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• Strong technical expertise and the ability to understand and explain complex technical concepts to clients and stakeholders. • Headed High-level infrastructure planning, design, and optimization initiatives including datacenter design with Cisco, HP, EMC, Azure, Fortinet, Paloalto, huawei and VMware technolgies. • Provided winning solutions as part of the pre-sales team which included responding to RFPs and RFIs from Client.• Manage the technical aspects of a project, ensuring that technical solutions are designed, implemented, and maintained to meet project requirements and standards. • Manage and lead the presales/Technical team, providing guidance, support. • Development of proposals, including technical aspects such as product specifications and pricing. • Designing and implementing network architectures that meet business requirements. • Strong experience in Router, switches, firewall, Wireless devices, IP Telephone system from Major vendors like Cisco, Aruba, Avaya, Palo alto, Fortinet etc.,

Doha, Qatar

• Working towards the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives of the group located across multiple locations.• Installation, commissioning, Integration of network devices like routers, Switches, WAP's, Firewalls etc...• Implementation of L2 technologies – STP, RSTP, MSTP, VTP, DTP, dot1Q, Ether channel, Port security etc...• Implementation of FHRP protocols with load balancing.• Implementation of a virtual switching system, virtual switching fabric, Stack wise in the switches.• Configuration of routing protocols – Static routing, Default routing, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP, Multicast routing etc.…• IPv4 and IPv6 planning & sub netting.• Configuration of access list, route maps, Policy map in the network.• Firewall configuration with HA, Dual WAN with load balancing, Policy routing, Policy implementation and monitoring.• Configure site to site VPN and remote access VPN in the firewalls.• Plan the Wi-Fi infrastructure with heat maps.• Implement the Wi-Fi infra with controller, captive portal creation, Policy map, Role map, guest self-authentication etc.…• Good knowledge in Avaya IP Phone system – SIP Phones, Trunk port creation, Dial plan, Extn plan.• Experience in Cisco voice gateway and Cisco call manager.• Perform testing and troubleshooting of Network systems.• Troubleshoot issues with the network in order to make it run more efficiently and to avoid future problems• Project scheduling and planning for the deployment according to guidelines (Network/Engineering/Security).• Manage and co-ordinate a team that includes Design Engineers, Field Engineers, Installation teams, other project managers and management officials.• Coordinate with the field and network teams for timing, execution and closeout of individual projects.• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously in various stages of completion, lead weekly meetings with the client and project team.

Chennai Area, India

• Worked towards the achievement of the strategic and operational objectives of the group located across multiple locations in a 7x24x365 environment• Accountable for the support, installation, maintenance of Switches, routers, ZTE GPON devices (OLT & ONU) and firewall(Fortigate, ASA)• Using the Monitoring Tool of ZTE EMS, CACTI & Whatsup gold• Co-ordination with vendor team for fiber related issues.• Trouble shooting of slow browsing, Web-site not opening, frequent disconnection, No Browsing, etc., through telephonic support to customer & resolving the issue.• Security control for using the ACL with packet filtering and VPN.• New site Installation for Broadband and ISP links with using routing protocols.• Maintain and co-ordination of Incident and service management level.• Maintain the daily and monthly wise service/Incident tickets and PM activity• Provide the security support to Client with using firewall and Web sense.• Handling the IPS and IDS for security purpose to Identify the access server , Website, traffic in firewall

Coimbatore Area, India

• Backhaul network deployment for 4G project LTE.• Installation and commissioning of Cisco & Juniper routers in cell site and pop locations.• Integration of cell site routers and switches to NOC.• Configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols (IS-IS & BGP) in Cisco devices.• Configuration & Integration of Cisco ASR-903, ASR-901, ASR-920 devices & Juniper ACX 2200.• IOS upgrading of ASR-900 series.• Maintenance of ASR-9010, ASR-9912 & ASR-9922.• Maintenance of MUX devices – Tejas, Ciena.• Providing L2 level support.• IOS installation and license updating in Cisco devices

Chennai Area, India

• Network Monitoring using monitoring tool such as Solar winds, NMS, Whatsup- Gold, MRTG & Router interface maintaining the Broadband, Leased line and RF (WiMAX and PTP) customers.• Monitoring the Metro-E Access ring status, Broadband equipment's (Ericsson, Lucent Dslams, and DDSLAMS) and taking initiative to N/W performance improvement• Installation, configuring, resolving technical problems of DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexers) through PEM & Metasolv• DHCP configuration with Routing and NAT• Trouble shooting of slow browsing, Web-site not opening, frequent disconnection, NoBrowsing etc., through telephonic support to customer & resolving the issue.• Providing telephonic support to customer in case of technical related Problems and resolving it.• Installation & Configuration of WiMAX Subscriber Station (SS) using NMS.• Create the Access-list Rules and Port forwarding.• 24X7 monitoring and troubleshooting.