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.
• Strong knowledge in Cisco Routing, Switching and Security with Cisco hardware/software experiences.
• Strong Knowledge in WAN technologies including T1,T3, ISDN, HDLC, Point to Point, MLPPP and Load sharing.
• Experience in Configuring and implementing VLAN, VTP, LAN switching, STP and 802.x authentication in access layer switches.
• Access Control Server configuration for RADIUS and TACACS+ .
• Have knowledge on various advanced technologies like VOIP, H.323, SIP, QOS, IPv6, Multicasting, MPLS.
• Experience in Routing protocol configurations (RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP).
• Designing and implementing F5 BIG - IP load balancer.
• Experience in set up, configuration and management of PIX firewall and ASA 5500 appliances.
• Strong knowledge and experience in implementing, configuring VPN technologies like IPSEC, MPLS.
• Strong problem-analysis talent, driven by global view/attention-to-detail approach. “Hands on” technical knowledge.
• Experience with different Network Management Tools and Sniffers like Wireshark, RSA envision, and Cisco works to support 24 x 7 Network Operation Center.
• Experience with Project documentation tools & implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems and experience with developing network design documentation and presentations using VISIO
• Experience in monitoring and analyzing the load balancing of network traffic using SolarWinds.
• Experience with network OOB devices such as Digi port server.
• Experience in configuring Confidential & Confidential in to the network
• Experience in Physical cabling, IP addressing, configuring and supporting TCP/IP.
• Strong general management, negotiation, inter-personal, communication and team building skills.
• Efficient Confidential use of Microsoft VISIO/Office as technical documentation and presentation tools.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems: DOS, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista/7/8.

IP Routing: RIPv1, RIPv2, BGP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP.

Communication Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, SNMP, ARP, MLPPP, PPP, HDLC and ISDN.

Topologies: Frame Relay, ATM, T1, T3, OC3, OC12, OC48, Ethernet, Cable Modem, xDSL and Wireless.

Network Peripherals: Hubs, Cisco switches (2900, 2924, 2950, 3550, 3560, 4000, 5500, 6500, 6509, 6513,), Cisco routers (2600, 2800, 3640, 3700, 3825, 7200, 7204, 7206), Cisco PIX 500 series, Cisco ASA 5500 series, Cisco 1200 Aironet Access Points, CSU/DSUs, network cards and Modems.

Network Management Tools: Infoblox, MRTG, HP Openview, Cisco WAN manager, Cisco works 2000.

Sniffers: wireshark

Software: Microsoft, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Hopkins, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configure the Customer Edge routers to connect the Confidential & Confidential ’s AVPN mpls cloud.
• Order T1,DS3,Metro Ethernet according to the customers need.
• Coordinated with team for the migration of T1, T3 ethernet and helped in successful circuit cutover.
• Installing digi port server (OOB) to connect the customer edge router through a POTS line in case of a failover.
• Order long distance PRIs and local PRIs according to Business unit’s needs.
• Order customer edge routers and modules depending on the customer’s request.
• Configure the VRRP on Layer 3 switch and customer edge router to use Confidential & Confidential ’s Confidential connection in failover.
• Installating, configuring Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP, BGP with Access Control lists implemented as per Network Design.
• Worked on change management documentation of Network infrastructure design using Microsoft Visio.
• Experience working in Datacenter environment, configuration changes as per the needs of company.
• Configuring, implementing and troubleshooting VLAN’s, VTP, STP, Trunking, Ether channels.
• Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing and Switching.
• Configure MLPPP, PPP, Load sharing between customer edge routers and provider edge routers.
• Configure the Cisco WAAS device to minimize the WAN circuit’s bandwidth utilization.
• Configued EIGRP,BGP,static routes,ip sla,access lists according to the network environment.
• Coordinate the circuit delivery with the Confidential & Confidential and the last mile extension with the local service provider and the inside wiring of the network.
• Used infoblox to determine the specific network addresses ranges and ip addresses which should be use as the loopbacks.
• Coordinate the cutover phases of configuring the customer edge routers to the circuits and the moving the patch cables of L3 switches of the LAN environment to the customer edge routers.
• Identify, design, configuring and managing flexible, responsive, and secure technology services.
• Gathering the information on planned resources and presented the project status to higher management.

Confidential, Knoxville, TN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, configured L2 network design for test environment for WAN emulation project.
• Good knowledge in systems integration, software hardware emulation experience.
• Worked on change management documentation of Network infrastructure design using Microsoft Visio.
• Perform setup of test scenarios, both hardware and software components, and perform troubleshooting.
• Experience working in Datacentre environment, configuration changes as per the needs of company.
• Configuring, implementing and troubleshooting VLAN’s, VTP, STP, Trunking, Ether channels.
• Designing, implementing LAN/WAN configurations on Cisco 5K, catalyst 6500 switches.
• Installating, configuring Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 3750 & 3550 series and configured routing protocol OSPF, EIGRP, BGP with Access Control lists implemented as per Network Design.
• Experience in configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system.
• Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5020, 2148, 2248 switches.
• Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7k series switch.
• Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing and Switching.
• Designed, configured, implemented site-site VPN on cisco ASA 5500 firewall.
• Implemented, configured redundancy protocols HSRP, VRRP, GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
• Worked in projects converting P2P circuits into MPLS circuits, commissioning and decommissioning of the MPLS circuits for branch offices.
• Configuring and resolving various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment,
• Implemented, configured BGP WAN routing, converting OSPF routes to BGP (OSPF in local routing).
• Packet capturing, troubleshooting on network problems with Wireshark, identifying and fixing problems
• Implementing, configuring, troubleshooting various routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP etc..
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500.
• Experience in migration of VLANS.
• Implementation of Access Lists for allowing/blocking desired traffic.
• Configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the network design.
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification.
• Configuration and maintenance of PIX and ASA firewall systems.
• Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like WireShark, Solarwinds etc..

Confidential, Framingham, MA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented, configured and installed new Cisco catalyst 6513 and 6509 with dual supervisor engine 720’s from the scratch for the core group.
• Configured and managed OSPF redistribution and authentication with type 3 LSA filtering and to prevent LSA flooding and also configured OSPF over frame relay networks for NBMA and point to multipoint strategies.
• Designing, configuring, implementing and troubleshooting (LAN) VLAN’s, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (dot1q and ISL) and Ether channel.
• Implementing and managing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
• Configuring and implementing F5 BIG-IP load balancers to maintain global and local traffic.
• Worked on change management documentation of Network infrastructure design using Microsoft Visio.
• Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network by tuning AS-path.
• Installed configured Firewall Services Module (FWSM) on catalyst 6500 switch.
• Hands on experience with Nexus Switches 2K,5K and 7K.
• Worked on Juniper J series j230, M 320 routers and EX 3200 series switch.
• Configuring HSRP for network redundancy and High availability.
• Involved in designing of LAN (Ethernet) and WAN infrastructure for the new Data Centre Using MS Visio.
• Configured and upgraded the memory of new Cisco 3825 series router.
• Worked on routing protocols like EIGRP, RIP and BGP.
• Configuring Voice VLANS with respect to Cisco VOIP phones 7940, 7960.
• Configuring VPN for site-site and remote access.
• Designing and configuring IP address schemes.
• Maintaining Cisco hardware and Cisco IOS upgrade.
• Configured Cisco 1231 Access points wit 5959 and 4941 antennas (802.11/a/g).
• Configured and supported Cisco firewall PIX 500 series.
• Configuring AAA using Tacacs+ and ACS server.
• Responsible for configuring Cisco IP phones and implementing Qos prioritizing voice traffic.
• Network monitoring and bandwidth utilization using whatsup and MRTG.
• Troubleshooting the TCP/IP networks for connectivity, outages and slow network issues and recommended appropriate and cost-effective solutions for the congestion.
• Network consists of Heavy Cisco equipment such as:
• Cisco 2924 switches, Cisco 5500 series Layer 3 switches, Cisco 7200 series routers, Cisco Pix firewall 500 series and Wireless Access points Cisco 1230.

Confidential

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience in Cisco 7200, 7600 routers, Cisco series switches: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations (Frame-relay and ATM).
• Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external escalation procedures and customer notifications.
• Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, RIP, IGRP RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATting.
• Work with Help Desk for circuit troubleshooting to give Support to the Tech persons Confidential the site.
• Configuring routers and send it to Technical Consultants for new site activations and gives online support Confidential the time of activation.
• Supporting Development team for the access to corporate network and outside world. Providing access to specific IP, Port filter and port access.
• Switching (Ethernet) related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.
• Installed and configured PIX 520, 525, 535 series firewalls, configured standard and extended access-lists and policy- based filters.
• Configured ASA 5510 appliance and VPN.
• Responsible for implementing Qos prioritizing voice traffic over a data.
• Implemented SNMP on Cisco routes to allow for network management. Completed the installation and configuration of T1, T3 & OC3 circuits.
• Troubleshoot TCP/IP problems, troubleshoot connectivity issues.