Prabhu Kiran Lanka

• Providing presales support, solutioning /network architecture designs to several clientele of GBM including Government, Banking, commercial mid-market, Hospitality, retail and other line of business.
• Independently selling the solutions in Data, Voice and Security domains with complete end to end costing/commercials
• Worked on commercial BOQ & technical proposal preparation which includes communication with OEMS/Vendors/Distributors for discounts and competitive analysis to ensure win the deals/bids.
• Designing the roadmaps for the customers by assessing their existing and future business needs
• Responsible for client engagement for delivering the required technical solution to the customers.
• Coordinating with the implementation and project management team to ensure customer expectations are met.

• As a Solution Consultant, provided technical network design solutions to several clientele of Dimension Data in the commercial mid-market segment.
• Achieved revenue growth in the assigned accounts with highest customer satisfaction.
• Qualifying the opportunities, pre-sales support, solution preparation and presentation and implementation management of outsourcing contracts.
• Creating optimized of Bill of Materials in Networking & Security domain across all verticals
• Designing the road maps for the customers by assessing the existing network infrastructure.

Project Name: Thomson Reuters, Bangalore, June-2012-October-2012

Worked at Thomson Reuters facility (Mphasis’ client ) in their IAAS Network Security delivery team in LAN support. The role involves support of the Cisco L2 /L3 devices and F5 BIGIP LTM/GTMs, Cisco PIX, ASA, FWSM firewalls and Checkpoint firewalls.Used HP Service Manager-7 as the ticketing tool.

• Wipro Technologies Ltd, India, Network Lead, September, 2005- April 2012

Project Name: Microsoft, MLSNET Labs, Hyderabad July 2008-April 2012

Worked as a team lead and interim PM for the MS MLSNET project in Hyderabad. This job involves supporting the Microsoft MLS Labs network infrastructure in USA and other locations.The role also involves the support and troubleshooting of the F5 BIG-IP LTM load balancers. There are about 3200 network devices that we support mainly consisting of Cisco 6509/Cisco ASRs/Cisco Nexus/Cisco 4948/3560/2350 switches which are used in the core, front end, and backend and aggregation layer and at access layer respectively. Responsible for deployment and support of the Cisco and F5 hardware and configurations including code and hotfix installations and handling the F5 related customer escalations, etc. Resolving the escalated incidents/problems from the Tier-1 and tier-2 teams.Preparing the network architecture documents as and when required. Worked in the US Redmond for 2 years for this project from 2008 to 2011 April. Trained and lead a team of 7 network engineers and highly contributed to the team's and project's growth interms of improvement of the team/project. Appreciated by the customer on many occasions for resolving the issues and improving the team's capabilities.

Network team lead, Southern Water, UK: September 2005 to June 2008

Southern Water is a UK based water supply and water treatment Services Company and has got 2 data centers located in Falmer and Durrington along with the 42 networked sites across UK. The major business function is the Call Center in Durrington. This is a converged network with priority for voice traffic.

• Responsible for the data and voice network support and project management.
• Implemented Cisco Works 2000-LAN Management Solution-Resource Manager Essentials module, Device Fault Manager, Cisco View, Internetwork Performance Monitor, Campus Manager (for VLAN tracking, path analysis, user tracking, and topology mapping)
• Responsible for coordination with different third parties involved in the network hardware support both at offshore and onsite.
• Ensure the SLAs are met by resolving the issues based on the priority.
• Involved in the Migration of the legacy networks to MPLS/BGP networks
• Responsible for monitoring the network by using the HP Openview tools-Network Node Manager for live monitoring and Open View Performance Insight for generating utilization reports.
• Worked at onsite for 8 months to handle the MPLS network transition/migration and support.

• Tata Teleservices Ltd, Hyderabad, India, Senior Network Engineer, May 2003 -August 2005

Job profile in Tata Teleservices Ltd: Sr. Network Engineer from May 2003- August 2005

• Responsible for maintaining the Hub and Spoke Network topology in the data center.
• Responsible for rolling out the network designs/configurations in the datacenter and also across the branch offices of TTSL. Involved in the datacenter network migration/transition plan.
• Worked as part of the corporate Change Management team. Doing Impact analysis before approving the Firewall Access requests.
• Administering the corporate data center consisting GREVPN and Point to Point E1links to branch offices in Active and Standby mode by using HSRP protocol on Cisco 7609 routers.
• Establishing connectivity to branch offices by Channelized STM-1 cards in the routers and providing remote technical support to branch offices.
• Configured/implemented OSPF routing protocol.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of VLANS in Avaya P580 and Cisco 6513 Layer3 Switches.
• Configured QOS-Rate Limits and Traffic Shaping features in Cisco routers.
• Configured Unicenter TNG, MRTG, and WhatsUP Gold NMS tools.
• Implemented network security with Checkpoint firewalls on Nortel Alteon Switched Firewalls and Directors.
• Used ISS Real Secure 7.2 Intrusion Detection Systems.
• Analysis of protocols by using sniffers like Ethereal.
• Worked as a network t eam lead and responsible for vendor coordination
• Configured Nortel VPN concentrator 1700 to enable Mobile and Internet user access to Servers.

• Network Solutions LTD, Hyderabad, India, Network Engineer, December 1999 -May 2003

Job Profile in Network Solutions Ltd: Network Engineer from December 1999 to April 2003

On behalf of Network Solutions Ltd, I was placed at different MNC clients like Citibank, Hewlett Packard, Motorola, Taj Group of Hotels and Andhra Bank as a network engineer to support the customer's network.


Configuration and maintenance of a Corporate Wide Area Network consisting of Cisco 3660/2660/1600 routers with Channelized E1/PRI circuits for connectivity across India.
• Configuration and troubleshooting of ISDN BRI/PRI links
• Implemented Security by using CheckPoint firewall.
• Configured Dial-On-Demand Routing. Used OSPF as the routing protocol.
Implemented IPSec Tunneling. Configured Cisco L3 switches.
• Used MRTG for monitoring the network traffic
Configuration and maintenance of a wide area network consisting of Nortel Routers (ASN) and Ascom modems with ISDN and DAMA VSAT as backup links.
• Used OSPF as the routing protocol.
• Monitoring the network by using NMS tools like Optivity Campus 7.0.2 for HP Openview Network Node Manager and What's Up Gold software. Stabilized the network by restructuring the setup and improved the network uptime.
• Appreciated by the client for preparing the Network Process Control Manuals and putting ITIL processes in place.