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.

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.

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.
• Configure and implement Remote Access Solutions: IPSEC VPN, SSL VPN.

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.

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