Faran Ahmed Khan Email & Phone Number

Karachi, Pakistan

- Development/Enforcement of IT Security standards and best practices focusing ISO/IEC 27001:2013- Security log review of routers, switches, firewalls, application & database servers as and whenrequired as well as investigation & documentation of Security Incidents- Vulnerability assessment of existing IT infrastructure & business critical application and recommendappropriate controls against VA findings.- Risk assessment in line with IT security policies, recommend process and approaches forvulnerability detection and its remedial ways as part of continuous improvement process.- Monitoring external threats & threats situation, implement mitigating actions and security patches.- Development of standards, procedures and guidelines for the assistance of IT dept. securityintegration within their infrastructure and applications.- Acquisition of IT security tools i.e. encryption solution, DLP, SIEM, VA & PT tools.- Institute, evaluate & validate baseline security configuration for Network, Systems & DB.

Karachi, Pakistan

- Development/Enforcement of IT Security standards and best practices focusing ISO/IEC 27001:2013- Security log review of routers, switches, firewalls, application & database servers as and when required as well as investigation & documentation of Security Incidents- Vulnerability assessment of existing IT infrastructure & business critical application and recommendappropriate controls against VA findings.- Risk assessment in line with IT security policies, recommend process and approaches for vulnerability detection and its remedial ways as part of continuous improvement process.- Monitoring external threats & threats situation, implement mitigating actions and security patches.- Development of standards, procedures and guidelines for the assistance of IT dept. securityintegration within their infrastructure and applications.- Acquisition of IT security tools i.e. encryption solution, DLP, SIEM, VA & PT tools.- Institute, evaluate & validate baseline security configuration for Network, Systems & DB.

Karachi, Pakistan

- Established network needs for core services of a University’s pedagogical requirements and use of technology.- Revamp concept design both for wired and wireless network and appropriate coverage of services to all spaces at campus and deployed Cisco WLC 5508 with more than 130 APs different model.- Developed information security requirements to counter internal and external threats; and provide leverage to offer our services through Web.- Assist in doing design development modification on campus network and Data Center infrastructure layout.- Identify and rectified all the known issues with network and fine tune to achieve optimum performance of network.- Assist server teams in operations & setting up data center new service(s) and communication technologies.-Set up maintenance regime for network equipment; and fault diagnostics and rectification processes.- Train peers on the data center and network infrastructure to develop understanding required for primary diagnostics and troubleshooting.- Providing level 2 support for any network configuration changes and set up new services and escalate the level support issues to appropriate support groups.- Provide level 3 support in liaison with Principals and support groups for network infrastructure.- Set up backup and restore procedures for network equipment and log of maintenance activities.

Karachi, Pakistan

- Management and coordination with transmission vendors and troubleshooting of TXN issues.- Maintain the outage statistics of all transmission vendors and proactively co-ordinate in case of outages on different sites with Vendors and restoration of sites under committed SLA.- Propose and plan transmission media on all new coming/Swap sites and ensure available transmission media with no issues, In case of Microwave transmission conduct.- Provide Strategy and Operational Leadership for the team of individuals working on the deployment of all Microwave SDH, PDH and Hybrid/IP Transmission Systems on Huawei RTN600.- To plan the future growth and topology within the Business & Budgetary priorities and Manage budgetary for both capital and operational expenditure.- Responsible for E2E integration, O&M and Planning of Transmission Network includes(Fiber and Microwave on Pathloss Ver 4.0).- Explore different transmission vendors for upcoming projects and study their network design and conduct meetings with them to introduce them about Augere requirement.

Pakistan

- Project Planning & Scheduling, daily meetings to discuss project issues & problems. - Designing and implementation of corporate solutions i.e. Layer 2 and Layer3 VPN connectivity over MPLS Cloud, VOIP, and internet and managed services. - Designing and implementation of corporate carrier grade solutions on Layer 1 connectivity using microwave and fiber media. - Coordinate with TxN planning and implementation team for plan acquisition and implementation. - Act as Tier III for troubleshooting the layer1, layer2 and layer3 connectivity solutions. - Provides technical solution by identification of customer requirement as well as proof of concept of all our supported hardware and technologies. - Involved in the topology change management process of corporate customers and provide the carrier grade solution. - Organizing and providing technical presentations, and architecting solution that integrates into existing network topology, as well as demonstrations, proof-of-concepts of all our supported hardware and technologies. - Developed projects’ scopes (SOW, scope of work) and proposals.

- Provid Technical Support to troubleshoot WAN connectivity of Corporate Internet and VPN (Layer 2, Layer 3 MPLS) clients running on Microwave, Fiber, P2P Wireless, Wimax and DSL. - Troubleshooting of PPPoX, RFC-1483 Routing and Bridging based xDSL Configuration. - Worked on Cisco 3845, C7200, juniper M320i, M10i, M7i and broadband remote access servers (BRAS) (as user privilege) to troubleshoot client’s connectivity. - Management and configuration of Dsl clients on Paradyne, Alcatel and Lucent DSLAM. - Used Microsoft CRM as a complaint originating, monitoring and evaluating tool.