Summary

An experienced senior level IT professional with significant design, support, administration and implementation experience of network projects. Over 10 years of IT experience with full life cycle ICT project experience. Thrives in a customer focused, multi-site environment. Always meets client demands and develops good long-term customer relationships.

• Cisco Nexus 3000 / 7000
• Cisco routers 800 / 1700/ 1800 / 2600 / 2800 / 3600 / 3800 /7200 / 7600
• Cisco switches CE500 / C2950 / C2960 / C3560 / C3750 / ME3400 / C6500
• Ubiquiti Network Devices – APs and P2P Radio devices / Switches
• Cisco ACS Server
• Routing protocols RIP / OSPF / EIGRP / BGP
• VLANs / STP / RSTP / Etherchannel / MST
• VPNs – GRE /PPPOE Tunnel/ IPSec / DMVPN / SSL / MPLS
• Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
• Securing VLANs, switch access, IDS, IPS
• Cisco PIX / ASA 5505 firewalls and FWSM / Fortinet
• Planet Switches SGSW-24240 / GS-5220-44S4C
• Juniper switches EX Series
• Huawei Switches and Routers
• Mikrotik Configurations
• GPON/EPON design and deployment. Zyxel,BDCOM,ZHONE,CDATA(OLT,ONU,ONT)
• TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, WINS, WireShark
• N-top / Nagios, SolarWinds , SpiceWorks, PRTG, CACTI , Pandora FMS
• VMware
• Microsoft Windows Servers
• Linux – FreeBSD / Linux Oracle / RedHat, Active Directory, Group Policy
• McAfee / Symantec/ Panda Securities / ETHVPN / pfsense Firewall / Panda

Experience

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Manager Networks (Operations & Developments)
Brain Telecommunications Ltd.
Dec 2005 - Present | Lahore, Pakistan

• Working with the Team who is responsible for configuring, monitoring and maintaining complex network of 30+ Sites.
• Looking after Enterprise Network Operations and as well as integration points with different clients which are connecting with BRAIN Network using various ways e.g. Private lines, Fiber optics, Site to Site VPNs or Private MPLS Cloud.
• Technical design and implementation on a wide range of devices that could be for a new or existing clients or any change for internal stakeholders.
• Planning for on-boarding new clients, network migrations and expansions.
• Project Management for tracking new network build-outs, upgrading existing infrastructure and any major change in enterprise from networks perspective.
• Configurations and management of security, routing, switching and wireless devices from various vendors (Palo Alto, Cisco, Fortinet and Juniper, Huawei) as per defined standards.
• Monitoring network via logs and alerts on Solarwinds (NPM, NCM, VNQM, NTA, Netpath). Using Kiwi syslog for syslog alerts & Ping Plotter / MTR for route change detection.
• Escalations and coordination with Domestic/International carriers in case of any issues on MPLS/Internet/IPLC circuits.
• Working with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and outages

Education

The Superior College
Masters, Masters in Science, Master in Computer Science (HEC Verified)‎
Computer Networks and Communication, Data Communication and Networks, E-Commerce
CGPA 2.8/4
2004

Skills

Expert CCIE(Written)LAB in May
Expert CCNA
Expert CCNP
Expert Fortinet Network Security Expert 1
Expert Fortinet Network Security Expert 2
Beginner Hyper-V
Beginner MCP
Beginner MCS

Languages

Expert Punjabi
Expert Urdu
Expert English