Senior Network Engineer
iDigamma Solutions
Total years of experience :6 years, 7 Months
• Designing & Implementing WAN Projects, which include several series of Cisco equipment over variety of remote access connections such as Leased Line, Channelized E1, and Frame-Relay with static & dynamic routing methods
• Designing & Implementing LAN projects including most Cisco catalyst switches series, configuring VTP domains, VLANs(Voice & Data), Ether Channel Ports, STP, HSRP, QoS, and LAN Security
• Implementation and support of high-end IT infrastructure solutions including :
- Multi-services LANs & WANs
- Security solution (VPN, Firewall, IDS/IPS, DMZ, AAA, PKI, L2 Security, Syslog Messages)
• Designing Cabling solutions, Cat5e/Cat6 cables, Patch Panels, Cabinets, Fiber Optic (SMF/MMF)
• Collect/understand customer requirements and understand the market trend for better sales
• Hardware: Cisco Switches, Cisco Routers, Cisco Wireless, Cisco IP Telephony(UC500, CME) ASA Firewall, Fortigate Firewall, HP Switches, Aruba Wireless, HP SAN Storage, HP Tape Library
• Maintained switches and routers and troubleshooting general LAN/WAN problems
• Creates project charter, project communication plan, project status report, time management, change management, cost management and risk management
• Creates project closure, configuration document, backup configuration(running conf - IOS) and NRFU (network ready for use)
• Designing and Building IT networks including hardware specification and implementation
• Identifying customer technical/business needs and translating them into viable integrated solutions
• Creates financial proposal including site survey outcomes, scope of work, out of scope, brief technical description, project assumption, BoQ - BoM and payment method .
• Checks, measures and reviews project progress and associated staff performance
• Prepare products and solution presentation, providing product training and updating the partners, and creates LLD (Low level Design) and HLD (High Level Design) documents.
• Managing and maintaining network access (cabling, network devices)
• Immigrate Networks from (HP, 3Com, Planet) into Cisco framework network
• Preventive Maintenance to the Leased Lines, ISDN Lines, Switches, Routers, Detecting, diagnosing, reporting network related problems for first line
And second line resolution.
• Planning & Team leading for all immigration Projects (Network) for the 10 Hikma Global Branches (USA, Europe, MENA, Africa)
• IT Infrastructure Project Management (Project Methodology Management, RFP, Vendor Evaluation Matrix, project Charter, Stakeholder Plan, Project Management Plan, project Scope Management, Requirements management Plan, project, Project Time Management, Plan Cost Management, Communication Plan, Project Status Report, Project Closure )
• Design Network Infrastructures built on Cisco best practices
• Communicating and negotiating with users, specialists, other staff and suppliers.
• Applying up-to-date Security best practices beside the monitoring, blocking, updating, backup, and network compliance.
• Collaborate with Network Project Team in identifying network and system vulnerabilities, and the appropriate solutions to eliminate or minimize their potential effects.
• Investigate actual or potential information security incidents.
• Develop written procedures, engineering diagrams (as necessary) and other technical documentation.
• Consolidating and unifying Cisco Security access and monitoring with Cisco ACS
• Wireless Access Points installations and applying single-sign by using Dot1X authorization (through Cisco ACS/Tacacs Plus and Microsoft Radius 2003).
• Design medium-to-Enterprise scale IP Telephony solution for Hikma Group
• Configuring and Managing Cisco Devices :
o VLANs, Spanning Tree, VTP, EIGRP, OSPF, WAN Protocols, Cisco Network
Management Tools
o Port Security, HSRP, Ether Chanel Group, ACS/ TACACS
o VPN Site-to-Site, DMZ Network
o Easy VPN “Client-to-Site”
• Supervising Microsoft projects implementation in MENA regions:
o Administer and managing Microsoft 2003 (active directory, exchange 2003/7, ISA 2004/6, file server)
o Administer and configuring HP SAN for clustering
• Supervising HP projects implementation in MENA regions:
o HP DL 380, 360, HP SAN 4000/4, HP Automatic Tape Library MSL 2024
• Symantec solution (Security, backup, Help Desk )
• Building site-to-site VPN using Fortigate Firewall
• Administrating and Managing Active Directory: User Accounts, Computer Accounts, Group Policies, and Security Delegations
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• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot a router with main link frame relay and backup ISDN
• Configure, verify, and troubleshoot a WAN encryption (SafeNet Product)