About.

Senior Network Architect

Senior Network Architect with 18+ years of experience in designing solutions for Telecommunications, Global Service Providers, Data Centre, Cloud, and Fortune 500 companies (e.g. ExxonMobil, Total, Airbus, UPS, and PMI), with highly developed presentation and communication skills

Achievements/Skills

Achievements/Skills

  • Won 2nd place in “Best Design Award for Service Provider Solution”, which promote the best business designs for large customers.
  • Achieved Cisco Certified Design Expert “CCDE” one out of almost 450 persons worldwide.
  • Proven record of suggesting new services and ideas which aim to lower TCO, enhance ROI, and increase profit (e.g. Virtual Network Operator service).
  • Extensive technology in Telecommunication, Service Providers, Data Centre and Cloud Solutions.
  • Held Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert – Routing & Switching “CCIE R&S” since 2008
  • Subject Matter Expert for CCDE program
  • Preparing, responding-to, and evaluating RFP.
  • Prepared and presented conceptual architectural design to customer’s decision makers such as CxO Level management (CIO, CTO) to get the buy-in for the proposed solutions
  • Vendor Management: negotiation, evaluation, and selection (e.g. Cisco, F5, Palo Alto, Juniper, Nokia/ALU, Huawei, and others)
  • Technical/Domain lead for multiple Mega/Large projects.
Employers

Employers

  • France Telecom / Orange Business Services / Equant
  • Saudi Telecom Company
  • Qatar Foundation
  • Vodafone
Projects

Sample Projects

  • Designed Unified Architecture for a merge/acquire of 4 large Service Providers in Australia using (segment routing, MPLS, BGP-LU, and RSVP)
  • Architected network and security solution for Government private cloud fully orchestrated which saved time to build and configure network and servers
  • Designed, tested, and implemented Service Provider network-wide Fast Convergence project
  • Studied, analysed, and recommended Peering, Content Delivery, and Transit routing policy
  • Developed Solution Architecture for a Large Smart City project
  • Planned and designed asset refresh for two DC and architected a third DC as a DR
  • Deployed mobile and voice services integration over IP/MPLS network (such as 2G, 3G, LTE, Mobile core, VoIP services)
  • Introduced Layer 2 multipoint to multipoint “VPLS” VPN as a new service
  • Assessed, and built end-to-end QoS within Multinational Service Provider network for business, residential, mobile, voice, and video which lowered TCO and reduced the cost of running parallel networks
  • Validated the technical and operation capabilities of local telco/service providers in 40+ countries to partnership with them for various connectivity services (DSL, Metro Ethernet, and MPLS VPN)
Certificates

Certificates

  • CCDE
  • CCIE R&S
  • VCP-NV
  • VCP-DC
  • CCNP-voice, CCDP, and CCNP
  • PMP, and ITIL
  • MCSE