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Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

• Worked as Designer and Implementor for various Clients on different Migration projects• Migrated Checkpoint firewall into FortiGate firewall in PROD, NON-PROD & DR environment.• Migrated ASA firewalls with multiple contexts into FortiGate firewalls• Replaced 5K Nexus switch with 9K Switches in Data Center environment and updated Visio Diagrams.• Completed various decommissioned activities for various devices.• Implemented various complex task in firewall, shared routers, and switches.• Designed and Implemented site-to site IPSEC VPN in Cisco ASA firewall using CSM.• Implemented changes on different firewalls such as Cisco ASA, Check Point, Forti gate and Palo Alto.

Scarborough, On

• To Provide 24*7 Network L2 support of Scotiabank's Global Network Which Includes Countries such as Canada,Caribbean countries, LATAM Countries, USA, Australia, India, Hong Kong, China• To perform troubleshooting, replacement, installation, upgradation and configuration of devices such asfirewall, switch, router, Load balancer• Participate in different production impacting calls and troubleshoot network connectivity issue.• Troubleshoot OSPF and BGP• Troubleshoot connectivity issues using Wireshark Packet Capture.• Troubleshoot, upgrade and replaced Cisco Nexus switches in Data Center environment.• To perform troubleshooting and configure Cisco Access points, Cisco prime, WLC• Implemented access control list on Fortinet, Cisco ASA, Firepower and Juniper firewalls• Experienced with tools such as What's up Gold, Cisco Prime, Solarwind, Appneta(Pathview), Servicenow, Statseeker,Infoblox, Cisco WAAS, Splunk, Qradar, River bed

Scarborough, Toronto

-To Provide 24*7 Network support of Scotiabank's Global Network which Includes Country such as Canada, Caribbean countries, LATAM Countries, USA, Australia, India, Hongkong, China-To perform troubleshooting on switches, routers, Load balancers, Firewalls-Implemented access control list on fortinet, Cisco ASA and Juniper firewalls.-Implemented DNS changes in infoblox-To Investigate DNS issues using Infoblox-To perform troubleshooting of Cisco Aceess point-Worked on Cisco prime, Wireless controller-To perform replacement, installation and configuration of devices such as firewall, switch , router, access point-Experienced with tools such as What's up Gold, Cisco Prime, Solarwind, Appneta(Pathview), Servicenow, Statseeker, Infoblox,

Fredericton,Nb

• Responsible for troubleshooting internet connection issues on Fixed Wireless and Satellite platforms• Examine and analyse the connection statistics using specific platform monitoring tools.• Complete remote configuration on the equipment at site to ensure connectivity.• Coordinate with Network Operations to resolve specific connection issues.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Configured and troubleshoot various networks with the routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.• Implemented various layer 2 switching protocols including Frame Relay, PPP and HDLC.• Configured different VPN technologies such as MPLS VPN, IPSEC, and GRE Tunneling.• Installed and configured WLAN Controller (software release 7.x), Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Wireless Access Points (Software release 12.4J(x)) and also implemented Wireless Mobility and advanced features.• Configured and provided support for CUCM 8.6, CUCME 8.6 and CUCME-SRST.• Implemented security policies using IP Access Lists, and configured firewall, DMZ, IPSEC, and IPSEC-IKE.

Halifax, Canada Area

• Designed and configured a small office VoIP solution using both analog phones and a PSTN backup with FXS and FXO voice ports• Configured and provided support of CUCM 8.6, CUCME 8.6 and CUCME-SRST for voice and video calling.• Guided students with the configuration of G.SHDSL on DSL modems and DSL Access Multiplexer.• Explained concept of frame relay network, Inter VLAN routing, STP, RSTP, IP subnetting and helped students with configuration & troubleshooting.• Guided student to trace packet using Wireshark and TCP dump and in analyzing outputs • Assisted instructors by configuring and troubleshooting of various network topologies to design labs.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

• Responsible for processing transactions, familiarizing customer with the company products and answering service related questions.• Provided quality customers service using effective communication Skill.• Resolved the service problem complained by the customers, determined the reasons to cause a problem, addressing a proper solution and prepared the service reports by gathering the customer information.• Regularly updated company’s files and documents.• Answered customer service desk phone calls and solved queries.

Master Of Internetworking Engineering

Computer Networks, Network design, Network Architecture, TCP/IP Protocol suite, Network Security

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, Cgpa=7.32

Programming Language, Computer Networks