Engineer Network

Parth Patel

Email Id:- *************@*****.***

Contact No:- 626-***-****

SUMMARY:

Network Engineer with over 3+ years of experience in the industry including expertise in the areas of Network Designing, Routing and Switching technology, DNS/DHCP technology and server traffic handling and troubleshooting.

Creative and resourceful Network Engineer able to handle concurrent projects with high professionalism and accuracy.

Adept at short- and long-term Networking and Server troubleshooting issues.

Detailed knowledge of Server Hardware, Designed, Installation, troubleshooting and Server Traffic handling.

Performance Management / Troubleshooting, base system Installation, Core OS services of Application Layer

protocols viz. FTP, SNMP, TELNET, DNS, DHCP, DHCPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6.

Detailed knowledge of critical routing and switching features such as Class of Service/Quality of Service, Traffic and Performance Engineering, High Availability, and IP Services such as FTP, NAT/PAT, and NTP.

Expertise in the analysis, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN architecture and good experience on IP services.

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

Worked on Cisco Routers, Active /Passive Hubs, Switches, Cisco PIX Firewall, Cisco ASA, NOKIA Firewalls, Nortel VPN Concentrators TCP/IP, NAT and Checkpoint ESX/GSX firewall.

Security policies including NAT, PAT, VPN, Route-maps, prefix lists and Access Control Lists.

Deep knowledge of major server component architecture/design (Motherboards, Hard Drives, RAM, CPUs, Heat Sinks, Fans)

Proficient in Cisco IOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IGRP, BGP etc.

Knowledge of IPMI tool in shell-scripting.

Extensive understanding of Layer 2 and Layer 3 technologies.

Hands on Experience configuring and testing F5 iRules using Browser(IE), HTTP watch.

Expert with C/C++, Python, PowerShell.

Local to The Bay Area, CA

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

MS (Electrical Engineering) California State University, Los Angeles Jan2015-Dec2016

BE (Electronics & Communication) Gujarat Technological University June2009-May2013

Palo Alto Firewall ACE (Accredited Configuration Engineer)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

AWS- Associate Solution Architect (Preparing for Exam)

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Network Engineer Synnex Corporation, Fremont, USA April 2017 to till date

Configured & managed Remote access & Site to Site VPN tunnels in Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls.

Communicated with different customers, IT teams in gathering the details for the project and providing excellent customer service and support for projects.

Experience with Network Circuit and Vendors, Routing Devices and Software, IP / DNS configuration.

Supported Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification as well as Circuits including Mother Boards, Raid, Network Cards and Processors.

Experience with Cisco Call manager and troubleshooting VOIP issues.

Involved in the redistribution into OSPF on the core ASA firewall and the integration of AAA-Server in Cisco ASA 5520 firewalls.

Configured SNMP-Server in Cisco routers, Switches & Firewall.

Supported Blacklisting & Whitelisting URL's in Visual policy manager of Bluecoat Proxy appliance.

Configured VLAN, Spanning tree, VSTP, SNMP on EX series switches as well as IPSEC VPN (Site-Site to Remote Access) on SRX series firewalls.

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

Supported and configuring VLAN's, VTP, Spanning Tree protocol in Cisco & HP switches.

Managed cabled LAN and Wireless access, with switching technologies and Wireless technologies

Troubleshot and monitored routing protocols such RIP, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP.

Configuring RIP, OSPF and Static routing on Juniper M and MX series Routers.

Moved the Data Center (DC) from one location to another location, from 6500 based DC to Nexus based data center.

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

Design OSPF Areas for reliable Access Distribution and for Core IP Routing.

Configuration and Troubleshooting of Outlook Express and MS Outlook.

Responsible for Configuring SITE_TO_SITE VPN on Cisco ASA 5500 series firewall between Head office and Branch office.

Service Engineer NCR Corporation August 2013 – Jan 2015

Satisfactorily resolved problems in timely manner with focus on providing a high level of Customer Support.

Installed and maintained and repaired the ATM machine also troubleshooting ATM Hardware like Motherboard, RAM, ROM, BIOS, RAID.

Installed the CDM machine as well as Switch configuration and VPN connection for ATM machine to using telnet and traceroute.

Besides, experience of repair to Cisco router and Vodafone billing machine.

Configured rules and maintained Palo Alto Firewalls & Analysis of Firewall logs using various tools to Protect ATM Machine.

Provided day to day Data Center operations, contact with Engineers, Hardware Planners and Management to prevent and solve issues within the ATM.

Assisted Network Operations and level one network engineers in the diagnosis of difficult or complex network related problems.

Utilized MS Windows, Word, and Excel for reporting/documenting process.

Provided high level technical support, including identifying and resolving problems on CISCO supported products for eCommerce infrastructure. This included external routing and internet and intranet routing for DMZ servers.

Prepared Engineering documents and Network diagrams in Microsoft Visio.

Delivered Departmental Efficiency through advanced engineering, technical support, and documentation procedures.

Jr. Network Engineer Erhardt + Leimer June 2012 – May 2013

Provided in-depth expertise in the implementation of analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.

Single point of contact for Client networks. I was the SPOC for maintaining their uptime from addressing new client installations/Client location moves/day to day issues.

Designed, implemented and provided operational support of Routing/Switching protocols in complex environments including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Spanning Tree, 802.1q, etc

Configured and troubleshoot OSPF and EIGRP, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX Firewalls.

Actively participated in the implementation and customization of customer network.

Implemented and tested of ISDN BRI/PRI circuits.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Application layer protocols:- FTP, SNMP, Telnet, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, DHCPv6, ICMP, ICMPv6

WAN Technologies:- PPP, NAT, ISDN, Frame Relay and MPLS

Routing technologies:- OSPFv2 & OSPFv3, EIGRP, RIP, RIPng, DEFAULT & STATIC routes, BGP, Policy Based Packet Filtering, redistribution, summarization

VPN/Firewall Technologies: Remote access and site-to-site IPSec VPN, IPv6 transition techniques viz. Manual tunnelling, GRE tunnelling, 6to4 tunnelling, NAT64 and ISATAP,

ASA/PIX firewalls, Checkpoint GAIA, R72, R71.1, R75, R76, R77.20; Cisco ISE, Cisco ASA 5505, 5510, 5550; Palo Alto firewalls, Juniper ISG 1000/2000,

Switching technologies:- Inter-VLAN routing, VTP, DTP, STP, PVST+, RSTP, ARP, RARP, HSRP, Switch Port Security, Trunk, Ether-channel

Hardware Platform:- Cisco Router 2800, 2900, 3700, 3800, 7200, 7600 series, Catalyst

Switches: C6500, C4500, C4900, C3750, C2900 series, Cisco Nexus (7K, 6k, 9k, 5K, 2K)

Programming Languages:- Python, Embedded C, C, C++

TOOLS:

GNS3, Cisco Packet Tracer, Wireshark, VMware ESX (VSphere) 4.x, 5.x hypervisor, Solar Winds, Netscout, Cisco Works, SafeNet Blackshield Manager, McAfee Endpoint Encryption, WebSense, Cisco Secure ACS, Kaseya, KBOX, Cisco IPS Manager Express, Microsoft Azure

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