SUMMARY:

• Over 15 years’ strong hands on experience in Designing, Planning, Implementing, Troubleshooting and Optimization of Local/Wide Area Network technologies.
• Direct experience with Projects in Process Control, System Integration, Hardware, Software, Networking, Facility Management, IT security.
• Proficiency in installing and configuring Multi - Layer Switches and Layer 2 switches (2900, 3550/3560, 3750X, 4000, 5500, 6500 Series) running Cisco IOS or CatOS.
• Proficiency in installing and configuring Cisco Nexus (7000, 5000 and 2000) series switches, F5 Local-Traffic-Manager (LTM) Load Balancers and Riverbed Steelhead
• Nexus 7k/6k/5k/2k, Nexus 700X, Nexus 77XX (M1/M2/F1/F2/F3 cards) and Cisco
• Nexus 1000/Nexus® 1100 Series Cloud Services Platforms (CSPs)
• Catalyst 6500/4500/4900/3750 (Sup720/Sup2T, Sup6/Sup7) PIX and ASA Firewall
• Unified Computing System (UCS). UCS Blade and Rack-mount Servers with
• UCSM 1.x and 2.x (B200, B250, B440, C210, C250)
• Alcatel-Lucent Omni Switch (9000, 6850, 6400, 6200) series switches
• HP Procurve E8200/E5400 Zl series switches
• 5 years of experience in Wireless Design & Implementation.
• Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Configure and Troubleshoot.
• Alcatel-Lucent Omni Access Wireless LAN Switch (OEM by Aruba Networks)
• Proficiency in setting up Cisco 1000 Aggregation Services Routers
• Cisco 3900, 3800, 2900, 2800, 1900, 1800 Series Integrated Services Routers Cisco 800 Series Routers and OC48, OC12, OC3, DS3, ATMxIMA Bundle, T-1, Ethernet, POS, ATM, and Serial interfaces.
• Experience in different protocols - TCP/IP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PPP, HDLC, ATM, FRAME-RELAY, MPLS, HSRP, STP, 802.1x, 802.11a/b/g/n.
• Planning, Designing & Implementing of Firewall and VPNs (Intranet and Internet) over GRE tunnels, Checkpoint & Cisco ASA & PIX Firewall.
• Experience performing network data capture and analysis with tools such as Wireshark, etc.
• Experience IT Professional looking for new challenge, Able to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, have good communication skills, work well in a team environment also can work well independently. Good interpersonal skills, be a quick learner and have a positive can-do attitude. Responsible for Implementation of network solutions which is mandatory for a successful datacenters consolidation & migration involving Cisco Nexus 1000V, 2000, 5000 and 7000, VPC, VRF, Fabric path and UCS.
• Network monitoring applications. (Solarwinds, etc.) And Network data capture and analysis with tools such as Wireshark, etc.
• Network Performance Management and Automation Tool (NetMRI Infoblox & NetBrain)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, MD

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on a Network Separation project, Responsibilities are Planning/executing infrastructure installations, configuration including Nexus 7K, 5K 2K, ASR routers & Catalyst 4500, Wireless controller 5508, Management tools like Solarwinds, NetBrain

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supporting the DCC Migration project, during this time my responsibilities included supporting any network related tasks
• These tasks included, but not limited to, routing, switching, natting, SAN connectivity, troubleshooting, creation of visio, providing supporting documentation for network design, as well as supporting the server migrations to consolidate the data centers
• The overall scope of this project included approximately 4,000 servers that migrated.
• Day to day tasks included working with a wave migration scope, performing research on the existing servers in the source data centers, providing the target information (including assigning IP addresses, confirming security domain for the servers, preparing and implementing network configurations), providing weekend support coverage for the server migrations, performing network peer reviews for other engineers, and interfacing directly with the applicable Line of Businesses and the application SMEs.
• Also mentored other network engineers and always offered assistance where possible.

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Interfacing with customer for planning/executing infrastructure migrations and handling installations
• Performed router and switch upgrades; router and switch replacements; IOS upgrades, and developed support documents
• Developed an Implementation Schedule and created Method of Procedure (MOP) templates for Network Changes, Integration, Migration Plans, Route summarization, SVIs, Port-Channels, Interface mapping and Network Diagrams/Presentation by using the (Visio & Power Point).
• Review the current Layer 2/3 network services and the possibly deployed security policies
• Reviewed the physical deployment of network components to identify any single points of failure from review of the detailed network topology diagrams Finalize the Logical and Physical Network Topology Design, according to the requirements gathered during the assessment phase.
• Replaced Cisco 6500 VSS core environment in 3 data centers with 6 Cisco Nexus 7010
• Designed and implemented a data replication network between two data centers using Cisco Nexus 5K and 2K.
• Create a Detailed Network Design specific to customer prerequisite and documentation for the design which was included the;
• Network diagram (Physical topology, Layer 3 topology, Layer 2 topology &Traffic flow), Network redundancy, Routing protocol(s) and Logical network design documentation
• Created proper knowledge transfer documentation and runbook of environment (based on project requirements and design/build criteria) and conduct knowledge and ownership of environment to Operations team
• Upgraded and installed Cisco ASR 1002 from 1 Gig to 10 Gig capability
• Replaced Cisco 6500 VSS core environment in 3 data centers with 6 Cisco Nexus 7010
• Decommissioned 1 Gig circuits, and deployed 10 Gig circuits
• Performed route summarization for 6 data centers and 3 remote sites reducing the routing
• Legacy Refresh project to segment different lines of business

Wireless Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Created and delivered extensive documentation of the design, device location, required materials and integration approach for the wireless network
• Relied on knowledge of networks to facilitate the design of Wireless LAN/WAN systems and enable their integration into an existing wired network
• Provided recommendations to eliminate problems and make improvements
• Provided documentation, progress reporting and supports status meetings.

Network Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Implementation/configuring Routers, Switches, Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS), Cisco Remote Access, VPN Concentrators, PIX/ASA 5500 Firewalls and wireless systems.
• Configured Routing (EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, Static and Policy Base Routing) VLANs and enterprise network communication standards like Frame Relay, Leased Line, ADSL and ISDN.
• Support, maintenance, upgrades, new installations and troubleshooting on the core networks consisting of Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent and HP Procurve switches and routers. L2/L3 Switches configuration for VTP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, 802.1Q/ISL, QoS, Multicast and Logical Ether channels using PAgP (Cisco Proprietary) or LACP (IEEE 802.3ad). Designed, implement and integrated Industrial grade Ethernet Local Area Network by using Hirschmann switches
• Designed and Configured Secure Networks by using Cisco PIX/ASA Firewall, VPN Concentrator, ISR Routers. Site-to-Site VPN IPSec, ISAKMP, VPN for road Runners, ACL configuration, DMZ setup.
• Designed, implement and integrated of Data and Wireless 802.11 a/b/g/n systems by using the wireless controllers.
• Configured protocols (WPA, 802.11i/WPA2, 802.1x, Radius, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-FAST, PEAP) to secure wireless networks.
• Responsible for customers wireless site survey to delivers fast, scientifically accurate indoor and outdoor wireless network by AirMagnet survey tools.
• Install and configured Windows 2000/2003 servers for Active Directory, DHCP/DNS servers and Routing and Remote Access Services.
• Maintenance of server hardware components as per requirement.
• Prepare customer network schematic diagram and presentations with Microsoft Visio & Power Point.

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Managed network operations to include troubleshooting connectivity problems.
• Upgraded Novell Netware 3.12 to Netware 4.11 (Head Office and Three Branches) Installing, configuration and maintaining routers; adding/terminating users; assigning rights and access.
• Performed backups and routine preventive maintenance on hardware and software.
• Troubleshot operating system, network connectivity, and end-user problems.
• Provided technical support to administrators at other branches of the bank
• Implementation activities included hardware installation, software confirmation, applications integration, technology migrations and procedures documentation and knowledge transfer to onsite administrators.
• MS-DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95/98 and Windows NT/2000