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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.

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.

-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.

• 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.
• 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.

• 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.
• 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.