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United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

Providing project & operational network support for new Alain Hospital (STMC)Project support of CISCO Datacenter, Routing switching Security including Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Lightweight Access Points (Cisco 2500/4400, 5500 & 8500 Series WLC with Mobility Server Engine 3500/3310, CMX 10.1 and AIR – CAP1800/2800/3800, 3700, 2700, 2600,1600, 1500, 1200 & 1100 Series)Highly skilled in rendering consultancy for Request for Proposal (RFP) & Request for Quotation (RFQ) Responses and Proof of Concept (POC) Excelled at defining deployment strategy & implementation plan of major hardware, software upgrade & configuration change to Cisco IP Network supporting the organization’s businessRendered support as Technical Consultant Operations for Cisco Data Center Architecture / Design / Support for UCS, Nexus 9000, VMware NSX and ACI for APAC CustomerLeading IT Infrastructure projects through aggressive project governance processes by developing relationships with business stakeholders & leadership teams across geographies & departments, presenting changes, issues, risks & contingency plans and collaborating with other Project Managers to balance project resources, schedules

Qatar

Provides network security analysis pertaining to optimization and enhancements in order to improve performance, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.Analyzes customer requirements, and provides an engineering design solution. Provides guidance and advice to both fellow engineers and customers regarding over all solutions of the projects and troubleshooting for complex information systems management.Competent to lead the delivery of complex projects with direct operations impact and gained extensive experience in defining the networking designing strategy.Design and deploy company (or clients) LANs, WANs, and wireless networks, including routers, hubs, switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers, and other hardware.Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry.Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure network products and servicesConfigure networks to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes.Develop, implement and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for network administration, usage, and disaster recovery.

Abudabi Uae

• Provide Level III support to data, wireless and voice networks for Abu Dhabi Government and private entities.• Managing Core data center routing and switching• Support technical projects across functions to ensure network architecture solutions are solid, well integrated and comply with network technology service offerings.• Fault localization and their prompt rectification.• Provisioning Services to Business users.• Identify and follow best practices in performance tuning and optimization to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks.• Cisco Nexus Routing & Switching with 7000, 5000, 2000, 1000 and 4000 Series SwitchesDesign and Implement Secure Connectivity for spoke sites• Ensure secure and Best Practice implementation as per the industry standards• Implementing and Troubleshooting methodology and root-cause analysis to resolve problems that may have multiple system dependencies.• Hardware monitoring• Ensure maximum reliability through eliminating single points of failure.• Hands on Cisco Call managers( CUCM) Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC), stand-alone access points (AP), Voice Gateways.• Hands on Cisco Firewalls 5505,5510,5520 & Juniper VPN.

Dubai Academic City. Uae

• Troubleshooting and Data Centre Environmental monitoring,Cisco C7609 and C4507 Routers for (SDP, CORE, and MINI-CORE) for distribution and Access.• Troubleshooting and Data Centre Environmental monitoring, Huawei S 9300,S9303,S9306,S9312, 3300 Series Switches and configuring & trubleshooting (Acess, Trunk,Hybride Features ) Configuring Vlans, Trunk Port and Access port configuration,• Hands-on Experience on Layer2/L3 Switches and Router ( MAR ,BDS, BAS ) Support & Configure Metro Routers running on OSPF, MPLS, BGP, MGCP & PIM Protocols.• Problem solving and escalation to Core network team & TSRM• Escalating Network related issue through TSD (Technology Service desk) and follow up.• Remote Desktop Support which are including Nortel, Gpon, Specs & Cisco Application* Experience in MPLS Technology.• Supporting and managing Cisco Series C7609 and C4507 Routers for (SDP, CORE, and MINI-CORE) for distribution and Access.• Hands-on Experience on Layer2/L3 Switches and Router ( MAR ,BDS, BAS )• Service Layer Hands-on Experience of IPTV, VOIP, PPPoE,• Configuring and troubleshooting MPLS & VPN connectivity for the Enterprise clients.• Installing, configuring access layer devices (3com switches , WWP and Mediatrix)• Supporting Multicast, data and voice packetsConfiguration and troubleshooting through using Soft Switch, BTS for telephone issue• Troubleshooting and replacing Layer 3 Routers Packetfrient (ASR) Access Switching Routers for aggregators that include checking VLAN, ACL, OSPF Status, Fiber Port Status and IGMP for video

Dubai Media City

Scope Of Works Activation and Provisioning of PRI (Primary Rate Interface).for Business cm. Cordinating and T/S financial clients like bank (HSBC ,Mashriq, Emirates Bank) Circute designing, configring and testng for remote business clients. Configuring and troubleshooting Nortel Switch. Activation and Provisioning of new Analog Line. Activation and Provisioning of BRI (Basic Rate Interface). Activation and Provisioning of new Trunk Line (PBX, different number case, Additional trunk line). Activation and Provisioning of Business Center Analog Line. Activation and Provisioning of BRI (Basic Rate Interface). Activation and Provisioning of Call Forwarding (Unconditional, All, PBX), Call Waiting, Call Hold, Caller ID (PBX). Activation and Provisioning of New Cod Control Barring. Activation and Provisioning of new Analog Number Change

Dubai, Emaar Business Park.

• To take ownership of the Trouble Tickets from Customer Service and resolve the Tickets.• Support Field Engineers remotely during Troubleshooting.• Solving Network core, distribution and access layer issues• Installing ,configuring access layer devices• Configuring Multicast, data and voice packet routing• Design environment and the hardware context Routing and switching issues.• 3COM STACK 4400 Switch• LE38 WWP-SFP & LE38 WWP Switches• Mediatrix 1124,1104,1102 Voice Gateway• Tandberg ITTV Video portal• Lucent Vital QIP IP Management System• Worked in Network Operation Center.• (NOC) for Telephone, TV, and Internet activating and troubleshooting.• Managing and Sub netting IP related problems and DHCP problems.• Programming skill in visual basic 6.0 for Network managing and configuration

Banglore)

Scope Of Works• Design, Configuration and maintenance of LAN/WAN including Windows 2000, Win NT.4.0•Configuring and troubleshooting Exchange Server NT, 2000, 2003 Server.• Active Directory, Group policy, Disk Quota Management, Backup and Exchange Server users Accounts Configuration.• Implementing fault-tolerance with RAID level1 and RAID level 5.•Installing and Configuring DNS, WINS, and DHCP servers• Installation, implementation, integration, security, and administration• Configuration of Active Directory, Exchange Server for user• Configuration of Routers and Switches. ISDN connection, Back up and security• Installing and troubleshooting Antivirus (Norton MacAfee) Fire wall