Avinash Ramesh is a senior network engineer with over 8 years of experience implementing and troubleshooting Cisco, Juniper, and Dell Force10 networks. He has expertise in routing, switching, security, VPNs, and network analysis tools. The document provides details on his professional experience, skills, and education background working for various companies such as Pearson Education, Dell Force10, Juniper, Siemens, and 7strata IT services.

1. Avinash R
Senior Network implementation Engineer
CCIE #51529 (Routing and Switching)
avinash.ramesh86@gmail.com
https://avinashnetworking.wordpress.com/
# 512-948-8508.
Austin, TX.
Professional Summary :
 A Seasoned Networking Consultant in Networking with 8+ years of experience in Cisco, Juniper ERX
and Dell Force10 networkingproducts coupled with CCIEin routingand switching.
 Extensive knowledge of configuring, troubleshooting, testing and implementation of all routing and
switching protocols which includesBGP,OSPF ,Spanning-tree, etc..
 5+ yearsof extensive experience in troubleshooting, designingand settingup test bedsto replicate and
reproduce network issues in networking TAC teamsand provide solutions through firmware upgrades
and software patches for the customers.
 FindingRoot cause for all the network incidentsfor the customers.
 Experience in hardeningof routersand switchesthrough RADIUS, TACACS, access-listsand prefix-lists.
 Worked on complex-issues with time bound SLA’s and troubleshooting customers network in MW with
minimal impact on the data traffic and provide redundancy at the same time to avert loss of traffic.
 Coordinating with Tier-1 and Tier-2 ISP’sto troubleshoot latencyand packet drop issues.
 In-depth knowledge of network protocol analyzers/sniffers and effectively use it in troubleshooting of
network issues.
 Knowledge on TCP/IP which includes flow control, congestion control, DuplicateACK, retransmissions
etc.
 Experience of prioritizing workload in high pressure and time constrained environments, as well as on-
call duty.
 Create or update high-level, low-level and detailed networkdiagramsfor all sections of the LAN/ WAN
includingcircuits,physical maps,and logical topology.
SKILL SET:
 LAN Switching & Security: STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVST, VLAN (Dot1q, PVLANS), Port-channel, Fiber-
Channel (FCoE), Multi-Chassis LAG(VPC,VLT), Port-Security, Root-guard, BPDU guard, BPDU filter,
Access-lists(extended & standard), ARP, Proxy-ARP, Flow control,IPSLA,IPPrefix-list
 WAN Routing and Multicast Protocols: BGP,OSPF, IGMP-PIM, DHCP (relay, snooping), IPV6, GLBP,
VRRP, HSRP, PPP, PPPoe, L2TP, SNMP, ICMP, TCP/IP, NAT (Static,PAT), Policy –Based Routing.
 VPN: MPLS,LDP, L3VPN,DMVPN,IPSEC(site-to-site)
 Network Analyzers: Wire shark, IXIA, solar winds.
 DNS/DHP: IPAM
WORK EXPERIENCE:
Network Build and implementation Engineer
Pearson Education: July 2016- Present
Effectively Design, build, and support global campus and data center projects. Including a variety of sized
campus build and consolidations, rapid deployments, and end-to-end support. Act as level-2 and 3 escalation
support along with maintainingthorough, and precise documentation for cross team support and handover.
Working on Cisco ASR’s, Cisco catalyst switches, Cisco nexus.
L3 Enterprise Technical Support Advisor Dec 2012 – July 2016
Dell Force10 Datacenter Networking – TAC.
Responsibilities:
 AssistingL1/L2 engineerson the cases and takingownership of S1 severityand escalated cases

2.  Understanding, troubleshooting and diagnosing and resolving network issues for the Dell customers
and partners.
 Effectively using the lab to recreate customer issues and report to the engineering team for providing
fixes to customers through patches/releases
 Providing product/technologytrainingto fellow engineersand partners
 Resolving high CPU, memory, packet forwardingissues with log analysis
 Recommend changesif required in the Dell customer’s network
 Create knowledge base articlesand providingit to the documentation team.
CSS Corp Pvt Ltd: Escalation Lead Sept 2010 - Dec 2012
Juniper: TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE CENTRE
Responsibilities:
 Provide extensive hardware/software support for the entire Juniper-ERXseries products.
 Access customer’s network remotelyand troubleshoot live critical network issues.
 Extensive analysisof packet capture and logs.
 Responsible for handlingcritical and premium Juniper accounts.
 Recreate customer reported issues in the lab and file a bug with the engineering team for resolution of
it in the upcomingJUNOSe releases
 Held trainingsessions to ensure continuous knowledge transfer within the team.
SIEMENS INFORMATION SYSTEMS LTD July 2009 - Sept 2010
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
 Part of the incident management and configuration management team
 Managed the entire LAN network of around 1500 nodes, by configuring spanning tree on the switches,
Inter vlan for the new users, troubleshootingpacket drops, high CPU, memory leak issues.
 Involved in network design, network troubleshooting, IP addressing.
 Configuration of DHCP pool in the Cisco routers for the LAN.
 Configuration of HSRP/VRRP for gatewayredundancy.
 Configuration of port –based authentication in Cisco switches.
 Upgradingswitchesand routersto the latest firmware.
 Managed the WAN connectivity (leased line) by coordinating with the service providers and was also
involved in troubleshootingduringlink failure.
7strata IT services March 2008 - May 2009
Network Engineer
Client: Fullerton India financial limited & LIBA.
Responsibilities:
 Primary role was to troubleshoot problem validation and raise tickets for all the network events in the
NMS developed by 7strata.
 Worked on ITIL aligned process – service desk and incident management tosolve trouble tickets
 Provided LAN & WAN support by configuringIPSEC site-site for 7strata’scustomer’s network
 Configuration of VLAN, IP addressand staticroutes in customer’snetwork
 Hardeningcustomer’srouter by settingup access-listsand passwords.
 Configured GLBP,VLAN-Inter VLAN for 7strata’sinternal network
 Configured overload NAT ,SNMP,DHCP-DHCPRELAY, for all 7strata’scustomer network
EDUCATION:
 Bachelor of Engineering: I.T Hindustan College of Engineering, Anna University, Jul 2003- Apr 2007