PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

• Dynamic Network Engineer familiar with routing protocols, voice applications, and network switching.
• Efficient Confidential working independently or as a part of a supportive team.
• Extensive knowledge of network and hardware tools, including Troubleshooting and implementation of VPC, VDC and Fabric path on Nexus 9K, 7K, 6K, & 2K Switches and configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX - OS operation system..
• Goal-oriented and diligent with over 6 years of experience as an Information Technology Engineer

Areas of Expertise

• Cisco Platforms Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K, 1K
• Experience in managing data center class firewalls (ASA, Palo Alto) 1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 3900, 7200
• Experience with VoIP services.
• Strong working knowledge and experience in configuring and troubleshooting multi-vendor routers, switches, firewall and wireless controllers
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networks, DNS, DHCP, and secure FTP.
• Knowledge of network and web related protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, and HTTPS).
• Cisco L2 & L3 Switches 2,900,350,035,603,750,000,000,000,000
• Juniper Platforms SRX, MX, EX Series Router and Switches
• Access-lists, Routing, Switching, Sub netting, Networking Concepts Designing, CSU/DSU, IPsec, VLAN, VPN, WEP, WAP, MPLS, VoIP, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi Firewall ASA Firewall (5505/5510), Checkpoint, Cisco ASA Frame Relay, ISDN, ATM, MPLS, leased lines & Wan Technologies exposure to PPP, DS1, DS3, and 0C3, T1 /T3 & SONET
• Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, & 10 LAN Technologies Gigabit Ethernet, Portchannel, VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, 802.1Q
• Security Protocols IKE, IPSEC, SSL-VPN RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, STP, RSTP, VLANs, VTP,
• Networking Protocols PAGP, LACP, MPLS, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, TACACS+, Radius, AAA, IPv4 and IPv6
• Windows 7/XP, MAC OS X, Windows Server Operating System
• Accounting, APM, AP, APs, ASM, ATM, automation, B2B, BGP, cisco, Cisco Works, Cisco Routers, Citrix, hardware, Controller, CSU, Client, clients, Database, Designing, Desktop PC, DHCP, downstream, DSU,
• Network Tools Solar Winds, SNMP, Cisco Works, Wireshark
• Load Balancers Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (Big-IP)
• EIGRP, engineer, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, features, Firewalls, Firewall, Frame Relay, gateways, Gateway, GUI, IDS, IP, ISDN, LAN,
• MAC OS, managing, Access, 2000, 2K, Windows 7/XP, Migration, monitors, enterprise, network interface cards, networking hardware, Network, Networking, Networks, next, NIC's, Nortel, Operating System, OSPF, policies, PPP, Prime, Protocols, PSTN, RIP v, RIP, Router, routers, Routing, servers, scripts, SNMP, SONET, SSL, Switches, T1, phone,
• Troubleshoot, Troubleshooting, upgrades, upgrade, VPN, Voice over IP, VoIP, WAP, Wan,
• Windows Server, Wireless LAN extensively worked using AWS services along with wide and in depth understanding of each one of them.

WORK HISTORY

Network Engineer

Charter- Charlotte, NC

Responsibilities:

• Third party contract engineer responsible for troubleshooting and managing entire network infrastructure for multi-site company.
• Recommended and performed upgrades to network infrastructure and associated hardware utilizing over 900 devices in local and remote locations.
• Assisting on Cisco ACE 4710 and 4720 Load balancers in creating server farms, context and allocating resources on contexts.
• Extensive use of Wireshark tool for troubleshooting root cause of application errors, packet loss and connection slowness related issues.
• Dealt with creating VIP pools, nodes and created custom iRules for the virtual servers like cookie persistency and redirection of URL on F5 ASM cookies issues and configures ASM policies.
• Worked on BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) contextually secures, simplifies, and protects user access to apps and data, while delivering the most scalable access gateway.
• Migrating applications from cisco ACE/CSM to F5LTM, and GSS configurations to F5 GTM wide- ip's.
• Configured and troubleshooting the F5 LTM and APM and providing level 2 support for the customers.
• Configuration and troubleshooting F5 LTM and providing level 2 and level 3 support for the customers.
• Extensive hands on experience with BIG-IP 5000 and 2000 series.
• Allocation and designing appropriate virtual IP for F5 ADC through IPAM InfloBox.
• Collaborated with engineering to report issues, manage project deliverables and provide status reports.
• Planned implementation of network enhancements and upgrades.
• Resolved and documented customer reported network issues via phone and e-mail.

Sr. Network Engineer

Confidential - Atlanta, GA

• Provide Tier II Load Balancer expertise on F5 BigIP Local Traffic Managers (LTM). Designing F5 solutions/support for migration work of applications and websites from Cisco CSS Load Balancers to the F5 BigIP Load Balancers.
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls
• Convert campus WAN links from point to point to MPLS and to convert encryption from
• IPSec/GRE to Get VPN
• Responsible for Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
• Experience working with JUNOS OS on Juniper Routers and Switches.
• Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards and configured and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.
• Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.
• Migrated VLANS from ASA (perimeter firewalls) to FWSM's for better security management
• Firewall monitoring/administration with iptables, pf, and Palo Alto PanOS
• Configured Nexus 7010 including NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles, Nexus
• Version 4.2 and 5.0, Nexus VPC peer links
• Configured IPSEC VPN tunnels between Checkpoint and other non-Checkpoint endpoint devices using IKE pre-shared keys, 3DES and MD5.
• Configuring, upgrading and verifying NX-OS operation system with OSPF, BGP
• Migration of application, server, service groups from Citrix Netscaler to F5
• Performs bandwidth and device upgrades on IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NX-OS, and IOS
• Converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in the data center environment.
• Experience working with Nexus 7018/7010, 5020, 5548, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K, 2k and its downstream devices.
• Deploying BIG-IP F5LTM Load Balancers for load balancing and traffic management of business application
• Configure all Palo alto Networks Firewall models (PA-2k, PA-3k, PA-5k etc.) as well as a centralized management system (Panorama) to manage large scale firewall deployments.
• Configuration and maintenance of PIX and ASA firewall systems
• Installing and configuring Checkpoint and ASA firewalls, VPN networks and redesigning customer security architectures.
• Provided Load balancing solutions to clients for using F5 Load balancers.

Network Security Engineer

Confidential - San Francisco, CA

• Experience working with Nexus 7018/7010, 5020, 5548, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K, 2k and its downstream devices.
• Deploying BIG-IP F5LTM Load Balancers for load balancing and traffic management of business application.
• Configure all Palo Alto Networks Firewall models (PA-2k, PA-3k, PA-5k etc.) as well as a centralized management system (Panorama) to manage large scale firewall deployments.
• Configuration and maintenance of PIX and ASA firewall systems.
• Installing and configuring Checkpoint and ASA firewalls, VPN networks and redesigning customer security architectures.
• Provided Load balancing solutions to clients for using F5 Load balancers.
• Worked on wireless networking hardware such as Cisco Wireless LAN Controller and AP 1200.
• Involved in design and implementation of Data Center Migration, worked on implementation strategies for the expansion of the MPLS VPN networks.
• Implement, maintain Cisco Prime Wireless, Cisco LMS, SolarWinds.
• Working with Cisco ASA 5585-X firewalls with Firewall rules, IPSec VPN, NAT, Active-Standby Failover, OSPF and Any Connect VPN technologies.
• Configuration of firewalls 5520 series ASA for business to business connectivity and application of ACL rules for network traffic.
• Design/install/Configure Nexus 7k, 5k and 2k switches, PAN firewall and Netscaler Application load balancer.
• Configuration of Fabric path and connectivity between Nexus 5K and Nexus 7k.
• Implementation of secure enclaves with Palo Alto and ASA firewalls.
• Remote access and site-to-site VPN administration using Cisco ASA/ASR and Palo Alto.
• Configuration and implementation of Juniper and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Worked with distributing loads across multiple carriers (AVPN, MPLS).
• Configuring various advanced features (Profiles, monitors, iRules, Redundancy, SSL Termination, Persistence, SNATs, HA on F5 BIGIP appliances SSL termination and initiation, Persistence, Digital s, executed various migration/upgrade projects across F5 and hands on with F5 BIGIP LTMs/EM.
• Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS and Juniper
• Netscreen firewalls.
• Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 7000.
• Configured F5 Load balancers and monitored the Packet Flow in the Load balancers.
• Experience with Juniper JUNOS operating system and working on M and MX series routers.
• Experience in configuring routing protocols like EIGRP, RIP v2, OSPF & BGP and Cisco ACS protocols like RADIUS and TACACS.
• Configuring and Troubleshooting NetScreen Juniper firewalls 5GT, 208, SSG 5, 20, 140, 550, 550M and high-end firewalls like ISG 1000, NS 5200 using NSM.
• Used DHCP to automatically assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients.
• Integrated VoIP with PSTN and set up voice Gateway ensuring QOS for Cisco based Voice over IP and CDR for voice call Accounting.
• Installed Cisco Wireless NIC's (network interface cards) for Desktop PC's and installed Cisco WAPs (wireless access point) and Cisco Routers.

Network Engineer

Confidential- Richmond, VA

• Migrated Cat 6500 series switches to Nexus 5K.
• Design and deploy Network modernizations from Cisco 7600 platform to ASR9000 and CRS platforms.
• Designed 10 gigabit networks using Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches, Checkpoint NGX firewall and Cisco 3800 series routers.
• Network Segmentation application migrations for all enterprise PII and PHI Firewall applications, and data behind ASA 5585-Xs.
• Installed and configured cisco ASA G firewall Confidential database and App server layer.
• Design and implementing Shoretel VoIP phone for more than 100 users, also maintaining the Shoretel Database.
• Physically deployed new Cisco Nexus devices, Catalyst and Nexus replacement blades, FWSMs, Cisco ASAs, Citrix Netscaler MPX and SDX chassis.
• Created VDC's and vPC's and ensure that those vPC's are formed between VDC's.
• Created vPC's between downstream devices between core and Aggregation Switches and between Aggregation and Fabric Interconnect.
• Replaced aging Checkpoint firewall architecture with new next generation Palo Alto appliance.
• Worked on firewall Pix525, ASA and other tools like SNMP, AAA, and RADIUS and designed VPN with IPSEC security layer.
• Migrated cisco3550 switches to 3750 PoE switches to provide support to Wireless APs.
• Installed cisco 5508 WLAN controllers and configured Access points.
• Performed Assessment, Installation and configuration of remote sites to allow connection to the Core network.
• Worked on Check Point Firewall.
• Experience in setting up HSRP/VRRP.
• Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200, Firewalls SRX-210.
• Troubleshooting and installing of CRS, ISR, GSR, ASR9000 and Nexus devices.
• Configuration and verification of redundancy protocols HSRP on Cisco Layer 3 devices for load balancing and fail over.
• Assisted with installation of Juniper firewalls to replace existing Firewalls which increased network uptime.
• Provided Load balancing solutions to clients for using F5 Load balancers.
• Implemented redundancy in BigIP F5 loads balancers to provide uninterrupted services to clients.
• Configuration and administration of Checkpoint firewall and creating access rules for network traffic.
• Creating dedicated VLANs for Voice & Data with QoS for prioritizing VOICE over DATA.
• Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
• Migration with Cisco ASA VPN experience.

Network Administrator

Confidential - Boca Raton, FL

• Hand on experience on IP Addressing, Sub netting.
• Experience in designing, implementation and operations of enterprise data networks as Net Networking engineer.
• Enterprise Switching with VLANs, Trunks, Spanning Tree, Port Spanning etc.
• Installation and configuration of Citrix NetScaler MPX 8200.
• Designed, implemented and maintained WAN technologies like DWDM, MPLS, VPLS and tunneling technologies.
• Expert level Knowledge on working with Wireless LAN Controller's, Cisco NCS, Cisco AP's, LWAPS, Standalone AP's and Mesh AP's.
• Experience in working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5000 series to provide a flexible Access Solution for datacenter access architecture.
• Set up and troubleshoot secured wireless access points (WAP) and wireless LAN controller (WLC) for broadband internet.
• Configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 7000. Configuring VDC & VPC in Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k and 2k.
• Experience working with BGP attributes such as Weight, Local-P, MED and AS-PATH to influence inbound and out bound traffic.
• Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo alto Networks
• Expert level Knowledge on working with Wireless LAN Controller's, Cisco NCS, Cisco AP's, LWAPS, Standalone AP's and Mesh AP's.
• Configured and resolved various OSPF issues in an OSPF multi area environment.
• Installed and managed multiple instances of a Routing table using VRF and VRF Lite.
• Responsible for level 2 support of existing network technologies/services & integration of new network technologies/services.
• Working knowledge on LAN/WAN setup, installation, configuration, and troubleshooting.
• Strong hands on experience in Troubleshooting for QOS, connectivity and hardware problems on Cisco Networks.
• Involved in the removal of EIGRP from all devices and making OSPF the primary routing protocol.
• Checkpoint Level3 operations support with hardware operations - fixed all problems & RMA's, taking any escalations that dealt with the equipment and its connection: interfaces, VLAN's, routes, etc.

• Design and implementation of Network Management and Security policies in the Campus Network.
• Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Router and SRX Firewalls.
• Configuration of Fabric path and connectivity between Nexus 5K and Nexus 7k.
• Provide Tier II Load Balancer expertise on F5 BigIP Local Traffic Managers (LTM).
• Designing F5 solutions/support for migration work of applications and websites from Cisco CSS Load Balancers to the F5 BigIP Load Balancers.
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls.
• Convert campus WAN links from point to point to MPLS and to convert encryption from IPSec/GRE to GetVPN.
• Responsible for Checkpoint and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
• Experience working with JUNOS OS on Juniper Routers and Switches.
• Negotiate VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards and configured and implemented site- to-site VPN, Remote VPN.
• Migration with both Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.
• Migrated VLANS from ASA (perimeter firewalls) to FWSM's for better security management.
• Firewall monitoring/administration with iptables, pf, and Palo alto PanOS.
• Configured Nexus 7010 including NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles, Nexus Version 4.2 and 5.0, Nexus VPC peer links.
• Configured IPSEC VPN tunnels between Checkpoint and other non-Checkpoint endpoint devices using IKE pre-shared keys, 3DES and MD5.
• Configuring, upgrading and verifying NX-OS operation system with OSPF, BGP.
• Migration of application, server, service groups from Citrix Netscaler to F5.
• Performs bandwidth and device upgrades on IOS-XR, IOS-XE, NX-OS, and IOS.
• Converting Cisco 6500 IOS to Cisco Nexus NX-OS in the data center environment

Confidential

Additional Information

• Experience with design & deployment of MPLS Layer 3 VPN, MPLS Traffic Engineering, MPLS QOS.
• Configuring Client-to-site VPN using SSL Client Cisco ASA 5540, 5510.
• Worked on Nexus platform 7010, 5K series (5548, 5020 and 5010) and FEX (2248, and 2232) and deploye VPC, VDC and OTV and successfully implemented VSS on the Cisco catalyst switches.
• Configured policies on F5 ASM Created rules and scripts for the automation of the environment.
• Reengineered Firewall policies on Juniper SSG320 and SSG140 Firewalls.
• Worked with the installation of Palo Alto firewall, migrated with a team from predominantly checkpoint environment to Palo Alto global solution.
• Utilizing Cisco 5508 wireless controllers and 1131, 1142, 2602, 2702, 3602, 3702 LWAPP access points. Worked on NEXUS 7K Core and Server Farm Switches with VSS & VPC support Hands-on experience in configuration of CISCO NEXUS Datacenter infrastructure with 5000 and 7000 series switches (5548, 7010) including CISCO NEXUS Fabric Extender (2232, 2248).
• Hands-on experience in configuration of CISCO NEXUS Datacenter infrastructure with 5000 and 7000 series switches (5548, 7010) including CISCO NEXUS Fabric Extender (2232, 2248).
• Expertise in Migration of Firewalls from Nortel Contivity to ASA, ASA to Checkpoint, Checkpoint to Palo alto and Vice Versa.
• Hands on experience in configuring and supporting site-to-site and remote access Cisco, IPsec, VPN solutions using ASA/PIX firewalls, Cisco, B2B VPN client in addition to providing TACACS+ and RADIUS services.
• Worked extensively on firewalls and VPN gateways Check Point, CISCO, Juniper, FortiGate GUI and Arista equipment's Hands on experience in configuring and supporting site-to-site and remote access Cisco, IPSec, VPN solutions using ASA/PIX firewalls, Cisco and VPN client.
• Implemented Positive Enforcement Model with the help of Palo Alto Networks.
• Experienced in handling and installing Palo Alto Firewalls with exposure to wild fire feature of Palo Alto Networks.
• Perform Checkpoint and PIX firewall/IDS design, integration & implementation for Cyber Trap client networks.
• Worked extensively on firewalls and VPN gateways Check Point, CISCO, Juniper, FortiGate GUI and Arista equipment's Hands-on experience on Checkpoint Firewall R77, Palo Alto Pa 3000 and Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls. Checkpoint level 3 operations support with hardware operation and fixed all problems.