SUMMARY

• 7 years of experience in Network Implementation, Configuration, Trouble Shooting and maintaining Enterprise Networks by working with multiple vendor Routers, Switches as Network Engineer/Technician.
• Extensive experience in configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
• In - depth knowledge of Protocol Stack and OSI layers and worked extensively in network layer protocols and TCP/IP.
• Experience in implementation, configuration & troubleshooting of Ether-channel, STP, RSTP, HSRP, VLAN, VTP and Access Control Lists (ACL).
• Extensive hands-on experience on LAN and WAN networks, Cisco routers, switches, ASA and PIX firewall deployment.
• Expertise in configuration of Cisco Catalyst Switches of 1900, 2900, 3550,3750,4500,6500, Cisco Routers of 1800,2500,2600,2800,3600,3800,7200, IP addressing..
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Tier II ISP Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP Subnetting, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, FT1 / T1 / FT3 / T3 Sonet POS OCX / GigE circuits, Firewalls.
• Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.
• Proficient in Cisco IOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS.
• Primary responsibility is to design and deploy various network security & High Availability products lick Cisco ASA other security products.
• Responsible for Check Point and Cisco ASA firewall administration across global networks.
• Installation, administration, migration and support of Windows NT4.0, Windows 2000, 2003, 2008 and 2012, Win 7/ W2K Professional/Home, Windows 98, Windows XP, Active directory
• Experience in installing and maintaining inventory of Computers hardware, software and licenses.
• Experience in technical documentation with change management.
• Hands on experience in using various Network Monitoring and Packet Sniffing tools.
• Experience within a large, Windows & Linux-based Data Center environment.
• Strong interpersonal, organizational communication, customer service & presentation skills.
• Excellent customer management/resolution, problem solving and debugging skills with good verbal/written communications and presentation skills.
• Member of IEEE.
• Excellent knowledge and experience on multi-vendor platforms like Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint, F5 Big-ip LTM load balancers, Bluecoat, Riverbed, Citrix, and VMware.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hardware: Cisco Routers 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200, ASR 1000 series. Cisco Switches 2900, 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000, 6500.

Routing: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIPv2, BGPv4, MP-BGP, Static Routing, Redistribution, Route Summarization

Switching: Ether-channel, STP, RSTP, VTP, VLANs.

Redundancy: HSRP, VRRP, RPR, NSF/NSR.

Security: ACLs, NAT, PAT, VLAN, Cisco FWSM/PIX/ASDM/ASA.

Various Features & Services: TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, IP Subnetting, VLSM, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, Frame-Relay, PPP, HDLC, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, UDP, SNMP.

Operating Systems: CISCO IOS, CAT OS, Linux

Network Tools: Wireshark, Network Time Machine, QIP

Network Simulators: Packet tracer, GNS3

Documentation: MS Word, Excel, Project, PowerPoint, Outlook, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Chicago, IL

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Configuring routing protocols BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP
• High availability - HSRP, VRRP, ether channel creation on Cisco, switches and routers.
• Datacenter build and support.
• Datacenter Implementation.
• Responsible for OSPF, BGP and static routing using Nexus, Cat6k, ISR, ASR
• Network design for new server connectivity.
• Implementing a new Network Architecture as per low-level design.
• Monitoring alerts and reporting to Global Foundation Services and Microsoft Operation Center.
• Migrated, created, and managed pools and clusters in F5 BigIP GTM 3DNS load balancers across multiple Datacenters.
• Transitioned as Network Project Manager and participated in kick off meetings, gathered data from stake holders to create Network design template.
• Worked on Network Acceptance to comply with Microsoft design standard and delivered projects in time after quality check.
• Weekly and daily meetings with clients to understand their network requirements discuss these with management and come up with an action plan.
• Quickly resolve all IP network issues to reduce waste and downtime of a Network infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting BGP/OSPF complex routing issues.
• Experience in ordering new modules and SFPs for the devices to support network expansion.
• Helping Tier I engineers in any of the issues related to various aspects and concerns.
• Interacted with different teams - on developing/ implementing the Onsite Offshore model for 24X7 supports.

Confidential, Pittsburgh, PA

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Manage switches of 5 different MBFS locations.
• Hands on experience working on packet sniffer: Network time machine by fluke networks to monitor the network.
• Experience working on QIP to manage DNS names and IP addresses.
• Provided network connection to the new employees and wireless connection vouchers to visitors.
• Responsible for network performance, monitoring/analysis, proactive troubleshooting and capacity analysis of network and proposing improvements and design changes beneficial to the business.
• Responsible for Network cabling, dressing, labeling and troubleshooting network drops onsite.
• Responsibilities also include technical documentation of all upgrades done. Attending meetings and technical discussions related to current project.
• Prepared engineering documents and network diagrams in Microsoft Visio.
• Documented firewall changes and request forms to respective vendors.
• Vendor co-ordination for hardware issues and assessment management.
• Ability to handle multiple complex tasks, with tight deadlines concurrently.
• Good understanding of Network Monitoring, Routing implementations and support for MPLS/BGP related issues

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Installation and Configuration of LAN/ WAN.
• Worked as an operational support engineer for various WAN problems.
• Supporting an enterprise network forDataCenterLAN.
• Implementing fabric path, spine and leaf Data center.
• Design, configuration and Installation of Cisco routers and catalyst switches.
• Routing related tasks included providing Cisco router configuration, providing technical support for Cisco Router configurations and installation for Customer.
• Troubleshooting with MPLS L3 VPNS.
• Configuring routing protocols like RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and configured HSRP for first hop redundancy and load balancing.
• Switching related tasks included implementing VLANS and VPC configuring ISL trunk on Fast- Ethernet channel between switches.
• Design, configure and troubleshoot networks using routing protocols such as RIPv2, OSPF, BGP and route distribution and even Configured with F5 Load balancers in Failover for Load balancing and SSL handling.
• Experience in WAN technologies including SONET Ring.
• Physical cabling, IP addressing, Wide Area Network configurations.
• Strongly support on Windows 2003 EE & windows 2000 advance server with SP4.
• Validating the forward & backward DNS lookup zones.
• Collect MAC address on production servers.
• Installation, operation, and maintenance of switching, data communications, and peripheral equipment associated with the CS1000e, CS1000m and Meridian 1 PBXs for Avaya CS1000.

Confidential

Network Support Technician

Responsibilities:

• Planning and Implementation of Subnetting, VLSM to conserve IP addresses.
• IOS upgrade on various routing and switching platforms.
• Installed and maintained Cisco 3620, 3550, 2610 routers and cisco 3550, 3845 switches with HSRP and various IGP routing protocols such as RIP, EIGRP, and OSPF.
• Implemented route redistribution between OSPF and EIGRP.
• Experience with spanning tree and Network architecture design which includes dynamic routing, static routing, VLAN setup, traffic splitting.
• Identified and resolved VLAN, STP and IP subnet issues.
• Configured Access List ACL (Std, Ext, and Named) to allow users all over the company to access different applications, Internet and compliance to the security policy and standards.
• Troubleshoot connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.
• Documented security requirements, design, and validation and implementation criteria.
• Desktop, Laptop, printer and Network peripheral administration and support.
• Worked with various Linux/UNIX Distributions like Ubuntu, Red Hat.
• Migrated, created, and managed pools and clusters in F5 BigIP GTM 3DNS load balancers across multiple Datacenters.