PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Close to Sixyears of work experience on different verticals and horizontals of industry standards in Networking (Admin & System Testing).
• Have authored a Cisco Patent on Effective Routing in Wireless Networks as MANETs, which has been approved, and filed with USPTO (CPOL#98556)
• Extensive hands - on experience in installing, configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting Cisco Routers and Switches
• Experience in Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching- Cisco Catalyst Switches 6500 series, Virtual switches 1000v
• Experience inLayer 3 routing -Cisco Routers 7200 series, GSR, ASR 9K, CRS
• Expertise in OSI layer model/TCP/IP.
• Extensive knowledge and experience of routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF,EIGRP, and BGP
• Good knowledge in troubleshooting issues on networking features like VLAN, ACL, QOS, L2VPN, L3VPN, DNS, DHCP, NAT.
• Expertise inIPsub nettingand have worked on various designing, allocating various classes of IP address to a network in the best manner
• Extensive hands-on experience in working with complex routed LAN and WAN networks, and preparing technical documentation.
• Have configured and deployed number of L2/L3 core and edge features on both IOS-XR and IOS platforms
• Have trained the New Hire Batch of 2013 in the Core Routing Group with Networking basis, Networking protocols, basic troubleshooting, IOS XR platform and lab
• Worked with virtual datacenter technologies with VMware building complete datacenter with storage, switches, routers, fabric planes, and blade servers.
• Have configured and deployed number of L2/L3 core and edge features on both IOS-XR and IOS platforms.
• Have excellent Communication Skills, quick learner and good team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing: EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, IPv4 and IPv6 addressing scheme, BGP

Switching: VLAN, inter-VLAN routing, Spanning tree, VTP, PAGP, LACP, Trunk, Ether-channel management features.

LAN Topologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Token Ring

Various Features & Services: IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, TFTP and FTP Management, CDP, Frame-relay, PPP, Access Control List (ACL).Knowledge of Networking Topologies and TCP/IP Model

Virtualization: VMWare ESX Cos and Visor, Cisco Nexus 1000v, HyperV

Core Profile: MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, Traffic Engineering

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Colorado

Network QAEngineer

Responsibilities:

• Have generated different testing scenarios for new features like BFD, BFDv6, and QOS enhancements for the software and hardware
• Configuredrouting policies in the core and edge profiles for system testing
• Router as a virtual machine on a virtual environment with SAN storage on cloud
• Designed specific test cases based on product and feature compatibility with different products
• Have worked on estimation of router hardware requirements for a project, designed testing environment, and documented test cases with results in TIMS
• ConfiguredNAT,PAT, QOS, ACLpolicies.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP to facilitate best routing environment
• DesignOSPFareas for reliable Access Distribution and for Core IP Routing.
• Support the project manager in planning for projects with resource and lab inventory distribution
• Communicate status to the project manager to provide completion status of assigned tasks using tools and presentations
• Have trained the new hire batch in the lab about the network setup and basic automation framework including tools used
• Worked in the lab to set up the test environment with Cisco routers and line cards
• Provided performance for each testing cycle considering the quality of the product and development as compared to customer needs

Environment: Cisco Router IOS, NXOS and IOS XR, and VmWare ESX flavours, along with NetApp SAN storage like FAS EX, Cloud ONTAP

Confidential

NetworkSystem Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a system test engineer for 2 years with the Core Routing group on CRS - 1, CRS - 3, CRS -X Router, IOS-XR Platform, with software releases of 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 5.1.0, and 5.1.1, and hardware releases of 140Gig Line card and 400 Gig Line card
• Have configured NAT, ACL, and QOS policies on edge and core profiles on CRS routers
• System Testbed was designed, developed very similar to a customer testbed with scale testing and complete feature coverage as priority for all features in a release
• Have worked in the lab for setting up the testbed for each release with new software features and enhancements as per requirements
• Worked on core and edge profiles, which will include features deployed in the core such as MPLS, Bundles, BFD, MPLS Traffic Engineering Tunnels, and also edge features including L2VPN, L3VPN, QOS, ACL Multicast,
• Have worked on IGP protocols like OSPF, IGRP and EGP protocols like BGP and more. Design and deploy test strategies for the given features
• Was leading Performance Characterization project as part of the IOS XR Release, for 4.3.1, 4.3.2 and 5.1.1
• Have trained the New-Hire batch of 2013 for the Core Routing Group

Environment: Cisco Router IOS, NXOS and IOS XR, and VmWare ESX flavours, along with automation and scripting languages like TCL, PERL, Shell, CDETS, QDDTS, and PRRQ

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on Nexus 1000 Virtual Layer 2 Switch operating inside VMware ESX Hypervisor.
• Manual Upgrade Testing with patches and updates from VMware Virtualization software releases and Cisco Nexus1000v releases.
• Understanding of Network Virtualization from the Datacenter point of view with one point of control of all hardware and networking management
• Worked on various products of VMware like vSphere client, ESX, power shell, vCLI and VMware features like Vmotion, vSphere HA, vSphere DRS, Fault tolerance, vSphere DPM, Cluster, Resource pools
• Assist the Customer Support Engineer community by providing maintenance solutions for both the CSE and also the Customer.
• Also guide new hires and train them on the job.

Environment: Cisco Router IOS, NXOS and IOS XR, and VmWare ESX flavours