Senior Network Engineer

To join a reputed and growth-oriented organization, that utilizes my analytical & interpersonal skills and provides me opportunities to achieve excellence in my profession.

Sep 2006 – Present Senior Network Engineer,
C4 Advanced Solutions, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Job Duties:
• Attend client meetings and presentations with account managers.
• Identify client requirements (technical requirements, configuration, network design/architecture and any other requirements), by studying the technical documents provided by the client or in the form of client meetings/site surveys where clients existing network is analyzed, studied and evaluated to carefully understand the needs of the client in order to provide an optimal network solution.
• Providing Improvements and recommendations to the proposed solution for the new and existing network design/architecture for any future growth, expansion and requirements.
• Determine scope and prepare Bill of Quantity (BOQ), pre-sales technical scope of work, technical design/diagrams and estimate time for the completion of the project.
• Work with account manager to provide technical responses for queries raised in the project tender issued by the client.
• Implementing, installing, configuring and testing the proposed network solution.
• In case of existing network infrastructure the proposed solution is configured, integrated and tested to work with current infrastructure.
• Within the testing or post implementation phase all issues, major and minor, are identified and root cause is determined to resolve the issues permanently. If the issue cannot be resolved, then a case is opened with the vendor and coordination is done with the vendor engineer to resolve the problem.
• After project is implemented, proper procedures for daily operations and maintenance are prepared along with final technical documentation for network including diagrams, configurations and testing outputs are submitted to the client.
• For after sales support any issues raised by the client, are diagnosed and resolved and information is recorded in the system. In case if any improvement or enhancements required, they are implemented with the approval of the client.
• In case of maintenance agreement with the client, onsite maintenance is provided to the client for the new or upgraded networks and other components.



Oct 2000 – Jan 2006 Network Support Engineer
Grand Mills, Abu Dhabi, UAE

• Masters of Business Administration (MIS) Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan in year 2000.
• Bachelor of Business Administration (MIS) Institute of Business Management, Karachi, Pakistan in year 1999.

•Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert R&S (CCIE #16839)
•Cisco Firewall Specialist
•Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
•Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
•Juniper Networks Certified Internet Professional (JNCIP-ENT)
•Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS-ENT)
•Juniper Networks Certified Associate (JNCIA)
•Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE

Technical Skills
•CiscoRouters - [1600/1800/2500/2600/2800/2900/3600/3800/3900/7200/7600]
•Cisco Switches - [1900/2900/ 3500/3700/4500/6500 - VSS]
•Cisco Security - ASA [5500], FWSM, IPS
•Data Center - Cisco ACE, Nexus 5K & 2K
•Juniper – EX4200, Olive M/T JUNOS
•Protocols/Technologies - BGP / MP-BGP / OSPF / EIGRP / IGRP / RIP / MPLS / Layer 3 VPN / AtoM / TE / Vrf-lite
•Network Management / Provisioning – Cisco LMS / Cisco ISC
•Cisco Pre-sales – Cisco Configurator / Cisco Ordering Tool / Cisco Power Calculator / Cisco Service Contract Center / Cisco Status Tool.