Himay

Sr. Network Engineer

848-***-****

acxjf8@r.postjobfree.com

Summary:

Seven years of Experience in Designing, Deployment and Operations of complex enterprise and service provider networks. Adept in managing service functions & streamlining the working standards operating system for project rollout, design and development of Telecom solutions.

Create testing tools and scripts as needed to support system level testing activities.

Experience with Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification on Cisco ASA, PIX and Checkpoint Solutions.

Built stable, productive and profitable operations within highly technical environment.

Strong Analytical, Problem Solving, Technical Troubleshooting, Decision-Making, Customer Service Skills, Results-Driven.

Effectively managed process according to ITIL framework standards implemented in the organization.

Strong grasp of current and future technologies including TCP/IP, IPv4/v6, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Frame Relay, ACL, VPN, Wireless LAN and configuration of VLANS.

Steered efforts for providing presentation and seminar to the customers for in-house projects to introduce about the projects Implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, and Route Maps.

Good knowledge in configuration of Voice VLAN’s (VOIP), prioritizing the voice traffic over the data traffic.

Worked on Load Balancer F5 LTM, GTM series like 6400, 6800, 8800 for the corporate applications and their availability

Provides technical leadership for problem escalation and resolution.

Highly motivated with the ability to work independently or as an integral part of a team and Committed to highest levels of profession.

Experience in network performance testing

Enterprise Switching with VLANs, Trunks, Spanning Tree, Port Spanning etc.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

LAN Technologies : VLAN, VTP, Inter-Vlan routing, STP, RSTP, PVST, 802.1x

WAN Technologies : Frame Relay, ISDN, PPP, ATM, MPLS, Leased lines

Network Security : NAT/PAT, VPN, Filtering, IDS/IPS, IPSec, ACL

Routing Protocols : RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, HSRP

Routed Protocols : TCP/IP, IPX/SPX

Infrastructure Services: DHCP, DNS, SMTP, MIBs, Syslog, POP3, FTP, TFTP

Network Management : SNMP, SSH, Telnet, ICMP

IP Telephony : VOIP,FXO/FXS/E&M/T1/ISDN/PRI, Call manager Express

Operating Systems : Windows Vista/XP/NT/2003, MS DOS, UNIX, Linux

Comm. Protocols : Wi-Fi, WiMax, CDMA, 3G

Protocol Analyzers : OPNET, Wireshark.

Languages/ Tools : C, C++

CERTIFICATIONS:

Cisco ID: CSCO12164906 - All of the Certifications are valid till Dec 2018

640-802 - Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA

300-115 - Implementing Cisco IP Switched Networks CCNP-Switch Exam

640-864 - Designing for Cisco Internetwork Solutions CCDA

642-874 - Designing Cisco Network Service Architectures CCDP-Arch Exam

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Ferguson Enterprises, Newport News, VA Nov 2014 – Present

Network Analyst

Responsible for the network upgrade and phone and paging deployment for the 1300+ locations spread across the US and Canada.

Working with Cisco ISR G2s (2911, 2921, 2951), Cisco 881 (VPNs), Cisco Aironet 1100, 1200, 3700s and light weight APs, ASA 5500s (ASDM), Cisco 2900(X, XRs), 3500, 4500, 6500 switches, Airtight IPS, Valcom IP PagePro, Bogen Paging(TAMB2, PCMSYS3), Inform cast, Infoblox IPAM, CUCM V9.2 and 10.5, Cisco Unity Connection, Cisco Jabber, Cisco IP Communicator, Cisco 7861, 7945, 7942, 7962 IP Phones, APC SMT1500, SMT2200, SMT3000, SRT5KXLT, SURT003, PDUs (Power and battery backup), HP Service Manager 9.

Responsible for the network analysis of the existing equipment at the locations as well as working with third party vendor to order equipment as per needs and standards.

Configuring IPSEC VPN (Site-Site to Remote Access) on Cisco 881 allowing the access to remote associates and branches to the corporate network via ASA firewalls.

Configuring the routers and switches for the branches including the BGP, EIGRP, VRRP, STP, VTP, DHCP, CWS, VRF, SNMP, multicast (PIM Sparse mode), BFD, IPSLA, Ethernet/Single T1/ Multilink circuits, DMVPN(For backup), NBAR and QoS, Access-lists, route-maps, prefix-lists, HSRP and VRRP for redundancy, voice gateways, PRIs, dial-peers, SIP, SCCP, MGCP, Vlans, VTP, Stack configuration.

Configure EBGP and IBGP routing protocols building ACLs, route-maps, and prefix lists to filter route advertisements and route redistribution. Administer, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot various Cisco switching platforms including 65xx series, 37xx series, 29xx series.

Building the CUCM environment on super cluster for sites including but not limited to locations, route/hunt options, Call Park, translation patterns, hunt pilots, SIP trunks, gateways, transcoders, MTPs, MRGLs, syncing users on CUCM with LDAP, bulk import for phones, device associations, and controlled devices.

Deploying the router and switches at sites while working with the onsite tech to restore full connectivity keeping the downtime as low as possible. Troubleshooting any backup circuits, latency issues, congestion, wireless, Internet breakout issues.

Monitor the phone deployment and ensure all the phone register with the publisher as well as the proper subscribers. Cutover phones to ATT’s BVOIP service that routes the call over its MPLS cloud eliminating the need to have a direct connection to PSTN.

Work with onsite tech to deploy the overhead paging. Troubleshoot FXO ports and ensure the correct dial-peers hit for the correct zone. Test and troubleshoot phone to phone paging on Informacast.

Help Data center engineers with configuration of Nexus 7000, Nexus 5000 and Nexus 2000 switches and deployment in production.

During low periods act as an escalation point to respond to the trouble tickets to resolve issues including but not limited to hard downs, slowness and latency issues, MACDs, circuit upgrades (Single T1 to up to 8xT1s and Ethernet HCFs circuits). Upgrade IOS images on routers and switches to mitigate vulnerabilities according to alerts provided by the vendors.

Monitor primary and backup circuits for the branches and resolve/restore connectivity issues escalated by NSG.

PPD, Hamilton, NJ Apr 2014 – Oct 2014

Sr. Network Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Experience with configuring Virtual Server and Configuring Load balancing methods in F5 Big IP LTM

Performed F5 Big IP LTM OS upgrade, created and implemented load balancing standards.

Worked on their F5 Big IP LTM devices for the corporate applications and their higher availability providing efficient load balancing across all the gateways.

Responsible for Cisco ASA firewall administration across our global network

Experience configuring Virtual Device Context in Nexus 7010

Experience with Firewall Administration, Rule Analysis, Rule Modification

Experience with configuring Nexus 2000 Fabric Extender (FEX) which acts as a remote line card (module) for the Nexus 5000.

Configured and designed LAN networks with Access layer switches such as Cisco 3700 and 4500 Series switches.

Experience in working with Nexus 7010, 5548, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices.

Experience in configuring VDC, FEX pinning, FEX port-channel, VPCs, peer keep alive, peer link.

Implementing and Maintaining Network Management tools ( Solar Winds, Cisco Works)

Reviewing, analyzing, approving and executing all changes in the network. All Configurations of Cisco Routers and Switches.

Involved in the removal of EIGRP from all devices and making OSPF the primary routing protocol.

Involved in the modification and removal (wherever necessary) of BGP from the MPLS routers.

Configuring IPSEC VPN (Site-Site to Remote Access) on ASA series firewalls.

Responsible for Configuration, Management and Deployment of Pix, ASA, Checkpoint SPLAT and Checkpoint GAiA firewalls. Configured DMZs and securing the internal servers from the outside interfaces.

Working with Checkpoint Support for resolving escalated issues.

Experience in working and designing configurations for vPC, vPC domian, vpc peer-gateway, vPC peer-switch, auto-discovery and vPC single sided, vPC double sided, NX-OS, vrf, otv, fabric path.

Documented all the work done by using Visio, Excel & MS word

Designed and configured the commands for QoS and Access Lists for Nexus 7K and 5K.

Responsible for turning up BGP peering and customer sessions, as well as debugging BGP routing problems.

NY State Gov., Albany, NY Feb 2013 – Mar 2014

Network Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Experience with converting PIX rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.

Maintain Security policy by monitoring PIX firewalls (515 and 520).

Experience working with Network management software ASDM primarily to manage the firewalls as well as performing changes as per the requirement.

Involved in effective communication with vendors, peers and clients in resolution of problems and equipment upgrades.

Configuring IP, RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP in routers.

Experience in working with installing Nexus 7010 License upgrade.

Implemented Voice VLANS, UDP and SIP RTP and provide QOS by DSCP and IP Precedence.

Used DHCP to automatically assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients.

Experience in Configuring, upgrading and verifying the NX-OS operation system.

Experience in working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 5000 series to provide a flexible Access Solution for datacenter access architecture.

Design and implement campus switch network with Cisco Layer 3 switches (3750, 4500 and 6500) in multi VLANs environment and inter-VLAN routing, HSRP, ISL trunk, ether channel.

Worked on upgrading the LTM and GTM boxes from TMOS version 9.x to10.x for the local traffic managers.

Extensive experience in configuring LTM devices during the migration process of pools, members, virtual servers (VIP), nodes, SNAT.

Implement Cisco Works LMS device to manage Cisco routers, switches, PIX and ASA firewall, Access Points.

Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls, Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525) & ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series.

Integrate VoIP with PSTN and setup voice Gateway ensuring QOS for Cisco based Voice over IP and CDR for voice call accounting.

Handling network devices such as Switches (Cisco Catalyst 2900 and 3500 series), Routers (Cisco 2600, 2800 and 7200 series), Firewalls, Load balancers etc.

Work on Checkpoint Platform including Provider Smart Domain Manager. Worked on configuring, managing and supporting Checkpoint Gateways.

Experience in installing and configuring Checkpoint NGX R60.

Worked extensively in configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs / Routing / NATing with the firewalls as per the design. Primary responsibility is to design and deploy various Network Security & High Availability products like Cisco ASA and other Security Products.

Helix Energy Solutions, Houston, TX Oct 2011 – Dec 2012

Network Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Experience in deploying EIGRP/BGP redistribution and the changing the metrics for the primary and backup

Worked on Riverbed devices for WAN bandwidth Optimization in the data centers for the sensitive application traffic.

Involved in Troubleshooting of DHCP and other IP conflict problems.

Performed Switching Technology Administration including VLANs, inter-VLAN Routing, Trunking, STP, RSTP and Port Aggregation & Link Negotiation.

Deployed a large-scale HSRP solution to improve the uptime of collocation customers, in the event a core router became unreachable.

Maintained Corporate Firewalls & Analysis of firewall logs using various tools. Configured and troubleshooting of HSRP on Cisco routers.

Network consists of Heavy Cisco equipment such as Cisco 2500, 2600, 3640, 3945, 7200 series Routers, Cisco 6500, 4500, 3560, 2950, 2924 Switches, Cisco Pix firewall 500 series and Wireless Access points Cisco 1230.

Involved in New Branch Network Systems. Resolved Network Issues, Ran Test Scripts and Prepared Network documentation.

Analyze, configure and troubleshoot Cisco Unified Call Manager, Call Manager Express, Cisco Unity Connection, and Cisco Unity Express.

Cisco Unity Voicemail 5.0 setup and configuration of users accounts.

Configuration of Cisco 7940, 7941, and 7960 desk sets.

Cisco Unified Call Manager 7.1 user moves, adds, and changes.

Maintenance and Troubleshooting of LAN connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.

Experience on a 6500 and 5500 series switches to support the core trading system.

Involved in Troubleshooting IP Addressing Issues and Updating IOS Images using TFTP.

Configured RSTP, LACP and VTP on Nexus devices.

Performed RIP & OSPF Routing Protocol Administration.

Monitored performance of Network and Servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck.

Worked on 4500 Catalyst switches for the purpose of LAN requirement and for troubleshooting LAN issues.

Maintaining Checkpoint security policies including NAT, VPN and Secure Remote access

Configured IPSEC VPN tunnels between Checkpoint and other non-Checkpoint endpoint devices using IKE pre-shared keys.

Configuring IPSEC VPN (Site-Site to Remote Access) on SRX series firewalls.

Troubleshooting problems on a day to day basis & providing solutions that would fix the problems within their Network.

ACMEs Info Soft, India Apr 2009 – Aug 2011

Network Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities:

Designed VLAN’s and set up both L2 and L3 devices to have it communicate to the Enterprise network.

Implement QOS for Voice, Video against DATA by IP Precedence and DSCP.

Implemented Load Balancing between Cisco L3 Switch by HSRP and GLBP.

Provide high level technical support, including identifying and resolving problems on Cisco supported products for e-Commerce infrastructure. This included external routing and internal/intranet routing for DMZ servers’

Moved Core switches and several non-Cisco devices under strict deadlines to maintain network functionality

Satisfactorily Resolved Problems in timely manner with focus on providing a high level of support for all customers.

Prepared Engineering documents and Network diagrams in Microsoft Visio.

Delivered Departmental Efficiency through advanced engineering, technical support, and documentation procedures.

Configured EIGRP, BGP, and MPLS.

Configured Firewall, IPS and QOS by SDM and provide security by Prefix list, Access- List and By Distribution List.

Education:

Bachelor’s in computer engineering at Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, India.

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