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Career Summary 17 Years of overall IT networking experience in wired, wireless, security domain for large scale enterprises. Lead role in the design and deployment of 3 x major airport network projects in GCC, involving large scale MPLS/BGP/MVPN/VPLS deployment.• Muscat International Airport, Oman.• Salalah International Airport, Oman.• Hamad International Airport, Qatar. Experience in SDN with Cisco ACI, Cisco SD-Access and NGFW with Cisco Firepower by designing and migrating traditional operational campus and datacenter into latest technology adopted networks.• Sohar Aluminium Campus and Datacenter in Oman. Experience in migrating Global WAN to SDWAN technology from MPLS/IPsec.• RWS Group/SDL Technologies. Experience in design and build of different government networks, associated with public transport projects, • MOI [Ministry of Interiors], CUSTOMS• ROP [Royal Oman Police], ISS [Internal Security Services], PACA [Public Authority for Civil Aviation] Experience in managing the operation of a large-scale campus network for • Wipro Technologies, Bangalore, India.Summary of Skills Technologies with Hands-On Experience:• Cisco ACI: VMM Integration, L4-L7 Service Graph Insertion, Configuration using Postman API Client and VXLAN.• Cisco SD Access: Wired and wireless fabric, SGT and VN segmentation, Fusion routing, Border automation with ACI.• Cisco SD-WAN: App-aware routing, transport bandwidth optimization, optimized internet, On-premises controller deployment, Migration best practices.• Enterprise: OSPF, DMVPN, QoS, VSS, Unified Wireless Solution, NAC, Meraki etc.• NAC: Cisco ISE, dot1x, TACACS, Guest Wireless Access and SGT’s for SDA.• Security: SASE, ZTNA, SWG, Netskope, Cisco ASA, Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) & Checkpoint NGFW, PBR, IPS, remote VPN’s, URL/application filtering.• Service Provider: MPLS, VRF, VPLS, MP-BGP, Multicast-VPN’s, MSDP for large scale IPTV’s and CCTV’s.• Python Scripting for Network auditing and configurations Vendors with Hands-On Experience:• Cisco, Meraki, Netskope, Infoblox, Fortinet, Palo alto, Checkpoint, Juniper, Adonis, IronPort, VMware etc. Sound Knowledge with:• Aryaka SDWAN, ACI Muti-pod/Multi-Site Architecture, IPV6, SASE, Netskope.

Listed skills include Network Design, Project Planning, Cisco Systems Products, Integration, and 6 others.