NIRMAL N. WEERASEKARA

***** ****** ** *** *** Sterling Heights MI 48312 309-***-**** acthps@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) May 2013

CISCO Cape Girardeau, MO

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP-Route) Present

CISCO St. Louis, MO

Bachelor of Science in Computer Network & Telecommunication August 2010-December, 2012

Southeast Missouri State University Cape Girardeau, MO

Diploma in Computer Systems & Networks August 2008-August 2010

Sri Lanka Institute Of Information Technology Colombo, Sri Lanka

Master of Science in Project Management August 2013-August 2015

Illinois State University Normal, IL

Master Thesis Published July 2015

Modeling and Simulation of Evacuation Plan for Hancock Stadium Normal, IL

WORK EXPERIENCE

Assistant Project Coordinator Intern May 2014-August 2014 (3 months)

Ministry of Highways and Ports of Sri Lanka Colombo, Sri Lanka

Development of project plans that support the specified stakeholder and sponsor deliverables, timeline, goals and expectations in multi vendor environment.

Worked with the deputy Project manager and the team in deploying infrastructure, project planning and initiation through project implementation and control.

Responsible for developing process and policies for new projects in existing network.

Lead project planning sessions by utilizing affinity analysis and team directed dependency identification.

Worked on resource management and project scheduling based on critical path, predecessors, duration and time constrains for IT projects.

Used MS Project and Primavera V6 to build, manage the government infrastructures and services for the projects.

Analyzed the Risk of the Projects, considering such as Political, Social, and Weather factors using @RISK.

Performed research on new security features and functions for 2015 potential security threats and risks to the government services and infrastructures.

Computer Network Administrator June 2008 – Jul 2010 (2yr 1month)

Turnkey Institute of Networks Colombo, Sri Lanka

Monitoring network activity and bandwidth and analyze MTRG data to ensure the network operation more effective and efficient.

Worked with the network administrator and the team to manage and control the network based authentications, policies and security in NOC environment (Server 2003/ Syslog/ Mcafee/ RADIUS/AAA/ TACACS).

Managing Active Directory Certificates Services and Domain Services, Initiating the daily System Run, and ensure the Network Monitoring Engine is up and running.

Designing schemes for IP addressing, subnetting and routing policies.

Experienced in deployment of Routers, Switches, Hubs, Firewalls, IDS, and Load balancers, VPN Concentrators (site-to-site and remote access on PIX FW).

Configuring, installing and maintaining Cisco/Juniper routers, switches & access servers (IOS/JUNOS).

Hand-on experience in installation and maintenance of windows server 2003, IBM Red hat Linux operating systems.

Deploying & troubleshooting L2/L3 TCP/IP, Multilayer Switching, QoS, IPSec, UDP, Ethernet, Voice & Data Integration & IP Routing Protocols RIP, EIGRP & OSPF and Switching (VLAN, VTP, STP).

Supported implementation of VOIP services for the call center.

Produce Network Documentations such as ip addressing schemes, diagrams, server documentations and policies.

Involved in project configuring MPLS using OSPF/IS-IS, OSPF/IS-IS Traffic engineering, MPLS VPN over TE tunnels, VRF.

Administered PIX firewalls throughout WAN to ensure LAN integrity from external threats.

Provide assistance to end-users for troubleshooting problem resolution for different OS platforms.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Hands on experience in following product and tools

CISCO Routers- 7500, 7200 VXR, 4500M, 3700, 3600, 2600,1700 series

CISCO L2/L3 Switches – 2800, 3500, 3700,4000, 6500 series CatOS and ISO.

CISCO PIX Firewall – 506,515,525,535

Network Security and monitoring : Fortigate Firewall, Gauntlet Firewall, McAfee Total Defense Anti-Virus solution, Symantec Enterprise Antivirus solution, CACTI, Opnet and security tools such as IPSec, ACL, IKE, ISAKMP, IDAP,.

Networking: NAT, HSRP, NTP, SAA, SNMP, TELNET, TFTP, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, IP Subnetting, VLAN, Inter-VLAN Routing, PPP, HDLC, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, UDP, PPTP, STUN, Mobile IP, L2TP, GRE.

Network Routing and Switching: IS-IS, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIPv2, ODR, BGP, MBGP, CIDR, Static Routing, Ether-channel, STP, RSTP, VTP, and VLANs.

Hardware Engineering (Basic PC, Laptop upgrades, troubleshooting, Network cabling and device troubleshooting, Maintenance of multi-media devices and connectivity)

Risk Management and Decision Making Tools (@RISK, PrecisionTree, TopRank, RiskOptimizer)

Project Management Tools (SharePoint, MS Project, Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management, MS VSIO, Cost estimation, Time scheduling, Program management, Resources allocation)

Disaster Management Evacuation Simulations (Pedestrian Dynamics, Pathfinder)

Windows XP, 9x, 2000, me, mac, Linux, Ubuntu, MS Server2003, Active Directory, WSS, SharePoint)

Languages (Java, C++, C)

Expertise in leadership communication research and methodologies, along with Project Management methodologies (Agile, Waterfall etc.) and project planning.

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