SUMMARY

• Over 14 years of experience in planning, design, implementation, configuration, troubleshooting of complex management of Windows, Linux & UNIX Servers and Data Networks.
• Extensive experience in troubleshooting routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP and IGRP).
• Extensive hands on experience in troubleshooting of network devices Cisco Switches (2900, 3750,3850, 4500, 6500), Cisco Nexus Switches (9000, 7000, 6000, 5000, 2000) Cisco Routers (7600, 7200, 3900, 3600, 2900, 2600, 1800) and Cisco ASR 1000 series Routers.
• Implemented VPN (IPSEC, Anyconnect and GRE tunnels) and Web servers (Apache and IIS)
• Experience on JUNOS platform and worked with JUNOS upgrade of Juniper devices.
• Extensive experience on support and troubleshooting on Tier 3/4 issues.
• Extensive experience on Cisco UCS 6200 series Fabric Interconnects.
• Extensive experience on F5, Brocade, Kemp, and Cisco load balancers.
• Extensive experience in NOC and Data Center Operations.
• Experience with 802.11x wireless technology.
• Experience in TCP/IP Protocol, Subnetting, IP Addressing, DNS, DHCP, WINS, FTP, VoIP and QoS.
• Expert level knowledge and experience in providing Layer1/2 and 3 supports.
• Experience in Sarbanes Oxley 404 Controls Documentation review and audit.
• Experience in handling production support calls for Global Investment banking division, Equities, Fixed Income, Foreign exchange.
• Experience in Network Designed & documentation in Visio & MS office.
• Excellent communication skills. Customer focused Team player.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• RIP
• OSPF
• IGRP
• EIGRP
• BGP - 4
• IS-IS and MPLS
• TCP/IP
• PPP
• HDLC
• Frame Relay
• VOIP
• LDP
• NAT
• HSRP
• VRRP
• DHCP
• IPSEC
• L2TP
• ATM
• ISDN
• ARP
• RARP
• FTP
• TFTP
• E1
• T1
• LDAP
• SIP
• VLAN
• VXLAN
• STP
• SMTP
• POP3
• NNTP
• HTTP
• LDAP
• QOS
• GRE
• PAP
• CHAP
• IPX
• SNMPV2C and V3
• Netconf
• OpenStack
• SDN
• Contrail
• Windows NT 4.0/2000/2003/2008/2012
• XP/98/95
• Microsoft Visio
• Sun Solaris 2.7 and Cisco IOS 12.X
• Checkpoint
• ACL & Cisco PIX
• Riverbed WAN MS-Exchange Server 5.0/5.5/2000
• Outlook 2010
• 2000/98 / 97
• MS-SQL Server 6.5/7.0/2000/
• Oracle7/8i/9i
• NIS
• NFS
• DNS
• WINS
• IIS
• RAS
• DHCP
• VM Ware
• EMC (NAS)
• NIS / DNS / NFS with automounter
• IPX/SPX
• Ethernet and RAS
• Compaq
• HP
• IBM and Dell Servers /Desktops
• Sun Sparc Ultra 5 / 10 Systems
• Cisco Routers
• ASR 1000 series Routers
• Cisco Nexus 7000/5000 Switches
• Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects
• Cisco 5000 and 6500 Catalyst Switches
• Cisco PIX 515 Firewall
• Juniper Routers
• D-Link ISDN Router/Adapter
• D-link 10 and 24 port Ethernet Hubs. DLink Access Point
• Cisco 1200 series Access Point and Linksys Wireless/Wi-Fi Router.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Franklin lakes, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000, Nexus 1000V series switches.
• Configured Cisco 6500, 3850, 3750 L3 switches.
• Stacking L3 switches to provide more availability ports.
• Configured Virtual Port Channel on the Cisco Nexus 7000, and 5000 series switches.
• Configured Spanning Tree Protocol with BPDU Guard, Port-Fast, Up-Link Fast.
• Configured Cisco 7600, 7200, 3900, 2900 and ASR 1000 series routers. This includes dynamic routing, Multicast, VRF, VPN, NAT, ACL, and QOS.
• Use and maintain routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP on the Routers in the network.
• Responsible for WLAN/LAN/WAN modifications, implementation, design and support of MPLS links.
• Experience in L2/L3 3 protocols like VLANS, STP, VTP, and Trunking protocols.
• Configured Spanning Tree Protocol with BPDU Guard, Port-Fast, Up-Link Fast.
• Worked on F5 load balancing and application level redundancy by deploying F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic managers (LTM), Global traffic manager (GTM) of series 8900, 3900 series devices.
• Performed 802.11a/g/n Wireless Site Survey and Design.
• Configured Cisco 5508 WLC and 5520 WLC, and implemented byod and guest WLANs and light weight WAPs.
• Implemented Cisco controller-based wireless infrastructure and deployed a Cisco Meraki wireless LAN solution.
• Designed, configured and administrated Riverbed Steelhead WAN Optimization devices.
• Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
• Worked with Firewall team for configuring NAT the IP addresses to access servers from Internet and securing network by enabling and disabling ports on firewalls and configured IPsec VPNs.
• Involved in Disaster Recovery tests.
• Providing network solution and designing new network setup.
• Performed daily function of Cisco equipment lifecycle: receiving, part identification, testing, RMA, upgrade, configure, storage, and deployment
• Worked on monitoring tools Solarwinds, and Spectrum.
• Handled escalations and resolved technical issues according to SLA.

Environment: CISCO Routers 7600, 7200, 3800, 2900, Cisco Switches 6500,3850,3750,0, 2960, Cisco Nexus 9000, 7000, 5000, CISCO Wireless Lan Controllers 2504,5508,5520, CX 570,CX770 CX3070, CX 5070,Cisco ASA 5000 series, and Palo alto 3000, 5000 series firewalls.

Confidential, Lansing

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Extensively worked on LAN/WAN/MAN engineering and space planning skills like power, cabling, rack space and equipment needs; and also implemented the configurations for equipment and schedule implementations with vendors to install/decommission equipment as required.
• Designed and Configured Layer 2 and layer 3 switches and VLANs on 2950, 3550, 3560, 3750, 4003,4006, 4503, 4506, 5505, 5509, 6509, 6513 Distribution and Core Switches in LAN, WAN and MAN infrastructure.
• Experience working with Cisco Nexus 7018/7010, 5020, 5548, 2148, 2248 devices.
• Experience with configuring Cisco Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000.
• Experience working with on the Cisco Nexus switches between the datacenters.
• Configured and implemented Distribution Routers for WAN and MAN network infrastructures using 3845, 7206 VXR and ASR 1000 series routers. This includes dynamic routing, MPLS, Multicast, VRF, VPN, NAT, ACL, and QOS.
• Worked on Cisco ASA firewalls and ASDM to configure the ACL’s, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Managing and deploying security rule based policy via checkpoint smart dashboard in various checkpoint firewalls.
• Responsible for configure, test and implement security solution with Palo Alto 3050 Networks application firewalls.
• Troubleshooting experience with packet capturing using .PCAP files and analyze via Wireshark, SolarWinds and other tools. Also working on TCPDUMPS and Log analyzer tools with SIEM tools to analyze network flows and other traffics issues.
• Configured/Upgraded and installed Juniper Router/Switches and SRX VPN/FW on the enterprise network.
• Installed and configured F5 Local Traffic managers, Application Security Manager, and Global traffic manager.
• Design and deployment of Enterprise Wireless services in facilities using Cisco product line.
• Identifying, troubleshooting and resolving incidents related to Wireless connectivity, as well as conducting wireless site-surveys and deploying Lightweight Aps.
• Configured and Implemented ACLs, TACACs to ensure the high network security and integrity.
• Create and submit the requests to Confidential &T for WAN Changes, Order Circuits or Disconnect Circuits.
• Worked as a team lead to various huge projects including E-911 compliance project, Changes successfully implemented over 200 sites.

Environment: CISCO Routers 7600, 7200, 3800, 2900, Cisco Switches 6500, 3550, 3500, 2960,Cisco Nexus 7000,6000, 5000, and 2000 fabric extenders, Cisco ASA 5000 series, Checkpoint R75, R75.40,R77.20 and R77.30 and Juniper switches and Firewalls, Palo alto 3050 firewalls.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configured and certified Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 and 2000 series switches.
• Worked extensively VPC, VDC and Fabricpath, OTV between the data centers as a layer 2 extension on Cisco Nexus switches.
• Configured and certified Cisco UCS 6248 Fabric Interconnects for private cloud services to the customers.
• Configured and certified Cisco 6500, 4900, 3750, 2960 switches.
• Configured and certified Cisco 7600, 7200, 3945, 2921, 2911 and ASR 1000 series routers. This includes dynamic routing, Multicast, VRF, VPN, NAT, ACL, and QOS.
• Use and maintain routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP on the Routers in the network & also worked on BGP Route Reflectors, Confederations.
• Configured and certified Arista 7000 series switches.
• Configured/Upgraded and installed both Cisco Pix and Checkpoint firewalls in the enterprise network.
• Worked extensively with VizGems team tested SNMP, Syslog on Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Cisco ACE, F5, Brocade, and Nortel Alteon.
• Worked on Tier 3/ 4 support to production issues and simulated those issues in the lab, and certified resolution steps for production deployment.
• Worked F5 Local Traffic managers (LTM), Application Security Manager, Global traffic manager (GTM) of series 8900, 6400, 6800, 3600 and 3DNS migration to GTM, and configured with Application specific i App Templates on F5 load balancers.
• Configured and certified Kemp load balancers.
• Configured and certified Netscaler MPX 9500.
• Experience with convert PIX rules over to the Cisco ASA solution, and responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration.
• Worked on Juniper J series J2350, M 320 routers and EX4500 series switch.
• Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls.
• Supporting and working experience with Cluster-XL technologies in checkpoint Firewalls.
• Deployed support and troubleshooting checkpoint site-to-site VPN including SSL & IPsec tunnels.
• Configured and certified Gigamon 2404 traffic visibility switch.
• Configured and certified TeraGauge 2800 and10400.
• Installed and configured Windows and Linux servers in the lab.

Environment: CISCO Routers 7600, 7200, 3800, 2900, Cisco Switches 6500, 3550, 3500, 2960,Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000,Cisco UCS 6200 Fabric Interconnects, Cisco ASA 5000 series, and Juniper EX 4500 switches, and SRX 3600 Firewalls.

Confidential, Middletown, NJ

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring STP for switching loop prevention and VLANs for data and voice along with Configuring port security for users connecting to the switches.
• Ensure Network, system and data availability and integrity through preventive maintenance and upgrade.
• Responsible for service request tickets generated by the helpdesk in all phases such as troubleshooting, maintenance, upgrades, patches and fixes with all around technical support.
• Worked on L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration including creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trucking, STP, Inter-Vlan routing, LAN security.
• Worked on the security levels with RADIUS, TACACS+.
• Experience with implementing Cisco 6500 VSS on the distribution switches.
• IPSec, GRE, EIGRP and OSPF, EIGRP, NAT protocols on corp. and client networks.
• Configured and certified BIG IP LTM and GTM.
• Monitored using the various tools like HP-Open view, Solarwinds, Whats up Gold, and MRTG.
• Worked on fixing the issues as per the SLA, priority of the tickets and routing them to other teams as required.
• Configured ATM and Frame Relay on Cisco 3600 Routers.
• Implemented IPSLAs on various Cisco Routers.
• Configured and certified Cisco 2900, 2800, 2600 Terminal Servers.
• Configured Cisco Catalyst Blade Switch 3130 for Dell Power Edge M1000e Blade Enclosure.
• Installed Blade Logic agent on Windows, Red hat Linux, and Sun Solaris servers.

Environment: Cisco routers 7200, 3600,2800, 2600, Cisco switches 6500, 5000, 3500, and 2950, Cisco PIX 525,515,BIG IP Foundry ServerIron 4G, ServerIron GT, Nortel Alteon 2424, 3408, Nortel Alteon Application Switch 2424, 3408, Nortel Application Accelerator 510, 610. Juniper switches and SRX firewalls.

Confidential, Warren, NJ

Systems Administrator

Responsibilities:

• Installed Windows 2003 and upgraded Windows 2000 to Windows 2003.
• Configured DNS Server and Migrated with Active Directory (DDNS)
• User Accounts Management.
• Secured Resources with NTFS Permissions and shared the resources and publishing in Active Directory.
• Configured Disk Quota’s to limit the Disk space for all users
• Installed and configured cluster servers.
• Involved in gathering Software, Hardware Inventory and preparing summery for discovered Software and Hardware Components.
• Installed and configured Windows 2003 Terminal server.
• Patch management Updates for Servers/Workstations OS Security and Antivirus Application Distribution.
• Worked on Sarbanes Oxley 404 Controls Documentation review and audit.

Environment: Windows Compaq, HP Servers, Sun Sparc Ultra 5/10 Systems, HP O.