Resume of Vivek Ratan

E-mail : vivekratan2012@gmail.com

Contact Number: 1-778-922-3941

Objective: To work in areas of virtualization, cloud computing and security so as to gain strong and relevant
experience to become a Designer / Architect in the next 5 years.

Summary:

Information Science Engineering Graduate from VTU, Belgaum, India

VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization (vSphere 5.5)
VMware NSX Network Virtualization (NSX 6.0)
Cisco Certified Networking Professional in Routing & Switching
Cisco Certified Associate in Data Center, Security, Voice and Wireless
Network Engineer at Thomson Reuters Networking Command Center for a year with key responsibilities
consisting of network monitoring, incident management and troubleshooting besides liaison with ISPs/external
vendors and support teams
Cloud administrator at VMware handling DNS and VM builds for close to a year
Currently Masters in Telecom and Information Security at University of Victoria, BC, Canada

Education
Degree

Discipline

School/college

Board/University

Year of Passing

MEng

Telecommunicati
ons and
Information
Security (MTIS)
Information
Science
Engineering
Computer
Science stream

Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering,
University of Victoria.

University of Victoria, BC,

Canada

Expected to
graduate by
Aug 2016

JSS Academy of Technical

Education, Bangalore, India

Visvesvaraya
Technological University,
Belgaum, India
Pre-University Board,
Karnataka, India
Central Board of
Secondary Education,
New Delhi

B.E

Pre University
Course
Central Board
of Secondary
Education

X Standard

SBMJC ,VV Puram

Bangalore , India
Delhi Public School,
Bangalore South

2012

2007
2005

Technical Training
From August 2012 to Jan 2013 underwent a six-month CCNA Discovery course based on curriculum designed by
Cisco Network Academy at Karnataka German Technical Training Institute, Bangalore.

Academic Project
Graduate level: Capstone project Advanced MPLS design

May 2016

Testing environment: Graphical Network Simulator 3 (GNS 3)

Protocols implemented: RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and M-BGP.
Description: Design and construction of L3 VPN was done to provide high speed connectivity between
headquarters and branch offices in the simulation. To identify and separate various branch offices VRF
(Virtual routing and forwarding) was implemented. Combination of c3640 and c7200 routers and results
of packet flow was captured and analyzed using Wireshark.

Resume of Vivek Ratan

E-mail : vivekratan2012@gmail.com

Contact Number: 1-778-922-3941

Undergraduate level project - Simulation of Cloud based Client Side Load Balancer

May 2012

Language of Implementation:
Java, XML, JSP and SQL
Application Servers Used:
Web logic and Apache Tomcat
Description: A client side load balancer was implemented on a web server farm to redirect traffic due to
congestion of servers. Client side load balancer directly delivers static contents while allowing a client to
choose a corresponding back-end web server for dynamic contents using number of hits taken in by the
servers in the web cluster farm.

Work Experience
Thomson Reuters, Bangalore, India at NCC (Network Command Center)
Role: Network Engineer

Sep-2013 to Oct-2014

Key responsibilities:

Network monitoring using tools such as Nagios, Webtop and GEV

Network changes as assigned by Voice, WAN and LAN network teams (ACLs, DNS changes, WideIPs for
virtual servers, Policy push)
Trouble shooting issues on LAN and WAN network devices, gathering diagnostic details, engaging external
vendors / Level 2 teams
Adherence to Incident Management procedures and SLAs

VMware, Bangalore thru ThakralOne Solutions.

Role:

Nov-2014 to Aug-2015

Cloud Admin

Key responsibilities:

Building Virtual Machines as well as Troubleshooting

Making changes on internal and External DNS using Infoblox, LTM, GTM and puppet master.

Tools / Training:

Service manager 9 & Service manager 7 for opening incident tickets and working on changes.
GBsuites Banana tool and Inflobox for DNS creation,modifications.
Citrix for creation of ACLs on networking devices.
Worked with various ISPs such as Verizon, AT&T, Level3, Global Crossing, Cogent, Eircom and Telefonica
etc for creation of vendor tickets.
Trained on other tools such as Zipper, Fetch, HPNA, Netcool and SevOne etc.
vSphere and vCloud for making creating and modifying Virtual Machines.
Worked on HP Tivoli and Nagios for monitoring of alerts.

Devices:
Cisco Nexus 7k and 9k switches monitoring and troubleshooting.
Cisco WCS and WLC for health monitoring of access points.

Cyclades ACS 6000 & 3000 for addition/removal of port configurations.

Checkpoint NGX version R65, R75 and R77 for policy push.
F5 GTM for setting up WideIPs for virtual servers load balancing.

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E-mail : vivekratan2012@gmail.com

Contact Number: 1-778-922-3941

Professional Certification
Examination /Specialization

Certification
Body

Year of
Passing

Marks / Percentage
(Cisco exams max 1000)

VMware

Dec 2014

471/500

VMware

July 2014

469/500

VCE

May 2014

87%

VMware Certified Professional 6 Network Virtualization (NSX 6.0)

VMware Certified Professional 5 Data Center Virtualization

(vSphere 5.5)

Virtual Computing Environment Converged Infrastructure

Switch 934
Cisco Certified Networking Professional - Routing & Switching

CISCO

May 2014

Route - 877
TSHOOT - 945

Cisco Certified Networking Associate -

Wireless

CISCO

Aug 2013

CISCO

July 2013

CCNA 967
DCICN 968

Cisco Certified Networking Associate - Data Center

DCICT 1000
Cisco Certified Networking Associate -

Security

CISCO

May 2013

CCNA 989

Cisco Certified Networking Associate -

Voice

CISCO

April 2013

CCNA 976