Muhammad Asif Khan, Manager Network Operations

Muhammad Asif Khan

Manager Network Operations

Connect Communications Pvt Limited

Location
Pakistan
Education
Bachelor's degree, Networking
Experience
22 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :22 years, 10 Months

Manager Network Operations at Connect Communications Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan - Karachi
  • My current job since June 2006

*Build NOC (network operations centre) from scratch.
*Design IP Based Optical Fiber Based Gigabits Back Bone Network with Load Balancing and Switching over ring.
*Cisco Based core network with BGP peering along with 4 upstream providers.
*Freebsd based Bandwidth Manager with Qos using Dummynet.
*Linux Based Tailor made Router Solutions with packet filtering for 150 PoP’s in Karachi.
*FreeNAS based Network Area Storage Solution.
*FreeBSD & CENTOS Linux Server Installation and configured following servers.
*Script based IPFW & IPtables Firewall implementation to block specific ports.
*Script based Timely Bandwidth Management using ipfw & DummyNet.
*Squid Proxy Server High performance tuning and transparent cache.
*Lighttpd /nginx Web Server Configuration, Virtual Server and Security Management.
*DNS Server configuration with regards to virtual hosting and Mail Server.
*Network Monitoring system.

Senior Network Engineer at Maskatiya Communication Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan
  • September 2005 to June 2006

*Build NOC (network operations centre) from scratch.
*Image Stream Linux based Core Routers Configuration with Qos.
*Lucent String ATM based DSLAM Configuration & Profile management.
*Redback BRAS configuration and look after 2 cross connect.
*FreeBSD 5.4, Centos 4.2, Fedora Core 4 Linux Server Installation and configured following servers.
*Script based IPFW Firewall implementation to block specific ports.
*Script based Bandwidth Management using DummyNet.
*Squid Proxy Server High performance tuning and transparent cache.
*Apache Web Server Configuration, Virtual Server and Security Management.
*PRO-FTP Server Configuration for Backup.
*Qmail, Vpop & Courier-IMAP configuration and webmail implementation.
*Use bind9 in chroot jail for secured DNS Server configuration with regards to virtual hosting and Mail Server.
*RADIUS Server Configuration and integration with MySQL database.
*Installation and configuration of MySQL on Linux for billing system.

Network Engineer at Cubexs Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan
  • October 2004 to August 2005

*Configure & Secure Network firewall based on FreeBSD.
*Configure Bandwidth Management System using dummynet based on FreeBSD.
*Configure & Install Web based email System using qmail, vpopmail & Courier-imap.
*Configure and Monitoring ALL Network Devices & Servers in NOC.
*Research and Design the network of up coming broadband DSL project.

System Engineer at BizLogics Inc USA., Pakistan.
  • United States
  • January 2004 to December 2004

Responsibilities:
*Daily Updates and Check Security Audit of Servers Based on Linux and Microsoft Platform.
*Configure & Maintain INTRANET Servers.
*Configure & Maintains VAS (Value Added Services) Servers.
*Configure & Maintains Clients Servers.

Major Tasks Completed:
*Secure Servers.
*Design & Implementation of Network.
*Configure & Secure Network Router & Firewall with Reverse Proxy for Load Balancing on Linux based servers.
*Configure Web based Servers Management & Reporting System.

Network Support Engineer. at Multinet Pakistan (Pvt) Limited
  • Pakistan
  • July 2002 to October 2003

Responsibilities:
*Daily Updates and Check Security of Multinet Value Added Servers Based on Linux and Microsoft Platform.
*Configure & Maintain Multinet Pakistan INTRANET Servers.
*Configure & Maintains VAS (Value Added Services) Servers.
*Configure & Maintains VAS (Value Added Services) Web Servers.
*Research Work for Multinet Value Added Services.

Major Tasks Completed:
*Secure Database Servers.
*Design & Implementation of Network.
*Configure & Secure Network Router & Firewall with Reverse Proxy for Load Balancing on Linux based servers.
*Configure Web based Servers Management System.
*Configure Games Server with Web based Management System.

Network & System Administrator at Ecable Networks Pvt Limited
  • Pakistan
  • June 2001 to June 2002

Responsibilities:
Configuration & Administration of network servers & Planning.

Major Tasks Completed:
* Design & Implement Network.
* Configuration & Administration of network servers on Windows2000 Server
& RedHat Linux.
* Internetwork Mailing Services on Linux Using SendMail 8.1.
* Configuration of Transparent Proxy Servers with Squid 2.4stable1, ISA2000, NAT Proxies.
* Optimization of the Network by using Cascaded Proxies and Caching Only DNS.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Networking
  • at IQRA University Karachi
  • January 2001

Final Project: Convert & Redesign INTRANET of Iqra University (AMI) from windows platform to Linux platform with facility of DNS, Web based eMail & Transparent Proxy Services Using BIND for Primary DNS and Caching Only DNS, Squid 2.4stable for proxy, Apache 1.2 for World Wide Web access to email services & Sendmail as MTA.

Specialties & Skills

Load Balancing
Linux platform
Microsoft Servers
Networks
Design & Development of customized LAN/WAN solutions over Cisco, Linux and windows plateform.

Languages

Urdu
Expert
English
Intermediate