Curriculum Vittae

Tushar Jain Mobile (224)-545-4838, email – tusharjainz87@gmail.com

1523 W Taylor Street, Chicago, IL (60607)

ObjectiveI am seeking a challenging and responsible position as a Network or Information SecurityEngineer to show my talent and enhance my skill with an opportunity for growth and careeradvancement. I excel in supporting and troubleshooting Global Enterprise Network withexhaustive experience Cisco Security Products in TAC environment.

Professional Experience

FUSION STORM (July 2015 – Present) as an “Associate Engineer (Contract)” where my job responsibilities are: -

Travelling to sites of Apple for installing new network devices and servers on the rack.

Troubleshooting multi vendor devices (Cisco, Juniper, HP) for ongoing LAN/WAN issues at Apple Stores.

METRA (September 2014 – June 2015) as an “Intern – Network Services” where my job responsibilities were: -

Network Support team member responsible for Troubleshooting LAN/WAN issues. Migration Project to upgrade the current Cisco environment. Assigning Group Policies on Users and Work Stations under Active Directory.

ARICENT TECHNOLOGIES – CISCO TAC (June 2011 – June 2013) as a “NetworkEngineer in the Security Firewall Team” where my job responsibilities were: -

Remotely configuring and troubleshooting Cisco ASA/PIX, Cisco IPS/IDS (any series) security appliances for customers located globally.

Provide knowledge to customers or clients about difference in features & working ofCisco Security Products in comparison with other security vendors.

Provide support for complex Network Upgrades and Network Migration activities Analyze and resolve highly complex problems by undertaking ‘Recreate’ in test labs.

Achievement: I was promoted from “Associate Network Engineer” to a “NetworkEngineer” after just one year with Aricent.

IBM (September 2009 – June 2011) as a “Remote Support Specialist” where my job responsibilities were: -

Support Team Engineer responsible to provide 24/7 support to IBM employees. Remote troubleshooting on IBM applications based on Lotus Notes & Mainframe.

Achievement: Awarded best rating in the ‘Team of 34’ for year 2010 for being consistent Top 10 performer for 12 months.

Skilled inNetwork Security - ASA/PIX Firewall, NAT, RADIUS, TACACS, Access-listVPN - Site-2-Site VPN, Remote Access VPN, MPLS-VPNIDS/IPS - Snort, Source-fire, Suricata, OSSEC, HIDS, Cisco IDS/IPSRouting - RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, MPLS-VPNSwitching - STP, RSTP, VTP/VLAN, ATM, EoMPLS, RSTPEncryption - GRE, IPSec, PPTP, L2TPProtocols - TCP/UDP, ICMP, SNMP, IPv4, IPv6, VRRP/HSRP, DNS, DHCP,SCTPInformation Security - Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Vulnerability testingSecurity Frameworks - NIST, COSO, CIRT, CIPIndustry Standards - HIPPA, GLBA, DMCA, PCI-DSSTools - SIEM, Nessus, Nmap, Kali-Linux, Wireshark, JTR, PackEth, VMwareOperating Systems - Microsoft, Macintosh, Linux, and Command-Line Interface.Microsoft - Active Directory, LDAP, Office 2003- Office 2013.Mail Client - Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes.

Qualifications

Masters from DePaul University (September 2013-June 2015) with major in “Computer Information & Network Security”

Achievement: Graduated with Distinction along with GPA of 4 on scale of 4.

“Graduate Ambassador” for the Computer, Information and Network Security program at DePaul University.

List of major subjects completed during Masters:

Network Security & Advanced Network Security Configuring Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks, Intrusion Detection Systems. Use of Network Security Auditing Tools, Configuring Snort as well as writing Custom Snort

Rules, Prevention Techniques against attacks on Routers as well as Switches which Includes (DOS, DDOS, DHCP Snooping, VLAN attacks, MAC Spoofing)

Security Management & Legal Issues In Information Assurance Working Knowledge of Information Security Compliance & Frameworks (NIST, CERT, SIRT, HIPPA, PCI, GLBA), Information security vulnerabilities, Threats, and Risk management, Risk Incident Reporting & Response. 

Telecommunications Practicum Design cabling using plan as per ANSI EIA/TIA standards and setup High Availability

networks and servers using technologies and protocols HSRP/VRRP, Link Aggregation, NIC Bonding, RSTP, etc. & measuring there Performance, throughput and failover time

Advanced Network Technologies & Design Using MPLS. Working of Protocols & Features used by Service Provider for fast as well as secure Transmission of data from multiple customers across the backbone based on MPLS Technologies like MPLS-VPN, EoMPLS for Metro Ethernet, MPLS-TE, MPLS for IPv6

Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from Amity School of Engineering & Technology, Noida, UP. Amity is ranked amongst Top 10 Engineering Colleges in India. It is affiliated to Purdue University, Indiana, USA. I cleared my Bachelors with a CGPA of 7.23.

High school (Grade 12) from CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and scored76% (with majors in Science & Mathematics).

High school (Grade 10) from CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education) and scored82.6% (with majors in Science & Mathematics).

List of Devices I have experience working with:Firewall/IPS

Configuration/Troubleshooting PIX 500 series Firewall Configuration/Troubleshooting ASA 5500 series Configuration/Troubleshooting ASA 5500-X series Configuration/Troubleshooting IPS/IDS Appliance Design, Configure and Troubleshoot DMZ. Configuration/Troubleshooting ZBF (Zone Based Firewall) Mitigating and Preventing Network Attacks

Cisco Switches & Routers

Cisco 1800 Series Router Cisco 2800 Series Router Cisco 2900 Series Switch Cisco 3750 Switch.

Cisco Content Security and Control

Configuration/Troubleshooting of CSC module URL Blocking using CSC module URL Filtering using CSC module

Restricting use of network resources using following

URL-filtering using Softwares Like Websense/N2H2, Ironport

CertificationsCisco Certified Network Associate in Routing & Switching (640-802).ITIL V3 certification from IBM

Personal StrengthsGood Communication skillsTeam player, keen & quick learner, hard workingLanguages I can work with- English, Hindi, Elementary French