Nishant105-06 APT-4, 101 ST AVE Ozone Park, 11416 NY| Email - nv641@nyu.edu; fnu.nishant@nyu.edu | Tel - (347)-593-1035

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SUMMARYCCNA Certified professional with an exceptional ability to manage, build and secure a Cisco Network of any size and troubleshoot routing and network problems, looking for a challenging opportunity in Networking and Network Security field.

EDUCATIONNew York University Tandon School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY CGPA = 3.23Master of Science in Electrical Engineering May 2016Gautam Buddh Technical University, Lucknow, UP (INDIA) CGPA = 3.3Bachelor of Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering Jun 2013

CERTIFICATIONCisco Certified Network Associate - Routing and Switching Aug 2015Cisco Certified Network Associate - Security Jul 2016

TECHINCAL SKILLSSwitching: Port Security, BPDU Guard, Root Guard, VLAN, STP, PVST+, RSPT, MST, HSRP, VRRP, GLBPNetworking: TCP/IP, DNS, NAT, ACL, DHCP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, VPN, SSL, IPSec, Firewalls, IPS/IDSNetwork Management: SSH, HTTPS, RBAC, NTP, SNMP, Syslog, Netflow, Active Directory, AAASoftware Tools: Cisco Packet Tracer, GNS3, ASDM, CCP, Wireshark, MS Visio, SolarWinds Orion

WORK EXPERIENCE Essen Healthcare, Bronx, NY Sep 2015 - Present System Administrator

Manage Microsoft Active Directory Windows 2008 R2 Server support for over 600 users Configure and maintain Cisco Switches, Cisco Meraki Access Points and SonicWall Firewalls Monitor and manage company’s network on Sophos Web Appliance and SolarWinds Orion Install, support and maintain hardware, software infrastructure, diagnose problems and resolve issues Troubleshoot, escalate and resolve on all trouble tickets related to Network, OS, and Infrastructure Implement and troubleshoot site-to-site VPN connection on SonicWall Firewalls Configured Routing protocols such as RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, static routing and policy based routing Provide Technical Support for fault diagnosis, analysis & rectification of LAN & WAN networks. Worked on Layer 2/3 protocols such as STP, VTP, STP, RSTP, PVSTP+, MST and other VLAN troubleshooting

issues and configuring switches from scratch and deployment

PROJECTSEssen Healthcare May 2016

Created a WSUS Windows 2012R2 server on VM vSphere Client to administer and manage the distribution of Windows Update and hotfixes

NYU Tandon School of EngineeringHost Exploitation (Nessus, Metasploit) Mar 2015

Performed MITM attack on the Window XP machine using SSLstrip and redirected the Windows XP machine from secure (HTTPS) connection to insecure (HTTP) connection

Bound all the IP addresses on DHCP server and performed Denial of Service attack on the network to starve the client on victim network for DHCP resources