Education

Master in Computer Science California State University, Los Angeles, CA GPA: 3.40 Sep 2015 – Aug 2017 Bachelor in Computer Engineering Gujarat Technological University, GJ, India GPA: 3.50 Aug 2010 – June 2014 Technical Skills

Switches - Cisco IOS: Cisco 2950, 2960, 3500, 3700, 4500, 6500. Cisco Data Center platforms: Nexus 1000, 5000, 7000, UCS 6000.

Cisco SDN platforms; Nexus 1000v, ASA 1000v, CSR 1000v.

Routers - Cisco IOS and IOS XE platforms; Cisco 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 5300, 7200, ASR.

Cisco 3005 VPN concentrators Firewalls - Cisco ASA 7.x, 8.x, 9.x. Cisco PIX, FWSM, ASAM.

Load Balancers - Cisco ACE, CSS, F5 LTM, F5 GSM, Cisco PIX 501 / 506 / 515 / 525 and ASA 5505 / 5510 / 5520 / 5540 firewalls.

Juniper switches, Juniper firewalls SSG/ ISG / IDP Series, Fortinet, Sonic wall, Palo Alto.

Routing protocols RIP / OSPF / EIGRP / BGP, VLANs / STP / RSTP / Ether channel / MST.

VPNs – GRE / IPsec / DMVPN / SSL / MPLS, Securing VLANs, switch access, IDS, IPS.

TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Wireshark, Nessus, VMware, Net Flow.

Microsoft Windows Servers NT / 2000 / 2003 / 2008 / 2012, Active Directory, Group Policy.

Microsoft Exchange 5.5 / 2000 / 2003 / 2007, Microsoft SQL 6.5 / 7.0 / 2000 /2005.

Microsoft Office 95 / 2000 / XP / 2003 / 2007, Linux – FreeBSD / SUSE / Red Hat.

C/C++, Java, JavaScript, Spring-MVC, Hibernate, HTML, CSS, Node.js, Angular.js, Python.

Veritas/Symantec Backup Exec; Arc Serve Backup, Barracuda Backup Server, McAfee / Symantec. Academic Projects

IPsec-VPN - Setting a site-to-site IPsec VPN tunnel between Cisco router and Cisco ASA firewall.

AAA - Configuring Cisco router to use AAA for user authentication via a TACACS+ or RADIUS server (such as Clear box).

Implementing application level protocol- Implemented a client and server Java program to communicate with each other using TCP/IP protocol and server socket.

Configured whole network in various industries while working in Cronic Technologies.

Analyzing of Programming Language (Python, Pandas, Scikit-learn, Tweepy, MongoDB, Machine Learning)

• Made a prediction for upcoming popular programming language using training datasets (stack overflow data) and testing datasets (twitter live data).

• Implemented linear regression and logistic regression using scikit-learn for testing our prediction and got 85.67% accuracy.

• Visualize data using pandas and Used Twitter Streaming API for getting live twitter data.

Chat Application using Node.js (Node.js, AngularJS, socket.io, ng-lodash, express, CSS, NPM)

• Developed web application for chatting in local network. Used socket.io module to emit the data from sender to receiver.

• Used express module for redirection. Used AngularJS and CSS to make user interface attractive.

• Designed – Developed white board and transmitting live data from sender white board to receiver white board. Work Experience

Cronic Technologies

Ahmedabad, GJ, India

Network Engineer

Aug 2011 – Aug 2015

Design WAN / LAN / WLAN network architecture and Configure and troubleshooting Layer 2 / Layer 3.

Configuration and maintenance of Cisco 2500, Exchange 5.5, Backup and virus protection.

Configuring Cisco Routers (2500, 3000 and 4000) using RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP and Catalyst 3750, 3650, 4K Switches.

Implementing Windows 2012 R2 Active directory, DNS and internet information Servers.

Implement and troubleshoot layer 2 protocols CDP, LLDP, VLAN access ports, VLAN database, normal, extended VLAN, voice VLAN, VTP, spanning-tree, PVST+/RPVST+/MST, STP.

Configured device security using Cisco IOS AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS, AAA with TACACS+ and RADIUS, Local privilege authorization fallback.

Deployed Cisco ASA Basic Cisco Remote Access IPsec VPN Solutions, Advanced Cisco AnyConnect Full-Tunnel SSL VPN Solution, Cisco ASA Basic Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs, Advanced Site-to-Site IPsec VPNs. HGCE

Ahmedabad, GJ, India

Student Assistant

Aug 2011 – July 2013

Manage and install various network devices and service (Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers and ASA Firewalls) as per the requirements.

Responsible for installing LAN, lab designing, implementing and maintaining network components.

Performed IOS upgrades on various switches and maintained latest IOS versions. Responsible to monitor whether all components are available for successful communication.

Virtualization with VMWare. Ensured that backup systems were properly maintained and prepared.

Using Wireshark for packet capture and network troubleshooting with helping students to resolve any issues. APURVKUMAR PATEL

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