OBJECTIVE:

• I wish to grow professionally Computer Networks with an esteemed institution wherein, I can find the opportunity to enhance my professional status, strengthen my exposure and surmount into challenging environment

SUMMARY:

• Expertise in design, installation, trouble - shooting and maintenance in the following areas:
• Solid understanding of Cisco Routers 877, 1800, 1900,2500, 2600, 2800, 3700, 3800,3900, 7200 and ASR 1001-2.
• Catalyst Switch 3560, 3750v2, G Series, 2900, 4500x 6500,
• Experience in Nexus 7K, 5K and 2K.
• Hands on experience in TCP/IP, VLAN, VTP, STP, NAT, VPN, DHCP, Multicasting and OSI Layers.
• Networking Protocols: RIP, RIP v2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP/MPLS, Spanning tree PVST+, Rpvst, MST, VRRP, HSRP, Etherchannel.
• Site-to-site VPN with Pre-Shared Key and DMVPN, NHRP.
• Knowledge of Cisco UCS, VoIP System, IP Telephony
• Nexus 7K and 5K, VPC, FEX and VDC
• Expertise in deploying Cisco Meraki MX64, MX80, MX100
• Experience in Cisco ASA Firewall 5505, 5506, 5525 with Firepower service and Cisco Source Fire
• Experience in Checkpoint Firewall 1100 series
• Experience in Fortinet firewall Fortigate60D
• Experience with Websense, security and content filtering policies
• Experience with content filtering devices, Content protect, barracuda, websense
• Experience with Aruba and Cisco Wireless Networking, Wireless site survey, Heat maps, Troubleshooting and configuration.
• Experience with RADIUS, Aruba Clearpass
• Expertise in Aruba Controller and Instant AP Deployment, Configuration, Troubleshooting, AP model 93, 103, and 215.
• Expertise in Cisco Wireless Controller 2500 Series, AP 1131, 1145, CAPWAP, lightweight and standalone APs
• Expertise with Aruba Airwave Management, Configuration, Monitoring, Management
• Expertise with Confidential Wi4MAX Network Deployment, Confidential ULAP Access points,, Confidential Diversity Access Points, Confidential BCU
• Experience with Hybrid Fiber Coaxial (HFC) network, monitoring, troubleshooting, worked with different vendors for the product deployment and support
• Experience with Layer-1and different media types, ISDN, ATM, Framerelay, MPLS, DMVPN, Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV), Fiber optics, Coax Cable, Ethernet 10/100/1000, CSU/DSU, DSL and DSLAM.
• Experience with Inventory Management
• Experience working in Data center, Rack installation, Mounts and Server Installation
• Experience with Ticketing System, Confidential CNRC, Service Now, Open Source Ticketing System (OTRS)
• Experience with Passive Optical Networks (PON), implementation design for GPON and EPON.
• Expertise in Airwatch (Mobile Device Management)
• Experience in defining Firewall Policies, Security Audits and Security network designs
• Expertise in IPS/IDS
• Knowledge of Load balancers F5 and Riverbed

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Communication Protocols: ICMP SNMP SMTP EIGRP OSPF BGP IP/MPLS TCP/IP RSVP VTP POP3/IMAP PAP/CHAP IPSec SSL EAP, EAP - TLS, SSL WAP-2 Personal/ WPA-Enterprise/ 802.11x Authentication HREAP HMAC,SHA-1, RSA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Engineer

Confidential, Novi, MI

Responsibilities:

• Working as a Network system Administrator, area of responsibilities includes support as member of Infra structure team (level-3)
• Responsible of providing support for LCG IT Level-1 and Level-2 Support Services team
• Deployed LCG AT&T AVPN network, configured BGP, MPLS on Customer Edge Routers and Core Switches including Cisco Router 3800, 3900, Core switches Nexus 7K, 3750 Series
• Managing all cisco devices include Edge Routers, Core and Access Switches, including configuration, design and implementation of the protocols OSPF, BGP, IOS Upgrades, QoS
• Designed, proposed and implemented Cisco Meraki Firewall MX64 and MX100 devices for the pilot schools in LCG
• Responsible of designing and implementing LCG network security policies, including penetration testing, managing and configuring Cisco ASA 5525 firewalls
• Working as a Airwatch administrator for mobile device management for 900+ location, including restriction, BYOD and Guest network policies for all mobile devices include Laptops, Android and Apple IOS
• Working as a core engineer for Aruba Wireless Network, responsible for designing and implementing wireless LAN solution for LCG locations, platforms working on are Aruba Airwave Management Console for Instant APs, RADIUS 802.1x authentication, Aruba Clearpass, Aruba instant and controller based APs model 62, 93, 103 and 215.
• Implemented Airwatch Secure Email Gateway, Mobile access gateway and Airwatch cloud connector as project of mobile device management
• Configured Aruba Airwave for the instant APs, configuration template creation, modification, performance monitoring,, license upgrades for Airwave and AP firmware upgrades.
• Aruba Controllers configuration, monitoring, provisioning of APs, addition and deletion from the controller.
• Aruba instant APs inventory and license management for Aruba Airwave.
• Active Directory integration with Airwave
• Responsible for the administration and monitoring of the WAN monitoring, configured Netflow on Cisco platforms, monitoring using Solarwind Orion, Solarwind LEM, Webview and NetBrain
• Responsible for of Level-1 and Level2 teams for day to day task and operations
• Responsible for the AP refresh cycle, day to day tickets handling and troubleshooting
• Responsible for Ticket creation and network issues handling using ServiceNow ticketing system.
• Working as a core engineer to purpose network improvements, network performance improvement and documentation of IT work flows for the other teams and field technicians
• Experience in working with content filtering products like Websense, designed and implemented the filtering policies, exception groups and LDAP integration

Network Engineer

Confidential, Southfield, MI

Responsibilities:

• Experienced with designing, implementing and administering Ciena’s site-tosite VPN architecture using Cisco ASA5505 and Cisco ASA5512 Firewalls
• Configured cisco ASAs for site-to-site VPN with IP SLA, remote access vpn and failovers
• Responsible for managing Cisco 877, 877w, 2600 and 3600 routers, including configuration, qos implementation, IOS upgrades
• Experienced with WAN cut overs for Ciena’s remote locations
• Experienced with configuring cisco small business SG500 switches for VLAN, Stack modes, QoS
• Deployed Ciena’s wireless LAN using Cisco 2100 and 2504 controller, 1131, 1145 access points, wireless site surveys, product selection, configuration and implementation, making lightweight APs to work with the controllers,
• Experienced with Cisco CAPWAP, HREAP, Mobility domain and mobility groups
• Experience in configuring and deploying Cisco Network Control System Prime Infrastructure
• Experience in deploying Ciena’s Guest Network
• Experience with networking monitoring tools solarwinds, centrion, cisco network prime
• Experience with Windows 2003, 2008 Server, active directory, user management
• Experience with configuring, implementation and design of content filtering policy, security audit, user white/black listing for devices like content protect, barracuda and content protect software version.
• Experience with building security polices, security audits and process flows for Ciena IT
• Worked as a LANDESK administrator, configured and deployed LANDESK user agent throughout the network
• Experience with configuring Firewall DMZ and access policies for Ciena Servers
• Experience in implementing IP SLA network with Cisco ASA firewalls using Verizon 4G LTE Modem using cradlepoint router
• Prepared and complied the HIPAA security policies for the IT department

WiMAX NOC Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Experience in working with Confidential Network Operation Center as a NOC Engineer
• Experience with Confidential CNRC Ticketing System, Network Monitoring Tools including Canopy Prism, Confidential network management system (NMS),
• Experience in configuration WiMAX sites status probes inside Confidential NMS systems, monitoring, reporting and troubleshooting
• Experience in providing remote support to Confidential Radio Access Network Field team nationwide, remote troubleshooting of WiMAX sites
• Experience in Monitoring ULAP, DAP and SAP access points, Confidential base controller unit
• Worked as a lead NOC engineer in operations and maintenance

WiMax Field and Access Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Worked as a WiMAX RAN engineer in operation and maintenance
• Expertise in deploying the WiMAX sites, Installation of the APs, Confidential base controller unit, commissioning the wirmax site, configuring the wimax access points, configuration of etherWAN switch
• Expertise in working with Confidential BCU, DAP, SAP
• Experience with configuring SEGEM microwave equipment for WiMAX sites
• Experience in site testing, including Confidential customer premises equipment model Confidential CPE, wolverine and Confidential blade
• Expertise in RF, WiMAX site surveys using Confidential site surveying platforms
• Participated in building deployment plan, wimax sites clustering, IP plan and designing link budget for wimax sites