Engineer Software

Narayana Jayaram

**** ******** ***, *** **** CA *5134 Phone: 408-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/njayaram E mail: ********@*****.***

Profile:

• A Versatile Network Solutions Architect with over 10 years industry experience currently working

as a Customer Certification and Solution Lead at Cisco Systems

• Experience in software development and testing, Network design and implementation, Network

Virtualization, operations and field support with industry recognized certification.

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to interface at all levels. A team player who also

can work well independently

• US Citizen willing to relocate or travel

Academics and Accreditations:

CCNA, CCNP Cisco Systems, USA 2006

GPA – 3.8

MS (Computer Science) Univ. of Southern California 2005

GPA – 3.9

BS (Computer Science & Engineering) Univ. of Mysore, India 2001

Technical Expertise:

• In depth knowledge of design, implementation and troubleshooting of Service Provider Network

technologies

• Platforms worked on: Cisco CRS 1, CRS 3, Cisco NCS6K, Cisco IOS XR ASR9000, Cisco IOS

7600

• Network Simulation Tools: Ixia, Spirent, Agilent N2x

• Network Technologies: MPLS VPNs (L2, L3, Inter AS), VPLS, H VPLS, QinQ, TE tunnels, Metro

/ Carrier Ethernet, Layer 2: VLAN, LAG, LACP, BFD, OAM, CFM

• Routing Protocols: OSPF, ISIS, RIP, BGP, MPLS LDP, RSVP Traffic Engineering

• Virtualization Technologies: Network Virtualization, Cloud computing architecture (AWS), SDN,

OpenStack

• Programming: Java, C, Python

Work Experience:

Cisco Systems, Inc. 2005 Present

Customer Certification Engagement (Solution Architect) 2011 Present

Architected and designed core network test solutions for one of the largest service provider

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networks NTT DoCoMo

Led a cross functional team of 8 from Fujitsu Inc., to successfully certify and deploy CRS routers

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in a TME lab environment for NTT DoCoMo’s production

Influenced key test groups through presentations and technical chalk talks to adopt more Real

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world scenarios in test planning based on Customer feedback

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Narayana Jayaram

1463 Ferguson Way, San Jose CA 95134 Phone: 408-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/njayaram E mail: ********@*****.***

• Designed and performed Proof of Concept testing to certify customer deployment scenarios

working with development teams and product marketing

• Authored Deployment guides, Hardware/Software Upgrade procedures to support customer

deployments, Installation and troubleshooting manuals

• Functioned as a technical SME and presented CRS architecture to test teams, sales teams, and

customer account teams for the Cisco CRS 1 and CRS 3 products

• Addressed customers with specific queries via dashboards and enabled tighter knowledge

integration through Wiki pages and tools

• Reviewed hardware and software specifications along with test plans to provide infrastructure

improvement feedback and suggest feature enhancements for the Cisco CRS and NCS6k

product lines

• Served as a technical SME for CRS routers for core and edge Service provider deployments at

industry events and tradeshows.

Senior Software Engineer 2007 2011

Led the system integration test effort for CRS 1 and CRS 3 in its multi chassis

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configuration for a range of features supporting High Availability and redundancy scaled for the core

Service provider network

Reviewed product requirement documents, software functional specifications, and design

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specifications of new features / enhancements in CRS product line for IOS XR software releases

3.2.5 through 5.2.3

Designed and built test topologies replicating real world customer environment using CRS,

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ASR9k, and GSR platforms along with traffic/route generator tools from IXIA and Spirent

Measured network convergence for common network outage triggers and validated fixes

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Found Critical issues in CRS 3 Fabric performance early on avoiding h/w ASIC re spins.

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Tested upgrade migration procedures for SP customer networks moving from CRS 1 to

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CRS 3 Deployments

Mentored new system test engineers to be effective and productive for the aggressive IOS

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XR software release schedule

Software Engineer 2005 2007

Developed and automated test plans to perform feature, performance, scale and

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convergence tests for the CRS product line

Identified critical platform issues and software defects, logging them with relevant

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supporting documents

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Narayana Jayaram

1463 Ferguson Way, San Jose CA 95134 Phone: 408-***-****

http://www.linkedin.com/in/njayaram E mail: ********@*****.***

Resolved product/software issues validating fixes by collaborating with development

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groups globally

Assisted customers during early field trials with subsequent support for the deployment of

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the product

Individual Achievement Awards for outstanding performance throughout professional

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career at Cisco

Northrop Grumman Mission Systems 2004 to 2005

Software Engineer

• Designed front end of an intelligent command and control communications system with Java /

JFC swing

• Collaborated with Textron’s systems engineers in the integration of this control system with the

actual munitions hardware at Textron labs.

Cisco Systems India Bangalore, India 2001 2002

Software Engineer

• Designed and executed regression test suites to test the access control list feature on the

Catalyst 8510 and 8540 series of switch routers.

• Developed automation scripts using TCL with the underlying test infrastructure to integrate new

feature tests into the regression test suites

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