Abhijeet Dalvi

• Responsible for managing enterprise wide network and network security infrastructure. Collaborate with business stakeholders and leadership to define system requirements for new technology initiatives, translating needs into actionable project plans. Develop and publish network procedures, technical standards and guidelines. Work with the security teams to secure infrastructure and keep with PCI compliance requirements.

Accomplishments:

• Lead the deployment and implementation of Palo alto firewalls and VPN solutions to support remote employees.
• Implemented enterprise wide SDWAN to improve over all efficiency , reliability at remote sites
• Built and deployed infrastructure for a new Data center and worked with the applications team to successfully migrate services to the new Data center
• Lead the deployment of Meraki wireless enterprise wide improving connectivity
• Improved connectivity to remote sites by improving circuit capacity and deploying efficient network solutions.
• Evaluated vendor proposals for hardware, software, and services to make informed recommendations that aligned with organizational goals.
• Enhanced overall network reliability with proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, automation and timely resolution of issues.

Responsible for planning, forecasting, implementation and identification of resource requirements for network systems from moderate to high complexity. Responsible for the implementation of approved network architecture and designs. Evaluating new products, performing network problem resolutions, assisting in the development and documentation of technical standards. Simultaneously supporting one or more projects as a project team member, and regularly as a team lead mentoring less experienced team members

Accomplishments

• Started as a NE I and received promotions for superlative performance.
• Team lead on project that built internet backbone in 7 mountain states region.
• Migrated all services from extreme networks to Cisco products in the region while maintaining downtime SLA
• Troubleshot complex multi-vendor network service provider issues.
• Developed comprehensive documentation for network design, configuration standards, and operational procedures.
• Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis.