SUMMARY:

• Network Design Engineer highly qualified to design, install, and manage networks and their requisite infrastructure. Skilled at discovering, configuring and troubleshooting an extensive range of network and communications equipment: routers and switches, firewalls, Windows servers, network management applications, routing protocols, WAN and wireless technologies, IP telephony. Consistently seeking and implementing new and more efficient processes to improve the company LAN, WAN and data center architecture. Team player, I’m willing to go the extra mile to achieve the company and customers objectives. Self - motivated and a quick learner, constantly research and training to keep abreast of new technologies. Cisco, Tellabs, Microsoft, and security certified with years of experience.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Implemented mobile connectivity solution for remote workers/telecommuters.
• Cisco ASA5500 series firewalls administration, configured NAT, Remote Access VPN, Access Control, Modular Policy Framework, Threat Detection monitoring.
• Internet connectivity solution and consolidation.
• DMVPN migration to encrypt DATA over MPLS WANs, simplified future IPSec Tunnels addition to existing infrastructure.
• Proactively monitorand analysis WAN traffic flow to identify network bottlenecks, provided solutions to resolve problem areas.
• Interface with Telecomm service providersfor testing, troubleshooting MPLS WANs, Microwaves, and Satellites Circuits.
• Provide technical support in operation for users and troubleshoot when issue arrived.
• Security scan, audit configuration for potential vulnerability, taking measure to mitigate.
• Implements Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGS) requirements to meet DISA standards.
• Regularly documented networks' changes for effective management, and Disaster Recovery contingency plan.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Evaluated Network performances recommend change and upgrade hardware whereneeded for Security and performance enhancing.
• Maintain networks performance integrity, monitoring, analyzing, identifying congestion sources utilized IP Netflow tool and other network management application.
• Implemented QoS tools to Shape, Police traffic flow for WAN saturation prevention.
• Troubleshooting complex LAN/WAN infrastructure, including routing protocols HSRP,OSPF, BGP.
• Interface with Telecomm service providers to troubleshoot WANs circuits’ issue.
• Provide technical support in operation for users and troubleshoot when issue arrived.
• Mitigate risks for the enterprise by proactively addressing capacity problems or any network related issues
• Security scan, audit configuration for potential vulnerability, taking measure to mitigate.
• Regularly documented networks' changes for effective management, and Disaster Recovery contingency plan.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Design Campus LANs redundancy, VLANs load-sharing between root switches.
• Configured, implement HSRP, per VLAN priority modification to load-balance traffic on Campus networks.
• Configured port-channel for inter-switches to increase Bandwidth, improve performance.
• IP SLAs configured to monitor various network performance characteristics.
• Secured Campus LANs infrastructure enforced port-security, DHCP snoop, BPDUGuard.
• Configured OSPF routing to connect inter-networks.
• Configured IPSec Tunnels to encrypt DATA traverse MPLS WANs and Internet.
• Routers and Switches IOS code transfer/upgrades.
• Secured administrative/management access enabled AAA, Syslog Servers.
• Security policy development and implement.
• Regularly documented networks' changes for effective management, and Disaster Recovery contingency plan.
• Configured, deployed, maintained CME capable VoIP Gateways for remote regional offices throughout States.
• CUCM system update, upgrade, add, move, change, delete accounts, assist users with IP phone issues as they arise.
• Configure, troubleshooting phone unregister issue, Xcoder, Conference Bridge, MGCP and H.323 gateways.
• Implement dial-plan compiled Route-Group, Route-List, Route-Pattern for pre-emptive fail over to PSTN in the event of WAN failure or band-width constrain.
• Proactively scheduled periodic evaluation, updates, upgrade hardware/software to meet compliance/demands.
• Support users troubleshoot connectivity issues, latency, and VoIP related technical problems.

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Configured EIGRP routing to connect inter-networks.
• Configured, implement HSRP, per VLAN priority modification to load-balance traffic on Campus networks.
• Reengineer the LANs to provide more reliable service and to reduce the latency including configuredEther-Channel to enhance performance in network inter-switches.
• Per VLAN Spanning-Tree behavior modification to ensure optimized paths throughout the Layer 2 network.
• Secured Campus LANs infrastructure enforced port-security, DHCP snoop, BPDUGuard.
• Secured administrative/management access enabled AAA, Syslog Servers.
• Evaluated Network performances, change and upgrade hardware whereneeded for Security and performance enhancing.
• Backup strategy along with a disaster recovery plan in the event power outage including out-of-band Access-Servers, and UPS devices deployed in each remote networks.
• Prepared and maintained documentation of Network Diagram, Device’s configuration, IP addresses, Licensing.
• Configured and installed VoIP devices and IP Phones such as 7940, 7941,7960,7961,7970 with features and requirement per user basis.
• Installed, configured of Jabber soft phone and IP communicators on PCs per user need.
• Troubleshoot technical issues such as phone unregisters mobility connection, call forwarding, call waiting etc… based on daily tickets’ flow.