Mirza Furkhan Baig

Professional Summary:

Network Engineer with 7 years of experience in the industry, which includes expertise in the areas of Routing
and Switching.
Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic
routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP ability to interpret and resolve complex route table
problems.
Implementation traffic filters on Cisco routes using Standard and extended Access list.
Expert Level Knowledge about TCP/IP and OSI models.
In-depth expertise in the analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN/WAN
architecture and good experience on IP services.
In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on IP Addressing, Sub netting, VLSM and ARP, reverse &
proxy ARP, Ping Concepts, Firewalls.
Knowledge of implementing and troubleshooting complex layer 2 technologies such as VLAN Trunks, STP,
and RSTP.
Experience in configuring HSRP and redistribution between routing protocols &troubleshooting them.
Managing Netscaler 10.1 VPX; creating and managing VPN groups for users.
Technical Knowledge on Cisco ASA 5500 series Routers and Cisco Call Manager.
Knowledge on Cisco Nexus 5k and 7k Switches.
Implementation of HSRP, VRRP and GLBP for Default Gateway Redundancy.
Hands on experience with F5 Load balancer and DNS.
Excellent communication skills to interact with team members and support personnel and also can act as a
mentor to less experienced personnel.
Technical understanding of wireless standards.
Implemented traffic filters using Standard and Extended access-lists, Distribute-Lists, Prefix-List and
Route Maps.
Implementation of DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP.
Knowledge of Virtualization and VMware ESX 4.x and 5.0
Implementation, configuration and support of Checkpoint and ASA firewalls for clients.

Technical Skills
Routers

1800, 2500, 2600, 2800, 3600, 3800, 4600, 6300

Cisco Switches

2900, 3500, 4000, 4500, 5000, 6500, Nexus 5k&7k

LAN Technologies
WAN Technologies
Network Security
OS products/Services
Routing Protocols

VLAN, VTP, Inter-vlan routing, ISL, dot1q, STP, RSTP, PVST, HSRP, GLBP.
Frame Relay, X.25, E1/T1/DS1/DS3, PPP ,MPLS
Cisco ASA, VPN, IPSec, Check Point Firewalls
DNS, DHCP, Windows (2000/2003/2008, XP), UNIX, LINUX.
(BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP), Routed Protocol TCP/IP.

Management tools
Documentation

SNMP, Syslog, Sniffer, and Wire shark, HP Service Center 6.8 , Solarwinds
Microsoft Office, Visio, NetViz, NetBrains, Blue Diamond IPAM

Network
Management Tools

Wireshark, Netflow Analyzer, Cisco Works, Ethereal, SNMP, HP open view.

Load Balancers
Operating Systems
Firewall & Security

Cisco CSM, F5 Networks (BIG-IP), Citrix Netscaler

Cisco IOS, Cat-OS, Nexus-OS
Checkpoint (R62, R65) Cisco ASA

Professional Experience
Client: T-Mobile, Sacramento, CA
Network Engineer

Jan 2015 Till Date

Responsibilities:
Managed wireless access points across various business sites using centralized solutions including WCS
5500 and 4400.
Responsible for entire company network infrastructure that includes Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls,
Access Points, Servers.
Build and Maintain network information using NetViz/NetBrains and IPAM (Blue Daimond).
Modify and implement ACL changes on store routers and assist the user when there are any issues using
Network Authority. Authentication to this is also done through TACACS
Worked with deploying and troubleshooting a complete VPN solution on with cisco Anyconnect and
integrating it into production.
Worked as a part of the team responsible for configuration and monitoring of Citrix Netscaler (MPX & VPX)
Implemented Netscaler 9110 Appliance for Secure Access Gateway.
Implemented Dual Netscaler 9110 Appliances for Server Load balance and Global Server Load Balance
between dual sites.
Provided support and troubleshooting for Layer2/Layer3 issues.
Responsible for implementing Change tasks on DNS and F5 Load balancer.
Performed day to day operations and support on F5 Load balancers.
Adding and removing pools, members and nodes on F5 Load balancers.
Create and implement change requests as per the requirements
Worked on switch related tasks including VLAN, VTP, STP, Inter VLAN Routing, Switch ports( Access and
Trunks), Gigabit Ethernet and Ether channels.
Performed network security evaluations and recommendations.
Migration of routers/Switches from telnet to SSH and created secure access using ACS.
Configure Site to Site VPN between various locations.
Configuring and implementing WAN acceleration tools like Riverbed Steelheads.
Created and modified Access Lists and extended Access List for filtering traffic.
Implemented a backup network on MPLS for critical users during fail over of primary Gigamanlink.
Configured the Cisco router as IP Firewall and for NATting.
Also involved in configuration of ISR and Catalyst switches and Fabric Interconnect
Implemented prefix-list for filtering route advertisements in OSPF and BGP.
Tested and verified equipment for safe operation for production release.
Monitoring, clearing and maintaining up to date information for tickets generated on NPM tools like
Solarwinds.
Designed and installed new Branch network Systems.
Performed commissioning/decommissioning and upgrades on MPLS Circuit across locations globally.
Creation and maintenance of service requests and trouble tickets with vendors like Centurylink etc.
Provide support for incident tickets and determine point of failure and resolve remotely.
Resolved high, medium and low priority tickets in timely manner by utilizing incident management tools like
GWI.
Sprint, Milwaukee, WI
Network Engineer

Jan 2012 Dec 2014

Responsibilities:
Involved in building network topology according to client requirement and verification of network topology.
Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco 3900 and 2900
series routers and Cisco 3750 , 4500 and 6500 Series switches.
Also involved in configuration of ASR 1K and 7K. e.g. ASR 1002, ASR 1006.

Also worked as team member of Network Security. Where helped team members to in designing,
configuration and implementation of different Network Security devices.
Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF and BGP.
Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using
Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF). Implemented various OSPF scenarios on networks
consisting of 7600 routers.
Also involved in Configuration of Nexus 7010 including NX-OS Virtual Port Channels, Nexus port profiles,
Nexus Version 4.2 and 5.0, Nexus VPC peer links.
Worked with Cisco CRS-1/CRS-3 and GSR, Juniper platforms.
Upgraded IOS on various Cisco Routers like 3945 and 2911 as well as switches like 3750, 4500 and 6500.
Work on different networking concepts and routing protocols like OSPF and other LAN/WAN technologies.
In-depth expertise in the implementation, optimization, troubleshooting and documentation of LAN/WAN
networking systems.
Implemented standard configuration template scripts in various network devices for snmp v2, logging, and
ntp.
Created standard access lists to allow snmp, ntp and logging servers.
Replaced 6500 from access layer and Installed 3750s Switches.
Racking and Stacking of Cisco 3750 Switches.
Installed PVDM, Network module, VWIC card, secondary power supplies and additional memory to 3900
series routers.
Installed Network Module, GLC-SX-MM and secondary power supplies to 3750 switch.
Installed Supervisor Engine, Secondary power supply and different line cards like WS-X4624-SFP-E, WSX4748-RJ45-E to 4500 and 6500 series switches.
Co-ordinate with the Data Network and Security team and come up with possible solutions.
Also involved in Cisco ACE configuration and deployment.
Work on Physical site Inventory verification, gather information of various Cisco Network devices and
Security Devices to develop Run book and Spec Book.
Identify additional Network operations requirement and improvement opportunity.
Also, worked as a member of Voice team is the same project.
Deployment of Cisco IP phones series 7945, 7965, 7916, 9971.
Also worked with different WLAN devices e.g. WAP, Wireless Access Controller etc.

TJMAX, Framingham, MA
Network/Security Engineer

Jun 2011 - Dec 2011

Responsibilities:
Involved in Configuring and implementing of Composite Network models consists of Cisco7600, 7200, 3800
series routers and Cisco 2950, 3500, 5000, 6500 Series switches. Also worked with ASR 1K and 7K.
Configured networks using routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, BGP and manipulated routing updates
using route-map, distribute list and administrative distance for on-demand Infrastructure.
Configured OSPF redistribution and authentication with type 3 LSA filtering and to prevent LSA flooding.
Configured OSPF over frame relay networks for NBMA and point to multipoint strategies.
Implementing traffic engineering on top of an existing Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network using
Frame Relay and Open Shortest Path First (OSPF).
Provided redundancy in a multi homed Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) network by tunings AS-path.
Implemented Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) by tuning parameters like preemption.
Build and support Site to Site IPSec based VPN Tunnels for all B2B and 3rd party communications
Manage all aspects of Network Installation, Configuration Troubleshooting, security breaches.
VPN User access management on checkpoint firewalls. Use LDAP for identifying user groups
Maintained, upgraded, configured, installed Cisco ASA 5510, 5520, & 5505 Firewalls from the CLI and ASDM
Was responsible for maintaining and configuring VPN firewalls and deploying updates as required.
Implemented various OSPF scenarios on networks consisting of 7600 routers.
Configured policy based routing for BGP for complex network systems.

Configured Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) VPN with Routing Information Protocol (RIP) on the
customers Site.
Tuned BGP internal and external peers with manipulation of attributes such as metric, origin and local
Preference.
Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS) for Windows to authenticate users that connects to a VPN 3000
Concentrator.
Worked on FTP, HTTP, DNS, DHCP servers in windows server-client environment with resource allocation to
desired Virtual LANs of network.
Responsible for day to day management of Cisco Devices, IOS, Traffic management and monitoring.
Also involved in designing and implementing IP MPLS network.
Involved in provide higher technical support to NOC and other operation teams regards to IP/MPLS
infrastructure.
Helped team members in configuration of Juniper 4350, 6350, and 2320 routers as well as EX 2200, 4200,
6200 and 8200 switches.
Member of Network testing team. Also worked with Qos.
Responsible for Manual testing, reporting defects and working closely with development in narrowing down
issues.
Worked with automation tools and different methods according to requirement. Also worked with IXIA test.
Also used different tools like ANUE and JDSU.
Developed the necessary libraries for the different to run different Network test.
Responsible to run different kind of Network test. This includes MPLS, BGP, SNMP, and Firewall. Also
worked with testing with traffic generator.

SUPER-NET, Varina, NC
Network Specialist

Nov 2008 - May 2011

Responsibilities:
Assisted in troubleshooting LAN connectivity and hardware issues in the network of 100 hosts.
Studied and analyzed client requirements to provide solutions for network design, configuration,
administration, and security.
Involved in troubleshooting IP addressing issues and Updating IOS images using TFTP.
Maintained redundancy on Cisco 2600, 2800 and 3600 router with HSRP.
Created a backup and recovery policy for software application and verified peripherals are working properly.
Monitor performance of network and servers to identify potential problems and bottleneck and configured ios.
Performed RIP & OSPF routing protocol administration.
Interacted with support services to reduce the downtime on leased lines.
Troubleshoot problems on a day to day basis & provide solutions that would fix the problems within their
Network.
Monitor the operability and reliability of the network.
Maintenance and Troubleshooting of connectivity problems using Ping, Trace route.
Managed the IP address space using subnets and variable length subnet masks (VLSM).
As a Team member also worked with F5 load balancer and SONET technology.
Responsible to help team for troubleshoot, configure and resolve the issues regarding F5.
Support design and planning of Juniper MX, EX and TX Series network routing products within the Customer
infrastructure.
Support ongoing efforts in defining best practice policies for Juniper product applications used by Customer.
Proactively perform corrective maintenance for IP/MPLS network.
Review and evaluate all ITC technical documents related to IP/MPLS network.
Helped team to build up SONET Networks.
LAN cabling in compliance with CAT5 standards.
Worked along with the team in ticketing issues.
Daily responsibilities included monitoring remote site using network management tools, assisted in design
guidance for infrastructure upgrade & help LAN administrator with backbone connection and connectivity
issue Other responsibilities included documentation and support other teams.