Gulam Adil, Senior Network Engineer

Gulam Adil

Senior Network Engineer

ROYAL COMMISSION FOR JUBAIL & YANBU

Location
Saudi Arabia - Jubail
Education
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of science
Experience
21 years, 4 Months

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Total years of experience :21 years, 4 Months

Senior Network Engineer at ROYAL COMMISSION FOR JUBAIL & YANBU
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • My current job since April 2012

Installation, Configuration, Monitoring and Troubleshooting of Cisco Routers (7200, 3800, 3900, 2900, 2800, Series)
Layer 2 & 3 Switches (2900, 3500, 3600, 3700 Series) Cisco Core and Distribution Switches (NEXUS 7010, 5000,
Catalyst 6500, 4500 & 4948 Series) Cisco Management and Security appliances with series like ASA 5500, AIP
SSM20, IDSM-2, CS MARS, ACS, CSA 6.0.2 and Cisco works LMS 3.1 for the LAN management solution.
 Worked with network design and engineering team on multiple projects to upgrade 10GE and improve the
performance of network infrastructure and network security.
 Design, Plan & Deployment & expansion of IT infrastructure and Data center.
 Maintain high level of security and reliable network architecture.
 Recommend preventive, mitigating, and compensating controls to ensure the appropriate level of protection and
adherence to the goals of the overall Network security & internet security strategy.
 Configured and Maintaining Juniper Switches ( Ex 4200, Ex 4500, Ex 8200 & XRE 200)
 Configured and Maintaining Juniper SRX Firewall (SRX 3400, SRX 3600)
 Configured and Maintaining Juniper Network and Security Manager (NSM)
 Configured and Maintaining Virtual Chase on juniper EX 4500 & 8200.
 Configured Redundancy Protocols using VRRP
 Configured Link aggregation on Ex 4500 using Aggregated Ethernet (AE) interface
 Configured Access port and trunk port modes
 Configured inter-Vlan Routing using RVI
 Configured TACAC+ Authentication on Ex series Switches.
 Upgrade JUNOS Image on Ex Series switches & SRX firewall.
 Configured Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP), and VLAN Spanning Tree
Protocol (VSTP)
 Configure Firewall filter on EX Series Ethernet switches
 Configured and Maintaining Cisco CRS1, 7600, NEXUS 7010, 5000, 4948 and CAT 6500 for core and datacenter
aggregation layer and CAT 4500 to switching between desktop.

Network Engineer at KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM & MINERALS
  • Saudi Arabia
  • December 2009 to March 2012

 Supervised and led all networking operations related to routing and switching in the enterprise network
 Recommend technical solutions to enhance performance, increase redundancy, and add flexibility to the existing infrastructure.
 Perform responsibilities of designing and implementing new LAN/WAN technologies.
 Configured and maintained Cisco Routers (7200, 3845, 3825, 3640, 2800 and 2600) using Routing Protocols (ISIS,
OSPF, MBGP, BGP, IGRP)
 Configure and maintained Cisco Switches (6500, 3750, 4948, 3650, 2950, 2960, 1900)
 Configure and maintained Cisco Wireless Indoor Accesspoint (1232AG, 3500e, 1262n, ) Outdoor Bridges (1300, 1400)
 Configure and maintained Cisco Wireless Controller 5508, 7500 Flex controller, WLSM, WLSE.
 Configure and maintained Juniper-EX Series ( EX 3200, EX 4200 )
 Maintained a loop free switched network using STP, MSTP and RSTP protocols.
 Enabling Trunks, VTP, inter-vlan routing, L2 tunneling (Q in Q) and STP resiliency features
 Miscellaneous features like L2/L3 Ether channels, private and protected vlans, 802.1x authentication, VACL’ s,
SPAN & RSPAN, netflow.
 Enabling multicast traffic forwarding using PIM-SP, PIM-DM and sparse-dense mode
 Excellent configuration, debugging and troubleshooting skills of Router and Switches
 Strong configuration and troubleshooting skills of IPSEC VPN with pre-shared and RSA signatures (IOS CA)
 Efficiently performed ADSL DLSM Configurations.
 Efficiently performed RAS services using Cisco 5400xm router
 MRTG deployment & management
 Whatsupgold NMS deployment & management
 Configure and maintained Infoblox Appliance as an external DNS
 Attended Citrix load balancer training

System / Network Administrator at SAAD SPECIALIST HOSPITAL
  • Saudi Arabia - Jubail
  • June 2007 to July 2009

Responsibly acted as a Senior Team member and directed all the activities
 Responsible for designing and implementation of Saad Hospital network infrastructure
 Configure and implement Remote Access Solution: VPN, ISDN dial up, Fractional T1
 Network Assessment and Documentation (including technical, operational, and economic assessment)
 Redistribution of routing protocols and Frame-Relay configuration
 Performed SYSTIMAX IPATCH PANEL SYSTEM Configuration
 Performed SYSTIMAX IPATCH FIBER SHELF Termination multi mode and single mode fibre MM/SM
 Meticulously performed Testing & Commissioning
 Design the layout for cable Installations
 Punch Blocks, Tone Tracers, Repeaters, Omni Scanners, Fluke Tester, T-BERD, Modems, CSU/DSU’s, Professional
Modular Plug Crimper.
 Build and maintain Visio documentations for Records
 Configured Cisco Routers (2500, 3000, 4000) using RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP
 Configure Cisco Switches (2950, 3550, 3560, 4500)
 Configured JUNIPER Routers
 Performed Monitoring and maintenance of Local Area Network (LAN)
 Strategically oversaw Router Configuration
 Performed Cisco AIRONET Configuration
 Performed Layer 2 Switching & Trunking
 Efficiently performed Network Address Translation (NAT)
 Efficiently performed Port Address Translation (PAT)
 Efficiently performed ADSL Router Configurations
 Configuration of VLAN’s
 Configuration of VLAN Trunking Protocol (ISL & dot1q)
 Configuration of Routing Protocols
 Configuring and Installing Wireless Access points
 Implementation of HSRP, DHCP, DNS, FTP, TFTP, MRTG.
 Implementation of Active Directory Services
 Handled User management, which includes Account Renewals, Password Resetting and Groups Permissions and
policies.

Network Engineer at COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY
  • India
  • August 2004 to May 2007

Successfully and efficiently performed Onsite installations, migrations or integration of Novell NetWare and
Microsoft Windows 2000/2003 Server’s, MS Exchange and Workstation configurations
 Skillfully steered network infrastructure and planning and design of network hardware for LAN/WAN TCP/IP
infrastructures
 Efficiently performed Planning, Installing, Maintaining of Operating Systems viz Win-98, 2000/2003/XP
 Creatively and innovatively engineered and implemented a backup strategy along with a disaster recovery plan in
the event that the servers or critical network components should go down to prevents lost revenue Implemented a
dual server with RAID to mirror critical data between the two servers for the purpose of a disaster recovery in the
event of a server crash, fire, and natural disaster
 Skillfully and efficiently performed installations & configuration of different networking services DHCP, DNS
 Successfully donned the role of Technical lead in providing online Solutions and guiding Field troubleshooting
Team as well as Customers
 Regularly performed network backup abiding by designated schedule
 Performed deployment and maintenance of Print Servers and Printing Pools
 Successfully performed configuration of Outlook Email Accounts
 Responded to computer and network problem in a timely manner
 Troubleshoot printers (laserjet, inkjet and dot matrix printers)
 Imparted training sessions to the staff at customer location
 Centralized Management / Monitoring / Maintenance of WAN using the Router Configuration, Layer 2 Switching &
Trucking
 Performed Network Address Translation (NAT)
 Performed Port Address Translation (PAT)
 Performed Configuration of Dlink, Linksys, Speedtouch Routers

System Administrator, at NETWORK SOLUTIONS,
  • India
  • September 2002 to July 2004

 Skillfully and efficiently performed installations & configuration of windows 2000/03 server & professional
 Successfully performed Planning, deployment, maintenance & analysis of WAN
 Successfully managed a team of 10 members, involved in maintenance
 Worked on TCP/IP protocol
 Implemented trust relationship at user and server level
 Configuring different Network Services
 Responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting system backups
 Installation and configuration of network services DNS, WINS, ICS, IIS 6.0, and DHCP
 Performed Domain Configuration
 Successfully performed Server monitoring and troubleshooting
 Monitoring and maintaining Local Area Network (LAN)
 ADSL Router Configurations

Education

Bachelor's degree, Bachelor of science
  • at Osmania University
  • May 2003

Specialties & Skills

System Maintenance
System Monitoring
Protocol Analysis
Network Deployment
System Level Design
Strong service background.

Languages

English
Expert
Urdu
Expert
Hindi
Expert

Training and Certifications

CCIE # 50140 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2015
Valid Until:
September 2017
Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Written (Lab Attempt on April 2014) (Certificate)
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate Enterprise Switching (JNCIA-EX) (JNO 400) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2009
Valid Until:
November 2017
Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA) (640-864) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2009
Valid Until:
November 2017
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS-ER) (JNO 350) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2010
Valid Until:
November 2017
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA-ER) (JNO 342) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Valid Until:
November 2017
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional (JNCIP) (JNO 643) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2010
Valid Until:
October 2017
Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (Microsoft Windows Server 2003) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2004
Valid Until:
June 2017
Cisco Certified Network Associate Wireless (CCNA Wireless) (640-721) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2011
Valid Until:
November 2017
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) (642-874) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2010
Valid Until:
November 2017
CISCO Certified Network Professional (CCNP) (BCMSN- 642-812, BSCI- 642-901, ISCW- 642-825 ,ONT- 64 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2008
Valid Until:
October 2017
Microsoft Certified Professional (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2004
Valid Until:
June 2017
CISCO Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (640-802) (Certificate)
Date Attended:
April 2007
Valid Until:
June 2017