Syed Fowzan Ahmed

*A, Sarswathi Nagar, Kovaipudur Ph: 91-948*******

Coimbatore – 42 E-mail: adjfcy@r.postjobfree.com

Highlights:

Sound understanding of networking protocols and technologies

oWireless (WLAN, 802.11 a/b/g/n)

oRouting Protocols (RIP, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS)

oSwitching Protocols (STP, VTP, VLAN)

oVPN Protocols (GRE, IPsec, DMVPN

Configure, Verify and Troubleshooting of Aruba and Cisco based products with reference to WLC and authentication.

Hands on Experience with AWS (Amazon Web Services) such as EC2, Route 53, Health Checks.

Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2012 - Managing Users, Computers and Groups, IIS, NPS and ADCS roles.

Configuring authentication of users using 802.1x and various EAP methods

Understanding of PKI management.

Installed and troubleshoot software and networking problems, administer network system on network servers as required.

Understanding behavior of different operating systems under wireless networks and when different methods of authentication are used.

Good communication, writing and interpersonal skills.

Possess good analytical, problem solving skills, ability to meet deadlines, and work on multiple projects.

Ability to learn and adapt new technologies.

Technical Skills:

Wireless Products : Aruba and Cisco Wireless Controllers, Cisco ISE.

Servers : Windows Servers

Networking : CCNA, ACMA (Aruba Certified Mobility Associate)

Education:

B.Tech (I.T) Anna University, Chennai Grade: First Class

Work Experience:

SecureW2, India Jan 15 – Dec 19

Network Engineer

Responsibilities: Providing support to customers with their various on-boarding devices, to download their network profiles through our cloud based solution. Our solution provides support for both secure and guest networks. We use AWS for our cloud deployment and provide authentication based on various EAP methods. Also, providing a demo on our solutions and answering their technical questions.

Jump on Pre-sales calls to demo our products and understand customer’s needs.

Deploy our solutions locally and on cloud to meet their requirements.

Upgrade and deploy the new code on our cloud servers which are Linux based.

Raise feature requests and bugs reported by the customers.

Troubleshoot and provide resolutions on issues noticed with our solutions.

Work with the Dev and QA team closely when issues are critical.

Environment: AWS, ADCS, IIS and various Operating Systems.

Cordoba Academy, UK Jul 14 – Dec 14

Online Promotional Support

Responsibilities: Coordinating with the respective teams on the events and programs to be delivered online through distance learning. Publish the content on online forums with small written java scripts. Designed a small software to store details of the teachers and students enrolled for the sessions.

Publish the desired text and images on online forums, inviting for the meet.

Rely to the queries of the user on the forums.

Designed the UI for the software based on the requirement of the client.

Used Ms Access for the storing and retrieving of data from the backend.

Environment: Vb.Net, Ms Access, Java Script

CSS Corp, India Sep 11 – Aug 13

Technical Support Engineer

Client: Aruba Networks, California USA

Responsibilities: Provide assistance to customers through the telephone lines, direct calls and e-mails. Accept ownership, troubleshoot, and resolve customer reported product issues and technical problems. Focal point for resolution of network-wide issues and technical problems. Reproduce technical problems on lab systems and closely work with engineering for software related issues.

Detailed understanding of OSI layer model, TCP/IP protocols, VLAN's, CSMA/CD.

Detailed knowledge of switching technology like STP, VRRP, port Security, Load Balancing.

Detailed knowledge of routing concepts like Static and Default routing – RIP, OSPF.

Wireless- WAP, 802.11 a/b/g/n.

Configuring controllers and access points and troubleshooting any issues related to the products and network issues within the environment.

Controllers, IAP, Aruba Switch.

Security mechanisms and Authentication mechanisms used in wireless technologies.

Understanding on how to troubleshoot wireless network issues.

Farida Shoes Private Limited, Ambur, INDIA Apr 11 – Jul 11

Trainee

Responsibilities: Worked for a period of 4 months, under the supervision of a Network Engineer. The organization works under a workgroup model and has a small LAN comprising of 8 departments. The organization needed full time support for managing and troubleshooting - Desktop for the users, providing security using the firewall device for Internet purposes, maintaining the switches, and wireless communication within the premises.

Implementing, Managing and Troubleshooting Hardware Devices and Drivers.

Configuring and Troubleshooting the Desktop Environment.

Installations of Printers and Drives as required by client.

Install and configure servers, desktops and networking equipment’s.

Updating Operating System, Antivirus and Service Packs

Responsible to manage Active Directory Services.

Configuration of VLAN for different client

Configuring switches and wireless access points.

Configure and apply ACLs based on network filtering requirements.

Khatib & Alami Consolidated Engineering Company, Sharjah, UAE Nov 07 – Dec 09

Computer Programmer

Project: Design Reference Electronic Guide

Responsibilities: Design Reference Electronic Guide is an application for browsing various design manuals electronically and provide the user with the required design standard instantly. The application is built using VB.NET. The project was solely handled by me, involving intensive co-ordination with the department heads apart from the following main responsibilities:

Analyzing and understanding the Design & Standards.

Database design.

Front end designing of the application in VB.NET.

Preparation of Test run and Participate in Review Meetings.

Designed and generated user’s guide.

Environment: VB.NET, MS Access

Project: Affection Plan for Oman Plots

Responsibilities: Affection Plan for Oman Plots is a macro that creates an affection plan of each plot of particular area. Using predefined template, macro is run and it dynamically adds details to template by retrieving each plots information from the database. It further converts template of each plot to a PDF format, creates a separate. mxt file and combines the details into an excel file.

The above project was solely handled by me, involving intensive co-ordination with the department heads apart from the following main responsibilities:

Creating the template with its labels.

Database design and adding the details of each plot.

Using the ArcObjects library and its functions and classes to use accordingly in the program.

Preparation of Test run and Participate in Review Meetings.

Designed and generated user’s guide.

Environment: VBA

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