Aabid Saleem

A Network Engineer with more than 15 years of experience in Network implementation and design in multi-vendor environment.
Including CISCO, Huawei, Juniper, and many more technological vendors.
Experience with virtualization technologies using VMWARE ESXi
Experience of designing and configuring Enterprise, Internet Gateway and MPLS based networks

Professional Experience:
Cloud and virtualization chief engineer, 1st May 2014 till date
Etihad Etisalat (Mobily), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Conduct technical evaluation, architecture work, and assessment of network elements before integration
 Contribute to deployment of new projects, from testing till implementation
 Work with Major CDN providers in IGW domain to ensure optimized content delivery to Mobily customers.
 Responsible for enhancing team skill matrix.
 Carry out agreed maintenance/upgrades to environment within a change control process.
 Leading the Technical Operations team in fault finding on Network related issues.
 Team leader and SPOC for MNS (managed network services) for internet Gateway Elements (Network and Systems),
Senior Datacom Engineer (Level 3 engineer), 1st Aug 2011 to 30th Apr 2014
Huawei Technologies Co .Ltd, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
 Working on the MPLS Core project for Huawei’s major telecommunication client Mobily
 Performing tasks within design and implementation team handling core MPLS clouds (mainly Huawei – 10G and 40-G 100-G MPLS
Core)
 Perform disaster recovery testing on network equipment on Monthly bases
 Responsible for testing proposed solution in lab to document process to be used during new implementations.
 Responsible for enhancing team skill matrix.
 Supporting end to end connectivity for GGSN, SGSN, 4G, 3G, 2G, LTE, black berry services and voice services like MPBN, MSC and
Media gateways through MPLS cloud
 Finalized many enterprise projects including firewalls and other security devices.
Senior Network Engineer (Level 3 engineer), July 17th 2008 to 31 July 2011
Etihad Etisalat, Mobily (outsourced through EMIRCOM), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
 Performing tasks within design and implementation team handling core MPLS clouds (Huawei and Juniper)
 Typical routines will include the monitoring of network performance
 Responsible for enhancing team skill matrix.
 Responsible for the check list creation for daily operations and a constant version control on that.
 Available for on-call and emergency response as needed
 Fully supporting technical escalation from NOC for Data network in central region.
 Implemented and maintaining Foundry Switches (SLB) – Server Iron 850P and 450P – for HTTP and SSL traffic load-sharing
 Network Security implementation with Cisco IOS Feature Set, ASA and PIX Firewall.
 Installation, configuration and maintaining BLUECOAT 8100 and 8000 series cache engines.
 Design, implementation, maintaining and configuring of CISCO Routers 7600 Series, Switches 6500 Series, Firewalls ASA 5580 and
CISCO SCE (Service Control Engine).
Network Engineer, 1st January 2003 to July 16th 2008
NESMA Advanced Technologies (Internet Services Division), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
 Design, implementation and configuration of Routers, Switches and Firewalls CISCO and Juniper devices.
 Implemented Switched backbone with catalyst switches, Spanning tree and VTP Trucking.
 Implemented and supported redundant Load Balancing Web hosting infrastructure with internet applications with Routers, Firewalls
and DMZ zones.
 Network Security implementation with Cisco IOS Feature Set, and Pix Firewall.
 Configured point-to-point IP over MPLS, ATM, Frame relay and PPP links for leased line customers.

Career Certifications:
 10 Year CCIE completed (since 2009 – still active)
 Certified for Configuring Cisco Nexus 9000 Series Switches in ACI Mode (DCAC9K
o Official training
 Certified for configuring XR IOS within ASR and CRS devices.
o Official training
 CCIE SP (CISCO Certified Internetwork Expert in the field of Service Provider)
 CCIE R&S (CISCO Certified Internetwork Expert in the field of routing and switching)
o CCIE number 23263
 Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Advanced Infrastructure Implementation
 Cisco Certified Specialist - Enterprise Core
 CCNP (CISCO certified Network Professional)
o BSCI (building scalable CISCO Internetwork)
o BCRAN (Building CISCO remote access Network)
o BCMSN (Building CISCO Multilayer Switch Network)
o CIT (CISCO internetwork Troubleshooting)
 CCNA (CISCO certified Network Associate)
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 COMPTIA Network + (Network Specialist)
Academic education:
Diploma in Computer Electronics & Telecommunication Technology (associate engineering)
National Institute of Computer Engineering & Electronics (NICEE), Lahore Pakistan, (session completed 1994)
(Affiliated with Computer Learning Center, New Jersey U.S.A)
(Full time studies)
Diploma in Advanced Electronics (vocational Program)
Major: Electronics and Radio technologies
Punjab Board of technical education
Diploma in Advanced Electronics
Major: Electronics and Radio technologies
Technical training center Gulberg Lahore
Directorate of Manpower and Training Trade Tesingt board
Bachelor’s degre
Punjab University Lahore Pakistan,
12 grades
Punjab Board of Intermediate Education,
10 grades (Metric)
Punjab Board of Intermediate Education,