Education and Certifications
Year: 2011 School: NJIT Newark, NJ. Degree:
Master of Science Telecommunications
Year: 2005 School: UET Taxila, Punjab, Pakistan. Degree:
Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering
Certifications: CCNP Routing & Switching, CCNA Routing &
Switching
Mediacom: Mediacom Park,
NY.
August 2013- Present
IP Engineer, IP Networks.
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Engineered
and implemented redundant layer 2 transport network deploying Cisco CPT
600 platform using MPLS-TP. The network provides sub 50 msec failover
for the HSD (High Speed Data) traffic between the aggregation switches
and CMTS's to the Internet gateway using BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding
Detection) and MPLS-TP tunnels.
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Configured
and troubleshoot E-Line, E-Lan, VPLS, H-VPLS services on Cisco CPT 600
platform.
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Engineering
the upgrade to replace Cisco 4900M aggregation and ISP routers with
Huawei X8 router to have a more scalable platform as part of the company
10G to 100G core upgrade project.
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Provide
end to end network design and implementation for new business customers
based on customer requirements including deployment of CPE devices like
Cisco 3550’s , Cisco 3560’s and Huawei S5328, engineering and
configuring transport (SONET, OTN or DWDM) if needed, provision layer 2
& layer 3 services, and doing test and turn up.
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Execute
EtherBERT and RFC 2544 GIGE and 10G Ethernet circuit testing using Exfo
FTB-1 test sets.
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Converted
static routes to OSPF routing protocol between CMTS’s and gateway router
to automate subnet advertisement and have layer 3 redundancy.
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Design
and implement redundant IP multicast video network with EIGRP routing
protocol.
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Implement
BGP multi-homing to different ISP’s.
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Engineer
and implement turn up of new 10G LAN PHY and WAN PHY waves over Ciena
6500, Ciena 5200 and Huawei 6800A ROADM optical platform to meet
backbone bandwidth requirements.
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Deploy
new DWDM network as part of company as geographical expansion.
Coordinate link budget, dispersion parameters with the vendors to
qualify the required hardware.
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Provision
E-SPRing G.8032 Ethernet rings over Ciena 6500 platform to provide layer
2 redundancy using existing SONET OC192 rings.
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Installation
and turn up of new network nodes, configuring TACACS+, OOB and in-band
management, SNMP traps.
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Identify
and engineer network grooming plan to retrieve spare cards and shelves.
Sidera Networks/Lightower Fiber Networks: NYC,
NY.
October 2009- August 2013
Circuit Design Specialist
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Engineering
DWDM transport such as Nortel 5200, Ciena 4200, Nortel 6500 ROADM, Infinera
DTN, ECI XDM and complete documentation in LNI.
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Engineering
and designing protected SONET transport with different configurations such as
APS 1+1, UPSR, 2 Fiber BLSR ,4 Fiber BLSR and also unprotected SONET point to
point facilities over different equipment like CISCO 15454, Lucent Lambda
Unite, Fujitsu 4100 ES.
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Designing
customer circuits based on customer requirements such as service type (SONET,
DWDM, Ethernet), bandwidth, media type (SM/MM fiber, copper, coax) and
available network resources.
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Designing
Ethernet customer circuits over different platforms; synchronous and
asynchronous and ensuring equipment compatibility between different vendors.
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Designing
different Ethernet services ISP, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint,
multipoint-to-multipoint over MPLS platform.
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Maintaining
BGP design documentation.
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Maintaining
BGP drawing showing IBGP and EBGP peering. Documenting ISP uplinks with
different providers such as RCN, Layer, Tinet etc.
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Designing
private DCN/Visibility network using OSPF routing protocol. Maintaining
design documentation, assigning hostnames and reserving IP addresses for new
network nodes.
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Designing
customer PDH circuits; DS3’s and DS-1’s and documenting the designs.
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Designing and
documenting MPLS links over SONET and DWDM.
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Perform data
validation for the circuits, both internal and customer circuits over Cisco
15454, Alcatel-Lucent Lambda Unite, Ciena 4200, Nortel 5200, Infinera DTN and
ATN platforms, Nortel Classic OC48/OC192, by logging onto the actual gear to
have correct information in the network inventory.
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Verifying
design documentation on MPLS platform by logging onto different CISCO and
JUNIPER boxes such as Cisco 3750’s, 3550’s, Catalyst 4000 series, 7609, 7606
and Juniper MX80,MX960.
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Redesigning
customer circuits on call to restore customer services in event of an outage.
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Register CLLI
codes for network sites in Telcordia CLONES online database.
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Successfully
lead a team of five engineers to migrate CLR (Circuit Layout Record) database
of an acquired company into Smallworld LNI. The project was completed before
the deadline.
Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd: Gujranwala,
Pakistan.
November 2005- September 2007
Operations Engineer
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Troubleshooting
and maintaining both the hardware (User interface modules, Trunk line
Modules, Central processor modules, Power Supply Modules, Hard Disks,
Batteries, Rectifiers) and software issues, routing, zoning, creation and
Cancellation of public and commercial telephone lines, billing, T1 Streams
creation, cancellation and troubleshooting, media troubleshooting, monitoring
distant RLUs or the switches and their troubleshooting in the OMC.
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Maintaining
DRS and SRAL (types of microwave links) systems plus the optical fiber
transmission (SDH & PDH) reciprocal of (SONET) in the US and Canada.
Monitoring the microwave media links extending voice and data to the users in
the countryside and troubleshooting them. Monitoring the high data rate
optical fiber lines connecting the different exchanges working on SDH their
Regenerators, ADM’s, DXX systems.
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Assisting with
PTCL FTTH (Fiber to the home) project or the FTTP (Fiber to the
premises) and also monitoring the ONT’s.
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Maintaing
OSP department and ensuring uninterrupted and noise free local loop to
the customers for their voice and data services. Also had a certification of
laying and jointing of underground cables in this period.
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Received eight
weeks training from the Telecommunication Staff College which included
courses like GSM, CDMA, Satellite Communication, Wireless Communication,
Wireless Local Loop, Microwave Links, Optical Fiber Transmission,
Transmission through waveguides, Digital Switches of ERICSSON (AXE10),
SIEMENS (EWSD), HUEWEI, ALCATEL, ZTE, VoIP, Soft Switches, Power Supply
Systems (AC, batteries, UPS).