* Honest * Proven expertise in supporting and troubleshooting hardware and networking issues. * Organized, take-charge professional with exceptional follow-through abilities and detail orientation, able to plan and oversee projects from conception to successful conclusions. * Outstanding communication skills; interfaces effectively with upper management, vendors, staff, peers and users. * Genuine commitment to quality and customer satisfaction. Specialties:Certifications Completed: CCNA, CCDA, CCNP (Sub certs covered): CCNP-BSCI (642-901), CCNP-BCMSN (642-812), CCNP-ISCW (642-825) CCNP-ONT (642-845) * M.B.A Foundation Certification from UC, Berkeley Extension. (Sub certs covered): - Essentials of Business - Introduction to Statistics - Organization & Management - Introduction to Marketing - Introduction to Microeconomics - Accounting for Managers

Senior Network Engineer @ From April 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) Redwood City, CaliforniaTechnologist / Network Engineering at Palantir Technologies @ We build software that allows organizations to make sense of massive amounts of disparate data. Palantir is in the business of solving the technical problems whether it be Combating terrorism, Prosecuting crimes, Fighting fraud, Eliminating waste. The technology is best understood as a stack of tightly-integrated capabilities that we bring to bear on the world’s hardest problems. Interactive data analysis sits on the surface, but an entire enterprise intelligence infrastructure lies beneath. For more information on this cool company, check out www.palantir.com From May 2012 to April 2013 (1 year) Palo Alto, CaliforniaSenior Network Engineer @ From April 2011 to May 2012 (1 year 2 months) San Jose, CaliforniaMember Of Technical Staff II @ • Lead a team of network engineers, 100+ Cisco 6500-E layer3 switches, 50+ 7606s serving over 3000 customers and responsible for handling the entire backbone related problems including planning, design, administration, operation, optimization, and troubleshooting of multi-site networks. • Proactively searched for projects and was awarded “Living the Brand” in Covad company’s website for numerous network saving projects, just to name few are ‘network standardizations’, ‘XO to Covad Migration’, ‘ ATT to Covad migration’ and realized immediate network saving of $375K annually • Responsible for leading Network Engineering teams focusing on the overall operation of one of the nation's largest pre-WiMAX, WiMAX and LMDS fixed broadband Wisp’s. • Accountable for building financial and business case to assess the viability of acquiring network technologies (WiMAX, LMDS) against return on investment (ROI) goals. Worked with Marketing/Sales to understand the impact of product promotions on customer growth by geographic area and determining the network impact. • Negotiating contracts and transit pricing with Internet backbone service providers for transit bandwidth, including contract terms, and service level agreements (SLA). Reduced transit pricing by over 6 times thereby reducing the overall yearly savings of $100K. From March 2006 to April 2011 (5 years 2 months) San Jose, CaliforniaNetwork Engineer @ - Provide tier 2-3 global network infrastructure support for IT and information systems to corporate businesses. - Responsible for handling all the backbone related problems which includes planning, design, administration, operation, optimization, and troubleshooting of multi-site networks. - Act as POC for service supporting maintenance/upgrades, changes, installations, delivery notification, documentation, and after action review. - Designed and Configuring the WAN infrastructure, consisting of multiple OC3, T1 and T3 lines, Cisco routers, Cisco switches. - Experience in spanning the entire gamut of ISP/Telecom infrastructure technologies including wire line and wireless technologies. - Took responsibility for structuring and executing operational and strategic initiatives - developing work plans, gathering and synthesizing relevant data, leading analyses, and developing final recommendations. From September 2005 to March 2006 (7 months) Fremont, CaliforniaProject Manager @ * This mail application platform project included setting up, and maintenance of the web based mail server which is responsible for accepting and sending emails to coordinate with Venders and clients for development of the software Projects and administration of the organization. * Accountable for setting up the web based mail server to work as virtual host, to configure and troubleshoot various Red Hat Based Linux 9.0 servers within the network so as to make them work in coordination with mail server and thereby doing round the clock maintenance. From June 2005 to September 2005 (4 months)

Extension Certification Course, Business Administration, Management and Operations, A @ UC Berkeley From 2010 to 2011 B.Tech, Computer Science @ Institute of Technology & Management, Gwalior, MP From 2001 to 2005 Taran Malhotra is skilled in: CCNP, Network Engineering, CCNA, WAN, Cisco, Switches, Wireless, Broadband, T1, BGP, MPLS, Cisco IOS, Routing, OSPF, Network Architecture, Routers, Network Security, Data Center, IP, TCP/IP, Network Administration, Network Design, EIGRP, IP Networking, LAN/WAN, Wireless Networking, IPv6, MPLS VPN, STP, Network Operations, Telecommunications, Internet Services, LAN-WAN, Cisco Technologies, Computer Network..., VPN, Ethernet, Troubleshooting, VoIP, Networking, Cisco Nexus, Linux