Girish Vyas

CONTACT 2004. Tower 1, Raheja Tipco E-mail: sp_girish_vyas@yahoo.co.inHeights, Rani Sati Marg Phone: +917738750745Near Western Express Highway, +17204759337Malad East, Mumbai Passport G9756999Maharashtra, India

Location Preference: FlexibleCAREER SUMMARYOver 5.5 years of experience in Administration, Implementation and Operation of Infrastructure Security and Cloud Services while applying and learning knowledge in the domain of Networking / IT Security Management.

Cisco certified professional possesses CCIE #29285 – Security CCIE DC written certified. Planning for CCIE DC Lab certification Keen interest in the core areas of product development for Network/Security Administration and Cloud

Technologies. Sound knowledge of IPS, Firewalls, Filtering devices and SIEM tools along with experience of NFV and SDN tools. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to grasp things quickly. Applied for PR under 189 and 190 category. Currently awaiting EOI invite. Ability to adapt self in Multi-Vendor environment

Educational Qualification

Degree and Date Institute Major and Specialization with %

Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology (B.E.) in 2010

Xavier Institute of Engineering, Mumbai University.

Aggregate Per: 66.5%

Diploma in Computer Engineering in 2007

Thakur Polytechnic, Kandivali(E) Aggregate Per: 70.58%

PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONBeen present to various knowledge enhancement schedules and certified as:

IPS Specialist Firewall Specialist VPN Specialist ASA Specialist 4013 Recognition 4011 Recognition Inter Network Expert, CCIE#29285 Security Inter Network Expert, CCIE Data Center Written. Planning for Lab Cisco Certified Network Associate-Security (CCNA-S) Networking Professional–Security (CCNP-Security) Trained for Configuring Big IP LTM v11 Certified Network Security Engineer (CNSE)

IT FORTE Hardware: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5, Bluecoat, Silver Peak Firewall: ASA, Juniper Net screen, Palo-Alto, Technologies: NFV, Cloud stack, OVS, Hypervisor Technologies, Linux, Basic scripting (BASH), SD-WAN, MCC Web Filtering: Bluecoat Proxy SG, Web sense, IPS: Cisco IPS and Palo Alto IPS Routing: BGP, MPLS and overview of OSPF. Security: RSA secure ID, Log Rhythm SIEM, VPN’s Load Balancers: Working knowledge of F5 Big IP (LTM + GTM) and Citrix NetScaler. Secure Access: Juniper Mag and F5 Fire pass, Pulse Secure Appliance (PSA)

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WORK EXPERIENCENTT Communication – Powered by Virtela. April 2015 — PresentLead Customer Engineer - Security Implementation

Technical Excellence and Delivery Service Delivery Scope of Work - Implement structured improvement plan for deviations in SOW’s Additional growth opportunities - Identify new opportunities for CE to be delivered as per requirement Knowledge Base – Track, monitor solutions and prepare KB recommended/provided by Team Evaluate the proposed solutions on an ongoing basis for the best solutions Determine the viability for Cloud Migration of existing solution. Work on RFx with Sales team and categorize and resolve pricing related issues

Practice, Innovation and Team Work Sharing knowledge with all other team members Create/Update & share the SOPs, Best Practice document, check list and other artifacts as per project SOW adherence: SOW adherence to Deliverables of Security area and timely adherence to requirements Induction & training - Participate/facilitate induction process for new team members (if any) Requirement Translation – Interpret business requirements to comparable technical for engineer’s developments Product Engineering Team – Work with Product Engineering to develop new products and enhance current ones Self-Learning - Complete Mandatory trainings/certifications as mandated by the organization/practice.

Virtela Technology Services Inc. April 2013 — March 2015Senior Customer Engineer - Security Implementation

Technical Excellence and Delivery Service Delivery Scope of Work - Implement structured improvement plan for deviations in SOW’s Operations - Work in close tandem with Supervisor in transitioning to operations from onsite to Global Model Knowledge Base – Track, monitor solutions and prepare KB recommended/provided by Team

Customer Centricity, Quality and Satisfaction Establish well thought through communication plan with customer and maintain accountability for change Reporting - Deliver Project Reports on time, Activity report to be sent on agreed schedule to stakeholders Following customer and project specific processes and standards Adhere to customer security guidelines, data privacy and customer confidentiality guidelines Adherence to best practices suggested by Quality System - ITIL in Security management area

Practice, Innovation and Team Work Sharing knowledge with all other team members (Process/technical experience sharing- 1 per quarter) SOW adherence: SOW adherence to Deliverables of Security area and timely adherence to requirements Induction & training - Participate/facilitate induction process for new team members (if any) Self-Learning - Complete Mandatory trainings/certifications as mandated by the organization/practice.

Virtela Technology Services Inc. August 2011 — March 2013Security Engineer – Operations

Customer Handling - Provide precise, refined and opportune response to the probes Abide to client security guiding principle, data confidentiality and customer privacy course of action Partaking information with all other team affiliates (Best Practice/technical know-how - 1 each quarter) Solving Trouble tickets – Per the compliance protocol followed; need to work on SR / Incidents / Problems. Performing Maintenance on Customer Hardware- Perform upgrades or patches management on Customer devices.

PROJECTSThere are good numbers of project accomplished in my career path but some of the best are mentioned below:-

NFV Cloud DevelopmentAug 2015 to PresentProduct Engineering Team got a new Product roll out for allowing customer to reduce Service Delivery Timelines. This project meant a lot for the company and its parent. The major role for this project was to develop new features to enhance the product and troubleshoot the service delivery and operations team while implementing and maintaining the solution along with development team to define the product and QA team to test it.

Data Centre Firewall ReplacementMay 2014 to Jan 2015Customer had a requirement if getting the existing Net screen firewall migrated to Next Gen firewall Palo Alto.

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The entire project is being completed without impacting the existing traffic and providing additional service of Web Content Filtering.

LogRhythm SIEM Re-architectingNovember 2012 to June 2013LogRhythm SIEM tool was in a battered condition and company was not able to keep the reporting and analysis services for the huge customer base and want to come up with a plan to re-architect the SIEM tool to improve the performance and redeploy in a new architecture.

INTERESTSDancing, Reading, Practicing Guitar, Listening Music, Developing Lab

EXTRA-MURAL ACTIVITIES

Participated in State Level project competition in Final Year Diploma. Participated in Inter-college Technical Paper Presentation (TPP) titled Cloud Computing Participated in Science Olympiad Quest in year 2001-2003. Event coordinator in Transmission '09

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