SUMMARY

• Result oriented F5 Application Delivery / Network Infrastructure Consulting who is creative in identifying and designing effective solutions to meet the current needs and future expectations of business.
• Professional Systems and Network Infrastructure Consulting with 10+ years of leading - edge IT experience in delivering exceptional customer satisfaction and improving overall operations.
• Proficient in front-end and back-end operations, development and support with an unexcelled record of bringing mission-critical projects in schedule and within budget.
• Strong interpersonal, communicative and organization skills. Intuitive analytical ability to attain network, system and application level solution.
• Project management proficiency including analysis, design, development, implementation, documentation and evaluation.

Areas of expertise

• F5 LTM Administration
• F5 Edge Gateway / APM
• F5 Firepass Administration
• Infoblox Grid DNS Management
• Network Engineering / Architecture
• Application Delivery
• Infoblox Network Automation
• ITIL / ITSM Consulting
• SDN Consulting
• Data Centre Consolidation
• IPsec & SSL VPN
• F5 GTM Administration
• F5 Viprion System Deployment
• F5 Link Controller Administration
• Firewall Administration
• Cisco Nexus 2K/5K/6K/7K
• Network Security
• Network Integration
• Pre-Sales /Infrastructure Consulting
• Project Management
• Cloud Computing

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Los Angeles, CA

F5 Architect

Responsibilities:

• Architect, design and prototype/implement major components of BIG-IP core acceleration infrastructure and features.
• Serves as architectural/technical lead to detail all aspects of product design and ensures that resulting design specification fits into technical architectural framework.
• Design and develop components for the high availability, clustering and chassis support components
• Design and Implementation of F5 GTM based on topology load balancing methods
• Implementation of F5 viprion systems
• Responsible for designing, performing and validating tests of F5 products, alliance partner applications and competitive products to create detailed and accurate documentation with reproducible results.
• Design and Architecting network firewall and network security solutions, includes create and define functional specifications, working with development managers and their teams to define designs that address the requirements, participating in code reviews, and helping to ensure that the final product is high quality, and meets customer needs.
• Perform design an validating f5 LTM,GTM,Viprion systems
• Implementation of Brocade 10K Load Balancers in existing pop infrastructure for managing and delivering video content application traffic
• Design and implementation of campus networking using cisco nexus 2k/6k/7k components
• Managing the Confidential DNS infrastructure using Infoblox grid manager
• Perform research and development of implementing software defined networking into existing Confidential network infrastructure
• Design and Implementation of campus network using nexus infrastructure (Nexus 2k,5k,6k,7k)

Confidential, Federal Way, WA

F5/Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Technical analysis, development, and project management activities include design, task development and management, budgeting, and project coordination to ensure timely and efficient progression.
• Responsible for defining, documenting and articulating functional scope.
• Also involved in technical, analytical, problem-solving and identifying, analyzing, tracking and managing customer and application data flow issues throughout a software system
• Analyze hardware & configuration requirements & articulate specifications
• Designed a new enterprise-wide model for application performance testing and infrastructurecapacity planning processes and activities covering entire intranet application domain
• Provide Technical and Product development and updates: Switches (Edge and Core), Routers, VPN/SSL Solutions, F5 Application delivery, Network security
• Configuring Big-IP F5 LTMs (virtual servers, pools, SNATs, health monitors, irules) for managing the traffic and tuning the load on the network servers.
• Configuration of Site-to Site IPsec VPN between two branch offices and also SSL VPN for users accessing corporate applications and servers from various locations
• Administration and Management of Cisco ASA Firewalls, F5 LTM & Link Controller
• Perform due diligence and prepared network documentation to implement Network Migration.
• Designing the uplinks and downlinks to maintain the stability in the Network Architecture.
• Providing daily network support for national wide area network consisting of MPLS, Worked extensively in configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of F5 LTM,Link Controller Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NAT with the firewalls as per the design.
• Working with data center design and engineering team including planning and implementation of network changes during scheduled and approved change windows / maintenance windows
• Design SDN cloud for Broad band and Enterprise network which includes network virtualization,backhaul network and NFV
• Performed IP address planning, designing, installation, configuration, testing, maintenance, and troubleshooting in large enterprise network environment.
• Design and development of large scale network services and will provide technical solutions relating to networking components in multi-discipline service development initiatives.

Confidential, Houston, TX

Sr.Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Upgrade F5 LTM load balancers and Edge gateways by applying version 9,10 and 11 images
• Installed and configured Edge gateway as part of firepass migration for SSL VPN
• Make load balancing & application delivery changes in F5 Big IP load balancers using Global Traffic Manager (GTM) and Local Traffic Manager (LTM) version 10
• Managing WAN, LAN, Security, Load Balancing & E-Com infrastructure for client’s facilities hosted in Data Centers across the globe spanning
• Efficient and flawless Data Center management activities like upgrades, migrations, schematic versioning, maintenance, inventory versioning and maintenance, IP space allocation & maintenance.
• Responsible for network trend analysis, process improvement, and providing proactive network remediation using the tools and techniques available.
• Ensure all agreed Changes to the environment are fully tested within a test environment prior to changing the production System.
• Ensure that Firewall Rules are reviewed in accordance with Risk management Framework.
• Hands on experience in f5 load balancer and Edge gateway devices for web acceleration, content management and SSL VPN.
• Extensive experience in managing Infoblox grid management and netMRI services for DNS infrastructure.
• Hands on experience in establishing a Lan-Lan Ipsec vpn tunnels for secure transmission of data.
• Design and Architecture of SDN to migrate the enterprise network to SDN cloud networking
• Provide management, administration and monitoring services to bluecoat internet proxy infrastructure.
• Recovery from network and DC breach and advance production troubleshooting problems with detailed root cause analysis.
• Configuring virtual servers,pools,irules,access policies,SSL profile,SSL certificates in f5 ltm and Edge gateways
• Configure required rules,NAT and policies in checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewalls
• Data centre consolidation and migration of network and applications by migrating the F5 LTM,firewall,DNS and application servers for both production and disaster recovery environment
• Managing external domains and SSL certificates as part of Web infrastructure
• Implementing & ensuring adherence to ITIL standards of Incident, Problem, Change, Configuration, Release and Availability Management.
• Provide 24x7 bases Data Centre operations & Production support to Client’s business critical application system.
• Breaking down the network into different subnets and IP address management for internal, DMZ and External networks.
• Configuring the switches and routers for operational companies across US during network refresh and implementation
• Pro-actively initiating the change management to improve the network performance, applying software patches in f5,HA testing, routing protocol changes and network migrations based on business requirement and network performance
• Proactively monitor the health of network using solarwinds management tools to keep the network availability as high as 99.8%
• Domain administration and SSL Certificate management

Confidential

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Lead design, implementation and support using best practice for various F5 modules (LTM, GTM, Firepass)
• Implement LTM, GTM, and firepass configurations with adherence to industry best practices, customer policies
• Document all configuration changes and process through the change management process
• Understand current security architecture to determine how F5 modules would work in conjunction with existing security tools
• Work with current load balancer teams to determine automation capability in the F5 architecture
• Develop design and implementation engineering for interfaces linking to F5 devices
• Work with Hosting and application teams to fully test new interfaces prior to production implementation
• Coordinate with project managers, application teams, and stakeholders to cutover to new interfaces during approved change windows
• Owns resolution of all network security infrastructure related break/fix issues. Accurately interprets symptoms, identifies root cause and takes appropriate corrective action to resolve
• Lead in performing data center and communications network recovery capacity planning coordination with technology groups in support of specific business unit current, in plan, and new initiatives, with a major focus on proactively assuring an adequate recovery network and processing environment.
• Work with security, disaster recovery, and other vendors providing required services to the server infrastructure
• Assessing the Business Continuity implications of proposed network changes and coordinating any revisions to existing Business Continuity Plans and Procedures necessitated by such changes
• Involved in the migration of F5 3DNS to Global traffic manager (GTM) for the wide area based load balancing environment of the datacenters
• Involved in updating the F5 wide ip configurations, persistence profiles, updating the SSL certificates across the F5 devices for the resource updates
• Responsible for providing infrastructure design recommendations, developing and integrating system
• Accountable for compliance with agreed policies, standards and procedures.Makes suggestions for problem solutions on infrastructure design and packages to align with operational requirements
• Firewall Log monitoring using RSA Envision and Q RADAR
• Site to site VPN implementation on ASA Firewalls
• SSL VPN configuration on F5 Firepass 4300
• Work with developers to ensure the solution meets the requirements of operational standards (deployment and configuration, alerting, upgrading, management)
• Providing infrastructure design recommendations, developing and integrating system
• Submit network level changes and provide appropriate level of coordination along with implementation Act as level 2 support for firewalls, load balancers, routing, and switching. Work with technical groups to resolve issues in a timely manner.
• Analyze application behavior using network analyzers and raw packet captures
• Perform Network capacity management by projecting traffic demands/matrices on individual network components
• Understanding and implementation of network traffic analysis, remote access methods and systems, stateful inspection firewalls, encryption, authentication and authorization technology.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the installation and configuration of Cisco ANA in Confidential network
• Responsible for test scenarios and test scripts to test the Cisco ANA product in Confidential communication network
• Configuring and Troubleshooting of netcool monitoring system
• Building network inventory and analysis of architecture
• Configuration of network vision logical inventory and map view
• Configured HSRP on different location of office on the switched Network and Managing the Entire multilayer switched network.
• Upgrade Cisco router, switches using TFTP.
• Responsible for the installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the company network.
• Duties included monitoring network performance using various network tools to ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of application and equipment.
• Configured and Maintained the Local Network using Cisco series Switches 2900, 4500, 5000, 6500, and Cisco series Routers 2800, 3600.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting Routing Protocols static, RIP, EIGRP, BGP.
• Configuring Virtual Servers on the F5 Local Traffic managers
• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANS’s, Port security, VTP, STP, Inter-VLAN routing, LAN security etc.
• Configured HSRP on different location of office on the switched Network and Managing the Entire multilayer switched network.
• Upgrade Cisco router, switches using TFTP.
• Configured VPN to allow remote users access to corporate network.
• Experience working with Network Security like Create Access Lists (ACL), NAT on Routers.
• Configured and Implemented Frame Relay for WAN connectivity. Troubleshooting issues related to Frame relay networks.
• Network Monitoring with Cisco Works 2000, HP open view, Network Sniffer and Net flow Analyzer.
• Provide Leadership & Project Management service at country/region level for the introduction of new Products/Features.

Confidential

Project Lead

Responsibilities:

• Trouble-shooting and diagnosing the problem in the network structure and/or customer servers leading to effective and efficient problem resolution in order to meet requirements of Service Level Agreements and contractual commitments to the customer Installation, commissioning and testing of Cisco 3550,3750 & 7609 routers and switches for broadband network evolution
• Perform pro-active service maintenance actions to maintain service availability
• Build and setup systems to fulfill orders placed by customers for IT services
• Actively involved in configuring & maintaining Routers, Lease line modems, Cisco switches& VPN for corporate clients
• Installation and configuration of different router and switches like Cisco, Dlink, Huawei, ISDN BRI as backup link for Lease line with different criteria like increasing load and lease line goes down, VPN through Tunnel interface between two routers, Network Address Translation, TCP/IP based networks and sub netting, E1 provisioning through NMS/EMS, static routing policies, IP address management, LAN/WAN protocols
• Experienced in managing corporate customers to deliver quality of services up to level of customer satisfaction as per SLA commitment
• Addressing performance bottlenecks and ensuring maximum network uptime
• Assisting in the design and implementation of troubleshooting network problems and conflicts
• Managing a team of 10 technicians for production support and implementation
• Design and deployment of wireless backup link for all the enterprise locations
• Wireless and optical fiber planning includes cost estimation and bandwidth optimization
• Troubleshooting the network related faults using various tools like cacti, nagios, blip, wireshark and solarwinds.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Network Planning, Implementation and operations of Access, Broadband, Wireless and Transmission networks
• Installation, commissioning and testing of Cisco 3550,3750 & 7609 routers and switches for broadband network evolution
• Installation, commissioning and testing of DLC (UTSTARCOM), Nortel SDH Equipment’s (TN-1C,TN-1X,TN-4XE,TN-16XE)for backbone network operations
• Managing Enterprise customer connectivity - Wire line & Wireless (LMDS & UBR)
• Planned events (PE) execution and network migration for network improvements and network expansion
• Execution, implementation and testing of OFC MAN, Access & Transmission network.
• Full life cycle experience from project planning, budget handling, acceptance testing plan and to network delivery. Budgeting involved OPEX & CAPEX
• Pre-sales support and high value customer management
• Carrying out Optical Planning activities at circle level like participation in resolving optical ring constraints, addition of new network elements in existing network as per business requirements, planning for planned events, re-provisioning of circuit.
• Develop project Key Performance and Success Measures (KPIs) for Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly and Annual internal and external reporting.
• Follow up with various Telco’s and hardware vendors like Cisco, Juniper, UTStarcom, Nortel, ZTE, Samsung etc.
• Provide support and maintenance of DLC, Broadband switches, Nortel Transmission equipment’s, LMDS and UBR circuits for a leading telecom giant.
• Monitor service performance and manage risks impacting project deliverables and ensure smooth delivery of project & Client satisfaction.
• Providing optimal solution for high value business customers using Optical Fiber and copper planning connectivity.