Dubai, United Arab Emirates
A highly experienced, solution-oriented and meticulous networking engineer, with a powerfully versatile portfolio of eminent clients and a track-record working with diverse teams and international environments. Expert in tackling multiple problems effectively and efficiently thanks to his talent in grasping complex concepts, analyzing options and rapidly translating ideas into a logical strategy. Well-versed in dealing with people in critical situations and dedicated to maintaining high standards. - Directing complex projects while leading entire teams, technical divisions and peer engineers while organizing and prioritizing project tasks and milestones and seeing it through to completion - Leading significant projects for prominent UAE clients including Dubai, Abu Dhabi airports, Emirates Airline, ENEC, NAWAH, ADCB, MBZO, Dubai Port Worlds, Kempinski, ADEC, DU, FEDNET, Abu Dhabi Judicial Department, - Providing network support and consulting in significant projects for prominent MENA customers including Oman Airport, STC (Saudi), ECZACIBASI (Turkey), Ooredoo Kuwait - Consulting for important organizations in Europe and the UK including Vodafone, Danske Bank, Reuters, Deloitte, British Telecom, Arcelor-Mittal, Sparkassen Informatik, JPMorgan and EON to name a few - Involvement with SDN, Openstack and NFV solutions which are not vendor-specific and require high levels of System Integration know-how and proficiency CORE EXPERTISE: - CCIE - ITIL - Team Leadership - Technical Project Leadership - Data Center Networking - Network Support Engineering
Network Assessments and Optimization - Assessed client networks that was outdated and experiencing outages causing service interruptions affecting KPIs and SLAs - Built and executed an optimization plan after Identifying baseline KPIs and optimization areas - Improved network availability and upgraded outdated and unsupported hardware and software improved KPIs and SLAs from below 20% to over 80% Solution Tailoring and Integration - Identified the best solutions for a new customer data center deployment facility - Provided integrated and multiple-vendor solutions while collaborating with other partners as System Integrator (Cisco ACI, Palo Alto, Dell, Vmware NSX) - This offered the customer a state-of-the-art, sustainable and scalable datacenter solution
Network Performance Optimization -Investigating and optimizing a client networks having performance and capacity issues and frequent outages causing service interruptions in critical services (Voice, CCTV) -Recommending network design changes and network-refresh programs including new hardware and software to eliminate performance and capacity bottlenecks -Reduced outages and service interruptions dramatically leading the client operations team spending less time troubleshooting and fixing issues which increased customer and user satisfaction Network Migration and Refresh -Migration and merge of multiple MPLS MPBGP inter AS networks into a single MPLS MPBGP AS network to reduce operation complexity and improve network availability for aviation client -Transition traditional legacy networks to SDN based next generation devices in DC and in Campus to provide a future proof network experience for the customer network operation teams -Execution of migration plan during maintenance windows without any service interruption on the network of 50 MPLS PE nodes, 2000+ CE/Access devices and 60+ DC Fabric devices
Data Center Restructuring and Migration -Designing and Implementing new Data Center networks; optimization and migration existing Data Centers -Generating design documentation, network implementation plans, network staging plans and ready-for-use network documents for Data Center projects based on network simulations and proof of concept in Cisco LAB devices -Facilitating a smooth transition for the customer and completing the network migration from old Data Center Infrastructure to new Data Center Infrastructure with minimal service interruption