CURRICULUM VITAE

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Minas Balaskas

Address: Protagora 14, Marousi 15124, Athens

Telephone: +30-697*******

Date Of Birth: 31st October 1977

E-Mail: aczu2b@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Core Competencies:

CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate

CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional

BGP, OSPF, ISIS, RIP, VRRP, SNMP, Multicast, NAT, PAT, QoS, Dual Stack IPv6

Technologies: VPN, VPDN, MPLS, VPN over MPLS, VPLS,EoMPLS, EoSDH, FRoMPLS, InterAS VPN, Traffic Engineering, QoS

Juniper routers T1600, MX960, MX104, MX80 and M10i series

Juniper Switches EX3200 and EX4300

Juniper Firewall SRX550

Cisco routers (800,1600,1700,2600,2900, 3600, 3700, 3800, 7000 series,10000 series, 12000 series(GSRs), MSFCs, CRS-1(IOS XR), ASR1K, ASR9K )

Cisco PIX 525,535

Cisco MGX, PBX

Catalyst switches (1900, 2900, 3500, 3750, 4000, 6500, 7600 series).

WAN networking: ATM,SDH, PCM, METRO ETHERNET, ISDN

Ability to install and configure Network Monitoring Tools, including SmokePing and Cacti.

Network solutions, IP address distribution plans, physical and logical topology diagrams for branch, campus, data center and corporate LAN and WAN networks development

Opening and maintenance of administrative, technical and RMA cases in Technical Assistance Centers.

Work Experience

OTEGLOBE 2008 – Present

Oteglobe is a subsidiary company of OTE ( the national telecommunications company of Greece) and is the biggest wholesale provider in Greece with a big portfolio of solutions in Transport with services such as Capacity Services, Ethernet Services, IP Transit, CDN Services, in Voice with services such as Hubbing, Voice Termination and IPX, in Corporate with services such as Layer 3 VPN-MPLS, Layer 2 VPN, Managed CPE, VPLS and IPLC and in Mobile with services such as GRX, MMS Hubbing, Signaling and Roaming, LTE Roaming.

All the above mentioned services are carried over the proprietary infrastructure of OTEGLOBE (Data/IP Multiservice Platform and TransBalkan Network).

Oteglobe is also member of Asia Africa Europe -1 (AAE-1) cabling System.

Apart from GWEN and TBN Networks, OTEGLOBE’s network infrastructure is complemented by co-ownership in multiple cables, cross-border Links with all neighboring countries and Teleport facilities.

Network Engineer 2008-Present

Daily Activities

Monitoring and Maintenance of our backbone Point of Presence(PoPs)

Technical projects implementation as a network engineer

Troubleshooting of our Customers Tickets in their services ( EoMPLS, VPLS, MPLS-VPNs, EoSDH, IP Transit )

Monitoring and Maintenance of our IPV4/IPV6 peering sessions with our Upstream Providers ( Telia Sonera, C&W, Level3, DT)

Monitoring and Maintenance of IPV4/IPV6 peering sessions with Facebook, Google, Netflix, Amazon and Leaseweb

Monitoring and Maintenance of IPV4/IPV6 peering sessions in AMSIX, DECIX and LINX

Provide Support (hardware faulty part replacements) for Google and Facebook caches which are installed in our Computer room in Athens and Thessaloniki

Implementations for Diameter / Sigtran peerings with the biggest Upstream Providers Voice Services ( for example DT,BICS,TELEFONICA,NTT,TELENOR,ETISALAT,ORANGE) in Juniper SRX550.

Project Activities Internal Project 2008- Present

Site surveys in order to determine site compliance according to vendor specification. (Electrical requirements, Air conditioning requirements, Rack space, ODF placement etc

Replacement of old Cisco GSRs with Cisco CRS-1 in our POPs Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Thessaloniki and Athens

Replacement of Cisco CRS-1 with Juniper T1600 and MX960 in our POPs Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Thessaloniki and Athens.

Replacement of Juniper T1600 with MX960 in one of three Core routers in Athens.

Replacement of Juniper MX960 with Cisco ASR9912 in our POPs in Frankfurt, London, Athens and Thessaloniki.

Insertion of Juniper MX80 in our network as PE routers.

Insertion of Juniper SRX550 for our Voice Services.

Insertion of Juniper MX104 in our network as PE router

Replacement of Cisco router 7200VXR with Juniper MX104 (on going project).

Migration services from MGX to MX80 & MX104 in order to power off the MGXs from our network ( on going project).

LAB Development and Implementation over Juniper MX80 for Customer Services Tests.

Cacti free monitoring tool development, configuration and maintenance.

Junos upgrades

IOS-XR upgrades

Initial diagnostics of faulty hardware (power supplies chassis)

Opening technical and RMA cases in JTAC support

Opening technical and RMA cases in Cisco TAC support

Accomplishments

Successful Maintenance Windows for all the above mentioned replacements of equipment in our network.

Reduction of time to repair with the new monitoring Systems ( Cacti, Smokeping )

Increase of our network availability

Otenet 2005 - 2008

Otenet was a subsidiary company of OTE (the national telecommunications company of Greece) and was the biggest Internet Service Provider in Greece with a big portfolio of solutions with services such as Dialup, Lease Lines,IP Transit, ADSL.

All the above mentioned services are carried over the proprietary infrastructure of OTENET which consists from nationwide network.

Since 2008 OTENET was absorbed by OTE.

Network Engineer

Daily Activities

Monitoring and Maintenance of our backbone Point of Presence(PoPs)

Technical projects implementation as a network engineer

Troubleshooting of our Customers Tickets in their services ( EoMPLS, MPLS-VPNs,IP Transit, ADSL )

Monitoring, troubleshooting and implementation of the peering sessions with OTEGLOBE and GRIX.

Monitoring, troubleshooting and implementation of the nationwide network SYZEYFXIS

Monitoring, troubleshooting and implementation of Customers in the Datacenter ( InterVlan routing configurations, access-lists configuration in our Catalyst 6500 ).

Project Activities

Installation Cisco 7200 routers nationwide for the SYZEFXIS network.

Replacement of Cisco Catalyst 6509 with Cisco Catalyst 6513 for ours company LAN and for Data Center

Implementation of the SYZEYFXIS network CPEs.

Installation and Activation of the IP CORE OTE network with Cisco 7609 .

Consolidation of the two LANs (OTENET and OTE) before the consolidation of two companies.

Accomplishments

CCNA

CCNP

FORTHNET 2004 - 2005

Forthnet is a big Internet Service Provider in Greece with nationwide ADSL network.

Forthnet is providing also MPLS-VPN, IP-VPN services via Leased Lines or LMDS, VPDN,and Data Center Services.

Leased Lines / LMDS Support

Daily Activities

Implementation and Installation LMDS Links.

Implementation and Installation Leased Lines.

Troubleshooting of our Customers Tickets in their services ( LMDS, Leased Line )

INTERNET HELLAS 2000 - 2004

Internet Hellas was the first Internet Service Provider in Greece with nationwide dialup network.

Internet Hellas was providing also IP-VPN services via Leased Lines, VPDN and Data Center Services.

Since 2004 INTERNET HELLAS was absorbed by FORTHNET.

Junior Network Engineer

Daily Activities

Monitoring and Maintenance of our backbone Point of Presence(PoPs)

Troubleshooting of our Customers Tickets in their services.

Monitoring, troubleshooting and implementation of Customers in the Datacenter

Education

NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS Athens,

Electrical Engineer Under Graduation

Certifications and awards

Cisco: CCNP(valid until 2018), CCNA( valid until 2018), ARCH (642 – 874)

IEEEx: Introduction to Cloud Computing

SoloLearn : Python 3 Tutorial (https://www.sololearn.com/Certificate/107*-*******/pdf/)

SEMINARS

Routing Registry Training Course (14 May 2010) – RIPE NCC

Cisco Live Networkers (25 – 28 January 2010) – Barcelona,Spain

Juniper EDU-ONS-NOEQUIP

Custom AJNR/VPN/JSPX (14 – 18 Fabruary 2011) – Onsite Class

Juniper EDU-ONS-NOEQUIP

Class Custom VPN / POL (14 – 18 March 2011) – Onsite Class

Structural adjustment Employees & Businesses in the Economic Crisis ( 143 hours)

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