Languages

English, Farsi, Turkish, Urdu

Key Skills and Knowledge

• Network Performance Analysis
• Systems Admin, UNIX and Windows
• System Analysis Design
• Project Management
• LAN/WAN/WLAN Engineering
• Frame Relay, ATM, MPLS
• SNMP, MIB management
• Nortel / Bay / SMC Switches
• Cisco Switches, Routers
• VMware
• CiRBA
• Unisys CloudBuild
• Citrix

Security

• Attachmate RLN
• Checkpoint FireWall-1
• PIX /ASA, VPN, IPS / IDS / MARS
• TippingPoint IPS
• VPN
• Sniffer
• SiteProtector
• Unisys Stealth

Databases

• SQL
• Oracle
• MS Access
• FoxPro 2.5 - 6.x
• Hardware
• IBM PC, Sun Solaris, RS6000,
• ES7000

Operating Systems

• Windows
• DOS
• NetWare
• AIX
• Solaris
• Linux
• Cisco IOS
• Banyan VINES
• OS/2

Programming Languages Tools

• C
• Visual Basic
• Shell Scripting
• VBScript
• Java Scripting
• PERL
• MASM

Skills Summary

Over 25 years of practical experience in Networking and Systems Integration / Administration, Project Management, System Analysis and Design, Technical Support and Service in Banyan, NetWare, WinX and Unix environments. Experience in program presentation and group facilitation. Ability to work effectively with multi-disciplinary team and people at all levels with a record of accomplishment, producing results and strong commitment to customer service.

Unisys Project Experience

Confidential

• Manage the daily operations of LAN, WAN and Enterprise Networking environments.
• Address daily operational issues and ensure all tasks and project related activities are handled
• correctly and efficiently and in compliance with agreed upon deliverables.
• Meet with both County management and internal team members to evaluate and resolve all
• operational risks, issues and concerns.
• As a lead Architect review the current systems, design improvements and oversee the ongoing
• solutions Implementation.
• Identify areas of concern and streamline the accumulative level of efforts to address current and
• upcoming operational and project requirements.

Confidential

Conducted CiRBA efficiency analysis of customer's existing datacenter consisting of 500 VM servers and six physical servers. The gathering of Workload and Configuration data was followed by the analysis phase which ultimately produced the recommended consolidation for both environments.

Confidential

As an Infrastructure Architect / Technical Team lead / Project manager carried out LAN and WLAN surveys. Managed and conducted multi-site LAN WLAN migration and overall testing of the new environments. Coordinated overall efforts with USA, Canada and UK project managers.

Confidential

As a Lead Architect conducted the planning phase to identify a simplified infrastructure environment resulting in lower ongoing operational costs for the City. Provided the preliminary envisioning assessment services using CiRBA Data Center Intelligence Solution to determine the optimal placements and resource allocation for customer's physical and virtual environment. Participated in an upcoming Re-platforming of HP-UX to Linux operating system and migrate existing Oracle eBusiness application across the two platforms. Created Proof of Concept process for the migration of current HP-UX servers to a fully Linux platform.

Confidential

As a Cloud Solution Architect participated in POC for Assessment and Migration services to transition customer applications to the Unisys Secure Cloud's IaaS and PaaS offerings and assist in creating key assets required for these services. This exercise consisted of but not limited to 1 the initial assessment of the pilot application Model Based Transformation MBT , 2 overall design of the new environment with inclusion of Unisys Stealth solution, 3 Smoke-test Implementation and migration of the pilot application to the designated cloud environment. Subsequently, Served as a member of the Unisys Cloud Advisory Panel

Confidential

Assisted McKesson UNIX team with planning and preparation during the move of Lawrenceville and Dubuque data centers to NDH1. Determined the essential backup requirements for both AIX and Solaris servers. Performed system backup of AIX mksysb and Solaris NetBackup and TSM. Also, identified the existing backup and restore issues in both Wintel and UNIX environments. Evaluated the overall post-move data backup and retrieval practices. Provided complete documentation of current backup environments. Conducted SAN HealthCheck and StorageScope reports as per client requirement. Supported local and remote team members with Datacenter related inquiries. Managed and participated in scheduled move of various network and datacenter equipment.

Confidential

As and installation / project manager worked installed SMC Cisco devices at customer site. Performed troubleshooting and repair of any and all connectivity issues. Tested and verified individual location connectivity to IP3 and verified outbound communication. Tested WAP connectivity throughout various locations at customer site.

Confidential

As a member of NSS Infrastructure Tier 3 assisted the team with planning and implementation of all Washington Mutual internetwork IOS upgrade. Evaluated the latest IOS upgrade for existing 3750 Stack switches and 7200 VXR routers. Performed IOS upgrade of all switches and routers at customer's El Segundo site. Provided required information / recommendations for the upgrade of all routers and switches at the remaining 12 locations across the country. Collected existing NTP configuration across the company infrastructure. Provided recommendations for the upgrade and upkeep of the NTP settings.

Confidential

• Worked with team and participate in infrastructure testing performance, stress/load, availability, failover activities remediation of issues including FRIT certification testing.
• Fine tuning of O/S parameters per requirements. Security control of user and file system on local and SAN environments. Created modified file systems per requirements. Evaluated Backup recovery of H/W, O/S, and Network SAN with documentation. Troubleshoot desktops, ES7xxx Windows servers' issues. Ability to manage LAN switches SAN equipments all EMC software. Monitor and manage O/S security patch application as required. Install, test and document Connect:Direct and Secure Transfer software on/for designated Linux servers. Work as Unisys SME with FRIT SME's to understand FRIT standards and participate in building all FRB environments. Prepared Sysadmin scripts, process, procedures for failover / redundancy of servers in event of disaster. Prepare/modify overall installation, configuration, and operational documentation, as part of the final infrastructure deliverables.

Confidential

The successful execution of this project required the knowledge and experience to lead and assist designated support staff of the Brazilian offshore component during set-up and replication of a DNS environment for Subaru of America. The OS for this project was Windows server, Linux and Solaris.

Confidential

As AIX security Consultant

• As a member of the HPC group worked with our UK ESI team to monitor the clients' Lloyds Bank AIX/Unix event logs and perform investigation so that the Host Intrusion Detection Software HIDS , from ISS can be tuned i.e. reduce the number of events coming from the HIDS for known and acceptable benchmark.
• Utilizing SiteProtector and Archsight to create apply and test ISS security policies on lab Unix servers.
• Tested and accepted policies.
• Monitored customer's Cisco/ASA and TippingPoint protected environment. Recommend new filters to address unusual events and alerts while maintaining system's overall performance.
• Conducted the final fine-tuning of all involved security component.

MSC Bangalore Off shoring project

Confidential

As a member of the HPC supported the Blue Bell Managed Service Centre and various other support/service teams to design and implement the required special network access from and to Bangalore UGSC team with focus on the current MPLS systems.

Confidential

As a member of the High Performance Center backfilled, daily support of the Nortel BAY and Cisco network environment and followed through the Countrywide daily Nortel / Cisco maintenance call flow.

Confidential

As a member of the Global Outsourcing and Infrastructure Services supported the Emergency Operations Center with network integration, Fsona Optical Wireless solution, CommHub satellite voice and data communication, Cisco IPCC CallMangaer and Unity Communication Systems.

Confidential

Performed network tracing and bandwidth analysis to see if switching from an OWA Exchange model HTML to an Outlook Exchange model MAPI can be done with remote sites. Configured PIX 506e and setup VPN capabilities for remote access to the network by internal consultants.

Confidential

Served as the lead project manager and a consultant on the migration of LAN/WAN for the department of Homeland Security DHS and Transport Security Agency TSA in Blue Bell, PA and Reston, VA.

Confidential

• As a member of the New Generation Network NGN and PFFS project
• on site at the Department of Veterans Affairs, worked on Network Performance Analysis and project assignments with major emphasis on user and desktop support.

Confidential

• Provided corporate wide tire 2 network supports for Novell, NT and Unix.
• Installation, configuring, system tuning, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting and environment enhancements of 20 RS6000 AIX S-70/H-50, SUN and Intel based LINUX servers.
• Performed System Administration tasks, user admin, backups, restores, patches, and miscellaneous required tasks.
• Conducted file system management utilizing LVM and ODM in an SSA and ESS SAN Shark and HACMP environment.
• Created and modified system and backup monitoring Jobs in Tivoli's TWS - Maestro. Monitored system availability, CPU, memory, network, disk growth, backups, critical error reports, and generated usage and activity graphs.
• Produced and maintained Unix Shell scripts to perform and automate miscellaneous daily tasks as per corporate requirements.
• Designed front-end batch scripts to incorporate numerous print options in an AIX environment.
• Implemented and documented Cisco 3000 Concentrator. Served as the Primary Support Engineer for SK's DNS and PIX Firewall management.
• Designed, Configured implemented and maintained enterprise DNS, Cisco VPN and PIX Firewall environments
• Created and maintained on-line process and systems support documentation with detailed description of all systems installation, configuration, daily activities, system image and database backups, on-site and remote Disaster Recovery Plan DRP and user security configuration.
• Documented and set-up training for local operations and helpdesk staff. Evaluated software and hardware requirements and documented the optimum set-up parameters.

Confidential

• Managed nationwide installation of Cisco BBSM High Speed Internet Access throughout Starwood and Comcast Hospitality Hotel and Resorts.
• Managed and lead nationwide projects of residential and corporate Voice over IP and High Speed Broadband Internet connection implementations.

Confidential

• Provided technical services for UnumProvident's corporate network deployment, maintenance, and service of LAN/WAN technologies. Installed, configured, and supported both company and multi-vendor systems such as Cisco routers, Switches, Hubs, CSU/DSU boxes of various models. Installed configure and troubleshoot cabling issues, utilizing toners, line-testers, etc. Initiated and implemented systems to provide efficient on-site and remote network support for over 500 division customers.
• Responsible for Installation, configuration, system tuning, monitoring, maintenance, troubleshooting, and environment enhancements of 20 RS6000 AIX S-70/H-50, SUN, and Intel based LINUX servers.
• Performed System Administration tasks, user admin, backups, restores, patches, and miscellaneous required tasks.

Confidential

• Performed LAN admin duties including user set-up, profile modifications, and server backup / restore in Banyan, Novell, and NT network.
• Monitored and handled problem tickets forwarded to LAN-II support group.
• Performed root-cause analysis on recurring problems and implemented appropriate solutions.
• Produced and maintained Unix Shell scripts to perform and automate miscellaneous daily tasks as per corporate requirements. Designed front-end batch scripts to incorporate numerous print options in an AIX environment. Documented and set-up training for local operations and helpdesk staff.
• Evaluated software and hardware requirements and documented the optimum set-up parameters. Planned and implemented network hardware and software change s .
• Performed periodic system fine-tunings. Applied Software upgrades and patches to server and client workstations.
• Installed, configured and managed checkpoint FireWall-1on a Sun Solaris Spark platform and implemented / documented the initial testing environment and parameters
• Compiled operational information concerning Virus Control Process. Co-ordinated and assisted corporate-wide IMAC Move, Add, and Change projects. Identified solutions for on-going Windows 95 print problems and other related issues.
• Supervised and provided technical support to local and remote service staff of 12 technicians.
• Created and maintained on-line process and systems support documentation with detailed description of all systems installation, configuration, daily activities, system image and database backups, on-site and remote Disaster Recovery Plan DRP and user security configuration.
• Documented and set-up training for local operations and helpdesk staff. Evaluated software and hardware requirements and documented the optimum set-up parameters.

Network Engineer System Analyst

Confidential

• Installed, configured maintained and administered Banyan, UNIX, Win 9x and NT networks.
• Provided tier-3 software/hardware support and problem determination, analysis, evaluation, escalation and resolution.
• Facilitated training and job shadowing for assigned staff members. Performed root-cause analysis on recurring problems and implemented appropriate solutions.
• Performed LAN admin tasks, i.e., user set up, backups, upgrades, patches, etc. Supervised and performed set-up, software/hardware installation and repair at user and department level in Windows, Banyan, Novell and Unix networks.
• Analyzed, designed and developed distinct in-house applications in C, COBOL, and FoxPro to perform miscellaneous tasks as per client requirements