Project Manager Engineer

Nishant Singhal

**** *** ******* ***. *** • Fairfax • VA 22031

571-***-**** • *********@*****.***

Objective

I am seeking a position with a technology company that will allow me to apply and enhance my skills of being a Network Engineer. I desire to gain quality experience that will allow me to take full advantage of my Masters in Telecommunications. For me networking is the most glamorous thing in the world.

EXPERIENCE

Current: Associate System Admin -- May 13-2010- Present

Global Strategic Solutions, Sterling, Virginia

Installed and Configured Linux (Ubuntu 10.10) servers; Helped in setting up the LAN network in office; Installed and configured Nagios and many other plugins like Cacti, Nagvis, Livestatus, RRDTool to monitor network and servers; Designing a new software based on Nagios for real time display of Prognostic data; Testing of software and administrator for Bugzilla; Designed Graphics used in the company’s website; Creating animation using MS office PowerPoint; Making cross-platform installers for Windows and Linux; Designing graphical user interface; Have a good understanding of Linux, PHP and MySQL.

Networking Skills

VPN VLAN Router configuration L2VPN

NAT L3VPN Switch Configuration LAN Troubleshooting

VTP Load Balancing Traffic Engineering WAN Troubleshooting

Designing Office Network

EDUCATION

Masters in Telecommunications, GPA 3.62 -- May 2011

George Mason University, Fairfax VA

Specialization in Networking, layer 2 and layer 3 communications.

Networking Protocols OSPF, BGP, IS-IS, EIGRP, RIP, MPLS, IP Multicast, VoIP

Configuring routers and switches in GNS3

In the latest project I have configured a network on Cisco 3640 and & 7200 series routers with three Autonomous Systems and BGP running in the core and OSPF as IGP. Also configured MPLS in the core for creating MPLS VPNs and MPLS Traffic Engineering.

Bachelors in Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, 70% -- Jul 2004 – May 2008

Nagpur University, India

Currently pursuing CCNA (Cisco certified network associate) -- Expected-Aug 2011

PROJECTS and PAPERS

Presented a paper on “Network layer security issues, firewalls and IPSec” -- Nov 2010

Satellite TV Distribution -- Jan 2010 – May 2010

Leading a team of 14 people as Project Manager, Project was aimed at designing and developing Business Strategy, System Planning/Engineering and Operations to create a functioning model for a real world scenario.

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