PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• 8 Plus years of Experience and having multiple Certifications Cisco (CCNA), Microsft (MCP), (MCSA) and Experience wif in designing, architecting, deploying and troubleshooting Network & Security infrastructure on routers, switches (L2/L3) & firewalls of various vendor equipment.
• Extensive work experience wif Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Load Balancers and Firewalls.
• Experience in layer - 3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt wif Cisco router models like 2500, 2900 series and Cisco catalyst 3750, 2900 series switches
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (2500, 2900)
• Design and configuring of OSPF, EIGRP on Cisco Routers (2900)
• Expertise in configuration of routing protocols and deployment of OSPF, EIGRP and policy routing over Cisco routers.
• Working noledge of teh F5 Load balancer.
• Configured Client-to-Site VPN using SSL Client on Cisco ASA 5520, 5510, 5505
• Configured ASA 5520 Firewall to support Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7/XP/Vista.
• Implemented redundancy wif HSRP, VRRP, and GLBP etc.
• Extensive experience using Microsoft suite like Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint
• Excellent technical and project management skills combined wif strong communication skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cisco Platforms: Cisco routers (2900, 2500 series) & Cisco Catalyst switches (3750,2950,2960 series)

Networking Concepts: Routing, Switching, Subnetting, VLAN, VPN, MPLS, VoIP

Network Tools: Solar Winds, SNMP, Cisco Works, Wireshark

WAN technologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & exposure to PPP, T1 /T3

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

Networking Protocols: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP

Operating System: Windows 7/XP, MAC OS X, Windows Server 2008/2003

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Edison, NJ

Network Support III

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementation of company’s network and Security infrastructure.
• Involved in complete LAN, WAN, Extranet redesign (including IP address planning, designing, installation, pre configuration of network equipment, testing, and maintenance) in branch networks
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our branch networks
• Support wif teh configuration and maintenance of ASA firewall systems
• Design and configuring of OSPF, EIGRP on Cisco Routers and ASA Firewalls.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500.
• Other responsibilities included documentation and supporting other teams
• Involved in Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, InterVlan routing and LAN security.
• Use and maintain routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF on teh Routers in teh network & also worked on BGP Route Reflectors, Confederations
• Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve teh uptime of collocation customers, in teh event a core router became unreachable.
• Configured and designed LAN networks wif Access layer switches such as Cisco 2950, 2960, 3750 switches.
• Ability to plan independently and execute producttestingwif quality (White box, Black box testing, Scalability, performance, solution and systemtesting)
• Applies test expertise and experience to craft & execute test plans, conduct negative/exception tests, verification, and performance.
• Implemented HSRP on teh Cisco 3750 Layer 3 switches and EIGRP, OSPF on 2 Cisco 2900 routers.
• Troubleshoot and configure teh Cisco Nexus 5K, 2K and 7K switches for teh stable network performance.
• Setup & configure Exchange mailboxes, migrated Exchange mailbox and Outlook data, backed up data. Also provide teh support for MS Office 2003/2010 application support.
• Performed Windows Active Directory administration and support for end users. Setup new hires for network access and perform teh termination process for former employees.
• Worked wif F5 BIG-IP to load balance teh servers and to manage teh user volume on teh each server and has noledge of Juniper VPN.
• Knowledge of teh SolarWind network monitoring tool to gather teh SNMP data from all teh switches and routers across all teh location.
• Install Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and deploy teh security packages on all teh servers including teh exclusion policy in some of teh critical servers.
• Reporting network operational status by gathering, prioritizing information, managing projects.
• Document all changes, upgrades, maintenance, procedures.

Environment: Cisco ASA 5505/5510/5520, Cisco Routers 2900 series, Cisco Switches 2950/2960/3750 Vlans, DNS, DHCP, MS Exchange 2010, Xenserver 6.0, Xencenter, Hyper - V 2008/2012

Confidential, Harrison, NJ

Network Support

Responsibilities:

• Experience wif Supporting both Network and Security infrastructure in data center environment and company environment, which involved wif devices such as routers, switches, firewalls and wireless access points.
• 3rd level support lead for network security and firewall issues on Cisco ASA devices.
• Strong hands on experience on ASA (5505/5510) Firewalls. Implemented security policies using Firewall.
• Involved in conversion of PIXfirewall to ASA firewall.
• Experience in adding firewall rules, Network address Translation and also in creating multiple security contexts (virtual firewalls).
• Maintenance and trouble-shooting of LAN, WAN, IP Routing, Multilayer Switching.
• Worked on different phases of testing such as Sanity Testing, Functionality Testing, Smoke Testing, System Testing, Installation Testing, Compatibility Testing, Regression Testing, Stress Testing and UAT Testing.
• Writing Test cases & Test scripts for teh application functionality
• Testing routers and modems, troubleshot issues related to broadband technologies for Residential and Business Customers.
• Performing onsite data center support including monitoring electrical power, switch alarms, network alerts and access logs.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing Cisco Routers
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP0
• Dealt wif monitoring tools like (Solar Winds, Cisco Works), network packet capture tools like Wireshark
• Co-ordination wif Hardware vendors, software vendors and service Providers.
• Assisted in backup, restoring and upgrading teh Router and switch IOS.
• Attended Team meetings and provided comments on existing network and teh recommendations to improve teh current network Performance.

Environment: Cisco routers (2900) and Cisco switches (2950/2960), Routing Protocols (EIGRP, OSPF), Switching protocols (VTP, STP, GLBP, HSRP), ASA (5505/5510) firewall