SUMMARY:

• Senior Network Engineer | LAN/WAN Manager | Data Center/Network Solutions Architect & Design
• A result - oriented IT professional with extensive experience in the engineering, administration, design and support of information systems. In-depth expertise in the design, implementation, analysis, optimization, configuration, troubleshooting and documentation
• LAN/WAN and Data Center. Proven ability to lead and motivate project teams to ensure success.
• Track record for diagnosing complex problems and consistently delivering effective solutions.
• Proactive Architect and Engineer with over 15 years experience contributing to the profitability and performance of leading organizations through state-of-the-Art technology, infrastructure optimization, cutting-edge initiatives, and exemplary knowledge in both emerging and advanced technologies.
• Design Routed (L3) and Switched (L2) networks
• Configure Troubleshoot Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv1-2, ISIS, HSRP, VRP, GRE, DMVPN, VXLAN, OT
• WAN Communications: (OCX, T1/T3, DS3, Metro-E, ATM and Frame-Relay, SDN (iWAN)
• Multicast DM, SDM and SM with Static & Dynamic RP (auto-RP, BSR) configurations.
• Inter-AS Multicast, MSDP, Anycast
• Bi-directional Multicast and Source Specific Multicast (SSM).
• Multicast VPN (MPLS Multicast for Sites connected to MPLS Backbone)
• Low latency (msec) and Ultra Low latency
• QoS-Congestion Mgmt (PQ/CQ/WFQ/CBWFQ/LLQ)
• QoS-Congestion Avoidance (RED, WRED)
• QoS-Traffic Conditioning and BW Control (Shaping/FRTS, Policing/CAR)
• QoS-Classification-Marking (DSCP, IP Precedence, NBAR), Policy Based Routing (PBR).
• QoS-RSVP
• Cisco PIX/ASA Firewalls and IOS Firewalls, Cisco VPN Concentrators, Cisco Secure ACS.
• IPSec/VPN and authentication technologies, Remote access Technologies.
• SonicWall Firewall
• Barracuda Firewall
• Cisco Meraki
• Fortunet Firewall
• F5
• VoIP design and implementation
• Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Unity, Cisco IP Phones. UCX
• Voice Gateways (2811s, 3725s, 3845s), Voice-T1s/PRI setup.
• Video and Video on Demand (VoD)
• Wireless WLAN (core & guest) design and implementation.
• Cisco wireless APs 1242s, 1252s, 1100 series, SonicPoint APs
• Cisco WLC 2106, 4402, 5500, WiSM hardware, WSC and wireless phones
• Cisco Meraki
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Speak and write French fluently

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE:

Data Center / Architecture, Design and Storage Networking

Nexus 9k, 7k, 6K, 5k, 2k, 1K, VDC, VPC, OTV, Fabric Path/Trill implementation

Cisco Fabric Interconnect (61xx/62xx) and UCS-5108-B/C Series design and implementation

Cisco MDS (9148, 95XX, 92XX) design and implementation

Cisco ASR 1K, 9KCisco ISR 4351-X, 4451-X

Cisco Meraki (60, 64, 64w), MS (220, 225, 250, 350), MR (18, 32-33, 42)

Network Design/Architecture

IT Infrastructure Operations

Routing & Switching

Multicast Technologies

Wireless

MPLS L3/L2 VPN

HP Procurve (1018g-24, 2524, 2650) HP 1920 serie)

Network Management

Extreme Networks Summit X450-G2-24p-GE4, Extreme X870-96x-8c

Network Security (Firewalls, IDS/IPS)

Unified Communications (UCS)

VoIP

Big IP (F5)

IP-Routing/Switching

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Network Hardware: Cabling Topologies included (CAT 5, 6 and Fiber Optic) Ethernet, ATM and Token Ring, Gigabit Ethernet; Layer 2 and Layer 3 Switching; Cisco 6500, 5000, 4500, 3700, 3500, 7200, 2800, 2900 and 2600 series; 7835 (Cisco -VoIP Call Manager and Unity systems, Cisco Unified Messaging), Nexus (7000, 5000, 2000), PIX (501, 506E, 512, 515E), ASA (5505, 5510, 5520, 5540 ), and Nokia Firewall (IP330, IP2330), Wireless technology including Symbol and Cisco, Nortel L2-7 Switching modules, Nortel OME (65110, 6500), Sonnet Flatware 4500, Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrators, Cisco IP phones (7945, 7965, 7911, 7975, E20, Ex90), Infertile monitoring system, Telstra voice recording system. F5 /Big IP (LTM1600 and3600), Cisco MDS (90209100, 9200) switches for SAN, Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000, 3000, 2000 (2224, 2232, 2248), 1000v series, Cisco WC 4404, 5000 series SonicWall firewall, Barracuda LinkBalancers, SonicPoints Aps, Extreme Network switches ( Summit x450e, Blackdiamond 8000) Cisco Meraki (60, 64, 64w), MS (220, 225, 250, 350), MR (18, 32-33, 42)

Network Operating Systems: Cisco IOS/IOS XE/IOS XR/Cat OS, Cisco NX/OS, Win 2000, XP, NT. Nortel/SONET/SDH Multiservice switches, IBM Blade Center, Brocade, Wireless

Network Management: Concord Network Health Management Tool/HP OpenView/Eye of the Storm/Vital Net/ Smart for Measuring Bandwidth Utilization and Performance, InfoBox-NetMRI, SonicWall NSA 5600, SonicPoint access point

Packeteer for traffic shaping and monitoring, QIP, SMART, Falcon, Solarwinds, Barracuda Link Balancer 430: Network Test Equipment: Network Associates Sniffer for Baselining networks, Fluke line tester for connectivity testing. Ethereal for Sniffer capture analysis, Qualys Guard (for security port scan,), What's UP Gold, IPAM, EasyIP

Network Protocols: RIP1/RIP2, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, IPX, IP, VRRP-HSRP, T1, T3, Frame-Relay, ATM, BGP, DLSW, MULTICAST, PPPoE, GRE, IPSEC, MPLS (LDP/TDP/RSVP), L3VPNs, L2VPNs/VPLS/RSA, GetVPN, DMVPN, VDC, VPC, FabricPath/Trill, OTV)

Project Management Tools: MS Office, MS Project, MS PowerPoint and Visio.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chantilly, Virginia

SR Network Engineer/ Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Administered Cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewalls (Created Policies & rules, Monitor, Logging & Reporting; Device setup) Wrote technical documents and training to other engineers.
• Completed network migration for Inova non-hospital offices. Administered ISE, Solarwinds, Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, Infoblox Configured and troubleshot Cisco 3850, 4500, Nexus 7K, Nexus 2K Upgraded Cisco Nexus 7K, 3850, 4507, 4510…

Confidential

SR Network Engineer/ Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed network assessment and documentation.
• Analyzed current network environment and propose solution.
• Designed High Level Design (HLD)
• Designed and implement wireless solution using Meraki MX64, MS350, MR18 Converted High Level design into Low Level Design (LLD).
• Configured and troubleshot Nexus 7K, 5K, 6K, 4K, 2K, ASR 1002, F5 LoadBlancer, Blue Coat, ASA 5500 firewall and MDS 9000, 6905E, Cisco ASA and Cisco ISR4451-X
• Administered Cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewalls (Created Policies & rules, Monitor, Logging & Reporting; Device setup) Reconfigured data and wireless network to improve network collectivity and availability such as, MX64, MS225, MR18 Configured and troubleshot various protocols, such as Eigrp, Ospf, Bgp, MPLS, OTV Attended corporate meetings and participate i Conference calls.
• Developed, designed principles, models, plans, internal standards, and processes based on industry best practices. Wrote technical documents.
• Served as a level 3-escalation point for all of the Network related issues.
• Served as a mentor for junior Network engineers.

Confidential

Sr Network Engineer / Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform network assessment and propose solutions.
• Designed, configured and implemented OTV solution between Confidential Data Centers Designed, configured and troubleshot FCOE solution for data center Configured, implemented and troubleshot UCS 6200 and Fiber interconnect
• Configured and troubleshot Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, 4K, 2K, ASR 1002, F5 LoadBlancer, Blue Coat, ASA 5500 firewall and MDS 9000, 6905E, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewall, ISR 4451-X.
• Designed and configured Spine/Leaf ACI solution with Cisco Nexus 9K, 5K Reconfigured data and wireless network to improve network collectivity and availability Configured and troubleshoot various protocols, such as Eigrp, Ospf, Bgp, MPLS, OTV
• Attended corporate meetings and participate in Conference calls.
• Developed, designed principles, models, plans, internal standards, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Wrote technical documents.
• Took a proactive approach to resolving network hardware and software problems quickly and efficiently with minimal impact to end users.
• Administered Cisco ASA and Palo Alto firewalls (Created Policies & rules, Monitor, Logging & Reporting; Device setup) Planned, designed, implemented, and support complex multi-vendor environments.
• Developed and maintained detailed implementation and training documentation Created and maintained detailed deployment documentations.
• Installed, Configured Lantronix, VSS Monitoring devices
• Led a group of engineers and multiple projects successfully.
• Served as a mentor for other network engineers
• Performed Level 3 escalation point responsibilities for all network related issues

Confidential

Sr Network Engineer/Architect / Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed network assessment and proposed solutions.
• Designed Data Center solutions
• Designed, configured and troubleshot FCOE solution for data center Configured, implemented and troubleshot UCS 6200 and Fiber interconnect
• Configured and troubleshot Nexus 7K, 5K, 6K, 2K, ASR 1002, F5 LoadBlancer, Blue Coat, ASA 5500 firewall and MDS 9000, 6905E, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewall and MDS 9148
• Reconfigured data and wireless network to improve network collectivity and availability. Configured and troubleshoot various protocols, such as Eigrp, Ospf, Bgp, MPLS, OTV Attended corporate meetings and participate in Conference calls.
• Planned, designed, implemented, and support complex multi-vendor environments.
• Developed and maintained detailed implementation and training documentation.
• Installed, Configured Lantronix, VSS Monitoring devices
• Led a group of six engineers and multiple projects successfully.
• Served as a mentor for other network engineers

Confidential

Sr Network Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed network assessment and propose solutions.
• Configured and troubleshot 3900, Cisco Voice gateway 3945, VG224, and ASR 1002, Barracuda LinkBlancer, SonicWall firewall a Cisco ASA, SonicPoints Aps, Extreme switches (Summit x450e, BlackDiamond 8000).
• Reconfigured data and wireless network to improve network collectivity and availability Configured and troubleshot various protocols, such as Eigrp, Ospf, Bgp, MPLS. Attended corporate meetings and participate in Conference calls.
• Developed design principles, models, plans, internal standards, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Wrote technical documents.
• Supported a multi-site cluster of Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Unity Connections, Cisco Presence, Cisco Emergency Responder, UCC and other Call based applications.
• Configured, troubleshot and deployed Cisco IP phones.
• Configured, maintained, and supporting Cisco Unified Communications Manager, quality of service (QoS), H.323 gateways, IP phones, voice applications and utilities on Cisco routers.
• Participated in developing architectural strategy, including technology standardization and modernization of Enterprise, data center and disaster recovery network infrastructures.
• Configured and troubleshot Nexus 7K, 5K, 6K, 2K, ASR 1002, F5 LoadBlancer, Blue Coat, ASA 5500 firewall and MDS 9000, 6905E, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewall and MDS 9148

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer/Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented a HA (High Availability) Data Center and Network solutions.
• Troubleshot Confidential ’ network-related issues (Voice, Data, wireless and Video) Wrote technical training documents and train employees as needed.
• Provided technical leadership for data and voice network problem escalation and resolution.
• Designed, configured and implemented wireless using Cisco Meraki such as, MX64, MS225, MR18 Designed, configured and troubleshot FCOE solution for data center
• Configured, troubleshot and implemented Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 4K, 2K, ASR 1002, 6905E, cat 4510 Proactively investigate and resolve network and hardware matters of significance.

Confidential

Sr Network Engineer/Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented HA (High Availability) Data Center Solution for Data, Voice, Wireless
• Configured and troubleshot Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000, 1000V, Cisco 6500, 4500, 3900, Cisco Voice gateway 3945, VG224, an ASR 1002, 9001.
• Designed, Implemented Cisco fabricPath Solutions.
• Designed, configured and troubleshot FCOE solution for data center
• Configured and troubleshot various protocols, such as Eigrp, Ospf, Bgp, MPLS, VRF, and GetVPN.
• Attended corporate meetings and participate in Conference calls.
• Developed design principles, models, plans, internal standards, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Wrote technical documents.
• Lead a group of seven (7) network engineers
• Participated in developing architectural strategy, including technology standardization and modernization of Enterprise, data center and disaster recovery network infrastructures.
• Served as a mentor for other network engineers

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer/Architect/Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Implemented a HA (High Availability) Data Center and Network solutions.
• Troubleshot Confidential 's network-related issues (Voice, Data and Video)
• Wrote technical training documents and train employees as needed.
• Provided technical leadership for data and voice network problem escalation and resolution.
• Migrated Avaya VOIP solution to Cisco VOIP solution
• Administered F5 Big IP Load Balancer
• Maintained data, voice and video network hardware and systems Designed, configured and troubleshot FCOE solution for data center Configured, troubleshot UCS and Fabric Interconnect
• Proactively investigate and resolve network and hardware matters of significance.
• Configured, troubleshot and implemented Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K, Cisco 6500, 7500, 4500, ASR (1002, 9002). Designed and Implemented DR solution using OTV technology
• Configured, troubleshot and deployed Cisco and Avaya IP phones.
• Configured, maintained, and supporting Cisco Unified Communications Manager, quality of service (QoS), H.323 gateways, IP phones, voice applications and utilities on Cisco routers.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer/Architect/ Lead engineer

Responsibilities:

• Planned, designed and delivered IT Infrastructure initiatives for Confidential data Center, DDOD, DR and Local Network solution.
• Developed design principles, models, plans, internal standards, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Troubleshot company's network-related issues (Voice, Data and Video)
• Wrote technical training documents and train employees as needed.
• Provided technical leadership for data and voice network problem escalation and resolution.
• Proactively investigated and resolved network and hardware matters of significance Attended Consulate meetings and presentations
• Acted as an Escalation point for all Network-related issues (Data, Voice, Video)
• Configured, troubleshot and managed Cisco Call Manager, Cisco Unity, Cisco UCCX and Voice Gateways Configured, troubleshot and managed Cisco IP Phones, such as 7911, 7935, 7945, 7975, E20, EX90 Configured, troubleshot and implemented Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K, Cisco 6500, 7500, 4500...
• Configured and troubleshot Cisco MDS switches (9020, 9500) for HP SAN.
• Configured and troubleshot T1, T3/DS3 line, PTP
• Designed, Configured and troubleshot GRE tunnels and DMVPN solutions Configured and troubleshot Voice gateways Managed user’s account using Active Directory

Confidential, Easton, PA

Senior Network Engineer/Architect/ Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Gathering business requirements and objectives
• Producing a blueprint for a complex, large-scale, integrated network Communicating that architecture to stakeholders
• Working closely with business management to determine business process and productivity needs and an appropriate technology strategy to support business goals.
• Analyzing technical needs, requirements, and state of the network’s infrastructure design, integration, and operations. Working with technical management to architect networks that effectively reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements, and other technology parameters.
• Developing design principles, models, plans, internal standards, and processes based on industry best practices.
• Establishing governing principles for network design and deployment.
• Participating in selection of networking technologies and products for implementation Performing detailed technical analysis and site survey.
• Planning, designing and delivering IT Infrastructure initiatives Confidential data Center, DDOD, DR and Local Network solution.
• Troubleshooting network connectivity and performance issues and implemented network solutions.
• Proposing network solutions, which improved network availability and performance
• Conducting local and remote sites surveys for network bottlenecks, performance issue and proposed resolutions. Configuring and administering Cisco PIX and ASA
• Configuring, troubleshooting and implementing Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K
• Reviewing and updating all network documentation to improve troubleshooting and inventory Configuring VLANs, trunks, Ether Channels, port security
• Performing IOS upgrades
• Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco MDS switches (9100, 9200) for HP SAN Installing, configuring and maintaining wireless access points and controllers. Serving as escalation point and provided on-call duties

Confidential, NY

Senior Network Engineer/Architect

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed technical analysis and site survey.
• Designed, configured and implemented LAN and WAN solutions
• Configured Cisco routers, switches and firewall
• Troubleshot network performance issues and implemented network solutions...

Confidential, Budd Lakes, NJ

Senior Network Engineer/Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluated, recommended and implemented changes to current and future network requirements to meet MARS and client’s needs
• Designed, configured, implemented and troubleshot MPLS solution for Mars global network solutions
• Configured and troubleshot various Cisco Router and switch platforms for various protocols Such as BGP, EIGRP, VLAN, OSPF, BGP, Multicast, Bridging, Spanning tree, MPLS, IPSEC, VPN Configured and administered F5 Load balancer, including OS upgrades, trunking, and troubleshooting.
• Participate in Change Management technical meetings as appropriate or as otherwise requested.
• Supported and maintained WAN links including T1s, DS3s and MPLS Acted as 3rd-level support for network-related issues
• Reviewed and updated all documentation network devices to improve troubleshooting and inventory.

Confidential, Brooklyn, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed technical analysis of current network systems functionality, operation and configuration and implemented chang to improve Network connectivity.
• Worked with third party and partners (Cisco, Nortel and IBM) to define solution
• Designed, implemented and managed MS clients and business partners network solutions, which improve greatly productivity Designed, configured and implemented VOIP solutions for MS using Cisco CME Configured and implemented Cisco Nexus (series 2000, 4000, 5000, 5010, and 5020).
• Configured and troubleshoot and implemented various Cisco and Nortel routers and switches platforms, for various protocols, such
• BGP, EIGRP, VLAN, OSPF, BGP, Multicast,Bridging, Spanning tree, MPLS, IPSEC.
• Attended meetings as required to brief management on pending issues, status of activities or initiatives pertaining to the netwo infrastructure and tests.
• Configured and troubleshot Brocade switches.
• Configure and troubleshot Cisco MDS switches (9100, 9200) for HP SAN
• Analyzed existing bandwidth consumption for problematic GWAN sites and identified individual contributory application bandwid consumption using Nethealth, Eye of The Storm Reporter tool, IXIA.
• Configured and troubleshot Cisco GSR 12000, and administered F5 Load balancer.
• Configured and installed various Cisco IP Phones models.
• Supported and maintained WAN links including T1s, DS3s and MPLS Configured, and troubleshot point - to-point IPsec tunnels and DMVPN Acted as 3rd-level support for network-related issues Migrated Avaya VOIP solution to Cisco VOIP solution
• Performed LAN/WAN onsite and offsite troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common network problems and proposed solution.
• Reviewed and updated all network documentation.

Confidential, Toledo, Ohio

Senior Network Engineer/architect/ Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Performed detailed technical analysis of current network systems functionality, operation and configuration and implemented t needed solutions.
• Troubleshot network performance issues and implemented network solutions.
• Designed, assessed, analyzed and troubleshot all IP-driven networks, systems and applications for Confidential .
• Configured and administered Nokia Checkpoint firewall IP290, IP330, IP390
• Configured, implemented and troubleshot L3/L2 networks
• Configured and troubleshot PIX and ASA
• Designed practical and cost effective IT solutions that meet Confidential needs.
• Conducted Confidential local and remote sites surveys for network bottlenecks, performance issue and proposed resolutions. Planned and executed highly complex Network Upgrades and Network Migrations activities
• Generated standard project documentation including detailed test plan for highly complex networks.
• Designed and Implemented and maintained HA (High Availability) solutions, a fault-tolerant and highly available network management environment

Confidential, NY, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Identified Cisco Network problems and took action to resolve the root causes.
• Performed RCOA (Root Cause Outage Analysis) on network problems.
• Troubleshoot LAN/WAN issues.
• Configured and troubleshoot various Cisco Routers and switch platforms for various protocols, such as BGP, EIGRP, VLAN, OSP BGP, Multicast, Bridging, Spanning tree, MPLS, IPSEC.
• Configured and administered F5 Load balancer, including OS upgrades, trunking, and troubleshooting.
• Configured, implemented and troubleshot L3/L2 networks
• Designed, configured, implemented and troubleshot GRE tunnels and DMVPN solutions
• Generated standard project documentation including detailed test plan for highly complex networks.
• Analyzed existing bandwidth consumption for problematic GWAN sites and identified individual contributory
• Application bandwidth consumption using Nethealth, Eye of The Storm Reporter tool.
• Configured, troubleshot and administered Cisco Nexus 7K
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco MDS switches (9020, 9100, and 9200) for HP SAN Supported and maintained WAN links including T1s, DS3s and MPLS Acted as 3rd-level support for network-related issues.
• Built simulated networks in test labs to resolve highly complex problems and compatibility issues.