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OBJECTIVE:
Seeking a challenging position of network engineer which will give me an opportunity to prove potential in me and
educate me more in the field of networking and to help reach the goal of the organization and its growth.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
An enthusiastic and hardworking network professional with an experience of 8 years in facing and successfully
completing the challenges put forth to me in the networking field.
Profound knowledge in deploying routing protocols like OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP, MPLS, IP Multicast and
Policy routing on Cisco routers like 2600, 2900, 3600, 3900, 7200 and 7600 series.
Experience in layer-3 Routing and layer-2 Switching. Dealt with Nexus models like 7K, 5K, 2K series, Cisco
router models like 7200, 3800, 3600, 2800, 2600, 2500, 1800 series and Cisco catalyst 6500, 4500, 3750, 3500,
2900 series switches and also Juniper devices.
Familiarity with Cat 5/6 and fiber optic cabling for network communication capabilities.
Proficient expertise in deploying, designing, troubleshooting and administering data networks for organizations in
Cisco Wireless Networks: LWAPP, WLC, WCS, Standalone APs, Client Roaming, Wireless Security Basics,
Dual band WAPs, RF spectrum characteristics, AP groups, WLANS, Cisco Prime Site Maps.
Expertise in creating groups and pruning traffic flow using VLAN, VTP, ISL, 802.1Q.
Familiar with REMEDY for ticket change management process.
Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
Working expertise in troubleshooting, optimizing and documenting LAN/WAN technologies and T1/T3 WAN
technologies.
Experience in skillful deployment of Layer-2 technologies like VLANS, VTP, STP, RSTP, Inter-VLAN routing,
VLAN Trunking, Ether Channels, VLAN access-maps and port security.
Experience with working on latest cisco switches like Nexus 2000, 5000, 6000 and 7000 series switches while
implementing advanced features like VDC, VPC, OTV and Fabric Path.
Expertise in configuring of SSH, TFTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP and Syslog and Experience with
DNS/DFS/DHCP/WINS Standardizations and Implementations.
Knowledge gained by working on Cisco firewall technologies like ASA 5580, AAA with cisco ACS.
Efficient in configuring and implementing load balancers like F5 BIG-IP LTM, GTM series like 3900, 6900,
8900, Cisco CSM, McAfee proxy servers and A10 Load Balancers.
Experience in implementing network security using NAT, PAT, ACL, IDS, IPS and ASA firewalls.
Experience with Firewall migrations from PIX firewall to Cisco ASA , Juniper SRX firewall appliances and
McAfee proxy servers.
Worked on Checkpoint and Palo Alto Firewall for security of client network.
Hands on management of Data Center services including racking, cabling, capacity planning, tracking, reporting
&inventory control.
Hands-on experience in Tier II ISP Routing Policies, Network Architecture, IP Subnetting, VLSM, TCP/IP,
NAT, DHCP, DNS, GigE circuits, Firewalls.
Access control server configuration for RADIUS & TACAS+.
Hands-on experience in deploying frame-relay, GRE tunnels, Remote Access VPN and Site-to-Site VPN.
CERTIFICATIONS:
CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate - CSCO13036056
CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional - CSCO13036056
TECHNICAL SKILLS:
Firewalls & Load Cisco ASA 5585, 5550, 5540, Juniper SRX 5400, 5600, 5800, Juniper
Balancers Netscreen 6500, 6000, 5400. Juniper SSG Firewalls, Check point, Palo Alto
PA-3060/2050, F-5 BIG-IP LTM (3900 and 8900), Blue Coat SG8100, AV 510,
AV810, A10 Load Balancers.
Routers Cisco routers (1900, 2600, 2800, 2900, 3600, 3800, 3900, 7200, 7600),
Cisco L2 & L3, Juniper routers (M7i, M10i, M320).
Switches Cisco switches (3560, 3750, 4500, 4900 & 6500), Nexus (2248, 5548
&7010)
Routing RIP, EIGRP, OSPF & BGP, Route Filtering, Redistribution, Summarization, Static
routing.
Routing Protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
Switching Protocols VTP, STP, RSTP, MSTP, VLANs, PAgP, and LACP.
LAN Technologies Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, NAT/PAT, FDDI.
WAN Technologies FRAME RELAY, ISDN T1/E1, PPP, ATM, MPLS, leased lines, DSL modems.
Secure Access Control TACACS+/Radius.
Server
VOIP Devices & Wireless Cisco IP phones, Avaya, CUCM, UCCX, CIPC and UCS.
Technologies Wireless: LWAPP, WLC, WCS, Standalone APs, Client Roaming, Wireless
Security Basics, AP groups, WLANS, Cisco Prime Site Maps.
Network management SNMP, Cisco Works LMS, HP Open View, Solar winds, Ethereal.
Layer 3 Switching CEF, Multi-Layer Switching, Ether Channel.
Carrier Technologies MPLS, MPLS-VPN.
Redundancy protocols HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.
Security Protocols IKE, IPsec, SSL, AAA, Access-lists, prefix-lists.
QOS CBWFQ, LLQ, WRED, Policing/Shaping.
Monitoring Tools Voyence, packet tracer, Wireshark, Opnet, GNS3, Info Blox and Solar winds.
Security Technologies Cisco FWSM/PIX/ASDM, Nokia Checkpoint NG, Juniper SRX, McAfee proxy
servers.
Operating Systems Microsoft XP/Vista/7,10, UNIX, LINUX,Redhat.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
DTE Energy, Detroit, MI Aug 2015 Present
Sr. Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
Communities, Route-Reflector clusters, Route-maps and route policy implementation.
Deploying and decommission of VLANs on core ASR 9K, Nexus 7K, 5K and its downstream devices.
Experience in working with Nexus 7010, 5548, 5020, 2148, 2248 devices.
Involved in the activity of DATA-Center migration of Cisco catalyst series 4500, 6500 switches with the
new Nexus 2148, 2224T, 5548, 6018, 7010 using F3/M3 line-cards with 10GE & 40GE interfaces and
Supervisor 2E.
Involved in migration from Legacy Catalyst 6509 with SUP-720, Catalyst 4507 with SUP-6 to Nexus 7k
with SUP-2E as part of the data center refresh.
Configured and deployed VDC and VPC between Nexus 7018 and Nexus 5596, 5548 switches along with
FEX 2248. Have a good understanding of Fabric Path.
Experience in configuring vdc, fex pinning, fex port-channel, port-channel, peer keep alive, peer link.
Implementing and Maintaining Network Management tools (OPAS, Solar Winds, Cisco Works).
Enabled STP attack mitigation (BPDU Guard, Root Guard), using MD5 authentication for VTP, disabling all
unused ports and putting them in unused VLAN and ensuring DHCP attack prevention where needed.
Handled SRST and implemented and configured the Gateways, Voice Gateways.
Configuring HSRP between the 3845 router pairs for Gateway redundancy for the client desktops.
Configuring STP for switching loop prevention and VLANs for data and voice along with Configuring port
security for users connecting to the switches.
Experience working with High performance data center switch like nexus 7000 series.
For capacity planning, I used like modeling tools such as OPNET, Packet Tracer, NetSim, Netflow and
sFlow Analyzer that project the impact of new applications.
Configuring routing protocols OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, MPBGP, LDP and BGPV4.
Configuring HSRP between VLANs, Configuring Ether-Channels, and Port Channel on 6500 catalyst.
Working with Checkpoint Support for resolving escalated issues and replace branch hardware with new 2851
routers and 2960 switches.
Conversions to BGP WAN routing, which will be to convert WAN routing from OSPF to BGP (OSPF is
used for local routing only) which involves new wan links.
Responsible for turning up BGP peering and customer sessions, as well as debugging BGP routing
problems.
Designed, validated and implemented LAN, WLAN & WAN solution to suite client's needs.
Hands on experience in functional knowledge of F5 advanced feature modules including Web Accelerator,
Application Security Module, and Application Policy Module.
Designed and configured the commands for QoS and Access Lists for Nexus 7K and 5K.
Worked on Layer 2 protocols such as STP, VTP, RSTP, PVSTP+, MST and other VLAN troubleshooting
issues and configuring switches from scratch and deployment.
Involved in designing and implementing QOS and policy map to 2800 series routers for all the branches.
Experience with Project documentation tools & implementing and maintaining network monitoring systems
and experience with developing network design documentation and presentations using VISIO.
Design and implementation of GET VPN architecture used for multicast and unicast communication on an
existing IP VPN.
Experience on designing and troubleshooting of complex BGP and OSPF routing problems.
Environment: Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches, F5, NGX R55 and R65, Checkpoint, Fortinet, Bluecoat, Nexus 2148,
2224T, 5548, 6018, 7010 Cat 6509, VPC, VDC, VRF, VSS, Cisco ASA, BGP,
VPLS, OSPF, EIGRP, QOS, VPM, Solarwinds, STP, VLANS, VTP, Port-Channel, and
Switch Stacking.
State Farm, Bloomington, IL Apr 2014 July 2015
Network & system Engineer
Responsibilities:
Performing standard network operations via ITIL standard with Incident Management and Change Management.
Configuring and managing layer-2 technologies like VLANs, STP, VTP & port-security.
Providing gateway redundancy using HSRP & creating ACL for layer-3 security.
Configuring and troubleshooting layer-3 routing protocols like OSPF, EIGRP & BGP.
Creating IP-prefix-list, route-map, offset-list and distribution list for performing route manipulations.
Working experience in Design Large scale enterprise Wireless networks with AirMagnet, Visiwave and
ekahau, Wireless planning and Management Tools like Aruba Airwave and Cisco Prime Infrastructure.
Worked on functional understanding of DNS DDOS, DOS threats, mitigation techniques and DNSSEC.
Migrated catalyst 45XX and 65XX switches to Nexus 7000 switches, where 7018 being the core and 5000, 2000
as the distribution layer switches for data center requirements.
Performed Enterprise refresh on Switch block that involved replacing legacy catalyst devices with Cisco NEXUS
2000 series fabric-extenders, 5000 series Fabric Interconnects and Nexus 6000, 7000 series core switches.
Implemented features like VPC, VDC, OTV and Fabric Path for high availability and redundant server farm
environment.
Worked with Sup 2E for 7018 switch and F cards for L2 switching and few M cards for L3 proxy routing
purposes for F cards.
Worked with Nexus 6001T switch which is used for low port-to-port latency in the data center using cut-
through feature architecture. And configured VPC+ on these switches along with Nexus 2200 Fabric extenders.
Worked on OTV to extend L2 VLANs between data centers over IP on Nexus 7018 switches.
Configured IPSEC Site-to-Site VPNs to provide secure remote access to vendors and partners using SPA
modules on Cisco 6500.
To secure configurations of load balancing in A10, F5, SSL/VPN connections, Troubleshooting CISCO ASA
firewalls, and related network security measure.
Cisco ASA/Checkpoint Firewall troubleshooting, McAfee proxy servers and policy change requests for new IP
segments that either come on line or that may have been altered during various planned network changes on the
network.
Experience with convert Checkpoint VPN rules over to the Cisco ASA solution. Migration with both
Checkpoint and Cisco ASA VPN experience.
Deployed Cisco 6500 series switches with SUP32 & SUP720 and, implemented VSS.
Maintained Checkpoint 41000 and 61000 systems, juniper SRX3600 and PA-5050 firewalls.
Worked on Enterprise application load balancing using A10, F5 BIG-IP LTM 6400 and Cisco CSM. Worked
with application and system teams to investigate application high availability requirements to deploy the optimum
Load Balancing mechanism and provided network oriented support for end-to-end application life cycle
management.
Worked on Firewall rule management as part of network operations to take care of Firewall ACL requests.
Maintained ASA 5580 to ensure high end security on the network with ACLs and Firewall. I also performed
firewall troubleshooting to resolve application issues in DMZ and server farm.
Environment: Check point Firewalls, ASA, Blue coat, VPN, VLANs, DMZ, Cisco IOS-XR, STP, RSTP, PVSTP,
Citrix NetScaler, VTP, HSRP, Ether-Channel, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, ATM, PPP, HDLC, SNMP, TACACS+.
Stryker, Kalamazoo, MI Jan 2013- Mar 2014
Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
Installed various branch Cisco devices including switches and routers.
Experience in implementation, analysis, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN
networking systems.
Worked on Layer 2 protocols such as STP, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVSTP+, MST and other VLAN
troubleshooting issues and configuring switches from scratch and deployment.
Implemented PORs (port open requests) based on the requirements of various departments and business
lines.
Involved in Configuration of Access lists (ACL) on ASA firewall for the proper network routing for the B2B
network connectivity.
Added and modified the servers and infrastructure to the existing DMZ environments based on the
requirements of various application platforms.
Involved in the configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP, OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP,
BGP v4. Configured IP access filter policies.
Configure and troubleshoot network and security equipments like routers and switches, firewalls, UNIX
and Windows servers etc.
Designed IP Addressing schemes and Switch port assignments, Trunking and Ether-channel
implementation.
Provided daily network support for Global wide area network consisting of MPLS, VPN and point-to point
site.
Packet capturing, troubleshooting on network problems with Wireshark, identifying and fixing problems
Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging. Configured Trunk groups, ether channels, and Spanning tree for
creating Access/distribution and core layer switching architecture.
On-call support for SAN infrastructure and storage services.
Provided 2nd level support for all Linux-related issues.
Configured STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.
Experience with devices Palo Alto Network firewalls such as security NAT, Threat prevention & URL
filtering.
Experience with F5 load balancers and Cisco load balancers (CSM, ACE and GSS).
Performing network monitoring, providing analysis using various tools like Wireshark, Solarwinds etc.
Configure Linux servers to access SAN and NFS.
Troubleshoot Network Issues onsite and remotely depending on the severity of the issues.
Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using PING, Trace route.
Implemented and troubleshoot (on-call) IPsec VPNs for various business lines and making sure everything is
in place.
Monitored traffic and access logs in order to troubleshoot network access issues.
Environment: Cisco PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE960 Switches, Cisco PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE800 Routers, Nexus5K, 7K,
LTM, GTM, F5 Load balancer, Switching Protocols STP, VTP, RSTP and VLAN; Checkpoint, ASA, OSPF, BGP,
EIGRP, RIP, LAN, WAN, SSL/VPN.
Impecsoft Solutions Feb 2011 to Dec 2012
Jr. Network Engineer
Responsibilities:
Performed IOS upgrades/Password recovery on Catalyst 1900, 2900 series switches and 2500, 2600 series
routers.
Did racking, stacking, and cabling network-based, IT systems.
Configured Access List ACL (Std., Ext, and Named) to allow users all over the company to access different
applications and blocking others.
Configuring of IP Allocation and sub netting for all applications and servers and other needs throughout
company using FLSM, VLSM addressing.
Troubleshot the issues related to L1 and L2 levels.
Network maintenance checks, configure and manage printers, copiers, and other miscellaneous network
equipment.
Involved in trouble shooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
Responsible for Data Backup, System Update, Recovery and Restore, and Spyware removal.
Assisting Junior and Senior Engineers, on-site management of cable-wiring technicians.
Troubleshoot problems on a day to day basis and documented every issue to share it with design teams.
Providing documentation by creating MOPs and VISIO diagrams for the network designing team.
Environment: Cisco Routers 2500, 3600; Cisco Switches3500, 2900 and 1900 series; Catalyst 1900,2900 series
switches; Routing protocols RIPv2, EIGRP, OSPF; Firewall Security Protocols: ACL, NAT, PAT.
Vertex Data Private Limited, Hyderabad, India Aug 2008 Jan 2011
Network Administrator
Responsibilities:
Configuration, LAN/WAN, Switch/Routing protocols.
Troubleshooting complex LAN /WAN infrastructure that include routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF.
Configured Access-lists, Distribution-lists, Offset-lists and Route Redistribution.
Configured Ether channels, Trunks, VLans, HSRP in a LAN environment. Configured STP for loop
prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.
Configured PVSTP+ for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.
Implemented port aggregation & link negotiation using LACP and PAGP.
Responsible for performing administration on OSPF routing protocols. Implemented route redistribution
between OSPF and EIGRP.
Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and other IP conflict problems.
Performed IOS upgrades on various catalyst series switches and maintained latest IOS versions according to
companys policy.
Worked on installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN (ISDN, Frame relay, NAT, DHCP,
TCP/IP). Configured STP for loop prevention and VTP for Inter-VLAN Routing.
Configured Access List (Standard, Extended, and Named) to allow users all over the company to access
different applications and blocking others.
Done troubleshooting of TCP/IP problems and connectivity issues in multi-protocol Ethernet environment.
Worked on network-based IT systems such as racking, stacking, and cabling.
Environment: BMC Remedy, Cisco ASA 5540, BIG-IP LTM 8900, QOS, Policy-maps,
Class-maps,Vlans,STP,RSTP,PVSTP,VTP,HSRP,EtherChannel, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, ATM, PPP, HDLC.
SNMP, TACACS+, DNS, DHCP.
Education: -
Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science Engineering, Hyderabad, India.
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