SUMMARY

• Network Administrator with over 8+ years of experience in the industry, which includes expertise in the areas of Routing and Switching.
• Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, NAT’ing, sub - netting, also including DNS, WINS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, OSPF, RIP, IPSEC, CNP,PPTP, VoIP, VLAN, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), RTSP & Multicasting protocols and Cisco ACI fabric networks.
• Implementation traffic filters on Cisco routes using Standard, extended Access list.
• Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP and OSI models.
• In-depth expertise in the analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN architecture and good experience on IP services.
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, Sub netting, VLSM and ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, Ping Concepts.
• Experience in Configuration and Support ofLAN protocols on Cisco Switches such as (Layer2, Layer3 and Multi-Layer)
• Experience in configuring HSRP and redistribution between routing protocols troubleshooting them.
• Good knowledge of CISCO firewalls, CISCO PIX and ASA 5500 series, Palo Alto
• Strong hands on experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Nexus models like 7K, 5K, 2K series, Cisco router models like 7200, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, 3850, 3750 series switches
• Technical Knowledge on Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls.
• Strong hands on experience in installing, troubleshooting, configuring of Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500 and 1800, 880 series Routers, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3850, 3750 and 3500XL series switches.
• Hands on experience with load balancers (F5 & Cisco Content Switch), VPN (Cisco, Netscaler, RSA, Deo Security, Entrust & F5)
• F5 Network-GTM, LTM, Enterprise Manager andMaintenance of F5 Load balancers-6600/6800
• Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
• Expert knowledge of cable connectors and replacement as RJ-11, RJ-45, V.35, RS-449.
• Excellent communication skills to interact with team members and support personnel and also can act as a mentor to less experienced personnel FWSM.
• A highly organized individual who adopts a systematic approach to problem solving, effectively analyzes results and implements solutions.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NAT with the firewalls as per the design.
• Worked on Extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series
• Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.
• Adept in preparing Technical Documentation and presentations using Microsoft VISIO/Office
• Excellent customer management/resolution, problem solving, debugging skills and capable of quickly learning, effectively analyzes results and implement and delivering solutions as an individual and as part of a team.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

LAN Technologies: VLAN, VTP, Inter-Vlan routing, STP, RSTP, PVST, 802.1x

WAN Technologies: Frame Relay, ISDN, PPP, ATM, MPLS, Channel & Leased lines

Network Securities: NAT/PAT, VPN, Filtering, Juniper netscreen firewall, Checkpoint 4.1 Load Balancing, IDS/IPS, IPSec, ACL, FWSM, Cisco ACS, WAFs, DLP

Routing Protocols: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, HSRP, IPv6

Routing Protocols: TCP/IP, IPX/SPX, ASR1K and 9K, Nexus7K 5K, 2K, IPv4, IPv6, IPsec

Infrastructure Services: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, POP3, FTP, TFTP,ACI

Network Managements: SNMP, SSH, Telnet, ICMP, Visio

IP Telephony: VOIP, FXO/FXS/E&M/T1/L2/ISDN/ PRI, Call manager Express.

Operating Systems: Windows Vista/XP/NT/2003, MS DOS, UNIX, Linux

Comm. Protocols: ARP, Wi-Fi, WiMax, CNP, CDMA, 3G

Packages: Visual Studio 2008, OPNET, MATLAB, CAD, Flash, Dream weaver.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, NY

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with Supporting both Network and Security infrastructure in data center environment and Campus environment, which involved with devices such as routers, switches, firewalls and wireless access points.
• 3rd level support lead for network security and firewall issues on Checkpoint NGX R71 and Cisco ASA devices
• Worked with Wireless Control Systems, Access Point, and 802.1x, PKI, EAP, TLS technologies.
• Configuring rules and Maintaining Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs using various tools.
• Experience with moving data center from one location to another location, from Cisco 6500 based data center to both Cisco 6500 & Nexus based data center
• Experience with implementing Cisco 6500 VSS on the User distribution switches.
• Working with MPLS Designs from the PE to CE and also configuring VRF on PE routers
• Experience with designing and deployment of MPLS Traffic Engineering
• Configuring RIP, OSPF, EIGRP BGP, MPLS, QOS, ATM and Frame Relay.
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks
• Strong hands on experience on PIX (506, 515, 525, 535), ASA (5505/5510) Firewalls. Implemented security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, CNP, VPN, IPS/IDS, AAA(TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Experienced working with Cisco telepresence 3000,MX,EX series
• Worked on ACE load balancers. Experience with F5 load balancers - LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability.
• Provided Mechanical design, detailing and analysis for F4, F5, and Halifax Gas Turbine engines using Pro/E. Modeled and detailed components for Gas Turbine teams, which included vanes, blades, casing housings, rotor disc, and combustion baskets.
• Working Knowledge of Cisco IOS, Cisco IOS-XR, Cisco CatOS, Cisco ACE, Cisco NX-OS, JUNOS.
• Change control, BOMs, TIDs, Visio network topologies, and SharePoint document reserve.
• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3060 firewalls to protect Data Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls.
• Experience with configuring BGP in the data center and also using BGP as a WAN protocol and manipulating BGP attributes
• Experience in implementing QoS using IP-Precedence and DSCP over WAN links
• Administered LAN that utilized 802.1x to secure wired and wireless networks.
• Design and deployment of MPLS QOS, MPLS Multicasting per company standards.
• Implemented site to site VPN in Juniper SRX as per customer.
• Implemented various EX, SRX & J series Juniper devices.
• Experience with deploying Fabric Path using Nexus 7000 Devices
• Experience with configuring VPC, VDC and OTV between the data centers as a layer 2 extension.
• Lead data center architect for future fabric protocols including Cisco ACI.
• Installed enterprise-class Cisco, Juniper, and PaloAlto routers, switches, and firewalls
• Extensive knowledge on SIP wireless
• Configured AAA using Tacacs+ and ACS server.
• Experience with configuring FCOE using Cisco Nexus 5548.
• Installed controller and light weight access point coordination with JTAC.
• Maintenance and trouble-shooting of LAN, WAN, IP Routing, Multilayer Switching.
• Worked on juniper firewall 5GT,208,SSG 5, Juniper(M320, T640).
• 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 the 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.
• Considerable hands-on experience with installation and configuration of VMware Configuration Manager and Update Manager
• Upgrading of VMware tools to match ESX host level
• Worked on WAFs, DLP,Firewalls.
• Documented network topology, datacenter, IDF in Visio and Excel.
• Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on JuniperM and MX series Routers
• Configuring VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches
• Dealt with monitoring tools like (Solar Winds, Cisco Works), network packet capture tools like Wireshark
• Managed corporate Checkpoint Firewall implementing security rules and mitigating network attacks.
• Worked on L3 Data center support
• Maintained a Network with more than 600 Network devices, some 25,000 end hosts, and the other Network devices like DHCP, DNS servers, Firewall servers.
• Co-ordination with Hardware vendors, software vendors and service Providers.
• Assisted in backup, restoring and upgrading the Router and switch IOS.
• Attended Team meetings and provided comments on existing network and the recommendations to improve the current network Performance.
• Maintaining the health of 250+ wireless Access points in two locations.

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 3640/ 0/3845/3600/2800/7600/ ASR1k/CSRv routers, Cisco ASA5510, Checkpoint, Palo Alto, Nexus 6509, 5020,7000,5548,3560,2248, ASA Checkpoint, Visio TACACS, LAN security, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP.

Confidential, MN

Sr. Network Administration

Responsibilities:

• Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, CAT,Series and Nexus switches.
• Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.
• Installed wireless access points (WAP) at various locations in the company.
• Deployed Site to Site and Client to Site VPNs utilizing Checkpoint Firewall-1/VPN-1
• Configured OSPF over frame relay networks for NBMA and point to multipoint strategies.
• Configured and maintained Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco ACE load balancers and Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/).
• Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo Alto Networks.
• Documented network topology in Visio and NetViz for several sites
• Worked on Cisco unified communications
• In depth understanding of IPV4 and IPV6 and implementation of Subnetting
• Installed high availability Big IP F5 LTM and GTM load balancers to provide uninterrupted service to customers.
• Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
• Configure network security protocols and measure ( IPSEC, SSL, VPN, TACACS+, RADIUS, AAA architecture)
• Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network by tunings AS-path.
• Configured policy based routing for BGP for complex network systems.
• Configured Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN with Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the customer’s Site.
• Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows to authenticate users that connects to a VPN 3000 Concentrator.
• Responsible for setting up the infrastructure environment with majority of Cisco & Palo Alto appliances apart from various other equipment.
• Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server-client environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.
• Responsible for day to day management of Cisco Devices, Traffic management and monitoring.

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 12000/7200/3845/3600 routers, Cisco ASA5510, Palo alto, Visio, Checkpoint, EvPC, FEX, Nexus 5k,7k,2k.

Confidential

Network Data Specialist

Responsibilities:

• Hand on experience the configuration and implementation of various Cisco Routers and L2 Switches.
• Extensive experience in configuring and implementing EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
• Supported core network consisting of Cisco 7200 series routers running multi area OSPF
• Configuration of EIGRP and OSPF as interior gateway pro & CAT tocol with route filtering and route redistribution.
• Implemented stub/Totally stub areas and various OSPF features like route-summarization and SPF throttling.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support
• Researched, designed, and replaced aging Checkpoint firewall architecture with new next generation Palo Alto appliances serving as firewalls and URL and application inspection.
• Configured, troubleshoot, and upgraded Checkpoint Firewalls for Manage clients, which included network and/or resource access, software, or hardware problems.
• Supporting EIGRP and BGP for problems of L2/L3 in internal teams & external customers.
• Providing daily network support for national wide area network consisting of MPLS, VPN and point-to point site.
• Upgrading Used DHCP to automatically assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients.
• Configured and installed multi-protocol (IP, IPX) multi-interface Cisco routers.
• Design, WAN link using PPP Multilink and by implementing Cisco WAAS
• Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPSec encryption standards and also configured and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.
• Palo Alto design and installation (Application and URL filtering, Threat Prevention, Data Filtering).
• Configured and maintained IPSEC and SSL VPN's on Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Configuring STP for switching loop prevention and VLANs for data and voice along with Configuring port security for users connecting to the switches.
• Worked on commissioning and decommissioning of the MPLS circuits for various field offices.
• Network Cabling, dressing, labeling and troubleshooting various network drops onsite.

Environment: Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches and Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7600, 7200 routers, HSRP, Palo alto, OSPF, 802.1Q.

Confidential

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Provided configuration of STP and Port Security on Catalyst 6500 switches.
• Configure the Cisco CRS-1 Routing System, back out of configuration changes, and restore older versions of a configuration.
• Designed and improved Visio and Excel documents to accurately document network equipment, devices, and telecommunication links.
• Configure the Cisco IOS XR security features in both owner SDR and non-owner SDRs
• Configure legacy route map configurations using the new Cisco IOS XR Routing Protocol Language (RPL).
• Worked with Juniper net Screen 500/5200 and also juniper SRX 650/3600.
• Worked on Fiber channel over Ethernet (FCOE) for connecting 10gigabit Ethernet networks.
• Maintaining Core Switches, creating VLANs and configuring VTP.
• Optimized performance of the WANnetworkconsisting of Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
• Performed redistribution with OSPF, EIGRP, RIP version 1 and 2 to enable communication with backbone.
• Executed BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features on various layer 2 and layer 3 switches.
• Configured static NAT, dynamic NAT, dynamic NAT overloading.
• Back up Cisco IOS to a TFTP server and Upgraded and restored a Cisco IOS from TFTP server.

Confidential

Jr. Network Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Mapping client's requirements and providing them best solutions involving evaluation and definition of scope of project and finalization of project requirements.
• Identifying the Project & Solution bottleneck and undertake corrective measure.
• Participating in design reviews to ensure integrity of the solution.
• Design & Implemented IP MPLS Network OSS/BSS Flow including OMS, PMS (Metasolv), SLA (Micro mouse), Billing (Elite core), Storage & Backup Solution for MTNL Mumbai.
• Design & Implemented Broadband OSS/BSS Flow including OMS, PMS& Inventory (Meta solve), NIDS, EAI, BSAS (Motive), Billing- Post & Pre Paid (Elite core) &Storage &Backup Solution for MTNL Mumbai.
• Design, configuration & trouble shooting of protocols such as QOS, BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, RSVP, MPLS
• Design, configuration & trouble shooting of the services IPTV, VOIP, High speed Internet, L3VPN, L2VPN, Site to Site IPSec VPN, NAT, CAT OS and Dial VPN, zone based firewall policies, ACL.
• Responsible to provide technical support to the team for designing, configuration & troubleshooting of the network CNP.
• Responsible for MTNL MPLS project maintenance & to ensure that the faults are closed within defined time lines.
• Assist in reduction of MTTR of Network faults.
• Analyze Faults and provide recommendations for Prevention and Reduction