SUMMARY

• Networking environment providing design, implementation, installation and troubleshooting of complex networks forLAN/WAN/MAN communication systems.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting the protocols likeTCP/IP,RoutingProtocols (RIP, IXIA,OSPF,IS - IS,BGP,IGRP, EIGRP), PPP, PPTP, L2TP, NAT, IPSec.
• Expert level knowledge ofroutingprotocols such as RIP, EIGRP,OSPF
• Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such asVLANTrunks, VTPEtherchannel, STP, RSTP and MST
• Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such asVLANTrunks, VTPEtherchannel, STP, RSTP and MST.
• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3060, PA-5060, PA-7050, PAs-7080 firewalls to protect Data Center and provided L3 support forrouters/switches/firewalls.
• Networking Administration including installments and configurations of physical networks (servers,switches,routers,panels, ports & hubs).
• Expert LevelPalo Alto, Check PointandJuniper SRXFirewalls Administrator.
• Proficient inCiscoIOS for configuration & troubleshooting ofroutingprotocols: MP-BGP,OSPF,LDP, EIGRP, RIP,BGPv4, MPLS.
• Highly experienced inVPNImplementation IPsecVPNand SSLVPNServer-to-Server and Client-to-Server.
• Worked extensively on firewalls andVPNgateways Checkpoint, Blue Coat Web Gateway,CISCO,Juniper, Fortigate GUI and Shell.
• Hands on Experience in design, installation, configuration, maintenance and administration of Checkpoint Firewall R55 up to R77.20 version, Blue Coat Proxy Server Secure Platform Installation,VPN.
• Experienced inDHCPDNS, NIS, NFS, SMTP, IMAP, ODBC, FTP,TCP/IP,LAN,WAN,LDAP, HP RDP, security management and system troubleshooting skills.
• Designing, Implementing and TroubleshootingCisco3750, 3550, 3560, 2924, 6509-V-E, 6513, 6504, 6503, 6506, 6500 seriesswitches.
• Network security includingNAT/PAT, ACL,VPNConcentrator.
• Involved in Data center migration including subnet migration, VPNs migration, network and security device configurations Experience withBluecoat ProxyandVPNTechnologies including B2B and Remote.
• Experience with handling DNS andDHCPservers
• Experience in configuring protocols likeTCP/IP,RoutingProtocols (RIP,OSPF,BGP,IGRP and EIGRP), PPP, PPTP and L2TP
• Extensive experience in layer-3Routingand layer-2Switching.
• Deal withCiscoroutermodels like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500 and 1800 series,Ciscocatalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500 and 2900 seriesswitches.
• Hands on experience working withCiscoNexus 7K, 5K & 2KSwitches.
• Administration and diagnostics ofLANandWANwith in-depth knowledge ofTCP/IP,NAT, PPP, ISDN and associates network protocols and services.
• Experience withBluecoat Proxy servers,LAN&WANmanagement.
• Excellent knowledge inRouting,Switching,Firewall and Gateway technologies, system design, wireless design, data network design, capacity management and network growth.
• Deployed theCisco3500 Access Points usingCiscoWireless controllers 5500 and 2500 and WCS System.
• Experience in working withCiscoNexusSwitchesandVirtual Port ChannelConfiguration.
• Experience withCheckpoint VSX,includingvirtual systems,routersandswitches.
• Experience inNetworkLAN/WANdeployment.
• Experience withDNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizationsand Implementations.
• Extensive understanding of networking concepts, (IE. Configuration of networks,routerconfiguration and wireless security,TCP/IP,VPN,Content Filtering, VLANsandroutinginLAN/WAN,EthernetPort, Patch Panel and wireless networks.)
• Experience with management platforms such asPanorama, JuniperNSMand SmartCenter.
• Configuration ofNetworkandSecuritydevices such asCiscoroutersandswitches(Cisco7600/3500/Nexus 7K/5K), Firewall (Checkpoint R75/Gaia andCiscoFWSM), Load Balancers and DNS and IP Manager (Infoblox)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking Technologies: LAN/WANArchitecture,TCP/IP,Frame Relay,VPN,VLAN,VTP, NAT,PAT, STP, RSTP, PVST, MSTP, MPLS, VoIP

CiscoPlatforms: Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K & 1K,Ciscorouters(7600,7200, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series) &CiscoCatalystswitches(6500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 4500, 2900 series),CiscoASRrouters(1001,1001X,1002,1002X,1004 series).

RoutingProtocols: OSPF,EIGRP,BGP,RIP-2,RouteFiltering, Redistribution, Summarization, StaticRouting.

LAN/WANtechnologies: Ethernet,FastEthernet,GigabitEthernet,FDDI, CDDI, Token Ring, ATMLANEmulation, Leased lines 64k - 155Mb (PPP / HDLC), Channelized links (E1/T1/E3/T3), Fiber Optic Circuits, Frame Relay, ISDN, and Load Balancing.

Switching: LAN,VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, InterVLANrouting&Multi-LayerSwitch,Etherchannels, Transparent Bridging.

Operating Systems: Windows 10/8/7/XP, MAC OS X, Windows Server 2008/2003, Linux, Unix, Virtual Box

Languages/Tools: C, C++, MIPS, MATLAB, VHDL, MS VISIO, PYTHON

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for peering and maintenance in content Delivery networks.
• Trouble shooting and Incident resolving on Juniper Mx-960 and 10,000Switches.
• Configured and worked on Juniper MX240 and MX40router,and optimized network for application delivery in virtualized network environment.
• Implemented variousroutingprotocols such asRIP, EIGRP, andOSPFon Juniper MXrouters;also taking care of issues such as discontinuous networks.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Layer 2Ethernetswitchandrouterinterfaces for Arista,Cisco,andJuniper.
• Configure JuniperQFX5100switchesfor managed colocation customers.
• On-site Juniper support engineer for on a Juniper MX migration toQFX 10 kimplementation.
• Configured and troubleshoot EnterpriseRouters,CISCOASR 9K,CISCO2900 and 2800 seriesRouters.Hands on experience withCiscocall Manager Express,CiscoVoice over IP.
• Configuring and troubleshooting Layer 3VPNonCisco,Juniper, and Arista.
• Established IPSecVPNtunnels between branch offices and headquarter using Juniper SRX Firewall
• Responsible for all Juniper SRX firewalls consisting of SRX 3560, 1400, 550. Using CLI and/or Junos Space Security Director for management. Install, upgrade, troubleshoot, design, etc.
• Implemented inter-VLANrouting(on Juniper EX 3300 and EX 3400switches)among the VLANs to allow communication on larger internetworks.
• Implemented extendedACLs on Juniper SRX and 3750to allow communication between the required networks, and to restrict other communications.

Environment: In Corporate office architecture with highly reliable & secured network including) Palo Alto 5020, 5060. Juniper SRX and MX 960, 480routers,QFX 10k, 5100.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Network Security Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on VPN configuration,routing,NAT, access-list, security contexts and failover in ASA firewalls.
• Palo Alto design and installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat Prevention, Data Filtering).
• Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSLVPN's onPalo Alto,CiscoASAFirewalls.
• Configuring, Administering and troubleshooting theCheckpoint,PaloAltoandASAfirewall.
• ConfiguredIPSecVPN(Site-Site to Remote Access) onCiscoASA(5200)series firewalls.
• Working with the rule base and its configuration inCiscoASA, Palo Alto, Juniper and Checkpointfirewalls.
• Rule consolidation and rule lockdown process in theASAfirewalls.
• Supported 200CiscoASA firewalls in configuring and maintenance.
• Deployment ofCiscoASA firewalls and migration of end of lifeASA firewallsto NewASA firewalls
• CiscoFirewalls include ASA 5585x, 5580, 5550 Series Hardware managed through CLI, ASDM as well as CSM.
• Configuredandutilized many different protocols such asOSPF,ISIS,BGP/MP-BGP, OER, MPLS, LDP, Multicast, IPv4/IPv6protocols.
• Utilized knowledge of Spanning Tree Protocol,BGP,MPLS, OSI model layers 1-2 to create network layouts.
• Stateful firewall,VLAN to VLAN routing,Link bonding / failover, 3G / 4G failover, Traffic shaping / prioritization,WANoptimization, Site-to-siteVPN,ClientVPN,MPLS toVPNFailover, Active Directory and LDAP integration.
• Responsible for investigating Data Loss Prevention using Symantec DLP.
• Configured EIGRP routing and BGProutemaps to allow traffic from subnets out to the core to Datacenter on the ASR 1002 devices.
• Implementation and configuration ofCiscoL3switches3750, 4500, 6500 in multiVLANenvironment with the use of inter-VLANrouting,dot1Q trunk,etherchannel
• Worked and maintained various network, application monitoring tools like SolarWinds,CiscoPrime, ForeScout, Wireshark, TCPDump.

Confidential, SanAntonio, TX

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Hands on experience withCisco3500, 3750, 4500, 6500 series equipment and configuring and deploying and fixing them with various modules like Gig card,VPNSPA card, WIC card.
• Applying crypto maps and security keys for the branches, ISAKMP (Internet security association key management protocol) for establishing Security associations (SA) cryptographic keys.
• Experience in configuring routing protocols like EIGRP, RIP v2,OSPF&BGPandCiscoACS protocols like RADIUS and TACACS
• Experienced in WAN environments, installing and troubleshooting data circuit problems (MPLS, T1)
• Involved in designing and applying QOS and policy map to 2800 seriesroutersfor all the branches
• Involved in designing GRE tunnels for encryption of data flow from source to destination
• Experience inmigrationofFrame-relay based branches to MPLS based technology using multi-layer stackableswitchlike 6500 series and 2800 seriesrouter
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLSVPNnetworks
• Involved in designing L2VPN services andVPN-IPSEC authentication & encryption system.
• Experience in HSRP standby troubleshooting & Experience in configuring & upgrading ofCiscoIOS
• Implementing & Troubleshooting of T1, MUXES,CSU/DSU and data circuits.
• Experience on designing and troubleshooting of complexBGPandOSPFroutingproblems,
• Involved in configuring IP Quality of service (QoS)and monitoring network usingNetscoutdevices
• CiscoASA, configuring devices through CLI, ensuring Hardware Racking/Stacking completed for new devices
• ASA Phone Proxy Implementations,Telecommuter VPN phone deployments/VPN
• Have experience withCiscoWorksLANManagement Solution
• Implementing VoIP solutions using SIP & H.323, also have sound knowledge of Avaya VoIP products
• Experience with Project documentation tools & implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems(Ciscoworks &Netinfo,InfomanVirtual Change) and experience with developing network design documentation and presentations using VISIO Understanding & Implementation of IPSEC & GRE tunnels inVPNtechnology

Environment: Branch office environment with Cisco1900,2900 series switches, Cisco 2500,2600,2800seriesrouters, Juniper and Cisco ASA Firewalls, CSS/ACE load balancers.

Confidential

Jr. Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Designing of Network infrastructure, Servers, Link, and bandwidth monitoring (Network tool), analyze incidents and troubleshooting of network related issue.
• Configuration and Troubleshooting on site-to-siteVPNand RemoteVPNonCiscoASA5540 security system.
• Work onCiscoACS(TACACS+) Server for Providing Access on Network and Security Device's.
• Troubleshooting variousLANandWANissues related to STP,VLAN,VTP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, ACL androutingprotocols Installation, configuration & troubleshooting ofCISCORouters(1751, 2600, 3600).
• Configuration and Testing ofCiscoswitches(2950,1900 series).
• ManagingWAN&LANand Administration ofTCP/IPbased network.
• NegotiateVPNtunnels using IPSec encryption standards and configured and implemented site-to-siteVPN,RemoteVPN.
• Regular basis Implementing Network Changes on Schedule time within Window.
• Participation in various conference call, meeting related to Project work, interaction with clients for resolving issues or for their old or new concerns.
• Schedule changes and work through maintenance requests over weekends.
• Perform daily maintenance, troubleshooting, configuration, and installation of all network components.
• Responsible for evaluating impact and performance on the network server Managing Layer 2switchesofCisco,VLanconfiguration and assigning ports to specificVLanas per requirement.
• Involved in designing GRE tunnels for encryption of data flow from source to destination.
• Hands on experience withCisco3500, 3750, 4500, 6500 series equipment and configuring and deploying and fixing them with various modules like Gig card,VPNSPA card, WIC card.
• Experience on Check Point Firewalls NG, NGX R65, R70, R75, R77, NSX (VMware Network).
• Experience in creating multiple policies and pushing them in toCheckpointFirewall (Gateways) and hands on experience in managing theCheckpointManagement Server.
• ConfiguringBGP/OSPFroutingpolicies and designs, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLSVPNnetworks.
• Hands on experience withCiscoACS 4.x servers.
• Monitor and tune network to ensure acceptable levels of performance.
• Evaluate applications connectivity requirements Configuring various clients like Outlook Express, MS-Outlook 2003 & 2007 Implemented Hot StandbyRouterProtocol (HSRP) by tuning parameters like preemption.
• Implemented variousOSPFscenarios on networks consisting of 7600routers.
• Configured policy-basedroutingforBGPfor complex network systems.
• NegotiateVPNtunnels using IPSec encryption standards and configured and implemented site-to-siteVPN,RemoteVPN.