Technical Lead / Project Engineer
Resume:
Sevinj Tahirova
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Work Experience
Gemalto December 2012 - Present
Technical Lead – Core Network & Roaming Vertical
End to end management of all technical activities in CNR Projects Delivery.
Key SS7/Sigtan & SMPP Specialist with experience and hands on Integration with
major vendors using protocols: MAP v2, Map v3, SMPP v 3.3, SMPP v3.4
Issuing and maintaining all technical documentation during projects delivery.
Lead in-house and Customer Technical Trainer for Messaging Platforms and
Sigtran/SS7
Leading Technical Activities for projects including the following products :
Messaging : SMSC, MMSC, USSD GW, WAP Gateway, SMS Firewall
Device Management Solution : DMC, Device Management Reporting
Equipment Identity Register
Roaming Suite: Steering of Roaming, Border Gateway Controller, Welcome to
Raomers, Bon Voyage, WiFi Roaming
Description of Activities :
Working with HP Servers and Blades - G7 and G8 servers and VMWare
technology on IBM Blades
Working with Red Hat Enterprise Server, MySQL Database / Replication
mechanism, Red Hat Clustering mechanism for redundancy and high
availability, Network configuration and Bonding for CISCO Switch
Configuration.
Linux Bash Scripting in order to automate some processes in Core Network
solutions
Sigtran configuration: Conducting ACULAB Stack installation / configuration, SS7
links establishment with MNO(Mobile Network Operator) and troubleshooting
errors/issues on MAP and TCAP Layers.
SMPP Connection setup and troubleshooting with MNO
SMTP, SNMP, NTP Integration
Interworking with IN for Billing Interfacing
Providing Periodic Support & Audit of Delivered platforms.
Dedicated Technical Support point of Contact for MTN operators - Anchor DMC
(Device Management) customer
Current Active Projects :
Converged messaging solution deployment in Outremer Telecom: SMSC, SMS
Firewall, MMSC, USSD Gateway
Working as the Key Project Technical Lead and acting as the Technical Point of
contact from delivery perspective.
Project is to be deployed on 5 different Sites of Outremer Telecom in Indian
Ocean and Caribbean Sea with execution timeline of 1 year. All platforms are
to be deployed on Virtual machines
Complex Sigtran Architecture with Integration with Huawei, Ericsson and NSN
Switches
Managing Migration and Interworking with ZTE SMSC
Managing Migration of all SME and MME to Gemalto Platforms
Implementing Complex design for MMSC integration with SGSN/GGSN
A Cloning and Sanitization strategy has been adopted to optimize delivery
timelines where after completion of Site 1, remainder sites shall use clone of
Site 1 and then be sanitized
All Acceptance of the Solutions have been done on-site
Implementation of WAPGW + MMSC in Wind Canada
Working as the Technical Lead on the Project
First Gemalto CNR project in North America
Deployment is based on IBM Blade servers
Interworking with :
Wind Sigtran Network &
SMPP Integration with Wind SMSC
Diameter Interfacing with Huawei OCS for Billing
Integration with Wind SGSN/GGSN for WAP traffic
Implementation of MMSC + Interworking with DMC in MCEL Mozambique
Projects Closed within last 2 years within the timelines and project milestones:
Sigtran SMS Router Implementation in Tim Brazil
Sigtran SMS Router Implementation in Movistar Columbia with on-site
Acceptance & Training Conducted
DMC Implementation and Upgrades on MTN Congo, Roshan Afghanistan, MTN
South Africa
MVNO Setup in Cell C DMC deployment
SMSGW Implementation in Bakcell Azerbaijan
Expansion & Upgrade of Messaging Solutions Suite in Bakcell Azerbaijan
Bakcell – Mobile Network Operator in Azerbaijan May 2010 to Dec 2012
Senior VAS Engineer
Experience of working on all messaging and roaming platforms with various vendors.
Service Engineering / Linux System administration for all Messaging and Roaming
Platforms.
Rollout /Upgrading Tasks for all Messaging platforms
Migrating all VAS (Value-Added-Service) Providers from old SMSC to new SMS
Gateway (including network level routing, switching, SME Migration) .
Configuring Diversion and Routing of SMS AO traffic on SMS Router & SMS Gateway
as per Bakcell requirements.
Planning and Coordination of Go LIVE activities and traffic cutover
Configuring SMS Firewall for filtering all message traffic coming from other local
operators (creating configurations, profiles, filters for blocking messages by keyword,
originator or SMSC GT)
Resolving problems on SMPP protocol level that VAS Providers periodically face.
Administer Oracle Database where all CDR (Call Details Records) data is being
collected.
Writing Bash scripts for downloading and generation of reports from central Linux
server, and uploading to Oracle Database
Training and Certifications
Training : SMSC 5.2 administration
Training : SS7 network
Training : Transact – SQL
Training : Cisco Network Associate
Training : Gemalto Leadership Discovery training program in San Francisco, USA
( June 2014)
Certification : 1z0-052 Oracle Database 11g Administration I
Certification : 117-101 Linux Professional Institute (LPI) Exam 101
Certification : 640-802 Cisco Certified Network Associate
Professional Skills and Qualifications
Worked closely with Pre-sales & Product team for product improvements &
Customization developments
Introduced key technical project documentation in the project lifecycle process for
optimization and effectiveness of project delivery
Selected for the annual Gemalto Discovery Leadership program – held in June’2014 in
San Francisco
Crafting technical and project delivery documentation :
Project Implementation Plan
Solution Design Document
Acceptance Test plans
Customer Network Information Document
Installation/Technical Implementation documents
Product Technical Functional training certifications for the below with in-depth
knowledge and experience :
MMSC
SMSC
SMS Firewall
Device Management Solution
Roaming Portfolio : Steering of Roaming, Border gateway Controller, Welcome to
Roamers Bon Voyage
EIR
Worked with Major Telecom Network Groups in various countries with on-site activities:
MTN, Cell C, ZAIN, WIND, TIM, Movicel, Outremer Telecom, Etisalat, Roshan,
Bakcell
Knowledge and Experience on Following 3 rd Party products for Support &
Implementation :
Marben/Diameter – for Billing/ IN
Aculab – for SIGTRAN and SS7
HP & IBM Hardware
CISCO L2 and L3 Switches
MySQL & Oracle Database
Redhat Linux Version 5.x and 6.0
VMware and Oracle jukebox for Virtual deployments
Worked with Major SMSC providers for SMPP Integration using SMPP v 3.3 and 3.4
Attended various training and workshops on advancing my knowledge in Signaling
( SS7 and Sigtran) and SMPP protocols
Education
2006 – 2010 B.Sc in Computer Engineering/Security of Information
Azerbaijan Technical University
Passed with Distinction
2010 – 2012 M.Sc in Computer Engineering – Networks with Dynamic
Architecture
Azerbaijan Technical University
Passed with Distinction
References
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