Network Engineer

MUSSA ALI SHIRAZI

Mob: +447*********

e-mail: ********@*******.***

Experience:

Senior Network Engineer

Deploying, implementing and Troubleshooting and Fault finding Financial Networks and providing on-call support as required, 5+ years LAN and WAN experience.

British Telecom

March 2006-present

Responsibilities:

Troubleshooting Network issues and providing L2/L3 support including on call.

Implementing, installing and deploying network changes out of hours.

Testing, monitoring and configuring network management.

Building Router/Switch configurations and implementing them globally for financial clients.

Configuring BGP, MPLS, MPLS VPNS and QOS in accordance with SLA.

Troubleshooting BGP peering issue, routing failures, switching loops, NATing issues, access-lists, HSRP, IBGP/EBGP issues and BGP MED, BGP communities, route-maps. and MPLS/VPN etc.

Configuring Reuter’s market data financial services with Stringent SLA with various convergence/failover requirements based on high availability.

Configure and deploy VPN VRF on BT network.

Carrying out site upgrades on LIVE customer site, working during outages and testing.

Liaising with country’s order managers to provide updates for the implementation.

Liaising with Telco providers to perform pre-installation tests (circuit performance tests).

Troubleshoot different circuit Types such as E1, E3, SDH, Ethernet, POS, SONET,PDH and Frame-relay.

CISCO Support Technician

University of East London

April 2004- Feb 2006

Responsibilities:

Mange Windows 2003, Active directory, User profiles, Group polices, Windows XP (Client Computers)

2nd and 3rd line support to staff and students of the university on receipt of calls

Helpdesk support using MS Office, WIN 2000, XP, NT, LAN/WAN, TCP/IP

Extend Support in CISCO LAB and Forensics LAB in UEL,

Configuring and managing Routing Protocols, EGIRP, OSPF, BGP

Managing VLANS on Cisco Switches

Manage AAA server (Cisco Secure ACS)

Manage Pix Firewalls including the configuration of Access control list, Object grouping, URL filtering, Handling advance protocol, Configure and manage Network address translation, Fail over

Configure and manage VPN (virtual private network)

Configure the Symantec Ghost solution suite for managing 5 labs of 50 computers each

Certifications:

CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) Cisco Voice over IP 642-436 Passed Cisco Firewall Specialist

Hardware Devices and Technologies

Cisco Routers: Cisco 800, 1841, 2800, 3845, 10k, 7200 series routers.

Switches: Catalyst 3560, Catalyst 2950/2960, 4500/6500 Series Switches.

PIX Firewall/ASA

Routing/Switching

VRF,mpbgp, RIP,EIGRP ,BGP, OSPF, Frame-Relay, EIGRP, redistribution, prefix-lists, route-maps, MPLS, ISDN, ISDN-DDR, VLAN, IGMP/CGMP, PPP, AAA, NAT, PAT, Multi-layer switching, Multicasting.TACACS, Spanning-tree, PVST and VTP.

Voip Technologies:

Knowledge of Cisco Call manager 6, Voice switches, Voip switch, Asterisks, TrixBox, IP phones

Professional Qualifications:

Master in Computer Security -- University of East London United Kingdom 2006

Bachelor of computer science (BSIT)

Driving License Full clean UK driving license

Immigration Status:

Currently I am based in London United kingdom. I have recently applied for the Quebec Immigration and got interview on 14th of Dec 2010. I have very good chance to get immigration and will not require any sponsor from the Company.

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