Faisal Ghulam Farid, Senior Network Consultant

Faisal Ghulam Farid

Senior Network Consultant

du Telecom

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications and Information Technology
Experience
13 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :13 years, 3 Months

Senior Network Consultant at du Telecom
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • My current job since August 2012

1. Large Scale Multi-Million dollar Project Design & Implementation for Data Centre’s, Government entities and Enterprises.

2. Lead Network architect and Project Manager for a new Collocation Data Centre that's hosting critical customer facing applications. Managed all aspects of deployment including budget, project management, vendor communication, Internet/MPLS circuits, SDN, Cloud Computing, end to end network and security build.

3. Spearheading E2E execution of newly built Datacentres for Mobile, IPTV, IT & Telecom Services that comprises of ASR9K, Nexus(9K, 7K, 5K, 2K), VSS, Citrix/F5 Load balancers, UCS, Firewalls (ASA 5585, FortiGate 3600, Juniper 3600), Cisco CRS, Cisco ASR, Cisco (7609, 7606, 6500), Nokia 7750 SR Routers, Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX.

4. Implementation, Design review, troubleshooting and Optimizations of LAN/WAN, Routing protocols (OSPF/EIGRP, BGP), MPLS VPN’s (L2/L3/VPLS), PBRs, Ethernet switching functionality and protocols: STP/RSTP/MSTP, VLAN, bridging, IP Multicasting and QoS.

5. Execution and troubleshooting of next generation Cisco’s SDN flavour - ACI for end to end service deployment of Tenants, EPGs, Application Profile, Access, Fabric policies with XML and GUI based implementations.

6. Hands on experience with VMWare technologies i.e. NSX, NSX-T, ESXi Hypervisor, vRealize, vCloud and vSphere Suite.

7. Hands on experience with Cloud computing technologies i.e. IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Amazon EC2, GCP Compute Engine, Amazon S3, Lambda, API Gateway, LightSail GuardDuty, Amazon CloudFront, Amazon EFS, Elastic Block Storage, Amazon Glacier, Amazon SQS, Amazon SWF, Elastic load balancing.

8. Configuration, Design and troubleshooting on Firewall technologies (Stateful inspection, Security Rules/policies, Source and Destination NAT, IPSEC VPNs, Remote Access VPNs).

9. Manage and support F5 LTM/GTM and Citrix ADC Load balancer in pre-production and production environments.

10. Implementation, Design review, troubleshooting and Optimization of Datacentre technologies i.e. Fiber Channel, OTV (Overlay transport virtualization), VXLAN, Fabric Path, VPC (Virtual port channel) and Cisco UCS (Unified Communication system) technologies.

11. Extensive usage of basic networking utilities and protocols such as : ACL, ARP, DHCP, DNS, SSL, Flow Control, ICMP, LACP, LLDP, NAT, Open Flow, SNMP, TACACs, Radius, TCP/IP and performed packet flow analyses using Wireshark.

12. Network Performance management using PRTG, Dell EMC Watch4Net, BrixWorx tools and Implementing Optimization plan for the stability and high availability of IP Network.

13. Provide Tier 3 support for critical network Outages in Datacentre.

14. Working with Python scripts to minimize routine based CLI & XML deployment needs.

Network Engineer at Corvit Networks
  • Pakistan - Lahore
  • January 2011 to July 2012

1. Configuration, Implementation and Troubleshooting of Routing Protocols i.e. RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS and BGP and MPLS L3/L2 VPNs.

2. Configuration, Implementation and Troubleshooting of VLANs, VTP, Multi-layer Switching, STP, MSTP, RSTP, PVST, Inter-VLAN Routing, Switch port Security, Ether Channel.

3. Configure and Manage APs, WLC using Cisco Prime Infrastructure.

4. Deployed ISE in wired environment to perform Dot1x port based authentication for users connecting to the corporate network

5. Preparing and reviewing commands set required for pre and post migrations of different services, verifications and troubleshooting.

6. Managing critical large scale network Upgrade activities to avail new feature sets and manage IOS life cycle timelines.

7. Develop and maintain Network documentation and procedures as necessary and required for Network Operations.

8. Develop the design strategies according to customer needs.

9. Coordinate and liaison with CISCO experts and TAC support.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Telecommunications and Information Technology
  • at Comsats Institute of Information Technology Lahore
  • January 2011

Bachelor of Science in Electrical (Telecommunication) Engineering.

Specialties & Skills

IP Networking
Switches
Routers
Microsoft Office
Multicasting
L3 Routing Technologies (OSPF, BGP, ISIS, EIGRP, RIP)
L2 Switching Technologies
Cisco DataCenter Technologies
Cisco Security
Virtualization
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Cloud Computing
Network Security
DNS/DHCP
F5/Citrix Loadbalancer
VMWARE NSX

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Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Native Speaker
Arabic
Intermediate
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

VMware Certified Implementation Expert - Network Virtualization (Certificate)
AWS Certified Solution Architect (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2019
Alcatel lucent ALU 7750 SR Router Series Training (Training)
Training Institute:
Alcatel lucent Dubai
Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastrucuture) (Training)
Training Institute:
Cisco Systems Dubai
CCNP (Training)
Training Institute:
Corvit Networks
Date Attended:
February 2011
ITIL v3 Foundation (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2015
CCNA (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2012
Valid Until:
February 2019
CCIE DataCenter (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2016
Valid Until:
February 2019
CCIE Service Provider (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
Valid Until:
February 2019

Hobbies

  • Reading