KAMRAN ARSHAD

HOUSE #1089 STREET#95 I-10/1 ISLAMABAD

PAKISTAN 44000UETIAN1707@YAHOO.COM

KAMRAN.ARSHAD@GMAIL.COM+92-333-515-5857

+92-51-925-8170

OBJECTIVETo obtain a responsible and challenging position where my education and work experience will have valuable application.

CAREER SUMMARYA team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who has the ability to work independently under pressure can lead, motivate and influence others, can train and mentor subordinates. Currently working as Sr. Network Engineer in Interactive Group. Since November 2004, have 5+ years of extensive hands on experience of deployment as well as O&M of various IT setups. Graduated in 2004 from University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore Pakistan.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCESr. Network Engineer, www.iacgrp.com June 2008 – February 2010Interactive Convergence (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK

Role & Job Responsibilities: Interactive Convergence is an IT Infrastructure Provider for defense and Interior organizations. I

worked for them on three projects and reported to Manager Networks

O&M of network of Tier2 Data Center for PAFIS-FIA deployed by Lockheed Martin, USA Trained by Lockheed Martin USA on REFS,EFCS applications and RT sites Managing the VSAT based network of 60+ remote sites and VoIP setup of PAFIS-FIA Deployed the network of Tier3 Data Center for Pakistan Army based on the SUN’s SDN architecture

and preparation of Rack Document (Layer1/2/3) as well as SOP Monitoring of PROMIS (Police Record Office Management Infrastructure) network and preparation

of Daily/Weekly/Monthly status reportsAchievements and Accomplishments:

Deployed the network of one of the largest data centers of Pakistan. Optimized the SOP for PAFIS-FIA network operations. Prepared extensive Network Status reports for the PROMIS Network

Network Engineer mcs.nust.edu.pk January 2007 – March 2008Signals R &D Establishment , Rawalpindi, PK

Role & Job Responsibilities: Signals Research & Development Establishment is a part of Signals Corps of Pakistan Army. I worked

on four R&D projects with them and reported to the Commander

Setting up Asterisk based open-source VoIP test bed with support for SIP, iAX and functionality to use analog trunking as well as E1 trunking

Setting up Open-Source Layer-2 Ethernet Bridging Firewall using providing 256-bit hardware encryption and performance evaluation of firewall using RFC 2544 and 1242

Designing and testing of nationwide HA-Clustered E-Mail solution (ISS-7000) using three different

Technical Skills

Routing& Switching:Juniper, CiscoFoundry, SMCHP ProcurveASANTE

Firewalls & UTM:JuniperCisco

VOIP:Asterisk IP-PBXDigium TDM and E1 cardsIntel Dialogic Cards

NOS :*NIX Compatible NOS, Windows-NT Compatible NOS

Services:DNS, FTPHTTP/HTTPSMail, ProxyNFS,NIS

Protocols:TCP/IP,RIP,OSPFSIP, iAX, SNMPSMTP,PoP3,IMAP4ESP,AH,IKE

Databases:MS-AccessMS SQL Server MySQL Server

Network Applications:MS Visio, LANFlow Putty, WinSCPWireshark TCPDump Nmap

Mail Server Solutions and supervising the deployment of ISS-7000 for Pakistan Army Providing technical support to customers for the VPN Gateway (NE-8120)

Achievements and Accomplishments: Worked on customized security solutions independently. Did extensive R&D on my projects and

created different solutions and benchmarked them

Sr. System Engineer, www.salaar.com August 2006 – January 2007Salaar Technologies (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK

Role & Job Responsibilities: JaguarPC (www.jaguarpc.com) a US-based web hosting company has outsourced its Technical

Support Department to Salaar Technologies. My role was the system administration of hosting servers

Provided web-based ticketing Technical support to JaguarPC for Web-Hosting services Remote system administration of more than 300 *NIX-based as well as 100 Windows servers Managing hosting panels like Cpanel, Plesk, Interworx, DirectAdmin Managing Virtual Private Servers like Virtuozzo and Xen Coordinated with the Sales department of JaguarPC as well as Data Centers GNAX and CYRUS1 used

by JaguarPC Achievements and Accomplishments:

In less than a month I was promoted as the shift in charge. Wrote training manuals and trained the new team members on web-hosting and Linux Administration.

System Engineer, www.circleone.com January 2006 – August 2006CircleOne Telecom (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK

Role & Job Responsibilities: CircleOne Telecom was the O&M partner of PTCL (Pakistan’s Premier Landline Telephony provider)

for fixed line SMS and Email Service. My role was to lead the technical Operations department which comprised a team of three members and managing the F-SMS platform, Call Center as well as the IT Department

F-SMS Platform included CT applications, SMPP links, SMS Router and SMTP based Email Server CRM-based Call Center included managing the Telephony Server, ACD and H.323 soft phones Data logging, traffic reporting and Replication using SQL Server 2000 IPSec and GRE-based VPN between other operators and F-SMSC Media which included 3 DXX Circuits, 14 ISDN PRI’s and 4 BRI’s Coordinated with PTCL’s NMS, CCC, VAS, Billing and ITI departments. Cellular operators (Ufone,

Mobilink, Telenor) as well as V-PTCL’s V-SMSC, WIN departmentsAchievements and Accomplishments:

Have the honor of managing the Pakistan’s pioneer fixed line SMSC. Optimized the routing of SMS as well workflow of the SMSC. Did extensive documentation of all processes and optimized the SOPs

Network Engineer, www.pral.com.pk November 2004 – January 2006Pakistan Revenue Automation (Pvt) Ltd, Islamabad, PK

Role & Job Responsibilities: PRAL is Pakistan’s Largest IT Company owned by Federal Board of Revenue and has large scale

government automation projects. I was involved in the Toll Automation Project of M1, M2 and M3 of

IPerf,QCheck SNMP & WMI compatible NMS

Project Management Applications: Primavera & MS Project

Programming Languages:C/C++ BASH Scripting

Hardware:D-link KVMTellabs NTUSiemens BRI ModemsHP- Proliant ML-150 and 350 Dell Power Edge 1600SC ServersHP 1010 /1300 Printers

NHA and reported directly to Manager Operations. Support for Client/Server based Automated Toll Confirmation System (ATCS) application and data

logging using MS Access & MS SQL Server Maintaining the KDE Multi-purpose Ticket Issuing Machines, KDE Card Readers, Relays and Printers

Achievements and Accomplishments: Kept the system up and running 24/7/365 in extremely difficult working conditions. Optimized the

reporting module for ATCS.

EDUCATIONComputer Sciences, Bachelor of Science February 1999 – August 2004University of Engineering & Technology , Lahore, PK

CERTIFICATIONS & TRAININGS JNCIA-EX (Enterprise Switching) ,JNCIA-ER (Enterprise Routing) , JNCIS-ER (Enterprise Routing)

JNCIS-ES (Enhanced Services)

IELTS (Listening 7.0,Reading 6.0, Writing 6.5, Speaking 7.5,Overall 7.0)

CCNA from Corvit Systems Lahore, PK

ISP Setup Using Linux from CNT Islamabad, PK

WEB PRESENCEExperts-Exchange: http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_2273281.html

LinkedIn: http://pk.linkedin.com/in/karshad

Weblogs: http://kamran-arshad.blogspot.com/

REFERENCESPersonal and Professional references available on request