SUMMARY:

• An energetic, highly skilled Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert with 8 years of experience.
• Proficient in turning organization/business service needs into custom Network solutions which are scalable, highly available with ease management.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cisco Nexus: 7018, 7010 - Cisco Wave Devices: 7541,7571,8541

Cisco Routers: ASR1K Series,ISR Series 2900,3900 Series

Cisco Catalyst Switches: 6500,4500,3850 and 3750 Series

Project Task Planning tool: Jira, Microsoft Visio, Twiki Documentation

Cisco Wireless Controller & Access Points: 5508 WLC, 3500 AP Series

Juniper: EX 4500, QFX 3500

Network Virtualization: VMware Esxi 5.0, VSphere and Oracle Virtual Box.

Protocols: RIPv2, Eigrp, Ospf, Bgp, Pim, PPP, IPsec, Gre, Dhcp, Dns, Arp, Capwap, wccp, pagp/lacp, vlans, Rstp, Mstp, Qos, Nat, MP-Bgp,VSS Virtual Private Network (VPN): Mpls L3vpn, Dmvpn Traffic filters controlusing Access-lists, Distribute-Lists, Route Maps and Offset-lists.Software Define Networking (SDN): Openflow, ODL, HP Van controller, RYU, ACI. AWS Cloud VPC Migration.Azure Cloud.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Network Consulting Engineer

Confidential, Atlanta GA

Responsibilities:

• LAN /Wan Architectural Design/consulting.
• Dynamic Routing protocols design, implementation and recommendation.
• Private IP addresses block design and allocation for large enterprise LAN Network to support effective summarization and quick convergence.
• Data center architecture recommendation.
• Network optimization.
• Network switch edge security policy recommendation.
• Configuration template and standards draft to ease repetitive tasks.
• Drafting of Network Bill of material, Scope of work and Network documentation.
• Mentoring Junior Network Engineers.

Senior Network Engineer

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Hands-on Corporate Campus and Remote office Network upgrades, this covers wireless, wired and voice.
• Network downtime elimination utilizing first hop redundancy/failover protocol and management tools.
• Design, redesign, or re-allocate corporate IP addressing, DNS, DNS aliases, and DHCP scopes as necessary for equipment to be appropriately monitored and to adhere to current Cisco standards.
• Network design changes proposal using Microsoft Visio.
• Network updates documentation.
• Network audit which includes hardware, design and Technology recommendation.
• Creation of Change Management cases and maintaining strict adherence to Network Change management standards Pre/Post-implementation.
• Out of band Network deployment for campus Network
• Bill of material drafts with strict adherence to Network Design standards.
• Administrative tasks on Cisco unified call manager and wireless controllers.
• Equipment: Routers (2900,3945, ASR1K), Switching (3750,3850, 4500, 6500), WAN Optimization (WAAS), Application Optimization (ACNS), Wireless (4400, 5500, WiSM1/2), Voice (limited CUCM), Network Monitoring (NAM),Cisco ASA 5500 (limited)

Environment: EIGRP, BGP, 802.11a/b/g/n, SIP, WCCP, RPVSTP, MSTP,HSRP, VPN, GRE, PPP, VSS, DHCP, NTP, ARP,SNMP, RMON, ACL, IGMP, PIM,DMVPN,VSS,CEF

Network Engineer

Confidential, Sterling, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Data Center Network scaling whilst sustaining high network availability.
• Automation scripting templates for Network deployment.
• Planning, documenting and building data centers in new regions. These includes: hardware selection, cut sheets, device configuration, routing turn-up, verification of operational readiness.
• Aggregation layer load balancing.
• Fiber optics recommendation for network deployment.
• Troubleshooting high impact OSPF, BGP operational issues.

Environment: Cisco Nexus 7010 and 7018, Juniper EX 4500 & QFX 3500

Network Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Vlan design for LAN environments with appropriate policies to secure the network.
• Temporary deployment of dynamic routing protocol Integrationinmulti-vendor sitesthrough EIGRP and OSPFRe distribution.
• Clients Network security through injection of extended access-lists and route updates control.
• Introduction of optimized redundancy technologies (VRRP and GLBP)into client's high availability network environment.
• Site to site VPNplanning and deployments to link clients Corporate Headquarter to Branches.
• Diagnose/Troubleshoot spanning-tree issues for clients LAN Network remotely via SSH sessions.
• Introduction of virtualization environments into client’s network using VMwareand Virtual Box to reduce costs and maximize hardware utilization.

Network Support Engineer

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Interact directly with customers on regular basis to provide hands-on support of servers, switches, routers, and firewalls.
• Responsible for making, physical changes to switches and routers to increase networking performance.
• Install Windows 2003 Server, configure IP addresses, network printers, configure Confidential Client Access for PCs
• Responsible for deploying VOIP for users within LAN NETWORK
• Implemented Port aggregation through port channeling to increase speed and redundant link utilization
• Procurement of client’sworkstations, installation and LAN Set-up.
• Coordinated with IT manager to develop and implement LAN policies for network security and administration, disaster recovery, patch management and content filter