Girish Gavandi, Senior Network Engineer

Girish Gavandi

Senior Network Engineer

Mannai Trading Company

Location
Qatar
Education
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
Experience
17 years, 5 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 5 Months

Senior Network Engineer at Mannai Trading Company
  • Qatar - Doha
  • My current job since February 2008

• Work with the presales team as wireless networks designer/consultant to gather inputs and information required to meet the customer technical requirements and generate BoQ.
• Execute the ground work necessary to design a complete network solution as per customer requirement.
• Current role as Wireless Designer and Network Infrastructure implementation Engineer.
• To use technical expertise in configuring, troubleshooting and supporting the data and wireless network infrastructure at various client places.
• To conduct wireless site surveys using survey software, generate reports and design wireless network.

Network Consultant at Unicorp Infotech WLL
  • India
  • July 2007 to December 2007

 To work along with the ICT Infrastructure team in designing and commissioning of active/passive network
components.
 Attend business meetings with the clients and get their exact requirements for Network Infrastructure
and/or IT Trainings, if any.
 To co-ordinate different training campaigns in Cisco and Microsoft Technologies, for Qatar Government and
handle various technical aspects pertaining to the same.
 To handle various administrative and technical tasks for IT Training division.
Country/Region

Corporate Trainer at Koenig Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
  • India
  • June 2007 to June 2007

• To work along with a team of 7 (2 Engineers and 5 Corporate IT Consultants) and contribute to the Cisco IT Training Operations thereby ensuring high customer satisfaction in trainings.
• To configure, install, troubleshoot and support various Cisco equipment (Routers and Switches) in a LAN/WAN environment on windows platform.
• To configure, troubleshoot and resolve routing protocol issues with EIGRP, OSPF and BGP.
• To use technical expertise in the expansion and development of the Network and underlying network infrastructure.
• To create and maintain records and databases of all network equipment and connections to generate reports.
• Installed and configured the following products,
Cisco 2500, 2600 and 3600 series IOS Routers, Catalyst 2950 and 3500 series IOS Switches
Netgear Wireless Router for WLAN connectivity in Koenig Solutions.
• My work also involved traveling to different places across India like Delhi and Shimla.

Network Support Engineer at Tata Teleservices (M) Ltd
  • India
  • December 2005 to May 2006

• Working with a team of 5 support Engineers to install, configure and troubleshoot desktops and related software.
• Help populate ISP cable pulling information on GIS across Pune region.
• To create and maintain records and database of all network equipment/desktop and software installed to generate reports.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering
  • at Goa College of Engineering
  • January 2005
High school or equivalent, Science
  • at St. Xavier’s Higher Secondary School
  • January 2001
High school or equivalent, School
  • at Parse High School
  • January 1999

Specialties & Skills

Data Center
Routing and Switching
Cisco Wireless
COMPUTER HARDWARE
GOVERNMENT
MIGRATION
NETWORK ENGINEERING
NETWORKING
ROUTERS

Languages

English
Expert
Hindi
Expert
Marathi
Expert

Training and Certifications

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert – Wireless (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
Valid Until:
August 2016

Hobbies

  • Cricket
    active member of local Cricket Club Goan Knights Cylon Cricket Club
  • Amateur Photographer
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/girish_gavandi/ http://picasaweb.google.com/girish.gavandi
  • Stamp Collecting
    collected over 500 stamps of different countries and growing