SUMMARY

• Around 8 years of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining enterprise level data networks as a Network Engineer. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures.
• Experience with working on different networking vendors such as CISCO, NORTEL, JUNIPER and F5.
• Experience of networking devices such as Routers, Switches, Firewalls, ACS, Load Balancers, Wireless Devices and Monitoring Tools.
• Extensive knowledge of Security appliances from different vendors.
• Excellent Team Co - ordination skills and very good team player & excellent communicative, interpersonal skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Cisco 17XX, 18XX, 26XX, 28XX, 36XX, 37XX, 38XX, 39XX, 72XX, 76XX, & ASR 1K

Switches: Cisco 1900, 2950, 3550, 3750(E & X), 45XX, 4900M, 65XX series, NEXUS 7k, 5k, 4k, 2k

Routing: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, RIP-2 & MPLS, Policy Based Routing PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static Routing

Switching: VLAN, VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing &Multi Layer Switching, Layer 3 Switches, Logical Ether channels, Transparent Bridging

QoS: Traffic Classification, Marking, Shaping, Policing and Queuing, MQC, WRED, L2 QoS, LFI, Cisco AutoQoS

WLAN: Cisco WLC 4400, WiSM Module in 6509, Cisco 1131AG APs

Various Features & Services: IOS Upgrades, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, WCCP, IP SLA, Net-flow, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, HTTP, TFTP and FTP Management.

Security / Firewalls: Cisco PIX & ASA Firewalls, FWSM, Juniper SRX, SSG-5, ISG-1000, Checkpoint R-75, Palo Alto-5020

AAA Architecture: TACACS+, RADIUS, Cisco ACS.

Network Monitoring Systems: HP-Open view, BMC Remedy, Cisco SDM & ASDM, Solar Winds Orion, Wireshark, Opnet, and Net QoS

Desktop flavors: Windows 2000/XP/2003/VISTA/7, MAC, Ubuntu.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Network Engineer

Confidential, NJ

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implemented OSPF and BGP on various sites for routing enhancement, high availability, and reducing administrative overhead
• Co-ordinate with ISP on each step of designing BGP to understand their restrictions and our needs
• Redesigned IP scheme to improve existing summary routes, CPU process, memory utilization and convergence time
• Played a major role in designing, co-ordination and support while migrating from Verizon to Sing Tel on 20 different sites
• Designed templates for offshore team for Cutover; guided and distributed responsibilities for the same
• Refreshed (Design and Implement) End of Life 7200 series routers in all 20 sites with ASR 1000
• Designed the full network infrastructure for 4 new sites including DR with successful implementation
• Designed and Implemented QoS for the new and increased Bandwidth Sing Tel Circuits; which includes Voice, Video and other network applications
• Played a role in designing the QoS for company’s new IBM Same Time for any to any communication
• Implemented QoS for testing replication traffic to provide base for future Global Load Balancing design
• Performed migration from PIX and Nortel Firewalls to Cisco ASA 55xx - X, which includes implementation of VPN and High Availability on certain sites
• Refreshed old 3750 series switch stacks with new 3750-X switch stacks
• Configured VPN for new partners on Nortel 1700 series routers
• Troubleshooting and providing support for users and networking issues on Palo alto, Checkpoint, ASA firewalls
• Migrated core switches from Cisco 6500 to Nexus 7010 and troubleshoot various network issues that came along with the team
• Suggested best practices and Cisco’s recommendation when needed such as; to improvise design and security or for better optimization
• Created all the necessary documents, templates and Visio diagrams based on the new designs and network changes

Firewall Admin

Confidential, VA

Responsibilities:

• Create security policy according to user’s requirement in cisco ASA-5580, Juniper-SRX-5800 & ISG-1000 fire-wall using CLI & GUI
• Create end-to-end VLAN, allow them in port-channel and provide connectivity between out-side user and servers.
• Troubleshoot IP Sec VPN in SSG-5 fire-wall.
• Provide support in day-to-day troubleshooting call with server team, vmware team, F-5 team, Forensic team, IBM team, Intel team, SAN team etc. using TCP-DUMPS.
• Participate in design of new zone, configured OSPF for the same zone and added routes in BGP from OSPF.
• Create and submit cable request, power supply request, shipping labels request to terremark(Co-Lo) team.
• Created TACACS+ access and AAA in all Cisco &Juniper devices.
• Created Cisco Call-Home in all cisco nexus 7k, 5k, 4k switches.
• Created fex between Nexus 5k & 2k(2232 & 2248)
• Created FCoE between Nexus 5k & 4k switches.
• Configure Nexus 4k datacenter switches for P-770, P-740, & IBM Bladecenter H.
• Create and troubleshoot HSRP and VRRP in Cisco & Juniper devices.
• Configure new switches and other devices for basic access according to requirement.
• Upgrade IOS in cisco devices according to company policy & keep updating excel-sheet with current in-use IOS and current available IOS.
• Create nodes, pool, virtual server, SNAT, I-Rules in BIG-IP-F5 LTM according to client requirement.
• Create interface, VLAN tagging, routing in F5-LTM.
• Provide IP addresses to different users according to different zone and keep track on used and unused IP range to avoid over-lapping.
• Participate in weekly-update calls and provide required information.
• Created VISIO diagram of different zones and modify them according to changes.
• Provide telephonic and weekend support as per requirement.

Network Engineer

Confidential, PA

Responsibilities:

• Network Operations and support by providing Tier-2 support to WAN and LAN related issues.
• Ensurenetwork, system and data availability and integrity through preventativemaintenance and upgrade
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches, fixes, and all around technical support.
• Provided Layer-3 support by troubleshooting routing issues with protocols OSPF and BGP.
• Provided firewall policy configuration and services with Juniper SRX 240 & 650 series.
• Provided Layer-2 support by troubleshooting issues related to HSRP, VLANs, VTP, STP, RSTP, TRUNKING, SPAN and RSPAN.
• Performed Router and Switches hardware & IOS upgrade/refresh including Supervisor Module replacement in 6500s and 4500s.
• Configured and policy based routing for special traffic, route filtering with route maps & route redistribution.
• ConfigureVLANTrunking802.1Q, STP, and Port Security on Catalyst 6500 & 4500 switches.
• DC Installation of routers and switches including racking and stacking.
• Worked on Cisco 7600, 7200 & 3800 series routers for WAN Connectivity.
• Provided Network documentation included VISIO diagrams, Solution Documents, HLDs and LLDs.
• Performed Structured Cabling, Dressing and Labeling.

Network Engineer

Confidential, Ann Arbor MI

Responsibilities:

• Part of team that designs and implements LANs using SWITCHING technologies like VLANs, DOT1Q, VTP, STP, HSRP & SPANNING. The implementation was done using Cisco 3750 series Switches used in access layer, 4500 series switches as Access and/or distribution layer switches and 6500 series Switches forming the core layer.
• Part of team that manages the WAN infrastructure with Routing Protocols OSPF and EIGRP. 3800 series were used in branch office whereas 7600 series routers were used as CORE backbone.
• Be part of daily Network Operations and provide Tier-1 & 2 level support to network issues, that includes troubleshooting existing network issues and perform Root Cause Analysis. My job responsibility also included commissioning new remote sites using Cisco 3845 routers and T1 links.
• IOS upgrade in different Cisco devices.

Network Administrator

Confidential, Dearborn, MI

Responsibilities:

• Providing day-to-day Network support to the group of more than 1000 users.
• Implemented and troubleshot enterprise networking hardware including Cisco 2600 and 2800 series routers.
• Daily operations and administration of WAN consisting Ethernet Handoffs, T1, DS3, Optic Fiber handoffs.
• LAN cabling using CAT5, CAT6 and Optic Fiber cabling using Single Mode and Multimode cables.
• Performed Structured Cabling, and Labeling.
• LAN/WAN routing and Layer 2 & 3 switching using static routes.
• Remote access deployment and management using IPSEC.

Junior Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Configured switches for access & trunk port, STP, VLAN, VTP, ACl, etc.
• Responsible for configuration backup and IOS upgrade.
• Perform the tasks of troubleshooting basic Ethernet 100 Base-T.
• Knowledge of fault analysis, performance tuning, and troubleshooting
• Interface with customers, vendors, and internal staff
• End-to-end trouble ticket handling, troubleshooting, and resolution on escalated issues.
• Analyze Problems & escalate to appropriate Levels.