Marvel Chavalala Email & Phone Number

Gauteng, South Africa

• Design, Implementation, and support of the Echosp Network infrastructure. The network spans over three Data Centres and over 400 Client sites. • Lead Support Engineer of a bank in Botswana this Bank has 6 data centers 2 in Mozambique 2 in South Africa and 2 in Namibia • Implementation of customer networks within VRF’s over MPLS (Diginet, MPLS and ACCESS DSL, Fibre, Wireless, vrf route-leaking, load sharing across wan, using both BGP and VRF’s.• Working with different vendors at different Data Centres to facilitate connecting their ENNI into Echo’s Network. • Building of Interconnects from our Data Centre to different vendors within Africa who have a point of presence here in South Africa at different Data Centres• Part of a team of Engineers who Designed and implemented Afrihost network when they moved from MTN to ECHOSP. • Installation of Customer Firewalls i.e. Dedicated or shared firewalls (FortiGate) • Configuration of FortiGate SSL VPN Devices MAG 2500 AND SA 2600 series• Configuration EOIP tunnels on the Mikrotiks, also building scripts.• Configure IPT (Internet transit) for our client and engage with our peering partners. Also assist our client with route objects on Afrinic.• Troubleshooting, working and having full understanding of NLDs, re-routing of core traffic.• Configure and troubleshoot switching environment such as trunks, ether channels, vlan trunking, port-security mechanisms, port channeling, to ensure hosted environment is always secure on• Manage customer rollouts from the technical team to ensure together with the Project manager we meet the client’s expectations.• Configure and troubleshoot routing protocols such as RIP, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP, MPBGP, IPsec, as well as standby protocols such as VRRP and HSRP on CISCO, JUNIPER AND MIKROTIK.• Facilitate moving to cloud network and more and configure SDWAN, using devices such Cisco Meraki and FortiGate.

City Of Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

• Support and manage links/last miles such as Diginet, Digconnect, Fibre (Metro clear, DFA, Braodlink and Neotel), Wireless (Our own Solution) and ADSL(IPconnect).• We create client’s VRF, MPLS and BGP etc.• Utilised RIP, BGP and Static, for routing protocol. • Managed and troubleshoot BGP’s we have with our local peers (E.g. IS and NAP Africa) and international peers (E.g. Cogent and Level3) - Internet transit.• Assisting in adding prefixes and advertising to our peers, also work on RIBE and Afrinic database.• As L2/L3 engineer, we deal with projects. On projects, it will include the project manager, engineer and clients (in the meeting), where we design and implement the client’s network solution.• Configured CPE devices such Juniper SRX (110, 210 and 240) FortiGate and Mikrotiks.• Manage core changes on our Juniper MX’s and switches, nationwide and international.• Managed firmware upgrade on our core node.• Manager VPLS connection.• Configure QOS and VPN.• Configure VRRP on the core.• Configure Voice solutions (Routing calls through ACME and Sonus).• Managed hosted Mitel control.• Managed network and client service cutovers.• Implement cross connects with our 3rd parties and with clients on our core nodes.• Ran L2 circuit connections.• Worked on Extreme switches (X440 and X460) and ASR(Cisco).• Manage, support, and troubleshoot on FortiGate. We create Vdoms.• Advice clients on how to resolve network problem and understanding client’s network layout.• Troubleshoot and configuring ADSL tunnel VPN.• Troubleshoot and configuring failover (backup solutions).• Managed escalation from L1 and L2 engineers and also do standby once a month for the whole week.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

• 1st and 2nd line support of the core network on CISCO and JUNIPER top router.• Troubleshooting Diginet lines and Metro clear links. Escalation and reporting to Telkom. • Handling and troubleshooting our top client’s internet connection and also assisting with internal network setup (LAN)• Giving advice to our clients on how to resolve network problem and understanding client’s network layout.• Working mostly on connection such as Diginet, Wireless, Fibre links (Braodlink and Neotel), Metroconnect, Advanced static ADSL and routing traffic (VRFs), all above mentioned connections are based on Cisco, Billion and Juniper (SSG’s) and FortiGate support.• Configure and implement Remote Access Solutions: IPSEC VPN, SSL VPN.• Implementing/Troubleshooting QOS issues across the network solutions.• Configure Juniper firewall and FortiGate firewall.• Setting failover connections / BGP. Troubleshooting routing.• Supporting, monitoring, and managing a new developed connection called fishbone, it is a bonding solution which is capable of bonding multiple connection and seen as one connection.• Responsible for DNS administration, brightmail/iron port administration (spam and virus filtering server) and mail relaying and tracing mails (Analyse maillogs). • Managing and admin juniper firewalls for the clients such as permitting or blocking traffic, prioritizing traffic, logs, VPN setup, port forwarding, traffic routing etc.• Knowledge of Suse, FreeBSD and Fedora.• Manage and admin Linux and ubuntu servers, Linux running on Suse application, responsible for adding users, permitting, or blocking traffic, mail logs, squid services, port forwarding, Apache etc. • Managed upstream providers Telkom, Internet solutions (IS) Broad link (Iburst), Dimension data and Neotel.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

• Helping clients with the problems of internet connection (troubleshooting and problem finding).• Configuring Dial up and ADSL for the company clients on their machines and also on the access server for the following ISP (Lantic,ABSA Internet access, XSINET ,Netralink, DataPro ,Storm & Shisas).• Configuration of ADSL accounts for the Vox group, online speed test on CISCO routers. • Monitoring Leased lines for our clients.• Providing and setup assistance on our own antivirus program product.• Configuration of mails for clients on Linux servers according to their requirements.• Basic of Bdsl using Linux.

Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

• Managing and maintaining the internal network. • Troubleshooting the network connection.• To keep and maintain records of our client’s profile in the database.

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Certificate, Information Technology, Nqf L5 (National Higher Certificate )

• Windows Server 2003(Active directory), • N+, • System support, • Windows XP (VPN, wireless, Dial up and ADSL Connections. Ethics, code.

National Diploma, Information Technology, National Diploma

• Networks (1&2) • Information system (1&2), • PC Architecture, • A+, Microsoft office, • Business Communication • E-commerce • Visual.

Matric, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates, Nqf L4

• English • Afrikaans • Maths • Computer science • Physical Science • Biology