SUMMARY:

Senior Network Data Center Engineer/Architect

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Windows 2008 - R2/2003/ 2000, XP, AWS, UNIX-Sun, Red Hat LINUX, F5 TMOS, OPEN AWS, Windows, BSD, Cent OS, JUNOS, VMWARE, Hyper V, PAN-OS and Amazon Linux

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Network/Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working on contract as a senior Network Security Engineer
• Working on the security patches, upgrade of Cisco ASA firewalls, Firewall rule cleanups, applied hot fixes in F5, administration of F5 LTM/GTM

Confidential, Bannockburn, IL

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in the design and implementation of MPLS WAN, DMVPN and Cisco SD - WAN IWAN.
• Implemented Cisco IWAN solution in 80 branches, Redesigned the data center using Nexus 5672 and 2248.
• Implemented Cisco Prime Server (version 3.2).
• Also performed the administration of Nexus 5672, Nexus 2248TP, ASR1000, ISR 4451, ISR 4351, Cisco ASA 5555 firewall, Palo Alto Firewall PA-5020, Migrated ASA into PA firewall with HA, SSL VPN, and Cisco Wireless Controller 5520, 2700 series Access Points, Administer Solar Winds Orion server-network monitoring.
• Implemented automated EM script for Cisco IWAN roll out.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as administrator of F5 VIPRION and ACE load balancers (Cisco ACE module). Migrated ACE Service Policies into F5 based I-Rules.
• Migrated 6 contexts from ACE load balancer applications to 6 new partitions of F5 load balancers using TMSH commands based script without any production outages.
• Also responsible for applying F5 Hotfixes and software upgrades, Administration of F5 GTM for DNS, SSL certificates in F5 load balancers.
• Responsible for the maintenance and support of two data centers, Cisco routers ASR 1000, ASR 9000, Nexus 7000,5000 and FEX 2000 Switches, Palo Alto and Cisco ASA Firewalls.
• Wrote I-rules for Customer Applications and EM script for Cisco routers. Implemented BGP dynamic failover to Dual ISP.
• Managed Level 1 and Level 2 outsourced network engineers

Confidential, Deer field, IL

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various network projects involving Cisco Routers- ASR 1000/9000, InfoBlox DNS/IPAM, Switches-Nexus 7K/5K/2K.
• Also worked on the design of INET and ECOM zones.
• Completed the migration of Drugstore.com data center to Confidential data centers.
• Administration of F5 LTM Load balancers and GTM
• Managed off shore and on- shore network engineers

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Senior Data Center Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the data center optimization and relocation projects involved Nexus platforms and F5 LTM load balancers and GTM.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Sr. Network Coordinator

Responsibilities:

• Worked on the design and implementation of Cloud services using Nexus 7000,5000, 2000-FEX switches and UCS/VMWARE servers, configured Storage Area network using EMC solution using FCOE, Configuration of ASR 1002,3945,2900,7200 VXR routers, Cisco 6500,3750X/3560G Stack switches, 4000 switches, implemented 10 Gig Man-Century Link circuits.
• Administration of routing Protocols BGP and OSPF interior and policy routing.
• Administration of Cisco Call Manager 7.1, IPCC Express and unified messaging using Exchange 2007 Wireless
• Administration of Wireless Control Server, WLAN Controllers (4400 series), 1240 series Access points

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Network Sr. Advisor

Responsibilities:

• Migration of production data center into Rack Space Cloud services, MPLS WAN, Administration of F5 load balancers, ASA firewall-5540, Cisco Routers-3800, layer 3 Switches-Catalyst 6500 and 4000, Confidential power connect switches, Configured site to site VPN tunnel, Remote access using Cisco SSL VPN, Load balancing of Web applications using F5-LTM, wrote I-Rule for F5 http redirects.

Confidential, Hyde Park, IL

Voice Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Rolled out 10,000 Cisco IP phones across various campuses, administration of Cisco call manager 7/1, Mereon Voice mail servers, Cisco routers 7200, 3900, 6500 layer 3 Switches, MPLS, and SSL VPN, Nexus 5000 switches for the data center.
• Involved in the design and migration of new data center for UOC.
• Implemented QOS across LAN and WAN, migrated the legacy switches into POE capable.

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Cisco Architect

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a network consultant for Cisco, Avaya, ShoreTel, Juniper, PGP, Life Size, wireless and VMWARE.
• Administration and maintenance of Cisco 3800 routers, 6500/3700 switches, IBM/HP blade switches, Cisco wireless routers, ASA SSL VPN, WLAN controllers, HP Pro Curve Switches, F5 LTM/GTM load balancer, TACACS Authentication for Wireless networks and Cisco devices.
• Routers: J320, J350 router, Switches EX4200, EX4500IDP, NSM Juniper Firewall.
• Configure PGP authentication for email servers.
• Network Assessment, PCI compliance auditing, supported high availability for Server farm/Firewall/F5, VMWRAE, spanning tree configuration, WAN protocol like BGP, EIGRP and OSPF and MPLS.

Confidential, Chicago, IL

VOIP Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrated TDM based telephone system into Cisco voice over IP with Unity voice mail.
• Responsible for the administration and support of Cisco Call manager 4.1, Cisco Unity Server 4.0(5) for Voice mail, ShoreTel IP telephony system - call manager 6.x and 7.x and ShoreTel voice mail for regional offices.
• Supporting 1800 IP phones, SIP phones & Conference IP phones.
• Also responsible for the administration and support for Cisco Meeting place server 5.4, E911 Cisco Emergency responder CER 1.2.3, IPCC express for call center, Multicast MOH. Also responsible for Cisco ASA Firewall 5505, Juniper Firewall, VPN, Checkpoint NGX firewall.
• Administration of Cisco 3845 voice gateways, 7200,7600 routers, 6509 layer 3 switches, Juniper MX router, switches and routing protocols like BGP and EIGRP and OSPF.

Confidential, Arlington Heights, IL

Telephony Engineer/ Level 3 Support

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Level 3 support Engineer for Cisco call manager 4.x/5.x, H.323/MGCP gateway, MPLS, Unity 4.x, CME/CUE, Meeting place server, IPCC express server, IPCC Enterprise servers and Avaya IP office 400 series and HP Open view.