Engineer Network

Professional Summary

• Over * years of extensive hands on experience in Network administration, deployment, and configuration and also troubleshooting.

• Experience in working with different environments like Windows/Linux / Cisco systems IOS, JunOS.

• Experience in working with Layers 2-7 of the OSI Protocol Stack HDLC, PPP, Frame Relay,ISDN,ATM,MPLS,VPN,IP,ARP,RARP,ICMP,RIP,IGRP,EIGRP,OSPF,TCP,UDP,TELNET,DHCP,FTP,TFTP,DNS etc.

• Strong experience in configuring and maintaining LAN and WAN equipments

• Experience in working with Retails, Healthcare and Technologies domains.

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in LAN/WAN systems, Networking Architecture, sub netting, DHCP, DNS, NAT and Knowledge of IP addressing.

• Extensive experience in Cisco IOS configuration, up gradation, recovering of and back up of IOS.

• Proficient in Troubleshooting of Hosted IP communications solution and also routing protocols like BGP, OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, and RIP.

• Experience in working with Light weighted and standalone wireless Access Points.

• Depth knowledge of Ad-Hoc wireless Networks (MANET), IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.11x, Bluetooth, DSR, AODV, DSDV, ZRP, LAR, IEEE 802.11 MAC layer Protocols, Video communication and compression.

• Knowledge of Cryptography, DES, AES, IPS, IDS, SNMP.

• Experience and depth knowledge of firewall, ACL and application gateway.

• Extensive Knowledge and experience with F5 load balancer, Riverbed Technology.

• In depth knowledge of security protocols WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access), RC4and EAP (Extensible authentication protocol) for WLAN.

• In depth knowledge of multimedia networking JPEG, MPEG standards, MPEG-4, H.264, RTP/RTCP, RTSP and also multimedia compression techniques.

• Knowledge and experience of Cisco VoIP infrastructure and Data Network.

• Extensive experience in designing new data/voice networks from concept to implementation.

• Experience in translating customer specific requirements into solutions based on a broad range of products and services

• Good communications skills and ability to interact with professionals at all levels with the ability to succeed in an environment of competing priorities.

Education

• Bachelor of Engineering (Electronics and Communication) from Gujarat University.

Gandhinagar, Gujarat, INDIA

• Master of Science (Electrical Engineering) from California State University.

Los Angeles, CA-90032, USA

Skills

Operating Systems Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000/XP, Vista/Windows 7, Cisco IOS, Unix/Linux.

Protocols OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP, TCP/IP, IPX, STP, RSTP, PVST, VLAN, VPN, Frame Relay, PPP, MPLS, ATM, HDLC, ISDN, SNMP, SMTP, FTP, DHCP, DNS

Networking Tools OPNET, Packet tracer, Boson simulator,GNS-3, wire-shark, Solar winds, Infoblox

Network Hardware Cisco Switches: 3500,3560,4507,4510,6500,Cisco Router-2600,2800,2900,3845,3825,Netgear switches, Juniper switches and router: EX-2200, EX-2500, EX-3200, M7i and M120 router, PIX 525

Voice and Video Protocols H.323, H.263/H.264,RTP/RTCP,RTSP.

Networking Technologies

Ethernet/Fast Ethernet 802.3, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.1q, NAT, Access List, T1/T3, OC3/OC12, DSL, 802.11 a/b/b/n, Bluetooth (802.15.1).

Programming Languages C, C++, Assembly (8086, 8085, 8051), HTML, JAVA, VHDL, PSpice.

Others tools MS Office, Microsoft VISIO, Outlook, MS 2000/2003 server

Others Technology F5-Load Balancer, Riverbed Technology.

Work Experience

Sears Holding Corporation, Hoffman Estate, IL Nov 11- Current

Title: Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented secure network methodology and topology.

Responsible for Maintenance and Troubleshooting of 3550.3560,3508,6500 Catalyst switches.

Handled advanced troubleshooting of various Cisco Routers including 2900series, 3845 and 3825 series.

Responsible for Troubleshoot TCP/IP and Routing issues across access, distribution and core layers. Configure and troubleshoot routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, BGPv4.

Performed troubleshooting of mission critical infrastructure network systems outages resulting from OSPF and EIGRP routing issues.

Troubleshooting BGP Peering locations at various Public Peering Points across the Globe.

Troubleshoot connectivity problems with of the datacenter as well different sites.

Worked with vendors to locate point-of-failures.

Worked with various vendor for resolving T-1, DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192 transport mediums.

Design Network and assigned IP addressing (VLSM) to the various VLAN’s.

Troubleshoot VLAN, VTP, Spanning-Tree, ISL and 802.1Q problems.

Created and Maintained ACL’s (Access Control Lists) and prefix lists for route filtering.

Configured site to site and client VPN connectivity to the internal network for client notebooks.

Assisting to configure MPLS network and troubleshooting it.

Monitored Network performance using Solar Winds, Wire-shark, Witness-Investigator, SNMP and OPNET tools.

Connect and maintain consistency between Cisco, HP and Juniper Manufacturer.

Extensive knowledge and experience on TACACS and AAA configuration.

Experience with working on Infoblox and SHARE ticket to resolve the connectivity issues.

Working on Visio to create the sites layout as well datacenter for documentation.

Configuration of AP (1200 and 1400) and cellular 3G systems and connect them for backup link for the sites.

Working with F5 Load balancer and Riverbed technology.

Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago, IL Aug10 to Nov 11

Role: Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented secure network methodology and topology. Implementation of public file, application, web and exchange services.

Responsible for Maintenance and Troubleshooting of 6500 Catalyst switches.

Configuration and troubleshooting Juniper Switches EX 2500 and 3200.

Responsible for Troubleshoot TCP/IP and Routing issues across access, distribution and core layers. Configure and troubleshoot routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, BGPv4.

Performed troubleshooting of mission critical infrastructure network systems outages resulting from OSPF and BGP routing issues.

Troubleshooting BGP Peering locations at various Public Peering Points across the Globe.

Troubleshoot connectivity problems with Telco technicians in SONET, ATM, Frame Relay and ISDN network.

Worked with vendors to locate point-of-failures.

Worked with various Telco personnel resolving T-1, DS-3, OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, OC-192 transport mediums.

Advanced troubleshooting of DSL technology using both Redback and Juniper Network devices in the ATM switched network, including L2TP tunneling protocol.

Troubleshoot VLAN, Spanning-Tree and 802.1Q problems.

Created and Maintained ACL’s (Access Control Lists) for route filtering.

Extensive exploitation of Active Directory within the Windows Server 2003 environment.

Configured VPN connectivity to the internal network for client notebooks.

Escalation points for Level 1 Network Engineers. Interact with Cisco TAC to research and document issues in the network resulting from new IOS release bugs.

Henry Schein Inc. Melville, NY Apr 09 to Jul 10

Role: - Networking Engineer

Responsibilities:

Certifying all the new network elements and their configurations for production network with unique configurations used in Wells Fargo production network.

Design and implement the new network Sites (Retail/Admin) in Lab to MPLS network through Provided Edge routers.

Using MS Visio to design network test diagrams.

Execute Baseline, Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature testing this includes most of the protocols and L2/L3, routing to PE routers.

Configured switching, routing (BGP) on Provided Edge routers in MPLS network for testing End-End QOS.

Configuring and testing QOS (4 classes) on the voice traffic using dscp markings.

Performed Throughput Test (IPv6 RFC-2544) and Performance testing using IXIA Automate and Explorer.

Configuring QoS on Cisco routers and switches and certifying using IXIA Chariot using 6 Classes of Traffic on variety of configuration including and not limited to MLFR, MLPP, IPSEC Tunnel, ATM DS3, T1/E1, HDLC and MPLS.

Configuring OSPF for routing on Cisco routers (7200, 7500) in Admin sites and on Cisco routers (2800) for retail sites. For certifying different Lab Service Requests (LSRs).

Configuring PPP, Frame-Relay, and MPLS (with 4 T1 interfaces) on Cisco 2811, 3825 to test the performance of router with full line rate.

Configuring VLANs, VTP, STP and VLAN Routing on Cisco switches 2960, 3550, 6509

Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of VoIP Cisco Unified communication Manager, Unity Manager.

Configuring RADIUS to use AAA on Cisco 3825 as a VPN server.

Configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of VoIP.

Setting up SIP IP phones 7960, SIP proxy servers, SIP gateway and firewall.

Setting up IP telephony services with Unified messaging.

Configuration of SIP (Session initiation protocol) with SDP (Session Description Protocol).

Set up Cisco messaging system as well as Cisco SS7 interconnects.

Installation, configuration and maintenance of VoIP infrastructures like IP telephone, proxy server, messaging system.

Experience with Cisco Unified communication manager and Cisco Unity manager.

Troubleshooting of IP phones, Gateways and proxy servers.

UNICC, New York, NY Nov07 – Mar09

Role: - Network Operations Engineer

Responsibilities:

Responsible for managing the planning, coordination, configuration, installation, and management of all network infrastructure and related client services within the enterprise to meet business requirements.

Designed and implemented network architectures, including MAN/LAN internetworking, and connections within the WAN environment.

Involved in diagnosing existing applications and developed deployment strategies to distribute servers in appropriate subnets and VLANs throughout the network infrastructure.

Consulted on network design to increase network bandwidth utilization and infrastructure redundancy utilizing Cisco’s EIGRP protocol and fail-over recovery procedures in a Frame-Relay environment.

Designed configured and implemented Cisco’s Catalyst 6509/4000 switches using VLANs, VTP, ISL and dot1Q encapsulation.

Consulted on proactive network management tools, and implemented NAI WAN/LAN DSPros (Sniffers) to manage network infrastructure.

Configured and consulted on the design of the PIX 515/520 firewall configurations for fail-over.

Documented the network infrastructure and reconfigured Cisco’s 4000, 3620, 3640, 2520 and 1700 series routers to support EIGRP in a Frame-Relay environment.

Datamini Technologies Pvt Ltd, Daman, India Jul06 to Oct07

Role: - Associates Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented secure network topology and methodology.

Managed and maintain the network of the company.

Assist the company’s different department to connect their connectivity with different department.

Responsible for Configure and troubleshooting of TCP/IP connection and routing issues across access, distribution and core layers.

Configure and troubleshooting of routing protocols such EIGRP, IGRP, OSPF, BGP.

Configure WAN of company and make it secure by authentication and password protection.

Troubleshoot connectivity problems with network technician in SONET, ATM, Frame Relay and ISDN network.

Configure and Troubleshoot VLAN, STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) and 802.11Q problems.

Created and Maintained ACL’s (Access control Lists) for route filtering

Configure VPN connectivity to internal network for client notebook.

Configure DHCP for given network on router.

Working with teams to configure the new network and troubleshooting of configured network by analyzing.

Testing of the new design of the network on OPNET by taking different scenarios to check performance of network.

Configure new router and testing of routers. Ex.- series of 2500 and 2600

Responsible for maintenance and troubleshooting of catalyst switches.

Configure new switches and testing of switches. Ex.- catalyst 3500 and 3550

Creating test scripts for different network scenarios covering all aspects of networks functionality.

Hindustan Computer Limited (HCL), Ahmadabad, Gujarat, INDIA May05 to Jun06

Role: - Technical Support

Responsibilities:

Upgraded and repaired hardware & software which included: Backup recovery, Data recovery using System Restore, Motherboard replacement, Registry backup and recovery, Virus infection removal, Malware infections, Spyware infections, Registry corruption, and Operating system installs, recovery, and upgrades.

Responsible for troubleshooting front-end computers for network connectivity, internet connectivity and e-mail related issues.

Responsible for managing the planning, coordination, configuration, installation, and management of all network infrastructure and related client services within the enterprise to meet business requirements.

Helped network administrator to set up and configure the new network for clients.

Designed configured and implemented Cisco’s Catalyst 2950 switches using VLANs, VTP trucking, LSL and dot1Q encapsulation.

Configure basic router and switches based on the network administrator’s instructions.

Configure DHCP, TCP/IP and RIP as instructed by Network Administrator.

Implemented and troubleshooting various routing protocols(RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP)

Helped network administrator to configure BGP, OSPF protocols on the network

Implemented and configured standard and extended access lists on Cisco routers.

Configured and troubleshot 802.11 wireless network.

Configured and maintained Cisco switches and routers using Cisco IOS.

Assisting with Technical maintenance of the network and the performance of the network.

Troubleshooting the networking issues for clients by testing connectivity and analyzing configuration of the network.

Troubleshoot company’s network connectivity and diagnose the issues by using command such as ping, show, debug, tracert, etc...

Helped network administrator to design a new network and testing of that network on the simulation to check the performance of the network.

Resolving computer Hardware related issues.

Testing connectivity between clients and ISP by ping.

Prepared scripts for client’s issues for weekly report.

Others Certificates and Other activity

CCNA Exploration (Routing protocols and concepts) from CSULA.

Team Lead in Cricket team of University.

Contact this candidate