MAFE OLUWASEYI AKINSANYA +1-613-***-****

M AF E O LU W AS E Y I AKIN S ANY A

****-**** ****** **** ***** Ottawa,

ON K1V-8S3, Canada

Telephone: +1-613-***-****

Email: m a f e o l u w a s e y i @ y a h oo.c o m

Professional Summary

• 8+ years’ experience as Network and Technical Support Engineer

• Solid practical Network Engineering experience in significant projects, including Interswitch, Nigeria: o Networking infrastructure to facilitate all banking systems in Nigeria with credit card integration

• Excellent hands-on knowledge of Windows and Linux systems – admin / troubleshooting / repair, Virtual infrastructure

• Deep expertise in the use of routing protocols, Layer Two and Three technology, networking equipment

• Extensive Cisco certifications – CCIE(RnS), CCNP, CCNA

• Good programming skills with Java, C++ and perl scripting

• Significant education achievements:

o Master degree - Engineering Management

o Bachelor degree Computer Science & Engineering (1 st

Class Honours)

o Certificate - Enterprise Project Management (Dean’s List)

• Effective leadership / management / mentoring skills

• Very friendly, personable, professional with a passion to learn and grow

• Extensive project management and project delivery skills

• Certified Ethical hacker with good knowledge of PCIDSS

• Hands on experience with ITIL process management Professional Work Experience

Interswitch Limited

Team lead (Network and Information Security)

May 2012 – April 2014, Lagos, Nigeria

• Designed and maintained the switching of LAN, Voice and Virtual Private Networks as well as the Data Center network infrastructure

• Troubleshooting and management of Network protocols {HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SSH, ICMP, DNS, NFS} and applications

• Implemented Disaster Recovery for Data Center and customer change request on FEP

• Executed Firewall configuration and permission (ASA 5520, 5540, Pix)

• Employed the use of Solarwinds and PRTG for network device monitoring and configuration management

• Design and troubleshooting of network related technologies such as 802.1Q,VLANs, VRRP, Multicast, HRSP, GLBP, static and dynamic routing protocols {EIGRP, OSPF, BGP}

• Configured network routers (such as Cisco 1700, 1800, 1900,2800, 2900, 3800, 3900, 4500, 6500, 7200

• Router) for customer connectivity to the Interswitch network.

• Configured and Integrated F5 Local Traffic Manager and Global Traffic Manager

• Ensured PCIDSS standards Compliance

• Interface and provide direct support to customers, resellers, OEMs, and Field personnel in resolving company product related issues

• Use of packet and protocol analyzer such as wireshark to carry out data trace, used to resolve network related issues

• Provide resolution to network issues and ensure service restoration and customer satisfaction

• Provide necessary support to the Service Managers for high profile technical escalations

• Management of Virtual infrastructure using vmware, support and administration of windows and linux servers on the infrastructure

Em West Africa Ltd.

Head of Network Operations Center (NOC)

June 2011 – April 2012, Lagos, Nigeria

• Coordinated a team of 15 engineers to provide, first, second and third level support to customers

• Organized and coordinated field Engineers and partners to ensure prompt resolution of faults according to set standard and quality

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• Investigated network performance as well as monitored and evaluated Quality of Service in order to achieve daily network KPIs

• Coordinated Service level Agreement Review Meetings with the customer’s IT

• Delivered technical inputs to the marketing and planning department during network dimensioning and

• Executed the configuration Management and Integration of new services with operating procedures in order to avoid down time and service interference

• Administered disaster Management, implementation of recovery procedure and coordination of the activities involved

• Reviewed operating policy and design techniques to ensure implementation of standard industry practice

• Managed ALLOT for QOS, deep packet inspection and firewall. Em West Africa Ltd.

Head of Network and IP Infrastructure

Aug 2010 – May 2011, Lagos, Nigeria

• Coordinated a team of 5 engineers, 80+ Cisco 6509, 3745, 2800, 1800, 1700, layer 3 switches/ routing serving over 150 corporate clients

• Designed and implemented GRE tunnel, IPsec VPN for Em West Africa WAN Clients, secure ACS TACACS+ server, and firewall for Em West Africa LAN network using Mikrotik OS and Cisco Routers/Switches

• Developed and maintained a SIP server based on a Linux operating system used to proffer Voice Over

• IP Solutions (VOIP) and implemented VOIP using voice gateways (Mediatrix, Quintum) and CISCO Routers. Traffic and bandwidth Engineering using allot bandwidth manager, Mikrotik OS built on the Linux kernel, Access Lists, etc.

• Designed and implemented automatic failover for Em west Africa backhaul and metropolitan network using dynamic routing protocols, RTR protocols and HSRP

• Managed and implemented WAN edge policy, which involves multi-homed BGP pairing, traffic path manipulation, quality of service implementation, DMZ etc. Em West Africa Ltd.

IP Network and Support Engineer

January 2009 – July 2010, Lagos, Nigeria

• Designed and implemented GRE tunnel, IPSec VPN for Em West Africa WAN Clients

• Provided new IP services/client on the network as well as resolved network and service emergency

• Administered client services by troubleshooting and deployment for clients as well as resolving IP related faults

• Configured routers and switches and implemented change request on CE router

• Monitored CPU and memory utilization on hub and base station routers and switches

• Administered first and second level troubleshooting on VSAT, fiber and microwave backbone links

• Generated availability reports from network monitoring systems as well as tracked and prepared SLA reports for clients.

• Analyzed monitoring statistics for planning and design using monitoring software tools such as Solarwind, Nagios, Mrtg

Ngcom Nig Ltd.

Network Engineer Internship

April – November 2007, Lagos, Nigeria

• Configured and installed cisco switches, routers and wireless AP’s as well as Local Area Network (LAN) Implementation

• Maintained and offered network support and executed first and second level troubleshooting with clients

• Installed firewall for Nigcom LAN network using Mikrotik OS Network Engineering Project Summary

• Administration Crown Interactive Limited virtual infrastructure and Linux CentOs Servers

• Upgrade of Asa 5510 firewalls to 5545

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Certified Ethical Hacker Version 8 (CEH)

F5 Local Traffic Manager V11 Training Secure way Network Distributors. Dubai ITIL V3 2011 Foundation Certification

Aug 2015

Feb 2013

Feb 2013

ITIL V3 2011 Training G4V Business Consulting Ltd. Nigeria Feb 2013

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE # 34090) Jan 2012

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert Training IP Expert India Cisco Certified Network Profession (CCNP)

Nov 2011

Feb 2010

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Jan 2009

• Upgrade, Installation and configuration of cisco 6506 for Interswitch Disaster Recovery Center

• Design and implementation of Disaster Recovery Network

• Integration of Discovery Switching Company to Interswitch

• Revamp of Interswitch’s Data Center

• Supervised and troubleshooting GTB failover to Disaster Recovery Site

• Design Implementation of ECO and GTB Bank DR Switching network

• Integration of Stabic and Eco’s banks Mobile Money

• Experiment with OpenStack Swift while considering Cloud computing software options suitable for Interswitch

• Implementation of multi-home BGP pair with Multiple Upstream providers, DR and Traffic Eng

• Implementation of F5 LTM and GTM hardware load balancer

• Team Lead Smart Health Easy VPN configuration and Intergration

• Upgrade to Cisco Access Control Server 5.2 for Interswitch Infrastructure

• PCIDSS Compliance for Card facing active components for Interswitch

• Implementation of ECollections for UNICEM

• Configuration of China’s union Pay VPN tunnel for Interswitch

• Migration of Bank Network from IPSEC to DMVPN

• Redesign and implementation of Interswitch Switching LAN

• MTN’s FastPay Tunnel configuration and integration into Interswitch’s Switching Network

• Integration of buy.etisalat.com VPN to Interswitch switching Network

• Disaster Recovery Management for Lagos metro after Heavy wind in February 2012

• Integration of 8Ghz Harris stratex Radio for reinforcement of Em West Africa backbone

• Implementation of multi-home BGP pair with Multiple Upstream providers and Traffic Engineering

• Integration of fiber link on Em West Africa Network Nationwide and auto fail over to VSAT Backup

• Involved in the installation and integration of Vidyo router and portal on Em West Africa network for video conference.

• Coordinate design and implementation of MPLS VPN network wide on Em West Africa

• Implementation of Cisco Access Control Server 4.2 for Em West Africa Infrastructure

• Coordinate the Upgrade Em West Africa POP routers across the Lagos metro

• Coordinate the integration of Em West Africa Metro via fiber at Abuja and Ibadan POP

• Involved in the installation of a dual 11GHZ Codan Radio for expansion of Em West Africa backbone. TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS

Education

• MEng, Engineering Management

• 2015 University of Ottawa, ON. CGPA 8.5

• Graduate Diploma in Enterprise Project Management

• 2014 Lambton College, Toronto, ON, Dean’s Honour list, Magna cum laude

• BTECH, Computer Science and Engineering

• First Class Hons, 2008, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Nigeria

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