Sutha (Sutharshini) Thangavel

Skills

• Extensive hands-on experience with CISCO devices
  Routers (7200, 3640), Catalyst and IOS based switches (e.g. 2950, 4000), Hybrid switches (e.g. 6500),  Native IOS switches (e.g. 6500),  Layer3 switches (e.g. 4000),  Load Balancers (e.g. 11000)
• Network Management Tools
  Tivoli  administration, Cisco works 2000, Cisco Network registrar  DNS/DHCP server
• Networking Protocols
  TCP/IP, EIGRP, BGP, DHCP, PPP and RIP
• Languages
  C, C++, Visual Basic, Perl and Java

Experience

• OCT 2002 -  OCT 2005 :  Communication Analyst @ Telstra, Melbourne, Australia

  Telstra is the largest telecommunications company in Australia, providing telephone and broadband services.  I was part of National Australia Bank Care team (the bank outsourced its network operations to Telstra)

• Responsibilities

• Installation, Maintenance and Troubleshooting of IP network
• pager support
• network design
• Administration of IP addressing
• Administration of DNS/DHCP server
  

• Projects

• Working the firewall support team to upgrade their firewall to NG1 and ensuring that they were able to inter operate with Cisco switches due to the static Multicast CAM and IP ARP requirement. My role was to test that the Cisco devices were operating as expected and to do the implementation from network perspective
• Enabling global load balancing between 2 pairs of Load Balancers (CSS) and configuring the DNS (Cisco Network Registrar) accordingly. My role was to configure and test the requirement
• Development sub module installation. Configure and install the following Cisco devices
• 2 x 3750G-12-E as sub-module distribution routers
• 2 x 4506 (SupII) Catalyst switches for access layer
• 1 x 4006 (SupII) Catalyst switch for access layer
• Connect sub-module distribution routers to Core distribution routers(3750G-12-E) via BGP
  
  

• Jan 2000 - Oct 2002:  National Australia Bank, Melbourne, Australia

  National Australia Bank (NAB) is a large bank in Australia.
  Graduate Communication Analyst (2000), Associate Communication Analyst (2001), Communication Analyst (2002)

• Responsibilities:

• Maintenance, Troubleshooting  and installation of IP network
• Administration of IP addresses
• Support of Test SNA Network
• TeamPlay Administration for Network support team (Time recording Tool)
• Allocation of Projects within the team

• Some projects done are

• support NAB network
• Configure and maintain the Cisco Network Registrar (CNR) to support the NAB internal DNS/DHCP requirement. This includes any DHCP scope/DNS additions. Also maintain pearl scripts that can be used to automate the DHCP scope addition/modification
• Pager support - When on primary pager support (1 in 7 weeks) support for any IP network related fault within the National Aus. Bank. These include support for all types of Cisco devices listed under skills set but not limited to them
  

Education

• Professional Courses

  • Cisco Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks BSCI 2.0 (2003)
  • Cisco InternetWork Troubleshooting (CIT) (2002)
  • Building Cisco Multi Layer Switching Networks (2001)
  • Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices (2001)

• University

  Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) and Bachelor of Science (Computer) at University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
  Final Year Project
  Building a Parkinson Disease Diagnostic System using Artificial Neural Networks. The system was built using Visual Basic 5 for user interface and Borland C for the Algorithms and functions.