Kamal Ahmed Ali

Senior Network Team Leader at Regional Revenue Authority

• Ethiopia
• July 2008 to April 2017

Senior Network Team Leader (SNTL), Addis Ababa,
Experience ETH, May 8, 2011 to present(currently working)
♦ Acting as the Situation Manager, to repair and reform unplanned
events that adversely affect the network or computing environment. ♦ Plans, designs, and coordinates the various components of an
enterprise network system.
♦ applications software, and
communications components to support business requirements.
♦ Establishes methods and procedures for use of the network systems
including hardware, software, and communications devices.
♦ Provide technical expertise and platform leadership in areas of Cisco
WAN, LAN, WLAN, VPN and Firewall technologies, as well as
integration to Avaya IP Telephony.
♦ Configure, implement, and troubleshoot a variety of Cisco
Hardware/Software Products, including: VPN Concentrators, Firewalls, Routers, WLAN and Switches.
♦ Conducts on­going network system audits to evaluate the utility and
efficiency of the system's hardware, software, and communications
components and the effectiveness in meeting management
information needs.
♦ Develops and maintains disaster recovery procedures for the network
and network resources.
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♦ Evaluates and recommends network software and hardware for the
enterprise system.
♦ Planning and implementing network security, including setting up
firewalls, managing host security, applying cryptography to network
applications, and regulating file permissions.
♦ Supports, Manages, and ensures operating capability of both the LAN
and WAN networks both wireless and wired are up for all hours of
operation.
♦ Ensuring hardware, software, and network upgrades, installs, re­
installs, changes and relocations are efficiently completed as required.
♦ Network administration (including backup, security management,
user account management, e­mail systems including e­mail web
server, internet access, office systems and applications support).
♦ Plans, implements, and supports the network and computing

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infrastructure plan.
♦ Maintenance of the network’s authorization infrastructure, as well as
network backup systems.
2. Junior Network Administrator(JNA), Addis Ababa,
ETH, July 2008 to may 7, 2011.
♦ Consulting Organizations on IT Security Technology trade­offs. ♦ Actively participate in the development of IT Security Policy and
Procedures manuals.
♦ Cited by supervisor as “extremely thorough, proficient and
knowledgeable” about customer base and praised for frequently
volunteering for assignments above and beyond daily job description, as well as delivering on­time, complete solutions, doing whatever it took to get the job done, keeping coworkers and management well informed, offering suggestions to improve teams’ efficiency, and
providing expedient resolutions to user problems.
Deployments.
♦ Installing, Configuring and Deploying a Trusted Computing Base.
♦ Analyzing Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and Designing
Countermeasures in a given computing environment.
♦ Secures an information technology infrastructure that provides
reliable, measurable, consistent, responsive and secure enterprise
network services.
♦ Concentrates on the network design and security, particularly
troubleshooting and/or debugging network­related problems.
♦ Deters and prevents cyber crime that plagues corporations and
government agencies; identity and data theft, hacking and invasion of
privacy.
♦ Handles web and network security exploits, intrusion prevention,
network traffic analysis, cryptography and encryption.
♦ Routing protocols and routing table configuration assignment.
♦ Maintenance of network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways,
intrusion detection systems, etc.