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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Working as a Senior Network Consultant in Core Network Planning of STC (Saudi Telecom, Saudi Arabia)
• DC Centre architect: making strategy and dimensioning for Data centre for active equipment.
• MPLS Guidelines: Wrote technical guidelines for IP-MPLS and cloud computing for network strategic planning and deployment planning, OSPF, BGP. This document helped STC in standardizing links and capacity planning.
• Telco cloud: Working as a team member for telco cloud to dimension vBNG,vEPC SDN, NFV and telco infrastructure.
• IPv6 Transition: An official technical member of IPv6 committee in STC. Have a strong knowledge of IPv6 and how to implement in STC Core/ Access and wow to migrate from IPv4 to IPv6 smoothly. Wrote technical document.
• IP Core Network deployment plan: Wrote Technical documents and deployment plan for IGW, MPLS, CEM (Customer experience management).

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• MPLS Consultation Engineer
• Worked as a MPLS Consulting Engineer supporting Ebttikar Customer, National Information Centre (NIC), and Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia.
• Designed and maintained NIC MPLS backbone and also Customer Edge.
• Implemented and maintained IP Solution Centre (ISC) for PE and CE routers.
• MPLS Traffic Engineering implementation
• Layer2 VPN, Any transport over MPLS good understanding.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Worked as Network engineer in IP Engineering Bell Canada for five years. Worked extensively with detail designing, planning and implementation of following projects.
• MPLS and VPNE: Designing MPLS backbone by working on MPLS infrastructure its design and implementation. Mostly PE and P point of view. MPLS traffic Engineering, Fast Reroute/Technical documentation for PE Standards.
• Bell’s Internet Address space and Global/International Network Aggregation: Completed an important and vital Engineering project that was focused on realignment of Bell’s Internet Address space. This project.
• POP Design: Gained expert level knowledge of OSPF and BGP protocols by working on designing/implementing Bell Canada’s POPs in different Canadian/US cities over a few years period. This involved layer 2 connectivity.
• IP Address Management: Gained expert level skills for IP Address Management, by controlling “IP Address Management” all over Bell Canada’s network. This involved getting IP CIDR Blocks from ARIN (American Registry for.
• IPV6 Architect, Design and Implementation: Team Lead for IPV6 project which include coordination with ARIN (American Registry for Internet Address).

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Diagnose, Monitor, and resolve IP Network problems.
• Provide Bell’s commitment to help grow customer services practices while increasing customer ability to adopt and benefit from advanced technologies such as IP communications.
• Provide network support on world wide basis.
• Analyzed and configured small medium networks.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Performed major Operational and Network support for AS/400. This includes OS/400 administration, backup and restore and system monitoring. AS/400 PC connectivity, file transfer from as/400 to PC etc.

Karachi Division, Sindh, Pakistan

AS/400 System Administrator/As/400 Security Officer