Computer Engineering Solution Architect

Amir Hossein Forghani

*** ******** ******, *******, *******, Canada Postel Code: M3H 3Z2

Phone: 647-***-****

Email: *************@*****.***

Objective

• Improve organizational efficiency by working as an IT Solution Architect in different domains of IT/Telecommunications systems.

Education

September 2010-December 2014

• Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ph.D., University of Quebec (INRS) in collaboration with McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada with GPA 4.00/4.00

September 2006-March 2009

• Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.Sc., Amirkabir (Polytechnique) University of Technology

September 2001-March 2006

• Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.Sc., University of Tehran

Summary of Qualifications

Technical Skills:

• OSS/BSS architecture & integration: high/low level, App/NW Monitoring & Analytics (6 yrs)

• Design/architect/Automate Cloud, NFV/SDN–OpenStack AWS GCP OCP Azure K8s (5 years)

• Network Slicing expert in all use cases -- Service Assurance (Closed-Loop AI/ML in 4G/5G)

• 5G Mobility & Wireless RAN/Core (TMF/ONAP/ORAN/ETSI/OSM) 6yrs (14yrs Mobility total)

• Cloud Migration-Cloud/Application Security: IAM/RBAC/TLS/IPSEC/SSL FW rules&policies(4 yrs)

• Network/Application Monitoring/Analytics:Grafana/EFK ELK/Prometheus AppD SolarW NetC

• Systems Integration - Unix/Linux SQL RH OpenShift KAFKA RabitMQ NoSQL Oracle DB (5 yrs)

• Mobility Wireless: 5G & 4G, performance, policy charging, billing architecture detailed call flows analysis SIP, DIAMETER protocols on LTE/3G/IMS/RCS/VoLTE/VoWiFi (8 yrs)

• Cable Video Networks/OTT/VoD/4K/IPTV (Cloud Classic) (3 yrs) Kubernetes 1.27

• Web-Services and apps (J2EE Web app/servers on SUN,HP, IBM, Cisco) - SDLC - ITIL - Agile

• IP/MPLS/TCP - IPv6/v4 - DNS, DHCP, Routers config – VMWare - QoS QoE (12 years)

• Technical Sales support for Presales (11 years)–Leadership & Account Management skill(10 yrs)

• Product Management and Program Management skills in software and platform (9 years)

• Ability to respond to RFIs/RFPs and SoC’s – Presentation&negotiation skills at C-Level

• Strong analytical and mathematical skills with proficiency in technical reports and documents

• Excellent problem solving and analytical skills developed through Systems Engineering/Analysis and also analytical troubleshooting of systems

• Cisco Firewalls and switches/routers design and implementation

• Knowledge of Big Data Analytics Technologies (Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, Hive, Pig, Spark)

• Background in programming using C/C++ and MATLAB, Java, Python and Perl

• Using JIRA as an agile project management tool as well as JIRA ticketing system

• Knowledge of SQL as a language to access and manage Databases

Soft Skills:

• Diligent, highly creative and task-oriented with exceptional communication skills

• Able to work independently and as part of a team

• Ability to work under pressure, focusing on the organization goals and help them to meet their objectives

Work Experience

Network and IT Solution Architect-Infosys/Verizon

January 2020- April 2025

Verizon, Texas, United States

• Build a technology vision and strategy for a solution or business domain. Using a holistic approach, conducts solution analysis, design, planning, and implementation for the successful development and execution of strategy

• Act as the single point of contact (SPOC) between IT and the business for the solution

• Collaborate with technology and business stakeholders to develop a solution design for an assigned business capability

• Collaborate with Product Managers, Engineering Managers and other Architects in shaping and aligning product roadmap and delivery of new features

• Presenting complex technical proposals to both technical and non-technical audiences

• Conduct POC as needed to evaluate new technologies and approaches

• Lead the development team during solution implementation, translating business requirements into technical language

• Working across multiple projects with a variety of individuals and groups.

• Recognize industry technology trends and emerging technologies, understanding how they apply to Credit One Bank and drive adoption into organization

• promoted the mission of the company within the organization

• Create solution architecture and high-level design documents, solution decomposition into domains, API design, creating epics and stories for developers, managing implementation team

• Design Microservice experience, including REST based microservice API

• Involved in designing software principles and excellent knowledge of major architecture patterns.

• Good knowledge and experience with AWS services.

• Experience working with Java and Java frameworks (e.g.: Spring, Springboot), SQL and NoSQL DBMS (e.g.: SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, MongoDB), procedural and object-oriented development

• Good understanding of DevOps processes and CI/CD tools

• Working through ambiguous and open-ended business requirements and priorities and translate the same into a clear roadmap and definition of success

• Excellent communication, problem-solving, and project management skills

• Collaborate effectively and follow up to ensure achievement of deadlines, outcomes, and results

• Demonstrate company core values of excellence, ownership, collaboration, and integrity

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills in a global organization

• Detail understanding in taking snapshots, backup and recovery of Virtual machines

• Troubleshooting experience using command-line tools and scripts

• Understanding of Netconf protocol, YANG models & Restful API’s

• Experience in Automation & Orchestration frameworks. (ie: knowledge in the ETSI MANO specifications, OASIS TOSCA, ONAP)

• Configure Network devices like CISCO/JUNIPER/CIENA

• Configure devices for Radius authentication, troubleshooting authentications issues, troubleshooting networking issues like taking a tcpdump and tracing packet drops

• Configure and troubleshoot Unix, Red Hat Linux Enterprise 4,5,6,7 CentOS, SUSE 11, Solaris 9, 10, Ubuntu, Networking, Programming (Shell, Python and Perl scripting), Databases, Monitoring tools

• Cisco Switches / Routers / Firewalls / Aironet AP’s / Wireless LAN Controllers (WLC’s)

• MPLS Frame Relay / Internet (Cable, DSL, IoF)

• BGP / OSPF / EIGRP

• VLANs

• QoS / DSCP Tagging

• DNS and DHCP

• Troubleshooting System/Software bugs• Reporting and Documentation

• Experience in operating telecommunication network

• Experience with the following network technologies, SONET, DWDM, OTN, Carrier Ethernet

• IP routing experience with ATM, DS1/DS3, DSL

• Experience interacting with communication equipment using TL1 and CLI interfaces

• Knowledge of Software defined network

• Experience with writing software functional requirements, and working with software development teams, QA and users

• Great people skills and problem solving skills

OSS-BSS Consultant and Enterprise Network Solution Architect-Incedo/Verizon

January 2019-December 2019

Verizon, Massachussets, United States

• Understanding of Business Process Framework (eTOM) processes. Fulfillment Journey, TmForum Open API

•System Architect and System Analysis, Network Design, Network Planning, Network high level Architecture, i.e.., Verizon IEN (intellectual edge Network) Network design and Testing

• Agile project and team management

• Project experience includes customer facing roles, project estimations and OSS BSS Components

•Configure Pricing quote, CRM (Customer relationship managements), OM (Order Management), FFM (fulfill management), SA(Service Architecture), Billing, CPQ (Configure Price Quote)

• Epic creations, recommendation of story maps and HLA (High Leve impact)

• Interactions with POC (points of contacts), EA (Enterprise Architect), and VTF (Value team facility)

Network Engineer-Cognizant/ Comcast

October 2017- October 2018

Comcast, New Jersey, United States

• Implementing Networking Devices -Configuring Network devices like CISCO/JUNIPER/CIENA Configuring the devices for Radius authentication, troubleshooting authentications issues, troubleshooting networking issues like taking a tcpdump and tracing packet drops etc.

Cisco/Juniper/Arris router & switches, Check point, Bluecoat proxy, Aruba

• Working on daily basis on Active Directory, LDAP ( Sun One directory or Open LDAP)

•Working on IT Service management platform (JIRA) and JIRA ticketing system for reporting incidents.

• Working on Linux ( RHEL ), ability to trouble shoot issues in linux environment using the basic linux utilities, run commands to install/uninstall rpm packages and do minimal system administration

• Experience on AWS platform and its dimensions of scalability including VPC, EC2, ELB, S3, and EBS, ROUT 53

• Worked on Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure with automation and configuration management tools such as Chef and Puppet.

• Experience on Java Multi-Threading, Collection Framework, Interfaces, Synchronization, and Exception Handling

• Hands on Experience with best practices of Web services development and Integration (both REST and SOAP)

•Knowledge and understanding of the Linux authentication model PAM ( Plugable Authentication Model ) and the integration of PAM with LDAP for authentication store

•Knowledge and understanding of the Radius authentication, authorization models

• Troubleshooting System/Software bugs

• Reporting and Documentation

System Analyst/Engineer-Cisco Sales Activities

June 2017- August 2017

Cisco, New Hampshire, United States

• Pre Sales technical lead with experience on Cisco Enterprise

• Experience on security products on different vendor projects

• Extensive experience on Cisco routers and switches

• Experience in interacting with different Telecom cutomers and presenting Cisco EN products within the competition

• Experience in providing estimates of the offered project, creating bill quotes for project materials

• Experience in gathering the requirements to provide solutions for the customers

System Analyst/Engineer

February 2016- April 2017

Rogers Canada

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Execute daily works associated with the S/VOD Asset Management on the VOD platform

• Implemet Cross Functional taskd On Demand SVOD & ROD Platforms

• Execute Network Troubleshooting on S/VOD Assets

• Examine that contents follow the correct and timely process for Network Introduction, Security

• Create and monitor reports based on daily work; Content, Propagation, Server Capacity & Archiving

• Quality assurance of metadata assets, both pre & post production servers

• Participate on all projects related to the VOD platform such as upgrades, modifications, augmentations

• Collaborate to reach a high level of Security on the VOD platform

System Analyst/Engineer

Jan 2012-December 2015

NexGenStrategix (Rogers and Bell)

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Infrastructure projects on wireless networks

• TCP/IP and IPv4/IPv6

• Virtualization, Cloud, NFV/SDN and orchestration

• Web Services, HTTP, SOAP, XML

• Network Engineering, Troubleshooting, Integration and Architect

• IP Infrastructure, Switching/Routing/Firewall, Cloud, NFV/SDN, Virtualization (VMWare E, Hyper-V, Esxi), and OpenFlow/OpenStack

• OSS/BSS and Network Analytics (Big Data Analytics, Hadoop, Map reduce, Hive) - J2EE/JSON Web Portal Applications for BSS : NMS, OAM, Provisioning, Performance Monitoring, Business Management and Billing/Charging)

• Review the test plan and executing tests

• Expereience in Business Analysis, Project Life Cycle, Waterfall and Agile software development, gathering Requirements, Test Plan, Test Bed, QAT (quality assurance testing), ORT (operational readiness testing), UAT (user acceptance testing)

• System development life cycle (SDLC) and software life cycle

• Virtualized servers in telecommunication (service enablement and applications)

• Supporting the test case progresses in UAT, QAT and ORT for Rogers Virtualized Video-on-Demand (in Jira tool)

• Supporting the test case progresses in UAT, QAT and for Bell Canada Virtualized IMS/VoLTE messaging system (in HP-ALM tool)

• Working on Linux/Unix systems and configure application servers, connectivities and troubleshootingSpecialties:Sytem Engineer and Analyst for various Telecom/Datacom systems

• Technical Presales; respond to SoC/RFI/RFPs, writing Solution Doc and SoW, Exec Summary

• Technologies: LTE/HSPA+, IMS,, M2M, IPv6/v4, MPLS, UC&Cloud, OSS/BSS/Voice and Video

• Product Management for the Telecom & DataCom entities

• Reporting, Ticketing and writing the RCA (Root Cause Analysis)

• SWOT analysis on wireless/wireline solutions

• Review on RF Multi-Layer Design

• RF Optimization in IP RAN Wireless network

• Team player/ability to work independently

• Strong analytical and Mathematical skills

• Quick learner for the new Technologies

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