PROFILE

A versatile professional with **+ years of experience in Telecommunications Engineering, Project Management and Business Administration, Information Systems Technology (IT), systems engineering, network security and network management. A seasoned consultant with major Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with an excellent experience in running 24/7 network operations; outstanding vendor management skills and capable of making strategic technical decisions for an organization to improve reliability, scalability and security; extensive experience in writing technical documents and end user product trainings; experience with WAN technologies like MPLS, Layer 3 VPN’s, Cisco routers, switches and firewalls; excellent presentation skills, strong analytic, problem solving, planning and organization skills; flexibility, adaptability, proven management and leadership skills.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Delhi University

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

CCNA

CCNP (Switching completed and working on Route and TS)

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Routing Protocols: OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, BGP, RIP v1 and RIP v2

Switching Technologies: MPLS, VLAN’s, STP and VTP

Hardware Platforms: Cisco Routers – ASR 1002, ASR 1006, 7600, 7500, 7200, 3600, 3500, 2600 and 2500, Cisco Catalyst 6500, 5500, 5000, 4500, 3700, 2900 and 1900, Nexus 7010, Nexus 5000. Dell MXL 1000E, Scritinzer flow analyzer, Citrix Lod Balancer.

Firewalls: ASA5585

Protocols & Technologies: TCP/IP, IPX TCP/IP, NAT, NFS, ARP, IPX/SPX, IPSec, VPN, MPLS, VoIP, GRE tunnels, Multicasting, Ethernet, SSH, SSL, Port Scanners, Password crackers, Static routes, Frame Relay, ATM technologies, Traffic Engineering, Quality of Service, and Network Integration

Tools/Software /Platforms: Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, Excel and Power Point, Microsoft Live Meeting, Net meeting, SNMP, Remedy and MRTG, Check_Mk, Scrutinizer.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Cyberdata Technologies Inc., Herndon, Virginia March 2013 – Present

Senior Network Engineer

Maintained functionality, interoperability and scalability aspects of network to support the infrastructure that includes core routers and switches. This job entails exhaustive hands-on experience on Cisco Routers, Switches and Firewalls.

Maintain and monitor the network, provide troubleshooting and support when needed. Provide training and mentoring for junior engineers.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Site upgrade by replacing 7609 with a Nexus 7K and a pair of Cisco 93128TX switches. Created topology diagrams and configuations for deployment.

Configure new Citrix Netscalers, ASA 5585 firewalls and Dell MXL 1000e for a backup site in boulder.

Upgrade the distribution capacity to 40 gig from 10 gig over multi vendor platform. (Dell, Citrix and Cisco)

ASA 5585 cisco firewall, configure and deploy at our remote centers for security and traffic engineering. Installed a pair with active/standby redundancy with minimal downtime. Helped configure a cluster firewalls for the segregated DMZ.

Migrate to a new flow collector from a physical appliance to a VM. This increased the flow analytic capability and will help with future planning of bandwidth requirements.

Create weekly traffic volume consumption report for our network to project any future expansion or bandwidth requirenments using Plixer Scrutinizer.

Migration and replacement of our old cisco 6509 routers with the new ASR 1002. [Replaced 4 6509 with 8 ASR’s] All this done on production with minimum downtime. Used GLBP for load balancing and improved redundancy by having 2 ASR per site instead of one 6509.

Using Check_mk and scrutinizer to Trend the Traffic volume throughout our network and suggested upgrades for any bottle neck issues.

Certify new Routers, Switches, Security appliances and Firmware for field usage

Responsible for maintaining and troubleshooting the network.

Upgraded the guest network to support approx. 4000 users from 512 user.

Created and Maintain Visio Diagram for our Network, with additions as per network changes.

Run Nipper Reports to check for any security vulnerabilities and suggest action and procedures to make the network more secure.

Replaced damaged N7K SUP card.

Upgraded our core routers[Nexus 7010] with the Latest OS to accommodate new 40g card installation.

Maintained LAN while watching for new port assignements. Patched and activated ports as per customer requirements.

Environment: Nexus 7010, Nexus 5548, Cisco ASR 1002, Cisco 5696, Cisco 7609, Cisco 4507, ASA Firewall -5585, ACE Load balancers, Dell 3130’s, Cisco 3845, Scrutiziner(Plixer), Check_mk, Visio, Cisco Aironet 1140, Wireless Lan Controllers.

Tele Conexus, Chantilly, Virginia August 2006 – March 2013

Network Testing Engineer (Quality Assurance)

Testing functionality, interoperability and scalability aspects of network in support of a new backbone infrastructure that includes core routers and switches. This job entails exhaustive hands-on experience on Cisco, Juniper and network testing gears which include Ixia, breaking point etc. Testing includes multicast, BGP, ISIS and OSPF.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Certify new Routers, Switches, Security appliances and Firmware for field usage

Designing and drafting vendor test plans for the existing and new routers and switches

Planing, Designing and maintaining independent test beds ensuring availability of lab infrastructure to internal clients.

Evaluate the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of various routers, switches and firewalls before deploying them in the field; detect limitations of the hardware and firmware; coordinate with vendors to resolve these issues before actual project implementation

Maintain and manage common test bed to cater various test labs, which include VoIP Lab, Software Applications Test lab and some regional labs

Environment: Cisco 124xx, and 120xx, Cisco 76xx, Juniper M series such as M10, M40, M160, M320 T640, MX240, MX480 and MX960, Breaking Point, F5 Load Balancer, Agilent and RouteM

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