SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of Experience and having multiple Certifications Cisco (CCNA&CCNP) Experience with in designing, architecting, deploying and troubleshooting Network & Security infrastructure on routers, switches (L2/L3) & firewalls of various vendor equipment.
• Experience in design, development, implementation, troubleshooting and maintenance of complex Network & Security devices, Network Security, Linux Kernel Programming.
• Expertise in network protocols, Firewalls and Communication Network design.
• Experience with Troubleshooting tools for example protocol analyzers, load generators & network traces
• Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, Netting, sub - netting, also including DNS, WINS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, OSPF, RIP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP & Multicasting protocols
• Corporate trainer for certification like CCNA, CCNP, Hardware & Networking.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 2924, 6509-V-E, 6513, 6504, 6503, 6506, 6500 series switches
• Extensive work experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Load Balancers and Firewalls.
• Experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Nexus models like 7K, 5K, 2Kseries, Cisco router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, 2900 series switches
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700, 800)
• Responsible for Checkpoint firewall management and operations across our global networks.
• Working with Checkpoint Support for resolving escalated issues.
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480) and SRX Firewalls (SRX240, SRX550)
• Expertise in configuration of routing protocols and deployment of OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and policy routing over Cisco routers.
• Experience with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN, MPLS Traffic Engineering, MPLSQOS
• Experience in adding Rules and Monitoring Checkpoint Firewall traffic through Smart Dashboard and Smart View Tracker applications.
• Configured Client-to-Site VPN using SSL Client on Cisco ASA 5520 ver8.2
• Configured ASA 5520 Firewall to support Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7/XP/Vista.
• Installation, advanced configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco and F5's load balancing devices.
• Experience with designing, deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel, IP Routing Protocols - (RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP), ACL's, NAT, VLAN, STP, VTP Implemented redundancy with HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Ether channel technology (LACP, PAgP) etc.
• Strong hands on experience on PIX Firewalls, ASA (5540/5550) Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA(TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Experience working with Cisco IOS-XR on the ASR9000 devices for MPLS deployments
• Knowledge in implementing and configuring F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers.
• Efficient designing of IP Addressing Scenario using VLSM and Sub netting.
• Configured Security policies including NAT, PAT, VPN's and Access Control Lists.
• Extensive experience using Microsoft suite like Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint
• Excellent technical and project management skills combined with strong communication skills
• Worked on Load Balancer F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability
• Network Security - Anomaly Detection in Attack Prevention System, Network and Host IPS/IDS, Cisco PIX firewall, Vulnerability scanning, Penetration testing, Buffer Overflows, Cross Site Scripting,
• Security consultant for Confidential, India and Confidential Pvt. Ltd and many more, involving web application testing, Penetration testing, Session Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cisco Platforms: Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K, Cisco routers (7600,7200, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (6500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 4500, 2900 series)

Juniper Platforms: SRX, MX, EX Series Routers and Switches

Networking Concepts: Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Subletting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPSec, VLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Firewall: PIX Firewall (506/515/525/535 ), ASA Firewall (5505/5510)

Network Tools: Solar Winds, SNMP, Cisco Works, Wireshark

Load Balancers: A10 Networks(AX2500),Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (Big-IP)

WAN technologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & exposure to PPP, DS1,DS3,OC3, T1 /T3 & SONET

LAN technologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, & 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Port- channel, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1Q

Security Protocols: IKE, IPSEC, SSL-VPN

Networking Protocols: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP, PAGP, LACP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, TACACS+, Radius, AAA

Languages: Perl, C, C++, SQL, HTML/DHTML

Network Management: Wire shark, SNMP, Solar winds

AAA Architecture: TACACS+, RADIUS, Cisco ACS.

Operating System: Windows 7/XP, MAC OS X, Windows Server 2008/2003, Linux, Unix

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementation of customer's network and Security infrastructure.
• Involved in complete LAN, WAN, Extranet redesign (including IP address planning, designing, installation, pre configuration of network equipment, testing, and maintenance) in both Campus and Branch networks
• Worked with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience. Experience working with ASR 9006 with IOS-XR
• Experience with converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in the data center environment.
• Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices
• Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K and its downstream devices.
• Configured CIDR IP RIP, PPP, BGP, MPLS and OSPF routing.
• Deploying and decommissioning Cisco switches and their respective software upgrades.
• Performing troubleshooting on slow network connectivity issues, routing issues that involves OSPF, BGP and identifying the root cause of the issues
• Experience with network based F5 Load balancers with software module GTM & Checkpoint
• Experience configuring VPC, VDC and ISSU Software upgrades on Cisco Nexus 7010
• Experience in Configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our networks
• Support customer with the configuration and maintenance of ASA firewall systems
• Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Provided Load Balancing towards access layer from core layer using F5 Network Load Balancers.
• Experience working with BGP attributes such as Weight, Local-Preference, MED and AS-PATH to influence inbound and out bound traffic
• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, InterVlan routing and LAN security.
• Use and maintain routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP on the Routers in the network & also worked on BGP Route Reflectors, Confederations
• Experience with working on Juniper Devices like, M320 and MX80, MX960, MX480, I worked on configuring OSPF BGP and routing Policies.
• Supporting EIGRP and BGP based on the network by resolving level 2 & 3 problems of internal teams & external customers of all locations
• Troubleshoot the Network Issues onsite and remotely depending on the severity of the issues.
• Provided proactive threat defense with ASA that stops attacks before they spread through the network.
• Experience and having multiple Certifications Cisco (CCNA&CCNP), Juniper (JNCIA) and Experience with in designing, architecting, deploying and troubleshooting Network & Security infrastructure on routers, switches (L2/L3) & firewalls of various vendor equipment.
• Extensive work experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Load Balancers and Firewalls.
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700, 800)
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480) and SRX Firewalls(SRX240, SRX550)
• Expertise in configuration of routing protocols and deployment of OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and policy routing over Cisco routers.
• Experience with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN, MPLS Traffic Engineering, MPLSQOS
• Experience in adding Rules and Monitoring Checkpoint Firewall traffic through Smart Dashboard and Smart View Tracker applications.
• Configured Client-to-Site VPN using SSL Client on Cisco ASA 5520 ver8.2
• Configured ASA 5520 Firewall to support Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7/XP/Vista.
• Installation, advanced configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco and F5's load balancing devices.
• Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200, Firewalls SRX-210
• Configuring ASA Firewall and accept/reject rules for network traffic.

Environment: Cisco ASR 1001/ISR 7206/3845/3945/2951 routers, NEXUS 7010,5020, 2248/6500/4500/3750/3850 switches, TACACS, BGP, OSPF, Mobile Iron, Cisco ASA 5580/5505/5520 , VMware NSX Edges, Cisco ACE, Secureauth, Infoblox, Cisco Cloud Web Security, Cisco MDS.

Confidential, Austin, TX

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with Supporting bothNetworkand Security infrastructure in data center environment and Campus environment, which involved with devices such as routers, switches, firewalls and wireless access points.
• Experience with moving data center from one location to another location, from Cisco 6500 based data center to both Cisco 6500 & Nexus based data center.
• Strong hands on experience on ASA (5505/5510) Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA(TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Involved in setting up IP sec VPN between ASA firewalls.
• Experience with implementing Cisco 6500 VSS on the User distribution switches.
• Upgraded IOS on the ASA 5520 firewalls
• Working with MPLS Designs from the PE to CE and also configuring VRF on PE routers
• Experience with designing and deployment of MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Configuring RIP, OSPF, EIGRP BGP, MPLS, QOS, ATM and Frame Relay.
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation
• Strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPNnetworks
• Working Knowledge of Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco Cat OS, Cisco NX-OS, JUNOS
• Experience with configuring BGP in the data center and also using BGP as a WAN protocol and manipulating BGP attributes
• Design and deployment of MPLS QOS, MPLS Multicasting per company standards.
• Implemented site to site VPN in Juniper SRX as per customer.
• Implemented various EX, SRX & J series Juniper devices.
• Experience with deploying Fabric Path using Nexus 7000 Devices
• Experience with configuring VPC, VDC and OTV between the data centers as a layer 2 extension. Responsible for Checkpoint firewall management and operations across our global networks.
• Working with Checkpoint Support for resolving escalated issues.
• Experience with configuring FCOE using Cisco Nexus 5548.
• Installed controller and light weight access point coordination with TAC.
• Maintenance and trouble-shooting of LAN, WAN, IP Routing, Multilayer Switching.
• Performing onsite data center support including monitoring electrical power, switch alarms,network alerts and access logs.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches
• Dealt with monitoring tools like (Solar Winds, Cisco Works),networkpacket capture tools like Wire shark
• Maintaining Checkpoint security policies including NAT, VPN and Secure Remote access\Maintained aNetworkwith more than 600Networkdevices, some 25,000 end hosts, and the other Networkdevices like DHCP, DNS servers, Firewall servers.
• Co-ordination with Hardware vendors, software vendors and service Providers.
• Assisted in backup, restoring and upgrading the Router and switch IOS.
• Attended Team meetings and provided comments on existingnetworkand the recommendations to improve the currentnetworkPerformance.
• Maintaining the health of 250+ wireless Access points in two locations.

Environment: Cisco 7206/3845/3945/2951 routers, NEXUS 7010,5672UP, 2248/6500/4500/3750/3850 switches TACACS, EIGRP, OSPF, and Vulnerability Assessment tools like Nessus, Red Hat, Solaris, VPN’s, and SSL.

Confidential, Farmington Hills, MI

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Administration of Cisco and Juniper Routers and Switches.
• Administration and diagnostics of LAN and WAN with in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, NAT, PPP, ISDN and associatesnetworkprotocols and services.
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPNnetworks
• Router/ Microsoft VPN Server in order to access certain limitednetworkresources from customer locations
• Installed and configured four PIX 525 and two ASA 5505 in customer locations. In addition to that, configured two PIX firewall for the Guest access
• Experience in migration of Frame-relay based branches to MPLS based technology using multilayer stackable switch like 6500 series and 2800 series router
• Configuring VLANs and implementing inter VLAN routing.
• Testing E911, voicemail, Media gateways.
• Upgrading and troubleshooting Cisco IOS to the Cisco Switches and routers.
• Configuring Site to Site to VPN connectivity.
• Implementation of HSRP, IPsec, Static Route, IPSEC over GRE, Dynamic routing, DHCP, DNS, FTP.TFTP, RAS
• Worked with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience. Involved in configuring Cisco Net flow fornetworkperformance and monitoring.
• Involved in designing and implementation of wireless IPT devices.
• Involved in Disaster recovery, like diverting the from one data center to different data center when disaster occurs.
• Involved in configuration of Cisco 6500 ACE switches
• Configuring IPSLA monitor to track the different IP route when disaster occurs.
• Involved in Implementing, planning and preparing disaster recovery.
• Having meetings with the application group and gathering requirements for disaster recovery.
• Involved in configuring Juniper SSG-140.
• Involved in smart view tracker to check the firewall traffic.
• Troubleshooting hardware andnetworkrelated problems.

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 3640/ 00/3845/3600/2800 routers, Cisco ASA5510, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Cisco Nexus7K/5K, 2248/3560/5020/6509 , ASA, Checkpoint, LAN, OSPF, BGP, RIP, EIGRP

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Work on different connection medium like Fiber and Copper Connectivity.
• In-depth expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP.
• WAN Infrastructure running OSPF & BGP as core routing protocol.
• Support various Routers like 2600/3600/7200 series routers.
• Tested authentication in OSPF and BGP.
• Responsible for implementation of customernetworkinfrastructure
• Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP.
• Planning and configuring the routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, and Static Routing on the routers.
• Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on checkpoint firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B network connectivity.
• Experience in installing and configuring Checkpoint NGX R60.
• WAN Infrastructure running OSPF & BGP as core routing protocol.
• Support various routers like 2600/3600/7200 series routers.
• Tested authentication in OSPF and BGP.
• Responsible for Configuring SITE TO SITE VPN on VPN Concentrators series between Head office and Branch office
• Installation & configuration of Cisco VPN concentrator 3060 for VPN tunnel with Cisco VPN hardware & software client and PIX firewall
• Configured Firewall logging, DMZs& related security policies& monitoring
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN).
• Hands on experience working with security issue like applying ACL's, configuring NAT and VPN
• Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP.
• Planning and configuring the routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, and Static Routing on the routers.
• WAN Infrastructure running OSPF & BGP as core routing protocol.
• Support various routers like 2600/3600/7200 series routers.
• Tested authentication in OSPF and BGP.
• Responsible for Configuring SITE TO SITE VPN on VPN Concentrators series between Head office and Branch office
• Installation & configuration of Cisco VPN concentrator 3060 for VPN tunnel with Cisco VPN hardware & software client and PIX firewall
• Configured Firewall logging, DMZs& related security policies& monitoring
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN).

Environment: Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, TACACS, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, Ether Channels, Fluke and Sniffer.

Confidential

LAN Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for support of two computer labs, containing IBM client/server machines.
• Heavy hardware troubleshooting for PCs: installed, repaired, and replaced CPUs, mother boards, memory, video cards, network cards, SCSI cards, printers, monitors, floppy, CD ROM and hard drives.
• Daily duties include preventive maintenance, installation of various Software, assist students with applications on computer network, troubleshoot problems with installations, and network all machines throughout the campus Achievements
• Reduced the cost of installing new equipment’s by identifying the effective solutions from right vendors by 10%.

Environment: s: Network Design, VLSM, Subnetting, Troubleshooting of LAN & WAN Administrator, Configuration of router using Static & Dynamic routing.