PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Cisco certified Network Engineer with 3+ years of expertise across designing, performing Network analysis, Troubleshooting, maintaining and supporting complex network systems.
• Working on Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
• Proficient with network hardware and technologies including routers, switches, firewalls, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet.
• Solid understanding of OSI and TCP/IP model along with LAN, WAN, TCP/IP (IP, ICMP, ARP, TCP, UDP).
• Strong knowledge in switching and layer 2 protocols (STP, VLAN, VTP).
• Strong knowledge in routing and layer 3 protocols EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Implement firewall security policy management, Network Address translation(NAT), Port Address Translation(PAT).
• Configuring and maintaining Cisco ASA Firewalls, AAA authentication using TACACS & RADIUS.
• Advance knowledge in L2 & L3 MPLS VPN
• Managing Switches and Routers, configuration and troubleshooting them.
• Performed deep packet analysis to troubleshoot application issues using tools like Wire - shark.
• Had Substantial Knowledge including the configuration of Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Per VLAN Spanning Tree (PVST), Rapid STP (RSTP).
• Hands on experience in configuring ASR 9010, ASR 903, 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers.
• Hands on experience in configuring Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3750, 4500, 6500 series switches.
• Experience in PYTHON scripting for automation of Network devices.
• Implemented traffic filters on CISCO routes using Standard Access List and Extended Access List.
• Optimized performance of the WAN Network consisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
• Ability to learn new and existing hardware and software and adapt to new environments.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Switches: Cisco Catalyst 3560, 3750, 3850, 4500, 4900, 6500& Nexus 2K, 5K, 6K, 9K

Routers: Cisco 2900, 3600, 3800, 3900, 7200, ASR 1001X, ASR 9010, ASR 903

Routing: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP

Switching: VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, PVST+

Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, ICMP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, HTTP

LAN-WAN: Ethernet, Frame relay, MPLS, DSL, ISDN

Tools: SolarWinds, WireShark, WinSQL and GNS3, MATLAB.

Others: Windows Server 2008/2012, DNS, Active Directory, GPO, MS SQL, Oracle, C and JavaScript

Operating System: Win 7 and Windows 2012 server, Linux Fedora, Mac OS X Yosemite

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fair Lawn, NJ

Network Engineer Contractor

• Installed, Configured and maintained ASR 9010, ASR 903 Cisco Routers and 3750, 4500, 6500, 2960 Cisco Switches, Etherwan Ex78910 and Siemens industrial switches.
• Performed VSS on cisco catalyst 6500 series switches.
• Configured and managed Core, distribution and access layer routers and switches.
• Carried out route redistribution and manipulating route updates using distribution lists, route-maps & administrative distance, and offset-lists.
• Configured routing protocols like OSPF and BGP troubleshooting Layer3 issues.
• Implemented route-maps for policy based routing.
• Effectively managing IP addressing schemes requiring VLSM.
• Extensively troubleshot issues and outages on Trunks and Router interfaces and firewalls.
• Configuring and implementing IXIA tool for testing the network.
• Prepare High Level Documentation (HLD) & Low Level Documentation (LLD) as per requirements.
• Provided technical assistance for LAN/WAN management & troubleshooting and complex customer issues using Network monitoring tool.
• Configure and troubleshoot the network routing protocols during migrations and new client connections, and also monitored network performance and utilization for system backups and restoration.
• Planning and configuring the entire IP addressing plan for the client’s network.
• Configure and troubleshooting issues related to STP, RSTP and VLAN’s allocation in organization for maintaining Layer2/3 switching.
• Managing all network and firewall devices to include cisco routers, switches.
• Mutual redistribution between RIP and OSPF in internal networks with specific requirements of client with on demand routing.
• Implementing traffic filters using standard and extended access-lists, IP prefix-lists.
• Designing and implementing LAN/WAN solutions across site locations.
• Implementing and maintaining network monitoring system and experience with developing network design documentation using VISIO.
• Communicating with internal customers and vendors via telephone and email during troubleshooting, resolution and follow-up.
• Execute the test cases according the test plans and documented the test results and defects.
• Was responsible for execute test plans manually to characterize product performance

Confidential

Network Associate Engineer

• Responsible for Installation, configuration and maintenance of Cisco 7200, 3900, 2800, 2600, 2500 and 1800 series Router / Cisco Catalyst Cisco 6500 (sup 720), 4500 (SUP 6), 3750, 2950 series Switches.
• Maintained good understanding of the basics behind the Internet and its workings (DNS, Security, IP Routing, HTTP, VPN, Email Routing, SPAM, etc.)
• Configuration and maintenance of OSPF protocol which was the enterprise IGP. Configuration included deploying of new branch locations or new network devices in the existing infrastructure. Creating Stub Areas & configuring Summarization for effective Routing.
• Implementing traffic filters using standard and extended access-lists, IP prefix-lists.
• Inspected overall health of the network, server deployment throughout the company’s LAN.
• Performed tasks such as routing protocols, authorized directive services and maintenance of intrusion detection systems.
• Extensively troubleshot issues and outages on Trunks and Router interfaces and firewalls.
• Implementing and maintaining network monitoring system (Cisco works, HP Open view and Wireshark) and experience with developing network design documentation using VISIO.
• Primarily responsible to design and deploy network security & High Availability products information.
• Trouble shooting Software problems & connections.
• Assigning IP address and password to Routers.
• Design and support of complex communication systems and networks, creation and maintenance of detailed schematics and technical documents.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Hands on Cisco Layer 2 & 3 switches (spanning tree, VLAN).
• WAN Infrastructure running OSPF as core routing protocol.
• Lead all deployment and move projects (Installation new hosts, relocate production hosts, system upgrade etc. and bring up new hosts in production environment)
• Projects planning, manage require materials and generate tickets to the different related team.
• Plan and install data center network & server hardware according to present and future requirements.
• Calculating metrics to analyze the performance of the data center technical staff
• Installed, configured, and maintained personal computers, file servers, Ethernet networks, network cabling, and other related equipment, devices, and systems; adds or upgrades and configures modems, disk drives, data acquisition boards, CD ROM units, printers, and related equipment.
• In-depth expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Planning and configuring the routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, and Static Routing on the routers.
• Assist the certification team and perform configuration of LAN/WAN technologies such as Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet.
• In-depth expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
• Supported nationwide LAN infrastructure consisting of Cisco 4510 and catalyst 6513.
• Configured port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.
• Created Lab demonstrations for new technology deployments with loaner equipment from various vendors and presented the findings to upper management.