OBJECTIVE:

To enhance my career in Networking & Security and to become a consultant in this field

SUMMARY:

• Has 13 Years of experience in Networking/Security.
• Has expertise to work in Cisco/Checkpoint/Juniper/F5/Riverbed Products.
• Has experience in maintaining huge datacenters with Heterogeneous environment.
• Implemented multiple Cisco Nexus based Data - Center environments, as well as 6500/4500/3750 series switches, 7200/3900/2900/1900 series router
• Implement/Maintain a Juniper Environment of 600 data collection units across USA.
• Has worked in multiple data center migrations and transformation projects.
• Has extensive experience in dealing with Vendors for MPLS/DSL installations.
• Has the experience to troubleshoot complex datacenter environment, resolved many critical Severity 1 incidents.
• Designed & Implemented DMZ solutions for data center environment, build checkpoint firewall policies for the same.

• Cisco Router 1700, 1900, 2500, 2600, 3600, 7200, HP Procurve switches, ASR series routers.
• Lot of hands-on experience in Cisco 6500 Series Switches (both 6513, 6509), Cisco 4500 Series, Cisco 4006, Cisco 3750 and Cisco 3550.
• Successfully migrated a cisco 6500 environment to Cisco Nexus environment with 7k/5k and 2ks.
• Abundant experience in handling a Datacenter environment built out of Cisco 7K/5K/2K.
• Maintained the client environment which had Juniper SSG5/SSG20/ISG1000 and SA6500.
• Installed and maintained Riverbed 2050, 5050 and 7050.
• Maintained Checkpoint NG AI, SPLAT - NGX - Rx, R65, R70 and R75
• Cisco ASA 5505, Pix and ASA 5510.
• Wireless Technology - Has maintained the Wi-Fi networks for corporate, small and home offices. Worked in almost all the models of SOHO Wireless Routers and extensive exp in deploying Cisco Aironet 1100 and Light weight 1000 series access point. Aruba Wireless AP and Controllers and Cisco Wireless LAN controller.
• Good understanding about how Service Provider network works, WAN Technologies in ISP, MPLS etc...
• Maintained F5 load balancer and Cisco ACE.
• Implemented OSPF and BGP for multiple networks.
• Maintained Radware LinkProof Internet link load balancer.
• Extensive knowledge in implementing Frame-relay, Point to Point, MPLS and Confidential tunnels.
• Supported a Cisco 5500 Wireless controller and cisco 3502 WAP environment.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating System: Cisco Cat-OS, IOS, Juniper Netscreen, Checkpoint SPLAT, Checkpoint Gaia, HP Procurve switching, Windows flavors.

Network Tools: Solar winds, HP NNMi 8xi (Network Node Manager), Netflow, MRTG and PRTG. Ethereal / Wireshark, TCPDump.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Florida

Network Data Center Admin

Responsibilities:

• Successfully migrated the cisco legacy environment which consist of 6500, 4500 to Cisco Nexus 7k/5k/2k.
• Migrated old Confidential firewalls to standard HP hardware’s.
• Have implemented Cisco ACE load balancers across the DC for various projects.
• Have completed two Business integrations with a very strict time line and gained some very good knowledge in understanding the road blocks in Network integration and feasible methods to fix it.
• Have maintained Riverbed for the North American offices.
• I maintain a data collection environment build of ISG1000 Clustered environment at the central site and SSG5/SSG20 at the remote site.
• This is an Confidential tunnel environment of 600 sites and my primary responsibility is to maintain, install, troubleshoot.
• I configure and ship out Juniper SSG5/SSG20 for remote sites.
• This environment has a primary Frame-relay link backed up by the Confidential tunnel built over 5510 and 5505 for remote sites. I configure and ship out devices for any new installation, moves and troubleshoot any day to day issues. I also maintain a F5, Linkproof and Checkpoint firewall in addition to 3500 switches and core 6513 switch for the switching environment.

Confidential, Massachusetts

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Part of Network security team who will be responsible for Installing/Maintaining the Firewalls.
• Day to day activities includes addressing new installations/troubleshooting existing issue across Checkpoint FW (splat/Nokia), Juniper ISG1000 etc.
• Will be responsible for assessing the vulnerability of port openings requested by business across the Globe.
• Have created lot of site to site Confidential VPN tunnel with Checkpoint, Juniper Netscreen firewalls and Cisco PIX/ASA firewalls. Completed a project to update the patch HFA50 across all the firewall to overcome the bugs in the existing version of R65.
• Migrated the user access switch environment which is of HP 5406 to Cisco 3750X, 3750G and 3750V2 environment to get gigabit speed.
• Maintained a backup environment build out of HP8212ZL and HP5406ZL with 10G uplinks to the core.
• Troubleshooting complex issues with wireshark at source and destination which can’t be resolved by the basic troubleshooting like ARP, firewall logs, switch logs and tcpdump.
• Responsible for logging/Resolving the severity calls logged in by Incident management

Confidential, PROVIDENCE RI

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a Network administrator.
• My deliverables installing and Managing Network devices in the Datacenter and a LAN network which consists of more than 1000 users.
• Involved in maintaining the network gears for this DC which includes Cisco 7206 VXR Routers, Cisco 6500, 4500 Series switch, Checkpoint P1, Juniper SSG20/SSG5/ISG1000/SA6000/SA6500, NGX-R65, Cisco CSS Load Balancer, Cisco ACE Load Balancers, Riverbed WAN Accelerators and Visual probes.
• I was the SPOC for the complete Datacenter with respect to Network activities.
• This office also hosts the 2nd big data center of our client and my responsibilities in this location are as follows:
• I was handling all the day-to-day operations along with the existing team that would include the following support.
• Single point of contact for Client networks. I will be the SPOC for maintaining their uptime from addressing new client installations/Client location moves/day to day issues etc.
• Maintained a 3 layer Cisco architecture network with HP Procurve switches in the access layer and 6500 series as core and distribution layers.
• Responsible for maintaining a client environment which is built out of Verizon MPLS with Juniper Cisco 2600/Juniper SSG5 devices.

Confidential

Team Member

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for addressing tickets raised by Internal and external clients of Confidential .
• Troubleshooting and Isolating Network and network related issues.
• Prompt replying for queries raised by Internal/External clients through email and voice
• Analyzing the utilization of Bandwidth per user and suggesting the new clients for the exact required capacity of the IPLC/NPLC links for smooth running of the projects.
• Providing on demand QoS for Video conferences between various Confidential offices and ensuring Jitter less video and clear audio.
• Proactive monitoring of IPLC/NPLC links, analyzing the link utilization and advising the respective clients for Bandwidth Up gradation/Degradation.
• Syslog analysis for proactive arresting of network threats.
• Hardening of all network devices to meet the best security standards in place.
• LAN/WAN IP allocation to client and Confidential Infrastructure.
• Working as a team to deliver Customer delight evertytime on time.

Confidential

Senior Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Leader of the team who will be the second level Escalation support for Customer issues.
• And guiding the junior engineers for timely closure of down calls.
• Manage and Troubleshoot mission-critical Wide area networks Using VSAT links, Radio links, and Cisco Routers & Switch Issues.
• Tested, installed & commissioned CISCO products like Routers, Switches before and after sending it to customer premises.
• Attended L2 level calls in system Integration for customer issues.
• Maintained Confidential ’s Local Area Network and helped the internal customers to solve their network issues.
• Observe application traffic pattern and suggest changes to fine-tune the application for WAN implementation.
• Maintained the database of customer’s details, and also committing 99% of uptime for the customer’s network
• Maintenance of Cisco and VSAT network at central site and 15 remote locations.
• Taken care of One core 4507r L3 switch, 5 distribution layer switches (3550) and 32 access layer switches (2950)
• Maintenance of VLAN and VOIP.
• Migration of Nortel LAN network to Cisco layered switching network.
• Migrated the Nortel switches to Cisco. At access and distribution layers Cisco 2950 is installed which comprises around 18 VLANS.
• With proper planning and backup plans, Around 27 access layer switches migrated with minimum downtime.
• Up gradation of Distribution Layer switches.
• As per Cisco standards, all the 2950 switches at distribution layer has been migrated to 3550 with Gbic ports, which gives fiber connectivity of 1000Mbps for trunk connectivity.
• Cisco RAS Connectivity:
• Installed the Cisco 3745 router for the E1 PRI link through which the remote users will login via ISDN lines and Analog dialups.
• Call establishment is from remote site to the central site.
• The users will get authenticated via the RADIUS servers. The PRI line at the central site is a Toll free number so that the call charges will be billed at central site.

Confidential

Trainee Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Trained on Computer hardware, Printers etc.
• Took care of the Network in Confidential ATM and branches, which comprises of 18 remote site routers and 2 Central site routers with leased line connectivity.