

• Installing, Configuring and Troubleshooting LAN and WLAN of Enterprise sites.
• Assisting in designed Enterprise Wireless Solutions with 5508 WLC’s onsite and remote Flex Controllers.
• Assisting in designed a Flex Connect solution for the Enterprise using 5508 and 5520 WLC’s at the Data Center.
• Replacing End of support (EOS) 1242 Access Points and WISM at multiple locations with 3502 Access Points and 5508 Wireless Controllers.
• Planning wireless network design and implementation using Cisco APs for Enterprise sites.
• Using AirMagnet WiFi Planning for Importing Floor Plans, Antenna Selection, Area Maps, Defining the environment, Scaling, Floor Attenuation and AP spot.
• Point out all technical details for Wardriving via AirMagnet Heat Maps.
• Replacing EOS switches (4507,3550 with 3750X and 3850) at various sites.
• Replacing non-POE Hardware and implementing L3/L2 technologies for WLAN.
• Assisting in designing LAN and WLAN networks across North America, Europe and Asia.
• Providing On call support for LAN, Wireless and WAN for on-site field Engineer.
• Providing technical training and design support for LAN, Wireless and WAN Engineering.
• Providing Oversight and support for Wireless and LAN Implementations.
• Involving in RF designing for sites per the requirement of organization using AirMagnet.
• Involving in conducting Network Ready for Use Test (NRFU) cases.
• Reviewing Statement of Works (SOW) and Bill of Materials (BOM) for LAN and WLAN.
• Creating TDR (Technical Design Review) and LLD (Low Level Design) for LAN and WLAN.
• Preparing MOPs for upgrade activity.
• Responding quickly to any network outages and help operations to deal with network issues.
• Actively participating in weekly technical meetings along with Engineers and Client leadership teams to identify deployment dependencies, resource tracking and product specifications used in the market.
• Discuss any newer changes to improve the customer experience and the overall engineering WiFi practices for field designs with Project Managers, Program Managers and Senior Executives for WiFi Deployment and Professional services.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Environment: LAN, WAN, Cisco 3560/3650 switches, Cisco 2900/3660/3845 Routers, NAT, OSPF, BGP, VTP, STP, VPN, Ether Channels, DHCP, ACL, VLAN. Cisco Wireless: 5500, 4404 Wireless LAN Controllers.,3700 and 3600 Access Points., AirMagnet, Cisco Prime.

Responsibilities:

• Used various types of LAN Concepts Likewise Port Channel, Ether Channel, Trunking.
• Excellent inter-personal skills with an ability to work in a team and with minimum supervision necessary.
• Involved in complete LAN, WLAN development (including IP address planning, designing, installation, configuration, testing, maintenance etc.).
• Implemented the necessary changes such as adding, moving and changing as per the business requirements in a data center environment.
• Implemented with Cisco Layer 3 switches 3750, 4500 in a multi VLAN environment with the use of inter-VLAN routing, HSRP, ether channel.
• Worked on Cisco routers, switches, Access Points and WLCs for implementation and management purpose.
• Configure and troubleshoot IP, EIGRP and OSPF in routers.
• Coordinated with service providers for WAN link outages.
• Troubleshoot and configured Cisco 7600 and 7200 routers at data center for remote sites’ issues.
• Worked on Cisco 6509 and 4507 series switches for LAN requirements that includes Upgraded and updated Cisco IOS from 12.3T to 12.4.,
• Used DHCP to automatically assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients.
• Implemented, configured and troubleshoot various routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP and LAN security.
• Maintained layer 2 switching tasks which advocate VLAN, VTP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST, configuring of ether channel with LACP and PAGP along with troubleshooting of inter-VLAN routing.
• Implemented, configured redundancy protocols HSRP, VRRP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
• Performed network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like WireShark and Solarwinds.