Senior Network Engineer
Dr Sulaiman Al-Habib Hospital
Total years of experience :16 years, 1 Months
My main responsibilities are handling day to day network operations, designing of network for any new project.
Key Achievements:
• Configuration and implementation of whole network in the new Swaidi Branch. The network is based on end to end Avaya SDN Fabric.
• Upgraded hardware and software of different Hospital branches like Qassim, Olaya, Takhussusi and implemented Avaya SDN Fabric in the Core Switches.
• Palo Alto Firewall configuration and management for day to day activities.
• Riverbed, WAN compression configuration and management.
• Management of Aruba Control.
My main responsibilities are Designing, Management and implementation of the different project assigned to me by my manager.
Key Achievements:
• Configuration of Avaya, HP and Cisco Switches, Routers, Wireless Controller and Access Points.
• Installation and Configuration of Avaya Core and edge switches, Secure Routers, Wireless Controllers and Access Points.
• Worked on number of projects of configuration of Avaya switches and routers like VSP 7000, VSP 9000, ERS 8800/8600, ERS 8300, ERS 4800/4500, ERS 5500/5600, SR 2330 and SR 3220.
• Worked on the designing and configuration of more than 50 Avaya switches that includes ERS8800 as core, ERS8600 as distribution and ERS4800 as edge switches. It is a big government building containing different blocks in each block we have one distribution switch implementing features like IST/SMLT, RSMLT and OSPF.
• Have done basic configuration on Avaya IP telephones.
• Configuration of Avaya Wireless controller in SBG. Installing the the licenses for Access Points on the Wireless Controller.
• Hands on experience in HP Procurve (5406, 2920) and Comware (5500, 5120, 7500) switches implementing features like IRF in Comware and VRRP in Procurve Switches for redundancy.
• Worked on Wireless Solutions with HP and Aruba Wireless controller and Access Points.
• Worked on Air Magnet tools for Wireless site survey.
• Hands on experience on Cisco 6500, 4500 switches implementing features like VSS, Ether channel etc.
• Have implemented QoS on HP Switches for Voice. Have a good knowledge of QoS.
• Have implemented Access Control List on HP switches.
• Knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI model and networking protocols e.g. RIP, OSPF, BGP, IGRP and EIGRP.
• Provided the technical support to multiple clients like SBG, GCS, MOI etc. In GCS upgraded all the switches to latest firmware including core switch (ERS 8300). Here we have chassis CPU redundancy as well.
Experience on MS Windows 2003/2008/2012 Servers, XP/Vista and Windows7/8 workstations.
Projects:
1- SSF
In this project I worked as Team Lead Engineer. This project consist of 4 sites. In Each site we have 2 core switches for redundancy. Three sites are connected with each other through single mode fiber and one of these three site is connected to 4th site through layer 2 VPN bought from STC.
Two sites have ERS 8300 with Chassis redundancy, 1 site have ERS 8800 with chassis redundancy and 1 site have VSP 7000 with switch redundancy through VRRP with backup master.
It contains more than 50 access switches (ERS 4800/ERS 4500) from which few are stacked. There are few Distribution Switches (ERS 5500 and VSP 7000) as well.
The core switches in all the four site are configured with advance and most stable feature IST/SMLT, RSMLT and OSPF. In order to detect any break down in the network due to physical damage in the uplink fiber cable between these sites except the site connected through WAN, VLACP (Avaya Propriety) protocol is configured on the uplink ports. On edge ports of all the access switches bpdu filtering is configured so that if any rogue user try to connect any switch to it, switch make those ports down.
ABR is enabled on all the Core Switches so that static routes can also be forwarded by the root ABR switch through OSPF.
2- Aloft
In this project I worked as a team lead. Here we have 3 different Networks CCTV, Guest and Admin. They are not connected with each other except the Guest and Admin network which are connected through firewall. Each network have 2 HP 7506 switch as core except CCTV network which have only 1 HP 7506 switch as core. The core switches in Guest and Admin network are configured with IRF technology. In Guest network we have 2 HP Procurve 760 premium Wireless Controller and HP 425 Access Points to provide wireless connectivity to the users. They are configured in a teaming mode.
It contains more than 50 HP 5120 Access Switches. Most of the switches are configured with IRF. IMC is configure to manage the Guest Network.
• Completed number of projects of which includes the installation and configuration of switches and routers like ERS8600, ERS 8300, ERS 4500, ERS 5500.
• Configured features like MLT, SMLT/IST using Avaya switches.
• Analyze and Design the test plan for different products of Belkin.
• Configure and deploy wireless routers.
• Configure firewall, Mac Address Filtering, Access Control, Eco Mode, Media Server, DMZ, Virtual Server and many other features of the wireless router. Upgrade and install latest firmware on the wireless routers.
• Work as a team leader in many projects.
• Configure and deploy FTP and Web server using windows platform.
• Worked on Visio for network topological diagram for customer’s Network.