Specialist - Networks
EWS Management and Consultants WLL.
Total years of experience :37 years, 0 Months
Specialist - Networks for Military Medical City Hospital from EWS Management and Consultants WLL.
Specialist / Team Lead working for Healthcare Sector for Qatar Armed Forces - Military Medical City. Responsible for the technical management of the under construction facility after handover to the customer.
Resident Consultant to Ministry of Interior - Qatar (Telecom Division) for Network Security Operations
Consultant / Resident Engineer for Ministry of Interior - Qatar (Telecom Division) for network security operations for its 3 datacenters (100+ racks each). Responsible for the technical management of the following infrastructure.
Leading the Team Lead for Network and Security Infrastructure for Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited for ensuring smooth Stocks trading operations.
• Ensuring smooth IT network operations on KATS trading system uptime on old Cisco Catalyst 6500 based infrastructure
• Mock testing of newly purchased Chinese trading application JADE on newly deployed Huawei based infrastructure switches, routers, and firewalls
• Reporting to DGM-IT and CIO for future upgrade plans
• Budgeting, CAPEX / OPEX planning, gap identification and analysis for any future requirements for upgrades
• Vendor management
• Standardization of IT Network and Security Infrastructure with industry best practices
Management of Datacenter and IT Infrastructure for ICI Pakistan Ltd across all branches.
• IT operations management, networks, security, wireless, video conferencing and support for 13 nationwide branches / business units
• Planning and designing of Datacenter and Disaster Recovery Site
• CAPEX / OPEX planning, technology reviews and recommendations, vendor management.
Core responsible for the technical configurations and management of datacenter and campus network operations comprising the following.
• Cisco (Nexus 7000, 5500, 2232 as Data Center (Core, Distribution and Access) and Catalyst 4500, 3750, 3560 as Campus (Distribution and Access Switches),
• Security infrastructure includes Bluecoat Web Proxy, Trend Micro Hosted Email Security, Cisco Ironport, F5 Web Application Firewall, Fortinet - DC firewall / with IPS, Palo Alto DMZ / Second layer Firewall with IPS and Cisco ASA Perimeter Firewall with Firepower IPS.
• Administration and management of Cisco Wireless Infrastructure with WLC 5508 and Access Points 3800, 3700, 3600, 1252 and 1142
• Administration and management of Avaya IP Telephony System comprising Call Manager 7.0, Session Manager 7.0, System Manager 7.0, Media Gateways G450 etc.
Deputed from Jeraisy Computers to Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu IT Division. Responsible for IT network, security and infrastructure support for Jubail and Ras-Alkhair.
Networks team lead for Corporate IT infrastructure of Saudi Bin Ladin Group - Public Buildings & Airport Division.
Monitoring and management of mission critical trading network comprising more than 2000 nodes and around 200 routers that are connected remotely and within the premises. Troubleshooting of user end network on Cisco AS5400XM and AS5300. Configuration of routine operations for interdepartmental operations on a fully managed network supporting STP, 802.1q.
Planning & Designing of Metro-E / NGN Services for Karachi and Lahore. Technical correspondence with Local / Foreign vendor. Deployment of Optical Fiber Ring with self-healing redundant network, covering critical corporate sector and main business backbone I.I.Chundrigarh Road Karachi. Connecting Karachi Stock Exchange and Lahore Stock Exchange on Metro-E network with live trading applications. Reporting directly to CTO. Close correspondence with the Network Operation Center (NOC). Training and technical assistance of Network Engineers. Assisting the Internationally Private Leased Circuit Team (IPLC) / Domestic Private Leased Circuit (DPLC) for connectivity on SDH Transmission Equipment (NSN HiT 7070, 7060, 7030 and 7025).
Monitoring of Router Cisco 3600 Series on MRTG, Cisco Catalyst 2950 Series Switches, bandwidth on MRTG using Tellabs HDSL devices, users on Max TNT, Squid, NMS, Web Server, Email Server, Bind and web-based management of Clients Database on Advanced ISP Billing Software. Running BERT Test on Bandwidth and PRI Devices if Media issue found. Coordination with Senior Network Engineer and Database Administrator & Technical Support to Clients.