Network Engineer

Professional Summary
7+ years of experience in networking, installing, configuring and maintaining network
devices.
Implementing IP addressing schemes, LAN/WAN protocols, IP Services, to fulfill
network requisites in different environments.
Hands on experience in configuring Cisco Catalyst 2960, 3750, 4500, 6500 series,
and Cisco 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 7200, 7600 series routers
Comprehensive expertise in the implementation of optimization, analysis,
troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN networking systems.
Proficient in Configuring Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANS) using Cisco routers and
multi-layer Switches and supporting STP, RSTP, PVST, RPVST along with trouble
shooting of inter-VLAN routing and VLAN Trunking using 802.1Q.
Worked extensively on Cisco Firewalls Cisco PIX (506E/515E/525) and ASA
5500(5510/5540) series.
Maintaining Citrix administration- farm, troubleshooting, load balancing, Citrix
client, Licensing, Web interface
Implemented redundancy with HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, Ether channel technology.
Implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, DistributeLists, Route Maps and route manipulation using Offset-list.
Hands on in deployment of GRE tunneling, SSL, Site-Site IPSEC VPN and DMVPN.
Managed inventory of all network hardware, Management and Monitoring by use of
SSH, Syslog, SNMP, NTP.
Managing Netscaler 10.1 VPX; creating and managing VPN groups for users.
Installation of several Citrix Components like PVS 6.1, Secure Gateway, Web
interface & Edge sight.
Experience with F5 load balancers - LTM, GTM series like 6800 and 8900 for the
corporate applications and their availability.
Expertise in OSI layer model/TCP/IP.
Well versed and experienced in routing and switching protocols RIP, OSPF, EIGRP,
BGP and VLAN.
Exposed to handling and troubleshooting issues on NAT.
Working knowledge on configuring access lists. Troubleshooting DNS/DHCP issues
within the LAN network.
Expertise in IP subnetting and worked on various designing and allocating various
classes of IP address to the domain.
Sound knowledge of Routing and Switching concepts and MPLS design.
Proficient in Cisco IOS for configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols: MP-BGP,
OSPF, LDP, EIGRP, RIP, BGP v4, MPLS.p
Worked extensively in Configuring, Monitoring and Troubleshooting Cisco's ASA
5500/PIX security appliance, Failover DMZ zoning & configuring VLANs/routing/NATing
with the firewalls as per the design.
In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience in Tier II ISP Routing Policies, Network
Architecture, IP Subnetting, VLSM, TCP/IP, NAT, DHCP, DNS, FT1 / T1 / FT3 / T3 Sonet
POS OCX / GigE circuits, Firewalls.
Configured and deployed QOS and defined class of service (COS) WRED and WFQ for
bandwidth management.
Primary responsibility is to design and deploy various network security & High
Availability products lick Cisco ASA other security products.

Technical Skills
Cisco Routers
Cisco L2 & L3
Switches
LAN Technologies
WAN Technologies
Network Security
OS products/Services
Routing Protocols
Gateway Load
Balancing
Various Features /
Services
Network
Management Tools
Security Server
Protocols
Load Balancers
Operating Systems
Firewall & Security

1600,1700,2600,2800, 2900, 3600, 3800, 7200 and 7600

1900,2900, 3560, 3750, 4500, 4900, 6500
Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, and Gigabit Ethernet, SMTP, VLAN, InterVLAN Routing, VTP, STP, RSTP.
Frame Relay, PPP, HDLC, (E1/T1/E3T3)
Cisco ASA, ACL, IPSEC.
DNS, DHCP, Windows (2000/2003/2008, XP), UNIX, LINUX.
OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ISIS, VRF, PBR, Route Filtering, Redistribution,
Summarization, and Static Routing.
HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, EBGP
IOS and Features, IRDP, NAT, SNMP, SYSLOG, NTP, DHCP, CDP, TFTP
and FTP.
Wireshark, Netflow Analyzer, Cisco Works, Ethereal, SNMP, HP open
view.
TACACS+, RADIUS.
Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (BIG-IP), Citrix Netscaler
Shell, Perl, Windows (98, 2000, XP, Server 2003/2008, Vista, Windows
7/8), Linux, Unix.
Checkpoint (R62, R65) Cisco ASA

Professional Experience
MSA, Pittsburgh, PA
Present
Sr. Network Engineer

March

2015-

Responsibilities:

Configuring Static, IGRP, EIGRP, and OSPF Routing Protocols on Cisco 1600, 2600,
2800, 3600, 7300 series Routers.
Responsible for entire company network infrastructure that includes Cisco Switches,
Routers, Firewalls, Access Points, Servers.
Managed a team of 4 Senior Citrix and Messaging Engineers and 6 Level 2 Technicians
to provide 24x7 support of the MDM, Citrix and Messaging Systems.
Expansion and implementation of current data center for different phases of
migration.
Perform extensive testing around the upgrade, migration and configuration
functionality of our software.
Configured Easy VPN server and SSL VPN to facilitate various employees access
internal servers and resources with access restrictions.
Implementation of Site-to-Site VPNs and DMVPN over the internet using IKE Phase 1
and IKE Phase 2 based on traffic with ASA 5500 series Firewalls.

Configure various LAN switches such as CISCO CAT 2900, 3550, 4500, 6509 switches
and Access layer switches such as Cisco 4510, 4948, 4507 switches for VLAN, Fast
Ether Channel configuration.
Hands on Citrix engineering and administration with Citrix XenApp 5/6.5 and Citrix
XenDesktop 5.6 and 7.6
Demonstrated Citrix flow chart and diagram in VISIO.
Configuration and troubleshooting of CSM, integration with ASA devices.
Experience in migration of VLANS & Configured VLANs with 802.1q tagging, Ether
channels, and Spanning tree for creating Access/distribution and core layer switching.
Creation of firewall rules on Checkpoint Smart Dashboard and install policies.
Management of corporate Checkpoint Firewall implementing security protocols and
alleviating network attacks.
Deployed Palo Alto Firewalls for web filtering and application control.
Configured EBGP load balancing and Ensured stability of BGP peering interfaces.
Worked on Route-Reflectors to troubleshoot BGP issues related to customer route
prefixes also route filtering using Route-maps.
Designed and implemented DMZ for Web servers, Mail servers & FTP Servers using
Cisco ASA5500 Firewalls.
Worked on security appliance to maintain SSL Inspection, Application control, Firewall
and VPN management.
Worked extensively on Cisco ASA 5500(5510/5540) Series, experience with convert PIX
rules over to the Cisco ASA solution.
Worked on migration of existing PIX firewall to ASA firewall, PIX OS upgrade from 6.3 to
7.0.
Mapped, Network Diagrams and physical identification in MS Visio.
Worked with engineering team to resolve tickets and troubleshoot L3/L2 problems
efficiently.
Configured Cisco 2800, 3800 routers and 3750, 4500, 6500 switches as part of the
implementation plan.

Environment: Cisco 2948/3560/4500/3560/3750/3550/3500/2960 6500 switches and Cisco

3640/1200/
7200/7600/3845/3600/2800 routers, Citrix Netscaler, Cisco ASA 500, Checkpoint, F5 BIGIP
LTM, RIP, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, LAN, WAN, VPN, HSRP, Sniffers.

Thermo Fisher Scientific

Sept 2014
Network Engineer

Oct 2012

Key Responsibilities:

Performed network implementation that includes configuration of routing protocols,

leased lines, ISDN lines, VLANs and IOS installations.
Troubleshot the network issues onsite and remotely, depending on the severity of the
issues.
Customers design, implementation and support personnel to configure and operate
the Juniper Networks products.
Configuring the Citrix user session and server policies, troubleshooting the issues
related to that.
Expert-level professional experience with Cisco IOS including configuration and
troubleshooting.

Had hands-on experience with WAN (ATM/Frame Relay), Routers, Switches and IP
addressing.
Configured and deployed VPC, OTV, FABRIC PATH .
Worked with layer 2 switching technology architecture. Implemented L2 and L3
switching functionality, which includes the use of VLANS, STP, VTP and their functions
as they relate to networking infrastructure requirements including internal and
external treatment, configuration and security.
Implemented Netscaler 9110 Appliance for Secure Access Gateway.
Implemented Dual Netscaler 9110 Appliances for Server Load balance and Global
Server Load Balance between dual sites.
Supported core network consisting of Cisco 7200 series routers running multi area
OSPF.
Configured EIGRP and OSPF as interior gateway protocols with route filtering and route
redistribution. Troubleshot complex LAN/WAN infrastructure that include routing
protocols EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
Responsible for all aspects of TCP/IP functionality across multiple enterprise
environments.
Performed EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, DHCP Profile, HSRP, IPV6, Bundle Ethernet
implementation on ASR 9K redundant pair.
Configuring Big-IP F5 LTMs (virtual servers, pools, SNATs, health monitors, irules) for
managing the traffic and tuning the load on the network servers.
Performed Network Address Translation on Cisco ASA 8.2 and 8.3
Used DHCP to automatically assign reusable IP addresses to DHCP clients.
Performed the ACL request changes for various clients by collecting source and
destination information from them.
Troubleshoot the BIG-F5 1600 LTM through constant contact with the vendor.
Created MOPS (Method of procedures) and sought the approval of peers to perform
configuration changes.

Environment: Cisco Routers, Cisco Switches, Citrix Netscaler, F5 Load Balancer HSRP,
VRRP, IPSEC VPN, VPN, QOS, ASA firewall, Load balancer, MPLS, VLANS, VTP, RSTP, ACL, NAT,
IDS/IPS, Monitoring tools (PRTG, HP Open View), SIP, RTP, RADIUS, TACACS+, Cisco Wi-Fi
technologies, ASR 9000, Catalyst 6500, CRS, Cisco ASR Firewall.
Century Link
(India)
2010 Aug 2012
Network Engineer

April

Key Responsibilities:

Responsible for the configuration of Cisco Routers (7000, 5300, 4000, 2500, 3000,
2600) using RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
Implemented Cisco IOS Firewall IDS using 2600 series router
Configured and installed multi-protocol (IP, IPX) multi-interface Cisco routers
Managed office network with Cisco devices with network devices including 2500 and
3600 series routers and 3500, 2900, 1900 series switches
Analyzed and resolved a high percentage of initial customer contact in the areas of
PC/LAN.
Dealt with customer problems to management and support groups utilizing standard
escalation model.
Extensive experience in configuring and implementing OSPF and BGP.

Supported core network consisting of Cisco 7200 series routers running multi area
OSPF.
Configured EIGRP and OSPF as interior gateway protocol with route filtering and route
redistribution, installed and maintained Cisco 3600, 2600 and 7200 backbone routes
with HSRP
Implemented stub/Totally stub areas and various OSPF features like routesummarization and SPF throttling.
Hands-on experience with WAN technologies like T1/T3, DS3, STM1 and STM4 circuit
types
Implemented Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS 3.0) for TACACS+/RADIUS
Knowledge with redistribution of routing protocols and Frame-Relay configuration
Handled Network Migration from RIP to OSPF
Implementation of TCP/IP and related Services-DHCP/ DNS/ WINS
Configured, maintained and troubleshot routing protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP and
BGP.
Engaged in office moves, helped in identifying network requirements of new building,
installed new networking hardware, and coordinated with vendors for cabling/wiring
Performed troubleshooting, while maintaining trouble ticket tracking, following both
internal/external routes.
Assisted with escalation procedures and customer notifications.
Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.
Upgraded Cisco Routers, Switches and Firewall (PIX) IOS using TFTP
Acted as Tier 3 support for connectivity, failures, configuration, implementation, and
troubleshooting.
Provided project management for data center cabling, documented all network
drawings using Visio
Design, test, and implement global Next Generation MPLS network (150 sites) using
Cisco 3800, 2800, 2600, and 1721 routers using BGP and EIGRP protocols.
Implementing traffic policy changes with Cisco PIX Firewall appliance switch WAP
configuration and installations.

Environment: Cisco 2600/2800/3600 Cisco 2950/2960 series switches, Cisco Routers 7000,
5300, 4000, 2500, 3000, 2600, NAT, PAT, DHCP, DNS, OSPF, EIGRP, ASR, TCP/IP, LAN, WAN.

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN

March 2010
Network Engineer

Aug 2008

Key Responsibilities:

Configured OSPF on CISCO devices with multiple routing processes and redistributed
them. Tested and hands on experience in multi area OSPF topologies.
Configuring, managing and troubleshooting networks using routing protocols like RIP,
EIGRP and OSPF (Single Area and Multi Area).
Assisted with troubleshooting all network issues with routers and switches when
necessary and consulted with on call tech as needed for client.
Monitor, troubleshoot, test and resolve Frame Relay, ATM, MLPPP, PPP, and Dial-up.
Configuring/Troubleshoot issues with the following types of routers Cisco (7200, 6500,
4500, 1700, 2600 and 3500 series), to include: bridging, switching, routing, Ethernet,
NAT, and DHCP, as well as assisting with customer LAN /MAN.

Actively participated in upgrading fast Ethernet, Layer 3 switched/routed LAN

infrastructure from Cisco 3640 to Cisco 2811 ISR routers and switches at access level
to 2950, 3550.
Installation and Configuration of various types of Personal Computers and Printers.
Installation of different operating systems on Intel based PC's.
Configuring Vlans, VTPs, enabling trunks between switches.
Assisted in network engineering efforts consistent with the infrastructure of an
Internet Service Provider and support of such network services. Helped in designing
and implementation of VLAN for the new users.
Plans, coordinates, implements and supports the LAN / WAN hardware, software and
Internet /Intranet integration network connectivity, diagnose network failures and
resolve any problems.
Troubleshoot Frame Relay; T1, T3, IP and OSPF related router and circuit issues.
Documenting and Log analyzing the Cisco PIX series firewall.
Excellent Troubleshooting Skills and Customer Centric approach.

Environment: Cisco 2990/3550/6550 switches, Cisco 7200/3845/3600/2800 routers, EIGRP,

RIP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, Ether Channels, and Sniffer.