SUMMARY

• 8+ years’ experience in delivering optimal results and business value in high - growth environments. An in-depth knowledge of the latest trends and techniques of the field coupled with a wide range of skill sets as well as strengths in technology, critical thinking, troubleshooting, project management, problem analysis and training & development.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Protocols: Frame Relay, TDM, BGP, OSPF, IGRP, MPLS,VPLS,OTV,RIP, PPP, HDLC, ISDN BRI, ISDN PRI, TCP/IP, SPX/IPX, FTP, TFTP, TELNET, SNMP SSH, IPSEC, SIP and H.323

Interfaces: E1/T1, T3, V.35, X.21, V.24 (RS-232), RS449, RS-442, LGE/LGS, E&M, FXO/FXS, Fiber SR/LR ( LC /SC), Fast Ethernet and Token Ring.

Firewall/VPN: Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Cisco Pix 515 /520/525/555 x/ 5540/5520/5510/ VPN 3000/VPN3002, Sonic Firewall Pro 2040 /3060/4060/ NSA 3600/4200/6500 and Fortinet 50C,60D,100D.

Wireless: Cisco 2504,5508,5520 Controller, AP 3500, 3600, 3700, Aeronet AP1042N, Fortinet WAP 220B.

Multiplexers: Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting and Alacatel/Newbridge 3606, 3612, 3608, 3609, 3630, 3600, 2902 and Alcatel CSU/DSU-DTU 1600, 2700 and 2600.

XDSLS: Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Schmid Telecom, Arescom, Siemens, Martis, Cisco ADSL, Efficient SDSL and Linksys DSL/Cable Modem

Voice over IP: DSG Technologies IP1200/2000, IPstar, Inter-phone, Cisco call manger/ IP Phone, Grand stream HT-386/HT-496, Linksys PAP2, Packet-shaper switch, VoIP switch, Sysmaster and Asterisk PBX/ Trixbox/ Elastix pbx.

Server: Installation and Configuration Dell Power Edge 4400/1850/2950/ T710, HP DL360, DL380and Compaq Proliant ML370/ DL380 and HP DL360, DL380 Gen 8/9.

OS: Complete Installation and Configuration of Windows 7.0/ Windows 2008 /2003 /Windows XP /Windows 2000 / NT 4.0 (PDC/BDC Servers/Workstations) / Windows XP /2000, Linux Red hat 9.0 / Centos 5.0 / Macintosh Mac OS X.

Visualization: Vmware ESX 4.0/5.0, Vcenter server, Vshpere client, ThinApp, Microsoft Hyper-V, App-V, VMWARE Workstation,Virtual PC and Virtual Box.

Videoconferencing: Installation, Configuration and Troubleshooting of Picture Tel Venue2000, Concorde 4500 and Live LAN

Monitoring / Troubleshooting Tools: Cisco Works, Wire shark, Zenoss,Trip wire, PRTG,Solar Wind,Spice work, Sunrise BERT (Bit Error Rate Tester), Digital Multi Meter, Tone Tester, Tone Generator, Tone Amplifier, Cable Tester and Nagios,Solar Wind.

Software: MS Office 2010; MS project; Network Management Software/Network Monitoring; 4601A Advance Network Management; 46020 Network Management systems by ALCATEL Craft interface; Hyper Terminal, Putty, MS Exchange; Pc anywhere; Radmin; Norton Antivirus,Mcafee EPO,Foot Print BMC,Websense.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Secaucus, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Migrate, design and implement 1000+ Stores DMVPN tunnels over new Internet Service provider.
• Design Configure, manage and troubleshoot Cisco ASA 55xx series, Wireless Controller 5520/ 5508/44 xx/2504,Cisco Switches 6509/4500/37 xx, Nexus 9k/7k/5k/2k, F5 Load Balancer, Two factor Authentication,PKI Certificates, Cisco ACS Server, NAC ISE 2.0,Call manager express, Call manager, Voice gateway H.323 and MGCP Network of Corporate and Branch offices on the Domestic and International locations.
• Migrated End-of-life 6509-VSS, 4500 Core switches to Nexus 9504, 9508 and 4500-X-VSS switches, which includes routing and switching configuration for all devices.
• Setup, troubleshoot and Manage F5 LTM nodes, pools, virtual server, profiles, upgrade, and rules for several applications like HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP,DNS etc.
• Install, Design and Visio diagram of Palo alto (IPS) PA500/ PA-5050/ PAN-M-100(In-Line monitoring mode, Vwire, Active/Active and Active/Passive)for the corporate office and branch location with collaboration Internal Security team and Palo alto partner.
• Multisite distributed ISE 2.0 (10 VM nodes) Design, Implement, Configure, Planned and migrated ACS existing configured devices like WLC,Radius,Tacacs+,802.1x,Guest portal, posture policies and VPN authentication.
• Build and configure Firewall policies for PCI Network to secure credit card authorization on AJB platform for Retail and Ecommerce Site.
• Design and implement IPSLA based routing for banking network to provide high availability to avoid downtime.
• Manage network specifications by conferring with users; analyzing workflow, access, information, and security requirements; designing router administration, including interface configuration and routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
• Evaluate network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency; planning and executing the selection, installation, configuration, and testing of equipment; defining network policies and procedures; establishing connections and firewalls.
• Maintain network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor.

Confidential

System / Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage the Corporate LAN / WAN environment which consist of Cisco Router, Switches, Wireless controller and Cisco VOIP Infrastructure, Dell SonicWALL Firewalls, and SSL/VPNs.
• Infrastructure designs, installs and testing of network topologies to support internet and other data transport channels across LAN / WAN environment.
• Various network projects including but not limited to security, performance and capacity planning.
• Design, install and implement Cisco Core 4510, Cisco switch 3750, 3850 stacks and Nexus 5000 for disaster recovery site using VMware Virtualization, Websense, Application server and Cisco Call manager.
• Design, install and implement Cisco Wireless LAN controller 5508 for Distribution center (30 + AP’s).
• Design, install and implement Dell SonicWALL NSA 3600 Application for Corporate and DR site.
• Design, install, manage, troubleshoot and migrate existing Cisco call manager 8.0 to 10.0 for corporate (600+ IP phones).
• Responsible security, layer two and three switching, VLAN, and VPN’s Tunnels and MPLS network.
• Responsible for MPLS, T1 and Metro Ethernet circuits turn up for corporate and remote offices.
• Manage Troubleshot Netbackup 7.x solution day to day incidents and follow-up with internal team and Vendor.
• Manage Troubleshot Websense Content filtering appliance and adjust security policies upgrade firmware.
• Network analysis, network monitoring, testing and capacity planning for the LAN /WAN environment.
• Contributed significantly to maintenance, configuration, documentation (VISIO’s) and Records Management.
• Manage, migrate and build new Windows/ Linux Servers (both Physical and Virtual) using HP DL Series Server, VMware 4.x and 5.x and troubleshoot WAN optimizer (Riverbed) and load balancer (Barracuda).
• Manage HP 3Paar SAN storage Design, and Plan and configure CPG, Host set, Volume set and LUN assignment.

Confidential

Infrastructure Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, documented and implemented customer network and server deployments.
• Designed, implemented and troubleshot EIGRP, OSPF, BGP (Multi home), MPLS, QOS, HSRP, VRRP solutions for Data and Voice Network.
• Designed, Installed and configured Cisco Switches stack and router for example 76xx, 72xx, 3750,2960,18xx, 19xx etc.
• Installed and configured Juniper Switch and Router for example MX5, Srx 240, Srx 220,Ex4550, Ex4200, Ex2200(Virtual Chassis, Cluster mode, Routing Instance and Logical System).
• Supported network connectivity issues and configured Brocade switches and router for example Fast Iron FLS648s, TurboIron 24X, NetIron MLX-4.
• Installed and configured Netgear Switches for example GS728TP, GS748TPS.
• Installed and configured Cisco and Fortinet Firewall/UTM for example 5505, 5510, 50C, 60C, 100D & 310B.
• Troubleshot LAN and WAN configuration between clients and service provider networks.
• Designed and Installed Netgear ReadyNAS devices for small and medium business using ISCSI.
• Created and managed LUNS/Remote Copy/CPG / volume configuration on HP 3PAR 7200 SAN and monitor mirrored LUNs and VMs at DR site.
• Designed, implemented and troubleshot Wireless Controllers from various vendors.
• Designed and implemented various security appliance solutions for small and medium companies to provide content Filter, IPsec Tunnel, SSL VPN, DMVPN, GRE secure Tunnel, application configuration and LDAP Integration.
• Coordinated with clients to perform after hour’s security appliances maintenance and upgrades.
• Administration of RSA Token on Fortinet/EMC appliance and supporting Blackberry, IPhone and Android.
• Troubleshot and resolved technical engineering issues escalated by the Network Operations Center
• Provided escalation point to network operation team to support and troubleshoot day to day VPN IPsec tunnels issues, failover testing and Coordinate with Vendor to resolve RMA related matters.
• Optimization of the performance of server and network equipment, documentation, analysis, testing and modification of computer systems.
• Planned, recommended and coordinated changes to the network and telecommunications architecture, hardware, software.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented and designed network Cisco Routers and switches.
• Implemented, designed and troubleshot routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP and OSPF within the corporate Network or with MPLS provider and Layer 2 protocols RSTP, STP, PVST, RAPID PVST, VLAN, Qos, HSRP, VRRP and GLBP etc.
• Designed, implemented and supported 15 healthcare MPLS sites.
• Designed, implemented and supported over 20 Healthcare Remote VPN sites IPsec Site-to-Site (ASA 5505, 5510, 5540, Firebox, and Cisco RV016).
• Managed trend micro content filter interface on Cisco ASA 5540 and ASA 5510 for the entire Corporation.
• Deployment of Cisco Aeronet AP1042N wireless units across all campuses.
• Installed and troubleshot IP phone issues with Avaya Gateway S8300, S8700, G430, G450 and IP phones 9630G, 9620L and Cisco call managers.
• Designed, configured, visio documented, maintained and monitored a critical secure network environment for data, voice and video communications.
• Managed and monitored Symantec Backup exec 2010 and 2012 for head quarter and remote offices.
• Implemented and designed data centers rack management, cabling management, UPS, server mounting, building HP and DELL servers.
• Managed Active Directory 2003/2008 for 2000+ users, DNS servers, DHCP servers, Terminal Server, File server, Print Server, IP addressing assignment, updating patches and maintenance.
• Managed Microsoft Exchange 2007 server 1500+ users, upgraded service packs, storage management and spam management by using Messagelab interface.
• Installation and troubleshooting of healthcare EMR’s (Nextgen, Smart management, Accumedic, ADL) software related issues and Install configure SQL server 2005/2008 for EMR.
• Managed the server hardware, storage, operating systems and disaster recovery.
• Evaluated and designed Storage Area Network with Disaster recovery solution for 30 + servers using EMC Vnx5300 and Vmware Vshpere 4.
• Migrated several application servers to Vsphere 4 Virtualization Data center and manage via Vcenter

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Drove the efforts to configure & monitor Sonicwall 2040/3060/4060 and Cisco Pix Firewall 501, 506, 515; static NAT, dynamic NAT, inside Global Address Overloading, TCP overload distribution, Overlapping Address Translation.
• Designed and implemented the Cisco Router 26xx, 36xx, 35xx, 72xx and Catalyst Series switches.
• Responsible for implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet channel between switches.
• Contributed significantly in implementation of Cisco gateways and gatekeepers to integrate a VoIP network to PSTN, TDM equipment Cisco Call manager and Asterisk PBX.
• Worked with newly acquired companies to integrate Networks across IPSec VPN for file sharing and piloting of VoIP phones.
• Accountable for configuring, designing and implementing Windows 2008/2003 & Windows 7 / Windows XP.
• Designed and implemented VMware ESX server, VMware virtual center, setting up V-Motion, HA, DRS, and related VMware products.
• Actively involved in installing/configuring and troubleshooting VMware Lab Manager.

Confidential

System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting of the LAN/WAN level 3 support (layer 1, 2, 3 problems).
• Accountable for T1/T3 & WAN troubleshooting.
• CAT5 cable installation for T1 circuits, 200 ft. plus cable runs, line testing and synchronization.
• Installed and configured routers, terminal servers, CSU/DSU’s to support WAN links, Cisco 19xx, 26xx, 36xx Series Access Routers.
• Ran 200+ desktop workstations including Windows XP/2000, Microsoft DHCP and DNS Servers, Microsoft 2000, Window 2003 Servers and Exchange Server.

Confidential

Field Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Software configuration and Hardware Installation of ADSL, SDSL and Router.
• Responsible for Connecting CPE's (XDSL) to Central Office through (DSL, T1) & Maintenance.
• Installed 20+ Nodes nationwide.
• Provided assistance in Voice over ip solution between branches.
• Liable for the Software and Hardware installation of VOIP Gateway and VOIP CPE's.