SUMMARY

• Network Engineer wif around 10 years of experience in teh industry, which includes expertise in teh areas of Routing and Switching.
• Expert level noledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.
• Implementation traffic filters on Cisco routes using Standard, extended Access list.
• Implementation of Layer2 VPLS/VPWS/L2CC circuits on Juniper MX480/960
• Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP and OSI models.
• In - depth expertise in teh analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN architecture and good experience on IP services.
• In-depth noledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, Sub netting, VLSM and ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, Ping Concepts.
• Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, VPLS, VPWS, L2CC, STP, RSTP and MST.
• Experience in configuring HSRP and redistribution between routing protocols troubleshooting them.
• Technical Knowledge on Cisco ASA 5500 series Routers.
• Knowledge on Cisco Nexus 5k and 7k Switches.
• Working noledge of Data Modeling Language, Linux
• Exposure to Cisco ASA/Checkpoint Firewall and F5 Load Balancer.
• Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
• Expert noledge of cable connectors and replacement as RJ-11, RJ-45, V.35, RS-449.
• Excellent communication skills to interact wif team members and support personnel and also can act as a mentor to less experienced personnel.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers/Switches: Cisco 2600, 28xx, 36xx, 38xx, 7200, 2900, 3500, 4xxx, 5xxx, 6500, Nexus 5k & 7k,9k and Juniper T640, M320, MX240/480/960

Routing Protocol: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, Routed Protocol TCP/IP

Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, Cat-OS, Nexus-OS

Management tools: SNMP, Syslog, Sniffer, and Wire shark, HP Service Center 6.8, QIP

LAN Technology: VLAN, VTP, Inter-VLAN routing, ISL, dot1q, VPLS, VPWS, L2CC, STP, RSTPPVST, HSRP, GLBP, Ethernet, Port security

WAN Technology: Frame Relay, X.25, E1/T1/DS1/DS3, PPP, MPLS

Network Security: Knowledge of Cisco ASA, Layer 2 Security, VPN, IPSec and load balancing, VOIP

Network Management: SNMP v2, Cisco Works NCM, 3Com Network Analyzer, MRTG, Solar Winds NPM, TACACS, Traffic Filtering Techniques Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, Prefix-List and Route Maps. Implementation of DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP

Documentation: Microsoft Office, Visio

Scripting Language: PowerShell, Python

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Springboro, OH

Senior Implementation/Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Create technical designs and documentation of implemented solutions.
• Independently create and complete assigned technical deliverables for projects.
• Involved in Network support, implementation related internal projects for establishing connectivity between teh various field offices and data centers.
• Implement local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, and other data networks.
• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot customer managed hardware, software, and network devices.
• Configured and installed switches like 3850, 4510 and installing at wan sites as per teh customer requirement.
• Update Data Center infrastructure on a regular basis to keep up wif networking requirements.
• Familiar wif teh working environment of Palo Alto networks.
• Troubleshoot network issues on environments ranging from small remote sites to large enterprise offices
• Develop and execute test plans to ensure infrastructure and system performance.
• Perform network surveys and analysis and provide industry proven solutions.
• Enforce policies for standardizing systems.
• Achieve and maintain technical s.
• Consistently demonstrate teh desire and execution towards technical excellence.
• Ability to work independently and in team environment daily.
• Ability to travel as required for onsite on-call work.
• Work in coordination wif other team members and contracted local resources to complete projects on time and wifin budget.
• Work wif Engineering to identify and test equipment that will be certified to use teh any PDi projects/solutions.
• Ability to do an accurate and complete site survey for new installation locations to determine wat parts of teh infrastructure can be used and wat must be replaced and added, and tan work wif teh facility to design teh infrastructure needed for PDi or vendor partner solutions.
• Sell maintenance agreements when appropriate.
• Overnight Travel 30% to 70% depending on work.

Confidential, Phoenix, AZ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design all technical documents and publish on intranet for internal uses.
• Designing / implementing OSPF and BGP Networks.
• Designing/Documentations of Data Center Networks.
• Design, Implementation and troubleshooting of BGP and OSPF routing technologies as well as HSRP or VRRP.
• Design, Implementation and troubleshooting RPVST (Spanning Tree), Trunking Standards 802.1Q, LACP (Ether-Channel), vPC or MLAG and Private VLANs.
• Understanding of IP Protocols- 3-way handshake,QoS, IP Addressing, Multicast, Unicast and Broadcast.
• Security designs/implementations incorporating Load balancing and security appliances/Firewalls.
• LAN and WAN solutions for large enterprises
• Designing large enterprise MPLS VPN networks.

Confidential, Philadelphia, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible to work on Enterprise Network as team member of Microsoft Retail Stores Team

  Involve in different Network related projects to deploy/retrofit/design/testing in existing/new network infrastructure

• Develop Network related design/deploy/changes/testing documents, which includes Point of sale (POS) Network, Wireless Network, Visio diagrams, Firewall rules, Knowledge based document etc.

  Working on Cisco hardware like 7200, 6500, 4500, 3800, 3900, 2900, ASR 1K, 9K, Juniper MX/EX devices, IOS-XR devices.

• Working on deployment, configuration and upgradation of Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K and 2K switches in teh datacenter
• Configured and troubleshoot routing protocol like OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, MPLS
• Configured and troubleshoot protocols like STP, RSTP, MSTP and VTP
• Configured features like VPC, VDC, OTV etc. on Nexus switches
• Configured and troubleshoot Gateway Redundancy Protocols like HSRP and GLBP and WAN protocols like HDLC, PPP, and Frame Relay etc.
• Responsible to work wif Cisco and Service Providers in designing and implementing IP MPLS network
• Working on configuration/testing/optimization Cisco 5500 and Aruba 3200 and 3200 XM wireless access controller and wireless access point
• Working on configuration and troubleshooting ASA firewalls, Checkpoint, Fortinet and Palo Alto firewall
• Experience wif security protocol like IPsec/TLS/EAP etc.
• Deployed Checkpoint Firewall rules
• Deployed Sourcefire in production for network security
• Working wif deploying services to virtual environments like Openstack, VM ware etc.
• Experience working wif Network management software NSM (Network Security Manager) primarily to code teh firewall as well as performing changes as per teh requirement
• Configure and upgrade Cisco ISE to 2.0 for teh Store device autantication
• Configure and support NATs, access-lists on Cisco routers 1700, 2600, 2800 and 7200 series
• Designed and deployed KVM over IP solution
• Working wif Cisco and NOC team to support teh Microsoft Retail Stores
• Tested and deployed IP management tool like Men and Mice
• Working on a project involving engineering of Microsoft Azure
• Engineer new POS (Point of Sale) solution for Microsoft stores
• Using packet capturing tools like Wireshark, Netmon, and Fiddler etc.
• Created Network design and deployment documentation
• Working wif Cisco prime for management and troubleshooting network devices

Confidential, Salt Lake City, UT

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a part of Global switch refresh project, performed migration from 2960, 3560 switches adhering to ITIL Change Management Procedure.
• Migrated IP’s from IP control and Solar winds to Infoblox, as a part of IP migration to single tool.
• As a part Router replacement project, migrated 2921, 2821 routers to 3945.
• Designed WAN structure to prevent single point of failure in case of link failure.
• Migrated 6513 switch connected ports to Nexus 7k(7010), 5k(5596T), 2k(2248T) and decommissioned 6513 switch.
• Worked on Cisco 6509, 6513 and 4510 switches for LAN requirements that include managing VLANs,
• Port Security and troubleshooting LAN issues.
• Deployed InfobloxTrinzic 800 device for DHCP.
• Part of Design team helping in building a Data Center, includes DMZ, Load balancing of teh internet and inter data center communication.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of multiple site-to-site IPSECVPN’s.
• Assisted Sr. Network engineer in teh installation and configuration of firewalls.
• Performed LAN operations and troubleshooting which involves working on VLANs, inter-VLAN routing,
• Trunking, STP, RSTP, port aggregation & link negotiation.
• Maintaining IP access-list’s on daily basis for user Access for different applications through Bmc remedy.
• Generating Network Metric Reports using Solar winds and silver peak.
• Worked on Remedy service management for change management approvals.
• Used internal network monitoring toolsto ensure network connectivity and Protocol analysis tools to assess teh network issues.
• Created Visio Diagrams for enterprise network of teh client which helped in easy understanding of teh network.

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Core member of Network implementation project for client Cigna Health Care
• Created Network Visio diagrams for teh each location as per teh design requirements
• Created Network topology per teh topology and configured various network devices
• Configured and implemented Composite Network models consists of Cisco 3900 and 2900 series routers and Cisco 3750, 4500 and 6500 Series switches
• Configured of ASR 1K, 7K and 9K Nexus 2K and 5K
• Configured Nexus using NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles, Nexus Version 4.2 and 5.0,
• Nexus VPC peer links
• Configured network using routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF and BGP
• Implemented various OSPF scenarios on networks consisting of 7600 routers
• Implemented traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using
• Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF
• Upgraded IOS of Cisco devices like, 3750, 4500 and 6500
• Experience wif building, maintaining, reviewing all configurations/settings/policies on Checkpoint Firewall
• In-depth expertise in teh implementation, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems
• Implemented standard configuration template scripts in various network devices for snmp v2, logging and ntp
• Helped team wif datacenter designing
• Created standard access lists to allow snmp, ntp and logging servers.
• Installed PVDM, Network module, VWIC card, GLC-SX-MM, line cards like WS-X4624-SFP-E, WS-X4748-
• RJ45-E secondary power supplies and additional memory to Cisco devices
• Work on Physical site Inventory verification, gather information of various Cisco Network devices and Security Devices to develop Run book and Spec Book

Confidential, Plano TX

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Assisted in troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues in teh network of 100 hosts.
• Studied and analyzed client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration, and security.
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router wif HSRP.
• Created a backup and recovery policy for software application and verified peripherals are working properly.
• Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.
• Performed RIP & OSPF routing protocol administration.
• Interacted wif support services to reduce teh downtime on leased lines.
• Troubleshoot problems on a day to day basis & provide solutions that would fix teh problems wifin their Network.
• Monitor teh operability and reliability of teh network.
• Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.
• Managed teh IP address space using subnets and variable length subnet masks (VLSM
• As a Team member also worked wif F5 load balancer and SONET technology.
• Responsible to help team for troubleshoot, configure and resolve teh issues regarding F5.
• Support design and planning of Juniper MX, EX and TX Series network routing products wifin teh Customer infrastructure.
• Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for Juniper product applications used by Customer.
• Proactively perform corrective maintenance for IP/MPLS network.
• Review and evaluate all ITC technical documents related to IP/MPLS network.
• Helped team to build up SONET Networks.
• LAN cabling in compliance wif CAT5 standards.
• Worked along wif teh team in ticketing issues.
• Daily responsibilities included monitoring remote site using network management tools, assisted in design
• Guidance for infrastructure upgrade & help LAN administrator wif backbone connection and connectivity issue.
• Other responsibilities included documentation and support other teams.
• Configured RSTP, MST and used VTP wif 802.1q trunk encapsulation. Provided port binding and port security wherever required. Provided router redundancy through HSRP.
• Configured ether channels using PAgP and LACP.
• Designed ACLs, VLANs, troubleshooting IP addressing issues and taking back up of teh configurations on switches and routers.
• Provided testing for network connectivity before and after install/upgrade.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and configuring ISL trunk on Fast-Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet channel between switches.
• Experience in Cisco switches and routers: Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations (Frame-relay and ATM
• Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following internal/external.
• Escalation procedures and customer notifications.
• Design service for /upgrade/configure ALU’s IP/MPLS products e.g. 7705 SAS, 7210 etc.
• Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Worked on HSRP and GLBP for first hop redundancy and load balancing.
• Configured teh Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATting.
• Prepare, update, and maintain technical and logistical network documentation.
• Member of Network Test team and responsible for routine Network test.
• Responsible for resolve any issue in routine Network test and need to escalate higher technical team, if their is any major issue.
• Worked on comprehensive test strategy and test plan based on teh features to be tested, wif focus on customer deployment and use-case scenarios.
• Worked wif cross-functional teams throughout teh project life cycle.