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I am Senior Solutions Engineer with F5 covering Global SI's. Working on GSI enablement on new technologies and F5 Portfolio solutions. Ensuring maximum RFP globally has F5 participation with these GSI's. Solution designing and architecture discussions to enhance GSI's value add services to customers. Meetings and presentations with CXO's of multiple industries and organizations to build new markets for F5 solutions across the Globe.

-Enabling partners and team members and executing awareness programs to ensure partner takes the best of the breed technology to the market.-Working with new partner offerings on solution architecture and design.-Direct interaction with various stake holders in large Telco, Enterprise and Central as well as State Government Accounts across country for positioning F5 Solutions.-Proof of Concept (POC) or Product Demonstration (On-Site/Remote)-Troubleshooting of POC or Existing Customers Issues-Conducting Webinars and technology presentation for partners to enable sales-Working for RFC (Tender) Compliance-Partner and customer training-Working with partners to create technical and marketing case studies with reference customers in various verticals.-Partner engagement.-Handling large deployments directly-Working on advanced technologies like TCP Optimization, SDN/NFV, Cloud , Public and Private as well as Automation-Working for India as well as Global Customers across different verticals, like Banking and Finance, Education , Energy etc.-Worked on solution's for clients like Telstra (Melbourne), Asian Development Bank (Philippines), Grameen Phone (Dhaka), Telenor (Malaysia) Telenor (Thailand), Singapore, Endeavor Energy (Sydney)-Conducting Webinars and technology presentation for partners to enable sales

Had been part of various activities associated with technical knowledge sharing, as a part of this has been the approve for Netscaler troubleshooting, the book can be found at:https://www.packtpub.com/networking-and-servers/troubleshooting-netscaler

Worked in the cloud team on network and security products like f5, LTM, ASM, Cisco ASA and Nexus 7k, 9k, 5k, 2k, upgrades, setting up applications for new customers on cloud hosting environment of Oracle. Provisioning virtualization as per application requirement. Planning , implementation and design of the solutions for applications virtualization and high up-time.- Training partner engineers and enable them to conduct Product Training. Working with partners to create technical and marketing case studies with reference customers in various verticals. Automating Migrations for customers from on prem to Oracle cloud with minimum downtime

-Build and configure security infrastructure-Providing Root Cause Analysis for various outages and service failures-Install all new hardware, systems, and software for networks-Single point of escalation for load balancers, firewall and DDOS issues in the network.-Managing a team of 8 engineers on L2 and L1 for complete network operations.-Build, configure & manage core, distribution and access network layers in accordance to Design specifications.-Providing HLDD and LLDD for new implementations for various projects-Handling large deployments directly-Internal Training to the team on new technologies-Cloud and Automation deployments using SDN etc to optimize the capex and opex and minimize downtime

Working on security, Big IP f5, Firepass, Application Security Module. Subject Matter Expert on F5, designing for new Data Centers, Platform Lifecycle Management, Application delivery Engineering,GTM/DNS, SSL Offload, Irules,high availability, load balancing,content switching.Responsible for Cisco Switching and Routing on Cisco Nexus and Cisco ASA Firewalls as well as Checkpoint, network deployment and implementation and collaborated with different platform teams, project planning, migrations, operational improvements and escalated issues root cause analysis and support.Deliver product presentations and demonstrations tailored to customers' requirements towards Data Center and Network Security and tuned to suit level and nature of audience. Lead meetings with prospective customers to explain Datacenter mitigation in the cloud and on premise and its relevance to business problems.Leading the team of Network Engineers (Load Balancer, Security) from India office. Implementing new load balancers. Helping Clients identify which firewall, Loadbalancer would be suitable to match their need and Bringing up difference in features and operability of multi-vendor solution.Develop a strong working relationship with the customer's technical staff and demonstrate deep technical knowledge and subject matter expertise and develop migration strategy.Explaining the Network Virtualization as aspects to clients, including Load balancers for application delivery, network firewalls, web application firewalls and Cisco Nexus 2k, 5k, 7k.Datacenter comprised of Juniper Netscreen, Cisco ASA, BIG IP F5 LTM and GTM, Citrix Netscaler , Radware Alteon , Bluecoat Proxy , Silver Peak, Cisco WLC, Checkpoint , Nexos.Own the technical relationship with customers, partners and resellers through technical training, problem escalation and new feature requests, working closely with Account Managers and Service Delivery Managers.Provide prompt feedback to aid engineering team on future direct.

Was responsible for working on Datacenter and Cloud environment, implementation. Worked on advanced technologies like Citrix Load balancer, and Juniper firewalls as well as Nexus. Also worked closely with Sales team and Accounts managers to assist in presales and post sales support. Demonstrating presentation and doing Proof of concept for the clients using innovative technologies to achieve high up time with low cost.Provide technical and consultative leadership for technical solutions opportunities on a wide range of complex IT consulting engagements leveraging hands on experience on the technology.Expertise in analyzing information system needs, evaluating Environment and Infrastructure requirements, custom designing solutions, based on and related to Client Business.Lead complete lifecycle, including analysis, design, configuring and testing for information Develop solution implementation documentation for various internal groups such as Sales, Support, Deployment, and Operation. Project Management skills - project planning, time & quality management, documentation .This responsibility includes creating and communicating a services vision for the customer, proactively seeking new services opportunities for the customer, actively seeking and proposing solutions to customer business problems.Designing, architecture, implementing, and integrating Application Delivery solutions.Ensuring faster accessibility and high uptime of websites using BIG IP F5, Citrix Netscaler VPX, SDX, MPX and Radware Alteon.Preparing Standard of Procedure (SOP) Documents for lifecycle management, upgrades, device configurations and high availability so as to be used for junior levels.Coordinating and Doing POC on f5, Citrix Netscaler and defining safe harbor codes.Maintain a strong market awareness and knowledge of competitive technologies.Installation and Checkpoint deployments at corporate offices and migration from ASA.Designing New Sites and getting BOM from vendors and ISP.

Project : Cisco TACPre- Sales:Met with channels/customers to understand their current technical environment, key business issues/drivers, and future technology requirements. Worked closely with customers on the technical requirements to provide technical solutions – Identified requirements, including technical details sufficient for product definition. Developed/managed strong relationships with strategic clients and partners. Assisted/worked with the sales team to develop the selling strategy within the target accounts Created and delivered effective presentations and sales tools for the sales team. Architecture/designed some of the most complex solutions using the latest technology in [the field]Provided product updates and technical advice to clients – Explained technical capabilities and business benefits of solutions to the customer from engineering level to senior executivesPerformed competitive analyses.Post Sales Technical SupportBridging and switching concepts, LAN technologies such as Ethernet-CSMA/CDVLANS and Trunking, Tagging - IEEE 802.1q, 802.3adGood understanding of Cisco 6500/4500 Architecture and the modules and VSS.QOS: Configuration as well as tweaking the bandwidth of the queues on all platforms, low latency queuing on routers and configuring and troubleshooting qos on switches/asa. High CPU, memory issues, Latency issues, unicast flooding, broadcast storm and configuring as well as troubleshooting various modules in routers and extensive knowledge of 6500 and different modules supported on it as well as their buffers and over subscription and server farm connectivity issues leading to input/output drops on physical interfaces or logical interface. Redundancy of Supervisors.

Providing technical support for Dell Desktop’s, peripherals and resolving queries/issues related Hardware or Software (Operating System errors, software compatibility, and software errors). Network support for wireless and Lan networkRegularly reviewing the cases/Backlog of engineers to ensure that the progress is on trackEnsure timely resolution of the problems reported, understand the environment/network and impact on business Plan short and long term goals for the team and come up with actions plans to meet the desired goalsPerformance Management and Resource management – capability planningWorked for different clients IT setup, including from desktop, servers and Network. After initial Setup providing technical support remotely as well as on site.Taking ownership and analyzing to find process improvement opportunities so as to run new setups in a much better and efficient manner.Configuring Laptop and Desktop in standard configurationProcess base application installation, configuration and troubleshootingInstallation, configuration and troubleshooting based on Windows XPInstallation, configuration and troubleshooting of local and network printersTo maintain, configure and troubleshoot mail client (Microsoft Outlook 2000/2003).Installing, configuring, managing and troubleshooting Antivirus software like McAfee.Dealing in to hardware troubleshooting of desktopsAdvance troubleshooting for IE based applications