SUMMARY

• A strong Network/System Engineer with over 9 years of experience in Network support, implementation, troubleshooting and optimization.
• Experience with Network design, Planning, Implementation, & configuration of Enterprise Networks using OSPF/EIGRP/BGP, Frame Relay, Cisco Routers, Catalyst & Nexus Switches and Access Servers.
• Proven knowledge and understanding of VLANs / VTP / STP / Port channels / Inter VLAN Routing.
• Experience in a wide range of client/server applications, installing and configuring servers and desktops.
• System Administration on multiple platforms including Windows 2008, 2003 and Sun Solaris.
• Self - motivated, dedicated, excellent team player, flexible approaches towards problem solving and support.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cisco Routers: 75XX, 29XX, 39XX, 26XX, 36XX, 18XX and 1600.

Cisco Switches: Catalyst 65XX, 49XX, 4500, 2820Cisco Nexus NEXUS 7K, 5K, 2248(FEX)

Juniper Platform: EX8216, MX960 (Beginner level)

F5 BIG-IP: LTM

Network Tools & Protocols: Networking Ethernet, Frame Relay, ISDN, T1/T3, SONET

Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP & RIP

Switching Technologies: VLANs, VTP, STP, Ether-channel, FHRPs

Network Management: CiscoWorks2000, HP Open-View NNM

Tools: IP Control, CiscoConfig Maker, Sniffer, SecureCRT

Design Tool: Granite 6.3, Visio 2003/07/10

Other Applications & Technologies: MS Office 2007/03, Microsoft Project, Putty, Active Directory, DNS, WINS, IIS, Microsoft ISA Server, Microsoft Exchange Server.

Platforms/Operating Systems: Windows (2008/2003/2000 server/Vista/XP/9X), NT 4, Cisco IOS/Nexus, and Sun Solaris 2.5.1

Databases: MS SQL Server 2005/2000, MS Access 2000

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Branchburg, NJ

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configure and troubleshoot routing issues using OSPF and BGP in data center environment
• Write MOPs for port turn ups, VLAN configuration, spanning tree, LACP port channels, HSRP, VRRP, DHCP helper addresses, enabling dual stack using Cisco Nexus 7K/5K and Juniper's EX8216
• Configure 2248 FEXs for Nexus 5K and 7K switches
• Advertise new prefixes to Core and PE routers using OSPF and BGP on Nexus 7Ks and Juniper's MX960
• NEC Migration project - Write MOPS to migrate routing and switching from legacy (65XX) POD to new Nexus (7K/5K/2K) based POD.
• Nexus Code Upgrade Project - Non-ISSU Nexus code Upgrade (NX-OS 6.2.10) on Nexus 7K switches (multiple data centers nationwide)
• Create Virtual servers, pools, nodes on F5's BigIP LTM, monitoring health checks, doing Fail-over testing during migration
• Network Documentation using IP control, NCM, Visio 2010

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Network Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Configured and troubleshoot routing issues using OSPF and BGP
• Configured and troubleshoot switching problems including VLAN, STP, Port channels
• Customer MPLS Test and turn on 2900 and 3900 series routers, circuit troubleshooting T1, DS3, OC3, PPP Multilink bundle.
• Troubleshoot design and connectivity issues in existing network based on Cisco Catalyst and Nexus and SAN switches
• Responsible for providing a high level of network documentation to support overall understanding of the networks usages of BGP, OSPF and BGP protocols throughout the Confidential & Confidential ’s UC networks
• Technical design document creation and maintenance for all Cisco, HP and NetApp gears
• Created and maintains network connectivity diagrams using Visio

Confidential - Bothell, WA

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, maintained, and supported extensive Cisco LAN environment utilizing Cisco best-practices in Datacenter environment using Cisco Nexus 7Ks/5Ks/4900M and 65xx switches
• Configured VLANs, LACP port channels, Spanning trees, HSRP/VRRP on distribution switches and server facing ports. Configure monitor sessions on switch ports for network analysis
• Designed and configure of the L3 infrastructure using OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP
• Created and Reviewed engineering MOPs to implement VLANs, port channels, STP, HSRP, OSPF, BGP changes
• Troubleshoots spanning tree and HSRP issues on access and distribution layers
• Troubleshoots port channels issues on switch in switch-to-server connectivity
• Worked with different Business groups to resolve network problems from physical layer to routing issues, put changes in the system and follow with different entities to get them approved
• Configured various Checkpoint firewall rules across data centers to provide secure network connectivity to Confidential -Mobile applications. Troubleshoot Network connectivity issues using Checkpoint Tracker
• Code Upgrades of IOS & NX-OS on Cisco Routers and Switches
• Implemented base configurations on new switches and Routers before handed over to Tier 2 Security for device acceptance
• Conducted comprehensive LAB tests to prove viability of proposed engineering solutions
• Developed and maintained documentation of all LAN/WAN infrastructures using Granite (for circuit designing), IP control (for IP subnets documentations) and VISIO for network MAP
• Used Remedy and HOMER for trouble tickets and work orders

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented Enterprise Networks using OSFP/EIGRP as routing protocols.
• Provisioning and troubleshooting of MPLS VPN based solutions, setting up profiles as per customer requirements.
• Troubleshoot and configured T1/T3/DS3 circuits
• Configured and Implemented NAT and anti-spoofing access lists, building different types of Packet filters.
• Created and configured VLANs, Spanning trees,
• Designing full redundant Networks using MHSRP, OSPF, EGIRP, and BGP.
• Job responsibility also included research, proof of concept evaluation, architecture feasibility study, Vendor (Cisco, Avici, etc) product evaluation, etc; evaluation of Cisco IOS software features and protocols such as IPv4, BGP, OSPF, etc.
• Used Visio to document logical/physical network layouts, VLAN configurations, and IP addressing schemes.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in change control process for North America and South America regions.
• Implementation and Level 2 support to various businesses in Confidential involving technologies EIGRP/OSPF/BGP and access technologies OC3/Frame relay.
• Perform routine network changes on routers and switches involving ACL, routing implementations, HSRP, T1/T3/OC3 troubleshooting, etc
• Configured, maintained, and troubleshot routers and switches ranging from the 1720 series through the 7200 series routers and the 2900 series through the 6500 series switches in a highly redundant dual-homed environment.
• Responsible for configuration of OSPF, BGP, HSRP, Frame-Relay, Gigabit Ethernet, access-lists, ISDN, DLSW, spanning-tree, VLANS, ISL, SNMP, syslog, and Cisco Local Directors.
• Responsible for changes in global data centers and trading floor projects, duty includes network infrastructure, server farm, and data center merger and application integration.

Confidential

Network Engineering

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implemented OSPF and BGP on the network.
• Designing and implementation of Switched LAN using Catalyst 6000 as a wiring closet’s and Catalyst 6500 as Core Switch for Inter VLAN routing.
• Implemation of Trunking of wiring closets Cat 6009 and Core switch Cat 6509 using ISL.
• Integration of Switched LAN using Cisco 7200 router to the ATM backbone.
• Installed and configure CiscoWorks2000 on Windows NT.
• Configured CiscoWorks2000 LMS bundle including CiscoView 5.1, Campus Manager (CWSI) 3.0, RME 3.1, TrafficDirector 5.8.
• Installed and configured HP Open View NNM and created maps and sub-maps
• Installed and configured Optivity over HP Open View NNM.
• Troubleshooting and Network Capacity Planning using Vitalsuite7.