SUMMARY

• Seven plus years of networking experience in design, deployment, troubleshooting and operation of Multi - vendor products like Cisco/Juniper devices for both networking and security.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco 3750, 3550, 3560, 2924, 6509-V-E, 6513, 6504, 6503, 6506, 6500, Nexus 7K, Nexus 5K, Nexus 2K series switches. (NX-OS).
• Implementing and Troubleshooting with Juniper ACX series, CSE2000 and CTP circuit to Packet platforms.
• Experience Troubleshooting in Juniper MX Series, PTX Series, SRX Series and T Series.
• Experience with design and implementation of Virtual Switching System (VSS) on 6509 Switches in Server distribution environment.
• Designing, Implementing and Troubleshooting Cisco Routers (800,2900,3900,7600) using Static, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, BGP & Experience with Cisco PIX & ASA devices.
• Implementing and Troubleshooting Juniper EX Series Ethernet Switches and QFX Series Switches in different platforms.
• Implementing 3750 Stackable switches using Cisco Stack Wise technology. Experience to review and evaluate current and future design issues as required maintaining network integrity, efficient data flow.
• Working knowledge of frame relay, MPLS services, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP routing protocols, NAT’ing, sub-netting, also including DNS, WINS, LDAP, DHCP, http, HTML, HTTPS, TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, OSPF, RIP, IPSEC, PPTP, VLAN, STP (Spanning tree Protocol), Tunneling, ACE GSS, RSTP & Multicasting protocols.
• Experience in Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) in SIP phones and HCS.
• Experience with Troubleshooting tools for example protocol analyzers, load generators & network traces.
• Experience in Architectural framework for configuring CISCO AAA in client side.
• Working of network device management protocols like RADIUS for network access control and TACACS+ for network device access control.
• Experience in HPQA/QC.
• Experience in Cisco Unified Communication Manager, CER e911 and Unity Connections.
• Experience in Voice Over IP VoIP UCC).
• Experience with developing, implementing, and auditing ASA firewall configurations.
• Experience in Acme Packet interoperability with CUCM 7.1.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing and optimizing ASA firewall rule sets.
• Experience working with F5 Load Balancer LTM 6900, VIPRION 2400 and GTM module. Also did convert from Cisco ACE load balancer to F5 LTM load balancer. I also did TMSH or BIBPIPE. CLI and also used F5 GTM for creating WIDE IPS’s.
• I did a campus infrastructure refresh both from technology and infrastructure i did work with multiple vendors like Confidential s and Level 3 for service provider circuits also worked with change management system for any network change.
• Experience working with Nexus 7010, 5596, 5548 and 2000 Series.
• In-depth Cisco technology experience/knowledge in design, implementation, administration and support.
• In-depth Cisco technology experience/knowledge in design, implementation, administration and support.
• Expertise in network protocols, Firewalls and Communication Network design.
• Excellent Verbal, written communication skills and Interpersonal skills with ability to work with large teams as well as independently with minimum supervision & Team Player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing Technology: RIPV1, RIPV2, IGRP, EIGRP, IS-IS, OSPF, BGP.

Network Products: CISCO Routers 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800. CISCO High End Routers 3600, 3800, 7200, 12010, 12404. Juniper ACX series, CSE2000, CTP. CISCO Switches 1900, 2950, 2950, 2960G. CISCO Campus Switches 3550XL, 4948 Core Catalyst 4503, 4507 RE, Catalyst 6500/6503/6507 , Nexus 2000, 5000, 7000 series. Juniper EX Series, QFX Series.

Antivirus & Endpoint protection: Cisco CSA, Symantec Enterprise Edition, MacAfee Enterprise Edition.

Security & VPN: PIX 500 Firewall, ASA 5505 Firewall, AIP SSM, CSC SSM, FWSM, Fortigate, Cisco CSM, ACL-Access Control List, IPS/IDS, NAT, PAT, Cisco ACS, and Juniper Net Screen firewall, Palo AltoFirewalls, Windows Patch Management (WSUS).

LAN Technology: IEEE 802.11, Token Ring, Workgroup, Domain, HSRP, DNS, Static, VLAN, STP, VTP, Ether Channel, Tunneling, Trunks.

WAN Infrastructure: Leased Line, ISDN/Dial-Up, Frame Relay circuits, Metro Ethernet.

WAN Technologies & VoIP: HDLC, PPP, ATM, SONET, MPLS, VPN, IPSec-VPN, HPQA/QC, Cisco Unified Communication Manager, CER e911, Unity Connections, and CUCM 7.1.

Wireless & Wi-Fi.: Canopy Wireless Device (point to point/point to multipoint), DLink Wireless (point to point), DLink Access Point, CISCO 1200 series Access Point, and Linksys Wireless/Wi-Fi Router.

Operating Systems & Tools: Cisco IOS, Windows NT 4.0 (Desktop/Server), Windows 2000/2003/2008 Server, Windows XP/Windows 7/8, LINUX, Solaris, Active Directory, Apache Server, MS Exchange server, VERITAS Volume Manager.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Parsippany, NJ

Sr. Network Admin

Responsibilities:

• Designed and Deployed LAN networks with Access/Distro/Core layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, Switches.
• Delivered Access and Troubleshooting in Juniper ACX4000, CSE2000for NFV and CTP 2024 in IP/MPLS Networks in branch, campus and Data Centers.
• Design OSPF Areas for reliable Access Distribution and for Core IP Routing and Using BGP as a WAN routing protocol.
• Implementing, Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Convergence in Frame-Mode MPLS inside the core.
• Designed, validated and implemented LAN, WLAN & WAN solution to client’s requirements
• Experience working with Cisco ASA 5585-X firewalls with Firewall rules, IPSEC VPN, NAT, Active-Standby Failover, OSPF and Any Connect VPN technologies.
• Experience in Major tunneling protocols (Ie: Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP), Point to Point Tunneling Protocol (PPTP), and Layer 2 Forwarding (L2F)
• Experience working with Juniper EX4200, EX4600 Series Switches in Campus Network.
• Experience working with ACE 4400 Series Global Site Selector (GSS) and Global Server Load Balancer.
• Experience working with network device management protocols like RADIUS for network access control and TACACS+ for network device access control.
• Experience in Cisco Unified Communication Manager and CER e911.
• Experience working with data center migration project with converting 6500 Based environment to Cisco Nexus based data center.
• Experience working with Nexus 7k, 5K, 2K with VPC, VDC, ISSU Software upgrades
• Implement ATM/Frame Relay between data centers utilizing Cisco routers & switches.
• Done Deployment and Installation on CISCO Switches 1900, 2950, 2950, 2960G. CISCO Campus Switches 3550XL.
• Experience working with Juniper Routers (MX960, MX480, M320) and Switches (EX2400, QFX Virtual Chassis Switches) with BGP, OSPF, VSTP, MST layer 2 and layer 3 Technologies
• Reviewing, analyzing, approving and executing all changes in the network. All Configurations of Cisco Routers and Switches. Participated in a rotating 24x7 support schedule for the Network operation Center.
• Experience in Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) in SIP phones and HCS.
• Experience with Troubleshooting tools for example protocol analyzers, load generators & network traces.
• Experience in Architectural framework for configuring CISCO AAA in client side.
• Experience in HPQA/QC.
• Experience in Cisco Unified Communication Manager, CER e911 and Unity Connections.
• Experience in Voice Over IP (VoIP UCC).
• Experience in Acme Packet interoperability with CUCM 7.1.
• Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve the uptime of collocation customers, in the event a core router became unreachable.
• Troubleshooting and monitored routing protocols such RIP, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP.
• Designing and Implementation of (LAN) VLANs, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking (dot1q and ISL) and Ether channel.
• Provided Load Balancing towards access layer from core layer using F5 Network Load Balancers.
• Upgraded load balancers from Radware to F5 BigIP v9, which improved functionality and scalability in the enterprise.
• Managed the F5 BigIP GTM/LTM appliances to include writing iRules, SSL offload and everyday task of creating WIP and VIPs.
• Configured ACL & NAT through CLI.
• Working with Juniper JUNOS operating system and working on M and MX series routers.
• Implemented TCP/IP and related services like DHCP/DNS/WINS.
• Configured and troubleshooting of HSRP on Cisco routers.
• Responsible for turning up BGP peering and customer sessions, as well as debugging BGP routing problems.
• Implemented SNMP on Cisco routes to allow for network management.

Environment: Juniper firewalls 5GT, 208, SSG 5, 140, 550, 550M, NSM, IDS/IPS, Vulnerability Assessment tools like Nessus, Red Hat, Solaris, Juniper VPN’s, SSL

Confidential, Columbia, MD

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Experience with hybrid CatOS to Native Cisco IOS code migration involving Catalyst 6503 to Catalyst 6504 switches
• Experience with managing the completed end to end site solutions
• Involved in Datacenter build and support, Implementation, migrations network support, Interconnectivity between an old Datacenter and new Datacenter.
• Experience with protocols such as Frame Relay, IEEE 802.11 and VLAN, OSPF and BGP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, NTP, SNMP, SMTP and TELNET.
• Converting access-lists to Firewall rule sets on FWSM module with 6509-E Catalyst switches
• Involved in setting up Voice VLANs on distribution switches, and configuring access switches ports for AVAYA IP PHONES.
• Experience with moving data center from one location to another location, from Old EOL 6500 based data center to New 6509 devices.
• Working knowledge of PPP Protocol with Enhanced Flex WAN module on 6500 catalyst switch.
• Replacing and Installation of Cisco Switch 2950 and Campus Switch 4948 on Cisco 1900.
• Experience in Cisco ACE 4710 GSS 4492R for data Center applications.
• Involved configuring ppp multilink group, dialer group, PPP authentication protocols like PAP, CHAP
• Working knowledge of Terminal server and the configurations.
• Experience in Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP).
• Experience in Architectural framework for configuring CISCO AAA in client side.
• Experience working in Cisco unified communication center in Unity Connections.
• Experience in HPQA/QC.
• Experience in Cisco Unified Communication Manager, CER e911 and Unity Connections.
• Experience in Voice Over IP (VoIP UCC).
• Installation of L3 Switching Engine policy Feature Card & Distributed Forwarding Card DFC3C
• Implementing 3750 Rack/Stack switches using Cisco Stack Wise technology
• Experience with design and implementation of Virtual Switching System (VSS) for both User segment and server segment using 6509-V-E catalyst switches.
• Implementation and configuration of F5 Big-IP LTM-6400 load balancers
• Converting CatOS to Cisco IOS Config Conversion on distribution layer switches.
• Involved in writing troubleshooting guidelines for MPLS VPN.
• Involved in customer escalations and troubleshooting issues related to connectivity, STP, VLAN, Trunking, VTP, Layer 2/3 switching, Ether channels, Inter-VLAN routing, log messages, high CPU utilization and parameters that can degrade performance of network.
• Configuring HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, Port Channel on 6500 catalyst switches
• Configuring PAGP and LACP protocol along with BFD link detection protocol
• Experience with design and implementation of Data center migration.
• Data center migration was involved in Access, Distribution and Core layers.
• Installed new purchased Hardware to the new DC, Migrate data over WAN connection, also greatly involved in virtualization of physical servers.
• Experience with migration Hybrid based Cisco CatOS and Native Cisco IOS on 6500 catalyst switches.
• Involved in migration of WLAN segment on the LAN Core. Also, involved in configuring wireless VLANS
• Working knowledge of Firewall service module FWSM UPGRADE, FWSM RULESET conversion
• Coordinated precise scheduling for all migration events including all equipment and resources for the data center migration on an extremely accelerated schedule with for a high profile client.

Environment: 6500/3750/3550/3500/2950 switches, Juniper (M320, T640), Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, TACACS, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, MPLS, Ether Channels.

Confidential, Cypress, CA

Network Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the Network Infrastructure, Installation, migration and configuration of routers and switches for clients.
• Performed Troubleshooting and monitored routing protocols such OSPF, EIGRP & BGP.
• Provide alternative means from dial-up connection to bring down the damage or loss that occurs for the client.
• Configured Routing protocols such as OSPF and policy based routing.
• Team member of Configuration ofCISCO7206 router and Configuration of Catalyst switches.
• Configuration 7609, 7606 with OSPF and catalyst 6505, 4500, 3550 switches with various VLAN.
• Create and testCisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol.
• Configuration and troubleshooting link state protocols like OSPF in multiple areas.
• Configured HSRP and VLAN trucking 802.1Q, VLAN Routing on Catalyst 6500 switches.
• Optimized performance of the WANnetworkconsisting of CISCO 3550/4500/6500 switches by configuring VLANs.
• Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
• Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 Series routers.
• Experience in Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP).
• Configured IP access filter policies.
• Providing Technical Support and solutions forNetwork Problems.
• Implementing NAT solution's on Cisco IOS routers.
• Upgrading IOS, troubleshootingnetworkoutages.
• Worked on Cisco Routers, Active /Passive Hubs, Switches.
• Having Data Center Design Experience, installing and Configuring Network Devices in a Data Center including patching the cables in the Patch Panel. Design and implemented network infrastructure and configured all the network Infrastructure devices including Network Printers and Registers.
• Set up Internet, implementing Networking products like Servers, Proxy servers, Switches, Firewalls, Routers.

Environment: Cisco 3550/4500/6500 switches and Cisco 2500, 2600, 3000, 6500, 7500, 7200 routers, Checkpoint, CISCO 3300 and 2950 switches.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Handled the up gradation and replacement of network components like NIC cards, display cards, RAM, keyboard, mouse and other peripherals/ devices.
• Handled installation of operating systems (NT/2000, MS Office, XP), troubleshooting of operating systems and configuring the servers.
• Experience with Remedy ticketing system in resolving tickets related to routing and Switching
• Gained knowledge in IP Subnetting for Class A, B, and C networks.
• Configured and installed CISCO routers 2500, 2600, 3601 and 4000 series.
• Remotely testing links up to 1.5 Mbps using tools like REACTS.
• Troubleshooting on routing protocols, which include RIP, BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF.
• Recovered lost passwords and created standard access-lists and extended access list to new users.
• Monitoring network performance to improve the backup strategy using Netrep, Solar winds.

Environment: CISCO 2500, 2600 and 3601 and 4000 series routers.

Confidential

Jr. Networking Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining the Network Infrastructure, Installation, migration and configuration of routers and switches for clients.
• Working with Client teams to find out requirements for their Network Requirements.
• Performed Troubleshooting and monitored routing protocols such OSPF, EIGRP & BGP.
• Gained knowledge in IP Subnetting for Class A, B, and C networks.
• Installed wireless access points (WAP) at various locations in the company.
• Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP.
• Real time monitoring and network management using Cisco Works LMS.
• Provided technical support on hardware and software related issues to remote production sites.

Environment: Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600 routers.