Contat I nfo .
******@*************.***
K.V.chowda ry
• Over 9 + years of experience as a security specialist with expertise
SUM M ERY
i ncludes design, configuration, t roubleshooting and support of security
environment with VPN, Firewalls, NAT, Proxy, IPsec, DMZ Solution,
I nt rusion Detection System, In t rusion Prevention Systems, Public Key
I nterchange, and SSL.
• Has extensive experience in design, implementation and support of
C isco
routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN devices, HP ProLiant DL380, HP
B lade 20p Servers, IBM Xserve’s Servers, Windows NT Servers and
Active Directory, TCP/IP, Ethernet, DNS, DHCP, WINS.
• He has extensive experience in installation, configuration and
administration
of firewall including, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Cisco PIX, Juniper Net
screen,
Cyber Guard, Zone Alarm, Knight Star . He has extensive experience
i n security
t ools and Webproxy’s A rcsite 6.0, EM7, Arbor and Webzine.
• Has excellent experience in multi-server corporate networking
environment consisting of 250+ servers and 2500+ users in disparate
geographical locations
Routers: C isco 3600 series, Cisco 2600 series, Cisco 1700 series, Cisco AS5200
SK I L LS &
series
AB I L I T I E
S Switches: Cisco 2900 series, Cisco 1900 series, Baystack 425-24T switch H ubs:
3com, Hewlett Packard, D-L INK
P rotocols: TCP/IP, RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, IPX \SPX, DHCP, DNS and PPP VTP,
STP, ISDN
Concepts: F rame-Relay, ATM, VLAN, MLS, VPN
OS: C ISCO IOS 12.X, MS-DOS 6.22, Windows 95/97/98/Me, Windows NT4.0,
W indows 2000,Windows 2000 Advance server, Windows XP, Windows 2003, Linux
I n te rnet: I nternet Information server 4.0, Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator
F i rewall: Checkpoint R65-R77, CISCO PIX 535, 520, 515, Juniper Netscreen 1000,
500, Juniper SRX, Cyber guard, and Knight Star
Web P roxy: B luecoat Proxy SG, Websence 7.0
Security tools: A rcsite 6.0, Arbor, Surefire, Wireshark, EM7, Spectrum, Solar
w ins
Load Balancers: B IG-IP F5
Languages: C, C++, Html, JavaScript, PHP, Perl.
R DB MS: O racle, SQL Server 2000
Applications: Microsoft Office 97/2000/2003, Adobe Photoshop, QuarkXPress,
Page Maker, Macromedia Dream Weaver, Microsoft Front Page, Adobe Acrobat
p rofessional, NewsWrap Software
Methodologies: SSAD, OOPS
Other Skill: M icrosoft Office 97/2000/2003, Microsoft Exchange Client 5.0,
Outlook 97/2000/2003 and Outlook Express, Incredimail, Quest Recovery Manager
for Active Directory.
N E TWORK SECUR I TY ENG I N EER – M I Z U HO BANK, JERSY C I TY, NJ
EXPER I E NCE
June - 2014 – Present
- Worked extensively on Checkpoint Firewalls R77.10
- Managing Checkpoint firewalls using Smart Dashboard.
- Isolate Issues using Smart Tracker.
- Managing Juper Net screen Firewalls Using NSM
- Extensive Experience in Managing Citrix Netscaler .
- Monitoring Network using Spectrum.
- Managing Branch and Vendor side Firewalls
- Managing MPLS VPN Networks.
- Managing Configuring and Troubleshooting Juniper SRX Firewalls.
- Enterprise Web Traffic Filtering using BlueCoteProxySG
- Managing Load Balancer’s F5 and Trouble Shooting
- Trouble shooting Existing LAN onsite and Remote Locations.
- Upgrading checkpoint Firewalls from R75.45 to R76.
- Using Arch site for Vulnerability assessment.
- Using BMC Quails for Auditing and Assign Upgrades and \ V ulnerabilities.
T EA M LEAD ( SECUR I TY OPERAT IO NS CE NTER) - C OMCAST,
M O RR ISTOWN, NJ
MAY 2013 – J U N E 2014
- Worked extensively on Checkpoint Firewalls R65/R70/R75/R76/R77.10.
- Managing Checkpoint firewalls using Provider one and Smart Dashboard.
- Isolate Issues using Smart Tracker.
- Well experienced with configuring Juniper ACLs, Cisco ACLs
- Worked on Juper Netscreen Firewalls Using NSM
- Extensive Experience in Managing and t rouble Shooting Juniper SSL VPN
- Monitoring Health Check and Maintaining Firewalls using E7.
- Experience with design and implementation new Firewalls in Vendor
Locations for Site to Site VPN Tunnels with multi-vendor products.
- Implementation of MPLS VPN Networks.
- Managing Configuring and Troubleshooting Juniper SRX Firewalls.
- Monitoring Enterprise infrastructure for vulnerabilities using ARCSITE 6.5
- Enterprise Web Traffic Filtering and Data loss prevention using Websence
7.0
- Managing Load Balancer’s F5 and Trouble Shooting
- Trouble shooting IPv4 and IPv6 Dual stacking issues.
- Configuring and t roubleshooting cisco ASA Firewalls for Site to site VPN
t unnels.
- Managing ARUBA VPN Boxes.
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- Resolving QOS issues on routers for Marked Traffic
- Upgrading checkpoint Firewalls from R70 to R76.
- Migrating Juniper Netscreen Firewalls to Juniper SRX Firewalls.
N E TWORK SECUR I TY ENG I N EER - STATE FAR M, BLOO M I NG TON, I L.
M a rch 2012 – Apri l 2013
- Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series
and PIX (506E/515E/525/).
- Well experienced with configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's
ASA 5500/PIX security appliance,
- Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the
f irewalls as per the design.
- Verifying and Configuring rules in firewalls.
- Maintaining Corporate Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs
- Experience with design and implementation of New Branch facility location.
- Implementation of MPLS VPN Networks.
- Checkpoint firewalls R65 Smart Dashboard /CMA build out for 3000
f irewalls.
- Configure rules/NAT via Smart Dashboard.
- Checkpoint t raffic t racker and isolate issues.
- Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010
- Worked on commissioning and decommissioning of the MPLS circuits for
various field offices.
- Managed VPN Sites (Checkpoint).
- Design and configuring of OSPF, BGP on Juniper Routers and SRX
F irewalls.
- Configuring IPSEC VPN on SRX series firewalls
- Configuring Virtual Chassis for Juniper switches EX-4200,Firewalls SRX-
210
- Worked on a broad range of topics such as routing and switching, dedicated
voice access, planning and implementation, large-scale high-visibility
outages, change management coordination, proactive monitoring and
maintenance, disaster recovery exercises, and core network repairs.
- Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing and
Switching
- Design, Implement & t roubleshooting of Juniper switches, routers and
F irewalls
- Switching tasks include VTP, ISL/ 802.1q, IPsec and GRE Tunneling,
V LANs, Ether Channel, Trucking, Port Security, STP and RSTP.
- Good knowledge in configuration of Voice VLAN’s (VOIP), prioritizing the
voice t raffic over the data traffic.
- Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525/) & ASA
5500(5510/5540) Series.
- In depth understanding of IPV4 and implementation of Sub-netting.
- Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our global
networks.
- Establishing VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards and also
configured
and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN
- Experience working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus
5000 series to provide a Flexible Access Solution for a datacenter access
a rchitecture
- Installing, Configuring and supporting the Cisco routers 3600, 2600 series,
C isco catalyst 1900 and 2900 series, PIX firewall, VOIP,RAD modem,
Network cables such as COAX, UTP&STP, Fiber Optics & NICs
- Implementing IP Routing protocols BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, SSL, IPsec, MPLS,
R IP1, RIP2 and other Routed, Routing Protocols
- Implementing Networking products like Servers, Proxy servers, web
servers, Ftp Servers, Mail servers, Antivirus server, Hubs,
- Repeaters, Switches, Bridges, Firewalls, Structured cabling, CSU/DSU
- Installing, Configuring, Administering and supporting the Windows 2003
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Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2000 Server .
- Windows 2000 Advanced Server, IDS server, SQL Server and Active
D irectory.
- Implementation of Microsoft Clustering & Network Load Balancing solution
for high availability File/Print, Application and Database servers.
- Successfully migrated Windows NT 4.0 to Windows 2000 Active Directory
N E TWORK OPERAT IO NS E NG I N EE R - C I T I ZE NS BANK, PROV I DE NCE,
RI
J an 2011 - Feb 2012
- Installing, Configuring and supporting the Cisco routers 3600, 2600 series,
C isco AS5200 series, Cisco catalyst 1900 and 2900 series, PIX firewall,
VOIP,RAD modem, Network cables such as COAX, UTP&STP, Fiber Optics
& N ICs.
- Downloading and configuring Images of Cisco IOS to router from TFTP
server, backing up Cisco IOS.
- Configuring VPN, VSAT, Frame Relay, ATM, ISDN links, T1 leased lines
C isco Routers, NMS and PIX Firewalls.
- Working with IP Routing protocols BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, SSL, IPsec, MPLS,
R IP1, RIP2 and other Routed, Routing Protocols.
- Implementation of Networking products like Servers, Proxy servers, web
servers, Ftp Servers, Mail servers, Antivirus server, Hubs, Repeaters,
Switches, Bridges, Firewalls, Structured cabling, CSU/DSU.
- Setting up complete LAN/WAN infrastructure with switches & routers
(Baystack 425-24T switch, Cisco routers 3600, 2600 series, Cisco catalyst
1900, 2900 series).
- Setting up Layer 3 Switches and Gigabit Ethernet routers and NAS
- Installing, Configuring, Administering and Supporting the Windows 2003
Server, Windows 2000 Advanced Server, Windows NT Server, SQL server,
MS Exchange Server
- Setting up bandwidth of 256 RF links with PointRed modem through
CYBEROAM software (a software acts as a proxy server and firewall)
- Installing and supporting the Servers and Network Printers from branded
company like HP, IBM and DEL
- Taking Data Backup regularly with DAT drive(HP C1537A sequential
Device) & DVD
- Installing and supporting the print software like QUARK4.1
- NEWSWRAP and designing tools like Photoshop 7.0, Acrobat Professional
6.0, InDesign and Acrobat I llustrator
- Pre-install presentations and post install t rainings
- Providing technical and procedural guidance on use of LAN and
standalones
- Providing technical support and problem resolution for the LAN and its
environment by analyzing the problems and identifying the cause and
circumstances of the problems and identifying the solutions.
- Setting up In ternet, Implementing Networking products like Servers, Proxy
servers, Hubs, Repeaters, Switches, Bridges, Firewalls, Structured cabling,
Routers;
- Network related t roubleshooting like SNMP, HTTP, POP3, SMTP, NNTP,
TCP/IP, Routing and Routed protocols;
- Web designing
- Installation & administration of Windows NT, Windows NT 4.0 Terminal
Server Edition, Windows 2000 Domain Controllers, Active Directory
Design & Architecture, File/Print/Mail/Database Servers.
N E TWORK E NG I N EE R - T IAA-CREFF, PR I NCE TON, NJ
Oct 2008 – Dec 2010
- The position requires working closely with Vendors to debug fi rmware code
and applying patches for workarounds
- Role involves t roubleshooting PVC’s, FRAME, ATM switches
- On call 24/7 for supporting escalations related to FR-ATM SERVICES,
WAN switches, NT1 access, CPE issues
- Interacting with CISCO DE engineers, testing teams, Subject Expert
engineers towards isolating & resolving hard to t rack and severity 1 bugs
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- INCS [voice and data service OSPF, BGP on IPFR platform.
- Undergone training for BT MPLS –VPN support services. Team role
i nvolved supporting escalations for BT IP services w. r. t IP over FR services
[ F rame-Mode & Cell –Mode]
- Ownership for projects/trouble tickets handled and communicating
effectively [writ ten & oral] to BT customers, upper level management,
support parties involved for problem resolution on sensitive escalations.
[ Severity 1 Outages]
- Responsibilities as a network specialist included technical design and
i ntegration of WANs incorporating Routing, Switching & Web technologies
u tilizing (Cisco routers, switches, hubs, Windows NT, I IS, TCP-IP, etc.)
- Perspective for supporting networking environment from both ends of the
spectrum- Telecom provider[ WAN – ATM switches ] - Enterprise[Routers]
N E TWORK E NG I N EE R - US I N E SOLUT I O NS, HY DERABAD, I N D IA
Aug 2005 – Sep 2008
- Installed NT server 4.0/2000 on NTFS partition with DHCP/DNS&WINS
- Creation of user accounts for authentication with r ights to files & folders.
- Installing & configuring Microsoft TCP/IP
- Installing & configuring Remote Access Server (RAS)
- Installing Backup Domain Controller (BDC) to provide for PDC failure.
- Installations & t roubleshooting of windows 95/98 & NT workstation 4.0
C lients logging onto NT server.
- Installation & t roubleshooting of network printers
- Create & manage partitions
- Define a custom subnet mask & define a range of valid IP addresses.
- Installation of I IS 4.0 on server and loading appropriate files and folders,
for the intranet website.
- Monitoring of website performance and in charge of backups.
- Provide hardware support by means of replacing faulty network cards,
addition of memory modules, VGA display cards.
- Interact with users and make them comfortable with network environment
- Provided support to various network projects and provided day-to-day
support for recently implemented Windows NT 4.0 Network.
- Involved in moving servers to the new facility, Server Troubleshooting, and
- On-Call responsibility on a rotated shift and occasional off-hours work
Supervising documentation for the software
- Giving technical support and t roubleshooting
- I was a part of the team who designed the Int rapop mail server
EDUCATION SBTT HY D ERABAD – DCE ( D I P LO MA I N CO MP U TE R SCI ENCE
E NG I N EE R I NG.)
V T U BELGAU M – BE (BACHELOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
E NGINEERING.)
CERTIFICATIO M icrosoft Certified IT Professional - M C I T P
NS
Cisco Certified Network Associate - C CNA
C isco Certified Networking Professional – C CNP
VMware Certified Professional - V CP 4.0
REFERENCES Fu rneshed on Request
V ISA :- H 1B Visa, I-140 Got Approved (Econtenti INC)
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