SUMMARY

• Very strong experience specialized in network & Wireless Engineer working on Wireless routers, Switches, PaloAlto Firewall, F5 BIG - IP, Cisco-IOS, Redhat Linux, Cent OS and Windows environment.
• Worked on setting up a new IoT team to help support the network needed to run IoT products
• Configuring user's roles and policies for authentication using Cisco NAC and monitoring the status of logged users in network using Cisco ISE.
• Strong working familiarity with Cisco ISE with hands-on experience configuring Cisco routers, switches, wireless.
• Strong hands-on experience on Cisco Catalyst (series 3850, 3560, 4500, 6500), Cisco Nexus (series 2K, 5K, 7K), Cisco Routers (series 7300, 4000, 3800, ASR 9000), Firepower (4100), Load Balancers (Citrix NetScaler, Cisco ACE, F5 BIG-IP LTM/GTM ADC), IDS/IPS (HIDS, NIDS, NIPS, HIPS), Fire eye, Splunk, Palo Alto Networks Firewalls (PA-820, series PA-3K, 5K), Checkpoint IP Appliances (NXG R60, R70, 3100, 5900),Fortinet Firewalls.
• Expertise knowledge and experience in network planning, network design, network management & installation.
• Advanced knowledge in Cisco ASA 5000 series, Palo Alto VM-300 series and Juniper SRX installation, configuration and maintenance
• Experienced in Cisco ASR, CRS, Nexus and 7600, 9300 series equipment. Also Cisco products such as 3750, 2901 and 2811
• Experience with providing remote site access with IPsec, SSL and GRE, Frame Relay, MPLS and documenting required information for maintenance, troubleshooting and future reference.
• Having in depth knowledge of integrations and configuration of routers like Cisco, Nortel, H3C and wireless experience on Cisco, Ericsson Strix, Nortel, Radwin, Proxim, Motorola, Airspan devices.
• Proven expertise in deploying and maintaining large Broadband Wireless Network, Controller based Wi-Fi and RF
• Planned, documented and completed proof of concepts for Nexus 5600 and 9300 series switches and 2300/2200 series fabric extenders
• Experienced with networking devices: Cisco Nexus Switch, Catalyst Switch, Fortigate Firewall, Check Point Firewall, Firepower, Cisco UCS Server, Dell PowerEdge Server and some other VPN devices.
• Administered and supported configurations for Juniper SSG and SRX series firewalls and Infranet Controllers.
• Managed and troubleshoot Aruba access points wireless devices. Aruba VPN, customer public and private wireless networks.
• Worked with Cisco routers, DMVPN, switches, ASA, Firepower, and Security Manager. Riverbed WAN Accelerator.
• Excellent skills to implement VLANS, private VLANS, Voice VLANS, Installing VOIP capable wares, Port security, STP and RSTP (802.1W), standard and extended access lists for managing access-based security, creating root views for administrative privileges.
• Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
• Proficient in Cisco IOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS.
• Well experienced in configuring protocols HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, HDLC, PAP, CHAP, and SNMP.
• Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1Q, IPsec and GRE Tunneling, VLAN, VxLAN, PC, vPC, Ether Channel, STP RSTP.
• Experience with F5 load balancers - LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability.
• In-depth knowledge of deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel, IP Routing Protocols - (RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP), NAT, VLAN, STP, VTP, HSRP & GLBP, QoS
• Strong hands on experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Cisco router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series, Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500, 2900 series switches, Juniper routers E, J, M & T-Series and Juniper EX switches EX8200, EX4500, EX4200, EX3200, EX2500, EX2200 Series.
• Experience in working in panorama, Palo Alto user interface version 8.0.2 and VM-300 series firewalls.
• Creating templates in panorama to manage the individual devices from it.
• Used Raspberry Pi as Internet of Things (IoT) to control the Manufacturing process and solved the security measure monitoring issue on Cloud Environment using Node Red Service.
• Worked on Cisco Firewalls and VPN (5500 Series), Cisco ISE, Cisco DNA Center, Fortinet, Palo Alto Panorama and Firewalls (PA220, 850, 3220), SolarWinds, VeloCloud SD-WAN devices and orchestrator (VCE 510, 520, 840), and Cradlepoint 4G wireless solutions.
• Checkpoint with product like Nokia IP 390, 560, 690, 1280, 2450, 61000 etc.; in Provider-1 environment.
• Familiar in deploying applications using java build tools Apache Ant, Maven, Gradle and Basic knowledge in UNIX and LINUX Shell scripting.
• Worked on Virtual Private Networks on CISCO ASAs with Any Connect, Cisco ISE for authentication, as well as site to site VPN
• Experience in configuring, implementing and troubleshooting F5 load balancer in the enterprise network.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routers: Cisco 7609, 2600, 2800, 3800, 3640, Cisco 3745, 7200 Series, HP Aruba Controller 7010, 7024, 7030, 7210, 7220, 7240 Aruba AP- 325, 225, 303H, RAP-3, 155, 203

Switches: Cisco 3500, 5000, 6500 Catalyst Series Cisco 7000, 2000 Nexus Series -2k,5k,7k HPAruba Swstack-3800, 3810, 2930

Firewalls: Palo Alto PA-3050, PA-5050, CISCO ASA 5500, Checkpoint (Firewall)77.30, 80.10, Fortinet (Firewall). F5 (SSL VPN), Pulse Secure (SSL VPN), Proxy (BlueCoat)

Routing Protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, static Routing, PPP, HDLC, IPsec, SSL VPN

Switching Protocols: STP, RSTP, PVSTP, VTP, ARP, and VLAN.

IP Services: DHCP, NAT, VLAN, DNS, FTP, TFTP, LAN/WAN

WAN Technologies: ATM, ISDN, PPP, MPLS, ATT, 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, APLUS.

VPN Technologies: Remote access and site-to-site IPsec VPN, IPv6 transition techniques viz. Manual tunneling, GRE tunneling, 6to4 tunneling, NAT64 and ISATAP

Monitoring Tools: Sciencelogic-EM7, OPNET, GNS3 Simulator, Packet Tracer, Wire Shark, Solar Winds, What’s Up IP, Nagios and Fluke Networks

Networking: TCP/IP,WLAN,OSI Model, Socket Programming, LAN/WAN, Switches and Routers, IPV4/IPV6 Addressing & Subnetting, Ethernet, STP, VLAN, Trunking, DNS, DHCP, NAT, ACL, HTTP, ATM, ISDN, PPP, MPLS, ATT, 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, APLUS Web Services (REST & SOAP), Windows Servers 8 & 12

Tools: GNS3, Packet Tracer, Solar Winds, What’s Up IP, VMware Workstation, Wireshark, Nagios and Fluke Networks

Languages: Shell Scripting, Java

Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, UNIX, SPLAT (Secure Platform), Linux

DOCSIS: Cisco, RCA, Com21, GI, 3Com, Samsung, and Toshiba

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Dallas TX

Network & Wireless Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for performing Active, Passive, Predictive wireless site surveys and Spectrum Analysis for analyzing RF characteristics such as signal strength, noise levels, SNR, Throughput and Interferences.
• Expert level understanding and operation of Site survey tools - Airmagnet Site Survey Pro, Ekahau Site Survey Pro, Spectrum XT and Wispy Channelyzer. Conversion of Campus AP to standalone and vice versa.
• Experience with RTLS implementation in multiple Healthcare environment with Security, Mobility, Redundancy and High Availability requirements. Internal and External Antenna deployments in Manufacturing/Warehouse environment.
• Creating or Modifying Firewall rules on Cisco 5555, 5520, Juniper SRX and Palo Alto VM-300 devices.
• Configuring HA pair for two Palo VM-300 series AWS instance firewalls and testing the failover activity as well as ENI migration.
• I configure, manage and support our layer 2 and 3 switches usual Cisco catalyst 2960 series, 3560 series, Cisco 9300 series, HP and Aruba switches
• Design expertise for the SD-WAN (Versa & Viptela), SD-LAN and WAN optimization technologies for efficient delivery of the application data across LAN and WAN
• Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco 7600, 7200, 3800 series and ASR 9k, GSR 12K routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 3550, 3750, 5000, 6500, 9300, 9500 Series switches.
• Working with the PRISMA (Palo Alto Cloud) to secure clients cloud services and applications.
• Working closely with onsite IT managers and remote engineers utilizing Ekahau Site Survey performed wireless validation surveys of Microsoft offices across the United States and Canada. Configured Aruba access points, troubleshoot connectivity issues with Aruba access points. Prepared wireless survey reports, reports documenting.
• MPLS ISP provider. SD-WAN controllers were deployed using Cisco’s cloud-managed service and reachable via Internet transport.
• Upgrading the IOS on Network Devices including cisco 6800, 6500 and Palo Alto VM-300 devices
• Troubleshooting for Layer 2 LAN technologies including but not limited to Ethernet (Switched, FastE, and GigE), Spanning-Tree, VLANs, VTP, and Trunking (802.1q) and Aruba Wireless platform and Aero hive Wireless AP.
• Installed CISCO Wireless Access Points and was responsible for conducting wireless local area network (WLAN) surveys and utilizing Air Magnet Site Survey software to obtain signals in real time.
• Well equipped with understanding of architectures from various vendors such as Cisco, Cisco Meraki, Aruba and Mist Systems.
• Expert level knowledge on configuring Aruba Mobility controller, Airwave, Aruba Clearpass, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, WCS/NCS, ISE & MSE. Worked extensively configuring Security over Wireless and Voice over Wireless.
• Configuring HA pair for two Palo VM-300 series AWS instance firewalls and testing the failover activity as well as ENI migration.
• Responsible for performing predictive wireless designs/site surveys with Air Magnet Planner (Cisco 3500/3600/3700/ Aruba 105 access points) and conducting physical wireless site surveys with Air Magnet Survey
• Cisco ISE installation / configuration, integration of WLAN controllers with Cisco ISE
• Testing Dual - band concurrent IEEE 802.11n 2.4 GHz and IEEE 802.11ac 5 GHz Wi-Fi interfaces. Executed WLAN performance testing in all the supported Wi-Fi radio modes by measuring throughput in different channel conditions.
• Working on global 802.11ac WLAN upgrade project. Responsible for implementing LAN and WLAN networks.
• Troubleshoot network connectivity and access on both pre-existing issues as well as any issues that arise during implementation.
• Implement network security, firmware upgrades, and LAN refreshes on network to match previously created documentation designs while overcoming any hurdles that arise during implementation. Update and manage network infrastructure diagrams using MS Visio for internal and Clients requirements.
• Technical assistance for LAN/WAN management and complex customer issues.
• Responsible for Support, monitor and configuration and troubleshooting infrastructure Device Like Firewall Palo alto, Fortinet 100D, Access point of SISL.
• Migrated VRFs, RR and routing configurations from Cisco 7K to more advance cisco Nexus 9K (9300) routers in Data Center as a part of Network refresh (ACI migration) project for Software define Networking (SDN).
• Integrated existing Layer 2 and Layer 3 configurations/migration with new ACI deployment.
• Configured (Application Centric Infrastructure) ACI, API and VxLAN on Nexus 9k switches.
• Worked on F5 LTMs pools, SNATS, health monitors and virtual servers.
• Provided full range of support for Firepower/Firewall devices and worked with customers to improve efficiency of Firepower/Firewalls
• Firepower Operating System Infrastructure Specialist and mentored to Firepower team member and Veterans Incubation Talent Program (VTIP) cohort members
• Worked on all aspects of network engineering: security, design, implementation, monitoring, and troubleshooting. Such as Solar winds/Orin, Palo Alto Networks Panorama.
• Dealt with NAT configuration and its troubleshooting issues related access lists and DNS/DHCP issues within the LAN network.
• Performed service requests on technologies including: Cisco IOS, F5 BIG-IP, Linux and Windows Servers, NICE Engage, UCCE, CUCM, and Genesys Framework
• Configured and maintained IPSEC tunnel and MPLS circuit on Checkpoint and Fortinet Firewalls
• Configuring rules and maintaining Fortinet Firewalls & Analysis of Firewall logs.
• Hand on experience Aruba network technology Switch, Controller, Mobility Controller and Clear pass technology.
• Worked on whitelisting and blacklisting in Blue Coat Proxy.
• Manage Aruba technology Switch, Controller, Mobility Controller & Clear pass Technology.

Confidential - Norman, OK

Wireless Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configure Routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS static routing and policy base routing.
• Was part of the operations L3 team in troubleshooting various fields like Switching, Routing, F5, Wi-Fi and Firewalls
• Experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting of Checkpoint Firewall CISCO ASA Palo Alto NSX FIREWALL Juniper SSG series.
• In-depth knowledge IEEE 802.11 WLAN operations, designs and wireless network deployment, worked on Riverbed Steelhead WAN Optimizers, work with ISPs to resolve configuration issues.
• Worked on Firmware upgrades on both wired and Wireless Network equipment using Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Hands on experience in building and installing the F5 GTM from scratch, as I was required to build and DR GTM for our new DR datacenter and sync it with our prod and OR datacenter GTM’s.
• Hands on experience on configuring and troubleshooting in the F5 BIGIP platform (includes LTMs and GTMs).
• Used Infoblox for day to day purpose in creating new subnets, expanding the DHCP scope and reserving the available IP’s.
• Expertise to planning, designing implementing, operating and troubleshooting complex enterprise WLAN networks.
• Built wireless network using Aruba redundant controllers and Clearpass radius server.
• Wireless rollout: responsible for deploying 1500 Aruba Wireless Access Points to different sites
• Optimizing and monitoring the performance of a WLAN, LAN, WAN and user's segments
• Configured the ISE software and provide DWR staff with the necessary configuration changes needed on the network equipment to facilitate the migration of existing services to the new Cisco ISE server.
• Generated guest accounts in order to provide wireless guest access to users in Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
• Implemented NMS Cisco Prime Infrastructure & Career management suite from Scratch and managed network devices with Cisco ISE and Cisco Prime (3.4)
• WLAN integration of all hotspot access points with wired central LAN infrastructure by using bridged backhaul point to point, point to multi-point and mesh type wireless network topology using 802.11a/b/g/n 5.8 GHz radios.
• Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.
• Provided ISE deployment services for migration of users from Cisco NAC to Cisco ISE platform for the following locations.
• Perform Troubleshooting at the Wireless Controllers for AP's associations and Wireless Client Association.
• Experience in providing Network Design, Installation, Analysis, Troubleshooting, and Support for LAN, WAN and WLAN services.
• Troubleshooting the network problems to make sure for the maximum availability of the network and maintaining minimum downtime.

Confidential

Wireless Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Setup and configured Checkpoint Firewall, Migrated from Checkpoint Firewall GAIA R77 to R80.

  Expert in Smart Dash Board, Smart view Tracker and smart Monitor

• Modified Aruba Airwave wireless LAN controllers and Cisco Prime during access point installations
• 365 and Azure and AD implementation manipulation, management and reporting using PowerShell.
• Functional testing, Unit testing of software system/products. Familiar with test automation scripts in C/C++ and Python.
• Migrated Cisco Prime from an appliance to a virtual machine deployment.
• Extensive use of Cisco Prime to manage access points, wireless controller and monitor wireless systems at for both hospital and clinic environment.
• Working on Cisco IOS/NX-OS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing/switching protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS, VLANs, PVST, RPVST, MST, Trunking, VTP etc.
• Created, updated, and managed site maps in Cisco Prime in floor-by-floor representation of hospital.
• Configured protocols HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, HDLC, PAP, CHAP, and SNMP.
• Regularly update Cisco IOS, Catalyst OS and NX-OS on different Cisco Switches and Routers for better performance and to avoid vulnerabilities.
• Implemented standard, extended ACL, object groups, NATs to control traffic and configured VPN (SSL, IPSec, AnyConnect, Site-to-Site) for remote connectivity and work from home users.
• Worked on Cisco IOS/NX-OS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing/switching protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS, VLANs, PVST, RPVST, MST, Trunking, VTP etc.
• Managed Palo Alto firewalls by creating and implementing traffic rules, NAT rules, URL filtering, and software upgrades by utilizing Panorama GUI and CLI.
• Performed administrative tasks with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama) including Security, NAT policy definitions; application filtering; Regional based rules; URL filtering, Data filtering, file blocking, User based policies.
• Worked on Cisco IOS/NX-OS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing/switching protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS, VLANs, PVST, RPVST, MST, Trunking, VTP etc.
• Configured Application URI filtering and protected corporate Data by using DLP, Threat Prevention used to deal with Antivirus and Anti Bot.
• Securing routing protocols, common layer 2 attack mitigation (DHCP snooping, port security, BPDU guard, LOOP guard), VLAN security implementation on Cisco ASA (via CLI or ASDM)
• Experience in working with Cisco Nexus Switches and Virtual Port Channel configuration.
• Experience with Checkpoint VSX, including virtual systems, routers and switches.
• Experience with DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
• Configuration of Network and Security devices such as Cisco routers and switches (Cisco ASR 1K & ACS 5.X).
• Worked on operating Cisco ASA Firewalls, routers and switches and the ability to formulate access control lists (ACLs) via the Command Line Interface (CLI).
• Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, MIX routers, Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, HP switches and its downstream devices.
• Juniper hardware support of MX960e, MX480e, M10, M120, M320, T1600, T640, and Tellabs 8860.
• Managed Datacenter of F5 load balancers, Cisco 4500, Juniper M120 and Extreme switches.