SUMMARY

• Analytical thinker wif ability to think outside the box to solve complicated issues while maintaining a keen understanding of how technology plays an important role in business interests and the necessity for a timely passion

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing Protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, LDP, RSVP, MPLS TE - FRR

WAN Technologies: PPP, HDLCLAN Technologies: VLAN, LACP, STP, RSTP, PVST+, MSTP

Switches: Cisco Catalyst 2900, 6500, Nexus7K; Juniper MX480

Routers: Cisco 3800, 7200, ASR1K, 7600, GSR, ASR9K, CRS-1, Juniper MX960, M320, T640

Internetworking IOS: Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NX-OS, Junos

Routed/Non-Routed Protocols: TCP/IP, IPv6

TCP/IP Services: DNS, WINS, DHCP, SNMP, SMTP, FTP, Telnet

Network Monitoring Tools: SolarWinds

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Warren-NJ

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managing and troubleshooting of Cisco 12K GSR, 7600, 7200VXR and Juniper M320/MX480/MX960 routers including installation, upgrade, configuration and network management.
• Configuring managed CPE routers such as Cisco 2600, 3640, 7200VXR for eBGP peering.
• Configurations of Juniper MX series to 17 version.
• Proficient in break/fix problems and taking escalations from customer.
• Configuration and support of multi area OSPF environment wif SPF throttling.
• Upgrade of RE and CB to new Generation
• Involve in upgrade of Juniper routers to 17 version.
• Involved in upgrade of MPC/DPC line cards and online-maintenance.
• Uplifting chassis swap due to OOS.
• Maintenance of MX routers and responsible for health check of those devices.
• Configured MD5 authentication for OSPF/BGP and TTL security for BGP
• Troubleshooting of routing protocols like OSPF, BGP and modifying various BGP attributes like Local-Pref, Weight, MED, RR attributes like Cluster-list & Originator-ID.
• Implemented traffic class mapping to different VLANs/VRFs based on the traffic type - voice, data, control and billing
• Provided pro-active fault monitoring of Cisco/Juniper routers and switches utilizing HP overview, CiscoWorks and Cisco IOS commands.
• Worked on various configurations and troubleshooting in a multi-vendor environment wif Cisco & Juniper routers/switches.
• Performed configuration and troubleshooting of OSPF, EIGRP and BGP protocols.
• Implemented various OSPF features like stub areas, route-summarization, SPF throttling, LSA throttling, redistribution.
• Improving OSPF convergence by controlling SPF algorithm, LSA/SPF throttling

Confidential, Somerset-NJ

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deployed 7200 VXR routers at multiple sites for ISP connectivity.
• Used various protocols such as EBGP for ISP connectivity.
• Configured and validated various policies for on M320 router for various routing protocols
• Provided Configuration support on the Juniper M 320-Series router
• Performed service validation tests for new deployments.
• Involved in User acceptance and end - to-end test after network implementation
• Configured and resolved various OSPF issues in OSPF multi area environments.
• Used BGP for verifying various traffic policies towards internal customers using BGP attributes such as Local Pref, MED, Extended Communities

Confidential, New York, NY

Senior Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Supported WAN infrastructure involving Cisco and Juniper devices across several sites.
• Performed IOS, and Junos upgrades and production network maintenance.
• Configuration of VLAN, VLAN Trunking, LACP, BFD, HSRP and VRRP.
• Resolved connectivity, packet loss and latency issues over WAN links.
• Implemented Tcl, Perl scripts for monitoring production network.
• Performed PoC testing to evaluate new networking HW/SW features, topologies.
• Created technical documentation (MOP, CR) and network diagrams using MS Visio.
• Performed on-call duties on a rotation basis and created troubleshooting guides

Confidential, Long Island, NY

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of Cisco routers 2500 series, 2600 series, 3600 series, 3800 series and 7200 series.
• Used BGP attributes such as Local preference, ASPATH and extended communities for path control/manipulation.
• Designed schemes for IP addressing, subnetting and routing policies using BGP/OSPF.
• Configured dynamic routes, static routes and source IP routes for intra-net access. The routing protocol used wifin the network was OSPF
• Troubleshoot OSPF/BGP neighbor issues and followed standards in setting up OSPF and BGP neighbors.
• Prevented asymmetric routing issues by redistributing routes from BGP to OSPF wif right metric values.
• Troubleshoot intra-net and internet connectivity issues using PING, Traceroute
• Installing Cisco catalyst 4500, 4000 and configuring redundant and highly available system configuration using HSRP

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on various configurations and troubleshooting in a multi-vendor environment wif Cisco & Juniper routers/switches.
• Performed configuration and troubleshooting of OSPF, EIGRP and BGP protocols.
• Implemented various OSPF features like stub areas, route-summarization, SPF throttling, LSA throttling, redistribution.
• Tested various BGP features such as BGP load balancing, extended community, community-lists, BGP attributes such as AS-PATH, MED, Local Preference.
• Hands-on experience in configuring and troubleshooting ACLs, NAT, TACACS.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2600, 3700, 7200 at customer sites.
• Hands-on experience in configuring VLANs using dot1q, ISL and Ether-Channel.
• Implementation and Maintenance of Juniper EX 2200, M120 devices.
• Test case design, test execution and automation of routing and switching suites.