Harini Reddy

Certified Network Engineer

Email: ac01ad@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 719-***-****

SUMMARY:

8years of professional experience with Cisco Certified Network Engineering, performing networking, configuring, troubleshooting, installing and maintaining of networking devices.

Hands on experience in configuring and Deployment of Routers and Switches in network support.

Experience with Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Load Balancers and Firewalls.

Experience in Layer 3 Routing protocol configurations: OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP.

Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1q, IP sec and, VLANs, Ether Channel, Trunking, Port Security, STP and RSTP.

Proficiency in configuring the VLAN setup on various Cisco Switches and Routers.

Knowledge of troubleshooting, implementation, testing and optimization of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP.

Manage day-to-day operations and configuration of Check Point firewalls.

Excellent working knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite and OSI layers.

Design, configuration, and support of Cisco Nexus Platforms (Nexus7K, 5K, 2K).

Hands on experience in configuring Cisco ASA 5540, 5580 firewalls.

Experience in Layer 3 Routing Protocol configurations: OSPF, EGIRP, BGP, RIP.

Troubleshooting for Layer 2 LAN technologies but not limited to Ethernet (Switched, FastE, GigE), STP, RSTP, VLANs, Cables, Bridges, VTP, and Trunking (802.1q), port security, routing protocols.

Implementation of HSRP, VRRP for Default Gateway Redundancy.

Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 2900, 3500, 4500 and 6500 series switches.

Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 routers with HSRP.

Worked on Router series such as 2800, 2600, 2900, 3600, 3800 and 7200, switches such as Cisco 3725, 3560, 3550, 2960, 2950, 4500 & 6500.

Password recovery, upgrading of IOS of Cisco devices.

Knowledge in IPV4, IPV6, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, DHCP, DNS, SNMP, RMON, NAT.

In-depth knowledge on Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP Subnetting, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS.

Good knowledge of Tunneling Protocols (IPSEC/GRE).

Understanding the requirements of the client to deploy an efficient network.

Proficient in MS Windows, MS/Open Office, MS Project 2013.

Dealt with monitoring tools like (Solar winds, Cisco prime), network packet capture tools like Wire-shark.

Experience in managing, administration and designing of IP Backbone Network and spearheaded the strengthening IP Backbone Network Security.

Possess strong network troubleshooting and communication skills.

CERTIFICATION:

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

EDUCATION:

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Cisco Routers

2600, 2800, 2900, 3600, 3700, 3800, 3900, 4400, 7200

Cisco Switches

2900, 3500, 3600, 3750, 4500, 4900, 6500

Nexus

2000, 5000, 9000

LAN Technologies

Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet

WAN Technologies

PPP, HDLS, MPLS, Channelized links

Routing Protocols

EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Route Filtering, Route redistribution, static Routing, Summarization

Switching

VLANs, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVST, MSTP, VDC, VPC, inter-VLAN switching, multicast, Port security, Ether-Channels

Load Balancers

Cisco ACE, F5 Network (Big-IP) LTM3600, Content Filtering

VPN Technologies

GRE Tunneling, Site-to-Site VPN, SSL VPN

Firewalls

Cisco ASA Firewalls, Juniper SRX Firewall, Check points, SSL, IDS, Access Control, Palo Alto Firewall

Tools

Solar winds, Ethereal, Wireshark, Dashboard

Redundancy Protocols

HSRP, GLBP, VRRP, RPR, NSF-SSO

Servers

Domain servers, WINS servers, FTP servers, DNS servers, Proxy servers, Application servers

Operating Systems

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10, Nexus OS, Cisco IOS, LINUX, Red Hat, Macintosh

Virtual Technology

VMware, Citrix

Microsoft office

Excel, PowerPoint, Word, Visio

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Southern California Edison, Los Angeles, CA Sep 2015 – Present

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Project oriented role in Data Center infrastructure with migration, implementation, deployment and design

Experience in converting WAN routing from EIGRP/OSPF to BGP which also involved converting from point to point circuits to MPLS circuits where OSPF is used for local routing only.

Maintenance and administration of the access layer devices and Data Center.

Experience with LAN protocols like STP, RSTP, VLAN, VTP, MST and Port Channel Protocols like PAGP, LACP

Team member for the Configuration of Cisco 7206 router with VPN and Configuration of Catalyst switches.

Experience with design and configuring Overlay Transport Virtualization on Cisco NX-OS devices like Nexus 7000.

Extensive work in Configuring, Troubleshooting and Monitoring Cisco’s ASA 5500 with NAT, ACL, Multi-Contexts and Object Groups.

Experience in enabling STP attack mitigations using MD5 authentication for VTP, disabling all unused ports and putting them in unused VLAN.

Implemented, Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on and SRX Firewalls at the web server.

Responsible for layer 2 securities which was implemented using a dedicated VLAN ID for all the trunk ports and setting the user ports to non-trunking, deployed port security when possible for user ports.

Assisted campus for VOIP network management and troubleshoot.

Worked on Data, VoIP, security as well as wireless installations and technologies.

Troubleshooting for Layer 2 LAN technologies but not limited to Ethernet (Switched, FastE, and GigE), Spanning-Tree, VLANs, VTP, and Trunking (802.1q) and Aruba Wireless platform.

Configuration and troubleshooting of Nexus 7010, 5020, 2248, 2148 devices.

Installed and tested Cisco router and switching operations using OSPF routing protocol, ASA Firewalls, and MPLS switching for stable VPNs.

Prepared Check Point firewall configurations for migrating from Cisco ASA 8.2 version to Cisco ASA8.4 version.

Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.

Installations and upgrades for Cisco Unified Communication components.

Configured and performed troubleshooting on link state protocols like OSPF in single area and multiple areas.

Experience with F5 load balancers and Cisco load balancers.

Involved in the troubleshooting aspects of complex network infrastructure using routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.

Experience in configuring and implementing Prefix-lists, Route-maps and Ether-channels.

Optimized performance of the WAN network consisting of Cisco 3550, 3750, 4500, 6500 switches by configuring VLANs.

Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.

Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 2900, 3500, 4500 series switches and 2500, 2600, 3600, 7200 series routers.

Experience configuring in Cisco AVVID, Cisco Call Manager, Cisco IP Phones, Cisco VoIP, Cisco UC, and Cisco HCS.

Configured application load balancing using F5 LTM.

Monitoring and analyzation of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) & Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) to identify security issues for remediation.

Configured BPDU Guard, port-fast, uplink fast and other spanning tree features.

Supporting network security devices such as firewalls and proxies with emphasis on remote access technologies such as VPN and Citrix NetScaler.

Environment: Cisco Switches 2900/3500/3550/4500/3750/6500 series and Cisco Routers 7200/3600/3800/ 2600/2800 series, Cisco Nexus 5K/7K series, and Cisco ASA 5500, F5 Load balancer, VLAN, WAN, STP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, LAN, VOIP, VPN and HSRP.

Stage Stores, Houston, Texas May 2014 – Jul 2015

Sr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Involved in updating IOS images using TFTP and troubleshooting IP addressing issues.

Assisted in troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network as per the company requirements.

Involved in configuring and implementing of Composite Network consists of Cisco routers and switches.

Experience in configuring security policies includes PAT, VPN, NAT, Access-control lists and Route-maps.

Configured RIP, and OSPF on routing protocol administration.

Performed IOS upgrades on Catalyst 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500 series switches and 2500, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200 series routers with HSRP.

Configured STP for loop prevention on Cisco Switches.

Experience in working for Nexus switches 2000, 5000 and 7000 series.

Designed WAN to prevent single point of failure in case of link failure.

Technical Support for fault diagnosis, analysis & rectification of LAN & WAN networks.

Troubleshoot issues related to VLAN, VLAN Trunking, HSRP failovers, related issues.

Understand requirements of the client to deploy an efficient network.

Monitoring / tracking projects with respect to budgeted cost, demand forecasts, time over-runs to ensure timely execution of projects.

Identifying scope for planning, implementing and monitoring of technological changes to enhance operational efficiency in design guidance for infrastructure upgrade and connectivity issues.

Involved in implementation of trunking using Dot1Q, and ISL on Cisco Catalyst Switches.

Worked with snipping tools like Ethereal (Wireshark) to analyze the network problems.

Performed replacements of failed hardware and upgraded software.

Performed scheduled Virus Checks & Updates on all Servers & Desktops.

Other responsibilities included documentation and support team members.

Environment: Cisco 3560, 3750, 4500, 6500 switches and Cisco 2500, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200 routers, Nexus: 2000, 5000, 7000 series switches, Redundancy Protocols: LAN, WAN, HSRP, VLAN, STP, VTP, RSTP, PVST, NAT, PAT, ACL, Route-maps, Wireshark, Routing Protocols: EIGRP, OSPF, BGP Cisco ASA 500, F5 BIGIP LTM, RIP, Checkpoint firewall, Load balancers.

Nabors Industries, Houston, TX Mar 2013 – Apr 2014

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for designing and implementation of customer’s network and Security infrastructure.

Involved in complete LAN, WAN, Extranet redesign (including IP address planning, designing, installation, pre configuration of network equipment, testing, and maintenance) in both Campus and Branch networks.

Assisted with troubleshooting all network issues with routers and switches when necessary and consulted with on call tech as needed for client.

Validate existing infrastructure and recommend new network designs.

Installed and maintained Cisco and Load Balancer and documentation.

Manages network device configurations, logical names and addresses, network design and implementation.

Configured and designed LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches.

Used Python script to perform tasks required.

Design, and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.

Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls

Improving OSPF convergence by controlling SPF algorithm.

Participate in all technical aspects of LAN, WAN, VPN and security internetworking projects including, short and long term planning, implementation, project management and operations support as required.

Extensively used TCP/IP tool like TELNET for remote login to the routers and SSH for secure login.

Estimated Project costs and created documentation for project funding approvals.

Installed and configured DHCP, DNS Server.

Managed various teams involved in site surveys, cabling specifications, Network equipment installation and configuration.

Planned resources and presented project status to higher management.

Has expertise in LAN/WAN technologies (fast Ethernet, Layer2 & 3 switched/routed LAN, and Frame Relay).

Routing Protocols, Networking Layer1, 2, 3 Switching concepts, LAN/WAN technologies, Wireless Networking, TCP/IP concepts.

Worked with Cisco and Juniper equipment to troubleshoot various problems.

Modified router configurations programming with additional VLANs, port assignment.

Environment: Routers: Cisco 1600, 2600, 2800, 3600, 7300 series Routers, Switches: Cisco Distribution layer switches such as 4510, 4948, 4507, firewalls 5GT, 208, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF and BGP.

Capella Healthcare, Franklin, TN Feb 2012 – Mar 2013

Network Analyst

Responsibilities:

Handling Company’s IT Security related issues, network traffic for all infrastructure devices and providing solutions.

Configure IT LAN/WAN features.

Web Filtering and Categorizing on Proxies and Web Gateways.

Collecting and Maintaining logs and reports for Audit Purposes.

Monitoring and maintaining compliance standards on Company’s Endpoints.

Deploying, Configuring, Upgrading and Monitoring Security Compliance Management products and policies (Endpoint Security, Web Gateway).

Managing and troubleshooting Security Compliances infrastructure servers on any operational concern.

Deliver support for Remote Access VPN ad troubleshooting.

Primarily focused on Automation and failover capabilities on Security Compliance Operation.

Handling all level of incident and change order for Security Compliance products such as Anti-Virus and Web Gateways.

Providing Training and Knowledge sharing session for L1 Team.

Construct protocols for port-security to prevent any unauthorized access to the network.

Environment: Endpoint Security, Network traffic, Web Gateway, VPN, Anti –Virus.

SERCO, Hyderabad, INDIA Jul 2008- Sep 2011

Network and Operations

Responsibilities:

Responsible for support of network devices including switches, routers wireless access points, file servers, ISP connections, acceleration applications.

Managed performance, scheduling and career development for team of 15 network engineers.

Developed a safety and fire prevention program and ensuring the work environment in compliance with all safety regulations.

Applied "outside the box" procedures to recover a large volume of lost data needed for the next morning, made hard decisions to achieve goal resulting in great press for the Data Center.

Received trouble tickets and solved tactical satellite systems related problems of at least two hundred end users.

Formulated a Fault Management Methodology in collaboration with Regional Operations Managers, the Operations Support Center, and external consultants to gain national support in the Broad reach Process.

Monitoring LAN and WAN network traffic and performance using network monitoring software.

Consistently exceeded 99% of installation deadlines and requirements for all production work orders.

Implemented a full service helpdesk solution for tracking and managing all end-users' help requests.

Resolved many cable failures, thefts and damages of ranging scope in number of affected customers, cable sizes, and duration to resolve. This required applying project management, inter-department coordination skills.

Worked with IT groups to develop, evaluate and support new Network Management tools.

Supported MACs (Move/Add/Changes) in both existing and new network.

Environment: Configured LAN and WAN equipment using Cisco Routers, Switches.

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