Mohsin Hassan

(CCDE#****:****, CCIE# *****,VCIX)

Address: ** ********* ****, ******, *******, Berkshire, RG6 1FP. United Kingdom

Cell: +44 (0-753*******, Email: aczicj@r.postjobfree.com, Nationality: British

SUMMARY

•Senior Architect with 13+ years of experience in the fields of Networks, Security, Clouds, Virtualization, and Systems Planning, Designing, Migrations, Consolidation, Setups and Monitoring and Integration of Internet works involving High-End Cisco equipment (Routers, Datacenter Switches).

•Excellent leadership and communication skills. Experienced with Customer and Technical Support, Technical documentation, Request for Proposal (RFP), Network equipment recommendation, and strong knowledge of SDN, Cloud Services and Network Security..

•A multi-skilled technical architect with comprehensive experience of designing, developing and deploying architectures and infrastructure. Possessing a proven ability to lead project teams to successfully deliver agreed upon solutions of the highest quality, often in complex and challenging customer environments.

KEY SKILLS

AREA OF EXPERTISE:

Data Center

Technologies: VPC, VPC+, OTV, FEX, Fabricpath, HSRP, VRRP, VDC, VLAN, Layer2/Layer Links, ACL. EIGRP, OSPF, ISL trunking, and FCoE,

Devices: Cisco Nexus 1K,5K,7K, 9K (MDS) & UCS B&C Series.

Security

Technologies: User Levels & Privileges/Views, AAA Local & Remote, Cisco ACS/TACACS/RADIUS Server, PPPoE, VPNs:- Site to Site, Remote Access, IPSec over GRE, EZVPN, Mobile IPSec VPN, SSL VPN. Application Layer / SSL Gateways, Encryption, Multi Factor Authentication, UTM Technologies.

Devices: Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, PaloAlto, FortiGate and Skybox.

Routing

Technologies: RIP, EIGRP, OSPF- Single Area. Multi-Area. Virtual Link. Authentication. Redistribution. Summarization. IS-IS, BGP- Attributes. Route MAPs. Route Reflectors. Confederation, PBR, EBGP, IBGP-AS Paths, Load balancing.

Devices: Cisco 2500,2800,2900,3800,3900,7200,ISR,ASR,VSR and Juniper J2300 series routers

Switching

Technologies: Switching Model, VLANS, Private VLANs, STP, RSTP, MSTP, Ether Channel, High Availability HSRP, VRRP, GLBP.

Devices: Cisco 2960,260,3550,3560,3750,3850,4500,6500 series Switches

MPLS

Load Balancer

Cloud

Virtualization

Basic Concept/functionality of MPLS, Configuration, MPLS VPNs, Complex VPNs with different protocols, Internet Access, Inter AS connectivity with VPNs, Traffic Engineering

MPLS

F5 (LTM, GTM) Configuration of Virtual Servers, Pool Members and Nodes. Exporting SSL certificates, Use of different load balance methods for applications.

Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, O365, PaaS and SaaS solutions,Public/Private Cloud,Open stack Cloud Computing, Automation Solutions (Ansible, Puppet, Terreform)

Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX, HPE, SDN, NFV, Hypervisor (KVM, VMware ESX, VirtualBox),VSphere, RESTful API programming,Virtual networking/emulation (mininet, Open vSwitch OVS

Troubleshooting:

Ability to troubleshoot computer / network problems on hardware and especially software level on Switches, Routers and Firewalls, Syslog Server (KIWI), NTP Server.

PROFESSIONAL COURSES/ CERTIFICATION/ QUALIFICATION

• BSc (Bachelor of Science) in Electrical Engineering (Majors in Computer Internetworking)

•CCDE (Cisco Certified Design Expert) CCDE # 2017:00b 22

•CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) - Data Canter CCIE # 52888

•VCIX-NV (VMware Certified Implementation Expert- Network Virtualization) (Practical)

•CCIE Security (Written)

•CCIE Routing & Switching (Written )

•CCNP (Routing & Switching)

•CCNA (Routing & Switching)

•F5 LTM

•Firewall (FortiGate, Checkpoint, Cisco ASA, Palo Alto)

•Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Cloud AWS, Microsoft Azure, SDN, NFV, OpenFlow, OpenStack

•VCP 6.0

•ITIL

Next Goals:

•VCDX-NV (VMware Certified Design Expert- Network Virtualization)

•CISSP

•AWS Solution Architect Certification

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

ED&F Man Holdings) (UK) (Aug 2016 – To Date)

Technical Infrastructure Lead/Architect

•As part of the global financial organization based in Central London, I designed Solution of Cisco ACI, VMware NSX to transform the existing traditional data centre infrastructure to SDN.

•HLD and LLD signoff for the Design, configuration and exit strategy from the existing DC to the newly built DC for Network solutions using Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX, Cisco Nexus 5K, Fortigate Fortinet Firewalls, Cisco UCS using FCoE, F5 LTM and VmWare for VPN/RSA solutions

•Defined the road map for migration to a services oriented architecture and led services center of excellence. Key activities included defining: technology standards, services maturity model, life cycle model, reference architecture, and governance strategy.

•Provided guidance in Security Enterprise tools & hardening of network servers. Provided technical expertise for network architectures and feasibility for the new design.

EE (Everything Everywhere) (UK) (Sep 2015 – To Aug 2016)

Senior Architect- Network, Security& Cloud

•As part of the Architect team, I supported IT architecture, Network and Cloud Security for an advisory and strategic design and development work by an outsourced partner.

•Solution design for Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX, Microsoft Azure, AWS, UCS platform to support the production service HA and load balancing for VmWare cluster across the DC for the PCI-DSS infrastructure and web SSL offloading for 50 servers on LTM.

•Design the performance and feature characteristics of NetApp storage with Enterprise Applications or solutions like Flex Pod, Nexus 7k/5k/2k, VDI to the customer,

•Desktop Virtualization and Flexible Computing (Virtual Desktop / VDI) technologies such as VMware View, Citrix Xen Desktop, Citrix XenApp and Citrix Provisioning Server for Data Center.

•Design HPE and Infrastructure technologies such as server platforms, storage, clustering, networking, communications, backup technologies, data replication, etc.

Huawei Technologies Co. UK) (Aug 2014 – Aug 2015)

Network Architect

•Management of clients and client expectations with regard to technical issues and services and resolution of faults.

•Design, configuration and management of Azure, VPN solutions using Cisco/Juniper firewalls VPN solutions, Cisco NAC, Riverbed, Cisco ISE, Symantec endpoint Protection and DMPVN and EIGRP.

•Liaising with various vendors with regard to resolution of technical issues and evaluation of new technology.

•Ability to work independently and in a team environment to produce outstanding results

•Using The HP VCN SDN application which is the enhanced networking module of HP OpenStack, and delivering network virtualization enabled by Software defined Networking (SDN) and orchestrating the entire datacenter infrastructure for HCL Customers

Ericsson UK (Apr 2009 - Jul 2014)

Network Consultant

•Worked as a Network consultant to design, deployment, configuration and support of IP Backbone, IP Internet Data Centers, and Wireless Carrier Data Networks, technology integration, project management, product development/launch, and strategic and tactical business planning.

•Physical installation, staging and basic configuration as per the implementation/LLD and integration testing: Cisco ASR 9K, Cisco Nexus 7000 and 5000 switches, Cisco 3750 switch stacks,F5 VIPRION C2400.

•Cisco VSS technology was deployed. The project includes smooth migration to Cisco switches of well over 100 servers and ESX servers, as well as NAS / SAN front-ends in a multi-vendor large data center, and another 1000+ servers and500 VM’s in the paired development data center.

Nokia Siemens Network (NSN)- Dubai-UAE (Nov2007 - Apr 2009)

Senior Network Engineer

Worked as a Senior Network Engineer for MPLS, BGP and end to end QOS for BP Global infrastructure providing consultancy, design and implementation of network solutions consisting of CISCO hardware (LAN/WAN, switching, routing, VPN and MPLS).

•Interfacing with Service Provider network engineering groups for IP-related issues.

•Driving corporate standards within computing, telecommunications and security realms.

•Design and maintenance of corporate Disaster Recovery Plans.

Researched and replaced frame relay connection between headquarters and remote office to VPN solutions utilizing T1 circuits and PIX 535, reducing cost and providing greater bandwidth.

Huawei Technologies Co.UK - (Kuwait) (Jan 2005 - Oct 2007)

Network Engineer

•Managing the Network spreading across 10 sites using the HP Openview and Cisco Works 2000.Network comprises of Cisco 6500, 4000,3550 layer 3 switches and 7200 routers connecting the sites. Approx is about 16000 users using different network services.

•Installation and maintenance of wireless networking equipment including access points, clients, bridges, routers, towers, antennas, feed lines, Cat 5 UTP and related equipment. Configuration of wireless equipment from Cisco, LinkSys, and others. Upgrade core and distribution network from Catalyst 5500 to Catalyst 6500.

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