Rizwan Ahmad Siddiqi Cell: [login to view URL] Lahore, Pakistan PERSONAL STATEMENT I am an experienced and motivated Sr. Network Engineer accomplished in delivering secure resilient systems on time and budget to meet business needs. I’m an adaptable and efficient team player with excellent communication skills at all levels. I’m looking for a role where I can develop my skills further, researching new technologies and reveling in new challenges. KEY SKILLS Technical Skills - Managed Services - Virtualization - Network Monitoring - Cisco Routers - Cisco Switches - Cisco Firewalls - Fortigate Firewall - MPLS VPN - LAN / WAN VPN - Traffic Engineering tunnel - Linux/Unix - MySQL , Oracle - Microsoft Technology - Dell Power Edge, HP Proliant, IBM Series Certifications and Trainings - Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert ( CCIE Service Provider) written - CCNA and CCNP( R&S) - CCNP (Security) - RHCE - MCITP EDUCATION - BS (Hons.) Computer Science COMSATS Institute of Information Technology Lahore - [login to view URL]. – Pre-Engineering Govt. College Gujranwala Technical Proficiencies CISCO Cisco Devices Cisco 7200, 2821, 2691 and Cisco XR series routers Cisco 3750G, 3560, 2960 and 2950 switches Cisco ASA 5510 , 5505 and PIX firewalls Routing Protocols BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, RIPv2 and static routing Switching VLANs, HSRP, VRRP, RSTP, Layer-2 security, port mirroring, qos, MPLS Security ASA Policy NAT, Static NAT, Policy based Access-list, Object ACL Port based Translations, Advance protocol handling, inspection, Layer-2 firewall, Failover, virtualization Service Provider MPLS, Layer3 VPN, Layer2 VPN, Traffic Engineering Multicasting, BGP, MP-BGP, IS-IS, LDP, RSVP VPN Servers VPN Tunnels Site-to-Site (IPSEC VPN tunnel, MPLS VPN) Remote VPN Cisco Easy VPN, Routing and Remote access VPN, Kerio VPN Open VPN MICROSOFT Technology Active directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP server, ISA server Exchange Server, WSUS, IIS, Scripting Platforms Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2003, Windows 8 Windows 7, Windows XP Firewalls and Switches Firewalls Fortigate 100 A firewall, Cisco ASA 5510 firewall, Kerio win route firewall, Untangle 9, PIX , Layer-2 firewall Switches HP Procurve switches, Trend net Switches, Cisco Switches LINUX Linux Apache web server, IP Tables, My SQL, Virtual domain hosting, Vim, yum, apt-get, qmail, rpm, LVM, RAID, net stat, sudo Linux Flavors Ubuntu Server, Cent OS, Red Hat, Fedora, Suse Network Monitoring Tools NMS Zabbix, Zenoss, Nagios, Open NMS, Cacti , OP Manager, Solar wind, IT 360, OTRS, HP Open view, IT service desk Monitoring Software Smoke Ping, Packet trap, MRTG, tcp track, wire shark, tshark, ntop, nmap, port mirroring, Syslog Virtualization VMware VMware ESXi 5.1, VMware vCenter, VMware ESXi client VMware work station Microsoft Microsoft Virtual server, Microsoft Hyper-V, Virtual box Hardware Servers HP HP Proliant DL380 Generation 5 Dell Dell Power Edge 2950, Dell Power Edge 2850 IBM IBM Blade Server, IBM X46 Servers Tools Network Tools TFTP, GNS3, Packet tracer, Packet trap, Syslog, FTP, Jira Secure CRT, Putty, SSH, Telnet, VNC, Team Viewer Microsoft Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, Word, Excel EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Network Administrator (May 2013 > October 2013) PowerSof19 | Lahore | [login to view URL] Key Achievements - Company portfolio creation to provide Managed services to different clients - Project management with the design and implementation of IT infrastructure for NOC department within 6 month deadline. - Procurement of servers and network equipment from local and foreign vendors. - Introduced standards relating to IT procedures with disaster recovery and backup plans leading to improved network efficiency and a reduction in downtime. - Supervised 2 Network Engineers and helped provide training and technical support - Worked on Cisco 3750G switches, VMware ESXi, Ubuntu Linux, and deployment of NMS server and ticketing system to monitor entire IT infrastructure. Network Engineer (June 2010 > December 2012) Vopium A/S | Lahore | [login to view URL] Key Achievements - Day-to-day management of 50 Linux servers achieving a reasonable reduction in serious system crashes within a 12 month period in production. - Build and managed a team of 5 members to provide system and network services. - Managed remote data center at Denmark using IPSEC VPN tunnel over the internet. - Cisco ASA 5510 configuration with all types of access-lists, policy NAT and static NAT. - Static Routing, PBR, filtering, VPN, internet load balancing with Fortigate firewall. - Managed HP procurve, Cisco switches and different remote access VPN servers. - Kerio firewall management for any excess downloading, and internet filtering. - Virtualization and Active directory, DNS and DHCP server management. - Network monitoring with MRTG, Smoke ping, tcp track, packet trap and Kerio. System Administrator (August 2008 >May 2010) UnwiredLab Mobile Innovation | Lahore | [login to view URL] Key Achievements - Management of Active directory, DNS, DHCP, File, FTP, proxy and print servers. - Provide deployments for Apache and tomcat web servers for partners in Denmark. - Worked on Project management with JIRA and project pier tools and documentation Technical Support Engineer (July 2006 >July 2008) Multilynx (Mobilink) | Lahore | [login to view URL] Key Achievements - Provide 1st and 2nd level IT technical support to Mobilink customers at multiple sites. - Designed and implemented new helpdesk call logging system and Standard operating procedures leading to reasonable increase in customer satisfaction. REFERENCES References are available on request.