PRANAV PATEL

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PROFILE

Innovative, achievement oriented Networking professional with 8+ of experience in network design, network solution, implementation and maintenance of network

Highly organized and dedicated with positive attitude

Expert planner, leader, and strategist who can work independently or as a part of team in new or restructured teams

Strong network designing and implementation skills to meet company requirements

Possess a high technical aptitude and a high level of analytical ability

Creative, hardworking and dedicated professional with an ability to quickly adapt to latest technologies

Quick learner of new networking technologies and environment

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS

CCIEx3 - Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (Routing & Switching, Voice/Collaboration & DataCenter)

CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional

CCIP - Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate

JNCIP (SEC) - Juniper Network Certified Internet Professional (Security)

JNCIS (SEC) - Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist (Security)

JNCIA - Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate

3RP - Alcatel-Lucent Certified Triple Play Routing Professional

NRS II #1048 - Alcatel-Lucent Certified Network Routing Specialist - II

F5-PCL - F5 Certified Product Consultant - Local Traffic Management (LTM)

F5-PCG - F5 Certified Product Consultant - Global Traffic Management (GTM)

F5-SEG - F5 Certified System Engineer (LTM &GTM)

MCSE - Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (server 2003)

SPECIALIZED TRAININGS

Alcatel-Lucent Service Aware Manager (SAM) 5620 R9.0

Alcatel-Lucent Network Routing Specialist (NRS) and Triple Play Routing Professional (3RP)

Advanced Juniper Networks Routing in the Enterprise (AJRE)

Operating Juniper Networks Routers in the Enterprise (OJRE)

Juniper SRX 3400, 3600 and 5800 series firewalls

Juniper netscreen firewalls

Checkpoint and Alteon Firewalls

Cisco Nexus 1000v, 2k, 5k and 7k switches

Radware loadbalancers and defense pro

SUN Solaris Administration

MCSE

TECHNICAL SKILLS AND COMPETANCES

Networking:

Layer-3 routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP

Layer-2 switching protocols: VTP, Trunking protocols, STP, RSTP, MSTP, PAgP, LACP, HSRP, GLBP, VRRP

WAN Technologies: Frame Relay, PPP, MPLS, MPLS VPN, RSVP-TE, VPLS, T1, E1, ISDN

QoS: Layer 2 and 3 QoS classification, congestion management, queuing, policing, shaping

Multicast protocols: IGMP, PIM, DVMRP, MSDP

Cisco Voice: SIP, H.323, MGCP, SCCP, CUCM/CCM, CME, SRST, UCCX, Unity, UCCX, Unity Express, Meeting Place, CUPS, GW, GK, T1/E1

Cisco NX-OS: vPC, vPC+, OTV, Fabricpath, Fiberchannel, FCoE

Network Security:

NAT, PAT, ACL, IPSec, GRE, IKE, VPN, LEAP, EAP-TLS, RADIUS, McAfee IPS-IDS, Cisco PIX or ASA

Network Hardware:

Routers/Switches:

oCisco: 3560,3750,4500,6500,7200,7600, Nexus 7k/5k/2k/1k, Cisco UCS

oJuniper: EX-3200,4200, MX480,960

oAlcatel-Lucent: 7750SR, 7705SAR, 7450, 7210

Firewalls: Juniper Netscreen, Juniper SRX (3400/3600/5800), Checkpoint, Alteon

Loadbalancers: Foundry, F5, Cisco GSS, Radware, Cisco ACE

Network monitoring: Ciscoworks, Sniffer infinistream, Nescout, nGENIUS, HP Openview, HPNA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sr. Network Design Engineer Oct ’12 – Present

Nokia

Toronto, Ontario

Produced Network Designs and Market Integration Planning Packages (MIPPs) to implement Alcatel-Lucent’s (ALU’s) solution for the Ethernet Backhaul (EBH) of both CDMA and EVDO traffic for Verizon Wireless’ ALU, Motorola and Ericsson designs

Produced topology diagrams, configuration and provisioning data for ALU’s 7750SR and 7705SAR routers in support of the EBH integration project

Provided method of procedures (MOPs) for end-to-end Quality of Service (QoS) to provision LTE on top of existing core network infrastructure

Performed end-to-end service validation tests, network failover tests, software bug scrubs in the service labs before providing network solutions to service provider customers

Conducted technical MIPP reviews with Verizon Wireless Engineering teams and provided technical support to the ALU’s network implementation teams

Able to achieve ALU certifications NRS II and 3RP in remarkable short time to be able to mentor junior level design engineers and to provide business solutions to project managers

Network Engineer June ’11 - Sep ‘12

Rogers Communications Inc.

Brampton, Ontario, Canada

Working in a team that is responsible to design and maintain network of more than 10 data centers that span all over Canada

Activity Involved in network design project that involves multiple datacenters network re-design to comply with PCI- DSS (Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standard) and SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) and internal Rogers standards.

Developing scalable network designs, solutions, policies, and recommendations based upon company specifications and vendor recommendations

Providing design, planning and implementation of the network to ensure the stable operation of the Rogers WAN/LAN infrastructure

Establish and document architecture standards for the Corporate and Management networks.

Ensuring that all changes potentially impacting network are thoroughly planned, tested, and documented prior to implementation

Develop configuration standards for all system components to assure that these standards address all known security vulnerabilities and are consistent with industry accepted system hardening standards

Building, reviewing and approving all required documentation for on-going sustainability of the compliance requirements

Providing 3rd level support for all LAN/WAN network devices throughout various production, staging, development, and testing environments

Providing 3rd level support related to network connectivity for server platforms including troubleshooting, capacity planning, integration, and network/remote access.

Providing 3rd level support for wide area network and internet links.

Creating configuration policy templates in HPNA to remediate all known and identified compliance gaps based on the PCI – DSS

Providing method of procedures to Network Operations team to successfully upgrade softwares of various network devices like cisco Nexus 1k, 5k, juniper routers/switches/firewalls, F5, Cisco CSM, GSS, Cisco ACE load balancers.

Data Network Specialist Feb '08 – June ‘11

BELL Mobility

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Heavily involved in the improvement of the current network protocol standards and implementation strategies such as BGP, OSPF, STP, VTP and MPLS

Responsibility to lead, plan, design, evaluate and select network technologies, vendors, tools and services

Worked with Network Design and Engineering team on multiple projects to upgrade and improve the network infrastructure and designs

Created provisioning, troubleshooting, upgrade, backup, and roll back guidelines and engineering Method of Procedures (MOP) that details the network deployment and verification procedures to be performed on the production environment

Worked on system integration involving Juniper EX-3200,4200 switches, MX-series routers, Juniper Netscreen and SRX firewalls

Provided training and level 3 support to the Operation teams on service deployment and verification activities performed on the production networks

Developed and documented method of practices for various network activities for internal and external departments, different customer networks

Actively involved in implementing and leading network projects like VTP implementation, IOS standardization, Layer-2 design strategies, and Spanning Tree Protocol design strategies

Assisted in developing service level agreements and capacity guidelines

Acted as a focal point between vendors and operation to diagnose and resolve highly complex network issues, such as hardware failures, software bugs, network congestion problems, and vendor incompatibilities

Extensive knowledge of different vendors technologies like CISCO 3700/4500/6500/7600 series devices, Juniper EX-3200,4200, M-series, SRX, Netwcreen firewalls, SUN servers, Checkpoint and Netscreen Firewalls, F5/Foundry/Radware/CISCO ACE load balancers

Deep knowledge and experience of different monitoring platforms like ciscoworks, Sniffer infinistream, Nescout and nGENIUS

Planned and designed network migration activities in a secure and effective way to reduce network down time

Network Specialist Jan '05 – Nov '06

VSNL (Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited)

Gujarat, India

Involved heavily in designing, maintaining, troubleshooting cisco and juniper technologies

Diagnosed and resolved network failures, as reported by NOC and network management equipment for fast paced ISP environment

Working proactively on customer degraded networks for best in class service

Worked closely with internal teams like Tier III, IP NOC, Implementation and Design

Reviewed and redesigned internal networks to make more reliable and secure

Actively involved in design and planning customer networks

EDUCATION:

BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING IN ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION 2001 - 2004

University of North Gujarat, Gujarat, India

DIPLOMA IN ELECTRONICS & TELECOMMUNICATION 1999 - 2001

Gandhinagar Polytechnic, Gujarat, India

REFERENCE AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST

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