Rudolph Lacerda

Experience

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  Caliber Services Pvt. Ltd.

  May 2002 - Jun 2004

  Technician

  • Network implementation and configuration as per template. • Configuring routers for remote access, NAT, SNMP and IOS upgrade.

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  Accenture

  Aug 2004 - Apr 2005

  Technical Support Representative

  •Providing support for home user customers, based in the US, to connect their home PC to the Internet and also for setting up a home network.•Testing for line errors by running tests on the telephone line terminating into the CPE.•Providing support for corporate customers who have taken fixed and sticky ip from SBC, to connect to the Internet.

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  Siemens

  May 2005 - May 2007

  Technical Associate

  •Coordinating with the ISP’s Engineers for maintenance activities carried out on their network. Examples, Check failover of links and devices and convergence of the routing protocol after a failure.•First level troubleshooting for MPLS MP-BGP for ISP’s customer. •Maintaining documentation of the network and providing information to the ISP’s customers.•Managing the switching infrastructure for the site including deployment of VLAN and STP•Management of the IP addressing for the sites. Show less

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  Datacraft

  Jul 2007 - May 2008

  Network Consultant

  • Successfully lead the IP BackHaul (IPBH )TAC team from Datacraft at Reliance Communications. The IPBH was a second-of-its-kind implementation for CDMA mobile networks worldwide.Worked as a field engineer for first 4 months wherein, job responsibilities included:• Configuration of QoS for voice and applications.• Designing and implementing RADIUS for the network devices.• Setting up site-to-site VPN for customers.• Deploying BGP (e-Bgp and i-Bgp) and OSPF (Multi-Area) networks.• Network migrations, upgrades, etc• Creating Standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for commonly done network tasks. Show less

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  Capgemini

  May 2008 - Aug 2011

  Consultant

  • Network administration of Capgemini’s Datacenter at Amsterdam NL, that provided platform virtualization and internet services to customers.• Planning and executing network changes to customer network which were approved trough a change management process.• L3 support for incident management and consultancy for problem management related to network and security.

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  IBM

  Sept 2011 - Mar 2012

  Assistant Project Manager

  • Part of the team that designed the Mumbai International Airport network which used MPLS-TE over OSPF to transport CCTV multicast, Voice, Video and unicast Data traffic. Also, front-ended with the airport subsystems vendors to understand the demands from the network for each vendor’s package like FIDS, CCTV, CUTE, etc.• Successfully completed the network migration of First Rand Bank of South Africa at Mumbai exceeding the customer’s expectation.

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  Wipro

  Aug 2012 - May 2015

  Network Transition Manager

  • Successfully lead the network transition of the new T2 Terminal of Mumbai International Airport which runs MPLS-TE on Juniper MX-480 at the distribution (PE), MX-960 at the core (P). Static and Dynamic backup LSP Tunnels used along with FRR feature for Link and Node protection. (Customer appreciation available on request)• Successfully lead the Network Transition and optimized the network environment of the existing airport at Mumbai (Customer appreciation available on request)• Completed a multi-domain transition for HDFC Life• Leading a multi-domain transition for NABARD• Deployed to front-end with customers for major network-related escalations for west and south region. (Customer appreciations available on request)• Provide L4 support to all Wipro L3 engineers across the country. (Internal Testimonials available on request)• Provide consultancy service for network optimization during transition. Show less

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  NIIT Technologies Limited

  Aug 2015 - Mar 2016

  Network Specialist

  • Network L3 for the world’s largest cement manufacturing company which runs BGP over MPLS between locations and Datacenter.• Successfully migrated the Datacenter from Mumbai to Singapore.

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  LTI - Larsen & Toubro Infotech

  Aug 2016 - Dec 2019

  Network Team Lead

  • Working on the Nexus 5K and 7K series in the Datacenter.• Configuring BGP on the dark fiber leased by the customer.• Configuring OSPF on the internal network and redistribution it into BGP

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  LARSEN & TOUBRO INFOTECH NORGE

  Mar 2018 - Dec 2019

  IT Engineer

  • Working on an ACI multi-pod, multi-tenanted fabric infrastructure and migrating from the traditional datacenter to the new ACI fabric.• Working on the Checkpoint and Cisco Firepower infrastructure for creating rules, Application and URL filtering and NAT for internet and Datacenter access• Working on the Alteon loadbalancers for Datacenter server load balancing

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  Capita

  Dec 2019 - Jun 2020

  Network Architect

  Designing and implementation of a new MPLS core and migration of existing services to the new core for one of our UK based customers.

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  Ensono

  Jun 2020 - now

  •Managing Ensono’s private cloud platform that uses NSX as the overlay and ACI as the underlay for the virtualized environment and uses ACI as the overlay for bare metal deployments.•Managing customer’s hybrid cloud platform wherein, on-premises workloads are hosted on Ensono’s private cloud and off-premises workloads are hosted in Azure. •Migration of the legacy network, including Nexus, into the ACI and NSX fabric at each datacenter which, also includes the migration of the associated physical and virtual servers, load balancers, firewalls and SANs that were using the legacy network infrastructure. Ultimately leading, to a trans-global multi-pod stretched ACI fabric.•Ensono’s Datacenters are spread across North America, Europe and South-East Asia and connected via MPLS and Ensono itself being an ISP, which participates with other regional ISP’s by exchanging the entire internet routing table with community tags used to control route exchange.•Lead Architect Engineer for Fortinet SDWAN deployment Show less

  • Expert Network Engineer

    Dec 2022 - now

  • Senior Network Architect

    Jun 2020 - now