PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

• Good understanding of networking concepts such as routing protocols, VLANs, IP address management, and network security.
• Worked on Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 1800 series Router and Cisco 2900, 2960 3500, 3560, 3750 - x, 3850, 4500, 5500, 6500 series switch.
• Experienced with Juniper: EX-2200, EX-4200, EX-4500, MX-480 and M Series, SRX210 and SRX240. 
• In-depth expertise in the analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN architecture and good experience on IP services.
• Hands On experience Cisco IOS/IOS-XR/NX-OS, Juniper JUNOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS
• Hands-on experience with Ether Channels, Spanning Trees, Trunking, ACLs, Syslog.
• Knowledge about implementation and troubleshooting of complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, VTP Ether channel, STP, RSTP and MST.
• Maintain network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems
• Extensive experience in Application Performance Troubleshooting and providing recommendations for Performance Tuning
• Provided engineering support and evaluation for NetScout system and applications, architecture design, configuration, monitoring and administration
• Experience in implementing site-to-site, remote access VPN, DMVPN Technologies using GRE, IPSEC & MPLS
• Good Experience working with Cisco Nexus 9K and Nexus 7K for data center fabric layout and modelling.
• Extensively used TCP/IP tool like TELNET for remote login to the routers and SSH for secure login.
• Configuration of Cisco routers and switches to enable and troubleshoot a variety of features such as trunks, Vlans, Ether channels, port security, routing protocols including EIGRP, OSPF & BGP and other related technologies such as multicasting, IP Telephony & IP Video.
• Configuration of overlay VXLAN VTEPs with EVPN control-plane on Nexus switches
• Complete basic configurations on the F5 Big-IP LTMs and GTM load balancer on existing network to split traffic on web-servers. 
• Experience on project management, implementation, and customer requirements.
• Good interpersonal & Communication Skills, working with customers on solving network problems in timely manner.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing Protocols: Understanding of RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP

Network Security: Understanding of VPN, RADIUS, 802.1x, Port Security, and Firewalls.

Hardware: Worked on Dell, IBM, HP, Macintosh machines

Switches/Routers: Worked on Extreme Networks Juniper MX, M, T, PTX series (EX4550, EX6200), HP Procurve (8212zl, 5412zl chassis), Juniper M & T Series, Cisco 6500, 3600, 2950, CISCO Nexus 2000, 5000, and F5 - BigIP LTM.

LAN Protocols: VLAN, VTP, Inter-Vlan routing, ISL, dot1q, STP, RSTP, PVST, HSRP, GLBP, Ethernet, Port security.

Services: Done configuration for VLANs, STP, SNMP, ELRP, DMZ and redundancy protocol (HSRP & VRRP)

Platform: Windows 98/2000/NT/XP/Vista/7, Ubuntu, Mac IOS

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Fort Worth, TX

Network/LAN Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Implementing Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) as a solution for data centers using a Spine and Leaf architecture.
• Migrated cisco3550 switches to 3750 POE switches to provide support to Wireless APs.
• Installed cisco 5508 WLAN controllers and configured Access points.
• Configured Cisco Series 6500,4500,3800,3850,3750,3560,3550,2600 Switches
• Configured Cisco Series 2900, 3900 Routers for new business need.
• Configure Cisco 43xx and 28xx routers, Nexus 3048 switches, 5508 wireless LAN controllers, and 37xx wireless access points.
• Configured IP access filter policies. Cisco CLI, Cisco works, Network Security, Network Analysis Tools. 
•  Configuring and implementing of routing protocols including RIPv1/v2, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, BGP. 
• Extensive knowledge and experience in dealing with various Networking Related Protocols and Standards: TCP/IP, UDP, SIP, Switching (VLANs, STP, VTP), Routing, Routing Protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP), WAN (Frame Relay, IPsec VPNs, MPLS). 
• Switching tasks include VTP, Trunking, ISL and 802.1q, VLAN, Ether Channel, STP, PVST, RSTP and MST. 
• Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
• Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 routers with HSRP
• Cisco Secure ACS for the implementation of port-based authentication (DOT1X), profiling and AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS)
• Experience working with Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K devices.
• Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K and its downstream devices and also configure 2k, 3k, 7k series Routers
• Hands-on work in Inter-vlan routing, redistribution, access-lists and dynamic NAT
• Performed Network Migration from RIP to OSPF and EIGRP
• Designed 10 gigabit networks using Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches, Checkpoint NGX firewall and Cisco 3800 series routers
• Worked on Bank Domain, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, and FTP and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP.
• Experience working on Remedy Ticketing system for solving network related problems.

Confidential

Network Support Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Designed and implemented remote dial up solution for clients.
• Installed and configured workstations for IP based LAN’s.
• Installed and configured DHCP Client/Server.
• Installed and configured CISCO ASA and Checkpoint firewall.
• Configured and manfirewallaged networks using L3 protocols like RIPv2
• Configured VLANs, Private VLANs, VTP and Trunking on switches.
• Configured L2 and L3 security features on network devices.
• Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS and Juniper Netscreen firewalls.
• Utilized Network Instruments for packet analysis and to monitor network
• Administer and maintain DNS, DHCP, WINS and group policy
• Configuring, implementing and troubleshooting F5 load balancer in the enterprise network. 
•  Worked with F5 Load balancing, IDS/IPS, Bluecoat proxy servers and Administrating. 
• Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo Alto Networks
• Hands-on work in Inter-vlan routing, redistribution, access-lists and dynamic NAT
• Configured IT LAN/WAN elements and held responsibility of maintaining and monitoring network performance
• Performed Configuration on ASR 9K Pairs includes HSRP, Bundle Ethernet Config, Assigning DHCP profiles.
• Deployed all Sonus equipment in Data Centers and customer POP's
• Provided Tier1 technical support; assisted users facing network problems. Performed advanced troubleshooting, diagnostics and provided tier/level-1 solutions to network failures
• Performed Network Migration from RIP to OSPF and EIGRP
• Provided Network infrastructure support to routing and switching equipment
• Redistributed routing protocols and Frame-Relay configurations
• Designed the layout for cable installations