Mahim Hingorani
Redmond,WA
Summary
A seasoned professional with 18 years of expertise in resolving complex customer issues through innovative solutions.
As a Sr. Architect at CX, Cisco, working as a Leader, to solve Business & Technological challenges, with Plan, Design, Implement and Optimize solutions. Motivate & Empower teams to have win-win solutions with cross-collaboration within teams. Worked with Wipro Technologies as Senior Project Engineer
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
5
5
Certification
Work History
Sr. Architect
Cisco Systems
10.2021 - Current
- Sr. Architect for CX GES, Cisco, responsible for leading customer's Digital Transformation journey in the Enterprise space.
- Be a torch bearer for SD Access / Catalyst Center, Thousand Eyes, DNA Spaces, Wireless, ISE
- Having intermediate insight on Meraki and SDWAN technologies
- Advocate for the CX GES Services to Sales, BU, and SLM
- Helping Engineers to take the Automation and Innovation route
- Mentoring and coaching engineers to be an advisors for accounts lead the Design/Planning conversations with customers
- Taking the overall Account Level responsibility for the Enterprise customers.
Solution Architect
Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd.
07.2011 - 09.2021
- Currently working as Architect for Digital Network Architecture (DNA) - SD Access
- Leading different teams across globe to drive adoption and mentor them
- Working with Presales and delivery teams in Architecting the Solution & engage till the Implementation, Migration, Optimization and Automation
- Working with cross collaboration teams for Presales /PoC /Plan /Design/ Implementation of Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA) / Software Defined Wide Area Network (SDWAN) technologies
- Doing Innovation and Automation of the current process by improving delivery efficiencies
- Collaborated in Cisco Live for 'SDA - Secure Segmentation - Design Approach and Case Study'
- Document Ref# CCSCRS - 2000
- Worked as lead for Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) for Consulting on Plan, Design, Implement, and Migrate projects, UCS, Nexus 1000 and Nexus 9K
- Excellent Customer handling and advocacy skills
- Handling CRD Workshops, Designing and Reviewing complex HLD and LLDs, MoPs, NIP/ NRFU for different Enterprise and SP customers
- Configuration and Solution Validation testing for different customer use cases
- Imparting technology / process trainings for internal stakeholders / partners / customers.
Senior Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
02.2009 - 06.2011
- Managed Checkpoint R70.20, approval and modification of rulebase
- Looking after Customer LAN, Local LAN & WAN (IPSec and SSL VPN) circuits
- Independently handling configuration creation for different types of Managed WAN site i/c BGP, NATing, ACLs, IP Addressing etc
- Implementing the configuration on the routers, testing and troubleshooting
- Migration Activities
- Preparation of Pre/Final config
- Protocols - Static/BGP Routing
- Worked as a lead / escalation point of contact for MW
- IPMAN - Configuring of switches/routers for enterprise customers of Telstra
- Configuring VLANs, Upgrading/ downgrading the bandwidth, for customers Configuring PE routers.
Systems Engineer
Honeywell Automation India Ltd
09.2007 - 02.2009
- Looked after the Honeywell local and regional network
- Configuration, coordination with ISPs on the WAN networks
- Designed, implemented and Administration of the ODC Network
- Planned & designed new Datacenter for network
- Planned and implemented Wi-Fi Network for whole Honeywell Pune location
- L3 Escalation PoC for Network Issues at regional level
- Products/ Technology worked: (1) Switches - Nortel 8600/5500/450, Cisco 3700/2900 VLANs (2) Router - 2600/2500 (3) Firewall - Netscreen 208/5GT (4) Dell Servers - DHCP, DNS, IIS, ISA (5) WLAN - Cisco AP 1130, 4402 Controller.
Education
PG Diploma Program in Artificial Intelligence for Leaders (AIFL) - Artificial Intelligence
Greatlakes University of Texas Austin
Virtual01.2020
Master of Science - Computer Technology & Applications
School of IT Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Bhopal06.2006
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication
Bhopal Engineering College, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Bhopal06.2003
Skills
- Strong leadership abilities
- Advanced Technical Knowledge
- Innovative problem-solving
- Team Collaboration Aptitude
- Technical Architecture Design
- Customer Advocacy
Technology And Product Experience - Products
- Technology Domains : SD Access, Catalyst Center, Thousand Eyes, Meraki, SDWAN, R&S, Cisco Spaces
- Security : Netscreen 208/204/5GT, ASA 5520, Checkpoint R70.20, Cisco ISE, ASA/SecureX (Basics),
- Wireless : Cisco Controller AireOS/ IOSXE, AP 1131/12xx, 91xx,
- Enterprise Products : Catalyst 9xxx, Catalyst 38xx/36xx/19xx/29xx/65xx/68xx
- Datacenter : UCS, Nexus 7K/6K/5K/2K, Nexus 9K (standalone/ACI), APIC, UCS, Nexus 1000v
- Routers : Cisco 8xx/17-18xx/25xx/26xx/28xx/36xx/37xx, Nortel 5000, ASR 9000, CRS-1, ASR 1000, ASR 903, Juniper M320,
- Automation Tools : Python, Automation Framework, API Programming
- Cloud - Multicloud, MS Azure and AWS Trained
Certification
Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert (CCIE) - SP and DC - 48684
Cisco Certified Networking Professional (Security)
Cisco Certified Devnet Associate (DEV-ASC)
ITIL Foundation
Aviatrix Certified Engineer (ACE)
TOGAF trained
CDP-2 certified
Microsoft Azure Trained
Product Management Trained
Timeline
Sr. Architect
Cisco Systems
10.2021 - Current
Solution Architect
Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd.
07.2011 - 09.2021
Senior Project Engineer
Wipro Technologies
02.2009 - 06.2011
Systems Engineer
Honeywell Automation India Ltd
09.2007 - 02.2009
PG Diploma Program in Artificial Intelligence for Leaders (AIFL) - Artificial Intelligence
Greatlakes University of Texas Austin
Master of Science - Computer Technology & Applications
School of IT Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya
Bachelor of Science - Electronics & Communication
Bhopal Engineering College, Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki Vishwavidyalaya