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Islāmābād, Pakistan

• Participate in pre-sales activities, including:o Conducting Proof of Concepts (PoCs)o Building Bills of Quantities (BoQs)o Supporting security designo Writing proposalso Delivering product-specific presentations and training• Provide technical pre-sales support to: o Potential customerso Existing customerso Partners• Lead discovery meetings to align potential client needs, goals and objectives to Cyber Security solutions DDOS, SIEM, SOAR, EDR, Firewalls, CIS Benchmarking• Develop and deliver demos and presentations that are clear, engaging and sparks interest• Create customized demos and trial environments for clients• Obtain product market share by working with the sales team to develop product sales strategies• Support the sales process by acting as Cyber Security expert for all products and service• Establishing excellent and stable relationships with the customers and channel partners.• Assist sellers in qualifying opportunities and account planning to close business• Resource planning and bid management associated with RFP/RFQ across multiple industry verticals • Transition accounts and communicate business requirements to implementation team• Provide coaching and mentorship to new team members• Actively share market insights and client feedback to the appropriate internal departments• Work across various time zones to support business needs• Able to work within a distributed team and travel as required• Ensuring compliance to ISO27001 ISO27017 standards

Pakistan

Responsible for Network products and solution analysis, planning and design for enterprise customers.- Conducting marketing activities including solution presentations, workshops and seminars for Network products and solutions.- Resource planning and bid management associated with RFP/RFQ across multiple industry verticals.- Obtain product market share by working with the sales team to develop product sales strategies.- Establishing excellent and stable relationships with the customers and channel partners.- Providing assistance and trainings to enterprise customers and channel partners.- Develop network and systems documentation/proposals as per requirement.

Pakistan

Performed Cybersecurity Architecture Assessment for TGA(Transport General Authority) - Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaProduce a recommendations document for TGA to deploy technology & security controls to be in-line with the anticipated industry best practices over the upcoming years based on Forrester Information Security Maturity ModelDuring the High-Level Architecture Review, we concentrate on the security level of network, System, as well as TGA’s users from both an architectural and operational perspective to identify any possible vulnerabilities that may exist at the design, implementation, and operational levels. During the assessment we have performed the following activities to assess the current architecture of TGA:Participate in pre-sales activities including, but not be limited to, conducting Proof of Concepts (PoC), Building BoQ’s, supporting in security designs, writing proposals, delivering product specific presentations and training… etc.Provide technical pre-sales support to various entities for the purpose of promoting and selling products/Solutions. Entities include potential customers, existing customers, partners, and resellers.Managed the implementation of Cyber Security solutions.

Middle East

Presales Engineer for Security Firewall(NGFW, iNGFW), IPSWork closely with the Director of Systems Engineering to develop strategic initiatives for the Telco/Carrier/Enterprise/Education/Finance/ISP. This is for Direct Customers and Partners.Act as the conduit for advanced technical and product information between CSE-Team/R&D and Customers/Partners for new Solutions/FeaturesFacilitate workshops and training modules to increase Customers/Partners knowledge of Hillstone products.Support and work through the entire process of Sales, Workshops, RFI/RFQ and PoC.Pickup Trends from Customers and seek Product Innovation from Hillstone into those SegmentsWork closely with Marketing and Product marketing to formalise and create "Solutions"Work with internal Marketing/PMM to build Solution Briefs, Whitepapers, Solution Guides for the Telco/Carrier/Enterprise/Education/Finance/ISPSupport back into Product management to help driving new Products and SolutionsSupport Public Engagements (Conferences, Speaking Engagements) internal and externalGood Networking within the Industry is a big plus

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• Ten years of professional experience• • Extensive hands on experience on the following devices in the network:(Security/Routing /Switching/Wireless/DPI)o Firewall: Juniper:SRX3600+IDP, ISG2000+IDP, SA2000, SA6500, Cisco: ASA5510, ASA5540, VPN3030, , PIX535, ASA5585-x, ASA5555xo Cisco: Nexus7K,5K,2K, Routers ASR9K, Switches 6509-FWSM , 3660, 2621,1601, 2960, Firewall PIX535, VPN Concentrators 3005, 3030, , 3550, 2950, 3560, 3750, WLC, WCSo Juniper: SRX3600+IDP, ISG2000+IDP, SA2000, SA6500, M40e, M120, M7i, M10i, J6300, J4300, SSG-550M, SSG-20 and SSL-VPN deviceso Cisco SCE8000 deployment to replace BlueCoat PacketShaper10000 •• Deployment of Cisco ASR9K to replace Juniper M40e• Deployment of Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K & 2K switches for the new data center and replacing Cisco 6509• Deployment of ASA5585-x in HA to replace Juniper ISG2K• Deployment of Juniper M7i and Juniper M10i as Ufone’s Internet Gateway. The setup is fully redundant running VRRP on the inside and EBGP configuration with ISP• Deployment of BGP over GRE over IPSEC on two SSG550 (Active/Passive) with RIM for blackberry services•Design, implement and maintain an effective IT Governance Function•Design, implement and maintain and effective Information security Management System(ISMS)•Creating, improving IT and IS Policies•Risk Assessment of all in-scope assets•Training and Awareness of different teams & end-users•Compliance: •Ensuring compliance to ISO27001 ISO27017 standards•Ensuring compliance to PCI DSS standard•Ensuring compliance to internal IT & IS Policies•Managing, designing and implementation of an ISMS based on ISO27001 standards•Ensuring the successful completion of Risk Assessments, Internal and 3rd Party audit activities•Conduction regular assessments and audits to ensure adherence to ISO27001 & ISO 27017 controls

Handling National Bank Pakistan Network Rawalpindi Islamabad Configuration and maintenance of routers 1700, 3600, 3700V.35, E1 and DS0 circuitsResponsible for Bert Testing(Sunrise) of E1, V.35 and ISDN Links of different companies like NTC, Myson, MobilinkResponsible for all Video Conferencing Queries in Islamabad RegionConducted more then 100 hrs of Video Conferencing SessionsInstallation of Video Conferencing Equipment and Conducted VC Sessions in PTA, JICA, SARENA, Mobilink, ENI(Oil and Gas Company), Marriot, HEC, NUSTWorked as a Technical Lead in ECR/VC Project of NUST (Deployment of Electronic Class Room in eight Universities of NUST including Rawalpindi, Risalpur and Karachi Regions.Installation of Polycom Video Conferencing Equipment Models including IPower 680, View Station 512, VSX 7000, VSX 8000, VSX 8800Worked on Alcatel (Newbridge) Digital Cross connects.Worked on DSL project (NAVY)

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Bachelors, Computer Science

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