Michael Tande Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

•Presales Network Engineering Duties•Proposal generation for solution requests•Enterprise Network Design•Enterprise Network Deployment• Liaise with Project Managers on all the deployment and delivery projects.• Assess Network efficiencies, then make adjustments and recommendations for improvement to the best interest of the business technology needs while minimising cost.• Provide advisory knowledge on network architecture and design best practice as per Cisco Validated Design Standards on LAN, WAN & WLAN.• Cisco Technical Solutions - Device BoM recommendation and validation on Network Refresh, Office Move and New Clients On-boarding.Wireless• Wireless network customer requirement gathering.• Wireless network surveying (active, passive, predictive). Ekahau• RF site survey spectrum analysis with AirMagnet spectrum analyser to design and deploy wireless (802.11n/a/b/g/ac) correctly first time.• Generate site RF heat map.• Wireless network planning and design.Wireless report design and generation using ekahau• Wireless network installation..• Detail knowledge of 802.11 protocol stack.• Experience working with WLAN controllers(WLC) such as Cisco ,Ruckus,Meraki Dashboard,Mist Ubiquiti, Aruba,. R&SExperienced with Cisco Networking gears such as ASR1000 Router series, ISR 4000 Router series, Catalyst Switches including 9000 series, 6500 and 4500 chassis switches, 3850, 3650 etc.Firewalling experience with the Cisco ASAs, Firepower 2100 series

Zimbabwe

Designed and configured Network security appliance(ASA 5585) for network defence• Successfully designed,implemented and switched from the old wireless infrastructure to 802.1x based onRuckus and Aruba Access points and Controllers.Configured the SCG controller of ruckus and the Arubacontrollers including 802.1X and EAP authentication, WPA and WPA2 security, RF conditions andperformance, QoS, policy enforcement, NAC, and network management.This was a R 3 500 000 project• Improved voice wireless network coverage from 40% to over 95% in the fab buildings, which include WiFi-hostileareas• Upgraded all active equipment IOS to the current versions• Designed production Hadoop cluster using Cisco Nexus fabric switches Analyze departmental and faculty network/application needs so that a cohesive proposal could bepresented.Closely communicate with the executive team to assess proposed projects, including prioritization and resource allocation of new projects.Successfully co-designed compartmentalized Internet facing access that provided load balancing, packet level(deep inspection).. Managed and handled all network and VOIP issues escalations from various faculties in a multi campus networkcisco i.d CSCO12495322I hereby authorise the use of my personal details solely for circulation within the company• Planned and deployed campus copper / fiber cabling infrastructure and MPLS network this had the effect ofswitching from the slow microwave link to fibre• Linked existing and new campuses to the MPLS network

Harare, Zimbabwe

Served as Technical Lead on ZEC lifecycles of Cisco routers and switches (deployed 50 routers of Cisco routers and switches since 2010), including validation of fiber strand capacity, onsite surveys, and configuration.• Prepare MOC requests and coordinate installation schedules with contractors and vendors,• Provided comprehensive Network infrastructure, performance monitoring, and network analysis. Consulted with management and provided strategic methods/changes for infrastructure architecture

High School

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science