Saif A. Khan, P.Eng.

Markham, ON

acg0gs@r.postjobfree.com

416-***-****

EDUCATION B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, Texas A & M University Aug. 1996

PROFESSIONAL Licensed Professional Engineer of Ontario since Nov. 2000

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

Rogers Communications Inc.

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- Customer 1 Award April 2011

Sprint Canada Inc.

- Teamwork and Leadership Award Aug. 2000

- Achievement Award - Local Service Launch Dec. 1999

Texas A&M University

- Distinguished Student Certificate Aug. 1993

Sam Houston State University

- Dean’s Honor List 1991-1993

- Presidents Honor List 1992

TECHNICAL SUMMARY

Description of Skill Platform Hardware Proficiency Last

level used

Routers Juniper EX4200/EX8200 professional current

Cisco 2600,3600,7200,7600 professional current

Switches Juniper EX4200/EX8200 professional current

Cisco 2900/3750/4500/6500 professional current

Cisco load balancer CSM/ACE professional current

Juniper Firewalls SRX240/3400/5800 professional current

Cisco Firewall ASA 5500 professional current

Nortel Passport 7480/15000 professional 5 yrs

Alcatel TDM 3600/3645 professional current

Network Protocols TCP/IP/OSPF professional current

MPLS professional current

BGP professional current

ATM/PNNI/CES/AAL1/AAL5/IM professional 5 yrs

A/FrATM/Frame Relay professional 5 yrs

Basic Unix familiar current

Project Management Project scheduling professional current

and budgeting Project financing professional current

Project Gantt professional current

Test Hardware Spirent (Ethernet/IP tester) Smartbits SMB-600 expert 5 yrs

Telecom Hardware Alcatel 1631 DACS expert 5 yrs

ADC Splice & Patch expert 5 yrs

Telect Panels/Frames expert 5 yrs

Lucent/Nortel DC power systems expert 5 yrs

Power Systems AC power distribution expert 10 yrs

DC power plant Lucent/Nortel expert 10 yrs

DC power distribution Lorain expert 10 yrs

DC backup C&D Batteries expert 10 yrs

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CERTIFICATIONS SUMMARY

Cert Name Completed

CCIE - Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (Written) Mar 2009-2011

CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional Nov 2005-2011

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate Nov 2002-2011

Nortel ATM on Passport Jul. 2000

Nortel Passport 7480 Operations and Maintenance Jun. 2000

Newbridge/Alcatel 3600/3645 MainStreet Jan. 2000

WORK EXPERIENCE

CCIE candidate 2015

Jun. 2014 – present

Pursue CCIE Routing & Switching written certification

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University of Waterloo

Master of Engineer Candidate

Mar - May 2014

- Pursue part-time M.Eng program at University of Waterloo

Daamanz.com eStore

IT & Ecommerce consultant

Aug. 2013 – Present

- Successfully launched ecommerce solution for www.daamanz.com

- Provide IT & ecommerce consultancy for end to end hosted ecommerce solution

- Completed vendor selection for ecommerce platform

- Made recommendation for SEO and SEM optimization for organic and online marketing

- Setup Telecomm, Email and Social media communication tools

- Enable secure private SSL based ecommerce solution

- Manage and support ecommerce backend platform

- Provide technical support to maintain eStore

Rogers Communications Inc.

Sr. Network Designer

Sep. 2011 – Jul. 2013

DTV & Management (OSS) Networks

- Upgraded network capacity by 768 1 Gig ports in 5 site using Cisco 4506E systems

- Upgraded CORE network capacity by 96 10Gig ports using Juniper XRE200/EX8208 system

with virtual chassis

- Designed and deployed 10 firewalls for wireless OSS network using Juniper

SRX240 and SRX3400 firewalls

- Compose firewall rules for permit/deny traffic flows between OSS, Corp LAN and DMZ networks

- Migrated wireless OSS platforms to secure DMZ network involving more that 30 OSS platforms

- Implemented isolated 10 Gb/s backup network using Juniper EX4200 switches and SRX3400

firewalls

- Completed hardware selection to replace end-of-life terminal servers in wireless network

- Managed and augmented Cisco terminal server port capacity in wireless network

- Upgraded wireless management network link capacity by 1000% from Fast Ethernet to GigE

Customer & External Networks,

Sr. Network Designer

Jul 2005 – Sep 2011

- Composed 25 engineering plans to facilitate new hardware implantation and deployment in the

Data center environment

- Worked with cross-functional teams to deliver on wide variety of projects. Key cross functional

teams were Network Technology, Operations, Server planning, Network migration, Network

Security, Project management

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- Developed financial planning documents for senior management to request for project funding.

This document included business requirements, key project deliverables, forecast for moneys

usage, project risks and timelines

- Took initiative to learn, design and deploy network services on old and completely new data

center environment using Juniper EX8200 routers and SRX3400/5800 firewalls

- High availability network design was incorporated using MPLS VPNs to provide data center site

redundancy

- Designed and deployed IPSec VPN concentrator using Juniper SRX3400 firewalls for

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connectivity to 3 party networks

- Work closely with server planning to deploy Layer2 to Layer7 design and evaluation of firewall

rules to facilitate services

- Facilitated server deployment in data center for various products and services

- High bandwidth server connectivity was provided by using LACP link aggregation protocol

- Performed network planning function to maintain large (700 node) IPSec VPN design.

This involved keeping network updated with latest software/hardware version and evaluation of

vendor recommendation

- Completed IPSec VPN migration from Juniper to Cisco platform which involved pre-deployment

testing and verification

- Completed large scale IP network migration activity to facilitate site move with minimum

downtime for services

- Provide support to Operations team for network trouble scenarios for various services

- Took initiative to upgrade Alcatel-Lucent Network Management System from 46020 to 5620, to

enhance network management performance and stability

- Completed Network security vulnerability management procedures document to facilitate

handling procedures for vendor network security notifications

Knowledgeable with design of complex data/IP networks, including (but not limited to) IP,

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Frame Relay, ATM, remote access, multilayer switched environments

Test, design and implemented SLA measurement server/probe tools for IP, MPLS, ATM, and

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Frame Relay Core networks

Executed network planning to facilitate software upgrade on a 40+ node ATM/Frame Relay

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network. This involved planning, testing and verification of services.

Designed and implemented remote NMS connectivity for entire ATM network

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Wrote h/w upgrade procedural document for Passport 15000 Fabric Modules, Power Interface

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Module, Alarm/BITS module and MAC address module

Configured diverse network synchronization and remote access via IPoFR PVCs to Network

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Management station

Responsible for testing, certification and trouble shooting of new and existing function

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processors in ATM/Frame Relay (FR) network, working closely with network operations

Composed Detailed Design Specification document to install DS1, DS3 and OC-3 function

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processors in the network

Sprint Canada Inc.

Data/IP Network Engineer

Jan. 2000 – Jul. 2005

Corporate LAN design and IP addressing using Cisco routers and switches:

- Design of secure and robust LAN topology utilizing HSRP fail-over mechanisms for production

and UAT environments

- Installation and configuration of Catalyst 5500 and Catalyst 6509 switches

- Enabling SNMP monitoring of Cisco routers, Catalyst switches and Content switches

- Configuring Ether channel, VLANs and trunking (ISL, 802.1q)

- Installation & configuration of load balancing between server farm using CSS 11501 content

switches

- Installation and configuring remote access via Terminal Server

- Cisco PIX firewall configuration to facilitate DMZ server/application deployment

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Alcatel-Lucent 3600/3645 Mainstreet Switches:

- Newbridge TDM backbone was deployed to facilitate 3x1 and 1x0 DCS services

- Completed node and backbone engineering requiring DDS for installing, testing and

commissioning of Newbridge 3600/3645 switches in the network

- Performed network-wide software upgrade Newbridge 3600/3645 clusters

ATM/FrameRelay/IP Test Lab:

- Implemented ATM/FR/IP test lab for testing of conceptual services, new hardware & new

software release interoperability concerns

- Used Navtel InterWatch 95000 ATM Analyzer for testing ATM and Frame Relay services

- Performed QoS tests & decodes on ATM/Frame Relay cells/frames to certify services in lab &

live network via Nettest

- Performed decodes on ATM cell stream to isolate & understand switch behavior

- Developed test plans to study interoperability & functionality of Nortel 7480 switches

- Performed h/w performance testing using Spirent Smartbits

Network Protocols :

- LACP, 802.1q trunk, PVSTP, VTP, VLANs, VRRP, ATM, AAL1, AAL5, PNNI, IMA, Fr-ATM,

Frame Relay, DPRS, TCP/IP, OSPF, MPLS, BGP, VPN

Sprint Canada Inc.,

Network Infrastructure Designer

Aug. 1997 - Dec. 1999

Power Systems Engineering using Lucent, Nortel/Astec APS and Reltec/Marconi:

- Designed AC & DC Power Systems to support the Telecom Central Office (CO) demands

- 2000Amp DC power system was designed and deployed in 4 major CO locations

- Medium scale 200Amp DC power system with battery backup was deployed in small CO

- Installed three phase AC distribution panels to service DC power plants

- DC design was implemented using rectifiers and smart control & monitoring devices

- Designed battery backup power using VRLA battery technology

- Designed DC Secondary Power Distribution to accommodate Switch, Transmission and Data

equipment’s DC and AC power requirements

- Design involved upgrading existing power distribution system and emergency power

- Performed intricate power distribution cutover procedures

- Designed overhead cable management systems for high density cabling environments

COMMUNICATION SKILLS

- Trained provisioning group for new product offerings on ATM/FR network

- Provide technical support to network operations, provisioning, marketing and sales

- Composed Engineering & Provisioning Standards document for implementing Fr-ATM, IMA and

TLS services

COMPUTER SKILLS - AutoCAD LT 2000, Visio Prof, MS Office MS Power Point, Programming in C (limited)

REFERENCES Available upon request

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