Omar Rasool Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

• Assess and recommend architectural designs/changes to systems in response to performance issues, growth requirements etc. Work closely with the firm’s International offices, to ensure their networking infrastructure.
• Contribute to the implementation, ongoing maintenance and continuous improvement of infrastructure monitoring and reporting.
• Work closely in a capacity as 3rd line support with other IT teams to diagnose root cause to resolve problems and identify workarounds for incidents
• Contribute to processes and procedures to prevent incidents and problems
• Identify and raise operational risks and suggest ways to mitigate these
• Work with Team and Project Managers to accurately estimate timescales for project delivery and deliver to agreed timescales and budget

London, United Kingdom

• Network Consultancy to design, upgrade and refresh existing Network Infrastructure.
• Audited all Network Infrastructure to identify full network topology; Documentation of hardware, software including ‘End-of-Life’ & ‘End-of-Support’ timescales of network devices for the benefit of Support Contract.
• IP Audit completed to verify IP Address and VLAN allocation. Created an IPAM (IP Address Management) process to allocate and manage IP and VLAN allocation.
• Configuration & Troubleshooting on Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, Cisco ASA/PIX Firewalls and Load-Balancers.
• Support of services for Government Critical Applications serving the Met Police, Home Office and Ministry of Justice.

• Worked for the Network & Security team in a customer facing role, based on customer site for ‘Marks & Spencer’.
• Responsible for the capacity planning of the LAN & WAN Infrastructure. Duties included the periodic audit and documentation of port capacity on network switches, and subsequent planning of hardware/software upgrades to.
• Implemented the upgrade of OS Image (CatOS to IOS conversion) and upgrade of hardware (Supervisor720) of the Cisco 6500 series Switches, to deliver connectivity requirements for the new Server environment with 10Gig.
• ACE Load Balancer - Troubleshooting and fault-finding ref: rserver, serverfarm. Service-policy.
• Datacentre audit and documentation produced using Word & Excel. Created network topology diagrams using Visio.
• Project work including installation of new switches to facilitate the consolidation of the LAN infrastructure and migration of services to new infrastructure.

Network Consultancy for 'Cable&Wireless Worldwide' based onsite for the client 'Marks and Spencer'.

• Many years experience working within the financial sector in the City of London, for this prestigious financial institute providing financial services to a global market. 10 years experience of providing LAN WAN.
• Management & Support of the European WAN MPLS network spanning France, Netherlands & Belgium; incorporating 6 European offices via COLT MPLS cloud using BGP for WAN routing to remote locations, and OSPF for LAN.
• Support & Management of 3 UK Datacentres inter-connected via DWDM Fibre technology, and 2 European datacenters.
• Configuration, Support & Management of the UK WAN infrastructure utilising Cisco 7500 for core connectivity, Cisco 2610 & 2801 for remote connectivity; 200+ remote sites and 400+ leased lines. Responsible for active.
• Extensive experience of working with both ‘Hybrid’ and ‘Native’ Cisco Systems.NETWORK MONITORING & MANAGEMENT:
• Maintenance & management of the HP Openview NNM Network Management and alerting tool, on a UNIX Solaris 10 server platform. Loaded new MIBs for devices and created Network Maps for monitoring. Created ‘Event.

• As a Network Support Engineer I was assigned to a customer site at LCH.Clearnet. Network Infrastructure Support was outsourced to CapGemini to manage both the LAN & WAN.
• A member of the Installations team, responsible for the Installation and Management of the Network Cabling Infrastructure at the Primary UK Datacentre.
• Day-to-day installations of the following cable technologies: Token-Ring, Ethernet, RJ45 Twisted Pair, 10 Base-T, 10 Base-5 (Thick-net), 10 Base-2 (Thin-net), X.21, G703, BNC, RS232.
• Cabling for LAN Cisco Switches, IBM Controllers 3172/3174, IBM AS400.