Network Engineer Manager

Akhil Bhattar

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740-***-**** *************@*****.***

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATION:

Master of Information and Telecommunication Systems Dec 2020 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio GPA: 3.77

Cisco Certified Network Associate Jul 2020 – Jul 2023 AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate Dec 2020 – Dec 2023 WORK EXPERIENCE:

Assistant Information and Systems Manager

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio Aug 2018 – Dec 2020

- Worked on Cisco ISR 1900, 2900, 3900 and 4400 Routers.

- Worked on Cisco 2980,3560,3750,3850,4500 and 6800 Series Switches

- Worked with migration of firewall rules from Cisco ASA to Palo Alto networks firewalls manually as part of migration project.

- Worked on network topologies and configurations such as TCP/IP, UDP, Frame Relay, ATM, bridges, routers, hubs, and switches.

- Use Microsoft VISIO/Draw.io for technical documentation and presentation tools.

- Monitor network infrastructure using PRTG software

- Work in a ticket-based system like ServiceNow for managing tickets.

- Manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs) throughout the Active Directory (AD) enterprise

- Maintain licenses, Shared Drives and Virtual Desktop environment using VMware Horizon, Hyper-V

- Create and Deploy workstations through System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM)

- Perform software and hardware troubleshooting

- Maintain computer labs and computers of around 200 faculties and 2000 students in Engineering College Network Engineer

Just Dial, Hyderabad, India Jul 2017 – Jul 2018

- Responsible for the configuration of Cisco Routers (7000, 5300, 4000, 2500, 3000, 2600) using RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP

- Managed office network with Cisco devices with network devices including 2500 and 3600 series routers and 3500, 2900, 1900 series switches

- Dealt with customer problems to management and support groups utilizing standard escalation model.

- Extensive experience in configuring and implementing OSPF and BGP.

- Establishing VPN tunnels using IPsec encryption standards, configured, and implemented site-to-site VPN, Remote VPN.

- Supported core network consisting of Cisco 7200 series routers running multi area OSPF.

- Configured EIGRP and OSPF as interior gateway protocol with route filtering and route redistribution, installed and maintained Cisco 3600, 2600 and 7200 backbone routes with HSRP.

- Configured, troubleshoot, and upgraded Checkpoint Firewalls which included network and/or resource access, software, or hardware problems.

- Maintained High Availability and clustered firewall environments for customers using Check Point High Availability.

- Identified and removed security policies that are no longer needed to reduce Checkpoint Firewall policy lookup.

- Configured necessary routing and NAT on the Firewall appliance to communicate with the internet.

- Backup, Restore and Upgrade of Checkpoint Firewall appliance.

- Monitored Checkpoint VPN tunnel activities with Smart View Monitor and troubleshoot VPN issues with CLI.

- Optimize existing policies to improve security and performance. Identify and remove security policies that are not no longer needed to reduce CheckPoint Firewall policy lookup.

- Configured and managed VPNs, remote access solutions and perimeter security in Cisco ASA firewalls

- Worked with applications transport protocols SSL, IPSEC, DNS, NTP, SSH, LDAP, RADUS, TACACS+ and AAA on ASA Firewalls RELEVANT PROJECTS:

Build Enterprise level network with all services configured Oct 2020 - Dec 2020

- Design, implement, and support IP networks for Client's global commercial network infrastructure

- Configured services like IPSEC VPN tunnel, DHCP pools, DNS server, interior and exterior firewalls, network monitoring, web server, etc.,

- Setup dynamic routing on the sites using OSPF, BGP

- Used GNS3 to simulate the entire process and Draw.io for network diagram Deploy multiple VMs & load balancer in MS Azure Apr 2020 - May 2020

- Automate deployment of VMs using shell CLI & ‘cloud-init’ to set up the VMs

- Configure basic load balancer, on the public side of the network

- Configure nginx server on the 3 VMs behind the load balancer Using GNS3 to study routing protocols Oct 2019 - Dec 2019

- Study a standardized distance vector routing protocol using GNS3

- Build own version of distance vector routing protocol

- Formulate routing configurations for global routing protocols

- Configure RIP, OSPF and BGP protocols to the network Build a skill in Alexa Developer Console Dec 2019

- Build a birthday handle request using cake walk using Python programming

- Program a countdown to the stored birthdate of the user TECHNICAL SKILLS:

- Networking tools: Wireshark, GNS3, PRTG Network Monitor, Cisco Packet Tracer, Putty, No-machine

- Routing Protocols: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, Static Routing, IP Addressing, Subnetting, VLSM

- Load Balancers: Citrix NetScaler, F5 Networks

- Programming languages: Python, C, R Studio, MATLAB

- Protocols: TCP/UDP, SSH, LLDP, STP, TACACS+, RADIUS, HTTP, NTP, DHCP, FTP, AFP, SMB

- Firewall: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, pfSense

- Security: NAT/PAT, Ingress & Egress Firewall Design, VPN Configuration, Internet Content Filtering, URL Filtering -Web- sense, SSL, IPSEC, IKE, Static, Dynamic, Reflexive ACL, and AAA

- Cloud Technologies: EC2, S3, IAM, Route 53, VPCs, MS Azure VMs, Remote Desktop Gateway connection

- Operating systems: Windows 10, VyOS, Windows Server 2019, Linux

- Other Software: VeraCrypt, Keepass, Hashcalc, Thunderbird, FileZilla LEADERSHIP:

- Student Activity Committee head (SAC), IEEE Student branch

- Vice-President, Indian Student Association at Ohio University

- Senator, Graduate Student Senate at Ohio University

- Co-Ordinator in Bobcat Network Innovation Center

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