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AFAN RAUF
Email: Phone afanbaloch@gmail.com afan.rauf@nsn.com Pri.Cell# 00966 583 186851 Sec.Cell# 0092 345 5858590 Alt# 0092 42 3 5720740 afan.baloch Skype

PROFILE & PROFESSIONAL IP/MPLS & Security Networks Specialist with more than 6 years of diverse knowledge and experiences in telecom & data networks Mobile Core & Packet Core Networks IP/MPLS/Security Solutions E2E Project Lead LTE/4G Transport Network IP & Security Planning, Designing and Deployment Specialist Enterprise & IT Data Core Networks IP/Security Solutions Specialist Presales/Postsales activities for IP/Security Networks deployment & consultancy of customized solutions and supporting various implementations of complex customer setups Extensive track record of executing various large capacity networks deployment and swap projects Proven ability to comprehend difficult technical issues/scenarios and respond within minimum possible time frame, ability to handle emergency situations using professional expertise and interpersonal skills Exceptional skills in leading various engineering and non-engineering teams, natural ability to work as a team player and contribute to the fullest in a team oriented atmosphere along with maintaining effective working relationships with customers, vendors, supervisors and subordinates Ability to establish effective and open communication channels between project participants and all key stakeholders

PROFESSIONAL EXPERINCE

NOKIA SIEMENS NETWORKS PAKISTAN Senior Solutions Engineer (IPMPLS & Security)
Global Services Consulting & Systems Integration (CSI)

Feburary-2009 PRESENT

In the capacity of lead IP&MPLS/Security Senior Solution Engineer, I am accountable to the Head of Solution Engineering as well as to the customer for the successful delivery of the projects in the area of IP&MPLS/Security customized solutions. I am responsible for E2E successful project delivery from the Consulting and Systems Integration Organization portfolio under Global Services accounts. My assignment additionally includes Architecture Planning, Designing, Implementation, Acceptance, Services Migration and Support for multiple customer accounts if required. Responsibilities include: In the capacity of Senior Solution Engineer for IP/MPLS/Security domains, worked on various projects scope regards to Mobile Packet Backbone Network (MPBN), Packet Core (PS), Evolved Packet Core (EPC) and Mobile Broadband in EMEA Region Engage with solution architecture teams to provide inputs on IP/MPLS & Security solutions to the following operators areas: MPBN, LTE Access and Evolved Packet Core (EPC), 2G/3G, HLR, Charging domain, Gi/SGi interface, PLMN (GRX) interface, VAS, Data Center etc As a part of Solution Engineering Team (Global Services) , the project hand over to us to engineering team for successful & timelines project delivery after sales-kickoff. Being as a Project Delivery Architect, anticipated customer requirements as if require, demonstrated in customer workshops, building Low & High Level Design, System Acceptance and Services Migration documentation Act as technical Liaison between 3rd Party (Juniper/Cisco/F5/Bluecoat) Professional Services Team & Customer to ensure accurate understanding & roll out of customers expectation whereas if require Work directly with Project Director for the successfully closure of project within timelines by meeting the customer expectation that includes implementation, acceptance and migration of services/setup Delegate integrations responsibilities to various teams; building Strong working relationships with other team organizations such as 2G/3G Packet Core, 4G/ Evolved Packet Core, BSS and other subcontractors for successfully integrations and projects completion up to customer expectations E2E Successfully completed major projects in different customer network that includes various NSN portfolio rd in combination with 3 Party such as Juniper Networks, Cisco Systems, Redback, Foundry, Fortinet, Bluecoat, F5, Infoblox and NMS tools

Those responsibilities were served under different mobile operators accounts*

Duration
July 2012 Present June 2012 April 2012 May 2012 March 2012 August 2011 April 2012 May 2011 July 2011 March 2011 April 2011 January 2011 February 2011 October 2010 December 2010 August 2009 September 2010 July 2009 April 2009 May 2009

Customer
Zain Saudi Arabia Celcom Malaysia Mobilink Pakistan Mobilink Pakistan Mobilink Pakistan Zain Bahrain Etisalat UAE Deutsche Telekom AG (T Mobiles) Germany Mobilink Pakistan Zain Saudi Arabia NetOne Zimbabwe Telenor Pakistan

Projects
Mobile Broadband Caching Solution Swap Project IP BSC (Flexi) Rehoming Project Fluke Networks IP Probing Implementation in MPBN Project Packet Core Gi Network Setup Swap Project Mobile Packet Backbone Network (MPBN) Expansion 2011 Project (IP/MPLS Project) Packet Core Network / VAS Expansion 2011 Project LTE/4G Transport Network Security Solution Project [Pre-Commercial Trial] LTE/4G Transport Network Security Solution Project Packet Core Swap (Alcatel with NSN) Solution with DPI Project Mobile Broadband / DSP Solution Project Packet Core Network Expansion Project [Pre-Sales] Packet Core Gi Network Setup Swap Project (P

*Details of projects/accounts can be furnished in details as if require

MOTOROLA - PAKISTAN
IP Core Engineer
Contracting Company - Abacus ELS (Pvt.) Limited http:// www.abacus-global.com

December 2008 February 2009

Abacus ELS Consulting is the consultancy & outsourcing company has been offering cutting-edge business solutions helping organizations to transform their visions into realities through a combination of latest business methodologies and technological tools Summary of Roles and achievements as IP Core Engineer An target assignment for project network rollout & support services for Wi-tribe Pakistan (http://www.witribe.com/) in Wimax ASN Gateway network Played key & strategic role in Wi-tribe Pakistan Wimax ASN Gateway deployment, integration & Support Deployment & Integration of ASN Gateway elements including Redback Routers SmartEdge400,Foundry Switches XMR4000/FE2402, DNS and DHCP Servers On Redback configuring virtual routers per services , Inter context routing using BGP,OSPF, MPLS, VPLS, implementing access control list, captive portal integration, L2TPVPN, CLIPS with DHCP Services

CYBER INTERNET SERVICES (PVT) LIMITED

http://www.cyber.net.pk

November 2005 November 2008

Network Engineer
Waridtel EDN/IT Managed services

Resident Engineer in Warid Telecom Pakistan (http://www.waridtel.com)

Summary of Roles and achievements as Network Engineer in Warid telecom Pakistan Played key role in Managed Services team of Waridtel Enterprise Data Networks (EDN) Successfully Completed Waridtel Pakistan Disaster Recovery (DR) Tier-3 Datacenter and played key role in Designing, Implementation & Supporting that includes layers of network elements such as Cisco 7609 Routers, Cisco 6509 Switches with FWSM & ACE, Cisco ASA5550 Firewalls, Cisco 5520+AIP-SSM-20 Firewalls, Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS 4480) Solution and Cisco Access Control Server (ACS) Implementation & Support of nationwide 60 PoP Sites connected over different WAN technologies (ATM, FR, Wireless, Ethernet, ISDN) Implementation, troubleshooting & support of routing, switching & security network that includes OSPF, BGP, LAN Switching (PVST+,MST,HSRP,VRRP) Links aggregation, core/perimeter network firewall security with FWSM & PIX, VPN Concentrator 3020,IDS (Blocking, signature editing, IOS, Services Packs & signatures up-gradation) Implementation, troubleshooting, and graphs/reports/logs viewing of CSMARS and IPS/IDS. Implementation of enforceable security policies & network vulnerability assessment Implementation of all controlling framework to assure smooth network operation, defined all best practice access control, SOPs and Network Security Policies

TECHNICAL SKILLS Routing & Switching / Service Provider

Technologies (ATM,FR,PPP,Ethernet) LAN Switching IP Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP, IS-IS) MPLS,LDP,RSVP,MPLS-TE, Link Protection ,L3VPNs L2VPNs, CSC, VPLS IPv6 & Quality of Services (QoS) Competence Cisco Routers (7609, 7206, 3845, 2811, 2600) Cisco Switches (65xx, 45xx, 37xx, 35xx, 29xx) Juniper Routers (J4300, M7i, M10i) Juniper Switches (EX3200, EX4200, MX480) Redback Routers (SmartEdge400) Foundry Switches (XMR4000) -

Network Security
VPNs (IPSec Site-to-Site, Remote Access & PKI Solution) Firewalls (Policies, Address Translation, High Availability & Virtualization) IDP/IPS (Profiling & Customization) Deep Packet Inspection & Fair Usage Policing Network security vulnerability assessment & configuration review

Competence Juniper Firewalls SRX 5800/3600/3400 Series Juniper Firewalls Netscreen (NS5400, ISG2000, ISG1000) Juniper IDP 8200 Cisco Firewalls PIX535/ASA5550, Firewall Services Module (FWSM) and Cisco VPN Concentrator 3020 Cisco IDP 4200, Cisco IDS Module Cisco Service Control Engine (SCE) Broadband Solution with Collection Manager Sandvine Deep Packet Inspection (PTS & SPB Deployment) Solution Cisco Access Control Serverv3.3 (ACS)

Caching/URL Filtering & Loadbalancers

Competence F5 BigIP 8400/6900/3900 Loadbalancers Cisco ACE Loadbalancers Bluecoat SG Proxy 8100 Caching/URL Filtering Bluecoat CacheFlow 5000-MX Bluecoat Director Manager Infoblox DNS/DHCP Appliances

Network Management
Competence Juniper Security Threat Response Manager (STRM) Juniper Network & Security Manager (NSMXpress) Cisco Security Monitoring, Analysis and Response System (CSMARS) MRTG, Solar Winds ORION Network Performance Monitor Net flow Analyzer, Syslog Server and various SNMP based network monitoring/controlling solutions

Technical Project Documentation

Architecture & Design Engineering Low/High Level Design Document IP & Migration Plans System Acceptance Documentation Project Management

Information Security
Vulnerability Assessments Authentication & Access Control Penetration Testing

EDUCATION University of Punjab, Lahore Pakistan B.S Computer Science CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS 2005

Trainings
Certifications & Trainings

Juniper Networks Juniper Network Certified Internet Expert (JNCIE-Security) - Loading Juniper Network Certified Internet Professional (JNCIP-Security) Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS-Security) Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS-FWV) Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist- (JNCIS-M/T Series) Cisco System Cisco Certified Internet Expert (CCIE) Service Provider(SP) Unsuccessful First Lab Attempt, Scheduling for another Lab attempt! Cisco Certified Internet Professional (CCNP) Cisco Certified Internet Associate (CCNA) Professional Trainings LTE/4G Transport Security Solution, Germany Juniper Security Acceleration Program (JSAP), Pakistan Juniper SRX Series Services Gateways (Deep Dive), Dubai Cisco Certified Internet Expert (CCIE) SP Bootcamp, Pakistan

REFERENCES Ihab Salah Senior Solution Architect Nokia Siemens Networks, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Phone: +966 5355 50182 Email Address: ihab.salah@nsn.com http://www.linkedin.com/in/afanrauf Mustapha Aassar Project Business Manager Nokia Siemens Networks, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Phone: +966 555 196487 Email Address: mustapha.aassar@nsn.com