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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
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Certification
Networking Skills
Accomplishments
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Cloud
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VIKASH VIKASH

Vancouver,BC

Summary

Perceptive Senior Technical Support Specialist with established Routing,networking and NGFW knowledge. Bringing over 5 years of professional experience Networking service. Extensive knowledge of using and troubleshooting.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior TAC

Fortinet Technologies
06.2021 - Current
  • Working on NGFW.
  • FGT, FMG,FAZ integration
  • SME in VPN, Routing , UTM issues

Technical Support Specialist-Intern

Fortinet Technologies
05.2021 - 08.2021

Teaching Assistant TCP/IP Course

Dalhousie University
02.2021 - 04.2021
  • Assisting with Lab activities and helping students on Layer2 & Layer3 Concepts ARP, IGMP, DHCP, DNS, TCP fundamentals, RTO and Fast Retransmission etc.

Senior Network Associate

NTT DATA
07.2019 - 12.2019
  • Worked in NetOps team handling change management and network issues, with basic troubleshooting of routing and switching, opening, and closing of tickets as well as escalating them to various concerning teams.

Education

Master of Science - Internetworking

Dalhousie University
Halifax, NS
07.2021

Skills

  • BGP
  • OSPF
  • VLAN
  • STP
  • VTP
  • LAG
  • MPLS
  • VPN
  • ZTNA
  • VXLAN
  • Multicast
  • AWS
  • AZURE

Certification

  • CCNA(Routing &Switching)
  • NSE 1,2,3,4,7(Enterprise)
  • AWS CCP certified
  • AWS solution architect ( SAA-03)

Networking Skills

  • In depth knowledge of switching concepts : VLAN, STP ,VTP, RSTP, Etherchannel, RSTP , DHCP snooping , ARP.
  • over 5 years On Hands experience on routing protocols : OSPF, BGP, MPLS, LDP, MPLS VPN, MPLSL2 Encapsulation, EIGRP , IS-IS , Policy routing, Redistribution.
  • TCP and UDP troubleshooting with wireshark
  • Expert in latency , packet loss, SDWAN.
  • DHCP, DNS , NAT, Virtual IP, IPpool knowledge with PCAP's.
  • High availability , HSRP , VRRP , Load balancing , HA in firewalls in hand knowledge.
  • Experience in troubleshooting : Multicast(IGMP+PIM) , VXlan, SAML, ZTNA (Zero Trust)
  • Over 3 years experience on NGFW : IPS , IDS, UTM, Kernel issues, Auto discovery VPN, VPN, SSLVPN, WAD, Proxy, Window authentication ( LDAP, RADIUS, Agent based authentication).
  • VPLS
  • In depth knowledge of SASE , On hands experience on FortiSASE

Accomplishments

Recipient of scholarships in five distinct courses during my tenure at Dalhousie University, displaying a strong commitment to academic excellence and a multifaceted range of subject matter expertise.

Published articles

  • Https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-AWS-HA-issue-when-using-different-instance-types/ta-p/272659
  • Https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-setup-custom-DNS-hosted-zone-on-AWS-and-use/ta-p/272158
  • Https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-How-to-setup-FortiGate-in-Active-Active-mode-with/ta-p/269985

Cloud

AWS : VPC, ENI , Terraform, Security Group, Routing, VPN , Cloudfront, DHCP , Cloudwatch , VPC endpoint, PrivateLink, Transit Gateway, Client VPN , Direct Connect, Elastic load balancers , Route 53, GWLB, Cloudtrail, AWS config.


AZURE: VNet, Azure DNS, Load balancer , WAF , Azure traffic manager, VPN, Certificates, Azure AD, Expressroute, NSG, Endpoints.

Languages

English
Full Professional

Timeline

Senior TAC

Fortinet Technologies
06.2021 - Current

Technical Support Specialist-Intern

Fortinet Technologies
05.2021 - 08.2021

Teaching Assistant TCP/IP Course

Dalhousie University
02.2021 - 04.2021

Senior Network Associate

NTT DATA
07.2019 - 12.2019

Master of Science - Internetworking

Dalhousie University
  • CCNA(Routing &Switching)
  • NSE 1,2,3,4,7(Enterprise)
  • AWS CCP certified
  • AWS solution architect ( SAA-03)
VIKASH VIKASH