Experience

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  Huawei technologies

  Apr 2010 - Jan 2018

  Back office maintenance for Ericsson MLTN, Tellabs DXX, Aviat Truepoint and INUe, Huawei RTN and OSN, Marconi long haul, ALU equipment. skilled in various MW/SDH tools such as Tellabs, U2000, M2000, Provision7, SOEM amongst other craft tools.  Performed troubleshooting and restoration of link and service level failures across multi-vendor access network.  Pulled and analyzed performance report on microwave links for daily network optimization purposes.  Coordinated IPRAN migration and swap projects in an efficient and safe manner that prevents intolerable downtime and undesired failures.  Installed upgrade-baselines and scheduled activation on network elements within an organized window that minimizes service disruption at peak periods.  Ensured change and incident management are treated according to agreed SLA to maintain good availability.  Designed a troubleshooting algorithm for microwave failures that reduces MTTR by 20 percent.  Documented potential performance bottleneck and provided proactive recommendations which mitigates unexpected failure occurrence.  Deploying and configuring F5 Load balancers to support robust server applications  Planned TDM/IP/ATM service backhaul for microwave transport network on Aviat Eclipse, Huawei Optix RTN series, Ericsson Traffic Node radios.  Coordinated pre-handover testing and performed customer acceptance tests with satisfactory delivery.  Performed service integration for MLAN, IPRAN, VLANs, TDM and ATM services on network.  Participated in team knowledge contribution for continuous service improvement and availability. Show less

  • Transmission Engineer, MTN Managed Services

    Mar 2014 - Jan 2018

  • Transmission Engineer EMTS Rollout Project

    Apr 2010 - Mar 2014
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  Rogers communications

  Feb 2019 - now

  Infrastructure specialist

  Networking and Automation• Expertise in Infrastructure Configuration using Ansible Playbook.• Advance network monitoring, configuration and maintenance automation with HPNA.• Network device configuration and polling using Netmiko and Putty.• Expertise in Optics, SCADA, Microwave transport and Access networks provisioning, Monitoring and advance maintenance; Ceragon IP10/20, Aviat Provision7, Huawei U2000, Ericsson SOEM and Tellabs, Optima Tlans etc.• Expertise in administering network solutions with protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, VLAN, PVLAN, VTP, MPLS and VPLS.• Experience with Windows and Linux Operating Systems (CentOS, Obuntu, and Kali Distros), shell/bash scripting and basic knowledge of Python and other highlevel languages.• Knowledge of managing projects following Scrum and ITIL best practices.CyberSecurity• Expertise in administering PaloAlto NextGen firewalls, Cisco ASA and Juniper SRx.• Experience with application logging, SIEM tools like Splunk and IBM QRadar• Proficient in network scanning and vulnerability testing using Metasploit framework, Nmap, Nessus.• Good knowledge of Governance, Compliance and management (SOC1&2, NIST, SOX, HIPAA…)Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure • Experience in Virtualization, VM provisioning, managing ESXi hosts, High availability and fault tolerant cluster administration on VMware vSphere6.0.• Good knowledge of storage provisioning, performance optimized IOPS, HDD, SSD, Swapping, SAN, and NAS and RAID technologies.• Experience with CI/CD Automation Tools such as Jenkins, Code Pipeline and AWS CloudFormation.• Proficient with AWS services deployment; EC2, S3, ELB, VPC, IAM, RDS, DynamoDB, Autoscaling.• Experience using Project Tracking and monitoring tools such as JIRA, Cloudwatch and Cloudtrail and SNS.• Experience in resource optimization techniques using Docker and Kubernetes in managing Containers. • Experience working with GIT Source Control tool. Show less