FnuSamreen

Network Engineer

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Career Objective:

Seeking a position to utilize my skills and abilities in an organization that offers professional growth while being resourceful, innovative and flexible in the field of Networking.

Summary:

8 years of experience in providing solutions, implementation, network designing, configuration of Cisco routers and switches, troubleshooting of complex networking system.

Experience in designing, configuring, implementing and testing of LAN, WAN, Ethernet, Frame relay and IP routing protocols such as OSPF, IGRP, RIP, BGP, EIGRP.

Worked on network topologies and configurations, TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, bridges,

routers, Token ring, ATM, hubs and Switches

Experience in implementation, support and troubleshooting of VLAN’s including operational knowledge of spanning tree protocol (STP), VLAN Trunking, inter VLAN routing and ISL/802.1q.

Worked on Cisco 2900, 3500, 4500, 5500, 6500, Cat 6509 series switches, Cisco 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600 series Router.

Switch platforms include: Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3700, 4500 and 6500 Series

Worked on Juniper J (J230), Juniper M (M320), Juniper MX (480/960) series routers and Juniper EX (3200/4200/4500) series switches.

Familiar with FTP, HTTP, Linux servers, ARP, Ping concepts and resolving network conflicts

Have Extensive knowledge of OSI and various network protocols (DNS, DHCP, TCP/IP, FTP, TFTP, UDP, ICMP, IPv4/IPv6, NFS, HTTP, SMTP etc.).

Designed 10 gigabit networks using Cisco Nexus series switches the data center switches, Checkpoint NGX firewall and Cisco 3800 series routers.

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

Extensive and In-depth knowledge in Security, including VPN / and GRE

Expertise knowledge in Putty, Exceed and Secure CRT. Working knowledge in F5, Cisco ACE 4710 Load balancers.

Experience in Network Management Tools and sniffers like SNMP, HP-Open view, Wireshark and Cisco works to support 24 x 7 Network Operation Center.

Experience setting up IPSEC VPN between ASA Firewall and Router 3800

Having knowledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, Sub netting, VLSM and ARP, reverse & proxy ARP, Ping Concepts.

Worked on network analyzers like Wireshark to troubleshoot network issues.

Configured STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.

Experience with UNIX, LINUX and Windows operating systems.

Education:

Bachelor of Technology in Electronics & Instrumentation from Osmania University, India

Certification: CCNA October 2016. CCNP in progress

Technical skills:

Switches

CISCO 2900, 3500,4500,5000,6500, Nexus 7k,6k,5k,2k,H3C

Juniper

E series, J series and M series. Juniper SRX & VPN

Simulation Tools

OPNET IT GURU, OPNET Modelar, Silverpeak optimization

Web Technologies

HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript

Firewalls

Pix(525/535), ASA(5520/5550/5580)

Networking Technologies

LAN/WAN Architecture, TCP/IP, Frame Relay, VPN, LACP, VLAN, VTP, SVI, NAT, PAT, STP, RSTP, PVST, MSTP,VPC,VPD.

Networking Hardware

Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, PIX firewalls

Routing Protocols

OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, RIP, MPLS, IS-IS, BGP, Redistribution, Multicasting

Security Technologies

Knowledge on Firewall, ASA, IP Sec,IPS/IDS, VPN & Cisco PIX.

Network Monitoring

Cisco Works 2000, Wire Shark, Solarwinds, Nagios, Collectd, Graphite

Operating Systems

Windows 7, Vista, XP, 2000, LINUX, Cisco IOS, IOS XR.

Network Simulators

GNS3, Packet Tracer

CISCO 2600, 2800,3600,3800,7200, Cisco CRS-1, CRS -3, GSR,

Applications

MS Office, MS Visio

Professional Experience:

Client: Equifax, Texas, USA

Role: Network Engineer

Duration: April 15 – Present

Responsibilities:

Evaluate, Plan, Test, and Deploy migration of DNS,DHCPand IPAM software to Infoblox Appliances.

Hands on experience in troubleshooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN Trunking using 802.1Q.

Configured switching technology such as VLAN Trunking802.1Q, STP (802.1d), and Port Security on Catalyst 6500, 3500 series switches.

Designed 10 gigabit networks using Cisco Nexus 7000 series switches, Checkpoint NGX firewall and Cisco 3800 series routers.

Remote support to different clients with Cisco and Meraki technology, configuration and troubleshooting of network devices and VoIP.

Experience with working on Palo Alto centralized management GUI Panorama.

Performed OS upgrades &device replacements on several Cisco devices, H3C (6500, Nexus 2K, 3K, 5k,6k and 7k series switches).

NEXUS 7000/6000/5000/2000 with Fabric Path Data Center design engineer for multi-segmented network including DMZ/B2B for Partner Networks and public facing environment in a collapsed core environment

Provisioning and Obsolete Windows and Linux servers by setting up and managing DNS and DHCP servers that assign and manage IP addresses from specified address pools using Infoblox.

Power VM virtualization (SEA, vSCSI, NPIV), Dynamic LPAR (DLAPR).

Proven experience in scripting languages, PERL and Python, for automated data analysis and various Administrative tasks.

Managed and supported the server/SAN infrastructure, consisting ofHP, SuperMicro servers running Windows 208 R2, and QlogicSAN switches.

Configuring URL filtering in Palo Alto firewalls.

Design, support and maintain the Splunk infrastructure with Windows, Linux and UNIX environments.

Configured multicast routing likePIM-SM, SSM, MSDP, BSR & logged network traffic monitoring by splunk and Akamai

Provide monitoring, testing, documentation and troubleshooting theBlue Coat Proxy appliance with the internal Data Center and theBlue Coat partner support teams.

Ability to identify IPv4 address ranges, subnets, and other IPv4 addressing fundamentals required. Fundamentals include understanding of DHCP, NAT, PAT, and subnetting.

Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA 5500/PIX securityappliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing with the firewalls as per the design.

Extensive experience managing system architecture and integration projects, including networkinfrastructure design and standards, storage platforms, and disaster recovery models.

Extensive working knowledge in BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, IS-IS, HSRP, L2/3 VPNs in IOS, IOS XE, and IOS XR platforms.

Assisted in implementation of SilverPeak and Riverbed WAN Optimization appliances.

Involved in configuring and yimplementing of composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 2811,2901,3800 9000, CSR-1 series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches, Connected Grid Router (CGR 2010) and Cisco 2520 Connected Grid Switch (CGS 2520).

Dealing with various Check Point firewalls such as the R series (R71 to R77) and experience and dealing with the DLP Market by moving from Detection to Prevention of Data Loss Incidents.

Configuredbrocade sanswitches of gen 5 and managed the fabric throughBrocade network Advisor

Experience with Multi-vendor platforms such as Cisco, Checkpoint, Fortinet, F5, Bluecoat (Web/Socks proxy), MacAfeeWeb Gateway.

Experience inopen stack and puppet configuration tool.

Configuring & managing Security Devices that includes Juniper (NetScreen) Firewalls, F5 BigIP Load balancers,blue coat proxy and PlugProxies

Experience with multiple Linux distributions (Redhat, CentOS, and Scientific Linux).

Environment:Cisco Roters 7600, 7200, 3800, 9000, Cisco Catalyst Switch 6500, 5000, 3500, 2950, T1 Controllers, DS3 Lines (T3 Lines), Fiber and Ethernet cabling.

Client: Dow Chemical Company, Saginaw, MI

Role: Network Engineer

Duration: Jan 14 – Mar 15

Responsibilities:

Designed, Installed and configured LAN, WAN management, Internet and network security and configuration of Cisco Catalyst switches 6500, 4000 and 3750 series and Cisco ASRrouters 9001, 1006 according to the Network Design along with the Data Center topology.

Management of InfobloxGrid Manager to manage DNS Forward and Revers Lookup Zones

Configured OSPF, BGP protocols on Juniper routers (MX960, MX480) and troubleshooting them.

Responsible for configuring and troubleshooting the Juniper SRX100 and 110 series, Juniper Net Screen Firewalls like NS50, SSG 550M, SSG520M, ISG 1000, ISG 2000 with Site-Site VPN for client companies.

Managed and supported the SAN environment, consisting of HP 2000 MSA,3PAR StoreServer 7400 environment, and Brocade fiber switches utilizing Remote Copy, Snapshots, and LUN provisioning.

Configure and troubleshoot ASA remoteVPN using CiscoVPN client

Enforced network security to DMZ& external Market Data vendors viaCisco PIX 515 and ASA 5500 series firewall rules, and NAT.

Installation ofsplunk Enterprise,splunkforwarded,splunkIndexer, Apps in multiple servers (Windows and Linux) with automation.

Good Knowledge on multiplex techniques such as DWDM and VOIP.

Designed, implemented and administered aVMware ESX/ESXi environment.

Monitored Network on a daily basis using NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Wireshark.

Upgraded system images on Nexus 5 and 7 multi-layer switches using kick start and FTP server.

Experience working with Cisco Nexus 2148 Fabric Extender and Nexus 7010, 5000 series to provide a Flexible Access Solution for a data center access architecture.

Experience with configuring Virtual Server and Load balancing in F5 NETWORKS BIG IP LTM.

Configured ACL, VLSM,NAT, sub-netting, Syslog server, DHCP server and DHCP relay on Cisco routers.

Experience with the A 10 network ThunderCGN device for IPV4 scaling.

Black listing and White listing of web URL onBlue coat proxy Servers.

Realignment and modification of BGP from the MPLS routers.

Expertise on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server-client 2008 R2, 2012 R2 environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.

Worked on troubleshooting network security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint firewalls and RADIUS.

Designed L2VPN services and VPN-IPSEC authentication & encryption system.

Tuned BGP internal & external peers with manipulation of attributes such as metric, origin, local preference.

Environment: Cisco 4000, 6500, 3750, ASR 9001, 1006; Juniper MX480, MX960; Juniper SRX100/110; Netscreen NS50, SSG 550M, SSG520M, ISG 1000, ISG 2000; DWDM, VPN; VMware, Wireshark, NetFlow Analyzer; Nexus 7010, 5000, 2148; F5 BigIP LTM, MPLS, HTTP, FTP, Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco ISE, Checkpoint, Cisco ACS, CSM, ACE.

Client: LGS Innovations, Florham Park, NJ

Role: Networking engineer

Duration: June 12 – Nov 13

Responsibilities:

Designs, installs and configures network and infrastructure and the monitoring tools, including the core network switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IPS), proxy servers

Management of replication between InfobloxGridMaster and member appliances

Experience with Integrated virtualizationManager (IVM).

Install and configure workstation software. Setup user workspaces, Identify problems, troubleshoot workstation hardware and software, Configure and troubleshoot networked printers, copiers and fax machines.

Day-to-day activities involved maintenance, upgrading, and troubleshooting of Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet LANs.

Experience with Checkpoint VSX, including virtual systems,Blue Coat SG8100, routers and switches

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

Created extensive architecture and design documents such as (site network diagrams, logical LAN/WAN diagram, network device list (servers/routers/switches), server information sheets) that will be used in the handoff from engineering to operations.

Redistribution of routing protocols and Frame-Relay configuration

Build and maintain Visio documentations for Clients

Managing User accounts using Active Directory

Implementation of TCP/IP & related Services-DHCP/DNS/WINS

Environment: Cisco 3750/3550/3500/2960 switches and Cisco 7200/3700/3600/2800/2600/2691 routers, IGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, VLAN

Client: Autodesk, San Rafael, CA

Role: Network Engineer

Duration: Apr 11- May 12

Responsibilities:

Configured IP access filter policies

Configuring and deployment of Juniper ERX310router

Administration of QIP and Infoblox security groups and users (build, create, assign, bind, and delete subnets)

Hands on experience with Juniper EX-Series Ethernet Switchesdvf

Worked on designing, configuring & troubleshooting of routing protocols: OSPF, BGP on Cisco 1600, 2600, 2800, 3600 series routers

Active participation on operational support for routing/switching protocols in complex environments including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Spanning Tree, 802.1q

Troubleshooting traffic passing managed firewalls via logs and packet captures

Used Python scripts to perform tasks required

Hands on Experience working with security issues like applying ACL’s, configuring NAT and VPN

Worked with BMC Remedy Service Management suite and HP OpenView (HP BTO) software for change controls

Experience with installing and managing IT services such as Active directory, site replication, DNS, SSH, DHCP, DNS, NAT and Terminal service

Experience working with Nexus7010, 7018, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices

Experience in site to site VPN configurations using Cisco ASA 5500 series firewalls

Tested Cisco IOS, IOS upgrades, configuration upgrades and implemented VLANs

Environment:Wins XP/ 7, TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, Mail Servers.

Client: Indusnet Technologies, Kolkata,India

Role: Network Engineer

Duration: Feb 10 – Mar 11

Responsibilities:

Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network by tunings AS-path.

Worked on Juniper J series j230, M 320 routers and EX 3200 series switch.

Implemented Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) by tuning parameters like preemption.

Implemented various OSPF scenarios on networks consisting of 7600 routers.

Configured policy based routing for BGP for complex network systems.

Configured Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN with Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the customer’s Site.

Tuned BGP internal and external peers with manipulation of attributes such as metric, origin and local Preference.

Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800 series and ASR 9k, GSR 12K, CSR-1 routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches.

Perform network capacity planning and performance analyses with IT Guru Network Planner, VNE Server, ACE

Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.

Configuring, Installing and troubleshooting on Check Point Devices.

Good knowledge on Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention System.

Policy Building using IDP.

Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server-client environment with resource allocation to desired Virtual LANs of network.

Troubleshoot and Worked with Security issues related to Cisco ASA/PIX, Checkpoint, IDS/IPS.

Intermediate to Advanced scripting skills for Linux/Windows (i.e. Perl, Shell, JavaScript, PHP) and web development essential for automated process and integration support

Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).

Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows to authenticate users that connects to a VPN 3000 Concentrator.

Environment: Wins XP/ 7, TCP/IP, WINS, DNS, DHCP, FTP, LDAP, IMAP, SMTP, POP3, Mail Servers.

Client: Beam Telecom Pvt.Ltd.,Hyderabad India

Role: Network Support Engineer

Duration: May 08 – Dec 09

Responsibilities:

Upgraded, configured routers 2800 series, 3620, 3550 and cisco catalyst 4500, 4900 switches.

Key contributions include IOS upgrade for switches and routers, troubleshooting of complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include configuring firewall, monitoring traffic using Wireshark monitoring tool.

Managed and directed voice, data and video communication over 400+ internal users.

Configured and troubleshot VOIP based phone system

Planning and Implementation of Subnetting, VLSM to conserve IP addresses.

Working knowledge in IP Subnetting for Class A, B, and C networks.

Understanding of routing protocols such as OSPF, RIP, BGP, EIGRP.

Analyzed and understood the issues related to DNS, DHCP and other IP conflicts.

Installation and management of 600+ host systems.

Document preparation of design, security requirements, validation and implementation criteria based on MS Visio and MS Office.

Configuring Ethernet ports at various levels.

Provided technical support for Windows 7, 2008, Macintosh OS 9, OS X, and Vista operating systems. Provided LAN / WAN / VLAN support and maintenance

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Environment: Cisco 2800,3620,3550, Cisco Catalyst 4500, 4900; VOIP, OSPF, RIP, EIGRP, BGP, VLSM, DNS, DHCP, Windows, MS Office, MS VISIO, LAN/WAN

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