Network Engineer Professional Experience

Harshavardhan .M

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To purse a challenging carrier in the organization wherein I can fully utilize and enrich my skills, assume responsibilities entrusted to me and contribute to the organization effectively. My profile below would emphasize more about my 3year’s professional experience as a network engineer in the areas of Routing, Switching and LAN/WAN.

SKILLS:

Routing Protocols: RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF & BGP.

L2 Protocols: VTP, STP, RSTP, MSTP, ISL, 802.1q.

Switching: VLANs, Private VLANs, Ether-Channel

Network Management: Cisco Works

Software Suite/Operating System: GNS3, Wire Shark, TCPDUMP, VMWare, Windows Server, Linux

Office Tools: Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Libre Office (LINUX).

Scripting languages: Python

Certifications: CCNA

Network Devices: Catalyst 4500,37506509/Nexus 7k/Nexus 5K series switches.

Firewall: CISCO ASA

Load-Balancer: F5

Routers: CISCO 2900,3800 series

EDUCATION:

Texas A & M University Kingsville, TX August 2016

Master of Science in Electrical Engineering GPA - 3.13/4

JNTU University, Hyderabad, India May 2012 Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering, GPA – 6.5/10

WORK EXPERIENCE

REI Systems, Washington DC metro area November 2016-Till date

Jr. Network Engineer

•Configuring and troubleshooting routers using OSPF, EIGRP and BGP routing protocols, configuring Qos and Traffic shaping based on the requirements.

•Configuring FEX switches and Nexus 7k,5K switches, upgrade the switch IOS image. Troubleshoot layer 2 and layer 3 switches and routers.

•Configuring and troubleshooting access-lists to allow communication through the firewall as per requirements, troubleshooting the port opening status with proper analysis of the firewall connections and logs. Working with Cisco ASA and FWSM.Configuring Firewall to act as the DHCP server.

•Configuring and implementing firewall device such as cisco ASA 5510 and firewall IOS.

•Configuring and troubleshooting switchports for voice, data for users

•Configuring ports for server NIC's and ILO as per the business requirements. Provided vendor VPN access during initial design and testing through Cisco ASA Firewalls/Cisco AnyConnect.

•Configure new networks and raise changes at every step for completing and sorting the issues related to the network infrastructure which includes Routers, Cisco switches.

•Worked in configuring new L3 vlans and advertising them to them in routing using OSPF protocol.

•Monitoring wide area network (WAN) and local area network (LAN) in-case of any failure in network and user reported network issues on day to day basis using wire shark.

•Design and implementation of loop free network using spanning tree and ether channels.

•Configuring VIP’s, SSL certificate profiles, Generating CSR and Installing SSL certificate to the load balancer. F5 Load Balancers Installed and enabled the Syslog servers to collect alerts and logs for proactive network monitoring. Working with F5 support collecting TCPDUMPS, qkview logs.

•Working with third party AT&T and Verizon for link failures.

•Preparing KMDN (Knowledge Management Database) consisting of the network failure, resolution notes, network devices in the environment, steps for upgrading, maintaining and troubleshooting network issues in the environment.

•Configured LACP with access and trunk ports.STP, RSTP and PVST configurations verified with ports forwarding or not.

•Configuring up links and doing final checks.

•Analyze Research, troubleshoot and provide support for issues related to the network infrastructure which includes Routers, Cisco switches, Cisco ASA, F5 load balancers.

•Handled incidents daily and Changes.

ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

Texas A & M University Kingsville, TX

• Virtual Private Network lab observation

1.Created site-to-site VPN environment and Configured policy based VPN

2.Observed difference in frame-relay, VPN.

•Created a Graphic User Interface with following features:

1. Socket Programming (TCP server and client)/ Python Socket module

2. Database Implementation (SQLite database)/ Python SQL module

3. Security Implementation (SSL/TLS)/ Python SSL module & Open SSL

Vodafone Global Enterprise, Bangalore, India June 2012 – November 2014

Jr. Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

•Configured RIP, EIGRP and OSPF on 2600, 2900 and 3600 series Cisco routers.

•Implemented VTP and trunking protocols (802.1q and ISL) on 3560, 3750 and 4500 series Cisco Catalyst switches.

•Performed on-call support for installation and troubleshooting of the configuration issues.

•Worked on installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN (ISDN, Frame relay, NAT, DHCP, TCP/IP).

•maintenance and utilization of VLANs, Spanning-tree, HSRP, VTP of the switched multi-layer backbone with catalyst switches.

•Configured Access List (Standard, Extended, and Named) to allow users all over the company to access different applications and blocking others.

•Worked on the security levels with RADIUS, TACACS+.

•Configured of IP Allocation and sub netting for all applications and servers and other needs throughout company using FLSM, VLSM addressing.

•DHCP Client/Server configurations and installations.

•Backup and Restore.

•Creating Dashboard reports from trackers on issue logs to avoid future down time scenario.

•Assisting Junior and Senior Engineers, on-site management of cable-wiring technicians.

•Troubleshot problems on a day to day basis and documented every issue in tickets.

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