Sami Wehbi, Senior Network Consultant

Sami Wehbi

Senior Network Consultant

Undisclosed

Location
Lebanon
Education
Diploma, Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert SP - Written
Experience
19 years, 3 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :19 years, 3 Months

Senior Network Consultant at Undisclosed
  • Lebanon
  • My current job since May 2014

• Plan, design, and implement solutions for service providers.
• Provide after sale support for service providers.
• Conduct SP network assessments and audits.
• Provide consultancy services for Service Providers and give practical recommendations.
• Provide outsourcing services if needed.
• Perform Proof of Concepts on specific SP technologies.
• Assist in Presales activities related to SP accounts.
• Create new sales opportunities and introduce new services while sharing technical information with the customers.
• Provide Operating Procedures for service providers.

Head of Core Planning Unit at Cedarcom Holding
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • April 2013 to April 2014

• Planning new installations, projects and core network interventions.
• Maintaining and operating a DSP Backbone MP-BGP MPLS L3, L2 VPN Network(Cisco - Juniper)
• Coordinating with the RF team for installations, maintenance and upgrades.
• Managing the IP Operations team and delegating task among team members.
• Juniper MX5, MX960, EX4200 and SRX-650 Firewall.
• Planning and implementing the NOC and Core network migration project to a new site, coordinating with different department to ensure service uptime.
• Planning and implementing our new Juniper Core migration from the Cisco based Core MPLS network.
• Follow up with RIPE, OGERO and suppliers of hardware and internet bandwidth.

Senior NOC Enginner at Cedarcom Holding
  • Lebanon - Beirut
  • February 2011 to March 2013

• MPLS Layer 2 and Layer3 VPN’s, MPLS VRF Lite, VRF PBR.
• Routing BGP OSPF, RIP Global and per VRF.
• Cisco IP SLA, tracking, EEM, HSRP.
• MPLS Layer 2 and Layer3 VPN’s, MPLS VRF Lite, VRF PBR.
• Juniper ISG1000 Firewall.
• Cisco GRE, IPSEC tunnels, CRYPTO Maps.
• Cisco ACS 4.2, 5.4.
• Cache Engines: Blue Coat Cache Flow 5000, ApplianSys, Cache Mara.
• Cisco Routers: 5300, 5400, 3660, 2811, 7206, 7301, 7606.
• Cisco Switches: 2950, 2960, 3560G, 3750-Metro.
• Cisco PDSN, Juniper ERX 700 for MOBI broadband access services.
• Alcatel GGSN for 3G service (MISP project with Ministry of Telecom).
• Mikrotik Routers (Routing, Bridging, QOS, Firewall, Web proxy).
• Client Support and Troubleshooting.

LAN & WAN Administrator at Broadband Plus
  • Lebanon
  • September 2006 to January 2011

Connectivity to the internet via BGP AS
RIPE LIR, Followup with Internet providers Satellite, Ogero
Blue coat - CX, MX cache engines, Linux Squid
Juniper ISG1000
Linux server administration and configuration:
(DNS, WWW, MAIL, SQUID, CACTI)
(MRTG, PRTG and RRDtool)
Experience with Microsoft Active Directory (2003 - 2008)
Experience with Microsoft Exchange Server (2003 - 2010)
Customer Followup and Support

Network Administrator at Dimension Establishment
  • Lebanon
  • November 2004 to April 2006

ISA server 2000 - 2004
Squid Proxy
Mikrotik PPPOE
Installation of SOHO routers, switches and Wifi Access points
Network Maintenance and Monitoring using open source solutions, DUDE and GFI LAN guard

Education

Diploma, Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert SP - Written
  • at Cisco Systems
  • September 2013
Bachelor's degree, Information Communication Technology
  • at Arab Open University
  • June 2013
Diploma, Cisco Certified Network Associate - VOICE - CVOICE
  • at Cisco Systems
  • June 2009
Diploma, Cisco Certified Network Professional
  • at Cisco Systems
  • April 2008
Diploma, Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • at Cisco Systems
  • August 2005
Diploma, Microsoft Certified Professional
  • at Microsoft Corporation
  • September 2004

Specialties & Skills

Network Security
Internetworking
Network Migration (Cisco, Juniper)
MS Project
Network Security
Network Monitoring

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
Expert
French
Beginner

Training and Certifications

(Certificate)
Date Attended:
September 2012
Valid Until:
September 2012
Menog 5 ISP Security Workshop (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2009
Valid Until:
October 2009
RIPE IPv6 Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2011
Valid Until:
June 2011
RIPE LIR Training Certificate (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2011
Valid Until:
July 2011