Sahand Chalabi

Address: **** ******** ***, *** ****, Emeryville, CA, 94608

Nationality: British

Mobile: +1-617-***-****

Email: ac8mz6@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

A professional who enjoys tackling new and exciting tasks that the world of technology has to offer. I have a strong work ethic and believe in taking pride in any tasks put before me in order to produce the best results. I have experience in troubleshooting a wide array of issues across a multitude of platforms. I am a very fast learner and work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines. Always willing to contribute to discussions highlighting areas of improvement under the scope of my responsibilities or company-wide. SKILLS

Routing & Switching: EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, BFD, TCP/IP services, VRFs, LAN switching, STP, HSRP, VRRP, VPC & QoS.

Security: Cisco ASA 5500-X series, Checkpoint, RAVPN, Site to Site IPSEC VPN, AAA with RADIUS/TACACS+, Kerberos & 802.1x.

Hardware:Cisco Catalyst 3650’s, 3750’s,4500, 2960, 3850, 6k, Nexus 7k, 9k switches, 3945, 2945 and 2921 routers; Palo Alto Firewalls; Dell and HP Servers. Cloud:Amazon Web Services - CSR1000v, DirectConnect, Virtual Private Cloud connectivity, Azure Cloud Computing - ExpressRoute, Site-To-Site VPNs, Virtual Networks. Google Cloud computing - Computing and VPN/Network provisioning. Wireless:Cisco 5508 WLC Implementation and post-deployment support, site survey, provisioning and Maintenance, 1700, 1800, 3700, 3800 and 2600 series Wireless Access. Points Monitoring:Cisco Prime, Solarwinds, PRTG, Cacti, Wireshark & PuTTy. Telephony:CUCM Maintenence and Administration, Cloud telephony, Twilio/Plivo, Serenova (LiveOps), Zendesk (Zendial), Cisco Call Manager, Cisco IP Communicator, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CallManager), Yealink & Talkdesk. Video Conferencing: Microsoft Skype for Business, Cisco Jabber, Google Hangouts, Google Hangouts on Air, Google Meets, Zoom.us & Polycoms. Systems:Cisco APIC-EM, Junos Space Network Director, Windows Server 2012, 2016 and VMware, macOS El Capitan and up, Windows XP and up, *Unix systems, G Suite, Office365, Visio, Atlassian Jira and Wiki, Cisco VIRL & Ansible. Languages:English (fluent), Persian (fluent), Japanese (working proficiency). Programming, scripting & misc languages: JIRA Query Language, PowerShell, Bash

(working proficiency)Python, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, Ruby & Java (basic). EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Network Engineer - MOO Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) - March 2018 - Present

● Designed ADVPN IPSec dynamic spoke to spoke solution, with autovpn, ADVPN, OSPF, BFD and iBGP. Lab tested with potential vendor Juniper, using EX2300 switches and several SRX enterprise firewalls, testing real-world failover scenarios, documenting convergence and vendor caveats

● Labbed configuration of entire network in house with real devices, as well as software virtualization to ensure stable, robust network (primarily GNS3+Wireshark)

● Conducted full network/network security discovery

● Created full network design and request for proposal based on audit and documentation

● Created full network/network security audit

● Liaising with current and new suppliers, forecasting new WAN and internet circuits for all sites to effectively use opex budget to resolve bandwidth and redundancy issues

● Second point of escalation for network outages within the company, working primarily with VyOS, HP Procurve switches and Linux servers

● Vendor/technology research and discovery

● Installation, monitoring and maintenance of network infrastructure (from PO to racked and up)

● Documentation on Excel/Google sheet to maintain hardware and cabling IT Support Specialist - MOO Inc. (Boston, Massachusetts, USA) - December 2017 - March 2018

● Primary IT support engineer in Boston office and also supporting off-site remotely

● Travelling between US sites on an ad-hoc basis to provide support to out of state offices

● Managing multitude of platforms

● Troubleshooting network issues

● Develop best practices and processes for a scaling enterprise

● Setup and administration of Polycom AV systems

End User Support Technician - Just-Eat Holding Ltd (London, England, UK) - February 2015 - November 2016

● Supporting 2000+ users

● Project lead on hardware refresh for entire UK estate

● Writing detailed, but easy to understand documentation of complicated processes for teaching and reference

● Shadowing Networks team before, during and after network infrastructure upgrades across multiple sites

● Shadowing InfoSec team during implementation of various tools and learned industry best standards for information security within any sized company EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Qualifications:

Cisco Certified Network Associate, Routing & Switching Dec 2018 Juniper Networks Certified Internetworking Associate, Junos Jan 2019 Further Education:

Middlesex University, Computer Networking, BSc 2016 Secondary Education:

Barnet & Southgate College 2014

Mill Hill County High School 2008

Other Education:

July 2012 - August 2015, UIC London, Japanese Language (JLPT N5 & N4) REFERENCES

References available upon request.