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Waqas Ahmad Daar Kungshamra 11 / 12209 17070 Solna, Stockholm Sweden

Mobile: +46704058221, E-mail: daar@kth.se

CAREER OBJECTIVE To become a part of an organization, that provides me with the opportunity to apply my IP knowledge, management, decision-making and communication skills, to produce satisfying, innovative and successful solutions to problems that may be faced.

PROFILE SUMMARY

Highly motivated individual that, have 2 years of experience as a Network Engineer in an enterprise networking, telecommunication and customer relationship. Worked on multi-vendor high-end platforms devices in a professional environment of an ISP. Carry excellent analytical and troubleshooting skills.

Good hands on configuring and managing ATM, BRAS, Routers, Switches and DSLAM

Configuration and management of Cisco/Juniper/RedBack devices

Ability to take and assume complete responsibility for all actions in timely manner to meet deadlines

Responsible for managing day-to-day activities of Network Operations Center (NOC)

Ensuring maximum possible service availability, performance and reporting of issues while minimizing downtime and providing proactive service which gives maximum continuity

EXPERIENCE

Network Engineer NOC, LINKdotNE; www.link.net.pk

Subsidiary of Orascom Telecom, Lahore Pakistan Jan 2006 – August 2007

Installation, configuration and maintenance of core/access devices including DSLAM (Paradyne), ATM

Switches, BRAS(RedBack), Cisco (7200,3600,2600,2500)/Switches (Cisco 3750, HP ProCurve)

Lucent’s MAX TNT, 3K & 6K Installation, Configuration, Troubleshooting and Maintenance support.

Responsible for proper operation of IGP (OSPF) & BGP (eBGP) routing protocols nationwide.

Experience of managing and troubleshooting of routing protocols EIGRP,OSPF and BGP on large scale live networks.

Interaction with other 3rd line engineers for service escalations according to the customer SLA.

Professional and courteous customer interaction via various channels including telephone, e-mail, and face-to-face meetings.

Corporate client data connectivity using ATM/Frame Relay and VPN technologies

Proactive monitoring of customer networks using network management tools like MRTG, Nagios.

Provide in-depth analysis of network incidents and implementation of permanent fix to avoid their recurrence.

Working on operational Central Ticketing System RT.

Worked on customer’s SLA’s and escalation process.

Worked on network management system [RT] to create and resole the tickets.

Deciding the priority for the customer query and resolve it according to the SLA.

Network testing, troubleshooting ,fault rectification and documentation

Worked with the Incident Support Engineer to resolve incidents including fault resolution.

Preparing Handovers for the next shift.

EDUCATION

2007-2010 Master of Science in Internetworking KTH, Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, Sweden. 2001-2005 B.Sc (hons) in Computer Science Punjab University College of Information Technology University of the Punjab, Lahore Pakistan.

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SKILLS

PROJECTS Master Thesis, University of Trento, Italy Title: Distribution Agnostic Video Server (DAVS) Duration: 6 months Description: Video server which can be dynamically coupled to different streaming and distribution techniques, making the service independent, or agnostic, to the streaming technique chosen by the client. MAREN – Malawi research and education network Duration: 7 months Team member: 7 Role : Network Specialist The project is expected to provide an Open Source software platform for the deployment of MaREN (Malawi Research & Educational Networks) as well as a framework for managing the network. My responsibilities include:

Network Design with open source Bifrost Routers.

IPV4 addressing scheme

Proposed IPV6 addressing scheme for future IPV6 connectivity.

Implement different services like DNS, email, cache server.

Implement MRTG for real time network monitoring. Project Website: http://www.tslab.ssvl.kth.se/csd/projects/0831011/node/1 Small scale ISP Project Team member: 5 Role: Network Engineer Description: Implemented a small level ISP which provides service dynamic routing, fault tolerant routing, IP Multicasting, VOIP Service using SIP in Asterisk and Web Service, DHCP and DNS.

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS/TRAININGS

Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate (JNCIA) certified.

Brain Bench certified IP Routing and Switching exam.

CCNA Training

Cisco VOICE (CVOICE) Training

Juniper Networks Certified Specialist-M (JNCIS-M) Preparing

SOCIAL SKILLS AND HOBBIES

Good communication skills gained through my experience in customer technical support.

Ability to adapt to multicultural environment gained through my studies at different places.

Enjoy travelling and tourism to explore new places.

Eager to learn about new culture and societies.

Arranging mingle parties and get together

Playing cricket, football and swimming

REFRENCES

Protocols TCP/IP, RIP, IGRP, EIGRP, OSPF, ISIS, BGP,IPv6, IEEE 802.1x, IEEE 802.3, IP Multicasting, MPLS (RSVP,LDP), L2/L3 VPN using BGP/MPLS, Virtual leased Line (VLL), IPSec based VPN, Firewalls, QoS concepts.

Routers Cisco (2600, 3600, 7200), Juniper (4300), Open Source Bifrost routers,

Switches HP ProCurve 2900, Cisco 2950, Alteon

Linux Deployed different servers Bind, Httpd, Squid, Vsftp, NFS, Samba, Sendmail, Qmail, MRTG, Nagios

Microsoft Windows 98, XP, Windows NT/2000/2003 servers, Active Directory Telecom SS7, GSM, GPRS, SIP, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS), Asterisk Programming C/C++, JAVA (J2SE) Scripting Bash, Tcl/Tk

References will be furnished upon request.