Network Engineer

• Microsoft Certified System Engineer MCSE
• A and Network IBM Certified
• CCNA,CCNP,CCIE Written

SUMMARY

with over 10 years of technical and project management skills.Extensive experience in architecture, design, capacity planning, information security policies, network security design and implementation. Excellent leadership and communication skills, experienced with customer and technical support Solutions-oriented IT Professional with proven success implementing and integrating cost-effective, high-performance technical solutions to meet challenging business needs.

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

• Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly
• Proven expertise in supporting and troubleshooting hardware, software and networking issues.
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
• Organized, take charge professional with exceptional follow-through abilities and detail orientation, able to plan oversees projects from conception to successful conclusions.
• Outstanding communication skills interfaces effectively with upper management, vendors, staff, and users.
• Strong technical background with a solid history of delivering outstanding customer service. Genuine commitment to quality and customers satisfaction.

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND QUALIFICATION

Hardware: Desktops, Servers, laptops, Modems, Network Cards, Mother Boards, Printers, Scanners, Hubs, Cisco catalyst 2950, 3500 6500 Switches, Cisco nexus 7000 series, Cisco PIX firewall 525,535,ASA 5550, Palo Alto, Checkpoint, Cisco FWSM, Juniper MX960,240 series routers, Juniper SRX 240,220 firewalls.Dell Force Z9000 series switches F5 BIGIP 3600,6400,6800 HP Blade server G6,SAN, IBM X series 345, Dell Power Edge 2550, Iron Port 360 mail security appliance.

Protocols:OSPF,EIGRP,BGP,VRRP HSRP,NAT,IPSEC,IGMP,PIM.

LAN Media: Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet

WAN Media:MPLS,ATM,Frame-relay,T1,T3,DS3,OC3,ISDN,PSTN,Leased Lines, Cable Modem.

Network management: Cisco Works, HP Open View, Concord, Tivoli, Netview6k, Solarwinds Orion

Traffic Generator: Spirent.

Security: PIX, FWSM, Juniper SRX, Checkpoint, TACACS/RADIUS, RSA secure ID.Windows system hardening, super scan, routers and switches hardening.

Operating System: Windows 2003, 2008, Windows/XP, Windows VISTA, VMware, UNIX, Linux.

Client/Server Application:

Microsoft Outlook, Microsoft Exchange Server

PC Experience: Software Installation, Hardware Configuration.

Enterprise Networking, Workstation Troubleshoot, Server Troubleshooting.

Software: Microsoft Office Products. Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Norton and McAfee antivirus software. Smartstart array and IBM raid manager. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Network Engineer contract

• Reviewed and redesigned of current network for internal development and testing teams
• Designed secure network and planned the network migration, duties, include migration from Cisco ASA firewalls to Palo Alto 2000 series firewalls, reroute traffic using EIGRP and BGP protocols, Network summarization.
• Installed and configured solarwinds orion for network monitoring.
• Configured and troubleshoot MPLS and BGP for 100 branches all over the United States.
• Assisted with establishing Global Network operations Center GNOC to proactively monitor the network resulted in better SLA and network performance.
• Architected and configured WCCP on access routers to avoid unnecessary WEB traffic over WAN links to reduce bandwidth utilization.
• Identified Traffic classes within the network and performed QOS techniques for delay sensitive applications such as voice and video.
• Configured MPLS-CE devices with BGP routing protocol to advertised prefixes to the MPLS cloud.
• Helped the company to save money by configuring a work around for cluster monitoring.
• Update SSL Certificate for cisco wireless controllers.
• Upgraded IOS to the latest version on Cisco switches and routers.
• Migrated ASHP portal load balancers from Altions to 6400 series F5 load balancers.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Responsible for designing and implementation of customers network infrastructure
• Help negotiate hardware, software, and circuit contracts for customers
• Redesign customers office copper and fiber cable plant for scalability
• Configure and implement Remote Access Solution: VPN, ISDN dial up, Fractional T1
• Implement Cisco IDS 4235, updated and created custom signatures to protect the network against attacks.
• Network Assessment and Documentation including technical, operational, and economic assessment
• Configure Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator to allow VPN clients,
• Implement CiscoSecure Access Control Server ACS 3.0 for Tacacs / Radius
• Configure Pix to Pix, and Router to Router VPN
• Redistribution of routing protocols and Frame-Relay configuration
• Network Migration from RIP to OSPF
• Build and maintain Visio documentations for Clients
• Installed and configured F5 BIGIP, created virtual servers, pools and iRules.
• Implementation of TCP/IP related Services-DHCP/DNS/WINS
• Configure site to site IPsec VPN.

Confidential

NETWORK ENGINEER

• Configure layer 2 and layer 3 ether channel/ trunk.
• Configure OSPF on none broadcast, point to point and point to multi point.
• Configure Vlan, VTP pruning, HSRP for failover.
• Exceeded expectations in case management, documentation, follow through.
• Implement security policies using ACL, Pix firewall 535
• Configure Cisco catalyst switches 6500,3500 series
• Scheduled backups, restore and Archival with legato and quantum library
• Troubleshoot LAN connectivity, front-end application support and installation

Confidential

NETWORK ADMIN

• Responsible for routine backups, new server deployment, exchange server administration, server performance/uptime monitoring.
• Assisted in installing configuring active directory, DNS server.
• Monitor and managed network performance with 200 users.
• Installed and configured CISCO iron port 360 for email security anti spam and mail filtering.
• Installed secured and managed print severs.
• Installed and configured Windows 2003 servers for Raid1 0 and Raid 5 for fault tolerance.
• Created user accounts and provides appropriate permissions and rights to users
• Installed and configured a two node Exchange 2003 cluster for fault tolerance and redundancy.
• Upgraded Exchange 5.5 to 2003, created routing groups, and multiple mailbox stores for fault tolerance.

Confidential

EXCHANGE SERVER ADMIN

• Troubleshoot network connectivity, servers, remote access, printers
• Concurrently, responsible for administering, optimizing and supporting internal
• LAN infrastructure consisting of windows 2003 Active Directory and more than 300 users.
• Installed and configured exchange server 2003/ multiple Routing groups.
• offline defragmentation of the Information Store, Check database consistencies
• Installed and configure DNS server, and Load Balancing
• Created exchange 2003 mail boxes, public folders and distribution lists.
• Maintenance and support of the Exchange server and monitor the queues
• Install, support Microsoft remote access service, cetrix and terminal server.
• Researched, recommended and implement new hardware and software into the environment to increase efficiency.
• Monitored and supported internal network, including adding/deleting users
• Analyzed needs and determine types of Hardware most suitable to meet requirements of the company within the prescribed budget.

Confidential

NETWORK TECHNICAIN

• Provided solutions for issues involving network, hardware, and operating systems windows 2003 Enterprise server.
• Assisted in installing configuring active directory, DNS server.
• Monitor and managed network performance with 200 users.
• Installed secured and managed print severs.
• Created user accounts and provides appropriate permissions and rights to users
• Install and maintain network equipments, passive/active hubs, switches, and router