Shahbaz Ahmed

Techniq Pty Ltd.

Network Engineer-Canberra ACT Australia

Project: NBN (FTTN, FTTC, FTTP, ODM, N2P), VOCUS and OPTUS.

Responsibilities:
• Studying project documentation to determine functions and responsibilities.
• Assigning workers to work groups and assigning job tasks and responsibilities to work group for proper labor utilization, organizing, monitoring and controlling the work groups.
• Coordinating and liaising and working with other professionals within and outside the engineering sectors.
• Writing and submitting daily reports, updates on work-in progress and final completion reports to management.
• Planning, Integrating and commissioning telecommunications devices, networks and systems, such as Nodes, Micronodes, DPUs, NTDs, BNTDs, Exchange OLT cards for NBN and other clients. (E.g.: Nokia/Commscope Full size DSLAM and Alcatel micro nodes).

• Planning, Configuration, testing and Integration of Business Enterprise Ethernet such as B-NTD to achieve symmetrical speeds for business networks.
• Following appropriate configurations of telecommunications hardware and software, ensuring desired performance of telecommunications equipment given by the client and making sure these are implemented in the field by the in-house crew.

• Locate faults and test equipments using instruments such as transmission measuring equipment, Ohmmeters, Voltmeters, Optical PON meter and Optical Time-Domain Reflectometer-OTDR.
• Preparing and interpreting specifications, drawings and regulations for the use of telecommunications equipment- interpreting the OTDR results obtained from the field after a network build and Mark-up the redline Straight line diagram for the client’s reference.

Exceleron Communications (Pvt.) Ltd.

Network Administrator (October 2014 – July 2017)

Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

Responsibilities:
• Provide support and troubleshoot network problems and emergencies.
• Install, configures, test, maintain and administers new and upgraded networks, software database applications, servers and workstations.
• Provide network programming in support of specific business needs and requirements.
• Prepare and maintain procedure and documentation for network inventory, and records diagnosis and resolution of network faults, enhancements and modifications to networks, and maintenance instructions.
• Manage user passwords, security and inventory documentation.

• Ensure the efficient performance of servers, printers and personal computers
• Assesses and recommend improvements to network operations
• Implement and maintain layer 2 and 3 network services such as VLAM, STP, VTP
• Deploy and maintain firewalls from a variety of vendors, including next-generation features, site-to-site
VPNs. Responsible for installation and management of firewall.
• Corrected networking connectivity issues in wireless, routing, and switching using a layered model approach.
• Executed configurations for routers, switches, wireless AP’s, and WLAN controllers using Cisco/HP hardware and provided router configuration scripts as needed.

• Planed, designed, and manage all LAN/WAN projects. Coordinated integrated network operation efforts, IT planning, security, and other technical areas at the headquarters. 

• Installed and configured Cisco switches to merge voice and Data network infrastructure.