Ronnie DSouza, Senior Network Security Engineer

Ronnie DSouza

Senior Network Security Engineer

MADA COMMUNICATIONS CO

Lieu
Koweït - Hawali
Éducation
Baccalauréat, Diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering
Expérience
19 years, 11 Mois

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Expériences professionnelles

Total des années d'expérience :19 years, 11 Mois

Senior Network Security Engineer à MADA COMMUNICATIONS CO
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • Je travaille ici depuis janvier 2019

• Developed and maintained company-wide endpoint security solutions.
Coordinated with third-party security information and event management (SIEM)
providers to maintain protections and predict threats.
• Monitored data transfer security to detect and prevent intrusion attempts and respond to
DDoS attacks.
• Initiated and managed network test facilities to verify network hardness and resilience.
Authored security and vulnerability reports, detailing logged incursions and suggesting
remediation efforts.
• Installed and maintained commercial firewall solution, working with security vendors to
consistently apply best practices and software updates.
• Monitored network capacity and performance to diagnose and resolve complex network
problems.
• Provided complete end-to-end engineering and installation of route-based IP network
solutions.
• Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, Fortinet, and PaloAlto.
• Provided detailed network diagrams, process flow charts, and procedural guidelines.
Managed, tracked, and coordinated problem resolution and escalation processes.
Recommended options for disaster recovery, remote access, network appliances, servers,
and directory services security.
• Created VPN infrastructure over SDWAN infrastructure between 50+ nodes, allowing for
secure connectivity between locations.
• Initiated and managed network test facilities to verify network hardness and resilience
Integrated fixed wireless connectivity into facilities lacking access to terrestrial
high-speed networks

Senior Network Engineer à Zajil Telecom Company
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • mars 2016 à décembre 2018

• Installed, commissioned new mada POPs and consolidating existing POPs to build a structured MPLS backbone carrying triple-play services like voice, data and video across Kuwait.
• Handling core IP backbone network scaled to distribution node/POPs via Fiber link based on Giga-Ethernet links.
• Configuring and maintaining IGW/Border Internet Routers peering to International Gateway and Core MPLS network.
• Developed and maintained a number of tools to assist the Network Engineering group in their tasks, including project management tracking, tracking IP, VLAN, L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS and BGP community allocations, visualizing switch-fabric topology, and visualizing BGP route-reflector topology for MPLS network.
• Presently, involved in designing, implementing and configuration of wide range of networking products within Al Kout Mall (Kuwait).
• Designing and implementation wide range of hotspot solution SME environment integrated to Zajil core MPLS backbone through FTTx/xDSL media

Senior Network Engineer à Mada Communication Company
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • mars 2010 à mars 2016

• Installed, commissioned new mada POPs and consolidated existing POPs to build a structured MPLS backbone carrying triple-play services like voice, data and video across Kuwait.
• Handling core IP backbone network scaled to distribution node/POPs via Fiber link based on Giga-Ethernet links.
• Configuring and maintaining IGW/Border Internet Routers peering to International Gateway and Core MPLS network.
• Developed and maintained a number of tools to assist the Network Engineering group in their tasks, including project management tracking, tracking IP, VLAN, L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS and BGP community allocations, visualizing switch-fabric topology, and visualizing BGP route-reflector topology for MPLS network.
• Maintained the Network Engineering group's applications responsible for gathering traffic statistic information, utilizing primarily MRTG.
• Responsible for Core Voice service based on SIP Protocol to interconnect end-user over WiMAX CPE to Kuwait PSTN network imploring IP/TDM conversion via high-speed IP backbone, generating voice traffic consumption statistics.
• Designing and implementing a wide range of hotspot solutions SME environment integrated to Mada core MPLS backbone via WiMAX and Fiber infrastructure.

Junior Network Engineer à Mada Communication Company
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • mars 2006 à avril 2008

• Configured Cisco Routers (2800, 1800) using RIP, IGRP, OSPF, EIGRP.
• Configure Cisco Switches (3524, and 2900)
• Configure Wireless Access Points and Wireless gateway.
• Installation and commissioning of Kuwait Stock Application for brokers and investors.
• Configuring and installing Ethernet based broadband routers.

Telecom Technician à Mada Communications Company
  • Koweït - Al Koweït
  • juillet 2004 à mars 2006

• Field support engineer for end-user 802.16d WiMAX link.
• Testing of faulty WiMAX CPE.
• Administrating Cisco routers.
• Installing Wireless gateway and SOHO networking equipment.

Assistant Support Engineer à HCL Comnet Ltd
  • Inde - Mumbai
  • août 2002 à juin 2004

• Providing level 2 networking support to residential and corporate customer deployed VSAT link.
• Advance troubleshooting on VSAT system imploring DAMA, PAMA, SCPC and FTDMA based technology.
• Handling configuration of end-user routers and switches.
• Onsite customer support.

Éducation

Baccalauréat, Diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering
  • à Jaipur National University
  • décembre 2016
Diplôme, Electronics and Radio Engineering
  • à St. Xavier's Technical Institute
  • juin 2002

Diploma in Electronics and Radio Engineering July 2000 - June 2002 St. Xavier's Technical Institute, Mumbai, India

Specialties & Skills

SIP Trunking
Access Networks
Core Network
Bluecoat Cache Engine Administration
CISCO Service Control Engine Administration
CISCO Routers and Switches
WLAN Hotspot
Juniper MX Series Routers, EX series Switches
Fortinet
Cisco Firewall

Langues

Anglais
Moyen
Hindi
Moyen

Formation et Diplômes

VMWare NSX SD-WAN by Velocloud: Design & Deploy (Formation)
Institut de formation:
VMWare
Fortinet Xpert Academy Training (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Fortinet
PCNSE (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
June 2023
HCIP R&S (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2022
CCNP Security (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
March 2025
Fortinet NSE 4 (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
April 2023
Fortinet NSE 5 (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
April 2023
Fortinet NSE 6 (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
April 2023
Fortinet NSE 7 (Certificat)
Valide jusqu'à:
April 2023
CCNA R&S (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
February 2007
Valide jusqu'à:
August 2013
IPv6 (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Jordan
Date de la formation:
August 2011
JNCIS-SP (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
December 2013
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2016
JNCIS-ER (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
July 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2013
WiMAX Core Network Engineer (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Kuwait
Date de la formation:
February 2010
Durée:
30 heures
Cisco Service Control Engine (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Kuwait
Date de la formation:
March 2013
JNCIA-JUNOS (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
September 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
December 2016
CCNP R&S (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
August 2013
JNCIS-SEC (Certificat)
Date de la formation:
August 2010
Valide jusqu'à:
August 2013
Sandvine Deep Packet Inspection (Formation)
Institut de formation:
Dubai
Date de la formation:
January 2008
Durée:
40 heures