SUMMARY:

• In pursuit of a career which provides an equal opportunity for learning and making contribution to the organization to the best of my abilities and sharpening and developing my own skills during the interaction. To contribute the things, which contains flavor of my skills and creativity that help me and my organization to achieve sustain growth in changing the world.
• Highly skilled professional offering around 10 years in the IT industry. Possessing excellent analytical and problem solving skills with working experience and good knowledge in Data Networking domain
• Have good knowledge in switching, routing, wireless and security protocols. Expertise in Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting Multi - vendor environment and Heterogeneous Networks.
• Experienced in planning and delivering the full technical life-cycle service including Design, Implementation and Optimization of large scale enterprise LAN, WAN, Datacenter and WLAN solutions.
• Experienced in enterprise and Data Center switching technologies such as trunks, DTP, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVSTP, MSTP, SVI’s, Etherchannels, PAgP, LACP, MEC, VPC, VSS, FHRP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Object tracking, Pseudo Wire, EoIP, OTV, FEX, DHCP Snooping, ARP inspection, SPAN, RSPAN, FC, FCoE..,
• Experienced in enterprise routing protocols like, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS and BGP.
• Experienced in Discovering, Managing, monitoring network devices/nodes and pushing configuration scripts on tools like Solarwinds, PRTG, HP NA, HP NNMi, Cisco Prime Infrastructure and Cisco Prime LMS.
• Very good understanding of managing network services like DHCP, DNS, SNMP, Syslog, NTP, RADIUS, and FTP.
• Worked on many global projects like network refresh projects, IOS upgrade projects, WAN upgrade projects, DHCP server migration projects, network devices name change projects, Router ACL standardization projects, RADIUS server migration projects and so on.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Skills Switching: VLANs, DTP, Trunks, ISL, 802.1q, CSMA/CD, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVSTP, PVSTP+, MSTP, CDP, InterVLAN Routing, Etherchannels, PAgP, LACP, MEC, FHRP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, IP SLA, Object Tracking, Q-in-Q tagging, Pseudo wire, EoIP, OTV, LISP, VPC, FEX, VDC,VSS, DHCP Snooping, SPAN, RSPAN, NAT, PAT, Password Recovery, IOS upgrade.

Routing: Distance Vector, Link state, Static routing, Persistent routes, RIP, EIGRP, Named EIGRP, OSPF, Virtual-Links, Redistribution, BGP, iBGP, eBGP, Route-Reflectors, ISIS, Route-Maps, Prefix-Lists, Distribution-List, Manipulating Metrics/attributes, MPLS.DHCP, DNS, ARP, FTP, TFTP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, Syslog, SNMP, MIBs, Traps, NTP,

Security: ACLs,State-full Inspection, Firewall policies, Web-filtering, Content filtering, IPS/IDS, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam, Policy routes, UTM, VPNs, GRE tunnels, DMVPNs, AAA, Radius, Tacacs+.

WLAN: IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac,Autonomous AP’s, LAP, WLC’s,Airmagnet, Predictive survey, Wireless Site Survey, AP provisioning, Heat Maps, Wireless Bridging, HREAP, Flex, Controller redundancy, Guest WLAN, Foreign Controller, Anchor Controller, Captive portal, Managing ARM profiles, SSID profiles, MIMO, CSMA/CA.

Switches: Cisco 2960, 3560, 3650, 3750, 3850, 4500, 6500, 6880, 6807 series switches.Nexus 2k, 5K, 7K switches,HP Procurve 1810, 2510, 2910, 3500, 4208vl, 5406zl Series switches.

Routers: Cisco 800, 1700, 1800, 1900, 2800, 2900, 3800, 3900, 7200, ASR1K, ASR9K series Routers.

Wireless: Cisco 4400, 5500, 8500 series controller. Cisco Aironet 1040, 1050, 1130, 1242, 1252, 1262, 1310, 1700, 1850, 2600, 2700, 2800, 3600, 3700, 3800 AP’s. Aruba 3200, 6000, 7200 Wireless Controllers, AP 70, 105, 135, 225 series AP’s.

Management Tools: Cisco Prime Infrastructure,Cisco Prime LMS,Aruba Airwave,Solarwinds Orion NPM,Solarwinds Orion NCM,HP NA,HP NNMi,PRTG,Cacti,Cisco ASDM,Cisco CSM,Forti-Manager,Men & Mice IP Manager,QIP IP, DHCP and DNS,IBM Tivoli Manager,MS Visio,ITSM, Remedy on Demand,ServiceNow.

Process:Incident Management,Change Management,Capacity Management,Problem Management.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

• Responsible for handling LAN, WAN, WLAN and Data Center network design and implementation projects.
• Coordinating with global customers, IT managers and project managers for gather business requirements for project implementation.
• Responsible for implementing Global WLAN projects, 802.11ac upgrade.
• Preparing BOM, HLD and LLD design for network implementation.
• Attending CAB meetings for getting approvals for BOM, Design and MOP’s.
• Completing the project within the targets.
• Documenting the network design with supporting details.
• Responsible for providing reliable, scalable and high available network design solutions.
• Implemented LAN expansion and decommission network projects.
• Replaced Cisco 6500 Switches with Cisco 6880-X and 6807-X switches in VSS/FHRP environment.
• Implemented VSS on Cisco 6800 switches with enhanced PAgP.
• Upgraded Cisco 4500 switches with Sup 7L-E’s and Sup 8L-E’s.
• Implemented VPC and FEX on Nexus 7k, 5K, and 2K’s.
• Responsible for advertising networks and redistributing routes into OSPF, ISIS and BGP.
• Responsible for implementing QOS and VRF’s.
• Upgrading the network devices with recommended code.
• Responsible for Infrastructure assessment before implementation, preparing cable BOM.
• Responsible for training Field Engineers for staging, racking and stacking of network devices.
• Responsible for providing Layer 2, Layer 3 and WAN redundancy network design and implementation.
• Validating and reporting Wireless network based on post Wireless site survey.
• Adding WLC’s, AP’s floor plans and heat maps into Cisco Prime.
• Conducting NRFU tests.
• Performing compliance check and network auditing on devices.
• Responsible for changing firewall rules.
• Responsible for handling changes in extranet, intranet and DTAP environments.
• Experienced in changing Fortinet firewalls using Fortinet manager and cisco FWSM, ASA’s using Cisco CSM.
• Worked on DTAP standardization project across the globe. This is router ACL cleanup project.
• Giving support to source deport projects.
• Responsible for preparing RFC’s based on customer requirements.
• Preparing LOE and SOW for new projects.
• Responsible for planning and delivering the full technical life-cycle service including Design, Implementation and Optimization of large scale service provider & enterprise LAN, WAN, and WLAN solutions.
• Coordinating with global customers and project managers for gather business requirements for project implementation.

Confidential

Senior Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling change management, incident management and problem management tickets.
• Responsible for handling L2, L3 level critical incidents.
• Responsible for handling LAN, WAN, WLAN and Network security related incidents.
• Responsible for resolving the incidents as per SLA.
• Responsible for handling LAN, WLAN and WAN incident tickets.
• Responsible for providing the fix or workaround within the SLA.
• Troubleshooting VLAN, trunks, STP, etherchannel, HSRP, VRRP issues.
• Troubleshooting OSPF, EIGRP and BGP issues.
• Troubleshooting WLAN issues.
• Troubleshooting DHCP, DNS, Files access, mail access, internet, intranet access issues.
• Fixing network device management access issues.
• Raising RMA with cisco TAC and with OEM’s
• Coordinating with Telco’s and WAN service providers for WAN related issues.
• Coordinating with OME’s for hardware related issues.
• Implementing new site network and LAN, WAN expansion projects.
• Coordinating with global customers, IT managers and project managers for gather business requirements for project implementation.
• Responsible for implementing Global WLAN projects, Green fields, 802.11ac upgrade.
• Preparing BOM, HLD and LLD design for network implementation.
• Attending CAB meetings for getting approvals for BOM, Design and MOP’s.
• Documenting the network design with supporting details.
• Performing compliance check and network auditing on devices.
• Worked on Global ACS migration projects. Automated tacacs script into network devices using Solarwinds Orion NCM.
• Automated global SNMP community string changes script using NCM.
• Lead the team and successfully delivered the Global IOS upgrade projects.
• Worked on Global Devices Hostname change projects.
• Worked and successfully delivered Global DHCP servers change project.
• Worked on IP address space auditing project. Coordinating with network automation team.
• Lead the team and Worked on missing and stale Configuration Items (CI) in CMDB with tools team.
• Worked with tools team during Network monitoring tools migration. Moved from Solarwinds to HP NNMi.
• Worked with tools team in discovering nodes in HP NNMi.

Confidential

Senior Specialist

• Responsible for handling network design and implementation projects.
• Implementing new site network.
• Coordinating with global customers, IT managers and project managers for gather business requirements for project implementation.
• Preparing BOM and design for network implementation.
• Attending CAB meetings for getting approvals for BOM, Design and MOP’s.
• Completing the project within the targets.
• Documenting the network design with supporting details.
• Adding network devices in monitoring tools.
• Responsible for providing reliable, scalable and high available network design solutions.
• Responsible for staging, rack and stack of network devices.
• Responsible for providing Layer 2, Layer 3 and WAN redundancy network design and implementation.
• Responsible for implementing Network expansion projects.
• Responsible for site decommissioning projects.
• Responsible for implementing WLAN projects.
• Implementing Wireless site survey.
• Designing the site network as per the tier architecture.
• Implementing the vendor OFF shore sites.
• Implementing OOB network at each site.
• Implemented network projects in MSNA, EMEA, LATAM, APJ regions.
• Implemented Direct TAP networks.
• Implemented remote sites connectivity using DMVPN.
• Advertising network routes into OSPF, EIGRP and BGP.
• Implemented routes redistribution.
• Implemented remote site WLAN using HREAP and FLEX connectivity.
• Implemented Guest WLAN.
• Implemented 802.11n/ac networks.
• Implemented WAN bandwidths upgrade projects.
• Ensuring that all IT equipment compliances with engineering standards.
• Implemented Edge routers ACL standardization and ACL cleanup project.
• Implemented L2/Broadcast domain expansions over IP.
• Implemented scripts in Orion NCM and HP NA for configuration changes in devices
• Implemented Re-IP projects.
• Implemented IOS up gradation for making the networking devices compliance as per engineering standards.
• Implemented VDC, VPC, FEX, static pining and dynamic pining.
• Remediation projects like removing stale entries in IP database, removing devices from network monitoring tools, Visio, etc.,
• Responsible for implementing minor/standard/major changes like, creating/editing/deleting vlans, trunks, SVI’s, port fast, etherchannels, Spanning tree, DHCP, routing, etc.,
• Responsible for handling hardware changes like module, switch, Supervisor engine or interface card changes.
• Enabling SSH, TACACS, SNMP, Syslog, DHCP, etc.,
• Implementing changes as per ITIL change management.
• Modifying global ACL policies in all firewalls using Cisco CSM and Fortimanager.

Confidential

Consultant SemanticSpace Technologies

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for handling change management tickets.
• Supporting the team during network resilience testing.
• Preparing test case for Network testing.
• Worked on Confidential products.
• Supported LAN infrastructure for the project.
• Handled VPN issues.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Pyramid is a Cisco premier partner. Responsible for network design and Implementation.
• Preparing BOM, HLD and LLD design for network implementation.
• Worked LAN, WAN, WLAN, security, Voice and Video solutions.
• Documenting the network design with supporting details.
• Preparing quality documents like IQ/OQ documents.
• Adding network devices in monitoring tools.
• Responsible for providing reliable, scalable and high available network design solutions.
• Responsible for staging, rack and stack of network devices.
• Responsible for providing Layer 2, Layer 3 and WAN redundancy network design and implementation.
• Responsible for implementing Network expansion projects.
• Responsible for site decommissioning projects.
• Responsible for implementing WLAN projects.
• Implementing Wireless site survey.