Sasan Farahmand, Senior Network Architect and Head of Network Design & Development

Sasan Farahmand

Senior Network Architect and Head of Network Design & Development

FANAP

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Master's degree, Network Engineer
Experience
20 years, 4 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :20 years, 4 Months

Senior Network Architect and Head of Network Design & Development at FANAP
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2021 to December 2021

• Design and delivery of datacentre network solutions to a broad range of clients.
• Actively engage as the subject matter expert in training and presales activities.
• Investigate technologies that will effectively solve business problems.
• Develop and expand infrastructure of enterprise services according to new technologies.
• Recruit, train, and lead two engineering teams to design and implement imminent datacenter projects.
• Execute project planning and management.
• Migrate two different datacenters from traditional “Access, Distribution, Core” hierarchical design to the high speed and optimized Leaf and Spin infrastructure, and Cisco BGP EVPN VXLAN in the phase-1 to the Cisco ACI.
• Plan and deliver a comprehensive training program to significantly improve technicians’ capabilities. This would enable company to charge higher fees while ensuring client’s in receiving optimal solutions.
• Implement high speed technologies to enable major services being accessible 10 times faster.
• Implement Active-Active datacenters to ensure 100% network availability.

Senior Network Administrator – Network Operations Center at FANAP
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2018 to December 2020

• Head of the network operations team to monitor and maintain network services 24/7 as well as responding to alerts on network's availability and performance.
• Developed and expanded infrastructure of enterprise services according to new technologies.
• Monitored and managed the company`s network infrastructure on 3 different datacenters.
• Managed and maintained users/networks’ access control policies.
• Trained the team based on service changes and expansions.
Achievements:
- Improved and optimized service availability via implementing redundant services.
- Improved network management performance over 50% by implementing appropriate logging, monitoring and NMS services.
- Mitigated 90% of DDOS and web application attacks using CDN and Fortiweb Firewall.
- Enhanced datacenters backbone speed by 10 times through migrating from 1Gbps to 10Gbps access switches and deploying non-blocking switching infrastructure in backbone layer.

Senior Network Engineer and Network Training Center Supervisor at DAF Company
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2007 to December 2017

Planned and supervised all IT organization teams (design & development, NOC, IT security).
• Designed network infrastructure for enterprise customers based on their requirements.
• Supervised network engineers to work on new projects and cross-functional tasks.
• Supervised the network training center and trained employees.
• Performed pre-sale activities, Project planning and management.
Achievements:
- Enhanced company`s service contract 5 times within 5 years and contributed in boosting company`s revenue.
- Planned and supervised more than 50 successful network training courses (private and public sector customers).
- Engaged in establishing company`s training center with more than 250 customer per year after 2 years.

Information Security Consultant at National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC)
  • Iran - Tehran
  • March 2011 to December 2014

National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Ministry of Petroleum, Tehran, Iran - (DAF Co. Contract)
• Training information security organization’s team.
• Collaborated in securing all NIOC`s network infrastructure across the country.
• Engaged in designing the main NIOC security organization`s data center.
• Collaborated in managing the NIOC’s network security audit team.
• Participated in NIOC’s annual network security exercise (2013 and 2014).

Information Security Consultant at Ministry of Petroleum
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2007 to December 2010

Information Security Consultant
Ministry of Petroleum, Tehran, Iran - (DAF Co. Contract)
• Advised on developing a secure data center and server room for all subsidiaries of the Oil Ministry.
• Advised on designing ministry’s secure and classified messaging system.
• Collaborated on building computer security incident response ream (CSIRT).
• Advised on designing network security labs for network equipment security testing.
• Assessed and analysed the headquarters’ network infrastructure.
• Collaborated on building a private network for the security organization of the Iranian Oil Ministry.
• Performed information security training at the Oil Ministry’s security organization.

Network Support Specialist at Roham Datak Telecommunication Company
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2004 to April 2006

• Network support specialist in network operations center (NOC).
• Implemented the switching and passive infrastructure of the main data center.
• Redesigned company`s headquarter enterprise LAN.
• Implemented Microsoft active directory and ISA for securing the private LAN.
• Constructed the remote power management (RPM) hardware for managing the power of wireless base stations on the remote sites through the telephone line.

Network Support Specialist & Instructor at Sattari University
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2004 to April 2006

• Developed campus LAN network for all faculties to connect with education department.
• Designed and implemented fiber optic infrastructure.
• Designed and developed the server room for the computer center.

Network and Project Engineer at DGA Company
  • Iran - Tehran
  • January 2001 to December 2003

• Designed and implemented the network infrastructure as well as providing support and maintenance for company`s customers.
• Designed and Implemented the Campus LAN of Zanjan International Exhibition.

Education

Master's degree, Network Engineer
  • at CIU,City International University
  • January 2006

➢ City International University CA. USA Bachelor of Computer Network Engineering 2003-2006 Online ➢ City International University CA. USA Master of Computer Network Engineering 2006-2008 Online

Specialties & Skills

Project Management
Network Infrastructure
Network Design
Network Security
Microsoft Windows Servers
Palo Alto
pfSense
Cisco FTD
Teaching Network Cources and Concepts
FortiAnalyzer
CCNA R&S
Network Security
PRTG Network Monitor
CCNA DataCenter
Date Center
FortiGate
Wireless LAN
Cisco ACI
FortiWeb
IP Fabric
VMware NSX-T
CCIE R&S
Load balancer
F5 Big-IP LTM / GTM

Languages

Persian
Expert
English
Expert

Training and Certifications

MCSE 2012 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2014
PMBOK (Certificate)
Date Attended:
August 2014
MCITP 2008 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
June 2014

Hobbies

  • Playing Musical Instruments
  • Swimming