Abdul M. Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Liverpool Street, London, Uk

• In my venture in Cognizant, I started with documenting the NRT (National Rail) entire NTFG (Norton Folgate) lab consisting of Cisco ASR 9922, 9910, 920 and 903 including Infinera Transmission gluing the 3 different networks. The protocols were BGP, ISIS and OSPF with IP MPLS and many other technologies replicating the NRT Operational Network.• Following on I did some IOT mini-Project for COLT Telecoms water level sensor.• Thereon I landed on the long term much hyped SolarWinds Project over 2.5 years since 2021. SolarWinds is an Enterprise grade Network and System Monitoring application solution. I conceived the project from inception until it was operational. Conception, Implementation, Documentation and Handover. Its custom implementation was complex to NRT’s DC and Network. During the process Edenborough Lab was set up as a testbed now serving other as test platform for other users.• Currently Cognizant devised another team which I am a member of to test the NRT’s Tier 1 – Tier 5 Network from The Quadrant Milton Keynes Office. Testing devised of various scenarios ranging from user access, device access and network device Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (or known as the triple A or AAA 802.1x) using ISE and DNAC traversing over the WAN. Some of the tests are rigorous and complex to somewhat challenging. The project can be summarized as systems working as expected from user and device point of view and if not then it is raised as a defect for Cisco Engineers and NRT to address the issue for a possible solution and possible retest. • Tested the NRT Tier1 to Teir5 Network in Milton Keynes HQ through Cisco DNA and Cisco ISE.

Blackfriars, London

Omnicom [5 Major Networks] (Nov 2019 – April 2020)Senior Network Engineer and Management (WAN Transformation Team) • Omnicom is a conglomerate of 5 Major Agency Networks. BBDO Worldwide, Diversified Agency Services (DAS), DDB Worldwide, Omnicom Media Group (OMG) and TBWA Worldwide• Each Network sports 10’s of thousands of Agencies mounting up to 100,000 employees worldwide • In OMC I am part of the Global WAN Transformation team and solely responsible for EMEA portion of OMC.• In the Transformation project I have migrated agencies from Legacy to UNO MPLS managed by AT&T• In IP Reconciliation project converted many agencies to their new IP, liaising with Managers and Directors• Provisioned IPT over the WAN and DHCP DNS• mGRE, MPLS/BGP, static routing, Split Tunnelling, ASA Firewall, Cisco ASR routers, HP Switches DC and Internet• VPN and RAVPN, AWS connectivity private cloud, DC Fortinet Firewall.• Capacity planning and circuit management with dedicated AT&T Engineers over Microsoft Teams.• 3 – 4 International conference Calls daily other than customer ones, take part in global transformation event • Progress report documentation and update tickets using Service Now and Smart sheet and other applications

London, United Kingdom

BSO Network (Dec 2018 – Current)Senior Network Engineer (SNOC Global team)• BSO Connected 23+ Countries using 103 Data Center locations (IX Reach 125 POPS collapsed into BSO)• Primarily providing the Financial Industry with Ultra High Speed and Low latency fibre network• Connecting Banks and Trading Houses to Major Stock Exchanges via Backbone and tail circuit provisioning• Financial Organizations managed network, Migration of services, Infrastructure and monitoring• Layer 2 Coriant Transmission Global Backbone using MPLS-TP (SD WAN TNMS/LCT)• MPLS TP tunnel and service creation L2L and M2M (vpls). Pseudo Wire, AC-AC etc.• Transit IP over Layer 3 Global Legacy Brocade (MLX) Backbone, BGP, OSPF, Ripe DB update and IPAM• Google Cloud Interconnect (GCI) over BGP Layer 3 VPN (VRF RD: RT/VLAN)• I on boarded the first GCP customer ABN-AMRO, designed LLD from HLD• RFC2544 line test using Accedian and Exfo tester on the Coriant Backbone• Approve Financial network design including Backbone maintenance and wiki topology update.• MMF and SMF Fibre with right type of SFP, DWDM, Wave, Dark Fibre and Ethernet. • Customer perimeter security Juniper SRX, Cisco ASA and Core ISP Fortinet Firewall. IPSEC VPN. White listing.• Juniper EX2200 switches, Cisco Nexus 3548P and HPE Switches. VRRP, HSRP on managed networks• Monitoring: Cympa/Grafana (BB traffic graphs), Zabbix, Libre NMS alarms and Oxidised (config backup) SNMP• XNM for quick view of port status via http. Stargate (Jump Host) SecureCRT, RDC host and remote Paris LAB.• Chef, Puppet and linux for host file maintenance, DNS name resolution• Wiki for all thing’s customer and technology references. Wiki update. • Participation: project kick-off meetings, Operations Meetings and Friday Network Knowledge catch ups.

Exponential-e (March 2018 – Nov 2018)Senior Network Engineer• Exponential-e is a Service Provider, Worked in an extremely fast paced enviroment• Multiple deadlines everyday with RFC2544 circuit tests• Team of 12 talented Engineers in Service Delivery Team• SD-WAN, VPLS Projects for multiple sites over Alcatel Core 7750 SR/ESS• EPIPE between customer Sites with complex Solution via DC (CNN, NNI, Internet and Firewall)• Alcatel SAM (SD-WAN) and NMS (Network Management System)• Juniper SRX300, 340 in Packet mode as CPE and ADVA112 Optical for customer circuit as EDD• Configuration of ADVA112, 114 Port handoff for Internet Service, VPLS and EPIPE and SIP• Routing and redudency Protocols: BGP, OSPF, Static routing, VRRP with DHCP, DNS and NAT• Bridging and Switching STP, VLAN, QinQ and dot1q• Exposure to Network UTM and Fortinet Centralised Firewall and VPN• Access technologies Carrier Ethernet, DSL and FTTC and 30+ Datacentres • Subnetting with Providing customer Ipv4 and Ipv6 addresses.• Migration and troubleshooting customer network before Handing off to NOC• Bring remote device to virtual LAB, Wireshark, Use Local LAB for staging.• New NHS HSCN Project Lead migration from N3, Cisco 1100 ISR Dual WAN solution• RIPE NCC PI and PA Space Route Object process assistance to client.

• Network Equipment Upgrade• Network Audit and Evaluation• Network Troubleshoot and Network Monitoring (SNMP)• Working in client Datacentre, Move and Rebuild• Client Consultation, Vendor Interaction• Scope Network Equipment Requirments• Various Routing Protocols in diverse topologies• Documentation and Visio Network Diagram• Mainly Cisco Routers, Switches also including multivendor support

Waterloo

• Oasis CL Core Network, 59 +sites, Cisco switches and some HP.• Greenfield & Existing Site Installation, configuration & Troubleshooting. Upgrade/Migration• Travelled/Hotel and deligated with local Academy IT Engineers• Installed in construction sites required CSCS card. Meet deadlines.• Virgin Media privtae circuit Ethernet LAN, ADSL• Core Nexus 7K. Cisco: Site Core 4500, 3800 Edge 2960X and S, 3750, 3560, 2811, VPN 7301. • Fibre Modules: 1GB, 10GB SFP+ , Switch Stacking.• ASA Firewall 5540 • Radius, SCOM, NTP, Cacti, Solarwinds, Castle Rock SNMPc• Wireless: Mirakee Deployment and exisiting Meru Support• Documentation, upload to sharepoint. Visio Network Diagrams.• Work with RSDM and Project Managers

London, United Kingdom

 Nasstar is a Cloud Service Provider  Responsible for Maintaining The Core Infrastructures Datracentre Management, decommission and build BGP Bilateral Peering with ISP’s/ RIPE NCC Membership DMVPN, MPLS VRF, BGP, RIP, OSPF, HSRP Solarwinds Network Monitoring Edge/Perimeter security with Cisco ASA/PIX Deliver complete Wireless Solution WLC LWAPP HP Server NIC teaming and LACP

Project: (Telindus) London Underground; Commisioned CCTV Platform cameras from Thales NMC Waterloo using Solaris, Cellstack Century , Marconi ATM Switches. Worked with Thales Engineers.Project: (Telindus) City of Westminster all streets; Commisioned IP Cameras vendor DVTel, Dvtel Software iSOC® V6 On Dell Windows Servers 2003 and SAN 15 terrabyte storage in Raid Arrays.Customers Supported: TFL, Virgin Media, COW, DLA Piper, Bucks CC, Banca Poplara, Fortis Bank, Ducth Bank, Debenhams, HMP (MOJ), LUL Thales, Easynet, EDS, AON, Manchester Airport, London CityAirport.Carriers: BT, COLT, C&W Data Centers: Telehouse, Harbour Exchange, Telecity, Global Switch, Matrix, Level3. Technical troubleshooing, network engineering & consultation, installation of IP Networks and security exposure as TFL Lead Engineer closely working with the project manager and SDM supporting the Fujitsu team at TFL. Consulted TFL on OSPF redesign. Implimentation of MPLS, BGPv4, OSPF, VRRP and EAPS. Provision of onsite network performance audits and 2nd/3rd level troublehooting support of LAN, Wireless LAN and WAN networks for UK and International clients. AirMagnet and Ekahua wireless Survey at DLA Piper and Orange Group of Hotels and HMP Prison Network Survey . In house delivery of technology training to colleagues and training and workshops to clients on client networks.:Hardware experience listed in Network Skill Set heading.

Worked on multitude of network projects. Connecting numerous sites through service providers/carriers using Cisco routers and switches, Technologies used such as ADSL, ISDN and C&W/BT leased lines, BT LES.

Corriander Avenue, Docklands

To take responsibility for ensuring, during shift hours, that customer faults are processed in accordance with Telehouse Europe standards and brought to a successful resolution.Investigating faults to board level, liaising with customers, telecommunications carriers and third party maintenance engineers regarding fault correction progress and circuit installations.Regular tape backup [300+ at a time], IBM mainframe AS400 command line backup. Maintaining of all customer equipment manuals, Racks, Rack Installations, Network drawings and circuit databases.