Project Manager

ADEL GUERMAS

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Career Objective

Acting as IP network specialist and Cisco expert in environments where the management and optimization of networks, systems and telecommunications are challenging daily

Highlights

BS Degree in Telecommunication

CCNA Wireless

Certified Wireless Network Administrator CWNA - Champlain College-Montreal, Canada

CCNA Security , CCVP and CCSP

+15 years experience in Voice & Data IP Convergence , IP Networking and IP Telephony with Cisco, Mitel and Alcatel-Lucent

+3 year experience in IT/Networking Engineering in NYC, USA

+15 years in Architecture and Administration of Networks and Systems

Extensive experience training clients in WIFI , VOIP, Routing, Switches, PBX, IT Security

+10 years experience in Windows environment (Windows Server and Exchange Server )

+2 years experience in Vmware ESX

+4 years experience managing DataCentre

Perfectly bilingual

Training, Certifications and Education

CCNA-Wireless Certified Wireless Network Administrator CWNA - Champlain College-longueuil CCSP

CISCO PIX/ASA Firewall Training

CISS

Cisco Firewall Specialist

CCVP

Cisco CallManager 5.0 Training

CCNA

Mitel Administration of the 3300 ICP

Alcatel Deployment and Design of IP and VOIP Solutions with and Cisco products

Alcatel Certification on VOIP with the Switches OmniAccess 512

Windows NT Server & Workstation

Netware 3.0 Administrator. NYC , USA

Electronic and Computer Science; Engineer - Algiers University-Algeria

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Work History

Senior Network Analyst 04/2010-Until now

Syscor-MUHC-IT Departement for McGill University Hospital Centre-Montreal-Quebec-Canada

Duties :

Participate in the strategic scheduling and definition of the architecture networks to integrate the technologies & Wireless WAN, MPLS and Multicast

Acts as administrator of project and coordinate the spreading of the WIFI for different Hospitals Centers

Coordinates with the analysts/technicians of the group the configuration and the installation of the facilities of the Wireless infrastructures (central equipment of networks, site survey of cover, wiring, power, etc.)

Analyze of capacity and performance and sees to the heightening of the operating systems, the applications and the Wireless facilities

Maintains the documentation, the inventory of the facilities and software,

Product and maintains up to date of the specific or general statistics in order to contribute to the efforts of management and continuous improvements

Participle actively to the establishment of standards and measures of security.

Achievement :

Deployment , Maintenance , Analysis and Provisioning of :

Cisco Wireless Products WCS , WLC all products , WISMs , ACS appliances 3.3 4.2 and 5.0 , for 500 WAPs and for 4000 clients

VPN Tunnels site -to-site

Cisco Core Switches 65xx series and Cisco Routers

MPLS and Multicast Networks on 65XX series

Design, Plan, Monitor and Maintain the network of Cisco Security products ASA 5510 , 5540 and 5505 and implementation of

IP and WIFI Convergent Network Engineer 09/2009-04/2010

Netmix –Montréal-Canada

Deployment of HSIA (High Speed Internet Access) , IP-Based Convergent Solution for the hotels with the wired and wireless technologies for different customers (Four Seasons, Fairmont, Intercontinental, Westin, Staybridge) in North America and in the world :

Duties:

Audit and Analysis hotel’s network infrastructure

drawing up Site Survey

Presentation of the results with a SOW (Scope Of Work)

Configuration, installation of the Switches / Wireless controllers WAPs (Wireless Access Points), IP Network Convergent administration with a software solution, providing to the customer of the whole documentation (Plan Floor, Diagram network and the configurations)

Management of the networks intensively and it even with multi-vendors facilities (Cisco/HP/Meru/Ruckus)

Achievements :

The introduction of HSIA has increased the customers occupancy , retention and the Internet usage in the hotels raised from 60% to 90%.

Improved the Quality of service in the hotels while having less calls client users of Internet.

High end network manageability with only one point of control

Technologies :

Wireless Site Survey (E(z)RF Coverage Planner), Stumbler network, and AirMagnet, Ekahau and CAWS (Cisco Aironet Wireless Site Survey) . Opnet IT Guru , Wireshark

Wireless solution (Controllers and WAPs, of different constructors (Meru, Ruckus, Paradyne, Cisco and HP)

Cisco 37xx and 29xx and HP (Switches Procurve , Wireless Controller and WAPs)

Main Customers :

Fairmont Hotel - Queen Elizabeth -Montreal (Quebec) , Four Seasons Hotel - Buenos Aires (Argentina) , Fairmont Hotel - Ottawa , (Canada) , Intercontinental - Hotel San Francisco (USA) , Staybridge Hotel – Houston (USA)

IP Network Specialist 12/2008-07/2009

Chrome Technologies-Montreal-Quebec

Responsible in the European Union Team for the planning and management of Modernization of Information System Infrastructure of Mediterranean Countries

Duties:

Audit and Analysis the customer's network infrastructure

Presentation of the results with a SOW to Union European the IT departments and also to the Country’s Ministry IT Department .

Scheduling, implementation and realization of the project

Coordination and distribution of the tasks for the team of five engineers

Configuration, installation and administration of the new IP policy of and new Routing dynamic (OSPF V2)

LAN/WAN Design

Achievements :

Improved the performances and reduction of the latency time on WAN/LAN network split on 400 sites

Sensitive reduction of Routing tables and bottlenecks and meaningful increase of service up-time to 80% of the output of the Cisco Routers including in Core (02 Cisco routers 7609 series ) and Distribution (450 Cisco Routers series 38XX/28XX/18XX )

Increased the number of users of the network by 100%, from 1000 to 2000.

Technologies :

Implementation of dynamic routing ( OSPF V2 ) , new IP policy using VLSM segmentation and summarization

Switches Cisco series 6509/29XX/37XX/35XX , Routers Cisco series 76XX/38XX/28XX/18XX

Main Customer : Justice Department

Integration Systems Consultant 07/2007– 11/2008

Long View Systems Corporation-Vancouver – Canada

As part of the Network Services team providing support to a variety of client sites and working on a variety of projects on different technologies

Duties:

To provide the mentorship and the advice to the other Network Service members

Keep current in certifications, knowledge and ability to implement hardware and software for high speed networking and communications. This knowledge will include, but is not limited to, the following at the Senior or Expert level:, Network switching and segmentation (VLAN, STP), QOS,, VOIP, VPN and Cisco Firewall, WAN technologies and Wireless.

To improve the performances and to allow the customers to increase the number of users, the number of sites of the LAN/WAN networks.

Keep the enterprise up-to-date on the new technologies and while introducing the new services and products provided by Cisco Systems Inc.

To improve the performances through the new LAN/WAN architectures

Achievements:

Allowed the enterprises to improve their LAN while introducing new Cisco Services on Cisco Switches 29XX, 37XX and 35XX and 65XX

Developed the technology Cisco WAAS in WAN

Developed the security with Cisco PIX/ASA

Technologies:

IP Voice and Video with Cisco Call Manager 4.1, 5.0 and 6.0, MGCP, H323 on Cisco Router 2811, Gatekeeper and SRST 3.0 on Cisco router 2600

Cisco SBC Session Border Controller (H323-SIP) on 2811

QoS mechanisms for VOIP

Ethernet technologies and Switches Cisco set 4xxx, 65xx, 26xx,37xx and 35xx,

VPN/IPsec technologies with Cisco Firewalls and Cisco CBAC, Cisco Firewalls ASA/PIXs,

ACS and NAC

Cisco Wireless with Wireless AP (WAP) and Wireless LAN Controller

Cisco WAAS

HP OpenView

Main Customers: Airport of Vancouver YVR, BCTC, Impark, BCAA/CAA

Team Lead 04/2005-07/2007

CSRS-Vancouver – Canada

In charge of the management of Date Center composed of 50 servers Windows ( virtualization VMware ) and 20 Switches Cisco series 2960 and 3750 PoE and 01 Switch 6513 and the staff composes of five engineers and technicians for the IT department .

Duties :

Manage multi-skilled team of Network Engineers, Database Administrators...

Maintain corporate IT infrastructure to comply with established policies and procedures, including architecture, security, disaster recovery standards

increase the number of applications (Intranet and Internet) used by the enterprise and WAN Secure/ IPSEC

Manage DRS (Disaster Recovery Site) and SAN (Storage Area Network)

Change Management and Project Management

Negotiate the contracts with the suppliers (Telco, Hardware and Software)

Network management, Failover management, Servers management

Achievements :

High availability in term of Internet connectivity through two different ISP therefore high availability for the business enterprise

Important reduction of telephonic costs of communication of the company grace has the installation of the IPBX deported toward the sites of (Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton)

Sensitive reduction of the costs of use of the energy and maintenance of the servers of Dated it Center grace the introduction of the virtualization VMware ESX

Increased the total number of Internet and Intranet applications hosted in the data center. This was possible by introducing load balancing, clustering and scalability to the different applications. This led to the increase of the number of customers by 50%.

Important savings by using TOIP between different sites (Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton) .

Managed deployment of projects for the company

Managing a DataCentre

Technologies :

Switches Cisco series 29XX, 37XX and 35XX for LAN, HP Procurve

WAN with the introduction of Radware (Linkproof) multi-homing versus BGP protocol.

Security with Cisco Firewalls ASA/PIX, Site-To-Site and Customers IPsec, VPN Concentrator 3020

VOIP with Cisco CallManager, CME, SRST 3.0 and Mitel 3300

SAN with the Hitachi technologies and Fiber Switches Brocade and Backup with NetBackup 6.5

Windows Server 2000/2003 and Exchange Server , VMware ESX , Blackberry Server and HP OpenView

Senior Network Engineer/Team Lead 2000– 2005

Alcatel-Lucent – Algeria/France

To create a network of distributors for all IP products and technologies for Enterprise Activity (Voice -Data) of Alcatel (Alcatel-Lucent)

Duties :

Introduction the IP products to big local customers (Gas and Energy and Sonatrach - Sonelgaz) of Alcatel Voice -Data products.

Supporting of the customer in design, implementation and installation of the solutions even training of the technicians,

Management of convergent IP networks LAN/WAN large-scale

Technologies

Alcatel Switches L2 et L3 OmniSwitch 77XX, 88XX , OmniStack , OmniAccess

OmniPCX 4200, 4400

X-Vision, Omnivista and HP OpenView ( Network Node Manager , HP NNM IPT SPI Alcatel )

Network Engineer 1999 - 2000

Administration Children Service for the State New York

Managing a 500 users in IP network LAN/WAN/Systems ( Windows environment )

Duties :

Network Management

Technical Support

LAN/WAN/Telecom Engineering and Management

Engineering Management

IT Manager 1997 - 1999

Pfizer Inc

I managed a team of 3 Engineers (Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco). Our projects involved installation of large networks and systems

Supporting 200 users

Duties :

Review of LAN/WAN network infrastructure

Configuration of IP and IP routing

Administration and management of Compaq and HP Servers

Implementation of Windows NT and migration of the Rollout to NT from Netware and UNIX

Configuration and administration of CCMail, MS Mail and Exchange Server

Member of the team Compliance Y2K of Pfizer

Languages

English - French

Technical Skills

Wireless: Radio Frequency (RF) Technologies , Antenna Concepts ,Wireless LAN Hardware and Software , Network Design, Installation, and Management, Wireless Standards and Organizations, 802.11a/b/g/n Network Architecture, Wireless LAN Security, Troubleshooting, Site Surveys, Airmagnet, RF , E(z)RF Coverage Planner), NetStumbler network, and AirMagnet Spectrum Analyzer , Ekahau and CAWS (Cisco Aironet Wireless Site Survey) , Opnet IT Guru, Wireshark , WEP and WPA

TCP/IP:RIP I and II , OSPF, DVMRP, DHCP, DNS, IPX, BGP4, IP Multicast (PIM-SM, DVRMP), VRRP, IGP, EGP, MPLS

LAN, WAN and ATM: OC-3c/OC-12, ATM DS1/E, VLANs ( Authentication VLAN), GE, FDDI, 802.1p, IP Multicast Switching, SONET/SDH,IP WAN, IPX WAN,

Switching and Routing: Cisco (Catalyst (35xx, 65xx, and 4xxx ) and (38XX/28XX/18XX), L2, L3 (Fast Spanning Tree, OSPF,RIP, VRRP), Alcatel (OmniSwitch/Router, OminSwitch, OmniCore, OmniSwitch 8xxx, 7xxx, 6xxx, OmniAccess xxx),

Hardware: Cisco , Alcatel, IBM, Compaq, HP

Telecommunications : Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent ,AXE (Ericsson)

Firewalls :, Cisco ASA/PIX 55XX, IPS/IDS 42XX ,AV Software , HIPS, CSA MC , NAC CiscoWorks , IPSec VPN’s ,

Operating Systems: Windows 98,NT 3.5,NT4.0, Windows 2000, Windows 2003, Windows XP and Linux CentOs 5.0 & RH 7.0

Virtualization : VMware ESX

Network Application Software: Exchange Server 2000/2003,

Management Software: CiscoWorks, X-Vision,Omnivista 2 and 2.5, HP OpenView, Tivoli , MRTG

WIFI , WLAN: Cisco AP 11XX et 12XX , IEEE 802.11X

VOIP, IP Telephony : Cisco Unified Communications Solutions for Enterprise and Unified Communications Solutions for Small

Business Produits Alcatel OA 512 et PBX (4400,OXO and OXE), and Mitel 3300 XS

IT Security: Audit, Security Policy, DOS, Firewalls, VPN, , SNMPv3, ACL, NAT/PAT, Encryption DES/DES3

IDS: Trend, Real Secure IDS Sensor, IPS 421*-****-**** 5.1 , Authentication (LDAP, RADIUS), AMC, SHA, MD5

Anti-virus: Symantec, Kaspersky, Dr Solomon, McAfee

Backup :NetBackup 6.5

Personal Skills

Autonomy, self-confidence and capacity to diagnose and to analyze

Ability to work under the pressure and to manage the stress

High skills in the relationship

Good team spirit

Excellent faculties of oral and written communication in French and English

Excellent skills in communication, expression and monitoring

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