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SHAREEF EL-AMIN

adjfeh@r.postjobfree.com 301-***-**** 362 Rutgers St, Rockville, MD 20850 An enthusiastic network engineer with tenacity and determination to resolve complex network issues. Possessing effective organizational skills and excellent working knowledge of Enterprise Networking Technologies. Consistently demonstrating an unflinching commitment in maintaining current levels of network optimization as well as OS on required platforms, thus solidifying infrastructure expansion. Maintaining an experienced record of providing Enterprise level consultation to both external and internal clients maximizing on best practice policies.

Juniper Routers/SRX

Juniper Switches

Cisco Routers

Cisco Switches

Cisco Firewalls

MPLS Principles

Network Management Tools

Enterprise Solutions Engineer / Vonage Business Solutions Inc. - McLean, VA / 05.2011 - Current

As a Solutions Engineer Team Lead at Vonage my responsibilities are extensive.

• Designing and installing complex enterprise level voice and data networks utilizing and array of routing protocols for multi-site turn ups. This is accomplished by using dynamic routing protocols including but not limited to BGP, OSPF, Redistribute static to OSPF, Redistribute Static to BGP, and basic static routing protocols. This includes client-site LAN layer 2 and 3 routing and switching, utilizing industry leaders such as Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks, Fortinet and Cisco Maraki as required.

• Experienced in current data collections and standardizations for various network audits and the implementation of needed network adjustments

• Advising on the Purchase of Network Equipment (Hardware and software) to connect with existing client infrastructure for implementation

• Acting as the technical escalation point within the networking team

• Prioritising and troubleshooting network connectivity issues ranging from physical to routing protocols

• Providing quality feedback and professional services to all clients

• Successful implementation of equipment refresh (new equipment acquisitions) and software upgrades

• Enforcing network security policies for network integrity and client MPLS access

Relevant Projects

• Currently conducting the migration of clients entire enterprise IPSEC VPN infrastructure consisting of over 300 + locations, from the Vonage/iCore Private Line MPLS core network to SmartWan Edge Device deployment.

• Conducted the migration of clients entire enterprise IPSEC VPN infrastructure consisting of over 200 + locations, from the Vonage/iCore Cisco Routers Network Management Tools includes

Linux, GitHub, Kubernetes, Docker

Ansible, AWS

EDUCATION

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Private Line MPLS core network to Cloud Enterprise in collaboration with th NOC Technician / Arbinet Exchange - Reston, VA, VA / 03.2008 - 05.2011 As a Network Operations Tier III Technician, I was able to provide client support to the Network Operations Center (NOC) contingent upon Operations & Sustainment to backbone network communications. This was conducted by monitoring network health via CYGWIN, Solar Winds and Nagios. A responsibility of Tier III, further preventative maintenance requires consistent performs health checks to verify operational stability.As Tier III, my daily task were to resolving network problems as they appear. Detects, analyzes, and resolves network switching and transmission system problems while minimizing impact on client service. This required reaching out to the Tier 1 carriers to resolve issues from degradation to full down hard occurrences.

Nextel/Sprint - NOC Technician / Reston, VA / 08.2005 - 03.2008 NOC Service Desk Technician

Provided support in a 24x7x365 days/year role that is accountable for communications regarding critical iDEN network elements using real time alarming of network faults, analysis, trending of faults and escalation. Experienced with Clarify trouble reporting system. Experienced with NETCOOL alarm notification system. Managed 7 to 15 Technicians that review individual markets for Nextel network.

NSC Lingo Technical Support Tier II Team Lead / Primus Telecommunications Mclean VA / 07.2002 - 08.2005

Troubleshooting SIP trouble tickets to resolve Customer voice issues NOC Service Desk Technician / IT Foundations A+ Network+ Security+ MCP CCNA

Provided Cervalence and support for 24/7 equipment for Nextel/Sprint Mobile Networks

ITT Technical Institute - Hayward, CA / 2000

Bachelor of Science: Telecommunications Management Certified Cisco Network Associate IT Foundations A+ Network+ Security+ MCP CCNA DS0-DS3

Certified Cisco Network Associate

Developed Areas of Interest

AWS

Linux

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Docker

Github

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