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North Carolina, United States

• Travel across the country to Install and configure new network hardware at each VA’s sites across the US.
• Decommissioned legacy switches and routers and upgraded them with 9300, 9400, 9500, 9606 cisco switches at each VA’s sites.
• Tested and validated all fiber optic connections between buildings at each VA’s site.
• Develops and maintains network documentation for each VA’s site.
• Collaborates with others team member for network refresh, active maintenance and future growth.
• Monitors network performance and new network hardware installed at each VA’s sites.

Columbia, Maryland

• Assisting the WAN Team at US house of representative
• Configure and monitor Vpn router for each district office across the US.
• Ipsec vpn troubleshooting.
• Work with ISP to order and terminate internet circuits.
• Monitor the ticketing system for any trouble ticket in the data center ticket queue.
• Escalated issues to service provider and other groups or vendors by following established SOPs.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Washington DC Feb 2017– Present Tier 2 - Network/Data center Engineer Duties:
• Planned, designed and implemented network devices upgrade and configuration changes.
• Upgraded switches/routers IOS software and troubleshot network routing and switching issues (OSPF,EIGRP,BGP,ACL, VLAN,NAT,DMVPN,vPC VRF,Wifi...).
• Rack mounted networking devices in the data center and LAN closets.
• Monitor the ticketing system for any trouble ticket in the data center ticket queue.
• Escalated issues to service provider and other groups or vendors by following established SOPs.

United States

• Planned, designed and implemented network upgrade and changes by following the established standard Change management procedures.
• Managed project to refresh nine switches with new POE modules and connect them to the PE router.
• Upgraded switches/routers IOS software and troubleshot network routing and switching issues (RIP,OSPF,EIGRP,BGP,ACL, VLAN,NAT,DMVPN,vPC VRF,Wifi...).
• Monitored NIH network (100 GigE backbone) and other government agencies (FDA, CMS,CDC,IHS,OIG) Internet Access. via Monolith and other network management tools (keynote,Xmatter, Splunk...) and take appropriate action.
• Assisted data Center team in configuring, troubleshooting and maintaining data center switches and fabric extender.
• Escalated issues to Managers and Tier 3 Engineers and other groups or vendors by following established SOPs.

Dumfries VA

• Cisco Switches and Routers configuration (Routing, ACL,STP,VTP, NAT, VLAN, VPN, SPAN) in LAN/WAN environment
• Handle the task of managing switches and routers interfaces parameters (speed, duplex, bandwidth settings) to Increase network performance
• Monitor ticketing system (Remedy) for new trouble ticket
• IPV6 Routing and Tunnel setup: Manual, GRE/IPV4, automatic 6to4 tunnel
• Layer 3 Fault Tolerance and load balancing configuration using HSRP, GBLP, VRRP
• Layer 2 and 3 basic security configurations: AAA, NAS, SPAN, NTP, VACL, CBAC,DHCP Snooping

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Planning, Installation and configuration of network equipment (switch, router, Firewall, server)
• Cisco switch, router and firewall configuration and Network traffic monitoring (Orion of Solarwinds)
• Configuring and monitoring Servers,(Active directory, DHCP, DNS, VPN) in Windows 2003 and 2008 Server
• Troubleshooting Network issues (Routing, switching, Frame relay, Point to point,HDLC )
• Responsible for maintaining current documentation on LAN/WAN configuration, point-to-point circuit, HDLC and Frame Relay, and detailed time based incident logs and technical checklist

Computer and Networking

Network Admin, Information Technology / Engineering, Network Administrator / Engineer

Activities and Societies: Network Design,implementation,Troubleshoot ,Security Network monitoring

Information Technology And Management Technician, Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Information technology , Computer database administration