SUMMARY:

• Passionate, solution focused, and results driven professional with exceptional technical and leadership skills offering 10 years of vast experience in both IT & Telecom domains for implementation, integration, configuration, support and managing enterprise network & security of datacenter operations.
• Proven ability in planning, analysis, design, implementation, testing & maintenance while simultaneously working in multiple projects and technologies.
• Quick learner & self - motivated individual with analytical and leadership skills to accomplish high quality projects within budget and timelines.
• Experienced in IT infrastructure & project management for large company merger and acquisitions.

• EMC Storage - NAS/SAN installation and configuration
• Quantum Tape Library installation and configuration
• V- Sat Installation & configuration - 2.4-meter Antenna
• UPS Installation - 5/10 kVA
• Studio Equipment Installation- Anycast/ A&V Switcher/Cameras/Composer/Amplifier/Streaming etc.
• Trend Micro Antivirus installation
• Symantec backup installation and implementation

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco 2960,3750,3850,4500,6500, Nexus7k&9k.

Extreme x460, x670, x870

Juniper EX4300, EX4650, EX9250

HP Procurve Switches, 6600 Switches

Subnetting- IP Design, VLan, VTP, ACL, STP, EtherChannel, Virtualization, Inter-VLAN Routing, Gateway Redundancy, Switch Security, Port Security, Network Management, PBR, SPAN, DHCP Snooping, VSS, QOS, Radius, Cisco Prime, vPC, Syslog, 802.1x, IOS Backup and Restore

Cisco 1861 and Cisco 2800, 3800, 2900, 3900, and 3900E

Ericsson 6000 series Routers -6672/6675

Routing Protocols: Static, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, ISIS

MPLS, IPsec VPN, Virtual context routing

Checkpoint - R70, R71, R75, R76, R77, R80

Palo Alto- PA3250, PA 850, PA 500

Juniper SSR 550

Cisco ASA 5540

F5 & Swivel for Remote Access

Configuring Policy and Rules

Management, Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Upgradation, Backup & Restoration

Logs and Debugging

Identity Awareness / User-ID

VPN (IP Sec/Remote)

NAT & PAT

Cluster Environment - Management through Panorama

Sandboxing

URL Filtering

IPS

Migrate Checkpoint to Palo Alto, vice versa

Setup of Ericsson CEE- Cloud Execution Environment version 6.2 and 9.2

Setup of Ericsson Cloud Container Distribution

Containerization using Dockers

Container-orchestration system, automating application deployment, scaling, and management using Kubernetes

Automated application deployment using Ansible playbook

AWS Administration and Management -EC2, S3, RDS, VPC, Cloud Watch

Cisco - WLC 9800 and AP 1600,1800 series

Aruba - WLC7010, IAP 315

Airwave Administrator -monitor IAP, proactively troubleshoot and capacity planning

Hardware Used: Clear pass & policy manage for security and authentication

ISE for radius authentication

Wireless Security Protocols

NOC Monitoring of MPLS & Internet link of more than 500 sites across the globe

Network monitoring tools- Wide vision, Cacti, Solar Winds, TrueView, Zenoss, Nagios, Cisco Prime, Syslog, MRTG, Big Panda, Prometheus monitoring tool

Incident troubleshooting & resolution within defined SLA, Incident call logging, capacity planning, Change Management, analysis, weekly documentation, reporting & presentations to improve services

Ericsson Baseband - 5216/5212/6630/6648

Ericsson Radios 2219/4449 and AIR 6488/5121 etc.

Software Install & Upgrade & Backup/Restore

Cell Creation/ Term Point Creation/ Transport Port Creation/ NB-IoT

Call Testing and TroubleshootingESS, MIMO, Optimization and testing technique

MobaXterm, Cygwin, Mini SFTP, Wireshark etc.

Setup of Ericsson Cloud Execution Environment 6.2 & 9.2

Installation of VNF on CEE (EPG/MME/SAPC/CUDB/HSS)

Installation of Test Environments like Iperf

Network Design and Planning

DPI using Wireshark etc.

Setting up of ECCD Cluster environment

HLD & LLD

Silver peak for WAN optimization

AirWatch-OS Upgrade & patch management

Antivirus software and management, Ticketing tool

Assist in maintaining corporate asset tracking inventory

Work with infrastructure and Security to deploy MDM solution

Maintain and update Apple IOS devices, Windows and Android devices

Omni PCX r12.2

Administration using management console Omni vista 8770

TDM Analog systems

SIP Polycom systems

Cisco IPT:

CUCM Administration

Profile & voicemail creation pickup group hunt group backup & restore recording server

Avaya solutions with Polycom /Cisco/Tandberg

Scopia management administration

HP Asset Manager- Create/Assign/Track/Report/Change Incidents/Inventory

RTT & BMC Remedy Tool - Create/Assign/Track/Report/Change Incidents

Jira -Workflow analysis/Incident management/Change Management

Network Design using MS Visio

Report and Test Analysis preparation

Windows Server 2012,2016

Red Hat Linux

Ubuntu

Cent OS

Server, Desktop & IT Equipment’s and peripherals

Structured Network Cabling

Raise and manage Cisco RMA (Return and Replacement Tool)

VB.Net

MS SQL

Python

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Plano, TX

Senior Architect

Responsibilities:

• Switch, Router, Firewall administration for Ericsson SIO Noida Data Centre.
• IP design, planning and subnetting for Ericsson SIO Noida Labs.
• Troubleshooting daily incidents raised by users on JIRA portal.
• Responsible for handling L3 network & security issues.
• Create & design project network solution diagrams using MS Visio
• Perform regular network and security audits to eradicate vulnerabilities
• Work as a network security consultant for new project plans, migrations, rollouts and deliveries
• Contributing to maintaining and improving network through continual capacity management, design optimization and network surveillance practices.
• MPBN operations for integration of telecom nodes & to ensure uninterrupted voice and data service for various POCs - Indian Mobile Congress 2019 / India RailTel etc.
• Routing with separation of Control and user plane traffic
• Good experience on Ericsson 6000 series routers and Extreme Switches
• Work in co-ordination with core and ran teams for expansion & evolution of core/ran network
• Perform day to day operations & management, fix alarms and resolve incidents, prepare daily health check status.
• Keep & maintain inventory of IP Addresses and hardware’s
• Update Solution document, HLD, DLD, LLD along with Network Diagram
• Capacity optimization, availability & performance management
• Perform adequate day to day capacity optimization, of all nodes
• Support.
• Understand the business requirements and impact on the IP backbone and data network infrastructure.
• FNI, PoC of new products, features and services.
• Knowledge in MPLS, Routing Protocols, IP security
• Network Slicing for 5G using SDN
• Installation and integration of Ericsson Cloud Execution environment (CEE) version 6.2 and 9.2
• Installation of Atlas on CEE & vEPC VNFs - EPG, MME, CUDB, HSS, SAPC
• Installation and configuration of Test Cases Server - e.g. Iperf
• Installation of Ericsson Cloud Container Distribution version 2.6
• Container-orchestration system, automating application deployment, scaling, and management using Kubernetes
• Automated application deployment using Ansible playbook
• Understanding of network architecture for 2G/3G/4G/5G.
• Installation and configuration of Ericsson RAN Products: -Basebands / Radio + AIR
• Create sectors and cells, term point, router ports and transport definitions on Ericsson basebands
• Software upgradation in Ericsson Baseband nodes for versions 19Q1/19Q2/20Q1/20Q2
• Baseband backup and Restore
• Call Testing and troubleshooting
• Configuring ESS (Ericsson Spectrum Sharing), Massive MIMO

Confidential

Infrastructure Expert

Responsibilities:

• Using HPAM Ticketing Tool handling of daily user incident tickets, problem tickets and change requests related to network, security, wireless, VPN, Telephony & Video conferencing.
• Responsible for all P1 and P2 tickets for L2 and L3 troubleshooting.
• Switch, Router, Firewall administration.
• Administration of Wireless - Cisco, Aruba, Airwave, ClearPass, Policy Manager etc.
• MDM Administration using AirWatch.
• Administration of Telephony equipment’s for Alcatel Omni vista and Cisco CUCM
• Administration of Avaya/Polycom Video Conferencing equipment’s and SIP Phones
• IP Planning and management: Tool Used: IPAM -> Create, delete modify subnet pools.
• Maintain and monitor all network, security, wireless, audio & video systems to meet the organization's current and future requirements.
• Create and maintain documents as it relates to network configuration, network diagrams, processes, and service records. Tools used: MS Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Teams, SharePoint
• Generate capacity planning reports including recommendations and upgrades.
• Involved in client delivery & interactions in case of any escalated issue or specific new requirement.
• Worked with multiple ISP vendors to ensure maximum Internet & MPLS Link uptime.
• Movement of critical projects and infrastructure between India offices.
• Periodic audit and compliance as per organization standards.
• Maintain and configure redundancy of organization network & all critical equipment’s at all levels.
• Planning, design, Implementation, installation & configuration of network, security, wireless, audio & video equipment’s for new sites and ODC.
• Replace and configure faulty devices by raising Cisco RMA.
• Decommissioning of old infrastructure devices and installation of new IT devices.
• Back up network configuration files of all devices in the event of network disaster recovery.
• Involved in smooth consistent transition of WAN services to a new carrier after group merger.
• Infrastructure merger for a network comprising of an excess of 100 sites.
• Planning of new subnet design and implementation of a standard VLan & IP rollout plan of live production networks with minimal downtime across all offices in India.
• Involved in consistent transition & implementation of Wireless services to Aruba from Cisco.
• Transition of Video Conferencing solutions to Avaya Scopia Management.
• Involved in setting up of a triangular design between Sopra Steria offices in India for higher availability & better uptime using OSPF protocol. Periodic BCP testing was engaged to maintain maximum uptime.
• Architecture involved OSPF protocol between WAN link and local P2P link between sites.
• Implementation of Network Operation Centre in Noida, India.
• Leaded a monitoring team of 7 people responsible for ensuring MPLS and Internet link uptime of more than 500 sites across the globe.
• Network monitoring Tools used for Monitoring - Wide vision, Cacti, TrueView, Zenoss, Solar Winds, Nagios, Cisco Prime, Syslog, MRTG etc.
• Implement silver peak between office location to have greater business agility and responsiveness.
• Increased application performance across the WAN.
• Assure business intent with advanced application visibility and control.
• Robust edge-to-edge security and micro-segmentation.
• Extensibility to 3rd party products via service chaining.
• Migration of F5 BIG IP and Swivel from physical appliances to VMs.
• Backup and restoration.
• Creation of Access Policy and rules.
• Creation of Virtual Server, Pool Creation, Node Allocation, & Health monitor.
• Identify business continuity and disaster recovery objectives.
• Assess potential risks and threats.
• Determine critical network components and the impact of their failure.
• Regularly business continuity tests and update the plan.
• Listing the steps which should be undertaken in order to restore network connectivity.
• Identifying people responsible for conducting network disaster recovery.
• Assessing possible consequences of a network failure.
• Determining the best strategies to mitigate them.
• Implementation of a DR site in India.
• Use NPS on two separate DC to allow for redundancy in case an NPS server is down.
• Configure switch/router to RADIUS server communication.
• Configure port authentication.
• Configuration for a RADIUS server as the Authentication Server.
• Set all client 802.1x settings with GPO including installing the CA root certificate, enabling 802.1x supplicant service, and 802.1x settings.
• Participated in training programs for project migration to AWS Cloud.
• Worked with project and development teams to design and implement secure, resilient AWS cloud-native networks, evangelizing best practices for development, design patterns and practices, security and reliability.
• Effectively conducted training sessions to beginners, interns and new joiners with successful result
• Prepared subject related documents, presentations, questionnaire & timelines

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Infrastructure Service Delivery operations for India’s prestigious PAN Africa Project worth billions of dollars connecting 46 African countries to India for Tele Medicine and Tele Education program.
• Travelled to 25 African countries for installation, commissioning and integration in the network & maintenance of Information, communication and Technology equipment's
• Installation & configuration of Cisco Switches
• Responsible for installation and configuration of Checkpoint Firewalls in distributed mode
• Installation& alignment of V-sat Antenna of 2.4 M Radius and modem
• Structured network & power cabling (5 KVA UPS Systems)
• Installation and configuration of Red Hat and Ubuntu Servers
• Setting up backup using Tape Library (Quantum Scalar 24)
• Installation and Configuration of SAN and NAS Storage.
• Video Conferencing Systems (Cisco and Polycom)
• Studio Engineer: -Setting up of various audio and video equipment's which includes high end cameras, anycast systems, switchers, composers, amplifiers and audio distribution systems
• Awarded accolades and certificates from Ministry of various African countries.
• Installation and commissioning of a major Data Centre in Vashi Mumbai with a project objective to connect and audit databases of all nationalized banks across India.
• Design and plan the connectivity of all network equipment's.
• Installed Cisco Catalyst Switches 4500 & 2960 series & Cisco Routers 3800
• Configuration of Vlans, HSRP, VTP, Port security, STP, DHCP Snooping, ACL, NAT.
• Installation and configuration of Cisco ASA-5540 Firewall- HA Cluster, Firewall Rules & Policies, configure SLA monitor, context mode, etc.
• Installation of Windows Server in Cluster with NIC Teaming.
• Configured Server Roles - IIS Web Server, Active Directory, DNS Forward and Reverse Lookup
• Installation and Configuration of SAN and SAN Switches
• Setting up of Symantec Backup Server and its configuration.
• Integrate network devices with ACS and with AAA authentication.
• UAT sign off, prepare diagram, documentation & presentations of the project.
• Prepare tenders for submission to Private and Public sector large institutions
• Good Knowledge of online tendering practices
• Cost input analysis & design a resource deployment plan
• Develop project Implementation plan & timelines
• Risk & mitigation plan assessment
• Attend tender assessment audits and submissions
• Maintenance & new requirements of Liquor Management System software using VB.net and SQL
• Maintain network availability and maintenance of all IT equipment’s.