SUMMARY

I have lived and breathed Technologies for 17 years and everything that I have learned. I have done so the best way completely hands on. I have first-hand experience in most sophisticated technologies which included all testing and proof of concept of each and every one of them and I have a passion to grow.

TECHNICAL SUMMARY:

• Have been in forefront of any new technology hands on such as MPLS, was one of the very first one to build a MPLS cloud thirteen years ago
• You can imagine passion for job and new technologies. You name it and have done it and have done it successfully. What you see above is just a fraction of what has been accomplished
• Chief Engineer/Architect with over sixteen years of experience in network engineering, and technical leadership
• As a technical manager have Managed up to eighteen high level engineers on a hands-on basis along with vendor management and negotiations and technology implementation
• Engineering, Re-engineering, troubleshooting and design of large scale Network infrastructures
• Over sixteen years of experience in Cisco's and Juniper high-end networking environment such as routers, Switches, Firewalls, Content switches, Cache Engines, Intrusion detection and prevention systems. Sophisticated Wireless design with Cisco Aironet access points, 5500 series WLCs and WCS and also not to forger Mobile IP
• Worked with the most sophisticated technologies in the world. Even though Cisco is Foremost Authority but have worked with other vendor's products such Big IP, Nokia, Nortel, Juniper and others
• IP V6 deployment and transition

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• WAN expertise includes but not limited to: ATM, Frame-Relay, ISDN, T1, T3, X.25, SMDS, POS Packet over SONET , WAAS, Optical WAN such as OC3, OC12, OC48, DWDM GSS, WAAS etc
• Routing protocols: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP and MPLS and VPLS, VTAM, APPN, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, ETC, Multicast routing ASM, SSM, QOS for low latency. etc.
• Switching Technologies: VTP, RSTP, PVST, ISL, 802.1Q, 802.d, 802.1.w, VSS and VPC Virtual Port Channel , OTV ON NEXUS platforms, etc.
• Bridging Technologies: SNA, RSRB and DLSW , remote access and Intranet VPN and Enterprise Wireless connectivity
• Security: Cisco ACE and FWSM Firewall Services Module
• Cisco hardware: All switches and router platforms including but not limited to the, 7200, 7600, 12000 GSR, BPX, IGX, ASR, ISR and VXR series routers and CSR-1 and CSR-3 carrier class routers, Nexus 7000 and 5000 series switches
• Network Security Products: PIX firewalls, ASA appliances, Cisco ACS, NAC and the Cisco ISE Indentity Services Engine , Juniper Netscreen, Juniper SRX series, Checkpoint, WebSense, Cisco's IronPort, ASA appliances, Intrusion detection and prevention system IDS, IPS , SideWinder, TripWire and extensive experience with Cisco CSA, NAC CCA , MARS, FWSM Firewall Services Module , ACE, DDoS Guard, layer 2 and layer 3 MPLS VPN, IPSEC VPN, Cisco's Iron Port etc
• Cisco content switches: CSS 11000 AND 11500 series, F5 load balancers, Cisco AVVID Cisco Unified communication UCC /VOIP such as Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Polycom Cisco IP/TV video servers Video on Demand . Cisco VOP UCC , Nortel/Avaya Voip, Proxy and AAA Cisco ACS servers as well as Network management tools, such as DHCP, DNS, HP OpenView, Cabletron Spectrum, CiscoWorks, MRTG, CACTI, ORION, Fluke, OPnet, Network General Sniffer, Concord e-Health etc

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Chief/Lead Engineer

• Lead engineer for a team of 13 high level engineers.
• The major project was troubleshooting one of a very complex network of Metro North. This network consists of sophisticated Cisco 6400 series ATM switches with BVI interface, Cisco 2610 and Nortel 8600 switches. Implemented QOS techniques such as diffserve for low latency.
• First order of business was to troubleshoot the TVM network communication which was due to routing failures because of routing protocol mis-configuration such as RIP and OSPF redistribution etc.
• The second phase was to re-engineer the corporate backbone traffic with the TVM Network, along with optimizing Network security and Performance using UCC /VOIP infrastructure, Cisco's IPS 4200 series, MARS and NAC CCA 3355 series appliances, Cisco ISE, Cisco 11500 series Content switches and CSM Content Switch Modules , Cisco Nexus 7000 series 18 slot 7018 , Cisco Nexus 5000 series, IT cloud virtualization using VmWare ESX servers with Cisco ACE and FWSM Firewall Services Module , Cisco Ace Multiple Context Mode for load balancing and resource allocation for best application performance in a virtualized environment involving ESX servers, Cisco ASA and Juniper SRX series, migrated all IPSEC branch connectivity to MPLS VPN and Riverbed Stillhead WAAS.

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Network Engineering Manager

• Managed 16 high level engineers, designing a switched backbone using Cisco Catalyst 6500 series switches with supervisor 720, Cisco 3745 series Multi access routers, PIX 525 firewalls and FWSM, NAC appliances, Cisco 6500 series switches with a variety of WAN technologies such as T1, T3, migration of WAN connectivity to redundant MPLS clouds, Content switching for load balancing through the entire network using Cisco 11000 series Content switches and CSM Content Switch Modules .
• Implementation of BGP routing with a fault tolerant and zero down-time and highest level of security design in mind.
• Designed and re-engineered security and Performance using Cisco's IPS 4200 series, MARS and CCA NAC 3355 series security appliances and 3395 NAC Super Manager. Migrated all IPSEC branch connectivity to MPLS VPN.

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Lead Network Engineer Consultant

• Working with Federal Government such as USDA United States Department of Agriculture and corporate clients such as Hawthorn Group in providing Engineering and Technology solutions. Advising client on various technologies and network security issues.
• Develop strategies on existing and future projects including selection of Vendor solutions and resource management.
• Some of tasks examples are performance analysis of network infrastructure to migrate to a high performance MPLS backbone and re-designing security environment using Cisco PIX firewalls and intrusion detection.

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Manager, Network Engineering

• Managed projects supervising 15-16 engineers on a hands-on basis.
• Re-structured and re-designed Western Digital international and national network infrastructure in Europe, Asia and the United States.
• The technical environment consisted of high End GSR 12000, 7500, 4500 Cisco routers, Layer3 switching using Cisco 6500 series switches to build a switched MPLS backbone.
• Network protocols used: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and DecNent. WAN technologies used were ATM, Frame-Relay, T1 and ISDN. Routing Protocols and technologies used were OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and MPLS.

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Lead Consulting Architect

• Re-engineering re-design of the Bank's backbone and security infrastructure with state of the art PIX Firewall and IDS intrusion detection systems
• The technical environment consisted of high End GSR 12000, 7500, 4500 Cisco routers, Layer3 switching using Cisco 6500 series switches to build a switched MPLS backbone.
• Network protocols used: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, and DecNent. WAN technologies used were ATM, Frame-Relay, T1 and ISDN. Routing Protocols and technologies used were OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and MPLS.

Confidential

Manager, Network Engineering

• Managed projects supervising 15 engineers on a hands-on basis.
• As the technical manager and project lead responsible for planning and development of all aspects of goals and strategies.
• Re-engineered FCC's 5000 user network infrastructure that included over 300 high end GSR 12000, 7500, 4500 routers and Catalyst switches, PIX Firewalls, Cisco's TACACS, DHCP and DNS servers. Cisco VPN routers and concentrators.
• The WAN technologies included T1, ISDN, Frame-Relay and ATM. Routing Protocols and technologies used: EIGRP, RIP and BGP.
• Upon completion of re-designing the current environment, the second phase consisted of designing and implementing a new ATM backbone using Cisco's LS1010 and 5500 switches and 7500 series routers using Cisco's ATM LANE LAN Emulation Technology to facilitate the relocation of the agencies headquarters.
• After migration of all platforms to IP based devices, the infrastructure was redesigned by using Cisco's Tag switching MPLS Technology over ATM.
• The task also included management and negotiation with various cabling and equipment vendors and solution providers such as Cisco Systems, Cabletron and 3Com.

Confidential

Senior WAN/LAN Engineer

• Re-Engineered, troubleshot and supported USDA's 10,000 user FDDI Backbone.
• Duties Included testing, load analysis and performance Evaluation of network Infrastructure.
• Responsible for the installation and configuration of Cisco 4000 and 2500 series routers along with support and Installation of Novell and Unix Servers.
• Implemented new Frame-Relay Circuits to replace existing X.25 networks.

Confidential

Network Architect

• Configured and designed routing architecture in a Cisco environment between Customers' CTI Computer Telephony Integration call centers. Protocols used: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX.

Confidential

Network Systems Engineer

• Design, troubleshoot and Configure Novell Netware servers primarily in Microsoft Windows and DOS environment.