INTHIYAZ SHAIK

Contact No: 281-***-****/ 713-***-****

Email: acqlza@r.postjobfree.com / acqlza@r.postjobfree.com

OBJECTIVE

Over 7 years of Network design and troubleshooting experience for Cisco based networks.

Network Expert (Data Center) with experience in implementation, configuration and operation of Data Center & Enterprise networks.

SKILLS:

Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K

MDS Switches, Fabric Interconnect(FI), UCS Blade Servers

7+ years’ experience in routing, switching, testing, installing, configuring, and maintaining Local Area Networks (LAN), modeling and analysis of WAN, implementation and troubleshooting of complex network systems.

Strong technical knowledge of TCP/IP; routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF, RIPv2, BGP

switching protocols such as VLAN, VTP, STP, RSTP.

Experience in setting up site to site (IPSEC VPN) and remote VPN connections to communicate between branches using Cisco network devices.

Well Experienced in configuring protocols GLBP, VRRP, ICMP, IGMP, PPP, PAP and SNMP.

Experience with the following technologies MPLS, Frame Relay, SSL VPN and WLAN.

Ticketing tools – Sales Force, ServiceNow(SNOW), HP Peregrine

EDUCATION

BE in Computer Science Engineering

Diploma in Computer Engineering

CERTIFICATION

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE – Data Center) – Lab Passed

Cisco Data Center Unified Computing Design (DCUCD)

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) – Routing & Switching

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) – Routing & Switching

CISCO EXPERTISE

Cisco Routers

Cisco 3800, 2800, 1800 series, Cisco 3600, 2600 series

Cisco Switches

Cisco Nexus 7004/9/18, Cisco Nexus 5010/20, 5548/98 UP, Cisco SAN switches 9222i, 9124, 9148, Catalyst 4500, 6500 series, Catalyst 3750, 3560, 3550, 2960, 2950 series

Cisco UCS

Fabric Interconnect 6120/40XP/6248/96 UP

Blade Chassis 5108

Blades B22M3/B200M2/B440M2

Fabric Extenders 2224/2232/2248

Nexus

Virtual Device Contexs(VDC)

Virtual Port-Channel(vPC) & vPC+

Fabricpath

Overlay Transport Virtualization(OTV)

NX-OS high availability features

NS-OS ISSU

FEX to N5K/N7K, Static pinning

Storage

Fiber Channel (FC)

Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE)

Fiber channel over IP (FCIP)

Port Channel, San Port Channel, Trunking and VSAN’s

VFC, Flogi Registration

Zoning Basic and Enhanced

Trained and certified in CCIE Data Center

Trained and certified in CCNA & CCNP Switching and Routing.

Proficient in IP Subnetting using VLSM and CIDR and IPV6 addressing.

Experience Configuring standard and extended ACLs.

Experience in Configuring VLANs, Trunking, Inter-VLAN routing, CDP, VTP and RSTP.

Implemented and configured Routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP

Configured ATM, HDLC, Framerelay, PPP,MPLS, Multicast, Route redistribution, QoS.

Configured WLANs through cisco Linksys wireless router with configuration of SSID and encryption.

Configured NAT and PAT alongwith WAN links implementation between routers such as Framerelay, PPP.

Network Engineer Nov 2014 – April 2015

FedEx/HCL - Collierville, Tennessee

Worked at FedEx NOC

Upgrade FedEx networks and Design

Design and Installation in Data Center

Confugured Virtual Port-Channel(vPC) & vPC+

Configured Fabricpath

Network Engineer July 2014 – October 2014(4 months project)

FixStream Networks – San jose, California

Implementation of Data Center Desgin

Worked on Cisco Blade servers

Worked on VMware & Citrix Zen Center

Configure Emc Storage & zoning

Configure Nexus 5k(UP-series) connectivity between storage and UCS server

Configured Fabric Interconnect

Network Engineer 2009 to 2013

ITT Exelis, Kuwait

Key contributions include troubleshooting of complex LAN /WAN infrastructure that include routing protocols EIGRP and OSPF.

Key contributions include troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include OSPF and BGP protocol administration and used redundancy protocols like HSRP, VRRP.

Upgraded Cisco Routers, Switches IOS using TFTP.

Configured different routing protocols to work with LAN and WAN. Configured NAT/PAT.

Performed switching technology administration including VLANs, inter-VLAN routing, Trunking, STP, RSTP, port aggregation & link negotiation.

Implemented security measures using ACL and configured NAT according to the connectivity requirement.

Worked on Layer 2 protocols such as STP, VTP, PVST+, RPVST+, MST and other VLAN troubleshooting issues and configuring switches from scratch and deployment

Maintained and Troubleshot connectivity problems using Ping and Trace route.

Planned and Implemented Sub netting, VLSM.

Performed HSRP, GLBP configuration. Deployment of MPLS VPN in the Network with Routing Protocols like EIGRP and BGP.

Management and troubleshooting of Analog and Digital voice gateways and devices.

Established IPSEC-VPN tunnels with ASA 5500 series Firewall between some branch offices & headquarters.

Configured remote access VPN solutions (IPsec and SSL VPN).

Creating dedicated VLANs for Voice & Data with QoS for prioritizing VOICE over DATA.

Configuration of Access List ACL (STD, Ext, Named) to allow users all over the company to access different applications and blocking others.

Network Engineer 2005-2009

DRS( Technologies Baghdad, Iraq/Kuwait

Responsible for the installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of the company network.

Implemented redistribution of protocols between OSPF and EIGRP. Converted networks with multiple routing protocols RIP, EIGRP into a single OSPF domain, thus providing for future network scalability.

Experience in deploying EIGRP/BGP redistribution and the changing the metrics for the primary and backup paths for the packet prioritization and EIGRP tuning.

Involved in complete LAN, WAN development (Designing, installation, configuration, testing, monitoring etc.)

Duties included monitoring network performance using various network tools to ensure the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of application, equipment in order to provide support for Cisco network.

Configuring, Deployment and testing of DNS Server and DHCP Server for static and dynamic IP scope.

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