Ahsan H Siddiqi

Mobile: +425 420 4184; Email:aavam@yahoo.com;  Frisco, TX 75035

 

Seeking a challenging and dynamic position

 

·               Architect, Design and Lead several E2E scalable, Cost effective and high availability EOL/EOS hardware/software applications and upgrade projects to align with business objectives and translating those business objectives in a working software system , services and solutions in a highly complex and mission critical enterprise environment (eg: Billing , Monitoring , Performance, Security, Optimization, KPI tools, IT and EMS Applications etc)

·               Lead the deployment and design of in house .Net based Order Management Application and its integration with existing Granite and Network Engineer Applications. 

·               Lead a team effort to develop and design an ESB - Java –Granite-OVSD-OVO based Service Impact Analysis tool to minimize revenue lost due to Network downtime and increasing uptime per SLA

·               Design of Cost effective Virtualization (VMWare, KVM, Containers) and Consolidation solutions of application server to increase rack space and minimize DC foot print and overall efficiency

·               Developed Automation thru scripting (Shell, Expect, MML, Python) to minimize maintenance downtimes and improving operational efficiency (eg Router Config updates, RNC failover switches notification,  alternate route data collection etc)

·               Data Center Migration and Disaster Recovery Exercise and performed Gap Analysis

·               Security, Datacenter, Legal and SOX Compliance consideration in Solutions Design

·               Design and development of Hadoop based data mining in a Big Data setup.

·               Design and Deployment of Virtual Managed Services platform POCs and PODs in an Openstack environment to deploy SDN based Network Function Virtualization (CloudVPN, IWAN etc)

·               Operational familiarity of SQL and Oracle database, SQL queries and BI tools like Microstrategy, BOBJ, SAP BW

·               API programming (REST, XDE-SDK, XML) to update UCS and programming Network and Monitoring Devices and porting performance and configuration data into BSS tools .

·               Open source Software Evaluation and deployment in Lab Eg OpenNMS, Veeam, XSIbackup, ZenOSS etc

·               Presented Projects in Executive meeting for Approvals and worked with Finance team to evaluate Capital and Expense Analysis.

·               Vendor negotiations for an Optimize and cost effective solution per business needs and directives

·               Active participation with internal teams and Vendor in developing Cost effective Short term and Long term solutions to meet business objectives – Roadmaps etc

·               Well versed in Writing of Low Level Design (LLD) Doc, HLD, Design Doc & MOP, Root cause Analysis, Change, Problem and Incident Management and defining new Process flow etc.

·               Fluent in Linux/Unix, Experienced in IOS, IOSXR, NX-OS and working knowledge of Windows.

 

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE

Cisco Systems, Richardson, TX

Senior Solutions Architect OSS– AS Cloud and IT Transformation     Jan 14 – present

Senior Solutions Architect in Cisco Advanced Services group for Openstack based Cloud Solutions Small Cell and Cisco Prime Suite.  Responsible for design and development of Cisco Service Assurance products and Integration in various customer lab and production environments.

 

Key Responsibilities:

·               POC and POD builds of Cisco UCS and RHEL Openstack deployment with Ceph.

·               Design and Integration of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller Enterprise module delivering SDN to Enterprise Campus WAN and Access Network…

·               Cisco vMS POC and POD design and development on UCS based Canonical or Redhat Openstack deployment for NFV SDN solution. 

·               Evaluation and Lab builds of Cisco Evolved Programmable Network and Prime Service Assurance products. Build, Maintenance (patch and Upgrade) and design of Small Cell Linux Lab and Openstack on a VMware platform.

·               E2E Small Cell Linux based solution High Availability Solution with SAN integrated on UCS.

·               RMS , PN, Prime Performance, Provisioning ,Infrastructure and Optical  integration with PC

·               Design, Test and validation of Backup/restore at VM and App level for a complete disaster recovery solution.

·               API programming to integrate Prime products with Customer OSS/BSS environment.

·               Troubleshooting of various issues at the OS, Application and programming level

·               Automation and thru shell scripting, building VMware OVA & OVF templates for a quick installs.

AT&T Labs, Redmond, WA

Solutions Architect - EMS / OSS (Consultant)                    Oct 10 – Dec 13

Architect and design Cost effective EMS Solutions and to make sure they all align with business objectives and deliverables. Worked with various vendors like Ericsson, ALU, Cisco etc to support CS Core, RAN, EPC and IT projects.

 

Key Responsibilities

·               EMS supporting Technical project management E2E.

·               Vendor and Internal AT&T teams coordination to define project timelines and to achieve milestone

·               Present project to AT&T Exec team to gain approval for various projects milestones and to debrief.

·               Manage project related design activities to make sure all the stakeholders are on board and all the impacted Apps are considered towards a working solution E2E

·               Active participation in various Roadmap and Joint Steering group meeting and propose solutions for future enhancements and features

·               Active participation with IT teams for various IT related development and EMS integrations.

·               Organizing Vendor scorecard and Roadmap meeting

·               Working with vendor in design of new features and functionality to benefit business and ops

·               Provide post FFA support to end users and operational teams and follow up on technical requirements with customers and vendors.

Key Deliverables

·               EMS EOL/EOS and several software and hardware full life cycle projects.

·               Developed Unix Shell automation script to update RNCs and BSCs broadcasting messages

·               EMS hardware upgrade, RNC rehomes, E911 and hardware Legal and data center compliance

 

Hydro One Telecom, Toronto, Canada

Team Lead OSS/BSS (Consultant)                                                 March 08 – October 10

Hydro One Telecom operates and manages province wide Fiber Optic and Wireless Network and provide mission critical WAN and Internet services to Ontario Health and Power Systems and provides Internet backbone transport network to leading Telecom and Banks. Primary responsibility is to test new technologies and architect new solution and upgrade operations environment to meet future demands. 

Job highlights as follows

·               Weekly Executive meeting on Ops issues and to provide summary reports on various Ops projects.

·               Development of an Order Management system in an Agile environment and its interaction with various Telecom apps like Granite, ticketing system and Java API development and  Web Logic and Database interactions

·               Data Center disaster recovery exercise and follow thru Gap Analysis

·               Management and support of Nortel Transport network and Cisco switches based WAN  and MPLS network support

·               Design  and support of WIMAX network and EMS implementation

·               Management and support of Unix/Linux based servers, HP Blades, SAN and Tape backup.

·               Management of Various Middle Tier applications like Apache, Java, Citrix and web services

·               Providing support to upstream monitoring and management tools like Netcool, Optima, Granite

·               Management and support of Oracle Database and automation of various tasks thru Perl scripting

·               Installation and configuration of various Unix/Linux base server, routers and switches.

·               Active participant in Roadmap & Tech Requirements meeting on current and upcoming projects

·               Mentor team members in various technical tasks and projects.

 

Cryptologic Inc, Toronto, Canada                                               Dec 05 – Mar 08

Operations Team Lead

Datacenter Monitoring and Management of Solaris and Cisco gear

 

Saudi ERICSSON  Riyadh, Saudi Arabia                       Jan 05 - Dec 05

Deployment/Configuration of Ericsson OSS-RC and RBS

 

Technical Consultant -     SIEMENS, Mississauga, ON Canada            Jun 04 – Dec 04                                                                                          

NSN OSS NetAct deployment for a local Telecom

 

Project Manager AERO, Karachi       May 02 – May 04 Design of communication board and Microcontroller based embedded systems

 

Team Lead Saudi ERICSSON, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia                                              Mar 99 – May 02

AXE PCM Links, IOG-11 Alarms, OSS and WAN link integration

 

Design Engineer Princeton Technology Inc, Irvine, CA USA                                           Aug 96 – Feb 99

Computer Memory Design and supporting Computer LAN and Website management

 

Education:

California State University, Fullerton, California, USA

Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (Core: Computer Engineering - 96)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Expertise in UNIX, LINUX, HPUX, Windows 200x, VMware, KVM Server Virtualization.

Expertise in Cisco UCS, HP Blade, Sun Oracle M series Hardware, Dell Servers and ASR routers

Shell scripting, Expect, awk , Sed 3gpp , XML and various programming tools

Broad Range of Cisco Prime Openstack deployments and Openstack Monitoring and Orchestration.

SAN /Disk Array integration, Cluster, VERITAS Netbackup restore, bare metal and Jumpstart server

Oracle/Sybase, Web logic, VERITAS Cluster and Volume Manger, OMNI and Netbackup backup.

Network scanning and monitoring. Tools like HP Open View, Big Brother, Cacti, MRTG, Wire shark, Nagios, Cisco Works, splunk and Rancid

Protocols Netconf, GTP, Diameter, TCP, SNMP

Telecom Application like Granite, SysEdge, eHealth, Syslog

ESB, WebMethod, Java and Middleware Tools and Technologies

Experience in Cisco Prime, Ericsson OSS-RC, W-NMS, ALU WMS, NSN NetAct, WEM

Experienced in Capacity triggered projects and RNC, nodeB and MSC rehomes, Call test, TEMPS

Knowledgeable in RAN performance and Optimization tools Like SON, NPO

Knowledgeable in 2G/3G/LTE architecture, call flow, functions, node and interfaces

Knowledge of Hadoop, Piston/Mirantis Openstack, Cloud and Virtualization, Python

Knowledgeable in RAN performance and Optimization tools Like SON, NPO

Knowledgeable in 2G/3G/LTE architecture, call flow, functions, node and interfaces

LTE Call flow data analysis using Netscout, JDSU, iRis probes thru wire shark to identify protocol, translations, policy issues etc

Signaling Interfaces (S1, S5/S8,S11, Gx/Ga, Gi, Gn) and Diameter, GTP, SCTP protocol

ITIL & SLA/SLO implementation in Service, Incident, Change and Release management.