Network Project

ARUN PRAKASH SELVAM

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Career Summary

* ***** ** ********** ** Network Administrator with strong knowledge in configuring, troubleshooting and monitoring skills.

CISCO CERTIFIED NETWORK ASSOCIATE - Cisco ID(CSCO): CSCO12670532

CISCO CERTIFIED NETWORK PROFESSIONAL IN ROUTING – Cisco ID(CSCO):12531245

CISCO CERTIFIED NETWORK PROFESSIONAL IN TROUBLESHOOT - Cisco ID(CSCO):12461275

Expertise in creating the technical documents (JIRA) on daily basis issues for future reference.

Configuration, maintenance management & trouble shooting of Cisco, Arista, IBM, Dell and juniper devices

Experienced in protocols like TCP/IP, RIP, EIGRP, STP, BGP, OSPF, VRRP, Frame-Relay and SNMP.

Sound knowledge and experience with both layer2 switching (STP, RSTP, private VLANs, trunking, port channeling, port security) and layer3 switching (inter VLAN routing, enterprise routing by EIGRP/OSPF).

Exceptional experience in installing, configuring and troubleshooting certificates (SSL) related issues on web servers.

Implemented VLAN, VTP domain, trunking and Ether Channel on Cisco 4500,6500, 3850,3750 switches.

Have a good working knowledge of Nexus OS(7K,5K) in order to configure troubleshoot, manage vpc,vdc,otv,fex and layer 3 routing.

Network monitoring tools: HP Open View, Cisco Works, wire shark, tcp scan, port scan, snmp view, Cisco ACI and Cacti.

Have worked on the most advanced network security solution Palo Alto in order to implement, troubleshoot, configure and manage the policies, rules, NAT, IPsec VPN tunnels, UTM,web filtering and BIG IP LTM,GPM F5 Load Balancers.

Configured Hot standby Routing protocol to provide high network availability by protect router failure. Configured basic HSRP, One HSRP group, basic HSRP configuration using track option (tracking of serial interface) and configured Mutligroup HSRP configuration.

Specialist in Cisco Routers & Switches Configuration, L2/L3 Switches Protocols. All configurations related with the switches and Routers as 1800, 2800,2900, 3750, 3550, and 4500.

Worked closely with various teams in the Firm like Engineering, Testing, Development and Application Support teams on numerous production troubleshooting calls.

Involved in performing SDLC (DEV, UAT and BCP) environments.

Excellent analytical skills, managerial skills, adaptive to new environments, sound knowledge on administration and managing of enterprise networks, troubleshooting skills with ability to learn fast.

Experienced on handling a team, team play and individual. Experienced on report writing on technical plans, productions issues, and resolutions (RCA – Root Cause Analysis) to clients in writing and verbally with necessary technical acumen.

Work Experience

Company: Fundserv AUGUST 2016 – Present

Position: Network Consultant

Project Description:-

Responsibilities:

Install, maintain, manage, and support IP data and voice network

Conduct analysis and maintain accuracy of Fundserv’s network topology

Maintain back-ups of all network configurations and implementing change managent process based on user requirement

Provide third level support for Technical Support and Application Support teams

Maintain scheduled availability of 99.98% for core routers and switches to ensure users access to network systems, applications, and services

Provide a consultative role to Fundserv’s customers to implement network topologies that provide the highest availability possible

Design, document, and install customer connections and Ensure effective capacity planning for customer network connections

Design, install, maintain, manage, and support core, distribution, and access routing and switching infrastructure. Maintain documentation accuracy.

Involved in installing the framework for cisco ACI and monitoring using cisco prime, LMS, observium, zabbix.

Strong experience with Cisco Switching, Firewall, and Routing Devices (IOS and NexusOS)

Experience with firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco ASA, and/or Juniper SSQ/SSG)

Eigrp, Ipsec-vpn, bgp, hsrp design, implementation, and troubleshooting experience

Experience with High-availability load-balancing experience (F5 Bigip) in configuring SSL authentication, creating virtual server, health monitor, PAT and NAT.

Company: NTT DATA AMERICAS OCTOBER 2015 – MAY 2016

Position: Senior Network Consultant

Client: Morgan Stanley

Project Description:-

Responsibilities:

•Senior Consultant with NTT Data - working in Level 2 Network Operations Center for Major International Banking institution.

•Monitor Network for one of the Fortune 500 Company distributed worldwide, using monitoring tools such as Syslog Messages, Spectrum, Splunk, ThousandEyes, SevOne and Wireshark.

•Provide troubleshooting services to the network end users by using ServiceNow ticketing system or on phone.

•Engage various hardware vendors (CISCO, Juniper, Arista, BNT, Dell, Adva, HP, Nortel, etc.) and carriers for immediate resolution of the network issues.

•Switching - Port assignments for user access and server distribution layer switches. New switch installs for Nexus, BNT, HP Blade, Catalyst 6000 series IOS and CatOS platforms.

•Switch decommissioning, Vlan assignments, IP Helper changes, code upgrades, scripted change environment.

•Routing - New router installs, code upgrades, route redistribution, router decommissioning. Platforms including Juniper EX, Juniper SX, Cisco CRS, Cisco ASR, Cisco WAAS.

•Managed the security firewalls maintenance and upgrades.

•Maintained Cisco Switches and routers for all company locations.

•Configuration and troubleshooting of IPSec VPNs and Wireless lan controller and MPLS VPNS with ebgp, RIPv2, MPLS with traffic engineering

•Perform schedule maintenance by running pre scrubs and post scrub on the network. And engaging hardware vendor and carrier for the resolution of the issues discovered during the maintenance.

•1.6 years of hands on experience with routers, switches, ASA,wlan controller, access points, sniffer, wireshark, HP Openview and solar winds.

Company: UST Global July 2011 – Dec 2012

Position: Network Administrator

Client: wellpoint

Project Description:-

State Sponsored Business (SSB) is one of the divisions of Well Point which gets claim reimbursement from the State. This division is involved with the handling of claim and it’s done by SSB project tracker. Implementation and enhancement of provider demographics and enrolment data to support STAR and WGS membership PCP Primary Care Provider assignment and Primary Care Provider Member Preferences.

Responsibilities:

Implementing security policies using ACL, Firewall, IPSEC, SSL, IPS/IDS.

Dealt with monitoring tools like network packet capture tools like Wire-shark, etc.

Installation, Configuration and Administration of FTP, DNS, DHCP, TFTP, Linux OS under various LAN and WAN environments.

Networking: Configuration cisco router, Unicast networking protocols, Sub netting, VLSM, CISCO IOS, Routing, Switching, Ethernet Networking, Multicast network protocols, IPv6, Overlay VPNs and peer to peer VPNs

Migration of existing IPSEC VPN tunnels from Pre-Shared key to Certificate Hands on experience as a systems administrator in monitoring Windows Servers 2000, 2003 and 2008.

Administered change management related to server upgrades and software installation.

Participated in complete system builds, upgrades, migrations, code deployments and patch management.

Environment : Windows 2003/2008, Windows XP/7, Exchange 2007, Active Directory, HP Open View, Cisco Works, wireshark.

Lab Assitant May 2013 – April 2014

Title: Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS

Responsibilities:

Cisco & HP switch configuration in particular VLAN configuration/troubleshooting.

Verified the network setups for various network protocols like MPLS, VPN & BGP.

Network connectivity troubleshooting, ping, trace route and telnet.

Investigating, diagnosing and resolve all network problems.

Experience with configuration of t1, DS1, DS3 links and working of sniffers.

Installing and customizing applications and DMZ firewall.

Maintaining documentation of networks including layout, inventory and configuration.

Experience with configuration of routers and switches.

Did trouble shooting for hardware and operating system related issues.

Technical trouble shooting for internet related and Wireless networking related issues.

Master’s Project

Title: A Realization of GMPLS backbone network higher control provisioning mechanism with deployment of a planned architecture.

Description:

This project is about the vast development towards the gmpls and developing a network architecture model to experience the advantage and study the effects of a gmpls cloud that bridges the provider and customer. The basic probable methods for obtaining realistic deployment tool to build a logical network and contemplate the effects of the control provisioning mechanism is used in gmpls that enhance the network performance to another level and at the same time it is the most cheapest networking technology which will support the automated resource management facility.

Tools used: Network Simulator, NS2, NS3, OPNET, NetSim, REAL, wiresshark and Graphic Network Simulators.

Educational Credentials

Master of Internetworking Jan 2013 – June 2014

Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology Sep 2007 – June 2011

Anna University, Chennai, India

Achievements

Rewarded as innovative contributor by UST Global for effectively analyzing network issues.

Presented a paper on “Digital- jewelry“ in a National conference held at Pallavan University on 24th September 2010.

Presented a paper on “Augmented Reality” in a National conference held at RMK College of Engineering on 29th September 2010.

Published a paper on “Camouflaging Dumb People Using Brain Machine Interface” in a Rajalakshmi Engineering college on 12th December 2011.

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