SUMMARY

• Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP over 10 years experience in Network Design , Implementation , Migration / Integration and Administration
• Working on CCIE R S, completed Written
• Expertise in Campus and datacenter LAN and WAN and Firewalls deployment and design
• Expertise in WAN optimizations for large scale implementation with interceptors , steelhead appliances.
• Expertise in Network troubleshooting, executing Network Projects based on ITIL Standards.
• Demonstrated ability to identify root causes of problems, consider both the long and short-term impact of proposed solutions and develop workable solutions. Ability to manage Multiple project tasks with changing priorities and tight deadlines. Ability to work well in a team. Open to Team related tasks, team meetings, team interaction and conference calls.
• Direct Interaction with customers. Clear written and oral presentation of ideas, proposals and concepts. Ability to articulate alternative solutions. Strong listening, interpersonal analytical skills.

Areas of Expertise include

• Datacenter Routing and switching infrastructure design and implementation based on Nexus 7K, 5k, 2K and 6500 VSS Datacenter
• Datacenter Network migration planning design.
• WAN optimization design and implementation biased on Riverbed interceptors and Steelhead appliances
• Datacenter/Branch office WAN design based on MPLS, VPLS, DMVPN, GETVPN.
• Security Firewall infrastructure design and implementation Cisco ASA
• Preparation of Network Low Level and High level Design documents.
• Preparation of Network deployment and installation plan documents
• Creating neat and complex visio network physical and logical topologies.

Layer 2 Switching

• Extensive Working Experience of Advanced Switch Configuration and Management,
• Designed and implemented VLANs, 802.1Q trunking, VTP, STP and RSTP, Inter-VLAN routing
• Designed and Configured vPC, Enhanced vPCs, FEX single sided and double sided
• Designed and implemented Spanning-Tree Feature - Port Fast, Backbone Fast, Uplink Fast Loop Guards, BPDU Guards, Root Guard's, loop-guards, Bridge Assurance .
• Designed and Configured HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, and Ether-Channel , LACP for network redundancy and load-balancing.
• Working knowledge on Nexus OTV Datacenter interconnect.
• Working knowledge on Nexus Fabric path

Layer 3 Routing

• Good Experience in IP Addressing Subnetting , Route Summarization, Route Redistribution and NAT/PAT.
• Experience in Design, implementation and configuration of routing protocols OSPF and EIGRP
• Configured BGPv4, for path influence based on as-path pretending , local-preference, filter-list.
• Worked on various ISR and Cisco ASR1002 routers ,configuring SPA modules and configuring for Customer edge Routing for MPLS and VPLS
• Good knowledge on different WAN Topology provided by the service provided based on their benefits and QoS implementations
• Design and configuring experience on WAN optimization based on Riverbed interceptors 9350 and Steelhead Appliances ,configuring in-path mode with LS, configuring with CMS , Virtual in-path design and implementation, Optimization for Encrypted MAPI and other Applications

Security

• Work Configuring experience on Cisco ASA Firewalls with and without multiple contexts
• working and implementation experience on IPSEC L2L VPN, working knowledge on DMVPN and GET VPN
• Configured access-lists for application traffic control on Cisco ASA, Testing it with Packet-tracer
• Security Protocols used : IKE, IPSEC, MD5, SHA, RSA, DES, 3DES, AH, ESP, SSL, SSH, Radius, Tacacs .

Load balancing, Network Monitoring and application

• Work Configuring experience on creating monitor, Virtual server, pool and pool members, Assigning server load balancing algorithms and SSL offloading.
• Worked on VOIP QoS, HPNA ,NAGIOS, RANCID, syslog, CACTI, OPEN NMS, Solarwinds, MRTG, Wireshark, NMAP, GNS3, Avocent Cyclades, MPU kvm , IPAM, Networking for SCADA systems

WAN

• Worked on PPP, HDLC, Frame Relay HUB and SPOKE , ISDN on Cisco Routers over T1 , VPLS, MPLS
• Work and configuring experience on Riverbed steel head appliances configuring in-line mode

with LSP and configuring with CMS

Network Monitoring

• Successfully Recommended and deployed Orion Solar Winds, IPMon as Network Monitoring Health Statistics tools which has in built feature like SNMP, Alerts, Events, Syslogs etc
• Experience in Network Design, troubleshooting nmap, Wireshark , Fine Tuning, Implementation and day-to-day maintenance Activity.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Responsibilities:

• Datacenter LAN design based on Cisco 6500, Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k
• Configuring VPC and FEX
• configuring OSPF and BGP routing for optimum routing and summarization
• Design and implementation WAN optimization based on Riverbed steelhead CX series and interceptors 9350 and CMC. Testing and validating the WAN performance.
• Preparation of implementation plan for Network changes and new addition in datacenters. configuring global policies and in-path rules
• Preparation of Visio diagrams for Network and security implementations.

Responsibilities:

• Design and troubleshoot Datacenter network infrastructure based on 7k 5k and 2k
• Troubleshooting WAN issues which was based on ATT UVN ring , ANIRA and SIG
• Coordinating with ATT and other service providers across the globe for WAN for new site deployment
• Troubleshooting proxy issue based on MacAfee

Responsibilities:

• Migration from single 6500 to VSS based implementation
• Network Migration from 6500 to Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000
• Network Survey , Build and deploy critical Routing Switching infrastructure based on Cisco Nexus 7000 , 5000, 2000, 6500, 4500 F5 LTM, and 3570x, Cisco ASR
• Configured VLANs and 802.1q tagging, ether channels, and Spanning tree for site deployments to make a collapsed core network infra
• Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.
• Configured root-guard for securing the root switch and loop-guard, UDLD for loop prevention
• Design and implement firewall infra based on Cisco ASA
• Design of VPN access based on GETVPN, DMVPN Working knowledge
• Data Center Design Experience, hardware installing and Configuring Network Devices in a Data Center , allocating rack spaces, including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented network infrastructure
• worked on different optic fiber connection based on LH and SX ,fiber modules based on SFP and SFP and connection types such as LC/PC, SC/PC

Responsibilities:

• LAN, WAN configuration and Troubleshooting
• Contacting the ISP's and configuring sub interfaces and dot.q for VPLS connection on ASR1000
• Troubleshooting on routing protocols, which include BGP ,and OSPF.
• Preparation of communication matrix based on application requirement for application migration and configuring the rule base on Cisco ASA firewalls
• Configuring Private VLANS for Lab requirements and for testing
• Team lead for 3 offshore and 2 onsite Engineers for Network Transition and operation
• Involved in design on ipsec VPN and nating for connectivity between datacenter and a client based on Cisco ASA 8.3 Firewall
• Configured Routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP ,policy based routing.
• Allocating IP,s on IPAM system.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implementation of highly redundant and secure Network infrastructure for various clients.
• Migration from single 6500 to VSS based implementation with FWSM
• Site survey for datacenter, branch offices, plants and campus, Preparation of HLD, LLD, Network schematic both physical and logical finalizing the Network design with new architecture and approval from the customer , preparation of BOM , procurement and finally implementation testing, support and handover to Ops team.
• Install and configure Riverbed Steel head at the branch offices and testing the optimization using timethis
• Drawing complex Network design using visio.

Responsibilities:

• Build and deploy new Cisco 6500, 3750, 4548 based server switches
• Configured F5 LTM and Radware for Load balancing requirement for sharepoint, http, https.
• Analyzing current application traffic flows to build new firewall rules for deployment in new environment using communication matrix.
• Configured FTP , TFTP , DHCP , syslog , NTP .
• Migration form 6500 to Nexus 5000 and 7000 based infrastructure.
• Lab testing on Nagios , MRTG , cactus, Rancid and other open source Network tools.
• Monitoring network infrastructure based on SNMPv2c with solarwinds monitoring tools
• Configured QoS for VOIP implementation on switches.
• configured VPC and single sided FEX deployment based on Nexus 5548 and 2k
• worked on different optic fiber connection based on LX and SX fiber modules based on SPP and SFP connection types.

Responsibilities:

• Level 3 support to network Infrastructure consisting of 20 Remote locations across Middle East.
• Configuring Cisco -4507R switch for VLAN's ,dot1q trucking, ether channel, RSTP
• Creation of technical documentation, technical training to internal support staff.
• Creating Visio diagrams for new site deployments
• Testing open source based Network Tools such as Nagios, Rancid, Cacti
• Troubleshoot network related issues.
• Preparing Network diagrams and documentation.
• Monitoring Network devices and interaction with customer and ISP for outages and upgrades

Responsibilities:

• Design, implementation of LAN and WAN infrastructure to support Telemedicine applications. Technologies include VSAT, ISDN, and DSL for WAN design.
• Configuring switches for connecting infenion based VSAT transponcer
• Design and implementation of Datacenter Network for Premier Hospitals for Hospital information system and PACS from VEPRO PACS/EMR.
• Site survey, Design and Preparation of Design Document for Network infrastructure
• Coordination with different Government and service provider for Project completion
• Installation and configuration of Cisco routers for ISDN and static routing , floating static routing