Mahmood Ahmadi Email & Phone Number

Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada

Toronto, Canada Area

Architect, design and manage and support NGFWs of Palo Alto, Cisco, Check Point for Cloud (Azure, AWS and GCP) and onprem networks for different businesses.

Canada

Experience in building enterprise security architecture frameworks, network security architecture and assessments, perimeter security deployments (such as firewalls, DLP, proxies, remote access solutions, IPS/IDS), and multi-factor authentication. Focusing on cyber and network security, performing cyber security assessment, finding gaps in configurations, processes and network architecture and provide best in class managed security services for businesses/clients.- Develop, Design and Architect Enterprise Security- Provide Network Security Architecture/Configuration Assessments- Support clients in security operation, design, projects, deployments- Team capacity building, leading, training/coaching them toward their personal and professional goals

Kabul, Afghanistan

Provided end to end IT services and support for over 2000 workstations, users’ accounts, and mailboxes for the United States missions. Kept the systems and infrastructure with latest OS/Firmware/patches updated. Maintained the ITSM policies and procedures per department defined guidance. Worked mission proprietary toots to protect the network, clients and system with the lowest applications, network, OS, Firmware, patches security risk and vulnerability scores.• Design and support the installation and configuration of Embassy different tools and software.• Responsible of IT operation including helpdesk and customer services initiative, worked with team, insured the IT services provided to the customers are meeting the SLA, follow up and communicate critical issues with team, customers and leadership, ensured root causes are analysed/documented for the future avoidance.• Responsible to support and configure DNS, DHCP, IMAP, STMP, LDAP, SNMP and NTP servers/services• IT incident, problem, operation and request management, responsible Data backup, system administration and maintenance.• Managing and performing routine health and security check on MS Windows 2008 R2, 2012, Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange Servers using various tools and monitoring systems

Kabul

Planned, designed, develop and operate Etisalat Afghanistan Data Communication Network & IP Infrastructure from a very basic to a highly scalable network that support over 6 million data and ISP subscribers. Worked with /leaded the data communication team who maintained, operated and supported critical IP MPLS Backbone with L2/L3 VPNs, MP-BGP, VRFs, network security in countrywide cities/data centers. Provided cost effective connectivity/solution to corporate, enterprise internal and external customers, building capacities long term /short term for best network operation and business continuity.• Configuration and support of IP Network including LAN, VLANs, WAN,NAT,PAT,VPN, MPLS VRF, STP L2 Switching and routing such as OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, BGP, MP-BGP, VRFs. • Optimized network by evaluating network performance issues including availability, utilization, throughput and latency and planned to provide pro-active solutions.• Plan and configuration of Cisco ASAs, ASRs, ISRs, Catalyst 6500, 4500 Switches, WLC/APs, Palo Alto Firewalls, F5 Load balancers, FortiNet, and Juniper Routers/Firewalls/Next Gen-Firewalls.• Responsible for providing root cause analysis for all network-wide events that affect service up time.• IP planning, implementation and operation of telecom network nodes/equipment such as 2G/3G/LTE IP BTSs, 3G Node Bs, ENode Bs, RNCs, GGSN, SGNS, MSC, IP BSC via IP MPLS backbone • Network Operation Tools (Manage Engine, Solar Winds, Netflow Analyzer, operation and management • Data Center Redundancy, BCP planning, network optimization and service availability improvement

Master'S Degree (Computer Science), Networking And Information Security

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Bcs