Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Experienced Senior Network Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the Data Center Networking industry. As a Network Consultant I help United Health Group / Optum Enterprise to build and review project deliverables: Understand Solution Requirement, Plan, Design recommendations, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Migration Planning and Implementation/ Change Management Plans. Skilled in Cisco's Data Center and Virtualization Technologies: * Networking - Cisco Nexus, Catalyst Switching and Cisco ACI, Arista, Gigamon Data Aggregation * Protocols - EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VPN, HSRP, VLAN * Compute - UCS, Virtualization - VMware vSphere, DellEMC Vblock Systems * Storage Solutions - SAN(Fibre Channel/FCoE/iSCSI), HCI (Hyperflex) * Networking Tools - Microfocus NNMi, Cacti, Arista CVP, Splunk, WireShark * Other Products - Raritan DSX2, Raritan PowerIQ, Raritan Command Center * Management Skills - Project Management, Rally, ServiceNow ITSM, Internal Training Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor's degree focused on IT Infrastructure Management from Kuvempu University Shivamoga
Data Center Network Engineering Service Level Owner for Data Center Out Of Band Network Operations L3 Infrastructure Support Data Aggregation Management • As Service Level Owner Plan and Execute PLM, Maintain Software Hygiene, Work with Vendors on Hardware Replacement and Network Redesign Planning • Work on Documentation, Code Standards and Network Design • Provide SOP / MOP to Network Operations for various Implementation and Operations procedures • Associate with customers along with appropriate internal and external resources deployment/optimization of Cisco services and solutions. • Builds and reviews project work e.g. Understand Solution requirement, Plan, Design recommendations, High-Level Design, Low-Level Design, Implementation/ Change Management Plans. • Takes ownership of task/project implementation for assigned engagements. • Implement new techniques and methodologies utilized in customer delivery and share lessons learned with the broader team. • Builds and/or use test environments as the need arises to resolve sophisticated problems & compatibility issues. • Demonstrates software skills and tools to configure, deploy Cisco products and solutions. • Assures accurate and quick resolution of major customer problems across an appropriate range of technologies Accomplishments: • Catalyst 6500 to Nexus 9k Migration – Migrated over 5000+ servers from legacy Catalyst to new Nexus 93180 platform and decommissioned over 50 Catalyst 6500 switches • Core Network Routing Planning for VM migration from Legacy Cisco UCS to VMware NSX-T based on Cisco ACI as underlay platform • Automation Initiatives – SPAN session clean up, Cisco ACI Monitoring, Configuration Difference Remediation, Jumbo MTU updates • Hardware and Software upgrades to Nexus 9500 Chassis (Fabric Module) to support 100G bandwidth from Core to Spine • Plan Routing changes and implement Firewall Migration from Leaf to Core
Customer Support for various VCE Vblock products. Responsible to handle issues with Cisco UCS, VMware and Networking technologies. As a Business critical support engineer, leading a team to deliver the support for vBlock platform to worldwide customers across 1000+ vBlock system. Being a part of VCE, my responsibilities are to provide the support on Network / Compute devices which are being used in various vBlock . Help customer troubleshoot hardware issues, performance issues, and configuration issues over UCS, Network and SAN Zoning Products: -Cisco UCS Blade Servers (B200, B230 etc) and C series Servers (C200, C230, C22 etc) -VMware vSphere 6.1 Suite -Cisco Nexus 5000, 2000 series -SAN switches MDS and Nexus
Client: Cisco Systems Pvt Ltd Working as a Data Center Lab Administrator Technology: Data Center Virtualization Products: -Cisco UCS Blade Servers (B200, B230 etc) and C series Servers (C200, C230, C22 etc) -VMware vSphere 5.1 Suite -Cisco Switches(2900,3750,Cat6k series,etc) and Routers (2800, 2800, 3900 etc) -Cisco Nexus 5000 series -SAN switches MDS and Nexus -Cisco Invicta Scaling Systems and Appliance storage product. -Cisco ASA Firewall Accomplishments: - Upgraded VMware Esxi from 5.0 to 5.1 including Supported Cisco UCS Blade Firmware upgradation (88 Blade Server) - Configured Cisco Invicta Scaling System Storage and added additional 6TB Node - Planned and Implemented Core level redundancy at Datacenter using Catalyst 6504 Switches with help of EIGRP and BGP protocols - Configured Performance Lab setup with Cisco UCS Blade (32) and C-server (22) with Nexus 5k and UCS Invicta Storage - Storage Migration from EMC CX-240 to Cisco Invicta Storage - Planned and Implemented Network for Cisco IOT Product Display Event
Responsible for provisioning, installation/configuration, operation, and maintenance of systems hardware and Software such as RHEL and Windows operating system, Apache Tomcat server and ERP software. Also responsible to configure services such as HTTPD, DHCPD, DNS and Mail servers as per the client requirement.