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ORUKPE, Oghenetejiri Eustace

OBJECTIVE

To evolve into the best in the field of electronics and communications.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

2001 - 2007

University Of Lagos, Akoka

B.Sc. Electrical & Electronics Engineering.

Second class Upper (2.1) Honors

AREAS OF PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISATION

Expert knowledge of various routing protocols,RIP, EIGRP, IS-IS, BGP & OSPF and network features MPLS, VPLS, VPNs, VSS, FHRPs, VDCs, GWGK, SRST, ZBF, QOS, Junos, IOS, IOS-XR, ASA, FWSM, SPLAT etc.

Excellent Knowledge of Routing, Switching & Security Technologies using multiple OEMs ( Cisco, Juniper, Huawei, HP, Checkpoint )

Operations and Maintenance of both the high-end and low-end Security Solutions and Routing and Switching Solutions from vendors such as Cisco, Checkpoint, Juniper, Huawei etc.

Excellent working knowledge of Checkpoint security device and solutions.

Excellent working knowledge of HP Procurve Switches and wireless Access point.

Good Working Knowledge of Microsoft Windows Operating System and Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange, ISA, Print server other application server roles

Strong Knowledge of Linux, Mac & Solaris operating system.(Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fedora, Ubuntu, Leopard, Tiger, Solaris 10).

August 2014

June, 2011

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August 2011

December, 2009

November, 2009

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September, 2009

October, 2009

June, 2008

October, 2009

October, 2009

October, 2009

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, Service Provider #29270

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert, CCIE Routing & Switching #29270

Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional, CCIP

Cisco Certified Design Associate, CCDA

Cisco Data Center Network Infrastructure Design Specialist, CS-CDCNIDS

Cisco Advanced Wireless LAN System Engineer, CS-CAWLANDS

Cisco TelePresence Video Field Engineer for Express, CS-CFEDS

Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Specialist – Security, JNCIS-SEC

Cisco Certified Voice Professional, CCVP

Cisco Certified Network Professional - Field Specialist, CS-CRSFS

Cisco Certified Network Professional, CCNP

Information Technology Infrastructure Library, ITIL (Foundation)

Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Specialist -Enterprise Routing

JNCIS-ER

Juniper Networks Certified Internetwork Specialist -Enterprise Switching

JNCIS-EX

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

RECORD OF EMPLOYMENT

Sept 2013 – Till Date

Sept 2012 – Aug 2013

May 2012 – July 2012

Jan 2012 – April 2012

March 2011 –Jan 2012

Sept 2010 – Feb 2011

Dec 2009 – Sept 2010

Feb 2009 – Dec 2009

Jun 2008 – Jan 2009

Cisco Systems

Position: Network Consulting Engineer

Duties:

1.Responsible for providing consultative, proactive and reactive support to Cisco's Service Provider customers.

2.Provide consultation in design and operation of cisco devices in customer’s networks.

3.Provide nth level support for Service provider customers.

4.Oversee all Services deliverables and ensure they meet/exceed customers’ expectations.

5.Build strong relationships with key customer stakeholders, especially the Design and Operations teams.

6.Utilise customer relationships to ensure delivery success.

7.Utilise and leverage internal relationships to ensure that customer deliverables are achieved on or ahead of time.

8.Develop an in depth understanding of the customer’s network.

9.Work with customer to develop and influence long term objectives thereby ensuring future Cisco Services business.

10.Support the Cisco Services technical team members.

11.Provide technical assistance to the wider Cisco Services team

12.Technical resource management within local Cisco Services team.

13.Assist with resourcing outside of immediate responsibilities, as part of the wider EMEA team

14.Support and facilitate knowledge sharing/best practices.

15.Identification of new opportunities for Cisco Services

16.Partner management, including day-to-day contact with Cisco Partner engineers and also working with the

17.Cisco Project Managers during the Partner engagement process.

Dimension Data

Position: Principal Network Engineer

Duties:

1.In consultation with business stakeholders, assess, plan and design network infrastructure solutions. Provide senior guidance and assistance on operational escalations.

2.Assess, plan and design Network Infrastructure Solutions for new or enhanced services within the SBSA environment

3.Perform a Quality Assurance role by reviewing design documentation drafted by the Operations Teams and ensuring these are aligned to the governing architecture requirements of the business and complicit with the technology standards set by the SBSA Solutions Architecture Team.

4.Provide guidance and input to the Operations Team on implementation plans related to designs completed by the Solutions Design Engineer.

5.Be available to provide onsite or remote support and assistance to the Operations Team during the implementation of solutions designed by the Solution Design Engineer.

6.Attend and actively participate in meetings with internal SBSA stakeholders to solicit technical requirements for inclusion into Solution Designs.

7.70% time allocation to design and planning and 30% time allocated to operations and escalatioins.

8.Perform the role of Network Technology Lead during P1 incidents.

9.Provide TAC assistance.

10.Provide Technical assistance and inputs to design and deployments of other dimension data projects.

Muave Corporate Systems Ltd

Position: Senior Datacomms Consultant (MTN project [Huawei]) Duties:

1.Design and implementation and integration of MTN CTN Network for transmission between the IPCORE and Access network using CX600-8 as core routers, CX600-2 as aggregation routers and ATN 910 and ATN 950 as access routers providing unified and scalable network.

2.Design and implementation of MPLS based transmission network using ISIS as IGP, MPLS TE tunnels flexibility and BGP for internal communication between the Core routers, CX8 and the ATN. Provisioning service like L3VPN for IUB over IP,3G services (RNC Communication) L2VPN (Psuedo-wire) for ATM transport over MPLS 2G services (ABIS over IP) .

3.Design and Implementation of communication network for RAN (BSC& RNC), UGW and Core Network communications using datacomm network elements like NE20, NE40, NE80, 5000E routers.

4.Implementation of transmission networks using various transports like ATM, POS, CPOS and Ethernet (100, 1G and 10G)

5.Design and Implementation of communication network for RAN (BSC& RNC), UGW and Core Network communications using datacomm network elements like NE20, NE40, NE80, 5000E routers.

6.Design and implementation of Telco security infrastructure using Eudmon 300, 800 and 1000 firewalls.

7.Administration for NE80,NE40E & NE20 routers, S9300,S7800, S5300 S3900 switches and Eudemon 300& 1000 Firewalls for data communication.

8.Data communication configuration when needed

9.Responsible for U2000 (NMS) system maintenance and repair.

10.Responsible for network monitoring tools.

11.Responsible for analyzing the faults and reporting them in proper escalation pattern.

12.Responsible for reporting to Customers & Company, follow up with them to solve technical issues.

13.Gather traffic statistics from the network, investigate and solve the network problem.

14.3rd level support for help-desk working to Customers, such as receiving complain, replying to questions, distributing problems, problem tracing

Muave Corporate Systems Ltd

Position: Senior Datacomms Consultant (8ta project [Huawei]) Duties:

1.Design and Implementation of communication network for RAN (BSC& RNC), UGW and Core Network communications using datacomm network elements like NE20, NE40, NE80, 5000E routers.

2.Design and implementation of Telco security infrastructure using Eudmon 300, 800 and 1000 firewalls.

3.Administration for NE80,NE40E & NE20 routers, S9300,S7800, S5300 S3900 switches and Eudemon 300& 1000 Firewalls for data communication.

4.Data communication configuration when needed

5.Responsible for U2000 (NMS) system maintenance and repair.

6.Responsible for network monitoring tools.

7.Responsible for analyzing the faults and reporting them in proper escalation pattern.

8.Responsible for reporting to Customers & Company, follow up with them to solve technical issues.

9.Gather traffic statistics from the network, investigate and solve the network problem.

10.3rd level support for help-desk working to Customers, such as receiving complain, replying to questions, distributing problems, problem tracing.

XTI Data International

Position: Presales Consultant (Principal Network Consultant / Network Designer / Implementation Team Lead )

Duties:

1.Upon contract execution, facilitate pre-sales to post-sales transition of projects to the Project Manager and/or Network Engineer by providing detail about the client expectation to help ensure delivery of service.

2.Maintain customer and partner relationships to ensure satisfaction and continually strive to improve those relationships.

3.Establish customer/partner trust and confidence.

4.Prepare Customer Statement of Work documentation, outlining the major tasks and responsibilities assigned to a project.

5.Keep up to date with new products, product changes in service portfolio, emerging technologies & products, and market trends.

6.Resolves issues and troubleshoots at the design and proposal stage.

7.Assist in the Technical response to RFIs/RFPs (includes creation of Bill of Materials [BOMs], diagrams and technical compliance).

8.Consultancy and compilation of documentations such as LLD and HLD for implementation

9.Implementation of complex specialized network integration

Dimension Data

Position: Network System Engineer (Service Provider Level 2

Implementation Team Lead)

Duties:

1.Deployment of WAN connectivity and service provider solutions (Using Cisco ASRs, GSRs, CRSs, 7600, and 6500)

2.Design of Wired Enterprise Network solutions

3.Design of Wireless Enterprise Network Solutions

4.Assisting in presales activities with clients.

5.Use of various tools (Like the Cisco Dynamic configurator) to ascertain feasibility of solutions.

6.Assisting in Service assurance.

7.Response to calls regarding client networks.

Dimension Data

Position: Network System Engineer (Security Engineer Level 2)

Duties:

1.Deployment of Security solutions (Cisco, Juniper and Checkpoint).

2.Deployment of network auditing and management tools(nagios, whatsup gold, solarwinds)

3.Deployment of High Security Data Centre solutions using FWSM,ASA 5500s series, checkpoint and juniper firewalls.

4.Design of Wired Enterprise Network solutions

5.Design of Wireless Enterprise Network Solutions

6.Assisting in presales activities with clients.

7.Use of various tools (Like the Cisco Dynamic configurator) to ascertain feasibility of solutions.

8.Assisting in Service assurance.

9.Response to calls regarding client networks.

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Dimension Data

Position: Network System Engineer (Voice Engineer)

Duties:

1.Design of Data and Voice converged networks for Enterprise, medium and SOHO Offices

2.Design of Wired & Wireless Network Solutions for Small and Medium Offices.

3.Assisting in presales activities with clients.

4.Use of various tools (Like the Cisco Dynamic configurator) to ascertain feasibility of solutions.

5.Assisting in Service assurance.

6.Response to calls regarding client networks.

Philips Project Centre

Position: Implementation and Operations Engineer

Duties:

1.Deployment of Network infrastructure; Planning and deployment of Structural Office Cabling (SOC) Mounting of Active Devices (Routers and Switches).

2.Deployment of ASWIPLL Airspan 5.83GHz Microwave point-to-point and point-to-multipoint radios. (Installation of BSRs (PE Device), SPR (CE Device) and Repeaters (Bridges).

3.Deployment of Video / Audio conferencing equipment using PolyCOMM devices.

4.Deployment and maintenance of True point radio links between base station branch offices and Airspan microwave radio links to residential premises.

5.Troubleshooting and maintenance of existing DATA network infrastructure.

6.Deployment and Maintenance of VOICE network infrastructure based on Alcatel OmniPCX Enterprise Architecture using the OXE and media gateways.

7.Installation and maintenance of True point 5000, 4000 and MDL radio links to branch offices and service providers

MAJOR PROJECTS HANDLED

Multicast design.

Consultation, design, lab testing and deployment of multicast VPN services in a major Service Provider network, evaluating options such as PIM/GRE based Draft-Rosen and PIM-free core options using Multicast LDP (mldp).

CRS1 to CRS-X hardware Upgrade.

Provide consultation and guidance and eventual deployment of CRS-1 to CRS-X upgrades for major service provider customers for over a dozen sites.

Service Provider Core Software Upgrade

Cisco CRS-1 & CRS-3 Upgrade from 4.0.3 & 4.1.2 to 4.3.2, recommended SMUs tar creation and installation and repartitioning of disk0: to accommodate the new and future OS. (Team Lead).

Service Provider Edge Software Upgrade

Cisco ASR9k & ASR1k Upgrade from 4.2.3 to 4.3.4 for ASR9k (turboboot and over the network installation), recommended SMUs tar creation and installation and 3.4.2 to 3.7.4 for ASR1k.(Team Lead).

MPLS Traffic Engineering Design & Deployment

Design, test and deployment of MPLS TE tunnels on a major Service Provider’s MPLS carrier network.

Circuit Emulation Over MPLS

Design, test and deployment of Circuit Emulation of MPLS using ASR900 & GSR12000.

Identity Service Engine POC (Proof of Concept)

Deployment of Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) in a Proof-Of -Concept scenario for Standard Bank South Afirca catering for WIreless BYOD, wired network users, ip phones and printers (requiring Mac Address Bypass (MAB)).The project was part of a network security architectural project designed to enforce Network Admission & Control (NAC) using CIsco ISE

Network Management System (Infoblox NETMRI)

Team Lead for deployment of network hardening templates on all devices in Standard bank worldwide. NETMRI was selected as the defacto Network Management System (NMS) for the deployment of the configuration script meant to turn off unnecessary services and enforce management access restrictions to prevent unauthorized access to network infrastructure/elelments.

CCS scripts and scheduled deployment of such scripts were the means by which this project was effected

Swaziland Branch Integration

Integration of Branch Networks in Swaziland using MPLS Layer3 VPNs and BGP and the PE-CE routing protocol. Using Cisco 3900s and Cisco ASR 1006

Consultancy, Design and Deployment of Standard Bank Africa Core.

Migration of Standard bank Africa core from static to dynamic (OSPF) routing based network.

Core upgrade from stacked Cisco 3750-X switches to Cisco 6500 in Virtual Switching System mode.

Design and Deployment of BGP in a Dual homed architecture, Production - DR configuration at two Datacenters (Samrand (DR), Riverclub (Prod)).

Integration of Africa core with SA core network using standard bank South African Metro Network.

Configuration and optimization of Africa core network and selective provisioning of shared services amongst datacenters and migration of existing networks onto the new core.

Network planning, design and integration for MTN Converged Transmission Network using Huawei CX-600, 8-shelf Core router & 2-shelf Aggregation router and Huawei ATN 910 & 950 access routers.

Design and deployment of MPLS-TE based network using ISIS as IGP, and LDP as the label distribution protocol. Provisioning of GSM services using Layer-3 MPLS VPNs for IUB and LTE, Layer-2 point-to-point MPLS VPNs (VLL) for ABIS over E1 and Layer-2 multipoint MPLS VPNS (VPLS) and point-to-point MPLS VPNS (VLL) for enterprise traffic.

Site integration, planning, design and integration into the Telkom mobile (8ta) network, using Huawei Quidway NE40 core routers and cisco ASR 1000 and MWR as the customer site routers. Using transmission network interfaces like E1, Q-in-Q Gigabit & Fast Ethernet and Channel Packe-Over-Sonet. While the provisioning of services was based on Layer-3 MPLS VPNS carrying IUB, LTE and ABIS traffic.

Deployment and support of Carrier support carrier topology for the intra-exchange communication between MSOs using Telkom VPN supreme as the Core ISP and BGP+Label as the CSC-PE CSC-CE label distribution protocol.

Design and implementation of Telkom mobile exchanges Design and implementation of OAM network for Core network elements in Telkom PPR datacenter and exchange.

Integration of network elements into the Network Management System, Huawei U2000 and subsequent troubleshooting of escalations from front-office, report generation to show SLA and presentation network statistics and problem resolution to the customer (Telkom SA).

Audit and Upgrading of PIX firewalls, Intrusion Prevention Systems and Cisco 6513 Switches (with Firewall Services modules, Intrusion Detection Services Module-2, Network Analysis Modules and Multilayer Switch Feature Cards) in high availability mode for Access Bank.(Team Member)

Design and Deployment of Virtual Switch System (VSS) and multichasis etherchannel (MEC) technologies for MTN Nigeria using Cisco Catalyst 6509E switches VS-720-10G Supervisors and WS-6724-X fiber modules. (Team Lead)

10G capacity upgrade for MTN Nigeria Core network infrastructure. Migrating of the MTN Network from 1G to 10G (Team Member).

Core Upgrade from Aggregation Services Router (ASR) 10000s to Carrier Routing System (CRS-1 ), increasing core capacity from 1G to 10G.

BGP dual homing consultancy, design and implementation of FinBank Network, allowing for public ip addressing and automatic failover for services like exchange, e-banking webservers and general internet access.

Design, Staging and Deployment of Etisalat Headquarters Secured Campus Local Area Network; Wired and Wireless Enterprise Solution with high availability INTERNET and WAN connections at Banana Island. Design and Deployment and Integration of Etisalat Enterprise WAN Edge, using Cisco 7613 Routers at Etisalat Data Center for aggregation of Regional Offices and Shops. (Team Member)

Design and deployment of Cisco enterprise network for Lekki Concession Company involving Microsoft ISA server integration, dual homing with two service providers and provisioning for voice over WAN links to branch offices and toll points.(Team Lead)

Enterprise Wireless LAN design and installation for TetraPak Plc using 802.1x PEAP Authentication using an Windows Radius Server, Digital Certificates.(Team Lead)

Design and deployment of Cisco Enterprise Wireless Solution involving Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC) and Light weight Access Points (LWAP) in redundant mode using the Cisco Structured Wireless Aware Network (SWAN) architecture, Wi-Fi Protected Access 2 (WPA2) and Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) Security at Etisalat Data Center Lekki, ensuring coverage and mobility. (Team Lead)

Design, Staging and Deployment of Enterprise Wired Local Area Network For Etisalat Regional Office and Shop at Ibadan. Design, Staging and deployment of Enterprise Wired and Wireless Local Area Network for Etisalat Regional Office and Shop at Enugu & Abuja. (Team Lead)

Consultancy and design of MPLS network for Dangote Communications, interconnecting datacenters at Obajana and Lagos whilst provisioning of VPN services to their internal customers (other Dangote group companies).

Consultancy and design of IPSec based VPN network for Nigerian Inter-Bank Settlement System Plc (NIBSS) utilizing both remote access and LAN to LAN based VPNs.

Consultancy and design of next generation Enterprise Campus LAN and Datacenter 3.0 for the provisioning of low latency network infrastructure as well as design of road maps and upgrade paths due to budget restrictions.

Network Security Support for National Airspace Management Agency (NAMA). Configuration and enforcing of security policies on 6509 core switches, Catalyst 2960 access switches, PIX 515 and Microsoft ISA Server.

Design and Deployment of HP Procurve switch based Local Area Network supporting Services like Otrum Video On Demand, High speed internet access billing solution, video surveillance and other enterprise solution for Radisson Blu Hotel, Lagos. (Team Lead)

Design and deployment of Outdoor wireless mesh and indoor autonomous wireless LAN for the University of Port-Harcourt and integration with Internet access billing solution. (Team Lead)

TRAINING & SEMINARS

SKILLS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Business Awareness

oCustomer requirement extraction and presentation of suitable solutions to clients.

oWorked to strict deadlines ensuring the delivery of network solutions within time and budget

Initiative & Adaptability

oEstablished rapport and resolved queries within pressurised IT support environments.

Team Working & Leadership

oDeveloped team leadership skills including motivating team members and encouraging good performance through my role as team leader in several group projects.

oExperience of working in teams during projects involved; planning, role allocation and coordination.

Effective Communication

oDeveloped succinct documentation skills, good communication and interpersonal skills through documentation and client interaction

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MainOne Cable Nig Ltd

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Kolade Adepetu +234**********

Dimension Data West Africa

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Ian Trautmann +278********

Dimension Data MEA, South Africa

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