SUMMARY

• Over 7+ years of Experience Cisco,Juniper (JNCIA) and Experience wif 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 Nexus models like 9K,7K, 5K, 2K series, Cisco router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800, 810 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, 2900 series switches
• Expertise in installing, configuring, and troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800, 1700, 800)
• Expertise in installing Wireless Access Points (Cisco 1140, 1240, 1250 Series)
• Expertise in intstalling and Configuration of WLAN Controllers (Cisco 4400, 5500 Series)
• Migration of teh on-premise Datacenters to AWS, and Hosting Enterprise applications on its virtual machines.
• Configuration of teh Virtual Network for teh Enterprise wif teh halp of Amazon VPC.
• Configuration of private, and public connectivity between teh Virtual Network in AWS and teh on-premise enterprise network using AWS Direct Connect.
• Hands on experience in troubleshooting and deploying of various IP Routing Protocols EIGRP, RIP v1/2, OSPF, IS-IS & BGP
• Implemented security policies using ACL, IPSec, VPN, AAA Security TACACS+, and Radius on different series of routers and firewalls
• Installation and Configuration of Cisco 6500, 4500, 2900, 3500 series switches, Cisco 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200 series Routers.
• Experience wif Cisco Data center Switches Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000.
• Hands on experience wif F5 load balancers - LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 5000, 2000 for teh corporate applications
• Designing and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480) and SRX Firewalls (SRX240, SRX550)
• Expertise in configuration of routing protocols and deployment of OSPF, EIGRP, BGP and policy routing over Cisco routers.
• Experience wif design and deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN, MPLS Traffic Engineering, MPLS QOS
• Experience in adding Rules and Monitoring Checkpoint Firewall traffic through Smart Dashboard and Smart View Tracker applications.
• Configured Client-to-Site VPN using SSL Client on Cisco ASA 5520 ver8.2
• Configured ASA 5520 Firewall to support Cisco VPN Client on Windows 7/XP/Vista.
• Installation, configuration and troubleshooting of F5 load balancers.
• Experience wif designing, deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel, IP Routing Protocols - (RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP), ACL's, NAT, VLAN, STP, VTP
• Implemented redundancy wif HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Ether channel technology (LACP, PAgP) etc.
• Strong hands on experience on PIX Firewalls, ASA (5540/5550) Firewalls. Implemented Security Policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Experience working wif Cisco IOS-XR on teh ASR9000 devices for MPLS deployments
• Efficient designing of IP Addressing Scenario using VLSM and Sub netting.
• Configured Security policies including NAT, PAT, VPN's and Access Control Lists.
• Extensive experience using Microsoft suite like Word, Visio, Excel, PowerPoint

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cisco Platforms: Nexus 9K,7K, 5K, 2K, Cisco routers (7600,7200, 3900, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800, 1240, 1250, 1140, 810 series) Cisco Catalyst switches (6500, 5500, 4900, 3750, 3500, 4400, 4500, 2900 series) CISCO 5500 WLC, CISCO ISE

Juniper Platforms: SRX, MX, EX, and NX Series Routers and Switches

Networking Concepts: Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Subnetting, Designing, CSU/DSU, IPSec, VLAN, WLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi

Firewall: ASA Firewall (5520/5540/5585 ), PIX and FWSM.

Network Tools: Solar Winds, SNMP, InfoBlox, Wireshark, Splunk, Nagios.

Load Balancers: F5 BIG IP LTM 5000, GTM C-112, VIPRION VPR 2400

WAN technologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & exposure to PPP, DS1, DS3, OC3, T1 /T3 & SONET

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

Security Protocols: IKE, IPSEC, SSL-VPN

Networking Protocols: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP, PAGP, LACP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, TACACS+, Radius, AAA

Languages: Perl, C, C++, SQL, HTML/DHTML

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

Network: Simulators GNS3, Packet Tracer

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Pleasanton, CA

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for designing and implementation of customer's network and Security infrastructure.
• Involved in complete LAN, WLAN, WAP, WAN, Extranet redesign (including IP address planning, designing, installation, pre configuration of network equipment, testing, and maintenance) in both Campus and Branch networks
• Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our networks and support customer wif teh configuration and maintenance of teh firewall systems. .
• Experience wif end to end migration of DMZ server, including Vendor connectivity.
• Migration of teh on-premise Datacenters to AWS, and Hosting Enterprise applications on its virtual machines.
• Configuration of teh Virtual Network for teh Enterprise wif teh halp of Amazon VPC.
• Configuration of private, and public connectivity between teh Virtual Network in AWS and teh on-premise enterprise network using AWS Direct Connect.
• Experience wif designing, implementing and troubleshooting Cisco routers and switches using different routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS and MPLS L3 VPN, VRF
• Experience wif converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in teh data center environment.
• Experience wif configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for teh Nexus 5000
• Experience in Configuring, upgrading and verifying teh NX-OS operating system.
• Actively involved in Switching Technology Administration, including creating and managing VLANS, Port security- 802.1x, Trunking 802.1Q, RPVST+, Inter-VLAN routing, and LAN security on Cisco Catalyst 4507R+E, 6509-E and Nexus 2232, 5596, 7009 switches.
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500 security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing wif teh firewalls as per teh design.
• Provided Load Balancing towards access layer from core layer using F5 Network Load Balancers.
• Managed teh F5 Big IP GTM/LTM appliances which include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs
• Involved in Disaster Recovery activity, like diverting all teh traffic from teh production data center to Disaster Recovery data center.
• Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve teh uptime of collocation customers, in teh event of core router becoming unreachable.
• Configured and designed LAN networks wif Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches.
• Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200, Firewalls SRX-210
• Implemented HSRP on teh Cisco 2948G Layer 3 switches and EIGRP, OSPF on 2 Cisco 2610 routers, teh Layer 3 switch, 3 Cisco 350XL Switches, Cisco 3524XL switches for load balancing and failover.
• Configuring ASA, Juniper SRX Gateway routers, and Checkpoint gateway security and identity awareness. Configuring Firewall, allow/deny rules for network traffic.
• Extensive noledge and troubleshooting in data communication protocols and standards including TCP/IP, UDP, IEEE 802.3, Token Ring, Cable Modem, PPPOE, ADSL, Multilayer Switching, DoD standards.
• Troubleshoot/resolve halp desk tickets and submit change requests to vendors and/or internal customers on WLAN/LAN installation or upgrade issues (i.e. VLANs, VTPs, H-REAPs, spanning trees, etc).
• Manage teh incidents, Requests, Tasks, IT assets and Configuration Items using JIRA.

Environment: ASA firewalls, Juniper SRX, CheckPoint Security Appliance, AWS Cloud, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, MPLS L3 VPN, VRF, VLAN, Port security, Trunking, Nexus 2232, 5596, 7009 switches, WIP, VIP, TCP/IP, UDP, IEEE 802.3, Token Ring, Cable Modem, ADSL Multilayer Switching, DoD standards.

Confidential, Buffalo Grove, IL

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuration and Administration of Cisco and Juniper Routers and Switches.
• Administration and diagnostics of LAN and WAN wif in-depth noledge of TCP/IP, NAT, PPP, ISDN and associatesnetworkprotocols and services.
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for teh expansion of teh MPLS VPNnetworks
• Experience in migration of Frame-relay based branches to MPLS based technology using multilayer stackable switch like 6500 series and 2800 series router
• Configuring VLANs and implementing inter VLAN routing.
• Testing E911, voicemail, Media gateways.
• Upgrading and troubleshooting Cisco IOS to teh Cisco Switches and routers.
• Configure and troubleshoot Juniper EX series switches and routers.
• Configuring Site to Site to VPN connectivity.
• Implementation of HSRP, IPsec, Static Route, IPSEC over GRE and Dynamic routing protocol
• Involved in configuring Cisco Net flow fornetworkperformance and monitoring.
• Involved in designing and implementation of wireless IPT devices.
• Involved in configuration of Cisco 6500 ACE switches
• Configuring IPSLA monitor to track teh different IP route when disaster occurs.
• Involved in Implementing, planning and preparing disaster recovery.
• Having meetings wif teh application group and gathering requirements for disaster recovery.
• Involved in smart view tracker to check teh firewall traffic.
• Troubleshooting hardware andnetworkrelated problems.

Environment: NAT, PPP, ISDN, TCP/IP, 6500 series switch, 2800 series router, inter VLAN, HSRP, IPSEC, Static route, IPSLA, smart view tracker

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for teh installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of teh company network.
• Duties included monitoring network performance using various network tools to ensure teh availability, integrity and confidentiality of application and equipment
• Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP.
• Involved in trouble shooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems
• Planning and configuring teh routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, and Static Routing on teh routers.
• WAN Infrastructure runs OSPF & BGP as core routing protocol.
• Support various routers like 2600/3600/7200 series routers.
• Tested authentication in OSPF and BGP.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS, VTP, STP and configuring on teh Fast Ethernet channel between switches
• Responsible for configuring a site to site VPN on VPN Concentrator series between Head office and Branch office
• Installation & configuration of Cisco VPN concentrator 3060 for VPN tunnel wif Cisco VPN hardware & software client and PIX firewall
• Configured Firewall logging, DMZs & related security policies& monitoring
• Worked on Cisco Layer 2 switches (spanning tree, VLAN).
• Hands on experience working wif security issues like applying ACL's, configuring NAT and VPN
• Responsible for Internal and external accounts and, managing LAN/WAN and checking for security
• Involved in NetworkMigrations
• Configuring Cisco and Juniper devices (Router & Switches)
• Dynamic routing protocol configuration like RIP and OSPF.
• Troubleshooting level 1networkproblems.
• NAT and IPsec configuration on Cisco Routers.
• Creating Private VLANs & preventing VLAN hopping attacks & mitigating spoofing wif snooping & IP source guard

Environment: DNS, DHCP, Cisco routers 2600/3600/7200 series, VLANS, VTP, STP, site to site VPN, PIX firewall, NAT, ACL, VLAN hopping attacks, spoofing

Confidential

Junior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience wif Cisco switches and routers: Physical cabling, IP addresses, Wide Area Network configurations (Frame-relay and ATM).
• Configured teh Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATting.
• Configured static NAT, dynamic NAT, dynamic NAT overloading.
• Install and configure servers, desktops and networking equipment.
• Used Wireshark to analyze teh networks.
• Recommended and implemented improved documentation, including troubleshooting checklists, escalation guidelines& phone numbers, and status report / educational emailing protocols.
• Migration of RIP V2 to OSPF, BGP routing protocols.
• Created VLAN and Inter-VLAN routing wif Multilayer Switching.
• Configured of IP Allocation and sub netting for all applications and servers and other needs throughout teh company using FLSM, VLSM addressing.
• Performed redistribution wif OSPF, EIGRP, RIP version 1 and 2 to enable communication wif backbone.
• Provide assistance to Network Manager and serve as Secondary Network support.
• Involved in installing and configuring PIX 515E firewall.
• Used various Network sniffers like Etheiral, TCP dump etc.
• Designed network connectivity and network security, between various offices and data center.
• Installed and configured routers, including 1800, 2600 along wif Cisco switches including 3750 and 6500.

Environment: NAT, RIPV2, EIGRP, OSPF, Frame-Relay, ATM, BGP, Etheiral, Tcp dump, Cisco routers 1800, 2600, Cisco switches 3750, 6500