Anand Sriramanarayanan

Citizenship: Australian

Phone: + 1 (408) - 780 - 4836

Email: acfn4j@r.postjobfree.com

Objective

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Actively seeking a challenging position, where my knowledge & experience

can be utilized for the betterment and growth of the company.

Technical Skills

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- Routing protocols: - BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP.

- Implementation of ACLs, DHCP, DNS, HSRP/VRRP, VLANs, VTP, STP, FTP, TFTP,

PPP & L2TP, PPTP/IPSec/SSL, SMTP, and SNMP.

- Understanding of installation, troubleshooting and optimization of Telco

circuit technology including point-to-point and meshed frame-relay,

digital data/voice circuits (Fibre, ISDN, DSL, SHDSL, Cable).

- Experience with

. Cisco Routers : ASRs 1004 & 1002X, Cisco 7200, 3845, 2911, 2811, 2611,

2511, 819

. Cisco Switches : 6509, 3750, 3560, 2960

. Installation of Nexus 7k, Nexus 5k and Nexus 2k at Datacenters and

understanding of Cisco NXOS.

. Experience in Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) 5500 Series with Cisco

Aironet 1140, 1200 Series Access Points.

. Load Balancers: Cisco ACE20, F5 (newly installed at primary and secondary

datacenters).

. Experience with ACLs and Firewalls (Cybergaurd and Fortinet Firewalls)

. Cisco ACS and VPN Concentrator 3000 series.

. VoIP Products - Mitel (3300) and Zultys.

. Implementation of Monitoring Tools - Zenoss, HP Openview, Statseeker3,

Nagios,Cacti and netflow tracker for network management.

. Implementation of IP Address Management - Orion Solarwinds

. Basic knowledge of Juniper devices and understanding of Junos.

. Using Python as a replacement for shell scripts. Used to automate logging

onto multiple devices within the network and carry out required changes.

Education

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- Masters of Business IT RMIT University, Australia

2005 - 2006

- Masters of Network Computing MONASH University, Australia

2004 - 2005

- B. E - Computer Science Birla Institute of Technology, India

2000 - 2003

Certifications / Training Courses

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- CCNA (Certification completed)

- CCNP (Course completed from RMIT University)

- Mitel 3300 ICP Part - VoIP Certification

- FCNSA (Fortinet Certified Network Security Associate)

- PRINCE 2 Foundation Course & Principal Toolbox training

- F5 Networks (Webinar)

- Orion SolarWinds IPAM training (Webinar)

- Zenoss foundation course (Webinar)

- VMware NSX (Introductory course and Lab Access at VMUG event)

Employment History

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Bureau of Meteorology Senior Network Engineer Nov

'10 - Current

- Currently involved in the Federal government's MUNRO project which

looks into the Bureau's capacity to respond to future extreme weather

and natural disaster events and to provide seasonal forecasting

services.

- The MUNRO project demanded site surveys (both staffed and un-staffed

around various geographic locations) to be carried out along with

Network Assessment, Documentation (including technical, operational,

and economic assessment) and implementation of network infrastructure.

Redesign offices copper and fiber cable plant for scalability.

- Assisted the team with integration of a second VPLS cloud to provide

network resiliency and in negotiating hardware, software, and circuit

contracts.

- Regional Offices, Forecasting centres and Radar locations around

Australia (including remote Islands) were visited for the installation of

additional communication (i.e: VPLS, xDSL, Frame Relay, 3G and/or

Inmarsat BGAN Satellite) services.

- Routing protocols were tweaked to provide automatic failover to

appropriate communication links in preparation for any future extreme

weather and natural disaster events.

- Monitoring current VPLS network for packet transportation and fully

meshed VoIP connectivity across multiple sites around Australia and

Antarctica.

- Worked on cooperate network Technology included, but was not limited to,

Cisco Switches Firewalls and Routers, Traditional L2 design: Access,

Distribution and Core. Layer 3 routing protocols were OSPF and BGP; while

routed protocols were IPv4 and IPv6 (for production).

- Establishment and use of network management, monitoring, diagnostic

applications and troubleshooting skills involving large WAN & LAN data

communications networks for the support of Bureau operations in

geographically distributed offices, sites and data centres.

- Project Management activated with highly developed ability to cost,

organize, implement and complete projects in a data communications

environment both in a timely & cost effective manner.

- Work involved with investigating and maintaining wide area technologies

including; telecommunications services (such as Frame Relay, xDSL, VPLS,

Internet VPN, ISDN, 3G, VSAT and BGAN satellite services).

- Also, involved with investigating and maintaining IP routers, LAN

switches, wireless LANs and the Internet Protocols (IPv4 and IPv6),

together with associated routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), layer 3

QOS, prioritisation, use of structured cabling systems including fibre

optic cabling.

- Implementing security policies using ACLs, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, VPN,

IPS/IDS, AAA (TACACS+ & RADIUS).

- Actively involved in recent second Data Centre migration which required

installation of Cisco Nexus switches & Fabric Extenders along with the

Cisco UCS and EMC storage chassis. Helped to restructure and provision

the WAN infrastructure, both primary and backup circuits for Internet and

VPLS circuit.

- Actively involved in carrying out routing protocol migration from OSPF

to EIGRP.

- Assisted with building and maintaining network documentation using

Microsoft Visio and publishing them over the intranet using

Dreamweaver.

- Implementation of Orion Solarwinds IP Address Management, Zenoss, HP

Openview, Statseeker3 and netflow tracker for network management.

Telarus Pty Ltd Network Analyst Sept

'08 - Nov '10

- Maintaining the MPLS network to enable delivery of highly scalable

national VPN.

- Played an active role in the construction, ongoing development and

maintenance of the NOC environment including the network management using

Nagios and Cacti Graphing tools along with incident ticketing system

(Magic).

- Monitoring and maintenance of customer managed services

(gateways/firewalls and racks in datacenters around Australia and New

Zealand).

- Fault diagnosis, resolution and tracking within agreed SLA time periods

- Demonstrated working knowledge of Cisco routers and switches and a solid

understanding of service provider environments.

- Broad knowledge of network and systems, ideally including Cisco,

Fortinet, EMC, VMware, Microsoft and RedHat.

- Knowledge and experience with L2 switches, routers, firewalls, Ethernet,

Wireless services, SAN platforms and virtualization.

- Knowledge of Internet systems and protocols including Radius, PPP & L2TP,

PPTP/IPSec/SSL, DNS and SMTP.

- Demonstrated ability with IP services including SMTP, FTP, HTTP, DHCP,

TFTP, TELNET and SSH.

- Good working knowledge of routing protocols, specifically RIP, EIGRP,

OSPF and BGP.Working knowledge of network management principals and

related technologies including ICMP, IPSLA, SNMP & Netflow.

Telstra Technical Specialist July

'07 - April '08

- Monitored the HFC (Hybrid Fibre Coax) network for performance problems

and service interruptions.

- Administration of network alarm monitoring platforms, Netcool to provide

system availability using ITIL incident and problem management processes.

- Provide timely action for Alarms, Tickets of work and incoming enquiries.

- Use CIS Tools - A FrontEnd application which allow for the administration

of Nodes & Exchanges, Hubs and Amplifiers.

- Using RFQ Reporter to access RF data real time, the Real Time Reporter

also produces Codeword Error Report of Nodes & Exchanges, Hubs and

Amplifiers.

- Incorporate 'Root Cause' analysis via the BCNM Server and display the

event on WIZARD to inform Front of House about the network incident and

time of recovery.

- Coordinated communication of maintenance and outage activities with

various departments within and outside the company.

- Carried out technical investigations to determine issues within the

networks, infrastructure, products and services.

Arrow International IT Support [Part Time] Feb

'06 - June '07

- Solely provided support for the Melbourne office (15 employees) and the

various construction sites (7 sites) around Melbourne and Canberra.

- Manage desktop and telecom support on a well-integrated set of platforms

including Windows, Linux and UNIX.

- Internet Connections, Browsing, Email and other Networking issues were

also tackled.

- Supported ADSL Modems, Internal and External Dial-up Modems, Filters,

Drivers, Firmware upgrades, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam & Firewall,

applications. Managed LAN and WAN issues including DNS and VPN.

- Reported directly to the Director and CEO.

- Helped in developing the Arrow International Website -

www.arrowinternational.com.au and carried out website presentation to

educate staff with website navigation.

Dodo ISP Technical Support [Level 1]

Sept '05 - Feb '06

- Troubleshoot, install and provide maintenance for various desktop

operations, operating systems, hardware, and software.

- Issues reported by customers to be dealt in a timely and efficient

manner.

- Provide step by step instructions to resolve technical issues and

solutions to customer's equipment needs.

- Deliver highly complex technical information into terms and concepts that

the end users can readily grasp.

- Support provided for - ADSL Modems, Internal and External Dial-up Modems

& Filters, Drivers, Firmware upgrades, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam & Firewall,

applications.

- Operating Systems Supported - 95/98, Win 2000, Win ME, Win NT, Win XP and

Macintosh.

- Internet issues related to - Connection, Browsing, Email and Networking

issues.

Sponsorship Not Required

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I am an Australian Citizen looking to relocate to the United States and

eligible to work on an E3 Visa. This visa status allows for the admission

of an Australian National granted for a period of no more than two years.

Extensions of stay may be granted indefinitely in increments not to exceed

two years. For any further information please find link below:

www.usavisanow.com/e-3-visa

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