PROFILE:

• Working as Sr. Network Engineer with 10 years’ experience, primarily in the areas of integration, implementation and support of Internetworking for multiple NOC, LAN/WAN
• Deploying and troubleshooting internetworking such as eBGP/iBGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VPC+, OTV, Cisco Fabric Extender (FEX), STP, VLAN, VSAN, HSRP, MPLS - VPN, DMVPN, Site-to-Site VPN, EasyVPN, AnyConnect VPN, GlobalProtect (PA)
• Design and Implementation Cisco/Meraki Enterprise Wireless solutions for corporate infrastructures
• Installing, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco routers ASR 1K, 2901, 2911, 4200x, 2800 and 2600 Series, NEXUS 9K/7K/5K/2K, Cisco Catalyst Switches 2960X, 3750, 3850, 3950, 4500 and 6500 series, Cisco UCS Storage
• Managing and Administering Cisco ASA 5515, PaloAlto, SonicWALL, Fortinet Firewall
• Deploying Cisco Aironet 2700, 3700 Series, Cisco Meraki Enterprise Cloud Access Points and Wireless Bridges/Repeater for LAN Expansions
• Internet and WAN Circuit provisioning for client and coordinating with ISPs such as Verizon, ATT, Comcast, Rogers, Bell etc.
• Deploying and managing Windows 2003/2008/2012, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012,Office 365 Cloud migrations, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010, Blackberry Enterprise 5.5/10.0/10.1 (BYOD), MS Active Directory 2003/2008, Windows 2012 AD GPOs Domain/OU Level Security, VMware Virtualization, MS SQL 2003/2008, SAN/NAS Storage
• Administering Microsoft Win2008 Migration, Microsoft Exchange 2003/2010 Migration, Win7 Migration, DNS/DHCP Deployments and Migrations, Symantec NAV Client/Server Deployment
• A team player with excellent communication and organizational skills, combined with flexibility, creativity and exceptional analytical and problem solving skills. A quick learner and a self-starter who excels in team environment but can work equally well independently

EMPLOYMENT PROFILE:

Confidential

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working as Sr. Network Engineer (Consultant) for various migration projects
• Migration SIP service from Bell to Genesys service provider which involved BGP/OSPF migration and deployment with new failover design strategies
• Migration of existing Mainframes database servers from Dallas Datacenter to New Jersey and Columbus data centers, which involved migrating the existing VPN tunnels to new Data Centers
• Design the migration plan and redesign the complete VPN solution with GRE over IPSec with failover between two data centers
• Core routing implementation was done on Cisco ASR1K, Nexus 5K, Cisco IOS XE 4331, HSRP and VLAN trunking for Catalyst switches and Nexus VPC implementations
• Implementation Site-to-Site VPNs, GRE over IPSec VPNs on Cisco Routers, Cisco ASA Firewalls
• Upgraded Palo Alto Firewall and Panorama codes and design and deployed ASA High Availability
• Supporting and helping operations team for day to day issues
• Helping team for DMVPN migration plans for 200+ spokes to new Hubs
• Built the projects documentations with process flow and Visio diagrams

Confidential, Troy MI

Sr. Network Engineer

• Worked as Sr. Network Engineer in various capacities of Cisco technologies such as Nexus Data Center Management, Routing and Switching, Security, Acquisitions, Integration, New and Existing projects deployments
• Participating in multiple projects such as data center build, DMVNP for 500+ branches, ASA to PaloAlto firewall migration
• Designed and Deployed Cisco/Meraki Enterprise Cloud for Corporate HQ, Co-Locations and 500+ branches with distinct SSIDs
• Designed and implement Cisco/Meraki Enterprise Cloud Wireless Bridge/Repeater to extend the LAN for multiple buildings
• Cisco code upgrade for IOS/NXOS platform for all core data centers included Catalyst 3750,3850,4500,2960X and NEXUS 2K,3K,5K,9K and Routers ASR-1K, 2900 Series, 4300 Series
• Running migration cutovers of MPLS-VPN and DMVPN for newly acquired offices, including travelling to country-wide offices
• Migrate and provisioned existing MPLS circuits for newly accusation’s branches and corporate office to dedicated High-Speed WAN circuits from Verizon, Comcast and with all other local service providers
• Design and Built the new Data Center in Flint, MI with multi-homing strategies and new accusation’s corporate offices prior to full cutover to John Deere’s corporate network
• Securing the core infrastructure by migrating the access level from Local to RADIUS+NPS authentications
• Securing all 500+ branches and corporate offices from Brute-Force attack by locking down the remote access
• Migrating Cisco ASA firewall AnyConnect with secured VPN Users Group, including deployment of Two-Factor Authentication (LDAP+Soft Token) for VPN Clients
• Provisioning PaloAlto based DMZ and L2L VPN between Corporate HQ and Co-Locations, partners and 3rd party cloud hosting services
• Managing and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Internet, VPN, Wireless; including switching, routing, applications, vendor and ISP coordination
• Cisco ASA and PaloAlto migration and administration with access rules and security management
• Zoning and provisioning for storage traffic on Cisco Nexus 5K, UCS based on EMC/PureStorage
• Citrix NetScaler deployment with SDX and VPX instances for the Data Center to load balance the traffic between INSIDE and DMZ networks
• Monitoring and administering network with PRTG Enterprise, Solarwind (Orion/NCM)
• Managing and Troubleshooting Cisco Enterprise UC phone system, Jabber
• Planning and deploying failover for branch offices with Verizon | Comcast | FIOS | AT&T with High Speed Circuits and Cradle Points
• Acting as Level 3 engineer for JDL day-to-day network operational support

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

• Deployment and administration of Cisco routers and switches, upgrade and migration routers 4200,3600, 2800 and, Catalyst Switches 3750, Cisco NEXUS 5K/2K
• Administering and Managing VLAN, Spanning Tree, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPBGP, MPLSVPN
• Juniper and Cisco Aironet 2700 Series, Cisco Aironet 3700 Series Deployments and Management
• Network and Systems Administration for VMware / Citrix / AD / Exchange 2003/2010
• Managing and Administering Microsoft AD/GPOs/Users Security Policy
• Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) 10.0 / 10.1 Management with BYOD management
• Juniper EX2200EX / EX3200EX PoE switches deployments and Management
• Datacenters Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity yearly testing
• Network and Systems Administration for VMware/Citrix/AD/ Exchange 2003/2010
• Administration Microsoft Exchange 2003 Migration to 2010 with 1500+ Mailboxes
• Deployment and Administration of Blackberry Enterprise Server 5.5 Migration to BES 10.0
• Deployment and Administration of Symantec Backup Exec/Norton Antivirus Servers
• Deployment HP/Xerox Print Servers deployment and Management with Citrix Print Policies