كامران عادل

• Worked and coordinate with various teams and architect peers, management teams to gather business requirements and technical requirements to define, scope, plan and device solutions for the organization as per the industry standard enterprise architecture design frame work and as well as organizational governance model, assurance, compliance and standards
• Conduct organization wide end to end infrastructure network assessment and analysis of the current state, and based on the enterprise architecture frame work define the technological progressive road map from short term to medium term and long-term goals. This included the potential risks, impact (social and technical impact), industry trends and market technological focus etc.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the technological drive and requirements. Design and plan highly available and scalable networks with return-on-investment goals and requirements.
• Understand IT initiatives, business strategies, and enterprise architecture and define high-level, low-level design, transitional state and migration plans and strategy, including hardware, software, resources and support model
• Develop standard documents, design documentation, support documents, power points presentation etc. Project completed:
• As SME and Lead Architect, successfully design and deployed SDWAN project for McDonalds including Plan and design, POC testing and deployment
• Deployment including; Meraki branch SDWAN solution including MX 67, MS120 - 48LP, MG21 devices. The solution includes cutting and replacing over the old network from GW3 on MPLS with Cisco CE router 1921 and Cisco Switches 2960 series with Meraki SDWAN branch devices MX 67, MS120 - 48LP, MG21 devices.
• The activities included; creating Mind Manager MOPs, various use cases design templates, Standard configuration templates, Network and Electrical connection Visio diagrams, Port Mapping documents, onboarding and cutting over stores from GW3 network to GW4 network, turning up New McDonalds stores
• Data center routing design including OSPF and BGP, involving Multiple service providers, route redistribution with between two data centers in Brampton and Calgary

• Conducted business requirements and technical requirements analysis to define, scope, plan and device solutions for the organization for projects including ACI, DNAC, SDWAN, SDA
• Developed plans short term and long-term plans and strategy mapped to organizational short term and long-term goals. Provide leadership and company direction for technological investment and upgrades.
• Conduct organization wide end to end infrastructure network assessment and analysis of the current state, and based on the enterprise architecture frame work define the technological progressive road map from short term to medium term and long-term goals. This included the potential risks, impact (social and technical impact), industry trends and market technological focus etc.
• Act as a subject matter expert on the technological drive and requirements. Design and plan highly available and scalable networks with return-on-investment goals and requirements.
• As Network Architect; I evaluated SDWAN solution and design for City of Toronto with four diferent vendors Cisco Viptela, Velocloud, PaloAlto SASE Prisma, Silverpeak
• Act as the SME and lead design discussions, planning and design for SDWAN, MPLS and Branches design
• Being as an active team member of the Architecture and Design team; worked with Cisco Advance PS group team to plan, design, POC testing, and deployed ACI (ACI Mode 4.2.x) solution including installation and configuration of APIC controllers, leaf and spine, routing, BGP and OSPF design, L2 and L3 out to connect ACI fabric with existing network, Tenant, ACI fabric, contracts / policies, IP Pools, etc. at the two campus locations Donmills and Tifield
• Design and planning including analysis of brown field design, IP design, Layer 3 and Layer 2 design, its ACI design mapping of Bridge domains, EPG, routing etc.
• Data center routing design including; IPV4 / IPV6, IP routing; OSPF and BGP, involving Multiple service providers, route redistribution with multiple Carriers including Bell Canada, Beanfield etc.
• Design and deployment 911 BGP (EBGP and IBGP, HSRP, OSPF) dual homed connectivity, deployment, configuration and support
• Design and deployment Donmills and Tifield Campus design, LAN, WAN, BGP (EBGP and IBGP, HSRP, OSPF) dual homed connectivity, deployment, configuration and support
• Worked with various vendors evaluating solutions; including, ACI, SDA / DNAC, and SDWAN, ThousandEyes, Umbrella Cloud security
• Firewalls design, configuration and support including Palo Alto and Checkpoint

• As Network Architect worked with various clients and was involved in the design process of Cisco SDA Campus design; the solution included DNAC, ISE, and WLC, SDA Fabric, ACI Leaf and Spine design and architecture
• Deployed Cisco SDA solution including DNAC 2.2.X release, ISE 2.X, WLC, CAT9300 Access MDF switches, CAT9500 / Fusion Router - Distribution and Core switches, 802.1X authentication, 9800-80 Wireless LAN controllers 17.3.3., Cisco CAT Access points 9100 / 9120AX, 9115AXI, 9130AXI Wireless APs, BGP configuration including VRFs and routing
• Design and Build Cisco SDWAN Viptela solution 20.5.X, IOS XE SDWAN 17.x
• ACI 3rd Gen L3 APIC, 4.X, Spine 15.2 on Nexus 9364C and Leaf 15.2 on N9K-93240YC-FX2 switches, ISN 9336C-FX2 switches, Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator
• Design and Build of Cisco ACI 4.2; including planning, Leaf and Spine infrastructure design, IP address allocation, DHCP scopes, Tenant, Bridge domains, EPGs, L3 and L2 outs, routing and switching etc.
• Activities including design workshops, BOM build, Engaging Cisco TAC and opening TAC Cases, installation and configuration, troubleshooting and testing, LAN Automation, Wireless, DNAC to WLC integration, DNAC to ISE integration, DNAC IOS upgrades, AP and Device upgrades etc., cutovers
• Cisco SDA, DNAC, LAN Automation, Fusion and Border Nodes in SDA Fabric, SDA and IP Transit
• Cisco DNAC integration with Cisco ISE, configuring Profiling and Policies
• Develop building Statement of Work and solution documents, design and planning documentation
• Palo Alto SASE solution design and deployment, Palo Alto Firewall policies, configuration and troubleshooting

Successful Projects Completed: Uline - SDA - DNAC Design and deployment Great Plains SDWAN Design and deployment BMO - SDA DNAC Design workshop

• As the SME and Architect developed the MOP implementation of Silverpeak SDWAN, DNAC, WLC for approx. 1400 branch cutovers across Canada
• Cisco WLC 9800 controllers and (AP 9120 and 9130) onboarding
• SDWAN Silverpeak installation and configuration, templates, feature templates, policy routing, Qos, path and color preferences
• Branches turnup and cutovers from traditional MPLS and Internet to Silverpeak SDWAN network, terminated to GCC and SCC data centers, activities include branch switches transformation to 9300 stack switches, configuration on the orchestrator / controller, deployment profiles, enabling data trafic policies, Qos, network
changes (routing and switching) on the branches and the Data Center, configuration on DNAC, Cisco Prime, Aruba ClearPass, Aruba Access points, Cisco 9300 Stack switches, Infoblox, service now change and incident tickets, Spectrum device / alarms etc.
• On the branch turn up and day 1 and day 2 configuration setup and support, troubleshooting BGP, routing, issues, in application testing, vlan, STP and switching issues, connectivity issues, WAN Circuit, Qos issues on slow trafic response
• Managing and troubleshooting technical hardware failure issues, tickets and RMAs with tech support of the vendor Successful Projects Completed: Bell Canada - Royal Bank of Canada Silver Peak SDWAN 1400 approx branches rollout, including branch cutovers, with DNAC and WLC

• As Lead Architect; I provided Design & Architecture, Solution and hands on deployment & configuration of various SDWAN solutions from vendors including Silver Peak, Meraki and VeloCloud solutions, technological adoption and roadmap, product testing and implementation, brown field integration and consideration practices, policies and procedures, industry best practices, routing and switching, application and data flows, coordinating with various team and lead
• Working on the West jet project; SME engagement on SDWAN VeloCloud deployment and support, vendor engagement on SDWAN and Telcos for broad band, LTE circuit ordering and management, branch cutovers on SDWAN broadband circuits, branching onboarding, day 1 and day 2 support from escalations, ticket handling, RMAs, circuit ordering and management, analyzing the current bandwidth requirements for each branch site
• Working on IAC project; I was involved in deploying large Meraki SDWAN solution design and hands on deployment activities for a client with international presence in 65 countries (North America, South America, Europe, Asia) Successful Projects Completed: International Automotive Components (IAC) Meraki SDWAN WestJet Airlines VeloCloud SDWAN

Project: Coast Capital Savings Network and Data Center Network Audit Technologies and Environment: LAN and WAN, BGP, IGP (OSPF and EIGRP), MPLS, TLS, DMVPN, IPSEC, Multicasting, Qos, Routing and Switching, VXLAN, Palto Alto, F5 Load balancers, SSL

• Worked on Caterpillar project; I was involved in deploying large Silver Peak SDWAN solution design and hands on deployment activities internationally across more than 100 countries
• Designed and tested the proposed SDWAN solution, document the CURRENT network state for Data Centers and branches site location, create AFTER state of the cutover, with activities including connectivity requirement, data trafic, branch ofices in hub and spoke configuration grouped in multiple data centers per continent, with routing and switching change details / play books, and firewall rule changes
• Turn up and cutover of the branches in isolated SDWAN network in parallel to existing network, after successful turnup performing the cutover to production SDWAN, with configuration on the orchestrator / controller, deployment profiles, enabling data trafic policies, Qos, network changes (routing and switching) on the branches and the Data Center. Upon successful testing move the

Senior Solutions Architect at HP DCT (Data Center Transformation) team. Deployed a new Data Center at HP MCC (Markham Computing Center) Data Center. Technologies and Environment: TCP/IP, BGP, IGP (OSPF and EIGRP), MPLS, DMVPN, Multicasting, IPSEC B2B, ISIS, Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, VPC / VDCs, and Cisco Catalyst 6500, 4500, 3700, 2900 switches, Cisco routers ASR (1000 series), ISR G2 (3900 series), HP switches, Nokia 7210 Service Access Switch, 7450 Ethernet Service Switch, 7750 Service Routers, Juniper, CSM, Radware / Alteon Load balancers, F5, Avaya, Cisco Wireless, Cisco ASA, Fortinet, Checkpoint and Palo Alto Firewalls

• Conducted business requirements and technical requirements analysis to define, scope, plan and device solutions for the organization for projects including Data center migrations, consolidation and decommissioning