KAUSHIK MUKUNDA RAO

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San Jose, California – 95134. Email: ac4kng@r.postjobfree.com OBJECTIVE:

I seek a significantly responsible role in an organization in which I not only develop my professionally requisite skills, but also serve the organization to help achieve its targets and goals in a better way by persistently using my knowledge, experience, and interpersonal skills

SUMMARY:

• CCNA and AWS certified with one year of professional experience in Network designing, Implementing, Configuring, Troubleshooting, and Testing of networking and Security protocols.

• Expertise in Network Protocols, MTR, Firewalls, and Communication Network design.

• In-depth knowledge of deploying and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, Frame-Relay, Ether-channel, IP Routing Protocols - (RIPV2, OSPF, EIGRP & BGP) NAT, VLAN, STP, VTP.

• Excellent working knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite and OSI layers. Configuration and Monitoring Cisco Devices Switches Routers and access points.

• Experience in negotiating VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards, configuring and implementation of site-to- site VPN and Remote VPN.

• Highly skilled in functional tests, networking and hardware engineering. Excellent in implementing new and innovative networking ideas in the systems.

SOFT SKILLS:

• Ability to rapidly build relationship set up trust.

• Ability to cope up with different situations.

• Good at providing practical & pragmatic solutions to Technical issues.

• More interested in the learning new technology.

• Active Listener, Quick Learner, Leadership skill, Collaborative, Communicator. SKILLS

• Networking Protocols: HTTP, SNMP, UDP, TCP, OSPF, BGP, ARP, LAN, WAN, STP, RIP, RTP, FTP, SSL, SSH, IPsec, SMTP, DNS, HSRP.

• Networking Concepts: DNS, DHCP Failover, MPLS, SDN, VoIP, SDN, LAN/WAN Configuration ( TDM (T1, DS3, OC3 or higher) – Wi-Fi 802.11a-n – Wireless LTE/4G., VPN, VLAN, Cisco ASA Firewall Configuration

• Languages & Scripting: Python, C, Matlab, AWS CLI/SDK.

• Operating systems & Monitoring Tools: UNIX, Windows, Solar Winds, Websense,Net Flow, Iperf, Wireshark.

• Cloud Services & Deployment Skills: AWS compute, storage, networking, and database technologies including EC2, VPC, IAM, Cloud Formation, ELB, S3, EBS, Glacier, CloudFront, Route 53, AWS Direct Connect, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Elastic Cache, DMS, VPN, Elastic BeanStalk, Lamda. Certifications:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing and Switching (CCNA Routing and Switching)

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate (License: ZDJWFGE1LEEQQJW1) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Graduate Teaching Assistant, EE & CS Department, Cleveland State University Aug 2017 – Dec 2017

• Created assignments for students to help them familiarize with basic packet flow in a network and troubleshooting the problems using Wireshark and Python.

• Monitored around 40 Undergraduate students by clarifying their doubts in assignments.

• Graded in-class assignments, home works and pop-up quizzes. Internship:

Worked in Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) as Network Support Engineer (From 06/20/2015 to 7/26/2016 period of 14 months).

Job Responsibility

• Configuration, installation, and management of Cisco Routers (3600, 7200) Series.

• Cisco Layer 2/3 Switches like 2350, 3550, 3750, 4500, 6509.

• RIPV2, EIGRP, IGRP and OSPF routing protocols on cisco routers.

• Redundancy protocol like HSRP, GLBP on switches and routers.

• Point to Point, ATM, Frame Relay and BGP implementation for WAN Environment.

• Cisco ASA and performing content filtering using ASA. Implemented and Configured LAN protocols like Ethernet, VLAN, STP, RSTP, and VTP.

• Configured and implemented Extended ACL’s on the respective interfaces (Inbound and Outbound).

• Cisco Firewall ASA 5505, 5510, 5520

• Windows 2003, 2008 sever, DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP and Microsoft Exchange.

• Remote Access VPN on ASA.

• Configuring IPSec VPN between branch office, and Remote Access VPN using Cisco VPN Client 4.6 for remote users with split-tunneling and monitoring it with logs.

• Troubleshooting of EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and Design of OSPF areas for reliable access communication and for core IP routing.

• Knowledge of

• Making a Firewall as a Transparent Firewall (Layer 2 device).

• Implementing Security Context, Failover, and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) using Firewall.

• Applied NAT and PAT policies on the interfaces going for ISP.

• Installing and upgrading IOS of switches via TFTP server, taking backup of switches.

• Load Balancing and Redistribution of network traffic.

• Other tasks included

• Troubleshoot all network problems to ensure minimum down time and maximum availability.

• Providing dynamic and static IP to system.

• Provide technical document for new project and closer report after completion of project

• Coordinate with ISP when WAN link is down Maintaining and verifying the network related documents Port details, traffic flow diagram of each service, Site health check report. etc. ACADEMIC PROJECTS:

• Undergraduate Senior Project: “An Internet of Things Approach for Motion Detection using Raspberry Pi” a project based on surveillance using credit card sized chip known as Raspberry Pi which uses IoT for transmitting captured image to the destination.

• M S Project:

1. A paper presented on “Self-Driving Vehicles” which tells the complete work and undergoing work of the Vehicles without any human intervention.

2. TRAFFIC ROUTING WITH MULTI-HOMED ISPs USING BGP: Simulated traffic routing scenarios with multi- homing to ISPs over small business network model, using BGP ATTRIBUTES and BGP Communities in GNS3.

3. ARP Poisoning- ARP Spoofing, Wireshark

Implemented man in the middle attack, where ARP cache of the client/server is poisoned. The data transferred between client and server is been captured using Wireshark 4. .Network packet Sniffer -Python, IP, ICMP, Ethernet Programmed a Packet sniffer through which network and ethernet packets can be captured, which can be used to analyze the data flow across the network under home wireless network 5. Data analysis using Wireshark – Wireshark

Studying the operation of interface between the computer and the internet. Reasoning and capturing of data packets transferred between computer and internet. Application of filter to find the percentage loss of the packet

EDUCATION

Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Aug 2016 – Dec 2017) Cleveland State University GPA 3.62/4.0

Graduate coursework: Computer Architecture, Computer Networks, Secure & Dependable Computing, Computer Vision and Depth Camera, Network Security &Privacy, Linear Systems, Machine Learning, Software Defined Radio. Bachelor of Electronics and Communication Engineering (July 2012 – June 2016) Visvesvaraya Technological University GPA 3.5/4.0

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