IT Infrastructure Expert & Trainer Profile

Mr. Chandan Sharma: An IT Infrastructure expert and Trainer par excellence Introduction: Mr. Chandan Sharma is a Triple CCIE# 19701 having vast experience Of over 24 years in the industry Training and providing IT solutions to thousands Of Students and numerous corporate clients. He is also founder of Horizon Computers Which has become the most trusted brand for Quality education in the field of Core Networking and Security Certification training on multi-vendor platform CCNA, CCNP, CCIE Lab Training in Infrastructure, wireless, Service Provider, Security And Data Centers Tracks. Next Generation firewall Training on Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Palo alto, FortiGate, Zscaler other Vendors Training includes F5, Radware, Bluecoat, Aruba, Barracuda, etc. Professional Tie-ups: Senior Training Consultant to NTT for past 5 years Cyber Security Auditor for Reliance Industries Limited Corporate Training Consultant for CMS IT Services Consultant to Nterone for Cisco/Cloudflare Authorized courses Cisco Certified system Instructor CCSI# 36032 Certification: CCIERouting &Switching (2007) CCIESecurity (2009) CCIE Serviceprovider (2015) CCIE Data CenterWritten (2019) CCDE (2024) CCIE Emeritus offered by Cisco system inc. Major Training and Professional achievement s: 1. Created Customized Contents and Conducted Training for Airtel 5G Level1 and Level 2 Team Consisting of 700 participants. 2. Provided Training of CCIE Security Lab to Cisco system inc. employees(India). 3. Cisco DCNM to Cisco Australia TAC support Engineers. 4. Created Customized Contents and conducted Training for Cisco NCS Routers and . Implementing IOS-XR EVPN Technology using MPLS/Segment routing for TCL. 1

5. Developed Labs and Conducted Training for FortiGate Level4 & 7 Training (Infrastructure, Security and SDWAN) to BRENNAN IT. 6. Provided MPLS/TE and Multicast Training to ECI telecom. 7. Conducted Firewall Audit on ICS firewalls for Reliance Industries Ltd. 8. Cisco Viptela SDWAN Training to Inventa Digital Technologies. 9. Cisco Wireless LAN and Nexus 9000 and Bluecoat Proxy Training to Nomura. 10. Created Aruba Switching Associate Certification Lab guide and Provided Training to Saint Gobain. 11. F5 LTM and WAF, Checkpoint, Cisco Firepower Training to Orangebusiness. 12. CMS IT Services Cisco Meraki, Zscaler, Akmai CDN, Cisco WLC, Palo Alto Prisma, A10 Load balancer Sonic Firewall. 13. Conducted Training for CDAC Data Center Solution: Cisco UCS/ ACI/ Nexus/ Threat grid/ Firepower / Umbrella/ Radware Load Balancer. 14. RiverbedWan Optimization training toOrange Business 15. Cisco Viptela SD wan implementing Solution training to Cisco. 16. Delivered Solution Architect Designing and POC for Cisco system inc to Client Adani Electricity, HPCL, ICICI bank ,Bank of India. 17. SD WAN Solution and Design POC for Orange business solution on Cisco Viptela, Fortinet and Versa Network through NTT 18. FortiGATE SDWAN & Viptela SD WAN training to Nomura 19. Fort iGATE NSE 4 and NSE 7 training to Vodafone 20. Palo Alto Firewall training to Wysetek. 21. ADMUMB Umbrella training to Cisco. 22. EmailSecurity, Cisco Ironport, CheckpointHarmony TrainingtoOrangeBusiness. 23. Routing and Switching, Firewall ,loadbalancer, Trend MicroIPS &F5 WAF , Sophos Cyberoam training to Wysetek Systems. 24. Delivered CCNA,Fortigate NSE 4and Palo Alto firewall +Cybersecurity Training to Pipeline Infrastructure Limited. 25. CCNA+CCNPEnterprise training to Bank of India. 26. Cisco ENARSI training to Vodafone. 27. Fort iGATE 7.4 Administrator training to Marlink (Norway). 28. CCDE Training to Cisco Client. 29. Done IT/ OT SCADA Cyber security Assessment of Pipeline Infrastructure Limited. 30. IS-IS training to Cisco USA Client 31. CCIE Service Provider Lab training to Airtel (Kenya)

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Technical Expertise: Core Enterprise Routing & Switching Vendors: Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Versa Networks, FortiGate Can plan, design and troubleshoot Dual Stack Enterprise routing and Switching solution Using a single or multi-vendor solution. Can Create Customize Training contents and lab guide for Dual Stack Enterprise routing and switching on multi-vendor platform Resolve Latency or QOS issues in a complex and large-scale enterprise network OSPFv2, OSPFv3, EIGRP, EIGPRv6, MP-BGP, IS-IS, IS-ISv6 BFD, PBR, VRF Aware Routing Routing Protocol : Enterprise VPN SD-Access: : GRE, DMVPN, IPsec IKEv1, IKEv2 Cisco Meraki and Viptela SDWAN, FortiGate Secure SDWAN, Versa Networks, Palo Alto Network IP Multicast, Anycast RP, MSDP, MBGP, QOS (Lan & wan) Multicast & QOS : Overlay Fabric : LISP, VXLAN, Cisco TrustSec PVST, RSTP, MSTP, LACP, IEEE802.1Q, IEEE802.3ad, LLDP MCLAG, IEEE802.1X, EAP, STP and Layer 2 Security framework Switching Protocols: High availability Wireless LAN Hardware Platform : : HSRP, VRRP, NSF, Switch Stacking, VSS, VSF, VSX, : Cisco & Aruba Access point, WLC, WLAN Security Cisco ISR 1900,2900,3900,4000,1000 Meraki MX Cisco Catalyst 4500,6500, 9300,9400,3750,3560 Meraki MS series Juniper MX Series Routers, EX series Switches, ARUBA CX series Cisco Access Points Aironet 1050,3500,3600,1702i, Cisco WLC 2500, 5500 series, Aruba 7200 Network Management and Programmability: : SNMP, Syslog, NETCONF, RESTCONF, Netflow, Packet Captures, SPAN, RSPAN, IP SLA, Tracking objects, Protocols Packet Trace, Conditional debugger : Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, NAM, SolarWinds Cisco Meraki Dashboard, HP OpenView, Junos Space, Aruba NAE Basic understanding of JSON, XML, using phyton library Cisco DNA API, iHTTP, Yang/Netconf Management Suites Automation and Programmability :

Network Infrastructure Security Capable of Planning designing ISP Edge or Data Center Firewall andSecurity Capable of Fully Securing Network Infrastructure Security on Router, Switch and WLAN Integrating on premise Security with Cloud using Cisco Meraki, Zscaler, Barracuda FortiGate, Cisco umbrella Comprehensive Contents Security Using Proxy Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls, IPS Using multi-vendor products Cisco, Checkpoint, Palo alto, FortiGate, Juniper, F5 Specialize in ICS Firewall implementation and audits in IT-OT Infra for Checkpoint And FortiGate Created Customized Contents and Provided Network Security Training to numerousClients : IOS Harding, Layer2 Security, ACL, DACL, Private VLAN STP Security, Securing Management and Control plane, u RPF, D HCP and D NS security A RP inspection, Rate limiting for DOS protection, Storm control, 802.1x Port Control Infrastructure Security :AAA, Tacacs+, Radius, Cisco ISE implementation and integration LDAP, Digital Certificate, Aruba Clearpass, Access control, Endpoint Security Identity Management :Cisco ASA & Firepower, Juniper SRX, FortiGate, Palo alto NGFW,Palo Alto Prisma Cloud Security, Checkpoint, Barracuda, Internet Access, Cisco Meraki MX Next Generation Firewalls Zscaler Private and Cisco Iron port for Web and Email, Bluecoat, FortiWeb, FortiMail Zscaler, Proxy Firewalls : C i s c o A S D M , F M C , Pa l o a l t o P a n o r a m a , FortiManager, Stealthwatch Cisco umbrella, Checkpoint SMS, Cisco Threat-grid Security Management : :IPsec Site to Site using IKEv1, v2, Remote SSL VPN, Cisco FLEXVPN VPN High availability, Complex VPN Troubleshooting VPN Technologies Web Application Firewalls : F5 ASM, FortiWAF, Radware, Imperva, Fortinet EDR : Cisco Secure X, MacAfee

Service Provider Expertise Worked with Major Telcom vendors and Service providers to create customized Training for Core Service provider Technologies. Created Customized contents and Trained Service provider for 5G upgradation On RAN and Data core. Assisted a major Service provider to migrate from Cisco ASR to Newly launched Cisco NCS 5500 series Router . Segment routing using IS-IS and OSPFv2 MP-BGP, Multicast PIM (PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, PIM-BIDIR) Design RP Auto-RP, BSR, Anycast RP, MSDP, IGMP and MLD, MLDP, P2MP RSVP TE Tree-sid Service Providers Core Routing : M P L S L D P, S e g m e n t R o u t i n g , L D P a n d S R internetworking MPLS TE using RSVP, TE Policy, LSP attributes, SR-TE, PCE & PCEP Flex algo, optimize and scale TE performance, Unified MPLS, Multi-domain Segment routing, IGP/TE metrics, Disjoint paths, FRR, LFA- FRR, BFD MPLS and TE : IGP & LDP convergence, MPLS TE FRR, BGP-PIC : L3VPN, Inter-AS VPN, Shared Services, L3VPN Service autosteering using Segment routing, Rosen mVPN, NG mVPN L3VPN & Multicast VPN E-LINE, E-LAN and E-TREE. VPWS, VPLS and H-VPLS. EVPN, EVPN-VPWS, EVPN-IRB. L2VPN service auto steering into segment routing policy, Layer 2 Access (IEEE 802.1ad (Q-in-Q), IEEE 802.1ah (Mac-in-Mac), Carrier Ethernet : and ITU G.8032, REP) MPLS QoS models (Pipe, Short Pipe, and Uniform) MPLS TE QoS (MAM, RDM, CBTS, PBTS, and DS-TE) Service Provider QOS : Stateful Switch over/Non-Stop Forwarding, NSR, and Graceful Restart High Availability : : IOS, IOS-XE and XR, Junos, Cisco ASR 1000, 9000, NCS 5500 Series, Cisco NSO, Cisco crosswork controller Hardware Platform and OS

Date Center Expertise: Provided Training to Cisco TAC for DCNM Capable of handling any Training or implementation of Cisco Data Center Technology Designed Custom contents and Provided Training on Cisco Nexus 9000 Switch to Nomura Data Center Layer 2 Technologies : NX-OS, vPC, vDC, Static Binding, PVST, MST Data Center Layer 3 Technologies : OSPFv2, ISIS, BGP, NHRP, BFD, Multicast :Physical Fabric components, Fabric policy, tenants Monitoring Application profiles and EPGs, VRF lite, L3OUT, inter Fabric connectivity Overlay using VXLAN EVPN Data Center Fabric : UCSM Policies, Profiles and Templates, Hyperfle Compute Connectivity SAN/LAN uplinks, Rack server integration, Port Modes Data Center Computer : FC and FCOE (Zoning, NPV/NPIV,Trunking, port channel, Load Balance, iSCSI, RoCE v2 over IP Network Data Center Storage Data Center Management and Automation Cisco DCNM, : CWOM, Cisco ACI UCMD, Cisco Intersight : Cisco FEX 2000, Nexus 5000,7000 and 9000, Cisco MDS Data Center Hardware :F5 LTM, GTM, A10 Thunder, Radware alteon, Citrix Netscaler Load Balancer Wan optimizer : Cisco WAAS, Radware : Microsoft Azure, AWS, Window server, Vmware Workstation Vmware ESXI, vCenter Cloud Technologies and OS Other Technologies : CDN Akmai DNS

Personal Details: Education: Done Graduation in Bachelors in Commerce in 1996 Contact Information: : chandan.s.sharma@gmail.com : 91-9892218274 : 022-67912954 /8291438730 Email ID MobileNo Phone No. Company Website : www.horizoncomputer.org 7