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Currently undertaking CCIE Security CCIE DC #49003 (Lab completed June 2015) CCNP Certified CCNA Certified A+ Certified N+ Certified BSc Computer Networking (First Class honours) Degree Specialties: Able to prioritise work, meet deadlines and work under pressure. My Excellent communication skills enhanced through my role at BT, which involved liaising with people in different roles (field engineer, project manager, technical delivery manager) to make them understand technical information. Possess strong technical knowledge of networking devices as I have in depth knowledge of their features, functions and operations.

Network Consultant (Cisco Advance Services for Networks & Data Centres) @ From 2015 to Present (less than a year) London, United Kingdom, Kosice, SlovakiaIT Consultant (professional Services) @ Capturing Business/customer requirements to offer technical solution Leading technical delivery of projects to successful completion Providing technical consultancy to customer queries and projects Creating High/low level customer designs Providing L4/L3 support for projects Managing delivery of customer projects on site. Designing Load sharing/balancing solution using BGP for Enterprise connectivity Configuring summarization and BGP route-reflectors for core scalability in an Enterprise network Configuring network resilience for network redundancy to core branches/Data Centre Screening Vendor/Carrier service for technical requirements. Was working as part of customer engineering team, designing customer WAN connectivity solutions, providing network consultancy and L3 support. Using MPLS L3VPNs, BGP, NAT,VRF, VRF-Lite Producing customer connectivity guide, HLD/LLD and Implementation plan. Designing custom campus LAN connectivity, customer LAN/WAN device selection eg cisco routers/switches. Deploying customer solutions using cisco equipment eg (ISR 1900-3900x , switches 2960-3650), 7200, 7600 & ASR1000x routers Configuration of VDC, VPC, FEX, Fabricpath, FCoE and OTV on the Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K, MDS 9200 series & 6200 series Fabric Interconnects for Cisco UCS Service profile creation for Servers on the Cisco’s B Series blade servers Configuring Cisco’s B Series blade servers optimised for VMware VMware installations of host machines Implementation of Zoning in SAN Configuring devices and creating device configuration templates. Testing solutions and handover to operations for support. From July 2012 to September 2014 (2 years 3 months) DubaiBT network Engineer (3rd party contractor) @ Working on the Keystone project, highest profile project in BT, covers 140 countries with 40,000+ sites that includes almost all major banks Responsible for planning, implementing and troubleshooting Reuter’s, Credit Suisse, MasterCard & Procter & Gamble customer sites assigned to provide services on the BT MPLS network High level designing for above customers Generate management and configuration files from base to required services such as DOIP, MOIP and Finance Extranet as per client site’s request and according to specifications and infrastructure Configure PVCs on the Provider Edge routers (PE 7206, 10k & 12k GSR series) for future installations of new sites Configuring BGP (IBGP/EBGP), Multiple VPNs, OSPF, RIP and MPLS over frame-relay (hub & spoke topology) protocol with different COS specifications in accordance to site and service resilience. Configure STM-1, STM-4, SDH, POS Interfaces, channelized E1, E3, T1, T3 interfaces and Frame-relay subinterfaces Implementing routing protocols, creating and configuring access-lists, distribute lists, redistribution, HSRP (Hot Standby Router Protocol), STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) and Frame-relay configuration. Turning up customers sites, deploying all the management and service configurations on the CEs Cisco 1800, 2851 and 3800 series routers and 2950 and 3560 switches Configuring L2TP tunnels for fast convergence applications Responsible of making changes requested by the customer to live sites Responsible for making logical changes & physical changes on the network Responsible for troubleshooting at 2nd to 3rd line level for in service customers. To deal with circuit issues Troubleshooting involves interface flapping, BGP peering, circuit, NAT, routing, QoS, Route Targets, device reachability issues & etc Use Clarify for project management and Remedy for fault management systems From December 2006 to April 2012 (5 years 5 months) Network Support Technician @ Network, infrastructure and PC support on Microsoft Windows and Cisco platform Working with the Service Team Responsible for ensuring data network connectivity on TCP/IP network Implementation of Routing protocols (OSPF/EIGRP) on a Cisco 2600XM series Router IP Address assignment by using DHCP server on a Cisco 2600XM series Router VLAN creation and assigning switch ports to appropriate VLANs on a Cisco 2950 EI (Enhanced Image) Switch Providing Redundancy and Load Balancing by using HSRP on the Ethernet port of 2600 series Routers Implementation of IP addressing scheme on the internal network (LAN) Made straight cables using clamper tool for LAN connections between PCs and the Switch via patch panel, Servers to the Switch and Switch to the Router Made crossover cable to interconnect two switches and two Routers for the internal network (LAN) Regular time-to-time testing of cables with cable tester to ensure full connectivity Use of troubleshooting commands such as PING, TELNET, TRACERT to check layer 1, 2 and 3 connectivity Responsible for Printer, Scanner and PC installations and updates Data entry of patient check-ups and results onto the EMIS system templates Responsible for making sure that data is backed up regularly by using media tapes EMIS ( Egton Medical Information System ) one of the largest IT provider in Primary Health Care. From November 2002 to November 2006 (4 years 1 month)

First Class Honours BSc, Computer Networks @ Middlesex University From 2002 to 2005 Hammersmith & West London College Azfar DC is skilled in: OSPF, Cisco Technologies, Switches, Routers, Routing Protocols, BGP, VPN, Routing, RIP, TCP/IP, DHCP, VLAN, MPLS, QoS, Cisco Nexus, Nexus 7k, Data Center, Fibre Channel, EIGRP