Engineer Network
Resume:
Atul J. Pimple
Morris Plains, NJ*****
***********@*****.***
SUMMARY
Senior Technology professional with Masters in Telecommunications and 10+ years of total experience in the area of Computer Networking with global teams.
Currently working as a Network Datacenter consultant for financial clients
Experienced with Network design and implementations, Project Budgeting, Service Provider contract negotiations, Network architecture for ISP, Change Management process, Data collection and evaluation process.
Experience on network management and implementation with Cisco routers/switches (1600, 1700, 2600, 2800, 2950, 3550, 3750-X, 3850, 3560X, 4000, 4500-X, 6500, 7200), Nexus 2K, 5K and 7K, Arista 7100, Juniper QFX5100, HP ProCurve 5400
Excellent Leadership qualities, work ethic, global team engagement & Interpersonal skills to work with a technical as well as non-technical team.
EDUCATION
STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK
Master of Science, Telecommunications
THADOMAL SHAHANI ENGINEERING COLLEGE (TSEC)
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics
CERTIFICATIONS:
CCNP – 2008
PMP – 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Senior Network consultant Jun 2014 – Current
Working as a consultant on datacenter projects. The projects involve diverse teams all over the globe to design, implement and support infrastructure for corporate functions.
Projects:
Developed Logical designs for branch network transformation
Designed network upgrades based on unique branch requirements
Implemented Cisco networks consisting of hardware cisco routers and switches
Designed wireless networks based on Aruba Instant AP designs.
Built Equipment Order Lists for the branches for
Supported migration of branch network to the new design
Built guidelines for the onsite cable technicians and network engineers for network transformation.
Diversify wireless controller paths to achieve maximum redundancy and reduce dependency on multiple datacenters
Design and budgeting for IDF upgrade for user floors with Cisco and Juniper hardware.
End of Row project to add fabric nodes to the datacenter for additional server capacity
Built Copper POD for BT Voice infrastructure at multiple Datacenters.
Datacenter projects such as building cloud connectivity, Software code upgrades, hardware upgrades, circuits provisioning, Branch headend infrastructure, GWAN router implementation, Firewall policy implementation and troubleshooting
Associate Director – Architect: Network Engineering Apr 2013 – Jun 2014
St. John’s University, NY
Worked as an Associate Director for Network Engineering of St. John’s University. St John’s University spans over 100 Acre campus with about 20,000 users and over 30 campus buildings with campus wide wireless implementation.
Projects:
Upgrade core infrastructure to Nexus 7K (7010) and the server farm infrastructure to Nexus 5K/2K (5596 and 2248) design.
Network Access and distribution upgrades for MDFs and IDFs in campus buildings using Cisco 3850, 3750X and 4500X devices.
Cisco firewall upgrade from ASA5550 to ASA 5585X.
Migration from legacy IP scheme to new IP scheme.
Wireless network design and implementation using Cisco 2600 and 3600 APs on cisco 8500 controller and prime infrastructure
Manage network using Solarwinds and Infoblox.
Lead Engineer - Network Deployment / Consultant Aug 2007 – Apr 2013
Client: Deutsche Bank, NJ
Worked as a lead engineer for the datacenter network deployment group. The group is responsible for approving and deploying network infrastructure for all the new services going into the North America datacenters and branches for Deutsche Bank.
Key contributions:
Routine tasks:
Evaluate the business need for network infrastructure and work with engineering team to design the network.
Once the design is finalized, carry out the deployment activities including IP scheme, physical connectivity, raising the change requests, seek approvals from respective groups, maUke the network changes, testing and handover to the client.
Projects:
Build Server farms for core connectivity with upto 10G access to the servers and connectivity to the corporate network through distribution routers. These projects involve Cisco 6500-E and 3560/3750-X switches/routers, Nexus 2K and 5K, Arista 7100 and the networking technologies such as OSPF, BGP, deterministic routing, QoS and multicasts.
Build Secure Server Farms for restricted access to sensitive servers with upto 1G access. The design includes Cisco 6500-E and 3560/3750-X switches/routers along with Juniper firewalls.
Build Extranet silos for external client connectivity. These silos are used to communicate with external clients and get feeds from exchanges.
Build ULL Co-location silos for proximity to exchanges. These implementations are predominantly based on ULL hardware such as Arista 7100 and Nexus 5K.
Network Provisioning/Implementation Engineer Mar 2006 – Aug 2007
Client: AT&T, NJ 08854
Worked on network provisioning and implementation for the telecom giant AT&T. With coverage of almost every part of US, AT&T offers a gigantic backbone for various internet technologies to satisfy each customer’s requirement.
Key contributions:
Primary role includes collection and analysis of customer data for the identification, and implementation of business solutions.
Plan, design, configure, implement, and support enterprise class IP based networks using variety of routing protocols including RIP, BGP, IGRP/EIGRP, HSRP, MPLS, and OSPF from the AT&T Global IP Network Backbone.
Senior Technical Member of AT&T Managed Services provisioning team who designs and provisions network solutions to AT&T Enterprise customers including configure, troubleshoot, and maintain AT&T Managed Cisco routers (1700, 1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3700, and 3800) on Private Line and Frame Relay/ATM with bandwidths from fractional/full T1, T3 to OC-3 and OC-12 over copper and optical facilities.
Plan, design, implement and support broad range of AT&T enterprise service offerings including AT&T MPLS Private Network Transport-PNT solutions, Managed Access Redundancy Options-MARO solutions, Load balancing, Class Of Service options, Managed Firewall solutions using Cisco PIX, and Sonicwall firewalls, Managed Internet Services-MIS solutions.
Design, develop and implement complex network solutions and led numerous IP Services projects for AT&T Enterprise customers.
Infrastructure Engineer Dec 2004 – Mar 2006
Professional Access, NY-10004. (www.professionalaccess.com)
The company is based in New York with branch offices in USA as well as offshore consisting of more than 500 employees with a turnover of 40 million dollars per year.
Key contributions:
Gather project related network infrastructure requirements from project managers.
Propose infrastructure upgrades and software purchases for individual clients.
Maintain budget and inventory for infrastructure department.
Implement and upgrade network with Cisco routers/switches, VPN routers, and firewalls, Cisco Aironet Wireless Access Points in Windows environment.
Desktop support for windows and Linux machines, including OS/software/antivirus installation and network connectivity.
Manage Exchange 2003 mail server, Windows System Update (SUS) server, Symantec Antivirus enterprise server, DHCP, DNS, IIS, FTP and WEB servers and Active directory in Windows 2003 server environment.
Manage VPN network with Nortel Contivity VPN router and Sonicwall/ checkpoint VPN-1 firewalls.
Implemented Infrastructure Security and network Upgrade project
Implemented Data storage and Disaster Recovery Planning project
Implemented Project 3: Active directory Implementation project
Network Engineer, Jun 2004 - Dec 2004
NYC Housing Authority, NY (www.nycha.com )
Worked on the Migration project of datacenter from one location to another. The Datacenter of NYC housing authority with more than 10,000 users was migrated from Windows NT to Windows 2003 domain including the entire network infrastructure.
Key contributions:
Built network designs in MS Visio.
Document network designs and configurations.
Monitor LAN with Visual Uptime, CiscoWorks2000, Ethereal packet analyzer and Sniffer Pro.
Utilize Network General’s software for LAN monitoring.
Configure Windows 2000 on Dell servers with RAID5 arrays
Assist in Windows NT to Windows 2003 migration that includes directory services to Active Directory and Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003 migration.
Configure Cisco 3550 switches for VLAN setup, STP and port security.
Configure Cisco 1841 routers with router RIPv2 protocol and configure security with Access Lists.
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