Payam Forghani

 

Contacts:

Address: 109 Talbot Rd, Toronto, Ontario , Canada. Postal Code: M2M 1S2

Phone: +1 647 975 06 07                      Citizenship Status: Canadian Citizen with Canadian Passport

 

Education: Master’s in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications Signal Processing) ,

Full Licensed member of Professional Engineering Ontario (P.Eng) # 100165047

 

Objective:

n       “Sr Systems Engineer”or ”Solutions Architect” in IT/Telecom industry (Video, Mobility, IPTV)

n       Walking extra miles to acheive company targets – Focusing on customer’s requirements

n       Improve the business of the company and Client --Monetizing– making TRUST with client

n       More exposure to new IT/Telecom domains (i.e . Infrastructure, Data-Centers (Cloud), Virtualization, Wireless, Video IPTV/VoD) in pre-sales and delivery phases to Service Provider or Enterprise

 

Skills:

 

Technical Skills:

 

-- Systems Integration - Hands-on with Unix/Linux/Solaris/CentOS and SQL / Oracle DB systems

 

--Solution Architect for integration between various Telecom/Datacom Servers and Storage (NAS/SAN)

 

--Architect the LAN/WAN networks –Design & Traffic Engineering - (Wireless,Wireline and Infrastructure)

 

--Design and Architect the Virtualization (Cloud, NFV/SDN)– Hands-on with vSphere in VMWare and vCenter – Configuring DNS, DHCP, routes, ethernet ports and other network configuration on VMs

 

--Create Web-Portal biz logic(J2EE Web Appl./servers (SUN,HP, IBM and Cisco)-SDLC-ITIL

 

-- IP/MPLS in IPv6 / IPv4 (control, media and transport plains) –Video and IPTV

 

--QoS, Charging, Policy & Billing architecture and call flows analysis–SIP, RADIUS & DIAMETER protocols on LTE/3G/IMS/VoLTE

 

--OSS/BSS architecture and design: Experienced in High-level & Detailed design) – Network Monitoring

 

Inter-personal, management and business skills:

 

--Leadership (with 6-7 years of Leading experience) / Team player and ability to work independently

 

--Setting up Lab/Prod Proof-of-Concepts and get the acceptance tests for all test cases and use cases

 

--Bridging between the customer technical team and development/Product Management for details

--Technical Sales support for Presales; (8 years): Planning, respond to SoC/RFI/RFP, writing Solution Description and SoW documents, Executive Summary and Solution design Presentation in IT/Telecom

 

--Performing SWOT analysis and potential Risk Analysis on technical solutions

 

--Ability to Respond to RFIs/RFPs and SoCs and drive the Pre-Sales tendering activities- Presales Design

 

--Presentation Skills and Negotiation in CxO level

 

--Strong Analytical and Mathematical skills - proficiency in Technical Reports and docs

 

--Sharp Learning Curve for new technologies, area of business, and environments

 

Working Experience: 15 years in Total, 12 years in IT/Telecommunications

Rogers (Contract Alcatel-Lucent for Eclipse IPTV/VoD/LTV/nDVR/Unicast/MultiCast)

IPTV Architect/integration Engineer (Contract) May 2015 to Present

·          Review and assess IPTV Architecture design of Eclipse 2.0 & 3.0 : LTV/VoD/nDVR/Advertising/…

·          Review and assess the OSS/BSS Architecture and Requirements for Wave 3 of Eclipse project

·          Review RESTful APIs on VoD / LTV / nDVR platforms - STB, Desktop, iOS, Android & tablet clients

Bell Mobility (Contracted by ‘PwC/Mavenir’ for RCS/Presence on IMS/VoLTE system)

Senior Consultant/ Architect (Contract) Oct 2014 to May2015

·          Network Architecture and Call Flow in Voice/Video-over-LTE(VoLTE, RCS, PRS)

·          Systems integration to Bell IMS network considering backbone and FireWall– DRA, HSS

·          Take part in business use case and test cases meetings

·          Server Vitualization on VMWare - vSphere Client with network configuration

·          IP network/subnet  plan/design for VM cards with various functions in IMS/RCS/Presence/VoLTE

·          Oracle installation and Configuration. (Network configuration for Oracle)

·          OSS/BSS integration – Interface to charging/billing and Unified Reporting

·          Testing and Verifications – Testing SIP 2.0, HTTP and DIAMETER -Analyzing CallFlow

·          Working with BugZilla for bug tracing and escalating to Mavenir RnD

·          Linux RH 6.2, WinServer200x, SQL, Database,Firewall, S-CSCF, P/I-CSCF, HSS

·   Troubleshooting : tcpdump, tshark, WireShark (PCAPs) and analyzing SIP

Rogers (Contract through ‘SeaChange International’ for Video-on-Demand/IPTV)

Senior Systems Integration Engineer/Solution Architect (Contract) Oct 2013 to Sep 2014

·          Network design of Front-End and Back-End of Windows/Linux based VoD (Video-on-Demand) File/business systems and Streaming (IPTV) – Monitoring/Billing (OSS/BSS)

·          Systems integration to Rogers Cable network with MPLS based backbone and FireWall Systems , Video Streaming system in wireline and wireless Clients –

·          Integration of Ad-Insertion system

·          Server Vitualization on VMWare WorkStation 10 and vFusion (on Mac systems) - vSphere Client software RedHat, CentOS and Windows application virtualization in VoD echosystem, Asset Management &  Asset Ingest (from Content Provider) and  Video Transcoding

·          IP network/subnet  plan/design (High Availability in Single & Multi-Cluster modes) for Multi-Screen

·          Video Streaming  Optimization and Asset Ingest: Optimizing MetaData / Transcoding the content

·          Testing and Verifications – Scripting in Lab/prod for testing HD/SD/MPEG-2/MPEG-4 assets

·          Working with BugZilla and JIRA for bug tracing / escalating the issues to Rogers' eng. team

·          Linux, CentOS 5.3, Windows Server200x and Windows server 2008 R2 , SQL, Database,Firewall

·          Integration to Provisioning and Billing of Rogers Cable (Part of OSS/BSS)- via RADIUS

·          Troubleshooting the network issues in Cisco FireWall, Cisco L2 Switches and Cisco routers

Bell Mobility (Contract through “Giesecke & Devrient” Canada For OTA/OSS/BSS, NFC Enabling on LTE/IMS) November 2012 up to September 2013

·               Senior Consultant Systems Engineer (Contract), Mobile Payment & Enablement/Provisioning

Technologies :LTE, HSPA, IMS, Roaming, NFC (Near Field Comm.) – Post-Sales

Technoogies: Device and SIM OTA Provisioning /Mobile Payment and Wallet Solutions

LTE, IMS, and HSPA/GSM Access Network OTA Provisioning from OSS/BSS

Cisco Systems  Canada, October 2010 - October 2012

·               Systems Engineer III, Sales (Mobility) 4G and 3G IMS/VoLTE Solution Architect (Presales-Post-Sales)  Account: Bell Mobility Canada

1) Cisco LTE and Packet Switched HSPA core network based on Cisco ASR5000

2) Cisco UC Platform for Enterprise Voice/Video and setting up a lab trial for mobile payment use case

3) IMS Trial (PoC- Voice, Video and messaging applications) responsible for ATP testing:

-- Areas supported: Video-Over-LTE, Voice-Over-LTE (SIP, RADIUS and DIAMETER protocol analysis)

 

•          Cisco UC Platform Configuration on CUSP, Voice Gateway (3845), L3 Switched (2960) , Virtual Switches and Load Balancers (based on ESXi),  Cisco ASA Firewall 5525 and its ADSM Wizard- Cisco UCS platform for OSS including Cisco UCS B200 server

•          LTE-SAE (EPC) and VoLTEarchitecture (including MME, HSS, S/P-GW , Charging systems and DIAMETER/RADIUS AVPs, PCRF & DPI (Deep Packet Inspection))

•          Video-Over-LTE and integration for Video Conferencing and Video-Chat on LTE (MPEG-2/4, HD/SD)

•          Technical PreSales and Architecture design activity:

•          --Bridging between Customer and Product Line for Technical issues

•          --Drawing the network topology for  Cisco UC platform and Packet Switched LTE EPC and HSPA+

•          --Network integration and working with protocol analyzers and logs for testing and verifications

•          --Liasing with customer (Bell Mobility Canada) for day-to-day new feature requirements in 4G/3G/VoLTE and Video-over-LTE to fulfill the gaps in Inter-Operability – (Alcatel-Lucent DSC PCRF, Openet, Nokia, Ericsson, Mavenir)

•          --Providing Documentation : 1)Solution Design Doc/powerpoint 2)Scope of Work 3) MOP and ATP

•          IMS, IP/MPLS, DNS and DHCP, Load Balancer (F5)

•          Bell LTE/SAE RFP design, SoC response for MME and PCRF

•          Telus LTE/SAE RFP design, Dimensioning, Configuration and Pricing for EPC part

•       Ericsson August 2007 - October2010

•          Senior Solution Manager/Architect, Core & IMS-MultiMedia & Applications Pre-Sales

      Solution Manager / Solution Architect for the OSS/BSS domain in Multimedia Networks: (Pre-Sales and Post-Sales)

----Architecture and installing the HP/IBM Servers and Solaris 11 for Ericsson MM systems

----Working as a Team Leader to drive a technical proposal (CSR)

--Designing the OSS/BSS interface and Creating the proper Provisioning Sessions /Commands/Scripts with: CAI, SOAP, XML, Diameter and LDAP and Java Web API for VoIP systems

--Providing the Solution Description, Executive Summary on offer and Statement of Work (SoW)

      Senior Solution Manager, Pre-Sales , Wireless/Wireline Core & IMS

--End2End topology Design, NW Planning,architecture&Configuration of Core with OSS/RC

--High Level/Detailed Design & Network Architect, integration and Configuration of the Switching Core network of 2G/3G, Mobile SoftSwitch, IMS, DNS, DHCP, Load Balancer from (F5)  for the Pre-Sales proposals and post-sales in both high level and detailed design.

--Customer advisory role in the Mobile Circuit switching Core and IP Backbone (MPBN)

-- Technical Management for implementing Mobile SoftSwitch and MPBN Core network.

Customers: Etissalat, du, QTel, MTN group, MCCI (Market Unit Middle-East), TeliaSonera, TeleNor

 

 

Nokia Networks March 2004 - August 2007

·               Solution Architect/Manager, RAN and Mobility transport (and OSS)

Pre-Sales

Role:Technical Architect in Sales and delivery phase, Dimensionning&Configuration

-- Drawing the topology and traffic engineering of the Radio+backhaul Solution(based on WCDMA/GSM/ GPRS and DWDM/S&PDH with OSS integration interfaces connectivity):

1.                                   Solution Architect of 2G/3G Wireless In-Building Solution with DAS and rectifiers

2.                                   Technical lead, Dimensioning and Configuration of the Radio Network elements

--Presenting the new Radio technology in NSN to the customer and implementation team.

--Technichal management of Nokia Application Software/Features in the RN and Core, in Post-Sales phase.

·              Sr Integration Engineer (Core and Access) / Radio Planner :

-- Integration of the GSM/GPRS/WCDMA/HSPA nodes to the IP/MPLS Networks/Troubleshouting and performing the Software Upgrade in 2G /3G Mobile Networks-AAA Server and RADIUS protocol for charging

·               Project Management:

--Technical Project Supervision for AMR-HR activation in mobile network.

--PM&TM for Software upgrade in BSS SW upgrade.

TECTEON-HITACHI  Telecom/Biomed R&D, March, 2002-March 2004

Software Engineer / Algorithm Developer – Team Lead of ASR development:

1.                     Design the software/hardware and algorithm development  by applying Visual C++ and Windows system.

2.                     Implementation of a trial for DICOM, HL7, HIS , for medical imaging in Video (MPEG-2)

3.                     Leading in setting up technical lectures and presentations in Conferences and events. Development Projects: “ASR(Automatic Speech Recognition)” / “Noise Suppression based on Spectral Subtraction” Algorithm and “VAD algorithm” (Voice Activity Detector)–C++ and MATLAB

IR-Mavad Company Sep1998-Mar2002

Electrical Engineer/Lead:

Signal Processing and Analyzing of the modern Electrocardiography and also Cardio system with Arrhythmia detection (MATLAB and Visual C++) – Design/make a stable power supply

 

·           Certifications:

·            Cisco Mobility SEVT 2012 April (San Jose, California)

·            Cisco CCNA, 2006(Expert in Cisco FireWall/ Routers/Switches Config with CLI and Wizard)

·            IP/MPLS Advanced (@ Ericsson – equivalent to Cisco CCNP and CCDA),  2009&2010

·            SUN Solaris 11, 2009

·            E-Commerce Web Applications with J2EE (2014)  &  CISSP, (2014, Ongoing)

·            *Ericsson Company systems and planning multi courses for various platforms

·            *Nokia Company systems and planning multi courses for various platforms

·            Network+2005

·            Ericsson Project Management & E/// Risk Management (Minirisk) 2008

·         Computer Languages & Pakages:

Linux/Unix, Java, Veritas, Visual C++, Matlab 7, Solaris 11 (SUN Microsystems)

·            Languages : Fluent in English (Written and Spoken)

Detailed academic Background:

·               M.Sc. in Electrical  Engineering (Signal Processing) , (Feb, 2002 Graduation , Poly-Technique University of Technology, quialified by University of Toronto and Professional Engineering Ontario)

·               B.Sc.  In Electrical Engineering, Electronics- 1998 Graduation Sharif University of Technology

 

Professional and Academic Honors:

·                                       Ranked as the First student in Master’s program among 18 Students with highest GPA

·                                       Recognized for the best Network Design for WCDMA Core networks with IP/MPLS at Ericsson

·                                       Recignized for closing DSD(Detailed Network Design) in Radio/Core Netowks at Nokia Networks

·                                       Member of Professional Engineering Ontario (PEO) organization – Full Licenseed P.Eng on Feb 2014

 

 

References: Managerial and Technical references available upon request