PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• CCNP certified - 5 years of professional experience in Network Designing, Deployment, Configuring, Troubleshooting and Testing of networking system
• Experience in Internetworking with devices such as routers, firewalls and switches
• Skilled & technically proficient with multiple firewall solutions,networksecurity, and information securitypractice
• Expertise in Routing- Layer 3, Switching - Layer 2 and dealing withSip,VoIP
• Working with Cisco for opening TAC Case and resolving issues to meet project deadlines.
• Experience with designing, deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel, IP Routing Protocols - (RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP), ACL's, NAT, VLAN, STP, VTP, HSRP & GLBP
• Trained on Oracle FusionMDM, Tibco CIM (MDM)Extensive experience in Implementing and administering Cisco and HP Technologies
• Configuring the setup withF5virtualload balancerfor customer application.
• Experience in Cisco ISE’s, SNMP tools (HP - Intelligent management center, Solar winds, Wireshark)
• Configured and maintained a variety of hardware from multiple vendors including
• Brocade ICX series switches,MLXseries Routers, as well as IBM G series switches
• Excellent working knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite and OSI layers
• Good knowledge and experience in Installation, Configuration and Administration of Windows Servers 2000/2003, Active Directory, FTP, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, Linux OS under various LAN and WAN environments
• Worked on Load Balancer F5LTM,GTMseries like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability
• Experienced in DELL, HP servers hardware,EMCSAN, NAS, software, UPS and backup
• Design and Install UCP Select for VMWare withCiscoUCSandCiscoUnified Fabric Switching.
• Experience in layer 2 securities which was implemented using a dedicated VLAN ID for all trunk ports, setting the user ports to non-trucking, deployed port security when possible for user ports
• Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall,IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Alternate lab configurations include: multi-area OSPF, RIPv2, PPP and HDLC WAN configurations, and various ACL configurations all using bothIPv4andIPv6address schemes.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco & other vendor equipment’s: Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K, Cisco routers (7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (6500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 4500, 2900 series). PIX Firewall (506/515/525/535), ASA Firewall (5505/5510), Cisco ACE Load Balancers

Routing Protocols: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, HSRP, VRRP & GLBP

Infrastructure services: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, FTP, TFTP

LAN technologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Port- channel, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1Q

WAN technologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & exposure to PPPDS1, DS3, OC3, T1 /T3 & SONET

Network Security: NAT/PAT, Ingress & Egress Firewall Design, VPN ConfigurationDynamic, Reflexive ACL, and authentication AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)

Network Management: SNMP, Cisco Works, Wire shark

Platform: Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco Cat OS, Cisco IOS (11.x, 12.x), PIX IOS (6.x, 7.x), CAT-OS UNIX, LINUX

Windows: XP, NT, 2000, 2003

Programming: C, C++, HTML

Documentation: MS Office, MS Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Naperville, IL

Network Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Experience working with ASR 9000 series switches with IOS-XR
• Experience working with design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN cloud, involving VRF, Route Distinguisher(RD), Route Target(RT), Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) & MP-BGP, SIP
• Experience with design and configure Fiber Channel over Ethernet(FCoE) on Cisco Nexus 5548 devices and Bluecoat Proxy.
• Experience working with migration from 6500 series devices to 4500 Series switches in Campus deployments at Core, Distribution and Access Layers.
• Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN (Checkpoint R75.30 to Gaia R77.30 GA version
• Managed and updated Databases and configured according databases.
• Monitored the network usingSolarWindssoftware
• Installation and troubleshooting of company's WIFI network with added security and Cisco VOIP
• Upgrade of Checkpoint firewalls and management servers from Splat R75.30 to Gaia R77.20
• Configuration and Maintenance of Check Point R65, R75.40 Gaia Firewalls.
• Worked with Remote Assistance through Windows Remote desktop and NetMeeting Remote Assistance using Wi-Fi Security, Windows XP, MS Office 2007, Windows 2003 Active Directory, WindowsSharePointServices, Exchange 2003, Congo's BI-8 and LAN/WAN
• Support regulatory matters forMSSand meet with regulators when needed
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500 with ACL, NAT, Object Groups, Failover, Multi-Contexts
• Experience with migrating from Cisco ASA 8.2 version to Cisco ASA 8.4 Version
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our global networks
• Migration of existing IPSEC VPN tunnels from one Data Center to another Data Center, due to decom of existing Data Center, which involved working with Partner Companies.
• Experience with converting WAN routing from EIGRP/OSPF to BGP (OSPF is used for local routing only) which also involved converting from Point to point circuits to MPLS circuits.
• Enabled STP attack mitigation (BPDU Guard, Root Guard), using MD5 authentication for VTP, disabling all unused ports and putting them in unused VLAN
• Configured Nexus 7010 including NX-OS virtual port channels, Nexus port profile, Nexus Version 4.2 and 5.0
• Managed upgrade of severalEMCClarion CX-380 and NetApp FAS3020 SAN's toEMCVNX 5700 and VNX 5500. Implemented tiered storage model using SATA, Fiber and Solid State drives on newEMC5700 SAN's
• Communicate with Screening Control Center regarding staffing levels and staff movements, in addition to reportablecheckpointincidents to the TSACC
• Provide front end on-call network support 24x7x365 for all network infrastructures in the co-operation

Environment: Checkpoint R75.30, Cisco ASA 5505, Cisco routers, Cisco ASA 8.2, MS Word, Excel, My SQL.

Confidential, Minnetonka, MN

Network Engineer/Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks
• Experience converting Cat OS to Cisco IOS on the Cisco 6500 switches
• Designed MPLS VPN and QoS for the architecture using Cisco multi-layer switches.
• Cisco IOS experience on 3600/7200 class hardware in complex WAN environment and experiencen Cisco OS and IOS on CAT6500 in a complex data center environment.
• Configuring IP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP in routers.
• Experience in deploying EIGRP/BGP redistribution and the changing the metrics for the primaryand backup Paths for the packet prioritization and EIGRP tuning.
• Experience in migration of Frame-relay based branches to MPLS based technology using multi-layer stackable switch like 6500 series and 2800 series router.
• Configured OSPF over frame relay networks for NBMA and point to multipoint strategies.
• Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Pathr First (OSPF).
• OPNETApp Response expert Riverbed Steelhead Spirent IP Traffic Generators IXIA IP Traffic
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS, VTP, STP and configuring on Fast Ethernet
• Monitored all Cisco equipment’s using Cisco Works
• Installed and configured the Cisco routers 2800 in two different customer locations. It includes coordinating with Verizon and AT&T in order to bring the serial interface up for T3 link. Also, configuration includes frame relay, BGP and VPN tunnel on GRE
• VLAN Configurations, troubleshooting and Firewall ACLs and Object-Groups configuration
• Configured IPsec site-to-site VPN connection between Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator and Cisco 3800

Environment: Cisco 6500 switches, Routing Protocols, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Cisco routers, MS Word, Excel, My SQL.

Confidential, Wilmington, DE

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Managing IBM Network in US and Canada, and also providing Network Support.
• Handling the Incident/Change management related issues and work towards a resolution.
• Responsible for providing real time network resolution to the customers in case of critical network failure.
• Responsible for implementation of network analysis and monitoring tools.
• Involved in attending severity one calls for critical network issues.
• Implemented CiscoUCSwhich includes Lync server and rack server management
• Involved in Monitoring, managing & troubleshooting the IBM Network devices.
• Involved in Maintaining Entire IBM US/Canada network.
• Responsible for Coordinating with WAN team.
• Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows to authenticate users that connects to a VPN 3000 Concentrator.
• Scripting experience with Pearl.
• Configuring, Installing and troubleshooting on Check Point Devices.
• Good knowledge on Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention System.
• Knowledge on multiplex techniques such as DWDM.
• Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.
• Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.
• Implemented Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) by tuning parameters like preemption.
• Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server 2008-client environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.

Environment: Juniper Netscreen firewalls, ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, VPN 3000 Concentrator

Confidential

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall and configured remote access IPSEC VPN on Cisco ASA 5500 series
• Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems
• Implementation of name resolution using WINS & DNS in TCP/IP environment
• Used various scanning and sniffing tools like Wire-shark
• Configured network access servers and routers for AAA Security (RADIUS/ TACACS+)
• Other responsibilities included documentation and change control
• Worked on Cisco routers 7200, 3800, 2800 and Cisco switches 4900, 2900
• Key contributions include troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include
• Configured Firewall logging, DMZs & related security policies & monitoring
• Creating Private VLANs & preventing VLAN hopping attacks & mitigating spoofing with snooping & IP source guard

Environment: Cisco routers and Switches, Cisco ASA 8.2, MS Word, Excel, My SQL.