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Riyadh, Sa

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 and presented to higher management.● IP Core Network deployment plan: Wrote Technical documents and deployment plan for IGW, MPLS, CEM (Customer experience management). ● Customer Excellence Management (CEM): Lead architect for CEM which monitors Mobile and fixed traffic

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.● Inter Provider VPN design and configuration● Edited and Updated technical documentation for MPLS Operation, QOS

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 substantially reduced packet loss, latency And hardware CPU requirement within Bell Canada backbone Network. Also Aggregated already advertised prefixes to global/international network Community based on International CIDR report.● 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 using different Cisco switch platforms and then layers 3 connectivity between Cisco 75xx and 12xxx routers. This also involved complex OSPF costing, BGP route-reflector and community designs.Upgraded many complex networks of Halifax, Cannif and Chicago to 12000 series Routers networks. Worked completely independently and as a team player too.● 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 Internet Numbers), IP Address carving based on services, regions and route-aggregations. This also involved day-to-day IP address assignment. Successfully implemented “Lucent’s Vital QIP software” for IP Management in Bell Canada.● 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