Engineer Network

ZILL AHMED CHAUDHRY

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OBJECTIVE

I am seeking a position with a technology company that will allow me to apply and enhance my skills being a Network Engineer. I desire to gain quality experience that will allow me to excel in the field of Networks. In addition, I am eager to contribute my creativity and hard work towards the success of your company and to the growth of this fast developing field.

PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Senior Network Administrator May 2011 - present

Artnet Worldwide (233 Broadway New York, NY)

• Working in a team of five people where I configured, managed and deployed

the networking Infrastructure of eight branches of Office worldwide as well as

QA, multiple production networks.

• Took part in the office move where I planned,configured, designed, deployed the

Remote/new office network network infrastructure.

• Configured,managed and deployed Astaro Security Gateway firewall on all Office

branches,designed and managed security policies,configured IPSEC site to site VPN

between different branch offices,Astaro RED VPN hardware clients.

• Configured,managed and deployed ASA 5505,5510,5512,5520 in Production,QA and

failover network, configured SSL Any-connect VPN, IPSEC VPN, NAT policies, URL

filtering,ACL Rules, DNS doctoring.

• Configured Cisco 1841 ISR and Cisco 2811 Routers .Implementation of OSPF.

• Configured Cisco Catalyst 3550,3560,3750,Dell Powerconnect 6224P,6248,6248P,7248P

and Force10 S50,S55 in standalone and stack mode .integrated stacking modules

SFP, SFP+ and XFP+ modules, LC LC configured switches for 10 G Switching.

• Configured and Design VLAN infrastructure of office,managed security policies

Layer 3 switching, kept firmware up2date, ACL policies, Private Vlans.

• Find cost effective solution as replacement of Cisco Switches and learned the

architecture and CLI myself and successfully deployed and integrated multiple

vendor devices with each other.

• Configured and installed ASA 5505 and RED AstaRo VPN hardware client on

several clients of office.

• Configured ASA in both 8.0 and 8.3+ versions and successfully migrated ASA

to latest firmware .

• Configured and managed Sophos firewall for Email filtering,release quarantine emails on the firewall and maintained blacklist and whitelist on the firewall.

• Configured manage engine oputils,manage firewall analyzer for real time attacks monitoring

on Company’s website and block attackers instantly via ACLs.

• Configured and managed IPS 4240 sensor in production and AIP-SM module 20 in office,created custom signatures,tuning of sensor to avoid false positives and log it on remote

eventlog analyzer.

• Configured Cisco Nexus 5548Up with 16 port SFP+ module as 10Gb link between servers in high availability mode.

• Maintained the database of regular clients and website scrappers for their

reporting.

• Managed Solarwinds .Configured Dell Network Manager for cpu utilization and

port frames graphical analysis.

• Configured,deployed and managed Clear Box ACS TACACS+ server as a cost effective solution

for replacement of Cisco ACS Server.

• Configured,managed and deployed Kemp Technologies Load 7 Balancer for web,dev and SQL

Team.

• Configured EventLog Analyzer as Syslog server for central log management

of all network devices for all office branch network devices,QA and multiple production environments and configured critical message reporting.

• Configured and managed Meraki Wireless Cloud Controller and Meraki Wireless Access Points

On all branches of company as cost effective solution to Cisco Linksys Controller.

• Configured,deployed and managed Tripplite Terminal Server for console access

of all the network devices .

• Managed PRI,Shore Tel Call Manager,adding extensions with the phones to the clients,call forwarding of clients on their cell phones.

• Designed detail network topology of all network devices on Microsoft Visio .Make

run books of the network tools and updated their versions in case of any update.

• Regularly attended PCI meetings and configured all network devices according

to PCI Compliance and successfully passed the PCI scan.

• Regularly arranged conference meetings with different vendors about their products

and evaluated the products and recommended company about the pros and cons of these

products .

• Worked closely with Vendors like Cisco, Dell, Force 10, Netgear,Sophos,Eastern

Dotcom, Kemp Technologies, Manage Engine and other third party vendors.

• Managed ESX 5.0 and Vsphere Client .Made VMs for clients and test environment

and join them in the domain/standalone machines as required.

• Unlocked user accounts, configured DNS entities in AD, assigned permissions to user

Machines,created user profiles in Active Directory,password policies,managed group

policies and installation of msi files on group users as a backup of Systems

Administrator.

• Designed MDF,LDF and patch panels of racks according to the requirements

of network design.

• Managed and configured Website public IPs via UltraDNS.

• Configured and managed iScSi SAN .

• Configured and deployed RADIUS server with NPS Windows 2008R2 with

MSCHAPv2.

• Configured Paulo Alto next generation firewall PA-500 with IPS and CSCM license.

Deployed NAT policies, Layer 7 ACLs,content filtering .

• Configured QoS, prioritized and policing of voice traffic over VPN.

• Inventory Management of all network devices,keep record of the network devices’

serial numbers,license updates,exchange,take regular backups of network reporting

Servers and network device configurations .

• Made quotations of network devices/modules according to the number of users and license on Manage Engine Service Desk Plus.

Networks Consultant April 2009 - February 2010

Ciscom Networks (PK)

• Worked as a network consultant and LINUX basic administration instructor .Designed

Network topologies according to the requirements of clients.

• Arranged and attended meetings with clients and recommended solutions

according to their requirements and gave cost effective solutions to them.

• Configured and tested topologies in simulators OPNET, Boson Netsim, Packet Tracer

and in emulators GNS3, VMWare, Virtual Box.

• Documentation and designs on MS Visio and MS Word for clients.

• Make quotations from the company to the clients according to the design and requirements.

• Designed and recommended high availability to low cost solutions to clients which includes layer 2/3 designing, network monitoring tools according to their requirements.

Networks Engineer April 2008 - March 2011

Interface Networks (PK)

• Managed a team up to 3 engineers .Design,deployed and troubleshoot many

LAN and WAN Networks

• Configured Cisco 2950,2960 and Cisco Layer 3 switches 3560,3650.Cisco

Routers 2500,2600,2600XM series,2800,2900 and 3600 series .Cisco PIX 506E,515E

And Cisco ASA 5505, 5510,5520,5540,5550.Cisco Wireless Link sys Access Points. DLINK

Multilayer switches DES 3828,Layer 2 DES 3525,Juniper Firewall SRX220,Sonicwall SNA240.

• Designed and Deployed complete Networking Infrastructure including

division of vlans, inter vlan communication, Layer 2/3Security,Filtering within

Vlans, restriction of unnecessary traffic flow on router using QoS,configured

Site to Site VPN, NAT.

• Configured DMVPN on 15 branch offices in dual hub mode .

• Troubleshoot different network devices I.e.; firewalls, routers, switches of multiple vendors and routing protocol issues which include RIPv2, EIGRP,OSPF,EIGRP and BGP.

• Configured IDS 4215, AIP-SSM20 and web sense for content filtering.

• Configured Unequal path load sharing in EIGRP,made virtual links in OSPF,configured stub

Routers to reduce load on lower end routers.

• Configured STP,RSTP,MSTP,VTP,LACP,PAGP,GVRP,HSRP,VRRP,GLBP protocols according to the design requirements.

• Configured and deployed Cacti, MRTG and PRTG for bandwidth and network monitoring.

• Configured BGP attributes in client network, configured Route Reflectors,peer groups and troubleshoot routing issues between AS Edge Routers.

• Installed IOS on routers and PIX firewalls. Retrieval of passwords of PIX, ASA, Routers

and Switches.

• Installed LINUX servers, hosting of website on Apache and DNS resolution.

• Configured SQUID proxy server includes restricting unnecessary traffic flow

distributed bandwidth between different users, configuring squid in proxy,transparent mode,

Integrated windows clients with LINUX servers.

• Made domain controllers and group policies in Server 2003 and 2008. Restricted

Websites and bandwidth allocation in ISA 2004.

• Configured IPTables in RHEL 5 which includes Nat policies,correct ACLs to only allow certain

Ports.

• Analyzed DOS and DDOS attacks in a SIP based network in OPNET

EDUCATION

CCSP January 2011 - November 2011

Corvit Systems

(Training and Certified)

CCNA(Security) July 2010 - September 2010

Corvit Systems

(Training and Certified)

Red Hat Certified Engineer April 2010 - June 2010

Corvit Systems

(Training)

MCSE January 2010 - April 2010

Corvit Systems

(Training)

CCNP(Routing And Switching) March 2008 - October 2008

Corvit Systems

(Training and Certified)

CCNA(Routing And switching) August 2007 - December 2007

Corvit Systems

(Training and Certified)

CISSP

(On Going)

WCNA

(On Going)

BE(Electrical And Telecommunication Engineering) August 2005 - May 2010

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