Ashish kakade

E-mail: ashish.kakade87@gmail.com
Contact no. +91 9820635611

PROFESSIONAL SNAPSHOT
Ensuring a high-quality customer experience, elevating customer satisfaction, while adhering to the SLAs and
work processes.
Possess excellent technical, interpersonal, communication and organizational skills with proven abilities in
team management, customer relationship management and planning.
A thorough professional with a proactive attitude, capable of thinking in and out of the box.

Technical Skills

Technical Skills:

• Troubleshooting & maintaining the network setup of the customer site and remotely coordinating with the
engineers for field support.
• Up gradation and Patch (Hotfix) Installation on Checkpoint (All version) – R75.40, R75.47, R76, R77,
R77.10, R77.20 & R77.30.
• Checkpoint Full HA Deployment, Creation of Standalone and Distributed Installing and upgrading
checkpoint firewall such as 1100 and 4000 series.
• Adding policies and NAT rules on Checkpoint Firewall. Configuring static routes and L2 - L3 technologies
Configuring and troubleshooting Inter-Vlan routing.
• Prepare Low level and High level design for Global clients Work on Enhanced Data services'
NETCOOL generated Tickets.
• Troubleshooting Cisco routers, switches.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of IPSec Site-to-Site VPN on Checkpoint Firewall.
• Configured and Managing ClusterXL on checkpoint firewall
• Providing security for Internal Users by enabling Application and URL filtering on Checkpoint Firewall.
• Building, Modifying, Repairing and Deleting of logical circuits according to the requirements.
• Supporting Enterprise clients and network administrators, Network Manager, Network Technicians with
support requests.
• Tests, monitors, and troubleshoots a variety of complex networks using established procedures, tools and
other sources to matters of significance and resolve matters of significance or escalates as necessary.
• Configuring Switching technologies such as STP and RSTP.

Syntel Pvt Ltd

From July 2018—Till Date
Designation: Security Consultant

Responsibilities/Achievement
• Configure changes on Checkpoint firewall which includes, policies, VPN (Site to Site).
• Creating document for doing a RCA analysis to minimize the business impact. Firm believer in team effort,
always working in direction to ensure no downtime involved in the activity and to resume operations
within SLA
• Configuration and troubleshooting on Bluecoat Proxies (SG/ASG) through SMC
• Weekly/Monthly incident analysis report. Analyzing the events and providing solutions for the incidents
 Zensar Technologies
From April.2017- Nov 2017
Designation: Technical Specialist
Project: Colliers International (US/EMEA)

Responsibilities/Achievement
• Configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting Routers (Cisco 29xx,28xx) and switches 2960x 3560-E etc.
• Installing, configuring, upgrading and troubleshooting checkpoint firewalls (Gaia R80, R77 and R75) and
Cisco ASA’s for multiple sites belongs to US, Canada and EMEA region.
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco Meraki APs and Switches in Meraki cloud.
• Gather client requirement for network changes and implementation.
• Documented step by step procedure to install routers, modems & switches, firewall and configure them.
• Elected as a Shift lead to deliver the best/managed service to customer.
• Ensuring that the network is secured and the devices are hardened to mitigate any malicious activity,
managing and monitoring firewalls and configuring advanced policies for the same.

Info Pixel Graphics Pvt Ltd From :- May 2010 to April 2017
Job Responsibilities:
• Handling Enhanced Managed Data Services Tier II team and operating in a fast paced, changing and
challenging 24x7 environment.
• Ensuring that team meets all SLA's.
• Configuring Routing Protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP.
• Significant OSPF, EIGRP and BGP(Basic) design, implementation, and troubleshooting experience in an
enterprise environment.
• Provide the Root cause Analysis for all the Major & Minor Incidents.
• Working with customers for their various maintenance windows which will carry activities such as image
• Checkpoint Deployment as Standalone and Distributed Devices,
• IOS Up-gradation with Minimal & Zero Downtime, Rule creation,
• Rule optimization, Logs Analysis, Natting,
• VPN (IPSec Site to Site) and various troubleshooting etc. on checkpoint firewall
• Handling Enhanced Managed Data Services Tier II team and operating in a fast paced, changing and
challenging 24x7 environment.
• Ensuring that team meets all SLA's.
• Ensuring that team is motivated throughout so that ownership concerns never arise.
• Identifying process hurdles pro-actively and eliminates any future challenges in operations ensuring
organization benefits.
• Preparing and presenting the Daily/Weekly/Monthly Service Reviews to process stake holders.
• Taking Backup of Management Server Firewall Gateway with using Snapshot, Backup, Export and
Migrate tool.
• Adding policies and rules on Checkpoint Firewall.
• Configure and verify secure connectivity using VPNs, HA and Load balancing on Firewall .
• Managing change request and change control process.
• Configuration of Network Management protocol such as SNMP / NTP and SSH
• Responsible to make Daily Reports of Bandwidth Utilization, Uptime Reports, Downtime report, Daily
Incident Reports, Link, CPU & Memory Utilization Reports and done analysis
• Experience in working in a 24/7 Global Multinational & Multicultural Environment
• Managing assigned projects and program components to deliver services in accordance with established
objectives.
• Supervising the administration of systems and servers related network to ensure availability of services to
authorized users.
 ACHIEVEMENTS

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Trained the team on various networking topics.
Delivered towards best team performance..

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

 BSc in IT William Carey University, Meghalaya - 2009

 HSC from ICSE Board - 2005
 SSC from Dunne’s Institute, ICSE Board - 2003

PERSONAL DETAILS

Name: Ashish K
Date of Birth: 26th March 1987
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Single
Nationality: Indian
Current Address: 19 Hazarimal Somani Marg , B.D.T.A Compound , Near Godrej Showroom , Fort
,Mumbai-400001

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the above-mentioned information is correct up to my knowledge and I bear the responsibility for
the correctness of the above-mentioned particulars.