Saleem Pottachola CCIE Collaboration, Sr Network Engineer  - Cisco Collaboration and wireless

Saleem Pottachola CCIE Collaboration

Sr Network Engineer - Cisco Collaboration and wireless

Mideast Data System - CPT

Location
United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
Education
Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
Experience
17 years, 11 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :17 years, 11 Months

Sr Network Engineer - Cisco Collaboration and wireless at Mideast Data System - CPT
  • United Arab Emirates - Abu Dhabi
  • My current job since February 2016

• Design and deployment of UC, Contact Center, Wireless and Telepresence solutions
• Work on post-production fixes.

PROJECTS:

• Health point: Migration of Telephony from AVAYA to Cisco.
• Confidential Project: Migration of UC infrastructure from 7.x to 11.x. Deployment of Cisco CMS 1000, Meeting room integration, CMS recording and contact center.
• Confidential Project: Cisco Wireless Infrastructure deployment.1000+ AP’s, Cisco ACS for TACACS+ and Radius, Cisco Prime for wireless and wired monitoring and device management. Site survey
• King’s College Hospital: IP Telephony, wired and wireless network, Contact Center design and deployment.
• Confidential Project: Deployment of Telephony, WebEx Meeting server and contact center
• Confidential Project: Cisco 5520 wireless survey, design and deployment.
• ADHA: Cisco WIPS solution deployment.
• MOE- Hatta school: IT infrastructure - Cisco Wireless and network deployment.
• Confidential Project: Installation Telepresence SX80 Codecs, Speaker Track at multiple sites.
• Borouge: Cisco WebEx MS installation, configuration and upgrade.
• Confidential Project: Cisco Telepresence Content Server Installation
• Aldar Academy: Wireless survey and Aruba wireless implementation.
• Yas Mall: Installation of Imagicle Recording server, integrate with CUCM 11
• Confidential Project: Installation and configuration of Telepresence SX20 Codecs
• Al Dhafra Sports Club: Implementation of wireless and wired network

Senior Engineer - Cisco UC/UCCE Expert at Emircom
  • Saudi Arabia - Jeddah
  • July 2010 to February 2016

• IP Contact Center solution for Etihad Etisalat - Mobily Telecom in Saudi Arabia
• UCCE Migration from MCS to UCS B series - Major upgrade of UCCE from Version 7.5 to 9.0
• Troubleshooting O & M L2 and L3 issues
• UCCE solution includes ICM, CVP, Voice Gateways, CUSP, CUCM, PGW, SLT, CSS, Cisco UCS
• Cisco UCCE, ICM scripting and call routing, reporting and database.
• Implementation of courtesy call back, Mobile agents, Post Call Survey, SIP Dialer.
• Design of Call flow, ICM Scripts and Voice gateway, CUCM, CUSP configuration as per customer requirements.
• Supporting more than 2000 agents across the sites inside and outside KSA and around 400 agents work from home using mobile agent feature.
• Regular review of open Service Requests working with Cisco HTTS and HTOM.
• Improve communication with other functional groups such as NOC, GSM, HTOM, SMC and operation team to focus on customer success.

Network Consultaion Engineer at Servion Global Solutions
  • India - Chennai
  • May 2008 to July 2010

• Involved in implementation of Cisco UCC Enterprise, CVP and UC Solutions.
• Migration of a Progger deployment to Rogger for an international call center with more than 350 agents live for capacity enhancements with minimal downtime for iYogi Technical service, Delhi.
• Worked onsite as Cisco L2 engineer for Cisco Unified Contact Center Enterprise and IPT Solutions.
• Involved in implementation of Cisco Unified Call Manager clusters
• Carried out ICM PG installations as the site expanded with more agents
• L2 Network Engineer at Centralized NOC. 7+ National and International remote clients.
• Involved in Cisco Outbound Dialer implementation and configuration.
• Offering support to track end to end call activity in UCC solution.

Network Engineer at BNS Infotech Pvt Ltd.
  • Other
  • July 2007 to April 2008

Company: BNS Infotech Pvt Ltd.
Designation: Network Engineer
From: Jul 12, 2007 - Apr 30, 2008.

• IT Infrastructure, network, data and technology planning, implementation & management.
• Manage day to day IT operations and ensure 99.6 % system uptime.
• Tracking IT, Networks & Telecom activities, Uptime reports, Inventories and resource utilization.

Hardware Technician at Powerlink Services
  • India
  • August 2003 to August 2004

• Hardware troubleshooting and service, Isolate, Trouble shoots and maintain various
network problems, installation of operating systems windows 98, 2000, XP, software and
device driver and identification and isolation of failures

Education

Bachelor's degree, Electronics and Communication Engineering
  • at University of Calicut
  • July 2007

BTech in Electronics and Communication Engineering, 2007 Passed Out University of Calicut Al-Ameen Engineering College, Kulappully, Kerala, India.

Bachelor's degree, Electronics
  • at S.S.M Polytechnic College, Tirur
  • July 2003

Diploma In Electronics Engineering (3 Year), 2003 Passed Out Board of Technical Education. Kerala. S.S.M Polytechnic College, Tirur, Kerala, India. First Class with Distinction

Specialties & Skills

Contact Centre
Cisco ICM
Cisco Call Manager
Cisco Call Manager
IP Telephony
CCIE Collaboration
Wireless
Juniper

Languages

English
Expert

Training and Certifications

JNCIS Mist (Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2022
Valid Until:
May 2025
CCNA Collaboration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
December 2017
Valid Until:
January 2021
CCNP Collaboration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
January 2018
Valid Until:
January 2021
CCNA Routing and Switching (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2007
Valid Until:
January 2021
CCIE Collaboration (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2015
Valid Until:
November 2019
CCNP Voice (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2009
Valid Until:
December 2017
CCNA Voice (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2009
Valid Until:
December 2017