VAIBHAV (MANU) SAWHNEY
ACTIVE DoD TOP SECRET
(A+, Network+, Security+, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP)
NETWORK ENGINEER
Professional Qualifications:
Experienced Network Engineer with expertise in LAN, WAN, routing, and switching environment. Hands-on routing experience in a multi-protocol environment including routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP. Hands-on LAN switching experience includes configuration of VLANs, trunking with ISL as well as 802.1Q encapsulation protocols, configuring VTP server and client, layer 2 and layer 3 Etherchannels, implementing HSRP as well as VRRP on routers and Layer 3 switches. Hands-on experience with WAN technologies such as Frame Relay, point-2-point, ATM, and VPN. Hands-on experience with Cisco IOS as well as configuring standard and extended ACLs, uploading IOS using TFTP and FTP server and experience with router crash recovery as well as password recovery. Expertise in configuring routers and switches as well as limited exposure to configuring Juniper firewalls using Netscreen building VPN tunnels using IPSec and GRE. Expertise in configuring MRV Terminal servers including SNMPv3, SSH, IPtables, radius and two-factor SecureID authentication as well as expertise configuring Motorola routers including telnet setup, SSH setup, OSPF configuration, BGP filters and policies and redistribution among routing protocols, and configuring static and default routes with appropriate costs to manipulate routing. Overall 5 years experience with Cisco routers, switches, HP switches and 3 years experience with Motorola routers as well. Possess excellent oral and written communication skills. Fluent in English, Hindi and semi-fluent in Spanish.
Professional Experience:
Raytheon
Senior Network Engineer April 2012 – Present
• Assisting federal clients in upgrading, designing, implementing their network infrastructures.
• Upgrading and Creating Network diagrams using Visio.
• Creating documentation for network infrastructure.
• Helping clients configure various network devices including routers, switches, firewalls.
• Implementing OSPF, BGP, IPv6 and GRE tunnels in the customer’s network environment.
• Participating in various customer meetings and presentations.
• Deployment of configurations in the production network.
• Configuring and deploying TACLANEs for the government.
• Configuring Cisco and Juniper switches and routers.
• Configuring Juniper Firewalls as per the customer requirements.
Booz Allen Hamilton
Senior Network Consultant April 2011 – April 2012
• Assisting federal clients in upgrading, designing, implementing their network infrastructures.
• Upgrading and Creating Network diagrams using Visio.
• Creating documentation for network infrastructure.
• Helping clients configure various network devices including routers, switches, firewalls and terminal servers.
RackSpace Hosting, Inc. January 2011 – March 2011
Network Engineer 2
• Configuring Cisco Routers and switches with OSPF, BGP, VTP, Ether channels, and VLANs.
• Configuring Multilayer Switches such as 6504/6506/6509E, 4900M, 4948/4948E, 3550, 3560 and 2960/2960G series.
• Troubleshooting customers’ networks and resolving tickets in a timely and efficient manner.
• Designing and upgrading customers’ network devices.
• Testing various developed prototyped configurations for routers and switches.
• Deployment of configurations in the production network.
• Providing upgrades during maintenance window to routers and switches.
• Creating documentation procedures for various installation/upgrade processes.
• Configuring Layer 2 and Layer 3 Ether Channels on various Access layer, Distribution Layer, and Core Layer Switches.
Motorola Inc. Feb 2008 – January 2011
Senior Systems Engineer
• Configuring various networking equipment including routers, switches, terminal servers, modems and Juniper Firewalls.
• Creating router config prototypes based on the features’ requirements and executing extensive prototype testing in a lab environment.
• Configuring multicast on routers including IGMP, PIM and MOSPF protocols
• Setting up multicast streams in a lab environment for failure&recovery testing for public safety communication.
• Configuring routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP as well as configuring static routes and default routes with appropriate costs to manipulate routing over multiple paths.
• Configuring SNMPv3, NTP, DNS, SSH parameters on routers, switches and terminal servers as well as MD5 authentication on routers for OSPF protocol.
• Traveling to customer base for installation and support of networking equipment including routers, switches, firewalls, and terminal servers within the US and provide training for the new products and services.
• Troubleshooting complex network issues involving OSPF and BGP routing protocols.
• Interfacing with various external deparments for network support and resolution of network issues.
• Conducting formal technical reviews on new requirements with external teams and architects to prevent any future defects.
• Communicating with senior architects to understand new requirements for new features – creating router config prototype and testing the prototypes, implementing the prototyped configs as well as validating the final configs.
• Interfacing with various vendors including Cisco, MRV, Juniper as well as HP for hardware related issues as well as Operating System related issues. Opening trouble tickets and resolving them in a timely and efficient manner.
• Upgrading hardware equipment with the latest software, while testing for compatibility with legacy functionality.
• Manipulating parameters to prefer multiple routing paths for OSPF and BGP protocols.
• Performing packet capture via using WireShark application for troubleshooting network issues.
• Monitoring networks using various network monitoring tools including Cisco Works, Unified event manager as well as Unified Network Configurator to push and pull configuration and IOS on various networking devices remotely.
• Upgrading IOS on Cisco routers, Motorola routers, Cisco and HP Switches, and MRV Terminal servers via TFTP and/or FTP servers.
• Designing and assigning multicast groups to the Rendevous Points and troubleshooting any multicast tree issues by checking for (*,G) and (S,G) state entries in various routers along the path of the multicast tree.
• Configuring Motorola radio subscribers with the appropriate talkgroups and frequencies to be able to communicate with Base Station for audio communication.
• Testing public safety radio communication in a lab environment and testing various routing unicast and multicast states in various routers along the communication path.
United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA
Patent Examiner July 2006 – August 2007
• Examine techninal networking related patent applications & inventions.
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