Network Engineer Cisco

Mohammed Mahmood Quraishi ***************@*****.*** 682-***-****

Summary

Experienced Network Engineer with a demonstrated history of providing quick resolutions for large end user corporations with minimal supervision. Skilled in technologies and protocols for LAN, Wireless, and WAN on a variety of vendor equipment's. Communication Engineering professional.

Technical Skills

Cisco Switches and Routers

29xx, 35xx, 36xx, 37xx, 38xx, 45xx, 65xx, 68xx, 93xx and 95xx series switches, Cisco-VSS, Cisco Nexus series switches, Cisco ISR and ASR series routers,

Firewall

SonicWALL, Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto (PA 3060, PA 5050).

Routing Protocol

(BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, IS-IS, RIP), TCP/IP, Multicasting.

Switching

VTP, STP, PVST+, RPVST+, Inter VLAN routing & Multi-Layer Switch, Ether channels.

LAN Protocol

VLAN, VTP, RAS, Inter-VLAN routing, ISL, dot1q, STP, RSTP, PVST, HSRP, GLBP, Ethernet, Port security, Ethernet (IEEE 802.3), Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet.

WAN Technology

Frame Relay, X.25 ATM, MPLS, VPNs, LDP, VRF

Network Security

IPSEC, IPS/IDS, & VPN

Application Protocols

DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, SNMP, HTTP, FTP, ICMP, SMTP, SSL, IP, IPV6.

AAA Architecture

TACACS+, RADIUS.

Documentation

Microsoft Office, Visio.

Operating systems

Windows server 2003/2008, Mac OS X, Windows 7/XP.

Tools

Solarwinds, Wireshark, Syslog, Sniffer and SNMP

Certification

CISCO CERTIFIED ENTRY NETWORKING TECHNICIAN (CCENT)

AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Working towards CCNP

Professional Experience

Network Support Engineer Aug 2020 – Present

Nvidia Corp, Santa Clara, CA

Responsibilities:

Extensive experience with Layer 2 and layer 3 troubleshooting in IP Network and Fault fixing on OSPF, EIGRP, DMVPN and BGP network

Troubleshooting L2/L3 Switching issues (IP/ARP/MAC, VSS, HSRP, STP, RSTP, VLAN, VTP, port security, L2/L3 Ether-channel, VPC/MLAG) and related tasks.

Hands on experience in working with Cisco switches like Cisco Catalyst 2900, 3500, 3750, 4500, 5500 and 6500 and nexus switches.

Configured and created VLANs on switches adding them on trunk interfaces for customer new lab deployment.

Part of a global infrastructure support team to manage the queue through service now to promptly take over the tickets and rapid resolution.

Participate in on-call rotation for network enterprise support.

Configuring HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, Port Channel on 6500 catalysts.

Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, Spanning Tree, 802.1q. Configured IP access filter policies.

Design and Implementation of LAN, VLANs, VTP, Spanning Tree (STP), Trunking and Ether channel.

Dealt with implementation of deployment related to Cisco ASA 5500 devices. Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Wireshark, Solar winds/Orion

Implemented Quality of Service (QOS), Policy Maps, Class-maps, Policy Routing in the network infrastructure throughout all the different sites.

Work on project to replace the EOS/EOL devices like Router, Switches, Load balancer, Firewall and Cisco/Aruba Wireless controller.

Joined network outages and on-going critical to troubleshoot issues escalated P1, P2 service now Incidents.

Proficient in operation and analysis of Wireshark packet captures.

Analyze the effectiveness of firewall rules, router configurations and host-based firewalls.

Worked to setup Aruba and Cisco Meraki access points for remote user.

Co-authored peer reviewed documents regarding customer network operations, environmental procedures, and diagrams through Visio and to be available on confluence for easy availability.

Configuring firewall policies in Palo Alto firewall and configuring AnyConnect VPN

Good knowledge of SD-WAN

Undertaking research for the root-causes of Incidents and thus ensures the enduring elimination of interruptions. If possible, make temporary solutions (Workarounds) available to Incident.

End to End management of customer networks and providing a rapid response to escalated incident and complex faults.

Install, configure, and maintain Cisco networking hardware such as IOS, NXOS based Catalyst and Nexus Switches, Wireless Access Points, Cisco, Juniper routers.

Experience in working with Palo Alto Firewall’s Centralized Management Server Panorama for the management and administration of Large-Scale Firewall Deployments.

Network Engineer May 2019 – Aug 2020

Verveba Telecomm, Richardson, TX

Responsibilities:

Hands on experience with Palo Alto next generation firewalls in designing and deployment.

Install, configure, and maintain Cisco networking hardware such as IOS, NXOS based Catalyst and Nexus Switches, Wireless Access Points, Cisco, Juniper routers, Cisco and Juniper Firewall,

Experience in implementation, troubleshooting & administration of Firewalls – Cisco PIX/ ASA.

Experience with Aruba (HP) route/switch (Aruba 2930F) and Arista 7800R3, 7500, 7320 series switches

Strong knowledge on networking concepts like TCP/IP, Routing and Switching.

Involved in Hardware Refresh among the Sites MDOS, MSP, DOC around 200 sites have been Installed with new equipment.

Extensive experience with handling network related incidents and disaster recovery plans within defined SLA’s.

Deployed Cisco ISE across an enterprise infrastructure, supporting 802.1X wired, wireless, and Virtual Private Networks (asas).

LAN protocols (HSRP, Spanning Tree Protocol and/or VLAN trunking).

Configuration, Design and troubleshooting of Routing protocols: RIP v1 and v2, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP and BGP.

Implementation routing protocols (RIPv1/2, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP), switching (VLANS, VTP Domains, STP, and trucking), security on devices hardening (authentication, authorization, and accounting).

Perform network monitoring using tools like Wireshark.

Implementation and troubleshooting of Datacenter devices like Nexus 7k, Nexus 5k and Nexus 2k Series devices with VDC's /VRF's configurations.

Day to Day activities update Cisco IOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF.

Troubleshooting the VPC configurations, updating the control plane policy (COPP) on the devices.

Integer Telecomm/Amdocs Mar 2019 – Apr 2020

Network Technician

Responsibilities:

Maintaining the Network Infrastructure, Installation, migration and configuration of routers and switches.

Terminating and testing CAT 5/6 and Fiber cables also patching new Ethernet cables.

Install, perform integration, and provide support to all desktop based and server supported technology.

Install, repair, and upgrade all network and provide technical and onsite support for cisco, juniper and other network gear

Maintain quality of services and perform preventative maintenance.

Manage new launched tools and software into product generating and promoting framework.

Provide backup to NOC and manage operating field groups via upgradation.

Provide support and technical backup to protect switches and routers.

Monitor and resolve and all customer trouble ticketing process as needs, resolve all complicated technical startup.

Provide support to all IT sectors on regional basis and ensure growth.

Coordinate with customers and perform troubleshoot to resolve all application issues and maintain relationships with vendors plus networking system.

education

Master of Science in Information Security and Systems University of Cumberlands May 19

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Electrical Engineering Osmania University May 14

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