Joshua Mabonga

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KNOWLEDGE AND TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Provides innovative and cost-effective solutions to Internetworking and telecommunications challenges for a diverse portfolio of clients.Help clients to plan their company's current and future investment in IT. Examine trends, take an in- depth look at client’s needs for Enterprises, LAN/WAN; propose a solution that gives best return on their investment. Plan Analysis & strategic data-communications requirements, Network Management and support. Recommend technologies for deployment in network to minimize capital/operational cost for IP services. Design of complex LAN and WAN solutions. Help manage and implement projects of all sizes.Operate & maintain the supported Internetworks infrastructure.

Switching: Layer 2 (VLANs, Spanning-tree) and Layer3, Virtual switching with VMWARE (VSS), Nexus, Private VLANs.

Routing: IGPs (EIGRP, OSPF), BGP (IBGP, EBGP and MP-BGP), Ipv6 networking, Routing and Redistribution, dual stacking.

IP services: SSH, DHCP, IP SLA, NAT and First Hop Redundancy Protocols (HSRP, GLBP and VRRP), IP multicast Routing. F5 load balancers (LTM, DNS and load balancing techniques) QOS (Traffic shaping and layer 2 QOS)

Firewalling and Infrastructure security: Route maps, distribute-lists, prefix-lists and ACLS, Device Access Security, Layer 2 security; IPV6 First Hop Security. Cisco PIX, Cisco Firepower, checkpoint R80, Juniper SRX, FortiGate firewalls and Zone based firewalling.

Remote Access and VPNs Windows SSL VPN, IPSec VPN, PPTP, L2TP, MPLS VPNs and DMVPNs.

Wireless with roaming, location services (Cisco WCS), domains and distributed LAN Controller (Cisco WiSM, 5500 LAN Controller) with Cisco& Aruba AP (1260, 1140, 1550, 3500). Management distributed switching (Cisco Nexus).Network Access Control (NAC), Server Administration (Linux and Windows), IoT, Python scripting, Network automation with Python and Cloud technologies (GCP Cloud Engineer certified and Preparing for AWS Associate Architect.)

Education and certifications

Bachelor of Science in Electronics and Computer Engineering July 2009

Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology - Kenya

Certifications

CCNP-ENT, CCDP, GCP, AWS, CCNA sec, Lean Six sigma, ITILv3. CCIE-ENT (Ongoing)

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Bell Canada, Toronto

Network Cloud Architect

Nov 2021- Present

Network Cloud Integration Engineering - IaaS Infrastructure Provisioning.

Data Center Networking

Plan, design, and configure connectivity into our Cloud infrastructure.

Work on Creating Design in Visio for Cloud Integration after gathering requirement from Tenants

Provide Solutions to Tenants based on standards/guidelines

Find Custom Solution which do not fit Generic Call Flow

Provide engineering support on end-to-end problem resolution and root cause analysis in collaboration with other functional groups, business units and vendors

Document design solutions and conduct project training and information sharing sessions

Work on Transition of Tenant into Cloud Infrastructure for Day 0 and Day 1 Support

Produce architecture documents based on tenant custom requirements

Collaborates closely with the Tenant during implementation

Bell Canada, Toronto

Network and Security Support Engineer

Dec 2018- Nov 2021

Support of external customer connections (T1 circuits, DSL circuits, MPLS VPNs and IPVPN circuits,SD-WAN (viptella), Customer traffic shaping).

Bell's Enterprise network support in switching (LAN support, Spanning Tree, HSRP, VRRP, VSS, vPC, VDC, Cisco catalyst, Nexus( 3k, 5K, 7K,9K and FEX switching technologies) Routing (OSPF, EIGRP and BGP), SNMP, NAC (Cisco ISE), Network traffic load balancing with F5 load balancers, Network and information security with Checkpoint (R75,R77 and R80), Cisco Firepower, Juniper SRX and Fortinet Firewalls.

Network monitoring with SMART, Support of the Enterprise Wireless Network (Aruba Wireless), Network design with Microsoft visio, network documentation and system upgrades.

Kenya Airways

Network Engineer

April 2011- June 2018

Overseeing the implementation of initiatives that will raise availability of network infrastructure.

Handling VSAT and Other infrastructure network management. Handling upgrade of network equipments.

Improving availability and reliability of Wireless network (Cisco Prime) . Implementing Safe Network communication infrastructure and structured cabling.

Overseeing documentation of Network infrastructure.

Configuring, designing and installing a wide range of networking devices and wireless access points.

Overseeing stores Inventory for efficient handling of networks and communications equipment.

Ensuring daily support of users within Kenya Airways local office and outstations access Network resources.

Conducting Network Monitoring with PRTG, Nagios, iPerf and Solar winds.

Supporting/troubleshooting Network services in areas like IP, IP VPN, IP tunnel, IPSec, Automatic failovers, MPLS and BGP.

Monitoring and maintaining Network and Information security with Checkpoint Firewalls ( R75, R77).

Process mapping of Network and Communications as well as quality operations.

Supporting and facilitating development and implementation of new solutions by my team.

Planning and administering the budget for Network operations section.

Managing, planning and co-coordinating existing and new projects.

Projects Delivered

Configuration of Kenya Airways Offices in Outstations for high availability using GLBP, VRRP and HSRP at the distribution layer.

Building Crown Plaza hotel Nairobi network: Design, Implementation and Maintenance of data, wireless and IPTV Networks.

Designing, Implementation and maintenance of the G4S Kenya Network.

Designing, Implementation and maintenance of Care Somalia Kenya Network.

Data Center Network Redesign; involved in designing Data center Network using Cisco Nexus 7000 switches, Cisco ASR1001-X routers and Cisco 3750 switches. OTV and vPC configuration.

Configuration of BGP multi-homing to multiple ISPs for redundancy in order to ensure high availability of service provider links and efficient use of provisioned bandwidth.

Design and Implementation Unified Wireless LAN, this involved Wireless Site Surveys using AirMagnetPro and configuration of Cisco Mesh Network on the JKIA airside using Cisco 5508 Wireless LAN Controllers, Cisco Aironet 1552E outdoor access points, Cisco 3800 series Indoor access points and Cisco Secure Access Control Server (ACS).

LAN Extension for two buildings involving configuration of a distribution switch and 7 Access switches for the two buildings.

Kenya Airways Enterprise Network; design and configuration for High Availability Using VSS at the Core Network (6500 series switches) and Cisco stack wise Technology at the distribution layer (Cisco 3850 series switches).

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