Summary

Lives and breathes the Network. Passionate about building a career on the fundamentals of Network Engineering, including a deeper understanding and ability to leverage the knowledge and experience of networking, network monitoring, logical and process driven troubleshooting, the practice of methodical isolation and validation of network issues. Seeking a challenging role as a Junior/Intermediate Network Engineer in a dynamic and progressive environment that will best utilize my experience and skills in ensuring reliability and security of critical business infrastructure.

PROFILE

• Network Engineer with a primary focus on aligning IT with business goals.
• 5 years of experience in design, implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting of data and communication networks and network security.
• WAN, LAN, and security design, implementation and support scaling multiple sites.
• Design, test and deployment of network and security solutions for medium to large scale networks.
• Good knowledge with design/implementation of networks solutions.
• Good knowledge in design/implementation of high end series routers, switches, firewalls, and other network and security components.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, network practices and concepts.
• A goal driven engineer and an active team player who brings in lot of energy and enthusiasm, increases cohesiveness and strongly believes that a good and disciplined team can achieve anything.
• Knowledge of Information Security practices and technologies including firewalls.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Key Technical Skills

• Network Platforms: Good Knowledge of routing platforms - Cisco ISR 800, 1800, 2600, 2800, 2900 ISR G2 , 3600, 3800, 3900 7200 and ASR 1000 series Routers. Good Knowledge of access, distribution and core layer switch platforms catalyst 2960, 3500, 3700, 4500 and 6500, 6500, HP ProCurve 2900 series switches.
• Routing protocols: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP basics of it .
• Switching: ISL, 802.1q, VTP, STP, Rapid-STP
• Cisco Firewalls: Cisco ASA Firewall 55xx
• WAN Technologies: NAT, PAT, DHCP, PPP PAP and CHAP .
• Network Security: Cisco ASA firewalls with Gigabit ports and IPS
• Other Technical Skills: HSRP, VRRP, GLBL, Switch Chassis Redundancy, ASA Failover
• Microsoft Technologies: Windows 2000/2003/2008/2012 Server, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio 2013, Windows XP/7 Professional.

EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Engineer

• Migrated, designed, implemented and upgraded Network.
• Monitoring network using Cacti, IP Monitor, ACLs, and ASA tools, Syslog server, and Kibana.
• Installing and upgrading hardware and software for servers 2008 R2 for Hyper-V and x10SL7 Motherboard, switches, and routers.
• Configured and administered Cisco 3600 series router for the LAN/WAN environment and Cisco catalyst 2900, 3500, 4500 series switches.
• Maintained Active Directory users, groups, computers and domain tree security and Access Supported VPN connections between buildings and remote access for home/remote users, upgrading OS 2003 to 2008 servers, installing and configuring hardware and software for 2008.
• Installed and configured DNS, FTP, VPN, and DHCP servers on MS Windows 2003 and 2008 servers.
• Designed and configured LAN as per organizational requirements.
• Administered network security through installation maintenance of security devices.
• Expanded network by increasing the number of subnets
• Assigned users at various nodes in the network and managed user rights and security.
• Established Telnet, console and auxiliary connections.
• Handled the troubleshooting and resolution for TCP/IP, DNS, and other network connectivity issues.
• Configured and administered Cisco routers and switches
• Documented network using online Excel, Microsoft Visio
• Participated on daily meetings to discuss and bring solutions to performances.

Confidential

Junior Network Engineer

• Responsible for network design and upgrade of core network infrastructure.
• Completed design, implementation, configuration, testing and cutover of redundant 4500 series switches and 6500 switches.
• Consultant for migration of the customer's network from legacy 4000/6000 switching infrastructure to Cisco 6500 switches.
• Supported data center migration project for ATC Associates.
• Installed Cisco 3750/4948 switches, Cisco 3825 series routers and ASA firewall as part of the new DC migration/upgrade project.

Network/Security Review and Implementation:

• Reviewed network architecture and analyzed traffic flows and current network security policy.
• Network Segmentation and internal firewall implementation as per security findings review.
• Cisco ASA firewall design/implementation Installation, Configurations, and Troubleshooting .

Confidential

Junior Network Engineer

• Installed and configured Cisco VoIP phones.
• Designed and implemented CISCO ASA firewalls Installation, Configurations, and Troubleshooting .
• Configured and administered the Cisco 3600 series router for the WAN environment and Cisco catalyst 2900 series switches.
• Maintained Active Directory users, groups, computers and domain tree security and Access Supported VPN connections between buildings and remote access for home/remote Users Upgrading OS from MS Windows NT 4.0 to MS Windows 2000 2003 servers.
• Responsible for educating users regarding viruses and alerts.
• Installed and configured DNS, FTP, VPN, and DHCP servers on MS Windows 2000 servers.
• Network Administration and Security.
• Designed and configured LAN as per organizational requirements.
• Administered network security through installation maintenance of security devices.
• Assigned users at various nodes in the network and managed user rights and security.
• Installed and configured network printers and assigned user rights for access.
• Established Telnet, console and auxiliary connections.
• Applied NTFS Permissions and configured Disk quotas for users.
• Handled the troubleshooting and resolution for TCP/IP, DNS, and other network connectivity issues.
• Configured and administered Cisco routers and switches

Confidential

Junior Network Engineer

• Assisted the network engineers with designing and configuring the company LAN/WAN wired, wireless, and voice networks.
• Configured Cisco 2950, 3560 and 4500 series Catalyst switches, Rapid Spanning-Tree and OSPF.
• Configured 2800 series routers for T1 WAN connection and Fast Ethernet internet connection.
• Setup Cisco ASA firewall for perimeter protection.
• Utilized and managed Active Directory.
• Troubleshot and resolved network connectivity issues,
• Resolved technical issues over the phone, through emails, and in person.