SUMMARY:

• Designed and Built Large Data Center, Enterprise Network, Service Provider and Wireless Networks with sufficient Security.
• Over 10 years of Cisco Routing and Switching Experience. CCIE Routing and Switching Lab (70%)
• Strong ability to assimilate new technologies, product and solutions

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

CISCO HARDWARE: Router Cisco 1800, 1900, 2800, 2900, 3800, 7600, 7200, 10K ASR 1K, 9K, Dual stack routers series Switches 2950, 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500, 4900, 4900 M series, Firewall 5505, 5510, WLC 4400, 5500CISCO NEXUS: 2K, 5K 7K,9K

LOAD BALANCER: CItrix Netscaler

RIVERBED: 2200, 3100

NETWORKS: LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, MPLS - L2VPN and L3VPN, DMVPNSECURITY: TACACS, radius servers, ACLS, NAT PAT, GRE, IP Sec. AES DH MD5 ESP WPA PKI ISAKMP HMAC

L1: OTN, 100BASE-T, 1000 BASE-T,100BASE-FX, 10BASE-T, T1, SONET/SDH, WIFI, E1, RIA-RS232L2: VPC, VDC, Fabric Path, ARP, IGMP, VTP, STP, VLAN, ARP, CDP, IEEE 802.11 WIFI, LACP, PAgP, Ethernet, P2P, LWAAP

L3: QOS, IP, IPV4, IPV6, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, RIPV2, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Multicasting SSM, PIM Sparse and Dense mode, VRF, VRF-Lite, GRE, mGRE, ICMP, LWAAP CAPWAP

L4: LDP, EBGP, IBGP, ARP, OTV, VSAT, TCP, UDP, AH, LWAAP CAPWAP

L5: PAP, SSHL6: TLS, SSL

L7: SNMP, SMTP, FTP, TFTP, DNS, DHCP, RADIOUS, TELNET

QOS: QOS-policing, shaping, queueing, LLQ, CBWFQ, WRED

NETWORKPROCESS: Sub-netting, VLSMOPERATING SYSTEMS: CISCO IOS, wireless RTOS, Rios, Junos

TOOLS: Wireshark, ASDM, Solarwinds, Network analyzers, digital multi meter, Cisco Works, HPOV, Sniffer, SCCD, Netcool, State Seeker, DSG, Cisco Map, NetQOS, Remedy, River Bed, Cisco Prime, Sharepoint, Secure CRT, Putty, Service Now, NNI Tester

JUNIPER HARDWARE: EX 4500, QFX 5100, QFX 10K, 9000 Series Switches, SRX (1400,3400) Firewalls, MX 480 and MX 960 Routers

JUNIPER TECHNOLOGIES: Routing Instances, Policies, RIB Groups, OSPF, BGP (MED, local preference), VLANS, Firewall Filters, Aggregated Ethernet(ae), IRB interfaces

COMPUTER SOFTWARE: MS. Project, MS. Visio, MS. Office, HTML, MS. Access, PL'/SQL Developing, C, C++, CorelDraw, Photoshop

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

INFRASTRUCTURE ENTERPRISE ARCHITECT

Confidential, Arlington, VA

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for complete infrastructure design, security, data center operation, network & voice communication.
• Working closely with assigned customers to provide enterprise level solutions that meet customer requirements efficiently. Supporting requirements include the entire sales cycle including initial meetings, customer requirements gathering, architecture design, implementation support, and forecasting future work with the sales teams.
• Building internal and external practice strategies within assigned technology verticals. Creating customer and internal procedures for installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Developing solution architectures, detailed designs, and configurations specifications for customer and internal references.
• Interfacing directly with sales and engineering level resources from the given manufacturers within the vertical, and build cohesive architectures and strategies for customers.
• Communicating and mentoring to collaborate with members of the Solutions Architecture team, peering within the Enterprise Architecture group, and Practice Managers on the deployment team.
• Working with Solutions Architects to develop training, education, and selling strategies around respective technology verticals.
• Standardizing Architectures by working with technology leader in the company to ensure consistency throughout the architecture department.
• Acting as an escalation point for both pre-sales and post-sales requirements. Giving Hands on support in the assigned technologies required to support the delivery teams in the event where advanced skill sets are needed during implementation and support.

DATA CENTER NETWORK DESIGN ENGINEER

Confidential, Atlanta/Marietta, GA

• Provided detailed Technical Design for Network Hardware Refresh and Applications Migrations Projects. Performed detail analysis and selected the devices which fit best in current and future network. Presented Design ideas to management and technical staff in order to describe how the new devices will fit in the network topology. Prepared technical documentations presenting how new devices will support technologies which exists on current devices. Prepared cost and benefit estimates
• Designed and Configured new and existing Cisco and Juniper routers and switches, firewalls, and/or. Served as primary point of contact on the network
• Projected in network infrastructure design discussions, documentation and presentation. Coordinated with other IT groups on implementation scheduling and planning.
• Tuned network configurations to ensure availability, monitored and performance standards are met. Partnered with IT groups in troubleshooting and issue resolution. Created implementation plans, Verification and back out plans to document configuration and installation work being executed. Participated in and contributed to project and team status meetings via verbal and written reporting.
• Applied base configurations and application specific configurations, working with IT and business partners to capture requirements and converted those to network configurations. Applied configurations and assist in testing and validations. Modified existing configurations to meet evolving business needs. Documented network designs, change steps and validation plans; provided training to Jr Engineers on those steps. Documented monitoring and management requirements and run books for Operations and configure devices to support.
• Projects Worked:
• Catalyst to Nexus Application Migrations
• Cisco Switch to Juniper Switch Application Migrations
• New Application Configurations
• Security Policies on Cisco Routers
• Juniper Switch to New Generation Juniper Switch Application Migrations
• Other Duties: Troubleshooting Network Issues, Monitoring, Immediate Device Replacement and prepared Home Depot’s core network diagrams from scratch

Confidential

SENIOR NETWORK ENGINEER

• Conducted design and implementation of customer requests and enhancements while ensuring compliance with existing system capabilities and optimal performance
• Participated in project activities supporting major infrastructure or application projects, including recommending solutions and building or modifying the application delivery environment. Created Design Documents, producing implementation plans as needed, and making configuration changes. Provided solutions for business areas that provide availability, optimization, and system security compliance
• Provided consultation services, as needed, to keep others informed of current technology available for application delivery networks.
• Collaborated and provided direction in resolving time critical and highly complex problems working with or leading all necessary parties (customer, client, operations, infrastructure and application support etc.) to restore service, identify root cause, and implement corrective measures
• Recommended upgrades to hardware and software, to ensure currency and vendor support
• Planed, scheduled and executed complex changes and upgrades to infrastructure that requires high availability and rapid back out of failed changes
• Partnered with Reserve Banks, business lines, and national IT providers to ensure successful migrations and achievement of System-level program goals and objective
• Developed standards for application delivered networks, controllers and appliances;
• Performed security reviews and supported audit reviews to ensure compliance and best practices

Confidential, Morrisville, NC

NETWORK ENGINEER IV

• Performed Heavy Designing, Configuration at Cisco SA Network department for Target and Liberty Mutual projects
• Recommended right routing protocols for the network at the Distribution, Core layers as well as layer 2 protocols at access and distribution layer. Recommended right hardware switches and routers for the network according to type and amount of the traffic.
• Optimized the traffic via applying QOS policing, shaping and queueing techniques. Filtered, redistributed and prioritized the traffic/routes one over other at the network edge as well as inside the core of the network. Applied routing on layer 3 switches and WAN routers. Applied security policies throughout the networks. Configured the WAN routers with phase 3 DMVPN tunnels with mGRE, IPsec and NHRP resolution techniques. Prepared the MPLS configuration for New Data Center traffic and created VPNs on it.
• Created the configuration patterns to add new VRF in existing network this included configuration of core switches and wan routers to support network growth
• Optimized the Video Network traffic configuring the source specific multicasting (SSM).
• Applied redundancy, static routing, distance vector and link state routing on Core switches and Distribution switches.

Confidential, VA

NETWORK ENGINEER III

• Troubleshot network problems and issues such as circuit is down or internet is slow or link is down.
• Making configurations to move. BGP from Cisco 3750 to nearest Cisco ASR 9000 series (9010, 9006, and 9001) routers and also making configuration for cisco 3600 ME switches.
• Worked with tools such as Net cool and SCCD (smart cloud desk), DSG, Granite.
• Dispatched when needed such as need to put generator cell site or metro E site.
• Giving customer 25MB, 10MB or 50MB speed according to requirement
• Prepared documentation and Network Diagrams in Visio tool
• Troubleshot and Configured VLANs. Added circuits to the Network. Regularly checked the over-utilization of the links in the network and fixed it. .Configured VRRP between two ASR routers for redundancy purpose.
• Troubleshot MPLS based network. Troubleshot VRF routing, Prepared configuration for service provider BGP VRF routing. Troubleshot calix, ciena, cisco router and switches.
• Worked with trouble-ticket systems. Troubleshot network/customer
• Made sure about MPLS X-connects are running well. .Pointed out any memory related issues. Troubleshot both customer related ticket and network related tickets
• Checked for fiber cuts or light level issues. Regularly coordinated with network/service technicians to make sure sites are up, working and whether customer is passing good traffic.
• Used NNI tester on the devices when needed to check the drop of the incoming or outgoing traffic.

Confidential, MONROE, LA

NETWORK-MIGRATION-ENGINEER

• Worked at Network Augmentation Department of Confidential in TSE group to do Giant Service Provider Network Migration
• Migrated customer traffic from Cisco Devices 7600 series to Alcatel Lucent (ALU) devices. Swapped ports on Redback authentication Server and changed customer profiles on it. Run Visual Basic scripts and perl scripts to count number of customers
• Built E-Pipes on Alcatel Lucent 7750s. Deleting sub interfaces, service instances and MPLS X-Xconnects from Cisco service provider WAN routers.
• Run the pre-check commands on migration nights. Checked customer traffic after the migration is over and counting the Number of customer profiles. Worked with the senarios such as Cisco-Cisco ALU-ALU, ALU-Cisco-Cisco ALU-ALU,Cisco- ALU-Redback.
• Found out the new port (With least utilization) on redback for migration. Worked with Cisco facing and ALU Facing sites. Wrote the Migration method documents called MOPS
• Run the commands to find out outgoing and ingoing interfaces of the devices to make Pre-Audit worksheets as well as Migration worksheet.
• Updated the network database after the migration was completed.

Confidential, Goshen, NY

IP DESIGN ENGINEER

• Designed distribution layer of the new Mediacom Network. Designed, Configured routing protocols BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and RIP. Recommended Cisco device for the new Data Network.
• Designed, Configured network security on 5505 ASA firewall NAT PAT and ACLs
• Configured Layer 2. Provided sufficient security. Maintained, supported and optimized the Voice, Data and Video and enterprise networks.
• Configured OSPF between 7609 and 4900, 448/28 and distributed OSPF traffic over port channel/ether channels.
• Submitted change request for policing (quality) traffic VoIP in voice network for core and aggregation routers and on Ether channel running between them. Requested IP address from IP Ops Training to NOC and IP Ops. Configured interfaces for level 3 VPLS turn up and submitted change request Designed for DAC Video network. Shifted network to super head end changed VLAND IDS. Configured VTP STP and 802.1d VLANS.
• Provided day to day support in 24X7 environments. Configured QOS for end to end connectivity
• Attended regular vendor meetings..
• Designed and Configured Multicast at layer 2 and layer 3. Managed SLA service level agreement
• Worked with wire shark, packet capture, WLC configuration such as Authentication protocols, APS, protocols. Also performed monitoring using debug commands. Attended Cisco's MPLS, VRF, LDP, RSVP- TE Training, Configured and troubleshot MPLS VPN networks. Tested, certified, Upgrade IOS image files recommended by Cisco. Configured IPsec and VPN connections
• Successfully finished the project to decommission of core router and replacing it to another site for better redundancy, connection to distribution switches and reconfiguring.
• Participated in a transport level work, choosing right fiber optic cables, SFP, GBIC, (card PA-GE). tested IPV6 for devices 7206, 7204, 7609, 3800me, 3570 M, CMTS 10k, 7224,
• 6500, 4500, 3750, 3560, 4900, 2950 series catalyst switches: worked closely with all these catalyst switches. Configured VTP STP and HSRP, GLBP protocols.
• Updated Visio Diagrams for Video Networks.