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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.• Work with NOC and other support teams to troubleshoot physical and logical network layer issues. • Practical training at the VA’s data center in Austin (TX) on new hardware to be installed at each VA facility across the country.

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. • Troubleshot network connectivity and repaired by working with the service provider (ISP).

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. • Troubleshot network connectivity and repaired by working with the service provider (ISP).• IPV6 Routing configuration and Tunnel setup: Manual, GRE/IPV4, automatic 6to4 tunnel .• Layer 3 Fault Tolerance and load balancing configuration using HSRP, GBLP, VRRP.• Monitored network devices and traffic via Solarwindinds for better performance.• Patched,configured and troubleshot user LAN ports.• Performed IP addresses management and subnet allocation for each BLS division group .

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 based on alerts and severity levels.• 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. • Created new RMA requests through vendors for both replacement devices, as well as obtaining technical assistance when troubleshooting devices.• Performed queue management for alarms, tasks, incidents and participated in ongoing deployment projects .• Troubleshot and repaired local and long haul circuits, working with both internal resources and third party vendors to isolate and resolve cabling issues.• Configured and activated patched and unpatched ports, meeting all Service Level Agreements in place. By means of strong working knowledge of layer 2 and 3 technology (VLAN; trunking 802.1q; Bundle Ethernet, EtherChannel, FastEtherchannel).• Created, reviewed and updated ServiceNow tickets according to established Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). • Monitored and triaged emails sent to NOC and respond in a timely manner. • Mentored other junior NOC engineers to the processes, procedures, and Technologies that are in use.

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 ● Cisco ASA 5510 Firewall set up (VPN, DMZ, NAT, PAT, IPS, IDS) ● Monitoring network traffic and performance and End- to- End connectivity: Cisco Netflow, Wireshark , Kiwi syslog, Tftpd ● 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 ● Handle the tasks of upgrading router IOS and performed necessary backups ● working directly with the Director of operation to assist in planning, developing network procedures, quality and compliance of network related services within the organization

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