Raheel Maqsood M.Sc. Mbcs. Email & Phone Number

United Arab Emirates

United Arab Emirates

🔶 Trusted Advisor to enterprise customers in Retail, FSI and Semiconductors sector, helping them adopt AWS Cloud Services.🔶 Leading Well Architected Review for Mission Critical Workloads and advising best practices for operational resiliency, risk and cost management and tackling major incidents.🔶 Member of Front-End and Web Development Specialist Community, delivering workshops on AWS Amplify and AppSync, driving customer feedback and advising on app architecture.

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London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Roles and Responsibilities:🔹 As an SE dedicated to British Telecommunications Account Team, I enable the partner company for Sales Enablement, Launch Process for New Cisco Routing and Wireless Products, increase knowledge through Webinars and share passion for automation, cloud and programmability by igniting conversations.🔹 Initiated a new program for training and knowledge awareness via Cisco BT Technology Webinars hosted and conducted on a range of topics from Routing, Wireless to SD-WAN and SDA Solutions for global audience of over 100 attendees. Currently successful in running 3 seasons with 4+ webinars in each.🔹Served as an intermediate between the BU and BT in helping out for technical concerns, design reviews, RFP assistance, deep dive sessions etc.🔹 Conducted various workshops to explain various technologies in person to BT and developed POC for emerging technology and products suited for MSPs like Cisco MSX, SD-WAN and Ansible Network Automation etc.

London, United Kingdom

🔹 Focused on providing pre-sales technical Tier – II support on product information, design queries, RFP child cases and BOMs for Service Provider products and solutions (SP Core, Aggregation, Access, DC, Video, MANO/Prime etc.) to Customers, Partners and Internal Cisco Teams, in a global environment on Salesforce via Email, WebEx and Presentations.

Feltham, Greater London, United Kingdom

🔹 Cisco Sales Associate Program is a highly engaging and dynamic 12 months graduate program comprising of in-depth business, sales and technical training delivered through live boot-camp, demos and presentations on a wide range of solutions. The first phase was 6 months of boot-camp to learn products and solutions in Cisco Core R&S, DC, Security, Collaboration and Wireless.🔹 Accompanied with on the job experience of working in GVE to support Tier-1 Cisco Internal and Partner cases by providing professional technical advice on Cisco’s design architectures, products and solutions in all segments. 🔹 Assessed Role plays were conducted which included network design, proposal meeting and responding to an RFP.🔹 Joined the GSP, BT Infrastructure Team for a rotation with the assignment to gain hands-on experience on the NFVI stack from bottom to top by deploying Cisco Mercury OpenStack, integrating Cisco’s ESC and NSO for management and orchestration of VNFs. Completed Basic training of device and service models and how to use the NFVI solution for quick provision and configuration of devices, and carrying out lifecycle management with health checks on ESC. Also attended customer meetings with BT Media and BT Finance where shadowed the process and also contributed by sharing insights into ACI.

Systems Engineering, Chippenham

🔹 Devised and developed a room plan for a new European Train Control System technology demonstration room using Microsoft Visio 2010 and 3D models on MicroStation V8i including layout, arrangement and refurbishment.🔹 Procured and assisted in the assembly and installation of fourteen 19inch cubicles for network management and equipment organisation along side updating BOM in ERP environment.🔹 Carried out basic IP configuration of Cisco Network Switch and managed installation on custom PCs for the ETCS technology simulation purposes.

Bids&Tendering,Chippenham

🔹 Evaluated technical compliance of various suppliers by referring to tender documents including scope and specific ETCS on board technology specifications. Assessed and analysed different categories including safety and reliability, technical support and commitment to the project.🔹Reviewed bid documents and updated them to ensure consistency by carrying out a research on train lists using online resources and collated them in a tabular form using Microsoft Excel.🔹Supported the senior solutions architect in the reorganisation of documents using Microsoft Word Outlining method and by manipulating and labelling Visio diagrams to suit the formal bid documents template.🔹Gained an overview of the bids and tendering process including project planning, budget planning and the significance of organization and prioritizing of tasks and processes. I also learnt different strategies used in developing solutions and the fast paced team dynamics.

Control Centre Development,R&D,Chippenham

🔹 Designed a data extraction tool using C# on Visual Studio 2010 to isolate specific lines of LDL code in text file format to use it for a set of Cherwell Magna data with assistance for validation and verification team. Learnt about agile methodology whilst collaborating with the SCRUM team and planning tasks using Sprint.🔹 Conducted research on different data backup methods for specific directories on interconnected virtual machines. Used batch file coding on Notepad++ but ultimately found a quick solution of using Syncovery, a COTS to fit the purpose. It was fully verified and checked in a similar environment to the actual test rig system.🔹 Designed and updated Visio 2010 diagrams for Site Operational Requirement document to include Signals, Labels, Control Points, NXR paths etc... suited for rail automation. 🔹 Developed understanding of low level graphics designing using block elements on PC Graphic Editor 3.3 to create a System Monitoring diagram to show different states of machine through logic code and Mnemonics.

Achievements and Responsibilities:🔹 Learnt about the framework of an industry by providing customer support on the customer sites and at the Tetra Pak site recording work done on the customer sites and undertaking performance analysis.🔹 Cooperated with a team of senior and graduate field service engineers in the production, maintenance and troubleshooting phases of Tetra Pak A3/Speed and Tetra Brik Aseptic filling and packaging machines. I assisted in the inspection, reinstallation and replacement of machine parts.🔹 Analysed and compiled real-time performance data using PLMS (packaging line monitoring system) for Tetra Pak industrial packaging machines installed on site.🔹 Suggested solutions to resolve issues and categorised the problems on Tetra Pak and on the customer side in order to reduce waste and lower machine downtime.🔹 Communicated with factory managers and technicians on site to track progress of new advancements and keep check on implementation of updates provided by Tetra Pak.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Nanotechnology

Activities and Societies: Institute of Making, IET, IEEE, Scuba Club. Cisco University Challenge: UCL Team presents IOT idea to Cisco UK.

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Electrical And Electronics Engineering, First Class Honors

Activities and Societies: IET, ElectroniCO

Introduction To Computer Science And Programming Using Python, Computer Science, Pass

Learning the basics of computer programming in Python and the fundamentals of computation, as well as getting the opportunity to implement.

Certificate, Information Technology, Pass

BerkeleyX - Blockchain Professional Certificate on Bitcoin and CryptoCurrencies.