Farrukh Shafiq

Network / Infrastructure Engineer at Region of York

• Canada - Ontario
• My current job since August 2015

Hands on experience in Data Center products such as Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k and NX-OS
1.2. Experience with resolving / troubleshooting network issues using Network Management Tools
1.3. Experience in applying network security best practices / implementing firewalls; Cisco ASA5500 Series
1.4. Configuration, test and deployment of the Nexus 9000, 7000 series switches with different architecture and
designs implementing Nexus specific technologies such as vPC FebricPatch and OTV and then deployment into
production with a team
1.5. Experience in Network design and implementation from cable to Data Center design
1.6. Experience working with large networks in government organizations
1.7. Experience in Inet-II 900 Radio devices being used in a WAN environment
1.8. Experience with 5.8 Ghz High Speed radio devices integrated in a WAN environment
1.9. Access layer switch replacement Project /Sr Network Engineer. Designed, configured and replaced
regions access layer IE 3000 switches with the connectivity through WAN links across the region
1.10. Cutover all WAN links to new Fiber PVC’s coming to the hub site to eliminate unnecessary routing
towards Corp network, implemented route summarization and routed through new FW.
1.11. Introduced new Cisco 819 router wireless SIMM feature to the network to eliminate issues where DSL
and other means unavailable
1.12. Strong experience / knowledge of L2 & L3 in a Data Center Networked environment
1.13. Experience with Network protocols OSPF/RIP/EIGRP/STP/RSTP/TCP

• December 2009 to

Provided level 2 system administration for Windows / Linux.

Network Engineer / Consultant at IBM

• United Arab Emirates
• December 2004 to

Middleware:
11. eHealth Ontario &

• January 2015 to

Good working knowledge / experience in supporting VOIP / Video / Wireless Network environment
1.16. Strong experience of deploying network using FCIP / VSAN / SVIs/ VRRP & HSRP technologies
1.17. Experience with VMware ESXi / Nexus 1000v & vCloud Director
1.18. Hands on experience in Data Center technologies such as OTV, vPC, VDC, NXOS switches
1.19. Good knowledge in a hierarchical DC design involving scalability and redundancy
1.20. Hands on experience in administering day-to-day Data Center Network Operations activities and support

at Dell

• United Arab Emirates
• to

Hands on experience in critical cutovers and change management best practices
1.22. Understanding of Nexus 1010 VSA and it’s implementations in Production
1.23. Good working knowledge of Cisco UCS Manager in Production Environment
1.24. Hands on experience in managing VLANs/Port Groups, other network components in Virtualized Data Center
environment, dealing with ESXi hosts and iSCSI / HDS storage devices
1.25. Good knowledge of Cisco Nexus series hardware structure and other Data Center technologies like MDS
switches, UCSM and Dell M1000 Series Chassis in Virtualized environment, including hands on experience on

• to

Implementing Best Practices for vPC, Fex-fabric, FabricPath, OTV, Storage, UCS Management in Prod after
testing in staging / Pre-Prod.
1.27. Experience with Cisco 6500, VSS technology
1.28. Hands-on experience with Cisco OTV including planning, design and implementation.

at Cisco

• United Arab Emirates
• to

Good working knowledge / experience with

• to

3.3.
Coordinated with vendors and network resources to resolve Data Center & customers Network issues
3.4.
Provided technical support for Data Center’s Network components information management for cutovers
3.5.
Provide first level response to critical network outages related to eHealth’s Data Center
3.6.
Hands on experience of Switching Protocols and technologies like STP, PVST, 802.3ad
3.7.
Good knowledge and experience of Layer 3 Routing Protocols like OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, understanding of
BGP
3.8.
Worked with Cisco Routers and switches 2600, 7200 and 2900, 3500, 3700, 3800, 6500 series and
Nexus
3.9.
Got ownership and resolve incidents tickets through BMC Remedy Management system
3.10.
Hands on experience in Incident / Situation management, Change Management and Problem
Management for Production network issues
WIN-TEL / System Admin:
4. eHealth Ontario & IBM
4.1. Solid system administration experience in Prod / Dev environments.
4.2. Solid ops experience in Sys Admin capacity of the current infrastructure as well as future business assessment
consisting of different OS platforms
Intermediate to senior level hands-on experience working with Large Data Center Pre-Prod and Prod
environments.
4.3. Experience with Virtual & physical ESXi environments / cloud-based servers attached with Direct Attached
Storage / iSCSI / NAS
4.4. Experience with provisioning Virtual environments for the clients / staff.
4.5. System administration of Windows / Linux & Solaris based servers, including patch management, resolving
complex Wintel issues adding virtual resources and managing DRS.
4.6. Experience with an environment consisting of more than 2000 virtual physical servers.
4.7. Experience with Dell mountable and Racked blade servers, experience managing them with iDRAC.
4.8. Solid experience working with Vendors like Hydro telecom on different issues and their resolution.
ESXi VMware:
5. eHealth Ontario & IBM:
5.1. Strong experience working with large Datacenter testing & Production environments
5.2. Experience managing Virtual environments, Storage (Datastores), Network connectivity
5.3. VMware 5.1 certified
5.4. vCloud Director experience