SUMMARY

• An accomplished Information Technology leader who leverages strong interpersonal skills, flexibility and teamwork to achieve business objectives. Recognized for achievements in the following areas:
• Master of Eng. (Internetworking), Double CCIE - (R&S, DC), Juniper and Microsoft certified
• Over 13 years of industry experience with strong Network Designing, Documentation, Implementation and Troubleshooting background.
• Extensive experience in Routing & Switching, IP routing, MPLS and Data Center technologies
• Diverse Experience in large Service Provider, Enterprise Networks and Data Center.
• Worked with pre-sale and post-sale teams and provided guidance to customers
• Demonstrated engineering / technical expertise for Network Management and resolving complex technical problems for different mission-critical Internetworking services.
• Motivated to continuously upgrade technical skills and keep learning the latest technologies.
• Strong customer service, excellent team building and organizational skills.
• Extremely dependable in completing projects, meeting deadlines and maintaining standards.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to effectively work with immediate team and with departments in or outside of the enterprise, as well work independently as required
• Demonstrated self-starter and innovator
• Good analytical problem solving approach and communication skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Data Center: VPC, VPC+, Enhanced VPC, FEX, Fabric Path, DCI and OTV

UCS: Fabric Interconnect 6248,UCSM 2.2,UCS B-Series, Service profiles, LAN connectivity, SAN connectivity

Storage: MDS, FC, FCOE

Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, ISIS, MPLS, EIGRP, RIP,IGRP

LAN Protocols: Fast Ethernet/Gigabit Ethernet, VLANs, STP, VTP, Bridging & Switching

WAN Protocols: Frame Relay, ISDN, PPP, ATM

TCP/IP Suite: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, SNMP,TELNET, TFTP,UDP,ICMP,FTP

Cisco Routers: ASR9K,ASR1K, CRS1, ISR4000,1800.2600,3600,3800 and 7200

Cisco Switches: Nexus 9k/7K/5K/3k/2K,6500,4500,3500 and Juniper M10i & EX3200

Operating Systems: Vista/XP/2K/Win7/8, Cisco IOS, NX-OS, IOS-XR, Linux and JUNOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Network Consulting Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Intrinsically involved with the Cisco Network Architecture & design engineering team to ensure seamless designing / implementation of complex network solution.
• Provided consulting services for new networking projects, which included designing, Hardware & Software recommendation, testing and implementation
• Planed and documented the migration activities and communicate with change management and server to ensure minimum impact on production services during migration
• Prepared HLD, LLD & MOP for deployment / migration for multiple Data Center projects.
• Test and validate new software and hardware including Nexus for Data Center prior to moving into production
• Provided assistance to sale teams during planning, design and implementation of new data center projects /solutions.
• Provided on-site and remote technical assistance to other resources and to the customer’s engineers.
• Developed plans to improve data center and existing network architecture in a more scalable, reliable and efficient way
• Supported the operations team for the escalations in implementation tasks
• Provided pro-active and reactive support to customers for multiple platforms
• Providing network optimization services to multiple customers to improve their network‘s performance, best utilization and scalability.
• Designed, configured, tested and implemented the Quality of Service (QoS) from end-to-end on multiple sites.
• Used to create, deliver & discuss BP, PSIRT, SIAR, EOL and syslog reports with customers to implement Cisco recommendations in their network for stability.

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and provisioned ATM / Frame Relay / Transport circuits and IP network/ MPLS VPN using RIP2, EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS and BGP according to customer requirements.
• Provisioned, tested latest NGN services on Fiber, Frame Relay, ADSL, ATM and SONET transport links to ensure voice, video and data meets quality standards.
• Consistently followed the design procedure, provisioning and test acceptance guidelines to achieve 100% provisioning/installation accuracy for IP/ MPLS services.
• Provided consulting services for new networking projects, which included equipment selection, testing, installation, implementation and network management within budget
• Implemented L2VPN, L3VPN and Internet services on Cisco, Alcatel & Juniper platforms
• Provisioned services utilizing SMA, LYNX, BRIX, Spectrum, Nethealth and Netcracker.
• Facilitated communications with third party Telco / vendors as well as working with customers and other departments in Confidential to make networks more reliable and stable.
• Provided 2nd/3rd level support to IP network (LAN/ WAN), MPLS and other Cisco and Juniper issues including critical outage / to provide 99.999% up time of network.
• Worked with VoIP team during planning, designing and configuration for different voice projects.
• Assisted with maintaining network Data Center and LAN / WAN infrastructure and systems for small, regional, and large office and call center environments

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for design, installation, configuration, optimization and troubleshooting of different series routers, switches and other equipment in WAN / LAN/MAN environment.
• Provided 2nd/3rd LAN/WAN level support to more than 3000 nodes of multiple platforms including data center.
• Attended weekly meetings and interacted regularly with management, customers and incumbents to constantly improve Network Engineering services.
• Designed, installed, maintained, administered and supported network infrastructure accordingly.
• Analyzed technical reports to resolve complex issues and provided recommendation
• Incident management including identifying issues and managing the process updates accordingly.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, Installed, configured, optimized and maintained different network LAN and WAN devices.
• Developed, presented new project plans to customers with technical recommendations.
• Constantly monitored the performance of the network environments including bandwidth, throughput, component utilization and error rates by using Cisco Works.
• Managed Frame Relay, T3/T1 and supported ISDN as backup to provide network redundancy and disaster recovery

Confidential

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implemented enterprise WAN/LAN solutions to clients core with varying sizes of networks
• Responsible for backup, disaster recovery and Hardware /software upgrades
• Read blueprints, completed and maintained test and service reports.
• Recommend the reliable / cost effective changes to complex network-wide features, which significantly improved network efficiency /reliability.
• Installed, Software upgraded, configured and managed multiple routers, switches and Cisco Firewalls.