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Old Bridge Township, NJ, US

Purchase, NY, US

Purchase, NY, US

New York, NY, US

• As a principal Network Engineer in Architecture team, responsible for the following:
• Serve as technical expert in the research, design, development, and enterprise-wide integration and implementation of new and emerging technologies.
• Responsible for designs and supports inter-network solutions including the physical and logical configuration documentation and has an advanced understanding of the entire network topology and architecture.
• Responsible to work with other Storage, Compute and Security team to define and support Architectural standards and documentations.
• Responsible to lead relationships with other IT staff and vendor representatives on strategic projects, installations, moves, changes, troubleshooting, documentation and servicing for intricate network issues
• Worked closely with network engineering team to ensure fast, smooth roll-out of new designs and products.

New York, NY, US

• As a member of data design engineering team, responsible for the following:
• Lead the data center redesign project to enable the software defined capabilities of the data center infrastructure using Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure.
• Responsible for up to 700 branch refreshes to enable Software defined WAN capabilities using Cisco’s SD-WAN solution.
• Responsible for designing defense in depth architecture to provide layered security architecture to secure Bank’s assets based on their criticality matrix.
• Assisted MPLS/Segment routing teams in data center migration from old core to new core and also branch migrations from 3rd party MPLS to bank owned colocations wherever available.
• Worked in multivendor environment where data center is consisted of Cisco as well as Arista data center grade switches.

San Jose, CA, US

• As a member of Cloud and Network Services team focused on the following:
• Lead the design and implementation of end to end data center network architectures for large scale enterprise and service provider accounts.
• Well versed in the design and deployment of Cisco ACI solution.
• Evaluated customer data center network requirements.
• Assisted customers in planning, designing and migrating from legacy technologies to Cisco Software Defined Networks (SDN) Data Centers utilizing ACI technology.
• Executed Proof-of-Concept (POC) labs for customers.

• Responsibilities:
• Designed and Configured Nexus 7000/6000/2000 in Top of Rack & End of Row Architecture for a Scalable Production Network that supports Rack & Blade server architecture in a Multi-Tenancy environment using vPC, VDC & VRF.
• Designed and Implemented Cisco UCS pods in Nexus 7000 Platform
• Configured UCS Fabric Interconnects 6296UP
• Extensive knowledge and experience in vPC, ether channel and HSRP also VRRP protocols.
• Configure UCS Manager by defining Service Profile Template,Policies & Pools for Production Servers and DR Servers

• Responsibilities:
• Design and Implementation of Disaster Recovery Co-location consisting of Nexus 7K switches, ASR 1002, Cisco ASA Firewalls, Cisco 3925 routers etc. Successfully implemented OTV for VLAN Extension.
• Design and implementation of Main Data Center Move project from one location to another location with minimal down time using traditional DCI with vPC and In-box configurations with same HSRP group for redundancy on.
• Experienced in installation, configuration and maintenance of Cisco Nexus 7000, 5000 switches in standalone as well as in V-BLOCK infrastructure
• Extensive knowledge and experience in vPC, ether channel and HSRP also VRRP protocols.
• Experienced in Cisco ASR 1000, 7200, 2700, 2900, 3900, 1800 Routers,, Cisco Catalyst 4500, 2900, 3700 Switches.

Maadi, Cairo, EG

• Assisted in troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network.
• Studied and analyzed client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration, administration, and security.
• Involved in the troubleshooting of call center functions MACD, UCCX.
• Implementation of MP-BGP on various Cisco routing platforms
• Design and Implementation of L2 domain on cisco catalyst series switching platforms
• Configuration of L2 VPN for site using vpi, vci

• Configured Cisco Routers for OSPF, IGRP, RIPv2, EIGRP, Static and default route.
• Worked on HSRP for hop redundancy and load balancing.
• Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATing Configured RSTP, MST and used VTP with 802.1q trunk encapsulation.
• Provided port binding, port security and router redundancy through HSRP.
• Designed ACLs, VLANs, troubleshooting IP addressing issues and taking back up of the configurations on switches and routers.
• Provided testing for network connectivity before and after install/upgrade