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Roula Asmar, Senior Network Engineer

Roula Asmar

Senior Network Engineer

Bank Audi

Location
Lebanon - Beirut
Education
Master's degree, MBA, Master in Business Administration
Experience
16 years, 9 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :16 years, 9 Months

Senior Network Engineer at Bank Audi
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • My current job since January 2016

•Network Tasks:
o Daily operation, configuration-implementation, upgrades, incident management and security
verification on the network & security components including Cisco routers, switches, ASA and
VPN firewalls, Juniper Firewall, BlueCoat packet shaper, IPS, F5 LTM and ASM load
balancers/WAF, Trendmicro webfiltering, email filtering and antivirus, Riverbed, Cisco ISE, RSA
(dual factor authentication), Exchange server, FTP/SFTP server, collaboration (Cisco call
Manager, UCCX, Cisco Presence, Jabber/ExpressWay), Skype for business (lync), etc.
o Managing WAN/LAN links for Branches and ATMs
o Documenting a knowledge base for the network team
o Automating tasks, procedures and processes
o Designing, implementing, maintaining and operating disaster recovery site

•Infrastructure tasks:
o Backup/Restore operations on EMC backup solutions
o Administration and daily operations on: Cisco routers and switches, windows Active Directory,
DHCP, DNS, File server, VMware, Windows Server, Exchange server, FTP/SFTP server

•Projects:
o Technical lead on Exchange 2016 upgrade project
o Technical lead on Swift Project (security isolation)
o Technical lead on IPAM for IP address Management solution installation and rollout
o Technical lead on SFTP Server upgrade project (globalscape)
o Technical lead on Remote Head Offices routers and switches upgrade project
o Technical lead on the Branches Samsung CCTV monitoring deployment project and rollout
o Resource on Trendmicro Proxy/Mail filter/antivirus installation & upgrades
o Resource on other projects: IP telephony upgrade (Cisco Call Manager, IP Phones firmware
upgrades, UCCX, Cisco TelePresence, Express Way (Jabber), Cisco attendant console), “Vidyo“
Video Conferencing project, Citrix upgrade project, IBM WebSphere DataPower SOA Appliance
deployment, F5 LTM and ASM (load balancer/WAF) upgrade projects, and other…

Senior Administrator at Bank Audi
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2014 to December 2015

Network and System Administration on the bank's infrastructure:
o Backup/Restore operations on EMC-Networker and Avamar backup solutions
o Administration and daily operations on: Cisco routers and switches, windows Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, Fileserver, VMware, Windows Servers, Exchange server, FTP/SFTP server

Network Engineer at Inconet Data Management IDM
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • December 2007 to January 2014

o Installation and activations of all types of new internet connections: DSL, Leased Lines, Microwave what includes of necessary routing, switching, shaping, troubleshooting, and coordinating with the third-party local loop providers
o Automatic Backup solution setup (through EIGRP, or BGP) for corporate customers
o Managing clients’ traffic through: shaping, natting, policies, priority, ACL, PRTG (traffic grapher monitoring)…
o Creating network documents, presentations and reports for IDM and its clients
o Technical Lead for TR-69 (Home Device Management) Project which provides a centralized control for all DSL end user modems (residential and corporate)

Hardware Design Engineer at Multilane
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • August 2007 to November 2007

Hardware design and development of Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) with “Cadence” tools, for multiple world class applications in the telecom field (primary customer: Cisco)

Education

Master's degree, MBA, Master in Business Administration
  • at Esa Business School - Lebanon
  • June 2015

MBA Accredited by ESCP Europe

Master's degree, Computer And Communications Engineering
  • at Lebanese University - Faculty of Engineering II - ROUMIEH
  • July 2007

GPA: 80/100 - Rating : Very good

High school or equivalent, High School
  • at Notre dame Machmoucheh College
  • July 2002

GPA = 85-90/100

Specialties & Skills

Collaboration Solutions
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Load Balancing
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Networks
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Microsoft Exchange Server
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Cisco devices
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MS Office
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Exchange Powershell
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Languages

Arabic
Native Speaker
English
Expert
French
Expert

Training and Certifications

AZ-900T00 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2020
CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Administrator (Certificate)
Date Attended:
March 2009
Valid Until:
March 2012
BSCI– Building Scalable Cisco Internetworks (Certificate)
Date Attended:
May 2010
Valid Until:
May 2013
Administering Windows server 2012 (Training)
Training Institute:
Formatech
Date Attended:
December 2014
Core Solutions of Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 (Training)
Training Institute:
Formatech
Date Attended:
June 2015
IBM WebSphere DataPower (Training)
Training Institute:
IBM
Date Attended:
September 2016
Vidyo Video Conferencing (Training)
Training Institute:
Vidyo Consultant
Date Attended:
November 2016
Implementing Cisco IP Telephony and Video CIPTV1 (Training)
Training Institute:
Formatech
Date Attended:
August 2017
Administering Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 (Training)
Training Institute:
Microsoft
Date Attended:
August 2017
Infrastructure Cyber Security Workshop (Network and System Attack Scenarios and Hardening) (Training)
Training Institute:
Potech Consulting
Date Attended:
August 2019
Duration:
20 hours