arun achuthan, Network Engineer

arun achuthan

Network Engineer

Huawei Technologies

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, CCNP Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Network Engineer at Huawei Technologies
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since October 2014

• Responsible for Migration of Enterprise Customers and Triple Play services for residential customers to Huawei GPON network structures. Migrations included FTTB and FTTH scenarios.
• Responsible for the configuration and integration of OLTs, MDUs, and ONTs for customer services.
• Raising Change requests and RFC at Huawei Icare and follow up with GTAC teams.
• Handling of customer trouble tickets related to the services while migration.
• Coordination with NOC/ monitoring team related to device alarms and clearance of alarms.
• Migrating Enterprise Customers from Cisco Platform to Huawei GPON
• Responsible for Monitoring and troubleshooting the following network resources and devices.:- Cisco C7K, C4K, C3K Series and ME-3400 Series Switches, Huawei S9K Series, S33k Series, S23k Series Switches.
• Preparation and verification of the customer data collected from the live network devices and preparation of the accurate data required for the migration of the services.
• Planning and coordination with the Du AAA team and Netboss teams for the profile and device additions on the network and monitoring tools.
• Preparation of routing plan /table for the MDUs and assigning IP addresses for the MDUs.
• Coordination with the call centre team for the verification of customer services after migration.
• Coordination with the field engineers for the migration activity and device installation/ old device shut down.
• Post migration network verification is also done and records kept.
• Coordination with the Subcons for the netcracker circuit creation based on the migration report. Verifying / correcting if any issues found.
• Coordination with Subcons for ISP and OSP surveys and design the ISPs
• Successfully completed migration at areas of Discovery Gardens, Al Quoz, International City, Business bay, Burj Dubai, DIFC, JBR, locations.

Network Engineer at du emirates integrated telecommunication company.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2010 to October 2014

Worked in Network Operations Tier 1 team for consumer as a network engineer.
 Worked with different Cisco and Huawei switches, and devices like IPD, ASR, 3COM, MSAN, GPON and their configurations.

 Troubleshooting all kinds of configuration errors related to above mentioned devices.

 Providing network support for fixed home services which include internet, Landline and IPTV.

Activation Engineer at du emirates integrated telecommunication company.
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • June 2009 to January 2010

Worked as a Field Engineer for the enterprise Provisioning team and took care of the zone-4 area of entire Dubai.
 Provisioning of services from switches of Cisco, Huawei and devices like IPD, ASR, MSAN etc.

 Provisioning of trunk /analog lines, internet, Access Ports, BRI, MPLS etc for the enterprise customers.

Education

Diploma, CCNP Troubleshooting and Maintaining Cisco IP Networks
  • at Sansoft
  • July 2012
Diploma, CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate)
  • at NIIT
  • May 2009
Bachelor's degree, BACHELOR OF ENGINEERING, ELECTRONICS & COMMUNICATION
  • at SATHYABAMA UNIVERSITY
  • April 2009

Specialties & Skills

Microsoft Office
Network Devices
Cisco Switches
Cisco Certified Network Associate CCNA
 Operating and configuring CISCO, Huawei IOS devices  Handling of the customer related trouble ti
MS-Office
Project management Program

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Malayalam
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Tamil
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Hobbies

  • Stamp collecting