PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• CCNA Certified with 6 Years of experience working as a Network Engineer in Planning, Implementation, configuration, Network design, troubleshooting, maintenance and management involving LAN and WAN wireless Technologies.
• Experience in configuration and deployment of Routing and Switching Protocols.
• Gained experience working with Layer-2 and Layer-3 Switches and Security
• Good knowledge of QoS, OSI model, TCP/IP networking standards and with protocols like SNMP, IPv6.
• Good knowledge in network security protocols like IPSEC tunnels, NAT/PAT, ACL's and VPN's, SONET, DSL, Cable.
• Have been an integral part of the team for configuration and maintenance involving
• data Centers and Branch office Structural Cabling environments.
• Demonstrated high ability to learn and adapt to changing technological advances
• and changes highly motivated and possess high confidence in performing in a challenging atmosphere.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Routing protocols: MPLS, OSPF and EIGRP, BGP, MP-BGP.
• Switching Protocols: Switch Configuration, VLANs, VTP, STP, RSTP, MST, and VSTP.
• LAN Technologies: Ethernet networking Topologies IEEE 802.3 , Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, Cable testing , Structure Cabling, WAN, Multicasting ARP, SNMP
• WAN Technologies: Frame Relay, ATM, WAN Acceleration/Optimization, FTP.
• Networking Concepts: Classless IP addressing Techniques, VLSM and CIDR, Route distribution, Frame Relay, NAT/PAT.
• Security Protocols: Access-Lists, FWSM.
• Installation, configuration troubleshooting of Cisco and F5's load balancing BIG IP devices LTM GTM .
• Good knowledge on VoIP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, Juniper.
• Experience with network testing tools like LAN Tornado, NTTCP.
• Applications: windows 7/XP, MAC OSX, Linux, Unix, Microsoft VISIO, MS Office suite, Cisco IOS, Riverbed.
• Gained experience working with Layer-2 and Layer-3 Switches and Security.
• Experience with Juniper EX2200, 4500, Juniper SRX 100, 240.
• Very highly motivated team player with good communication skills, Customer service skills, etc.

Confidential

Title: Network Engineer

Confidential is basically an health insurance provider group based in Indianapolis. It has data center in St. Louis as well. The insurance companies are all collaboratively owned and all share holders have their equipments under one building and we are the team managing the whole network for all.

Job Responsibilities:

• Was responsible for setting up the infrastructure/lab/production environment with majority of Cisco appliances apart from various other equipments.
• Designed configured and implemented BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP v2 in multi-protocol network environment.
• Installed, configured and maintained Cisco Routers 2800,3800, 3900, Cisco ASR 1000 Series
• Built LAN/WAN TCP/IP network comprised of Cisco Switches 6500, 6509, 7613, 3550, 4900, 2960, 2950, 2900XL , Nexus 2k/5k/7k.
• Handling Switching Protocol like Spanning Tree Protocol STP for loop avoidance.
• Data transport technologies Ethernet and 802.11a/b/g , Blue Coat proxies, and DHCP.
• Configured and installed Cisco ASA Firewalls 5505, 5510, 5520, 5550, 5585 series.
• Developed an optimum IP Addressing schemes, VLAN tables, and network documentation and diagrams Visio .
• Good experience with NMS, NPS by means of maintaining and monitoring network devices.
• Hands on experience on subnetting and VLSM, VTP, VLAN trunking protocol, MPLS LDP TDP .
• Experience with Installing, administering and maintaining Cisco VPN Tunnels.
• Observed and analyzed emerging security threats, their products and technologies.
• Installed and maintained the security infrastructure having IPS, IDS, security assessment systems and log management and migration to new VPN.
• Configuring HSRP with two end routers and managing.
• Worked frequently with Network Performance Testing with tools like ipMonitor, LAN Tornado, etc.
• Experience with installation and management of Riverbed WAN Accelerators.
• Decommissioning tickets and incident tickets management.
• Monitored network traffic via network monitoring tools and sniffers in an attempt to troubleshoot network outages and intrusions by tracing their origin and destination and Solar wind Monitor.
• Managed the load balancers F5 V9 BIG-IP 1500, 3400, F5 networks GTM Platform.
• Knowledge of Hardware Security Module HMS devices like safe net.
• Utilize WireShark and Ethereal as protocol analyzers
• Work closely with configuring, maintaining and troubleshooting WAN links - ATM, Frame-relay and PPP multilink
• Testing done via Scripting with Unix using language PERL, BASH and python etc.
• Managed and developed network projects designed to strengthen network continuity and deploy security elements in an attempt to meet and exceed contract requirements, including system analysis and troubleshooting.
• Have good experience with SSL-VPN configuring and tracking errors.
• Developed and documented project plans for network's infrastructure and network security implementation.

Environment:

Windows XP, F5 load balancing, Routing protocols BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP etc. Cisco Switches and handling proxies, Cisco Firewalls 55xx series, Unix.

Confidential

Title: Network Engineer

Confidential is one of the top retailers in the United States. It has got more than 4500 retail outlets and several data centers which is managed by its proficient data networking team.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design and Implemented OSPF and EIGRP on various sites for routing enhancement, high availability, and reducing administrative overhead
• Co-ordinate with ISP on each step of designing BGP to understand their restrictions and our needs
• Redesigned IP scheme to improve existing summary routes, CPU process, memory utilization and convergence time
• Played a major role in designing, co-ordination and support while migrating from Verizon to Sing Tel on all sites
• Designed templates for offshore team for Cutover guided and distributed responsibilities for the same
• Refreshed Design and Implement End of Life 7200 series routers in all sites with ASR 1000
• Designed the full network infrastructure for 4 new sites including DR with successful implementation
• Performed migration from PIX and Nortel Firewalls, Cisco Checkpoint to Cisco ASA 55xx X, which includes implementation of VPN and High Availability on certain sites, Cisco Secure Access Control System, FWSM, TACACS , and RADIUS.
• Refreshed old 3750 series switch stacks with new 3750-X switch stacks
• Installation and Maintenance of radio links, bandwidth Management and other DTE and DCE equipment
• Migrated core switches from Cisco 6500 to Nexus 7010 and troubleshoot various network issues that came along with the team
• Also experienced with Cisco ACS 4.2, 5.1 with ACS GUI management knowledge.
• Suggested best practices and Cisco's recommendation when needed such as to improvise design and security or for better optimization
• Created all the necessary documents, templates and Visio diagrams based on the new designs and network changes.

Environment:

Protocols like BGP, OSPF, EIGRP between DCs, Firewalls Cisco, Cisco AAA client manage, ASA 55xx series, Cisco switches like Catalyst 6500 and Nexus 2k/5k series.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Confidential Largest Telecommunication Organization having more than several millions of subscribers. The network is huge and required a lot of intellectuals to handle and take care of. Not just telecommunication, it is wide spread in entertainment, financial, etc many sectors and is connected via network.

Job Responsibilities:

• Configured and replacement of faulty Modem.
• Deployment of Wireless Internet for Cooperate organizations.
• Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 1900, 2900, 3500, series switches, and 2500, 2600, 3600 series routers
• Implemented and configured routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
• Troubleshot the issues related to routing protocols
• Preparation of proper network cabling diagrams prior to installations and supervision of the LAN cabling contractor for compliance to industry standards for Ethernet.
• Responsible for maintenance and utilization of VLANS, Spanning-tree, VTP of the switched multi-layer backbone with catalyst switches
• Implemented redundant Load balancing technique with internet applications for switches and routers
• Used Network Monitoring tool to manage, monitor and troubleshoot the network
• Used load balancers with multiple components for efficient performance and to increase reliability through redundancy
• Configured Object Grouping, Protocol Handling and NAT on ASA Firewalls
• Configured NAT, and Access Lists on multiple devices, IDS, IPS.
• Troubleshot DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems
• Installed and maintained Windows 2000/2003/NT servers
• Implemented name resolution using WINS and DNS in TCP/IP environment
• Extensive hands on experience to manage, monitor and troubleshoot network management tools