SUMMARY

• Over 7 years of work experience different working levels of industry standards in networking
• Hands - on experience in installing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting Cisco and Juniper routers, switches and firewalls
• Maintaining, Installing, troubleshooting and testing of different equipment prior deployment for organizations
• Experience in Layer 2 switching - Cisco Switches: 1900, 2900, 2950, 2960, 3550, 3750, 5000, 6500, 2300, 3500 Series.
• Experience in Layer 3 Routing - Cisco Routers: 2500, 2600, 3600, 3800, 3900, 7200 Series, ASR 9000, 9001, 9006, Series.
• Experience in Site to site VPN Configuration using Cisco ASA and PIX firewalls
• Experience working on Fortinet firewalls, FortigatePlatforms
• Experience traffic on Cisco routers using Standard Access List and Extended Access Lists
• Hands-on experience Monitoring Network Performance, Data Flow and Health
• Extensive knowledge and experience of routing and switching protocols OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP and VLANs.
• Experience in designing, implementing and managing LAN, WAN for different client set up
• Great knowledge troubleshooting issues on NAT, PAT
• Experience with installing, and managing IP services such as DNS, DHCP, NAT, PAT and Access Control list.
• Working and hands on experience on configuring and troubleshooting Access-lis
• Network security including NAT, PAT Access-list and VPN concentrators
• Extensive hands-on experience in working with complex routed LAN and WAN networks, and preparing technical documentation

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing: Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Extend Interior gateway routing protocol(EIGRP), Border Gateway protocol (BGP) IP addressing, IP routing and RIP

Switching: VLAN, inter-VLAN routing, Spanning tree, VTP, PAGP, LACP, Trunk, Ether-channel management features.

LAN Topologies: Ethernet, Fast Ethernet Gig Ethernet, and Token Ring

Various features and services: IOS IOS-XE IOS-XR and Features, NAT, PAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, DNS, TFTP and FTP Management, CDP, Frame-relay, PPP, Access Control List (ACL). Cisco PIX, ASA, OPNET, WIRESHARK, ESXI, F5.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed, installed and maintained various WAN technologies connecting remote sites to corporate headquarter
• Configured, implemented, troubleshoot routers and switches with various account settings, permissions and parameters
• Configuring Static, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF Routing Protocols on Cisco ASR 9000, 9001, 9006, 6500 series Routers.
• Configured Site to Site IPsec VPN tunnels to peer with different clients and each of client having different specifications of Phase 1 and Phase 2 policies using Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls.
• Hands on Experience on Packet Core Data Networks and equipment (PDSN/HA) or (SGSN/SGW and GGSN/PGW for UMTS/HSPA/UTRAN)
• Employees’ access internal servers and resources with access restrictions
• Responsible for entire company network infrastructure that includes Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Access Points, and Servers.
• Done Bandwidth Upgrading for remote sites.
• Configured NAT and PAT policies.
• Experience in deploying EIGRP/BGP redistribution and the changing the metrics for the primary and backup.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.
• Support the project manager in defining the work and the associated effort, duration, and resource needs to deliver the solution.
• Networking protocols worked with included but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, WINS, DHCP, VPN, Terminal Services, and routing
• Configured IPSec site-to-site VPN connection between Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator and Cisco 3800.
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls
• Communicate status to the project manager to provide completion status of assigned tasks, estimate to complete for remaining effort, and associated issues/risks.
• Based on defined technical requirements and architecture blueprints work with a cross-functional team to develop the network detailed design and associated network specifications as part of an overall solution design.
• Document test cases, perform operational readiness testing to ensure the networking environment performs as required and document actual results.

Environment: Routers: Cisco ASR9000, 9006, 9001, 6500 series Routers, Switches: Cisco 3500, 4500, 4200, 2360, TACACS, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, MPLS, Ether Channels.

Confidential, Minneapolis, MN

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Perform network engineering, design, planning (WAN & LAN), & implementation.
• Managing Access list for PIX and Routers (Priority based, time based)
• Installed & configured OSPF on Frame-Relay with multi-area design in core routers (7200, 7204, and 7206).
• Managed fast Layer 3 switched/routed LAN/WAN infrastructure as a part of Network team. The LAN consisted of Cisco campus model of Cisco 3550 at access layer, Cisco 6513 at distribution/core layer.
• Tested routers and done Performance Analysis of both LAN/WAN infrastructures.
• Interacted with business users from a service delivery and service support perspective.
• Hands-on experience with WAN (Frame Relay), Routers, Switches, TCP/IP, Routing Protocols (BGP/OSPF), and IP addressing.
• Design, implementation and operational support of routing/switching protocols in complex environments including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Spanning Tree, etc.
• Planned, tested and evaluated various equipment, systems, IOS’s and procedures for use within the network / security infrastructure.
• Worked on Fortinet Firewall 100d, 50b.
• First and second level user support troubleshooting desktops, laptops, servers, cisco switches, cisco routers, cisco IPT phones, Frame Relay,T1and DSL.
• Cisco products/hardware including Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k switches.
• Worked in Multi-vendor environment containing Juniper, Cisco
• Troubleshooting LAN/WAN issues.
• Configured multiple domain name services (DNS), email services (Exchange Server), web, and file transfer protocol services (FTP) for various platforms including line leasing through DHCP servers.
• Configuring, managing and troubleshooting networks using routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP and OSPF (Single Area and Multi Area).
• Troubleshoot MPLS issues within the core and edge.