Ahmed E Elrayah

Reston, VA *****

703-***-****

Email: abhtrr@r.postjobfree.com

CCIE # 24012, CCNP, CCVP, MCSE+I

OBJECTIVE:

Seek a challenging and equally rewarding career, and to apply my technical

expertise in the areas of Cisco Routing/Switching, Service Providers

MPLS/VPNv4, MBGP, and Cisco IP Telephony, VoIP, Security and Call Center

technologies. I work hard to make life easier for users.

Summary of qualifications:

- Network Engineer with 14 years of experience in Networking, with

leading certifications from Cisco Systems (CCIE RS #24012, CCVP)

- Result-oriented IPV4/IPV6 / MPLS Core Network Engineer in a Government

or large Enterprise environment

- A growing track record of success in a broad range of technology and

expertise ranging from first/second level technical support to high-

level network designing, implementation & management.

- Proven capacity to lead in all stages of network maintenance and

customer relations that includes design, implementation, testing and

support.

- Demonstrated team player & leading abilities; coordinated all areas of

network trouble management while motivating and leading team members.

- Problem solving, and multi-tasking skills in a high paced, broad

product range environment while maintaining professionalism and high

standards. Excellent customer Communication skills in providing high

quality technical support.

- Expertise in design, implementation and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN

technologies (Ethernet, Frame-relay, ISDN and MPLS/VPN), and all

Routing Protocols at the Enterprise level.

- Many years of Excellent expertise in network analysis, post sales

support, network design, project management, help desk support,

trouble ticket resolutions..

EDUCATION:

George Mason University Fairfax, VA

2003

Master of Science in Telecommunications

George Mason University Fairfax, VA

2000

Bachelor of Science in Medical Technology

JOB-RELATED CERTIFICATES AND LICENSES:

- CCIE Routing and Switching # 24012 2009

- CCVP (Cisco Certified Voice Professional) 2010

- Passed Cisco CCIE voice written 2011

- Building Core Network using BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS and VPN 2003

- Installation and Maintenance of Cisco Equipments (IMCR).

2002

- Deploying Cisco QoS on the Enterprise Network

2002

- Deploying Cisco Voice Over IP

2002

- Deploying Cisco Security

2002

- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).

1999

- Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE+I).

2000

- A+ Certified Computer Technician.

1999

- Nexus, Fabricpath, vxLAN, ACI training 2014

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Cisco Systems

5202 Bentonville, AR

October 2014 - Present

Sr. Network Engineer

- I worked as a Network Consulting Engineer to support one of the

largest clients in North America.

- Performed network analysis to determine the best bath to upgrade their

network to align with their business directive in bringing their

service and presence to 21 century.

- Wrote a cohesive plan for hardware refresh and software leveling, data

center upgrade, new technology introduction including ACI (Application

Centric Infrastructure).

- Performed analysis to standardize the configuration template per site

type (small store, medium, large, distribution center and data center.

Intelligent Decisions

Contractor for the Administrative Office of U.S Courts

1 Columbus Cir NE Washington, DC 20002

Date Employed: April 2013 - October 2014

- Participated in the WAN Diversity project to add a second diverse

vendor for 280 of the largest US Courts sites and their connected

satellite locations.

- Participated in evaluating bids and proposal to pick the right vendor

who will be able to provide U.S Courts offices around the country with

a diverse solution using Ethernet technology.

- Participated in designing the right load-sharing policy and

distribution of prefixes and default routes to the right Internet Data

Center using MBGP, MPLS VPNv4, BGP and Eigrp.

- Participated in the design and configuration of end-to-end Qos for the

two diverse vendors AT&T and Level3. The classifications, marking and

queuing must match to reduce the MTTR and support.

- Participated in the design and configuration of multicast at the two

data centers and deploy it using the two vendor's backbone.

- Deployed the solutions successfully to more than 280 of the largest

U.S Courts sites and their satellite remote site locations.

NES Associates, LLC

Contractor for the Department of Defense ARMY and DLA (Defense Logistic

Agency)

9350 Hall Road Bldg 1445

Fort Belvoir VA 22060

Date Employed: Dec 2012 - April 2013

- Participated in the design to migrate Army bases into DISA 100 Gigabit

backbone MPLS architecture using MPLS VPNv4, MBGP, RSVP-TE for traffic

Engineering, IS-IS, Cisco ASR9010, End-to-end QoS and Multicast.

- Participated in design and consolidation of more than 1000 TLA

security stacks into few security stacks located at consolidated data

center.

- Participated in the design and evaluating proposal and bids to migrate

hundreds of distributed legacy PBX into one centralized Enterprise

Unified Communication Solutions integrated with video, and

collaboration applications.

- Participated in the design to consolidate locally hosted web servers

to national data centers.

- Participated in the design of DLA Enterprise VOIP system. The design

includes five clusters for CONUS and OCONUS installations joined

together via SIP trunks. The clusters includes publisher, subscribers,

Cisco Unity Connection and Meeting Place. It also includes

installation and configuration of several voice gateways.

NES Associates, LLC

Contractor for the Department of the VA

801 I st, NW, Washington DC

Date Employed: Sept 2011 - Dec 2012

- Responsible for the Department of Veterans Affairs IPv6 transition

design, configuration and testing. I worked with multiple vendors to

create the project plan, testing plan and design plan to implement

IPv6 as a transport protocol on the proposed OneVA network

architecture.

- I worked with the Engineering, NSOC and Operation team to finalize the

addressing assignment based on the current and future need of the VA

to integrate Tele-health, Tele-Medicine, Tele-Radiology and Tele-

mental Health. We have been assigned 2600:8000::/24.

- I have successfully met the CIO milestone for 2012 which states that

"all public facing services must be reachable by IPv6" by becoming the

second Federal agency to turn green for IPv6 Web, Mail and DNS on NIST

board.

- Successfully processed orders to modify all MPLS circuits to be dual

stack in anticipation of migration to the oneVA network of the future

which required all 4000 facilities to share a common backbone.

- Successfully completed, presented and approved the dual-stack design

of IPv6/IPv4 on the new improved VA backbone of about 4000 nodes. All

inbound, outbound, IGP, security, multicast and QoS has been included

on the approved design document ready for deployment.

AT&T Contractor for

Administrative Office of US Courts

1220 Sunrise Valley Dr

Reston, VA 20191

Date Employed: July 2010 - Sept 2011

Sr. Network Engineer

- Participated in the design, Implementation and Configuration of Cisco

Unified Communication Managers 8.x cluster for the US Courts to

provide services for 27,000 users.

- I have configured one cluster of a publisher and 14 subscribers of

different roles

- Configured SRS, 500 H323 gateways, SIP trunk on a CUBE to connect to

ITSP, Cisco routers, switches for routing, Multicasting, and Quality

of Service. T two Cisco Unity connections clusters (Active/Active) for

US federal Courts across the country.

- I worked to ensure the Enterprise IPT service provider is meeting the

design and performance SLA's for the service and work agreed upon.

- I gathered and analyzed complex requirements to be used in creating

highly reliable and scalable designs.

- Evaluated and configured OpenLdap and Microsoft Active Directory

- I produced detailed level design documents with Visio diagrams,

architecture definition documents, pricing documents, device

descriptions and narratives describing the function of the design.

- I configured and tested networking equipment in a lab environment

prior to production cutover.

- I created an extensive architectural design documents that will be

used in the transfer from engineering to operations.

- Supported the operations team during the transition into production.

- Researched, evaluated, designed and engineering services that can be

centralized at the IDCs or hosting sites such as VOIP, unified

messaging, video conferencing bridging services and COOP and disaster

recovery services.

- Provided design, review and engineering oversight of the WAN managed

services vendor for the IDC (Internet Data Center) infrastructure

network services being implemented at the IDCs and hosting centers

Dimension Data Contractor for

Administrative Office of US Courts

1220 Sunrise Valley Dr

Reston, VA 20191

Date Employed: July 2005 - July 2010

Sr. Design Engineer

- Participated in the architecture and redesign of US courts DCN MPLS

network and the migration of their 600 Frame-relay nodes to MPLS.

- Managed the migration project from initiation phase, planning to

installation, configuration and monitoring to the ongoing support.

- Worked with junior network engineer and senior management to achieve

the above goal.

- Installed and configured Gateway core routers (7609) and core switches

(6500). Installed and configured Cisco 1800, 2800, 3800 and Catalyst

switches 3550, 3560 and 3750.

- Configured EIGRP, OSPF and BGP according to customer requirements.

- Participated in the design and implementation of the enterprise QoS

- Designed and implemented Multicast.

- Installed and configured Gateway core routers (7609) and core switches

(6500). Installed and configured Cisco 1800, 2800, 3800 and Catalyst

switches 3550, 3560 and 3750.

- Configured EIGRP, OSPF and BGP according to customer requirements.

- Recommended, installed and configured Cisco 3800 and 2800 for remote

branch offices.

- Worked with PACERNET (US COURTS PUBLIC ACCESS NETWORK) to optimize

OSPF for redundancy and efficiency.

- Configured IPSEC, IKE and Dial on demand services on the router to

support DSL.

- Designed, installed and configured several sites with Multilink Frame-

Relay service (MLFR).

- Worked on core optimization project to limit EIGRP stuck-on-active

which was frequently experienced by several US courts.

- Configured QoS to support future VoIP applications.

- Designed, Installed and configured extensive Network Management system

for US Courts (Netflow traffic analyzer, Solarwinds) and WAAS for

fault management, monitoring, and bandwidth utilization.

ManTech Information Systems & Technology

14280 Park Meadow Drive

Suite 400

Chantilly, Virginia 20151

Phone Number: 703-***-****

Date Employed: 10/2005 - 5/31/2011

Security Analyst - Part-time

- Proactively monitor the House of Representative and The senate Network

using Cisco VMS, Intruvert and ArcSight and MARS Intrusion Detection.

- Perform Security analysis on any alert received and provide report and

how to mitigate it.

- Write security report each weekend on all alerts received.

- Perform IDS sensor upgrade and signature update.

- Recommended preventive, mitigating, and compensating controls to

ensure the appropriate level of protection and adherence to the goals

of the overall information security strategy.

- Assisted in the development of access-controls, separation of duties,

and roles.

- Conducted technical risk evaluation of hardware, software, and

installed systems and networks.

- Assisted with testing of installed systems to ensure protection

strategies are properly implemented and working as intended.

- Assisted in incident response and recommend corrective actions.

- Communicated with personnel about potential threats to the work

environment.

- Participated in forensic recovery and analysis.

- Participated in development and maintenance of global information

security policy.

OSHA - Department of Labor

200 Constitution Ave, N.W

Washington, DC 20210

Date Employed: Feb 2004 - July 2005

Sr. Network engineer

- Designed and architected the OSHA network upgrade from point-to-point

Frame-Relay to MPLS.

- Assisted in the migration to Microsoft Active directory.

- Designed and upgraded OSHA filed site LAN from Catalyst 3548 XL to the

new Cisco 3550-48 due to high utilization issues and limited hardware

support.

- Monitored the health of all DOL LAN/WAN networks which consist of HQ in

DC and about 150 sites nationwide daily using Solarwind and CiscoWorks

2000.

- Installed and configured new catalyst switches (2900, 6500, 3534, 3548

and 4006 and configure them as needed. Configured and installed Cisco

7507, 3640 and 2620 to add new sites to the network.

- Setup VLAN and added users on demand.

- Installed and Setup PIX firewall, Router to Router VPN, PIX to PIX VPN

and Cisco VPN 3000 concentrator.

- Configured ACL, VACL on routers and switches and PIX firewall according

government regulations.

- Troubleshoot network connection problems including cabling and

workstation configuration issues.

- Configured Content Engine CE560, CE 590, CSC11000 and CDM 4300 Content

Distribution Engine to improve performance and support distance learning

and load balancing

Sprint

12490 Sunrise valley Dr

Reston, VA 20191 USA

Dates Employed: 03/2001-Feb 2004

IP Core, Internet Backbone Operations (Sprint), Herndon VA

- Part of Sprint Internet Backbone Operations team that is responsible for

installations, support, service and repair of all Sprint IP services from

Sprint's Dedicated IP to Dialup services.

- Provide customer support for dedicated Internet access services, with

network based on over 600 self-healing SONET rings supporting OC-192, OC-

48 backbone speeds.

- Setting up and troubleshooting primary and secondary DNS zone files.

- Responsible for installing, configuring, and troubleshooting hardware on

the Sprintlink and Dial Sprint networks, includes Cisco 12000 Series

Gigabit Switch Routers.

- Perform IOS rollout and GRP/RSP/SRP upgrades, password recovery,

configuring Packet Over Sonet interfaces and various other tasks.

- Performed configuration and troubleshooting for BGP, Static Routing,

Domain Name Service, Router Filters, Traffic filters, IP Tunnel and

Multicasting.

- Perform trouble-shooting tasks via Telnet and Out of Band Management,

while tracking tickets through the CIS/TRS System on a Sun Ultra 10

Workstation.

- Responsibilities include identifying and resolving network faults and

customer issues. Using testing techniques to determine the cause of

network/customer anomalies such as circuit being down, DDOS attacks,

latency, unsuccessful pings, packet errors/discards, etc.

- Helped customers for setting up and configuring BGP, Access List, Filter

List and Distribution Lists.

- Managed customer trouble tickets and perform customer service to ensure

clients of timely resolution of issues.

Renaissance World Inc

52 Second Ave

Waltham, MA 02451USA

Dates Employed: 06/2000-03/2001

Network Engineer

- Act as subject matter expert and point of technical problem resolution

in the broadband technologies.

- Work closely with Sprint's Broadband Local Networks (BLN) National

Deployment and Standards group and ION Network Operations Center to

resolve installation and acceptance issues on Digital Subscriber Line

Access Multiplexers (DSLAM), ATM Switches, Routers, Transmission

(DS3/OC3) and ION surveillance elements.

- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve network problems that prohibit

operational acceptance of sites for active customers. Performed

acceptance testing of network elements and software within ION and

High-Speed Data sites. Troubleshoot Cisco 6400, catalyst 6509,

Marconi ASX 4000, lucent stinger DSLAM and Cisco Gigabit Switch

Routers (GSR).

Covad communications

Manassas, VA USA

Dates Employed: 01/1997-06/2000

Network Engineer

- Implemented, Troubleshoot and monitor WAN, and LAN connectivity for

Covad's extensive DSL network.

- Resolved throughput issue by analyzing ILEC loop conditions, DSLAM,

MGX and BPX switches statistics and generated errors.

- Troubleshoot connectivity problems across WAN to ensure data

integrity.

- Troubleshoot, monitor ATM and Frame Relay equipments and switches.

- Responsible for complete cycle of client circuits, from analysis to

deployment, implementation and troubleshooting of routers (Flowpoint,

Netopia, Cisco, Speed stream, and Ascend), ATM (Cisco BPX), Frame

relay (Cisco MGX).

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