Pratish Paul

Innovative Network Administrator committed to designing and building robust data communication networks. Excels in local area networks, wide area networks and intranets. Researches and understands company's business plan and supports goal attainment.

• Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited (Scania Project), Working as Network Admin for NWC (National Water Company, Saudi)., Handled the transition part for Network and Security for NWC., Handling Network operation for NWC related to Network and Security., Worked as Senior specialist for Scania WAN team., Co-ordinate with L1 team for WAN link outages and do the necessary follow up for the bring up the WAN link., Prepare reports and incident history and service improvement., Involve in Lifecycle project assigned by Scania team and complete the projects on time., Involve in escalation issues for WAN/LAN related issues and provide a solution to Scania team., Involving in the migration of Cisco WAN devices to Fortinet SDWAN devices.
• THOMSON REUTERS (AT&T Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd.), Working as Technical Specialist, Field Ops Engineering for AT&T Communication Services India Pvt. Ltd., Working as Design Implementation Engineer for Thomson Reuters by involving in Design and implementation of their new and existing networks., Performs review of the High-Level Design provided by the network architects for a project and provide any suggestion if required also prepare the Low-Level Design and help team to implement the same with in the time frame., Setting up of new offices, new devices and expansion of Thomson Reuters offices was taken care., Working as High-level escalation point for operation team, where Priority High ticket arises and operations looking for advises to fix the break fix the issue or provide a solution to Customer to resolve the ticket., During the separation of Thomson Reuters, played significant role in separating Thomson (TR) and Refinitiv networks which included multiple Datacenters and Major locations., Helped Customer to setup VPN for multiple location to accommodate their staff during the pandemic situation and received multiple appreciation from Customer (TR and Refinitiv) management and also from AT&T management.
• WIPRO LIMITED, Worked as Lead Administrator for Wipro’s Multiple Customer Project., Helping the team remotely to fix the design issues and provide solution for the problem they face.
• LOBLAW PROJECT - (COGINZANT), Worked as Technical Lead for Loblaw Project which is a largest retail firm across Canada and US., Maintain the Data Centers, Distribution Centers, Stores, offices and Gas bars networks for Loblaw., Configuring firewall policies as per the CRQ’s in FWSM and Checkpoint., Configuring Virtual and real Server farms, Probes/Monitors, Services in Citrix Netscaler load balancer., Troubleshoot various issues related to WAN, Security and Load balancing.
• ECN PROJECT - (ERICSSON), Worked as 2nd Level Assurance Engineer for IP WAN., Maintaining various Ericsson Internal Networks., Involved in the migration of Cisco Router to Juniper SRX devices in various location of Ericsson., Involved in implementation of various CRQ’s (Changes) with respect to routing., Played a key role in developing 1st Level Assurance support team for Ericsson within Bangalore.
• FEDERAL BANK PROJECT - (HCL), Worked as L3 Team Lead Engineer at Federal Bank Datacenter., Configuration and maintenance of the CORE Routers, CORE Switches, and CORE VPN Routers of Federal Bank Data Centers (DC) and Disaster Recover (DR)., Configuration of routers for new branches of federal bank as per their standards design., Co-ordinate with the ISP’s (BSNL, TATA, and Reliance) for various issues related to the link outages and routing issues., Involved in Setting up BGP routing protocol in Datacenter (DC) and Disaster Recovery (DR)., Provided new design to the branches for WAN high availability using BGP routing protocol., Implemented High availability on the Federal bank Branches with respect to routers, links and WAN and LAN availability., Provided solution for bandwidth constrains at branches by Cisco WAAS solution and conducted a POC/Demo to the customer., Involved in replacing of Cisco Core Switches (Cisco Catalyst 6513) at Data Center with Juniper ESX Series Switches.
• HCL’s CoE – (HCL), Worked as Network Specialist for Routing, Switching, Wireless, WAAS & DMS., Provide pre-sales and post-sales support related to Cisco Routing and Switching, Cisco Wireless, Cisco Digital Media Suite, Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS & ACE) for Various Projects., Involved in various project implementation with respect to Cisco Routing & Switch, Cisco ASA, Wireless, DMS, & Cisco ACE load balancer., Conducted demos/POC for various customers on Cisco Wireless, DMS, Cisco ASA & WAAS., Maintain the Cisco GOLD Certification for HCL INFOSYSTEMS., Conduct training on various Cisco technologies., Prepare implementation documents.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate - Udemy
• Deploying SDWAN Technologies and SPSP Certification - Silver Peak
• Advanced Networking Training from HCL INFOSYSTEMS Ltd.
• Windows Server 2003 Training from HCL INFOSYSTEMS Ltd.
• ACE Load balancer Training from Cisco.
• WAAS Training from Cisco.
• ITIL V3 Foundation Training
• JNCIA Training
• Checkpoint firewall Training

• Father's Name: N.P Devassy
• Date of Birth: 05/08/87
• Gender: Male
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married