Network Engineer Cisco
Resume:
Walid Qadir
East Meadow, NY *****
Email: adrq21@r.postjobfree.com
OBJECTIVE
To obtain a challenging and responsible position in the I.T. Field where my education and work experience will be recognized as a valuable asset to
contribute to the success of the enterprise.
Certifications:
CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) In Progress
TECHNICAL SUMMARY
Hardware: ISR 1000/4000, Cisco7200 VXR, 4000, 3900, 2900, 1900, and 1800 Series Cisco routers, Nexus 9K,7K, 5K, 6K, 2K switches
Catalyst 6500, 4500, 4900m, 3750, 3850, 2900 and 1900 Switches.
Routing Protocols: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and RIP
LAN: HSRP, VLAN, DNS, DHCP, Bluecoat web proxy
Wan Technology: Metro Ethernet, MPLS, VPLS, Frame Relay, ISDN, PPP, and ATM
Security: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto, Fortigate, Checkpoint Firewalls, IPSEC and GRE tunnels, DMVPN,
Ticketing systems: Remedy, Kintana, Service Center, Service Now
Load Balancers: F5 LTM 1600,3600 and 3900 Platforms, Cisco ACE & CSS 11503
Cisco Wireless: Cisco Aironet 3600, 1140, 1040, Access Point AIR-BR1310G
Applications: MS Office, Visio, Solarwinds, Splunk, Opsware, Wireshark, EM7, Infoblox, IPControl, Scrum, Jira, Splunk
SDWAN: VSmart, VManager, Vedge (1000,2000 Models)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Jennison Associates- Access Staffing Midtown Manhattan, NY
Network Engineer 4/20-Present
•Employed as a consultant to support Jennison associates domestic network.
•Upgraded Palo Alto firewalls from 7.x to 8.15 code.
•Utilized Panorama to manage, configure and troubleshoot all our local firewalls.
•Performed 3rd level approval for all Firewall change requests
•Worked with various Vendors like Palo Alto and Cisco for Support, Maintenance and Escalation of Product lines.
•Created Service now tickets for daily Firewall and Network operational support tickets.
•Experience working with Splunk for creating firewall object analysis.
•Configured, troubleshot and supported DMVP networks.
•Configured and deployed SD WAN Viptela Vedge devices to new Campus sites
•Engineered new Houston campus site, procured devices, build network equipment, procured circuits, IP addressing scheme and brought site into production network
•Support a multi vendor network consisting of Cisco routers, switches, Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 load balancers, Cisco WLC Controllers and access points and ISE devices..
•Provided 3rd level escalation support for all network troubleshooting requests.
Mondelēz International via Vdart 101 East Hanover, New Jersey
Network Engineer Consultant 8/17-4/20
•Employed as a consultant to support Mondelēz’s domestic and International network consisting of over 1000+ nodes.
•Coordinated with Datacenter and branch locations for migration work consisting of Software, Circuit and Hardware upgrades.
•Configured, troubleshot, deployed and implemented rules on all Cisco ASA Platforms across DC and branch locations.
•Configure and administer security rules and policies to permit and/or deny user traffics based on company. security policy with F5 BIGIP and Fortigate 1500D firewalls
•Upgrade and patch management of Firewalls Cisco ASA and Fortinet.
•Created High and Low level technical documents in preparation for network migrations and deployments.
•Worked daily on many different network platforms from Cisco 2800 routers, Nexus 5520 switches, F5 load balancers and Fortigate Firewalls.
•Upgraded code on multiple platforms including Fortigate Firewalls, Routers and switches.
•Configured, troubleshot, deployed and migrated multiple firewalls including ASA and and Fortigate firewalls.
•Refreshed wireless infrastructure at Main Tech Center and replaced 175 Access Points to Cisco 3800 Models-performed site survey utilization Ekahau application.
•Troubleshot, deployed and configured multiple routing protocols and technologies including BGP, Eigrp and MPLS.
•Configured and deployed SD WAN Viptela VEdge devices to new Campus sites
•Engineered new campus sites, procured devices, circuits, IP addressing scheme and brought into production network
•Support a multi vendor network consisting of Cisco routers, switches, Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 load balancers, Cisco WLC Controllers and access points and ISE devices..
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CBTS/Synchrony Financial
Network Engineer Consultant Remote worker 4/07 – 08/17
•Employed as a Consultant to support Synchrony Financial.
•Worked successfully with a team of engineers to provide support and maintenance to a network which consisted of over 150 clients, vendors and webhosting companies.
•Handled escalations and resolved technical issues according to SLA
•Configured, troubleshot, deployed and migrated multiple firewalls including ASA, Palo Alto and Fortigate firewalls.
•Upgraded core infrastructure firewalls to latest IOS versions.
•Performed IOS upgrades on various models of IP Internetworking layer 2/3 switches
•Key resource in the configuration and maintenance of IP networking equipment
•Performed daily function of Cisco equipment lifecycle: receiving, part identification, testing, RMA, upgrade, configure, storage, and deployment
•Heavily involved in project to upgrade all core routers and ASA Firewalls to new product line.
•Worked on various projects from bringing up new clients such as Chevron and Lowe’s into our network to troubleshooting network outages.
•Routinely made recommendations for the establishment of standards and guidelines for the design of technology solutions to optimize productivity and costs for all our clients and vendors.
•Successfully migrated legacy F5’s to new F5 Platforms, migrated all Pools, VIP’s, nodes and policies over.
•Worked daily on many different network platforms from Cisco 2900 routers, Nexus 9k/6k switches, F5 load balancers and Cisco ASA 55xx firewalls.
•Implemented firewalls using Cisco ASA, Cisco IOS with firewall feature set, as well as VPN/IPSEC/GRE tunnels between sites.
•Orchestrated deployment of network services and systems within a Public Cloud environment utilizing a Cloud Management Platform
•Providing feedback and insight on designing and scaling of SaaS and cloud-based environments and tools
•Identify and assist in improving Network Infrastructure tools/services with automation and process enhancements
Affiliated Computer Services
Network Engineer 777 Old Saw Mill River Road, Tarrytown, NY 10/04 - 4/07
•Provided 3th level NOC escalation to network outages within ACS environment. Organization consists of different lines of businesses within Transportation, Government and regional offices.
•Troubleshot, managed and configured all infrastructure ASA Firewalls.
•Role required an intimate knowledge of the datacenter and its environment and was a key contributor to the stability of day to day operations, 1st and 2nd level project assignments as well as diagnosing 1st level issue escalations to tour team.
•Successfully deployed over 500 Red Light Monitoring routers throughout the United States. Assisted in the migration of converting the legacy network into its current NexGen layout.
•Worked on multiple wireless deployments including deploying of Cisco Aironet access points for remote branches.
•Configured F5 Pools and VIP’s for all new applications. Upgraded IOS on F5 to new standard OS.
•Configured, troubleshot and monitored applications within Cisco ACE infrastructures.
•Implemented QOS to prioritize Voice and Video traffic for multiple clients to reduce bandwidth utilization.
AT&T Global Network Services
Network Engineer 500 Mamaroneck Ave, Harrison, NY 03/00 - 10/03
•Worked with Management and peers to provide development of new technology services. Supported technical business initiatives, consultation,
testing /evaluation and Third Level Operations Support. This included evaluating various products for deployment on AT&T’s Global Network.
•Assisted peers and other departments such as Architecture/Design/Pre-sales design, Post-sales Design in developing concise formal project requirements for evaluation and coordination of products and services proposed for specific customer deployment.
•Supported Operations Team as a Technical Consultant when Operations could not resolve complex problems, provided advice and recommendations on what particular configurations to use.
•Worked on various projects to validate customer requests ranging from Hot Standby Routing Protocol, OSPF evaluation on various IOS versions and multiple platforms.
•Configured BGP route reflectors for proper BGP routing. Configured Frame relay between multiple test cells and Labs to support
complex projects.
•Performed extensive troubleshooting on Frame relay, ISDN, OSPF, EIGRP as well as physical layer to the application layer of the Osi model.
•Configured, Managed, and troubleshoot VLANs and configured InterVlan routing, ISL trunk and routing between Vlans.
•Configured Hot Standby Routing Protocol to provide high network availability by protecting against a single router failure.
•Completed IOS regression testing using Cisco IOS 12.2 8T0a. Different features tested were Routing Protocols (Ospf, Bgp, Eigrp), Frame Relay and Isdn testing (Dialer watch, PPP Callback and Isdn troubleshooting), HSRP operation, IPSEC testing and Tacacs Server.
•Configured IPSEC protocol to provide network layer encryption in a hub and spoke environment.
•Implemented IPSEC GRE tunnel failover using Ios code 12.1 (5)T using platforms 7206vxr, 7513 and 3640 Cisco routers, using 3-Des encryption.
•Performed packet level analysis tools to quickly solve and correct network problems.
Computer Career Center
Assistant Instructor 10/99 - 3/00
• Supervised the availability and functioning of the internetwork and made necessary configurations on the Cisco routers and switches.
• Assisted students in the Introduction and Advanced Cisco Router Configuration classes.
• Configured BGP to perform Interdomain routing/Inter AS routing. Troubleshot using various show commands such as show ip bgp neighbors,
show ip bgp summary
• Used Network Sniffer to capture and analyze Network packets and frames.
EDUCATION
Computer Career Center - (1999 to 2000)
Attended 2year Technical Program in Wide Area Network Engineering Technology
TRAINING & BOOTCAMPS
•CCNA & CCNP Advance Cisco Services Boot Camp
•Implementing Cisco Nexus 7000 & 5000 series
•Deploying Cisco ASA Firewall Solutions
•Deploying F5 Application Load balancing
•Implementing Bluecoat Proxy SG
•Cisco Wireless LAN Fundamentals
References: Available upon request
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