Anees Shafiq

Background

About Anees Shafiq

OBJECTIVE: Seeking a challenging, Contract based, part-time/full-time position that allows me to contribute my experience and knowledge in planning, design, deployment and integration of secure high-availability network infrastructure Technical skills set summary: • Expertise in Project Handling and Project Coordination. • Excellent understanding of project planning, design and implementation and enthusiastic team player. • Excellent experience of handling and managing teams with various project deployments all over UAE. • Hands on working experience of Cisco 3-tier Data Center Design and implementation with Nexus series, Nexus series and series Fabric Extenders. • Basic understanding of Cisco ACI model in Nexus series switches with leaf-spine architecture. • Hands-on experience of Cisco 6500 Series and Cisco 6800 Series switches. • Hands-on experience of Cisco Aggregation Series Routers (IOS-XR) and ASR Series Platform (IOS-XE). • Hands-on experience of operating Cisco firewall ASA • Hands-on experience of operating Fortinet 200D, 800D and Fortinet 1500D firewalls. • Hands-on experience of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) with its integration with Cisco Prime. • Hands-on experience of operating Palo Alto 5220 firewall with URL filtering and AV scanners. • Hands-on experience of Cisco wireless networks, i.e. 5500 series, 2500 series 9800 series controllers • Hands-on experience of Cisco B and C series UCS servers and VMware ESXi. • Hands-on working experience of routing protocols like EIGRP, OSPF and BGP. • Hands-on experience on configuring and troubleshooting multicast in both wired and wireless network • Experienced in network monitoring tools such as Solarwinds, Cisco Prime Infra, OP manager. • Experienced in configuring Enterprise IPT, CUC, UCX and IM & P servers for clients. • Experienced in Imagicle, WorkForce, Calabrio application for call recording and reporting. • Experienced in configuring QoS in both wired and wireless infrastructure of an enterprise network. • Hands -on working experience on Cisco 3600, 2800, 2600, 1700,800 series routers and catalyst 4507, 4506, 3750, 3560, 3350, 2950, 1900 series switches. • Hands-on experience on VPNs such Site-to-Site and SSL/ remote access VPNs. • Hands-on working experience on NAC solution Forescout to implement policy on – premises. • Hands-on experience on Avaya Telephony IP Office and Alcatel OXO connect.