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Resume:
YASH PANCHOLI
Sr. Network & Security Engineer
**** * ************ ******, *****, Florida 33614 Email ID - acy0lo@r.postjobfree.com
http://linkedin.com/in/yash-pancholi-5b5182a4
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
Focused Senior Network and Security Engineer bringing more than 5 Years of diversified network data and security expertise. Excels at identifying and solving technical issues. Versatile Senior Network Engineer skilled in front-end technologies like Data Networking (Routing, Switching), Security (Firewalls and Proxy SG), F5 Load balancers and Cisco Wireless Technology. Dedicated to providing the highest quality customer service.
SKILLS
Expertise in Routing & Switching
Expertise in Cisco Wireless
Hands on experience in Network Security - Palo Alto, Checkpoint Firewalls and Proxy Secure Gateway
Blue Coat Proxy Secure Gateway Professional
Experienced on F5 Load Balancer
Team Player
Fast Learner & Good Listener
WORK HISTORY
Client Name – Price Waterhouse Coopers
March 2012-February 2015
Network Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. Hyderabad, India
Installation and Implementation of Client Field Office Network Infrastructure using EIGRP and BGP Routing Protocols and VTP in switching
Worked on configuration and troubleshooting of Cisco routers (ASR1001,3945,ASR1001-X) and Switches (4500 Series for layer 2 and 3 switching)
Installation and implementing Wireless Network for client office with Cisco Access Points 3600, 3700 and 5500 Wireless Controllers.
Implementing Authentication and Authorization of Wireless Users via Juniper ICs using certificates on user laptops
Implementing Pure IPSEC and GRE over IPSEC tunnels on Cisco Routers, Checkpoint and Palo Alto Firewalls (Pure IPSEC) and interacting with clients to decide on Internet bandwidth based on User counts
Worked on Network Implementation Projects to provide end to end solution following the ITIL Process.
Client Name – Price Waterhouse Coopers
March 2015-Current
Senior Network & Security Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services Ltd Tampa Florida
Attended 5-Day training on Bluecoat Proxy SG administrator and Professional course.
Design and Implementation of client's web proxy solution (Secure Web Gateway) for Internet Browsing
Worked on Bluecoat Proxy SG500-20, SG400 and CAS appliance implementation for client's Internet Traffic
End to End testing and implementation of Bluecoat Proxy, implementing authentication using client certificates and SSL Interception using Client Sub CA certificates.
Deploying Bluecoat Unified Agent on client laptops to Protect client Internet Browsing once they are off client\'s Network, by maintaining Bluecoat Cloud Solution Portal.
Troubleshooting issues post migration of Internet traffic via Bluecoat Proxy by tracing traffic on Bluecoat or by capturing traffic.
Performed routing changes on client's data center to implement DMVPN (Dynamic Multipoint VPN) tunnels, making data center routers as hub and client field offices as spoke in Hub-And-Spoke design using EIGRP
Attended trainings on Palo Alto Firewall (Panorama, PA 5050, 7050, and 7080), Bluecoat Proxy Administration/Professional course.
Worked on Firewall Refresh project in year 2016-17 where client's requirement was to replace all Juniper Firewalls from Data Center to new Palo Alto Firewalls
Analyzed traffic on Juniper Firewall to communicate appropriate stakeholder regarding the outage for the Firewall Refresh
Build and Configuration of new Palo Alto Firewall, Panorama, Integrating Palo Alto Firewall with Panorama to maintain via PAN.
Implementation of new Firewall by performing routing changes (Static and EIGRP) to move traffic from old Firewall to new Firewall.
Troubleshooting any Day one issues post Implementation. Have Migrated 8 Juniper Firewalls to new Palo Alto Firewalls for Client in year 2016-17
Worked on Data Center Switch Refresh Project where client asked to replace all existing 5K Nexus switches to 9396PX switches. Also to replace data center core switch from Nexus 7K to 9K
Migration of all Layer 3 gateways in Data Center from Nexus7k core switch to new 9508 core switch via building new EIGRP neighbor ship between old and new Core
Build and upgrade of new Cisco Nexus 9K switches in client\'s data center.
Migration of all the Data Center IDF switches from Nexus5k to Nexus9k. Design and Implementation of new 9K IDFs by building Virtual Port Channel with Core Switches
Performed BGP Routing changes for redundancy between two MPLS links working over BGP. Worked on creating VRFs (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) on ASR Routers to have separate routing instances to multiple vendors coming via single router to client\'s Data Center
Performed changes on moving from EIGRP routing to Static routing in client\'s data center by analyzing EIGRP topology and routing table.
Attended training on ISE boxes provided by Cisco
Worked on Project to Design and Implement client\'s new Guest Wireless Solution using Cisco ISE. Migrated client\'s whole US offices Guest Network solution from Juniper IC to Cisco ISE, which uses Portal (username/password) redirects to authenticate Guest Users. Designed client\'s Anchor and Foreign controller guest wireless Infrastructure.
Attended 5- Day training on F5 Load Balancer Administration and Professional course.
Worked on Design and Implementation of F5 Load Balancers in Client's Data Center. This was part of Load Balancer refresh where we were asked to migrate Load Balancer from Cisco ACE to F5 as Cisco ACE is EOL (End Of Life)
Implemented F5 Load balancer as Routed mode where F5 is the gateway for the server and single arm mode where we implement SNAT (Source NAT) to overcome issues like DSR (Direct Server Return)
Implemented SSL termination on F5 Load Balancers using certificates based on requirement from stakeholder to reduce overhead on end servers.
Worked on troubleshooting layer 2 issues related to cables, knowledge on GBICs on network routers and switches. Worked on GBIC issues where SR and LR GBICs were used. Worked on Fiber cable polarity issues.
Worked on troubleshooting layer 3 routing issues where global user is not able to reach particular application / environment in client's Data Center using traceroute, pings and Wireshark captures
Worked on troubleshooting issues using Wireshark captures from end server
Expertise in preparing documents like IAR (Initial Architecture Review), DDD (Detailed Design Document), LLD (Low Level Design), HLD (High Level Design)
Worked on lots Network Project by following complete Release and Change Management process.
Provided knowledge transfer sessions for the project completed to Network operations with all required documents
EDUCATION
2011
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications
Sagar Institute of Research and Technology Bhopal
Completed Bachelors of Engineering Degree with honors gaining 80% average across semesters
CERTIFICATIONS
CCNP - Cisco Certified Networking Professional (Routing, Switching and Troubleshooting)
CCNA - Cisco Certified Networking Associate
CCNA - Wireless - ICWNA - Implementing Cisco Wireless Networking Fundamentals
BCCA - Blue Coat Certified Administrator
BCCP - Blue Coat Certified Professional (BCCPP-4.3-39187)
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