Sherif Safwat, Cisco Instructor

Sherif Safwat

Cisco Instructor

Computek

Location
Egypt - Cairo
Education
Bachelor's degree, Comminication Engineering
Experience
14 years, 10 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :14 years, 10 Months

Cisco Instructor at Computek
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since December 2009

o CCNA Instructor
o CCNP Instructor

Cisco Instructor at ITI
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since October 2012

o CCNA Instructor
o CCNP Instructor

Network Engineer at Dana Gas
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • My current job since January 2015

o Administering and maintaining Dana Gas multi-vendor network and Datacenters in UAE and Egypt “ cisco & Juniper & Aruba and Avaya IP-Phones “
o Provide 2nd and 3rd level technical support for the company users
o Daily hands on Juniper EX 8208 Juniper Core switch and EX 3200 Edge switches.
o Daily hands on Cisco 4500 & 6807 Core switches and 3750x & 2960x Edge Switches.
o Managing DHCP system through Juniper SRX Firewall
o Securing network devices by applying different l2&l3 security mechanisms “ Port-
Security & Broadcast Storm Control & DHCP Snooping and DAI “
o Monitoring network infrastructure on 24/7 basis through different monitoring systems “ Solarwinds Orion and Manage Engine OPManager”
o Provide deep network monitoring through Solarwinds network modules “ NPM & NCM & IPSLA & Net flow “

Implemented Projects

o Redesigning Dana Gas Network and applying standard network hierarchy.
o Migrating Egypt Site’s wired network from Juniper to Cisco.
o Migrating Egypt Site’s wireless network from Aruba to Cisco.
o Applying dynamic VLAN system through 802.1x protocol to provide mobility over wired and wireless systems based on user’s credentials.
o Migrating Vlans design from per-floor to per-department.
o Migrating DHCP server from Juniper SRX to Microsoft DHCP Cluster.
o Implementing and integrating Microsoft NAP server with Juniper & Cisco switches
and ARUBA wireless system to control network access through 802.1x protocol.
o Building multi-SSID wireless network to support BYOD mechanism.
o Migrating Company’s monitoring system from Manage Engine to Solarwinds to get deep statistics on network nodes and interfaces.
o Implementing CACTI traffic grapher tool to monitor WAN Link utilization.

Enterprise Service Optimization Center Senior Engineer at TE Data
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • January 2010 to December 2014

Network Experience

o Supporting leased lines & MPLS VPN issues of Enterprise Customers
o Configuring and troubleshooting MPLS VPN L2 & L3 on PE
o Troubleshooting PE-CE routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, static)
o Dealing with Routers like ISR G1&G2, ASR, 7200 and GSR beside Multi-layer switches.
o IPsec VPN site-to-site and Remote access connectivity (Any connect - clientless).
o Basic Configuration of Juniper M7i Routers.
o Configuring SHDSL local loop terminations on ATM DSLAM’s (Alcatel, Huawei)
o Familiar with Customer CPEs Like Zyxel, Adtran, Aethra, Telinus and EFM.
o Monitoring various types of Modems & Routers and Switches using Orion Software.
o Highly experienced in Traffic grapher applications like MRTG, Net Flow.
o Highly Experienced in SNMP & OIDs & Syslog and IPSLA operations.
o Highly experienced in using Solar Winds Orion Monitoring Systems to monitor more than 20, 000 Network Elements.
o Administering Cisco ACS to authenticate & authorize and account access to Cisco devices.



Systems Experience

o Administering various backup applications like: Handy Backup Server& Microsoft DPM Server and Symantec Backup Exec.
o Administering SharePoint 2007 & 2010 beside the upgrade process from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010.
o Dealing with SQL Databases and ODBC connection with Microsoft Access.
o Installation of Windows and SQL Clusters to achieve Database Redundancy.
o Familiar with HP & IBM Servers.
o Manage RAID configuration in HP Proliant Serves G5 & G6 & G7.
o Building SQL Integrated Websites using PHP Runner & ASP Runner.
o Active Directory installation and migration & IIS.
o ISA Server Configuration and Management.
o Excellent in Using Microsoft Hyper-v to build over 30 Virtual servers.
o Familiar with VMware ESX Solutions and virtual machines.

Unified Communication Engineer at It Synergy
  • Egypt - Cairo
  • July 2009 to December 2009

o Configuring & Troubleshooting Microsoft OCS Product in
Windows Server 2008.
o Integration between OCS & Asterisk IP-Telephony Systems.
o Virtualization \[ Integration between Linux OS and Microsoft
Hyper-v \]
o Configuring VOIP Systems “ Wired and Wireless Snom
IP-Phones “ and LDAP Query.
o Integration between Active Directory LDAP and Open LDAP
o Configuration and Monitoring of Online UPSs & H/W Clusters
and Blades.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Comminication Engineering
  • at Faculty of Engineering - Cairo University
  • August 2008

Specialties & Skills

Layer 3
Layer 2
Windows Server 2008
SQL Server 2000 2008
Swimming
Play Station

Languages

Arabic
Expert
English
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