SUMMARY:

• A Resourceful Network Design/implementation Engineer with over 8 years’ experience in alignment of technical resources with enterprise business objectives, orchestrating design, development, and deployment of IT strategies within different enterprise domains. I have excellent knowledge and hands - on implementation experience of Multi-Vendor Routing & Switching, Security, Wireless, VOIP, Load Balancing and various other methodologies within multi-dimensioned process and data requirements.
• Excellent experience working within multiple retail environments with over 1000 retail outlets, 20 Distribution Centers and several office locations, a wholesale WIFI service provider, Confidential Gold partner/system integrator and a multinational telecommunications company.
• I am Self- motivated with the determination to achieve set objectives, ability to interact well within and outside a team, exhibiting an excellent strong team spirit, integrity, flexibility and resilience.
• Core routing implementation using BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv2, ISIS on Confidential routers. This is implemented between CE-PE and PE-P-PE
• Interact with Customer representatives to ensure that the Business and Technical requirements are understood and the best & cost effective solution is delivered up to the customer satisfaction.
• Excellent Presentation, communication and customer interfacing skills.
• Excellent interpersonal & potential for team leadership skills

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Routing and Switching: Design, implementation and support of scalable latency switching on TCP/IP networks using Ether channel, STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVSTP, HSRP, VLANS

Security: Security design and implementation usissng firewall and VPN products from Confidential (ASA, PIX,& FWSM), Checkpoint (R65 & R71), Fortigate Firewalls and Juniper ( SRX and Netscreen firewalls)

VoIP and IP Telephony: Design, implementation and management of Confidential based Voice over IP (VoIP), IP telephony, Unified Communication Solutions, CME, Unity, UCM, H323, MGCP, SIP, Polycom audio and video conferencing. Load Balancing. Design and implementation and administration of F5 loadbalncers-GTM and LTM

Network Design & Implementation: Network infrastructure design and implementation over Confidential ASR 1006 Confidential routers 7600, 7200, 4400, 3900 3800, 2900, 2800, 2900, 1800 and 800. Confidential Switches 6500, 4500, 3850,3750, and 2960; Confidential Nexus N7K and N5K; Confidential NetEngine routers 40 X series and quidway switches SX700. Confidential WLC 8510, 7500,5508, 4400 and 2500; Alcatel Switches.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Network Design Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Clearly documented High and Low-level network design and configuration
• Ensured that network meets functional and non-functional requirements.
• Participated in Design reviews and walk throughs to communicate network designs and validate proposed solutions
• Responsible for the creation of security policies implemented on Check point Firewalls
• Provide 4th Line support for a wide variety of Wireless, network and security related issues
• Designed and implemented a standardized network solution across all Distribution centers with no downtime.
• Liaison and co-working with equipment suppliers and 3rd party technical resources.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Managed and implemented the LAN/WAN separation of part of the business which was acquired by another company.
• Managed and maintained the WiFi service implemented across a major Retailer which consists of over 8000AP’s in various Distribution Centers and Retail Stores.
• Managed, maintained and developed Local Area Network (LAN) services including layer 2 and 3 switches, structured cabling and building fiber
• Managed DSL connections over private telephone lines to monitor and manage network traffic and devices using CA Spectrum, Ehealth and other SNMPc .
• Providing 3rd line Support for Wireless and Network fault resolutions.
• Produced High quality design, deployment and support documentation
• Reviewed and validated RF survey documentation supplied by third parties
• Diagnosing and resolving network issues impacting the business
• Implementing changes
• Provide input to HLD and LLD designs and also reviewing before implementing
• Creating services behind F5 load balancers and ensuring traffic to services are load balanced as expected.
• Upgrade of F5 load balancers to address issues of Load balancers going into standby/standby mode.
• Managed the conversion of tradition retail stores to Digital concepts stores.
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues between the network and other 3rd parties.
• Design and implement static routes and dynamic routing protocols on Confidential routers and multilayer switches
• Producing Visio diagrams for design changes within the network and operational troubleshooting purposes.
• Create technical documentation to ensure present changes are reflected in future change initiatives.
• Upgrade of the Wireless Lan controllers and Access points in a controlled manner thereby resulting in no downtime.

Confidential

Network systems Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the low level design, evolution, build and configuration of Confidential wholesale WiFi system infrastructure incorporating fully redundant systems with failover.
• Involved in the design and implementation of two data centers
• Responsible for the overall IP addressing and documentation of the entire network
• Setting of the L2/L3 and WIFI (WLC and AP) infrastructure for customer WIFI service
• Configuring site to site VPN between customer sites and Confidential network
• 4th Line support for Confidential wholesale WiFi systems
• Troubleshoot switching, routing and Remote access VPN
• Influenced new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating the network.
• Managing the availability, performance, scalability and efficiency of the core network by engineering reliability and network management features into systems. Liaison and co-working with equipment suppliers and 3rd party technical resources.

Confidential

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshooting of Switching loops mitigated with spanning tree and RSTP.
• Configuration of VLANs and spanning tree with port fast.
• Implementation and troubleshooting of Site-to Site and L2L IPSec VPN connections.
• Troubleshooting of Remote Access VPN Connections.
• Troubleshooting of OSPF flaps and redistribution issues.
• Troubleshooting of MPLS TE tunnels and backup tunnels(FRR).
• Troubleshooting of BGP peering’s between customer sites (CEs).

Confidential

Network design/implementation engineer

Responsibilities:

• As a design engineer, I was responsible for proffering state of the art cost-effective solutions that align with enterprise business needs thereby giving client an ROI, which involved Interactions with Customer technical representatives (as well as internal groups Technical Sales and Customer Solutions groups) to ensure that the requirements are understood and the delivered solution is appropriate.
• This includes developing an in-depth understanding of the customer’s application as well as ensuring that all requirements (SLA, resiliency, redundancy, convergence tolerance, security, etc) are met by the design.
• Supported customer's requirements through the complete life cycle of design, cost, implementation and support through to disposal. Planning and undertaking changes to software/hardware as agreed with the customer, performing network installations, providing on site support for the data centre network equipment; troubleshoot and support network environments.

Confidential

Design/ Implementation Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Working with a Confidential Gold partner, I scoped and designed several solutions for various clients and was also actively involved in the implementation and support of such projects.
• This included providing 2nd and 3rd Level Support for IP network and security infrastructure, resolving STP, routing protocols and other technical problems and malfunctions related to LANs/WANs in order to minimize client productivity loss caused by technical outages