Harish Balakrishnan, Senior Network Consultant

Harish Balakrishnan

Senior Network Consultant

GBM

Location
United Arab Emirates
Education
Master's degree, Network Security
Experience
15 years, 0 Months

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Total years of experience :15 years, 0 Months

Senior Network Consultant at GBM
  • United Arab Emirates
  • My current job since July 2016

Accomplishments:
Recipient of “Exceptional Performance” Award in 2017

Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems,
  • United Arab Emirates
  • November 2010 to August 2011

Member of Service Delivery Team for a major service provider and various major enterprise customers including Government, Banking, Education, health, Oil & Gas organizations
•Function as technical account manager involved in rendering customized solutions based on business requirements of clients
•Focus on implementation of various architectural improvements, designing/ integration of solutions
•Implement technical feasibility solutions for new functional designs and improvement of technical objects
•Lead a team of 4 members with regards to network activities

Senior Network Consultant at Mannai Corporation
  • Qatar
  • September 2011 to July 2011
Network Consultant at BNA Technologies at Cisco Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • January 2010 to July 2010

Functioned as member of Cisco advanced services with regards to performance and optimization services for major US service providers
•Managed major US service provider account pertaining to validation of designs/ changes
•Recommended Cisco Best Practices based on customer environment including network security standard to customer

Subject Matter Expert at Network Solutions - An IBM Company
  • United Arab Emirates
  • May 2008 to December 2009

- Network & Security

Accomplishments:
•Recipient of IBM “ High Flyer” award for significant contribution towards Network Operations in 2009

Implementation Engineer at INS at Cisco Systems
  • United Arab Emirates
  • September 2006 to April 2008
Corporate Trainer at Cisco
  • United Arab Emirates
  • April 2004 to September 2006

Rendered corporate training on

Technology Consultant
  • to

for varies SP/Enterprise/Managed Services projects
•Network Design Engineer for complex projects

Solutions Architect at Itelligent Technology
  • Qatar
  • to

Lead the service delivery team in varies technology vectors
•Design validation for all the ICT projects
•Manage Key accounts and customer relationship

Network Operations Engineer at Functioned
  • to

Catered to customers like Bharti Airtel (Bharti Airtel Value Added Service (VAS) network across India), Motorola, MNYL
•Resolved priority/ severity 1 cases within the SLA
•Prepared root cause analysis for the priority 1 issues
•Coordinated activities of the problem management team
•Evaluated capacity & performance of device and links
•Ensured network, system, data availability and integrity through preventive maintenance and upgrades

Education

Master's degree, Network Security
  • at Heriot-Watt UniversityGovernment Poly Technic College
  • August 2019

. Network Security -

High school or equivalent, Computer Engineering
  • at Heriot-Watt UniversityGovernment Poly Technic College

. Network Security -

High school or equivalent,
  • at Pre University, Mar Athanasius College

Specialties & Skills

Cisco devices
Routing Protocols
Security
Network Design
Azure Cloud
Google Cloud
AWS Cloud
vMware NSX
COMPETITIVE
CONSULTING
CORPORATE TRAINING
NETWORK SECURITY
NETWORKING
OPTIMIZATION
ROUTERS
TRAINING MATERIALS
VALIDATION

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

VCIX-NV (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2017
CCIE R&S (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2008
CCDE (Certificate)
Date Attended:
February 2014