Network Engineer

MURUGAPPAN ARUNACHALAM ANNAMALAI

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EDUCATION

Northeastern University, Boston, MA May 2015

Master of Science in Telecommunication Systems Management GPA: 3.61 Courses: Data Networking, Communication Systems, Mobile and Wireless Networks, Telecom Architecture and Systems, Telecom Public Policy/Business Management, Probability and Statistics Anna University, Chennai, India April 2011

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication Engineering GPA: 3.4 EXPERIENCE

Cisco Systems, Tewksbury, MA Jun 2015 - Present

Technical Marketing Engineer

• Working in collaboration with subject matter experts in product management and engineering on Mobile Packet Core Technology

• Providing answers to technical questions for customer’s RFI/RFP/RFQs

• End to End Customer demos showcasing new features and functionalities on ASR5000, ASR5500 and vPC product solutions.

• Performed Interoperability Testing (IOT) of Cisco products with 3rd party vendors

• Prepared IOT lab setup for MME, P-GW, S-GW, SGSN, GGSN & HNBGW, reviewed and discussed with 3rd party vendors on IOT test plan

• Executed IOT test cases on 3G and 4G/LTE nodes, troubleshooting, identifying issues and reporting bugs to engineering team

• Working on the Network Service Orchestration (Cloud Computing) for Quantum Virtualized Packet Core (QvPC) Federated Wireless, Boston, MA Jan 2014 - Aug 2014 Wireless System Intern (Co-op)

• Performed research on FCC’s proposed 3.5 GHz spectrum and designed Spectrum Access System (SAS) architecture

• Prepared multiple classes and sequence diagrams for company's flagship SAS product

• Developed User - SAS agent APIs and prepared 32 use cases in Python script for testing

• Designed the Quality Assurance testing framework of the User - SAS agent to find bugs and maintain expected output Ericsson India Global Services Pvt Ltd, Chennai, India July 2011 - July 2013 Engineer - Network Engineering (Jan 2012 - July 2013)

• Optimized microwave backhaul Layer 2 WiMAX network for Sprint Telecom

• Designed microwave links and rehomed the blocked sites using Pathloss, Google Earth and Global Mapper

• Prepared augments for new and capacity upgraded links with budgeting and ordering of inventory

• Implemented ring split and 2+0 links for congestion avoidance in-case of hops next to POP

• Troubleshot and corrected PBT tunnel errors in Ciena switches, QoS configurations and SW audit for microwave equipment

• Performed network feature addition for LTE rollout that includes addition of new switches to support LTE traffic and switch port assignment for markets that involved foundry to ciena conversion Engineer - Transport Networks (July 2011 - Dec 2011)

• Received EMPLOYEE OF THE MONTH Award for resolving Transport network issues in Karnataka Circle

• Optimized microwave transport network in 2G/3G technology for AIRTEL-India

• Performed QoS configuration audit, general network health and sync audit and MW equipment audit to resolve error issues in network

• Resolved errors in microwave hops with MapInfo and network issues using NMS SKILLS

Operating Systems: Windows XP/VISTA/7/8, Linux/Unix Wireless Technologies: GSM, WCDMA/UMTS, CDMA2000, WiMAX, LTE, EV-DO, Wi-Fi, Mobile Packet Core, RAN, Base Station, MME, SGW, PGW, PCRF, SGSN, GGSN, Small Cells, Femtocells Networking Protocols: HTTP, DNS, DHCP, SSH, SIP, TCP/IP, UDP, GTP, DIAMETER, RADIUS Routing/Switching Protocols: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, ARP, VLAN, MPLS, VPN, STP Tools: VMware, Wireshark, Cisco packet tracer, Pathloss, MapInfo, MATLAB, MS Office Languages: C, Python

CERTIFICATIONS

• Ericsson Professional Certification – EXCEL, 2011

• Ericsson Certified Associate - IP Networking (ECA-IPN) PROJECTS

Ad-Hoc Network Design in Ubuntu Jan 2014 - April 2014

• Configured DNS and DHCP server, Web server with Firewall on a Linux operating system

• Created Mail server, FTP server, VPN and automatic backup of data from one server to another

• Verified the interworking of system using Wireshark and Client machine Network Design & Implementation In Cisco Packet Tracer Jan 2014 - April 2014

• Designed a corporate network with effective utilization of IP address in Cisco packet tracer using OSPF routing protocol

• Incorporated security concept using VLAN, access list and passwords

• Facilitated frame relay in the design to speed up the transmission of packet and making the system cost effective

• Verified all the required functionalities and connectivity using telnet, ping, ssh commands

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