- 9+ years of success in designing, building and operating large scale unified networks.
- CCIE certified R&S (CCIE#21031).
- CCNP and CCSP certified.
- ITIL foundation v3 certified.
- Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) implementation (Nexus 9K,APIC).
- Configuring Cisco switches including Nexus9K, Nexus7K, Nexus5K and Nexus2K (FEX), C6500,4900,3750,3560,3550,2960,2950 and C500 switches.
- Virtual Port Channel (VPC) and Virtual Device Context (VDC) configuration.
- Overlay Transport Virtualization (OTV) and Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP).
- Cisco visualization using VSS technology.
- Configuring Cisco routers including 7600,7200,ASR, 3800,2900,2800,1800,800 routers
- Layer 2 protocols including Spanning tree (STP), VTP, LACP and PAgP.
- Multicast switching and routing for voice and video.
- Configuring and supporting dynamic routing protocols specially RIP, OSPF, EIGRP and BGP.
- Managing and supporting WAN connections including Frame-relay, PPP, and HDLC…etc.
- Managing WAN optimization using Riverbed Steelhead and Cisco WAAS devices.
- Load-balancing using F5 LTM, Cisco CSS, CSM and ACE.
- Configuring QoS,VRF-lite and traffic engineering.
- Configuring gateway redundancy using HSRP, VRRP and GLBP.
- Monitoring network using nGenius Netscout, HP NNM, Ciscoworks, MRTG,Solarwinds Orion and Cyber Gauge.
- Network documentation using Visio.
- Operating and administering wireless access points (autonomous & lightweight).
- Securing traffic using VPN connections.
- Handling network security using Cisco FWSM and ASA.
- Handling authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) using Cisco ACS.