SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of experience in Design, Configuration, Implementation and support of complex routed, switched and heterogeneous networks to ensure network availability, reliability, and redundancy
• Proficiency in configuration and troubleshooting of Routing protocols - RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGPv4, HSRP, ISIS.
• Proficiency working wif Redistribution, Distribute List, Access-list, Route-Maps, Multicasting.
• Core Switch Protocols - MPLS VPNs, LDP, STP, RSTP, TRUKING,
• Installing firewalls ASA PIX and Checkpoint
• WAN Protocols - HDLC, PPP, MLPPP, ATM Frame-relay, TCP/IP
• Circuit switched WAN - ISDN, T1/E1 - T3 -Channelized, Fractional & full.
• Packet Switched WAN - ATM, FRAME RELAY, MPLS.
• VPN- MPLS - Layer 3 VPN
• Redundancy and management - HSRP, VRRP, GLBP
• Working noledge in VOIP: Quality of service issues in voice over IP
• Installing firewalls ASA PIX and Checkpoint, Experience in Configuring Access Control & NAT on Firewalls, IPSec, CHAP, PAP.
• Expertise in, Sub Netting, IP Addressing, DNS, DHCP, WINS, FTP, Telnet,
• Proficient in Installation, commissioning of networking products like Cisco Routers, Catalyst Switches. Configured Routing and Switching, Remote Access, VPN Concentrators.
• Self motivated fast learner and excellent analytical, interpersonal skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco 1800,2800,3600,4500 series Routers, Cisco 3550,6500 Series/3Com Switches, Linksys Wireless LAN Products, Cisco 3060 VPN Concentrators, Cisco PIX 515E firewallSoftware Windows NT, 2000, XP, VISTA, Microsoft Visio.

Tools: Cisco Works, Microsoft Office Suite, MS Visio 2000, Norton Antivirus Corporate Edition, Norton Ghost, Confidential &T in-house Tools, Remedy, Tirks and sots.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, New York

Network Migration Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Involved in design, engineering, support and implementation metrics improvement for production network.
• Involved in network design and architecture review meetings, MOP creation/evaluation, Technical documentation, IP/BGP/MPLS core planning and MPLE/IGP Traffic engineering, working wif L2 features MSTP, RSTP, UDLS, BPDU filters, L2 and L3 Portchannels using Etherchannels, Point to Point circuits using Virtual Private Circuits.
• Managed multiple network design, implementations and migrations projects for production and DCN network, this includes Juniper Net screen fire walls migrations/enhances design, 600 plus network switches migrations, Juniper MX/EX routers & switches evaluation and testing for MPLS/VPLS based solution.
• Design and implementing MANAGE ROUTER (CPE) services and RCN EXTRA NET services solutions wif financial exchanges (Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago Board Option Exchange, New York Stock Exchange and SFTI) in NY, NJ & Chicago, and this project involves implementation and design of routing, multicast, layer2 and IP planning.
• Completed 10 Gig upgrade Project covering all the major financial customers facing POPs and Data Centers in NY, NJ, Chicago, Boston and Tri state East coast region, involving access, aggregation, distribution and ISP facing devices (Cisco 7600, 6500, 4924 and 4507 platforms) on MPLS/Metro Ethernet based Infrastructure.
• Interfaced wif different Telecom Vendors for new equipment testing, evaluation and POC for upcoming and new technologies.
• Validated and supervised all the production data network change controls and schedule maintenances..
• Interfaced wif Field Operations, Circuit design, NOC, IT and other internal groups on weekly capacity planning and other project conference calls.
• Provided tier 3 and 4 supports for network emergencies and outages in a 24/7 mission critical environment.
• Involved in recruitment/Trainings/provisioning guide lines of new network engineering personals.

Confidential, Philadelphia

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked on project migrating 700 customers from Frame-Relay to MPLS network.
• Working wif Routers (Cisco GSR, 7500, 7000, 5300, 4000, 3000, 2600, 2500, Terminal Servers: 2511, 2509). Cisco Switches (6500, 5000, 3500, 2900).
• OC-12, OC-3, DS3, T-1, and ISDN Ethernet (Gigabit Ethernet, Fast Ethernet).
• Routing Protocol (BGP4, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, IS-IS, NLSP), Routed Protocol (TCP/IP, IPX/SPX).
• MPLS, MP-BGP, VRF-Lite, VRF-Aware protcols along GRE Tunnels wif IPsec.
• Implemented QoS using FIFO, Weighted Fair Queuing, Priority Queuing, Custom Queuing, RSVP, RED, CAR.
• Implemented SNMP on devices to allow for network management
• Implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, and Route Maps.
• Implementation of HSRP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, MRTG.
• Implementation of IPsec over GRE Tunnels, Peer to Peer VPN, Overlay VPN.
• Implementation of site to site VPN.

Confidential, Long Island, NY

NOC Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Monitoring Cisco routers 1800, 2600, 2800, 3700, 7200
• Monitoring circuits dedicated wide area connections Confidential various speeds(T1, T3, Fractional T1 and Fractional T3) for internet, MPLS, MLPPP.
• Monitoring and configuration of Protocols, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, HSRP, MP-BGP, VRF LITE, VRF Aware, GRE tunnels over IPsec, Layer 3 Vpns, Site to Site Vpns, DMVPN, Multicast routing: PIM, IGMP, MSDP.
• Monitoring and configuring Ethernet technologies: spanning tree, vlans, trunking, channeling, multilayer switching.
• Monitoring and configuration of MPLS wif traffic engineering tunnels wif RSVP.
• Monitoring and configuration of DNS, DHCP, NAT, PAT, TACACS, SNMP.
• Monitoring and troubleshooting of L2/L3 related network problems.

Confidential, Mount Laurel NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing upgrades on Cisco 7200, Juniper MX960 and T16.
• Implementing BGP, OSPF, is as required by CRAN Engineering
• Implementing Next Gen TenGig circuits on CRAN Network working on new technology trials as CELL BACKHAUL Technology.
• Implementation of CMTS Technology for Cisco 10 K, Cadant C4, for DOCSIS II and DOCIS III.
• Implementing VOD unidirectional links.

Confidential, Piscataway NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Primary role includes collection and evaluation of customer data for the identification, and implementation of business solutions.
• Plan, design, configure, implement, and support enterprise class IP based networks using variety of routing protocols including RIP, BGP, IGRP/EIGRP, HSRP, MPLS, and OSPF from the Confidential &T Global IP Network Backbone..
• Plan, design, implement and support broad range of Confidential &T enterprise service offerings including Confidential &T MPLS Private Network Transport-PNT solutions, Managed Access Redundancy Options-MARO solutions, Confidential &T VPN Tunneling Services-AVTS solutions, Class Of Service options, Managed Firewall solutions using Cisco PIX and/or Checkpoint/Nokia firewalls, Managed Internet Services-MIS solutions.
• Design, develop and implement complex network solutions and led numerous IP Services projects for Confidential &T Enterprise customers.
• Deploying and troubleshooting various MPLS based VPN deployments using the Tetra E3 card on GSR while using the Cisco 6513 as the Ethernet Access.
• Configuring and provisioning Managed Internet Services to varied customers.
• Administering the TIRKS by providing access to users and setting their level of read/write permissions to particular screens.
• Provisioning the circuits by submitting the ASRs using TIRKS and monitored the status in SOTS.
• Configuring and troubleshooting various Ethernet Access and configuration issues on VLANs deployed upon the Ethernet gateway.
• Working wif different Local Exchange Carriers (Verizon, Qwest, Bell South, SBC and Time Warner) on process and negotiate Service Level Agreements.
• Designing schemes for IP addressing, subnetting and routing policies using BGP/OSPF.
• Troubleshoot WAN related problems including OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, and BGP routing and design; troubleshoot L2/L3 related network problems.
• Adding and managing QoS policies for various Ethernet customers.
• Troubleshoot EBGP and EIBGP load balancing issues wif the customer.
• Configuring and provisioning GigE and 10GigE Ethernet customers

Confidential, Edison NJ

Network Service Support

Responsibilities:

• Installed and configured LAN connectivity through Windows 2000 Server
• Supervised five-member team of junior network administrators and technicians in performing system setups, backups, hardware and software troubleshooting, network virus inoculation, file/print server and client systems optimization.
• Wired LANs were replaced wif wireless LANs for the entire network structure in the main office.
• Installed and configured LAN and corporate WAN wif Cisco Routers (1700, 2600 and 3600) and catalysts (2950, 3500 and 1900)
• Implemented & Configured Network Address Translation (NAT) Rule Base on Cisco Routers to provide Network Security.
• Designed, Managed & Implemented the Cisco PIX Firewall on a Site to Site link failover mode configuration by using the EIGRP & BGP protocol.
• Designed & Implemented the Access-List base security policy on the PIX Firewall.
• Applied optimization on the network to increase performance and speed.