Engineer Engineering

DHANIL PARWANI

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Boulder, CO 80302 720-***-****

SKILLS

oHands on experience in configuring, troubleshooting and testing Cisco, Arista and Juniper networking equipment

oWell versed with IP routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, PIM and designing LAN, MAN, WAN networks

oFamiliar with CentOS, Redhat, Fedora and other Linux/Unix system environments

oComfortable with network simulation over platforms such as IXIA, GNS3, CPT, Mininet, DummyNET

EDUCATION

Masters in Telecommunications, Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program GPA – 3.85

University of Colorado at Boulder Expected Graduation –December 2015

Courses: Telecom Systems Lab, IP Routing Protocols, UNIX, Network Management, Network Security Lab.

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering Aggregate Percentage-69.5%

Thadomal Shahani Engineering College, Mumbai, India May 2013

WORK EXPERIENCE

Arista Networks, Santa Clara, California May 2015- August 2015

Network Test Engineer Intern: Write test plans and design test network topologies to validate functionality, performance, stability and scalability of Arista features and products. Identify defects and work with developer teams for resolution. Automate repetitive test cases using Python scripting.

Global Cloud Xchange, Denver, Colorado November 2014-May 2015

NOC Engineering Intern: Utilize network management software (Spectrum) to isolate problems in real time and follow through by remotely accessing routers and switches for troubleshooting. Maintain a database to manage GCX equipment and IP addresses. Contact and deploy Field Engineers for any appropriate problems. Validate new and modified provisioning scripts. Identify the issues within the scripts and troubleshoot to ensure minimal configurations errors.

Broadband Video Lab under Dr. David Reed May 2014-August 2014

Research Internship: Video encoding, Adaptive video streaming, designing lab scenarios for comparing video in different streaming environments, replicating a content delivery based model by using virtual machines

PROJECTS

University of Colorado Boulder, Research Project: “A Scalable Video Coding Model using OpenFlow”

Developed a SVC based video encoding model using Software Defined Networks to improve the scalability of the current video streaming architecture

University of Colorado Boulder, “Network Design for Inter-domain Routing over BGP based on peering relationships”

Designed a network consisting of Juniper and Cisco devices running over OSPF as the IGP and BGP as the EGP and set up routing policies using communities, route maps and prefix lists based on customer, transit and peering relationships

University of Colorado Boulder, Network Management Project: “Traffic monitoring Tool using SNMP”

Created a Python based tool which sets SNMP traps on network devices and graphs the resultant data to create SLA reports and bandwidth charts

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Networking: TCP/IP, STP, VTP, MLAG, EAPS, RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, PIM-SM/SSM, PIM-BIDIR, DNS, DHCP, ARP, SNMP, Metro-Ethernet, Frame Relay, NAT/PAT, IPv6, HTTP, FTP

Devices: Cisco routers 1800, 3600 series, Cisco switches C2960/C3560, Arista 7050, 7150, 7500 series switches, Juniper T-series routers, Juniper EX series switches, Extreme Switches Summit X480/440, Accedian Networks

Platforms - Cisco IOS (11.x, 12.x), Arista EOS, Junos, Avaya

Software: WireShark, GNS3, CPT, Remedy, Spectrum, IXIA, VM Ware, FFMPEG, DummyNET, Mininet, SNORT, Netflow, SQUID

Languages: Python, BASH Scripting

HONORS

oIPv6 Forum Certified Engineer (Silver) September 2014

oInterdisciplinary Telecommunications Program Merit Award February 2014,September 2014

oEarn and Learn Apprentice award at the University of Colorado, Boulder September 2015

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