Asha M. Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

-Worked with Cisco ASA 5500-X with Firepower services, Firepower 4100 and Palo-alto Next-Gen PA-5000 Firewalls implementing and managing NAT, IPsec, site-to-site and remote VPNs, advanced inspection, anti-spoofing, and AAA policies. -Experience on Palo Alto 5000 series .-Participated in the installation, configuration, and post installation routine operational tasks and configuration of the Cisco Nexus Switches .-Managed network security by working on NAT/PAT, ACL, and ASA Firewalls.-Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3060 firewalls to protect Data Center and provided L3 support for routers/switches/firewalls and Site-to-Site VPNs, 3DES, AES/AES-256.-Migration of existing IPSEC VPN tunnels from pre-Shared key to Certificate Authority for purpose of scaling and also worked with MP-BGP and MPLS LDP protocols

Houston, Texas, United States

-Played a principle role in configuring and implementing composite Network models consisting of Cisco 7300, 4000, 3800, ASR 9000 series routers and Cisco catalyst 3850, 3560, 4500, 6500 series switches.-Designed and Implemented plan for migration from existing Catalyst switches to Nexus and configured NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles, Nexus VPC peer links on Nexus 5k and 7k.-Worked on Cisco ACE to F5 migration in DMZ and Internal. Migrated over 500 applications externally and internally. Worked on LTM, GTM and APM on BIGIP and VIPRION Chassis.-Implemented and upgraded Networks using OSPF and BGP based routing protocols and prepared flow charts and utilization monitoring reports. -Design, configure, and manage Fortigate firewalls to ensure secure traffic flow between different network segments.-Designed integrated 10 gigabit networks using Cisco Nexus 7k series switches and Cisco 6500, 3800 series routers improving performance of existing network .

-Worked, managed, and maintained LAN networks, VLANs and database, Port Security on Nortel 5510, 5520; Cisco Catalyst 3850, 4500 and 6500 switches and implemented VDC, VPC, and OTV on Nexus 5k and 7k switches.-Responsible for deployment, Integration and Troubleshoot Cisco Core Routers (ASR-9922,9912,9010,1006,1004,1002,903, 920_i, 920_0 & 901) and Juniper MX series routers.-Worked on Multi center environment with BGP and OSPF mesh, Extranet connectivity, IPsec Tunnels.-Contributed in implementation and configuration of F5 BIG-IP LTM-6400 load balancers, redistribution into OSPF on the core ASA firewall.-Made security policies in F5 Application Security Manager (ASM) and made iRules in Local traffic manager.-Configured IP addressing scheme and coordinated with LAN/WAN engineers to develop and implement various security policies .-Worked with Juniper SRX550 and Palo-alto Next-Gen PA-5000 Firewalls implementing and managing NAT, IPsec, site-to-site and remote VPNs, advanced inspection, anti-spoofing, and AAA policies.

Security infrastructure engineering and worked on various platforms such as Microsoft Windows, UNIX, Juniper firewalls, Palo Alto firewalls, Bluecoat Proxies, Juniper Intrusion Prevention devices, and wireless switch security management to maintain the network infrastructure.• Administered and evaluated firewall access control requests to ensure that requests are compliant with client's security standards and policies.• Successfully installed Palo Alto PA-3060 firewall and configured and provided troubleshooting using CLI and worked with Panorama management tool to manage all Palo Alto firewall and network from central location.• Implemented Zone-Based Firewalls and Security Rules on the Palo Alto Firewalls and administered the same allowing and denying specific traffic and to monitor user usage for malicious activity and future QoS standards.• Created and analyzed reports on firewall logs and made required changes.• Maintained Checkpoint security policies including NAT, VPN, and Secure Remote access, Configured IPSEC VPN (Site-Site to Remote Access) on SRX series firewalls.• Assisted with migration of applications/VMs into cloud environments GCP Setting up Palo Alto firewalls as Cloud exchange firewalls between on-prem and cloud environments which include AWS, Azure and GCP.• Participated in Configuration of Palo Alto Next-Generation Firewall to create security profiles and VSYS based on client topologies and Palo Alto Networks 5050 application firewalls (NGFW).• Consulted in Palo Alto design and installation for Application, URL filtering, Threat Prevention and Data Filtering.• Maintained and updated Active Directory database for authentication and deployment purposes.• Participated in deployment of data center LAN and worked Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k switches.• Involved in migration projects, which involved replacing legacy devices to new Nexus devices and introduced VPCs in the new architecture.

Provided support to Cisco network consisting of a high speed, high availability core over five campuses with more than 2000 cisco devices by performing onsite installations, technical administration, upgrades, and troubleshooting.• Provided support for complex layer 2, layer 3 issues and other services (STP, VLAN, IPsec, VPN, NAT, MPLS, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF)• Participated in L2/L3 Switching Technology Administration, creating and managing VLANs, Port security, Trunking, STP, Inter-Vlan routing, LAN security and server management.• Worked on RADIUS, TACACS+ authentication servers and DNS, DHCP servers.• Modified internal infrastructure by adding switches to support server farms and added servers to existing DMZ environments to support new and existing application platforms.• Monitored network for optimum traffic distribution and load balancing using Solar winds.• Completed service requests on IP readdressing, bandwidth upgrades, IOS/platform upgrades.• Worked on cisco routers series 7200, 6500, 4500, 1700, 2600 and 3500 series to perform bridging, switching, routing, Ethernet, NAT, and DHCP, customer LAN /WAN support.• Worked extensively on Cisco ASA 5500 (5510/5540) Series• Configuring static NAT, dynamic NAT, inside Global Address Overloading, TCP overload distribution, Overlapping Address Translation• Experience working with Active Directory (as a centralized system) to automate network security management and user data.• Worked with Aruba Access point as a Public Wi-Fi and successfully implemented Wireless Access Point (WAP).• Experienced in working with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Trunking for voice over IP (VoIP) to facilitate the connection of a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) to the Internet.• Experience in Server building both physical & virtual, troubleshooting, capacity planning, application monitoring, patch management, password, and security management.