. Rubric Prompt. Students will focus on “setting the stage” for planning emergency management programs in Puerto Rico. The local agency who will be implementing these programs, SiSePuede, is a medium-sized non-profit organization that has been contracted by Puerto Rico’s Department of Health. 1 a. Problem statement. Information on disasters in Puerto Rico framed i. In terms of a specific priority population? (0.50 point) ii. In terms of a frequency, severity, cost, or equity argument for the long-term outcome of interest? 1. Long-term outcome clearly identifiable? (0.50 point) 2. Only one argument made – i.e., no credit if students provide information for multiple arguments (e.g., frequency and severity; cost and equity)? (0.50 point) iii. In terms of why their short-term outcome has important implications for long-term outcomes? 1. Short-term outcome clearly identifiable? (0.50 point) 2. Literature that providesevidence for relationships between short-term and long-term outcomes? (0.50 point) b. Conceptual Framework i. Does Figure depict 1. Determinants a. From the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (0.25 point)? b. From the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) (0.25 point)? c. Related to Neighborhood Access to Resources (0.25 point)? 2. Causal relationships a. Between determinants to short-term and long-term outcomes described in 1a-c? (0.10 point)? b. Between determinants? (0.15 point)? ii. Do students provide justification regarding why the framework 1. Is logical? a. Info on constructs? (0.10 point) b. Info on relationships (to outcomes? between determinants?) (0.40 point) 2. Is parsimonious and useful? a. Literature provided for each construct? (1 point) b. Literature provided for each relationship? (1 point) 3. Fits within the local context? Sarang Vilpara Email: [email protected] Phone: 469-773-7559 Professional Summary: • Skilled IT Engineer with Strong Fundamentals in Computer Networking and Information Security. • Thrives in challenging environments, while retaining a sense of humor. • Regarded as a data-driven leader and highly effective communicator. • Enthusiastic learner with an extensive analytical background • Four years of experience in Routing Switching, network Design and network troubleshooting. • Worked with fortune 500 company (Cisco, Verizon, CenturyLink). • Experience with Routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP) • Experience with LAN WAN technologies including SD-WAN (Viptela) • Configured load balancers (Cirix NetScaler) SDX and VPX and achieved redundancy using HSRP and BGP multipath. • Work with Cisco Routers (3800,2500,2600), catalyst switches (6500/7500), Nexus switches (3k,5k,7k,9k) • Hands-on-experience configuring ACI technologies (Contracts, l3-out, EPG, Access-policy, tenants) and configuring APIC controllers. • Hands on experience with different vendor Equipment’s. Juniper (MX-960 series routers), Cienna(6500 DWDM), brocade(RX-16), Alcatel-lucent(7500). • Extensive ...

1. .
Rubric
Prompt. Students will focus on “setting the stage” for planning
emergency management programs in Puerto Rico. The local
agency who will be implementing these programs, SiSePuede, is
a medium-sized non-profit organization that has been contracted
by Puerto Rico’s Department of Health.
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a. Problem statement. Information on disasters in Puerto Rico
framed
i. In terms of a specific priority population? (0.50 point)
ii. In terms of a frequency, severity, cost, or equity argument
for the long-term outcome of interest?
1. Long-term outcome clearly identifiable? (0.50 point)
2. Only one argument made – i.e., no credit if students provide
information for multiple arguments (e.g., frequency and
severity; cost and equity)? (0.50 point)
iii. In terms of why their short-term outcome has important
implications for long-term outcomes?
1. Short-term outcome clearly identifiable? (0.50 point)
2. Literature that providesevidence for relationships between
short-term and long-term outcomes? (0.50 point)
b. Conceptual Framework
i. Does Figure depict
1. Determinants
a. From the Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) (0.25 point)?
b. From the Social Cognitive Theory (SCT) (0.25 point)?
c. Related to Neighborhood Access to Resources (0.25 point)?

2. 2. Causal relationships
a. Between determinants to short-term and long-term outcomes
described in 1a-c? (0.10 point)?
b. Between determinants? (0.15 point)?
ii. Do students provide justification regarding why the
framework
1. Is logical?
a. Info on constructs? (0.10 point)
b. Info on relationships (to outcomes? between determinants?)
(0.40 point)
2. Is parsimonious and useful?
a. Literature provided for each construct? (1 point)
b. Literature provided for each relationship? (1 point)
3. Fits within the local context?
Sarang Vilpara
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 469-773-7559
Professional Summary:
• Skilled IT Engineer with Strong Fundamentals in Computer
Networking and Information Security.
• Thrives in challenging environments, while retaining a sense
of humor.

3. • Regarded as a data-driven leader and highly effective
communicator.
• Enthusiastic learner with an extensive analytical background
• Four years of experience in Routing Switching, network
Design and network troubleshooting.
• Worked with fortune 500 company (Cisco, Verizon,
CenturyLink).
• Experience with Routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP)
• Experience with LAN WAN technologies including SD-WAN
(Viptela)
• Configured load balancers (Cirix NetScaler) SDX and VPX
and achieved redundancy using HSRP and BGP multipath.
• Work with Cisco Routers (3800,2500,2600), catalyst switches
(6500/7500), Nexus switches (3k,5k,7k,9k)
• Hands-on-experience configuring ACI technologies
(Contracts, l3-out, EPG, Access-policy, tenants) and
configuring APIC controllers.
• Hands on experience with different vendor Equipment’s.
Juniper (MX-960 series routers), Cienna(6500 DWDM),
brocade(RX-16), Alcatel-lucent(7500).
• Extensively worked on Cisco firewall (ASA-5510,5540), FTD.
• In-depth understanding of the firmware upgrade (cisco-IOS
and Nexus OS) from the booting process.
• Worked extensively with Nexus technologies like VPC (virtual
port-channel), Overlay transport virtualization
(OTV) Virtual extensible LAN (VXLAN), M and F series

4. Modules
• Worked with Catalyst switches to understand technologies like
VSS and FEX.
• Tracing the packets with packet capture tools like Ethanalyzer,
Wireshark, Tcpdump.
• Use network troubleshooting tools like Sciencelogic to
monitor the network, use Splunk to get the log messages,
Configure SNMP servers and various log levels on IOS
• Understanding of Cloud Technologies (AWS-EC2 instance, S3
storage, ROUTE 53 DNS, VPC, Elastic load balancer)
• Use VMware vSphere to configure HA, Vswitch, Tap-ports on
the VNIC.
• Configure and troubleshoot VPN’S, GRE and IPsec Tunnels.
• In-depth understanding of IPV4/V6, Subnetting, VLANS,
VRF, ARP, RARP, Proxy ARP, Ping, Traceroute.
• Troubleshooting MPLS technologies by configuring the CPE
equipment’s and the PE routers with EBGP
connections and separating the VRF tables for Different
customers.
• Updating and installing new SSL certificate on the load
balancers.
• Configure layer Two transport T1/T3 on Infinera, OC12,
OC192, SONET rings on Cienna and DWDM technologies
on cisco 15454.
• Test The 1 gig , 10 Gig ethernet circuits by generating traffic
from Spirent and using loop from the other end of
the circuit on the LEC hand off.
• Perform Lab recreates on complex issues to provide RCA to
the customers
• Handle P1/P2 issues for the customers Datacenter and provide
Customer Satisfaction.
• Decommission the unused circuit by monitoring the traffic and

5. analyzing the port capacity.
mailto:[email protected]
Education:
Southern Methodist University, Dallas
MAY 2017
Master of Science in Telecommunications & Network
Engineering
GPA 3.73
Skills:
Languages: C C++ PYTHON LINUX(SHELL
SCRIPTING )
Networking
Concepts:
VPN SD-
WAN
MPLS VIRTUALIZATION
(VMWARE ESXI)
FIREWALLS TCP/IP DWDM VXLAN ACI
Security

6. Concepts:
IDS IPS AES DES CISCO-ASA CISCO-
FTD
Storage: RAID LVM NFS
Protocols: TCP/IP DHCP DNS SNMP BGP OSPF IPSEC
OPENSSL TLS
Cloud
concepts:
AWS-
EC2
VPC ELASTIC
LOAD
BALANCING
S3 STORAGE DNS-
ROUTE 53
Software: LINUX EVE WIRESHARK SCIENCELOGIC
SPIRENT TBS
Certifications:
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) - ID:
CSCO12960732
Cisco certified network professional (CCNP)-ID:
CSCO12960732

7. Experience:
TAC Engineer Routing and switching, Cisco Systems, Inc.
(contract) July 2019- Present
(RTP, NC-USA)
• Configure data center ACI leaf and spine switches with fabric
and access polices, end point group (EPG),
application profile, Contracts, Bridge domain, VMM Domain,
L2/L3-out profiles interface profiles on the APIC.
• Troubleshoot Cisco firepower (FTD) and firedrill to allow
communication between DMZ and internal VRF’S.
• Configure and troubleshoot DNS entries in the AM (address
management) tool for various cisco domains.
• Configure GSLB and SLB Citrix NetScaler load balancer
(SDX, VPX) and the MAS server.
• Work with the L4-L7 firewall FTD integration and migrated
the nexus gateways from traditional to the ACI
environment.
• Install and update the SSL certificates with the SAN names on
the SLB and GSLB load balancers.
• Use tools such as Splunk and Thousand eyes, ScienceLogic to
troubleshoot end to end network connectivity.
• Work as a SME (subject matter expertise) to resolve customer
issues on technologies such as VPC (virtual port
channel), VXLAN, FABRICPATH, VDC, OTV on nexus N3K,
N5K, N7K and N9K series switches

8. • Have a deeper understanding on working of the routing and
switching protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP,
Multicast, ARP, TCP/IP, DHCP, RSTP, LACP-
PORTCHANNEL.
• Analyze the packet flowing through the hardware I/O
MODULES (M2, M3, F2, F2E, F3) and troubleshoot the
buffer, VOQ (virtual output ques) and the related ASIC’s on the
nexus devices for health check.
• Troubleshoot the routes in the URIB and the FIB components
to ensure proper forwarding of packets in the
control plane.
• Work on enterprise catalyst switches 3850, 9500, 4K and 6k
series. Troubleshoot Stack wise virtual and VSS
issues faced by customer.
• Assist customer with the NX-OS related issue: High CPU
usage, software upgrade, Q-IN-Q tagging issue, ACL,
QOS, TCAM issue, packets stuck in buffer, MAC address
flapping, STP, OSPF stuck in Exstart.
• Troubleshoot routing issues (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and
multicast issues.
• Resolve the severity /High priority cases of the customer from
remedy ticketing system providing customer
satisfaction
• Configure and troubleshoot the VM instances for high
availability on the VMware vSphere and on ACI Vswitch.

9. Environment:
CISCO NX-OS, IOS ,FTD, ASA firewall, NX-3k,5k,7k,9k ,
Catalyst 6500/7500 , Citrix Netscaler, ACI
,Radius,TACAS,VXLAN,BGP,OSPF,EIGRP,VLAN,STP,MSTP,
SUPERVISOR MODULE,FEX,APIC,GSLB,SLB.
Network support engineer, Verizon wireless (contract)
Dec 2017- July 2019
(DALLAS, TX-USA)
• Establish BGP between Verizon PE (Juniper MCR) and
customer/Verizon provided CPE router and attach the pe
interface to appropriate VRF instance.
• Configure MPLS (mesh) and DIA using appropriate policy and
use proper C-TAG and S-TAG to provide
connectivity between different customer VPN sites.
• Support Enterprise customers having problems connecting to
internet by troubleshooting the entire circuit in
the backbone network (from layer 2 transport devices - CIENNA
311 v, NETVANTA, ALU-7750, ADTRAN TA-
5000, ML-100 cards, Brocade RX-16, layer 3 Devices- juniper
CLR, MCR and Cisco ASR 9010, CSR)
• Configure OSPF and Redistribute routes learned from OSPF to
BGP as well as configure static routes as
demanded customers.
• Work with LEC (local exchange carrier) to troubleshoot
Ethernet circuits at the CFA handoff.

10. • Provision the CSR(customer service records) with appropriate
layer two transport technologies in
(DS0,T1/T3,OC12,OC192,1GIG,10GIG,SONET,DWDM)
circuits and decommissioning the circuit not in use.
• Configure VPLS service and troubleshoot connectivity issues
by analyzing the VSI instances.
• Configure the APM (application performance management)
tool to help customer monitor the traffic.
• Configure 4G wireless backup (CRADLEPOINT) and activate
backup IPSEC VPN tunnels that routes the traffic
through the firewall in case of failover of normal circuit.
• FIREWALL: Configure hosted security, DMZ VPN, multicast
(PIM-Sparse/dense) for the customers on juniper
router.
• Configure the Verizon provided CPE router from the scratch
for multiple vendor platforms (cisco, juniper,
NETVANTA).
• Provision different class of services on the PE and CPE
routers as demanded by the enterprise customers.
• Configure HSRP for the backup router and track the interface
for the customer on the CPE equipment.
Environment:
Cisco routers(2500,7200,3600,15454), Juniper (MX-
960),Cienna(6500),Alcatel-lucent(7200,7500),Brocade(RX-
16), MPLS,BGP,OSPF,STP,Pseudowire,ARP,T1,T3,OC-

11. 192,OC-12,SONET,DWDM,LEC,Spirent,Infinera
Network Support Engineer, CenturyLink (contract)
July 2017 - Oct 2017
(MONROE, LA-USA)
• Created and monitored VLANs on ports/LAG of devices
(CISCO, JUNIPER, ALKATEL) while tracing path from
DSLAM
to BRAS server and configured ADTRAN devices (1000/5000
series) with VPI-VCI circuit.
• Managed the VLAN-VB ports, parent ports and cross-connects
on virtual switch (CIENNA 5150/3940/311V).
• Hands on experience with (Alcatel-lucent 7750) configuring
EPIPE, QOS, VLAN translation using SAM and CLI.
• Route traffic through dynamic protocols (BGP, OSPF,
EIGRP).
• Work with networking devices (cisco switches 2k,3k series).
• Work on cisco ASA firewall.
• Decommission the circuit not in use.
• Verify the port capacity of the circuit.
• Trace the end to end connectivity of the circuit by finding

12. networking devices along the path.
• Use SolarWinds to monitor the health of the network.
• Use Splunk to log the messages to the servers.
Environment:
Splunk, SolarWinds, ASA, SAM, Secure-Crt, BGP, OSPF,
ADTRAN, ARP, Ping, Traceroute
Network Intern, You Broad band Private limited (Vodafone)
Dec 2013 –May 2015
(AHMEDABAD, INDIA)
• Studied modems and provided on-call coordination with
customer to resolve network issues.
• Gained experience of LAN/WAN, routing protocols (BGP,
OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, NTP).
• Gained knowledge of multiplexing techniques (FDM, DWDM
and TDM) and different storage system (NAS/SAN),
various RAID levels and cables.
• Gained knowledge of Metro Ethernet, TCP/IP, SIP, VPN.
• Provide on call support to the customers by troubleshooting
the WIFI- issues from the NOC center.
• Troubleshoot the optical fiber connectivity related issues.

13. • Troubleshoot layer1 circuit issues by replacing the network
gear, modules in the data center.
• Troubleshoot the 10Gig, 1Gig circuit speed issues and check
the power level.
• Gained knowledge of the coaxial cable and optical fibers.
Environment:
Coaxial Cable, cat5/6,Ethernet,CSMA/CD,NOC.